It’s difficult to know what to do with Bernie Sanders sometimes. He’s not a Democrat, and yet he has a devoted following among them. He was the featured attraction of the so-called 2017 “unity tour” with new DNC chair Tom Perez and took the opportunity to bash Democrats for their failing policies and inability to win elections.
Add to that he’s a democratic socialist who has three houses and was endorsed by the president of oil-rich Venezuela, where the government is opening fire on rioters protesting food shortages.
One thing of which there’s never a shortage is Sanders spouting cliches about the rich and the poor; if only we could tax him on every tweet completely lacking in self-awareness.
Republicans talk a lot about freedom and choice. But you cannot truly be free if you can't afford health care or food or medicine.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 30, 2017
That might be the dumbest non-sequitur I've ever read on Twitter.
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) June 30, 2017
It’s scary how many people “like” his tweets … maybe we’d be tempted if he ever followed up on one, describing how true freedom comes from a compulsory income tax administrated by a corrupt bureaucracy and enforced with the threat of prison time. Then again, some didn’t like his tweet because he left out housing and college tuition, and those can be really expensive, you know?
Agreed fella. That's why we must oppose socialism.
— Charlie Peters (@CDP1882) June 30, 2017
Amen. If you like Venezuela, you can move to Venezuela.
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/881197610568232961
https://twitter.com/CreightonHarri/status/880878705006043136
But you can't be free either if the gov't seizes 50% of the fruits of your labor to pay for its pet projects
— a farce to reckon with (@Zentagonist) June 30, 2017
Did you come to that revelation when you bought your third house? #Hypocrite #TermLimits #walkthetalk
— Nick Dabruzzo (@NDabruzzo) July 1, 2017
Honestly, whoever writes Bernie’s tweets for him doesn’t deserve this quality of thoughtful responses; nothing’s ever going to get through.
How much healthcare must you have to be free? What quality of healthcare? Prevention or only emergency? Does healthcare have to be equal?
— Denise McAllister (@McAllisterDen) July 1, 2017
Is the person who has their financial property taken from them against their will to redistribute to another free?
— Denise McAllister (@McAllisterDen) July 1, 2017
If your "right" is guaranteed only by a governmental force infringing on the rights of others, is that freedom?
— Denise McAllister (@McAllisterDen) July 1, 2017
Demanding positive rights like this guarantees bondage, Bernie, not freedom. Liberty is hard with no guarantees of health or economic ease.
— Denise McAllister (@McAllisterDen) July 1, 2017
And you would have us believe we should depend on our government for these things? Sorry but that kind of power cannot be given to gov!!
— Frank Gilbert (@PFGilbert) July 1, 2017
This has been the socialist argument for over a century. Ask Venezuelans how "free" they are. #socialismsucks
— Paul H Jossey (@PaulHJossey) July 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/881204752108879879
You can't truly be free if you rely on someone else for everything. Please read a book and get off twitter.
— Ryan (@realRyanClouse) June 30, 2017
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman. You'd understand real freedom is established by socioeconomic and political (and civil) freedom.
— Cardkillah (@Cardkillah) July 1, 2017
How about the people you expect to work to buy your supporters this bounty? Are they free, or do you not care?
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/sexy702latina/status/880852421416701952
Only on the Left does being forced to buy something = freedom. Somewhere George Orwell is nodding thoughtfully
— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) July 1, 2017
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 25, 2017
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