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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

That is the uncontrollable greed of this billionaire class.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

I’ll tell you about the most serious addiction problem we have in this country: That is the uncontrollable greed of this billionaire class.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

That is what this struggle is about! One-hundred-fifty years later, it’s the same struggle… We believe in a government of the people, by the people, for the people—not a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

It is not just Republicans or Musk. Let’s be clear: Democratic billionaires also put huge amounts of money into their party.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

So let us be clear: When we take on Trumpism, we are taking oligarchy and we are taking on the tale of two Americas.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

NO to oligarchy, NO to authoritarianism, NO to kleptocracy, NO to massive cuts in programs that working people desperately need, NO to huge tax breaks for the richest people in our country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

If you take Trump's word on that, you probably believe that Ukraine started the war, not Russia.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Feb 25, 2025

I would like to speak about DOGE. The verdict is in: It has been a colossal failure. It has done immense damage to many of our institutions and inflicted immense pain on innocent people. Also, it is not going to be successful in its stated…

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Feb 25, 2025

I am thinking of the small businesses in Vermont that have reached out to me to say that Trump's proposed tariff war with Canada is going to crush them. I am thinking about the 150,000 Vermonters who are dependent on Medicaid. I urge my…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

The most serious addiction problem we have in this country: That is the uncontrollable greed of this billionaire class.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

Now, if you can get involved in a Supreme Court race in the state of Wisconsin, where can you not get involved?

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

Got that: When you’ve got political power, you can double your wealth in a few weeks’ time.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

We need to elect a U.S. House and a U.S. Senate that will prioritize the needs of the working people in this country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

Let us be clear: When we take on Trumpism, we are taking oligarchy and we are taking on the tale of two Americas.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

Musk, in a Supreme Court race, in a small race in one state, is getting involved.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 25, 2025

Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 24, 2025

With Trump and Netanyahu openly talking about forcibly displacing millions of Palestinians from Gaza — in other words, ethnic cleansing — it would be unconscionable to provide more of the bombs and weapons Israel has used to kill so many…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 24, 2025

The claim that the word 'oligarchy' is somehow too recondite and obscure to land with its intended mass audience is not only refuted by the response to the Sanders tour.

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