You're a billionaire -- great, good for you.

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

https://boingboing.net/2021/12/10/us-senator-bernie-sanders-tells-elon-musk-to-stfu.html

[liberalla]

1. That is frickin' great! Thank you Bernie!

[NJCher]

2. as I read this

I could hear Bernie saying it my mind.

Classic Bernie, right down to the "great, good for you" and "zoom around on a rocket."

[George II]

3. Didn't President Biden say as much way back in September (sans reference to rockets)?

'Pay your fair share': Biden argues for raising taxes of corporations and the wealthy

President Biden discussed his administration's plans for the economy and argued for increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans and big corporations and called on them to "start paying their fair share."

https://www.yahoo.com/now/pay-fair-share-biden-argues-184447241.html

[notinkansas]

4. He did, but Bernie has been saying this for decades.

[Oldtimeralso]

5. New way to spell GOP

Actually it is an old way, Do you think that the richest people and big companies will pay taxes when it easier to buy GOP politicians

Greedy Old Politicians

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. Why the animus toward Sanders?

The media ignored him until that became impossible. He's done more than almost anyone else when it comes to bringing working American issues to public light.

Unlike a lot of politicians, his positions are the same as they were when he was mayor of Burlington. We need a lot more like him, and less like certain Senators beholden to Big Coal and Big Pharma.

[betsuni]

13. Bernie: "Look, what human being doesn't undergo changes? If you're not a moron, you learn."

Of course he's changed! He did a LOT of evolving on criminal justice reform in the last few years, and gun control and good for him for learning about racial issues in criminal justice and American society.

Really not a good idea to mythologize a politician.

[sheshe2]

14. Correct.

Really not a good idea to mythologize a politician.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I don't care for

The idolatry. No one is perfect.

[Gary 50]

19. When did the media ignore him?

When he was giving a speech before an enthusiastic crowd of thousands and the media kept a camera on an empty podium waiting for the orange anus to spew his bile. Please explain your contempt and hatred for Bernie and why you have to express that contempt every time someone complements him. As far as continuing his positions since 1981, while I'm sure there are nuanced differences, his core beliefs then were correct and still are.

[George II]

20. Contempt and hatred?

[betsuni]

22. For anyone unfamiliar with Bernie Sanders, I recommend Steven Stoft's "Ripped Apart."

http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=Fk7SDwAAQBAJ

Can read online. Especially chapters 16, 18, 23 (about a lane change, not "continuing his positions" ), 25.

[KS Toronado]

21. Bernie has always been a "people first" kind of guy

You are correct "his positions are the same as they were when he was mayor of Burlington."
Can't understand Ds who see him in a bad light.

[George II]

18. Biden has also.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Yes he did

[CaptainTruth]

7. Right, & bills need to be written & introduced to do this.

[madville]

8. Didn't the Senate remove the billionaires tax from BBB?

Unfortunately, if it had any chance of passing they would have left it in.

[Duppers]

9. I follow Bernie

RT'd that last night. 😁

[jalan48]

10. Great messaging Bernie.

[packman]

17. Thank God for our own so-called radical left guys -

Who only want America to improve itself, it's character and it's values - unlike that other radical wings who want to drag us into anarchy, treason, and an apocalyptic America

[radius777]

23. Agree completely with Bernie

whose position in this case is entirely mainstream.

Most Americans are tired of these greedy-ass, monopolistic companies that are basically traitors to America and democracy itself in many ways.

[ck4829]

25. K&R