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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

In my opinion, what Musk and those around him are aggressively striving for is not novel. It is not complicated, and it is not new. It is what ruling classes throughout history have always wanted and have always believed is theirs by…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

But I must confess that he's done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our politics…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

Whatever we can do is what we must do. Needless to say, I intend to do my part, both inside the Beltway and traveling throughout the country to stand up for working families and to take on the oligarchy.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

I think it is an appropriate time to ask the question that the media and most politicians don't seem to be asking: What do he and other multi-billionaires really want? What is their end game?

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

We need to focus on the most fundamental harms—and ignore the freak show that Trump is putting on.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

Our job is not to destroy public education, it is to significantly improve it!

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

It is dangerously unacceptable that an unelected Musk and his unqualified acolytes have access to sensitive CMS systems.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

That is a very troubling response because the studies are there. Your job is to have looked at those studies as an applicant for this job.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 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 12, 2025

We need to make sure that effective and well-resourced lawsuits are brought to stop the illegal power plays.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 9, 2025

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

The progressive agenda, and I say this over and over again, is the people's agenda. It is wildly popular.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

Longer term, obviously, we have to do what the Democratic Party has not done—and become the party of the working class, develop a strong grassroots movement, with labor unions, with young people, with people of color—and organize and fight…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

If you see these guys doing something—like wanting to give huge tax breaks to billionaires while they cut Medicare; or they want to go 'Drill, baby, drill' while we happen to be facing an existential threat of climate change; if they want…

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