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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon May 2, 2016, 01:25 PM May 2016

Sanders laughs with supporter who tells billionaire class to 'f--- off'

By NICK GASS 05/02/16 12:11 PM EDT
Bernie Sanders shared an appreciation for the blunt language of his supporters Monday, even as he remarked that he could not be so vulgar himself.

“I think that when the top one-tenth of 1 percent — one-tenth of 1 percent — now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, we got some other choices that we can make,” Sanders said at a rally in Evansville, Indiana, repeating a common refrain on the trail.

As Sanders then said, “That choice is to tell the billionaire class — ” a man in the audience could be heard shouting, “To f--- off!”
Sanders briefly continued before pausing and chuckling.

“Well, that is one way to phrase it,” he said, gesturing at the interrupter. “See, I myself am constrained. I can’t quite phrase it like that, but that’s not bad.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/bernie-sanders-billionaire-class-222701

Cue the pearl clutchers...

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Sanders laughs with supporter who tells billionaire class to 'f--- off' (Original Post) n2doc May 2016 OP
Isn't that JanetLovesObama May 2016 #1
Better than Being Donald Trump's doormat n/t n2doc May 2016 #2
Why are you here? MissDeeds May 2016 #3
If this were the Hillary group mac56 May 2016 #13
Absolutely MissDeeds May 2016 #14
Telling the billionaire class to fuck off is like calling Mexicans immigrants rapists? yodermon May 2016 #4
Another lame Hillary supporter for billionaires... Human101948 May 2016 #5
Only if you have a weird hearing problem Scootaloo May 2016 #10
ANYONE.. disillusioned73 May 2016 #6
while Hillary cashes billionaire's checks dreamnightwind May 2016 #7
Hillary benefited from the benevolence of banks and got a lot of trickled-down wealth. thereismore May 2016 #8
And astroturf dreamnightwind May 2016 #9
thank you 'man in the audience'! Viva_La_Revolution May 2016 #11
how many yachts do they need? houses? upgrades? pansypoo53219 May 2016 #12

mac56

(17,569 posts)
13. If this were the Hillary group
Mon May 2, 2016, 03:17 PM
May 2016

and saying something similarly critical of Madame Secretary

that poster would have been banned so fast it would make your head spin.

 

MissDeeds

(7,499 posts)
14. Absolutely
Mon May 2, 2016, 03:47 PM
May 2016

I am so tired of the two sets of standards on DU, one for Bernie supporters and one for HRH supporters.

yodermon

(6,143 posts)
4. Telling the billionaire class to fuck off is like calling Mexicans immigrants rapists?
Mon May 2, 2016, 01:48 PM
May 2016

or inciting acts of racist violence at his rallies?

Wow.

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
8. Hillary benefited from the benevolence of banks and got a lot of trickled-down wealth.
Mon May 2, 2016, 02:11 PM
May 2016

She is a trickle-down democrat.

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