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Jimmy Fallon: Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP
"The 1% is coming from inside the house!" mcar Apr 2019 #1
Lol. cwydro Apr 2019 #16
But ... but ... BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #2
But ... but ... Jimmy Fallon's sister's boyfriend's dog walker works for the Hinkenlooper campaign! betsuni Apr 2019 #5
lol BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #7
God this is such a stupid road to go down Recursion Apr 2019 #3
Yeah...people are trying to turn this into a negative... TCJ70 Apr 2019 #4
REALLY stupid, elleng Apr 2019 #6
It is the hypocrisy BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #8
He doesn't "rail against a certain group" Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2019 #9
Yeah yeah .. spin it nt BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #11
Lol. Welcome to 2017 Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2019 #14
Why is that hypocrisy? It's not like his policy proposals have changed... TCJ70 Apr 2019 #10
spin spin spin BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #12
From January of this year: TCJ70 Apr 2019 #13
Yeah, that's my favorite. Just declare he stopped saying millionaires. Demonstrably false. Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2019 #15
 

mcar

(42,373 posts)
1. "The 1% is coming from inside the house!"
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 09:25 AM
Apr 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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cwydro

(51,308 posts)
16. Lol.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 01:44 PM
Apr 2019

Well played.

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BlueFlorida

(1,532 posts)
2. But ... but ...
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 09:51 AM
Apr 2019

Jimmy Fallon doesn't count because he represents corporate media, is a 1%er and establishment!

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betsuni

(25,618 posts)
5. But ... but ... Jimmy Fallon's sister's boyfriend's dog walker works for the Hinkenlooper campaign!
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 10:30 AM
Apr 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
3. God this is such a stupid road to go down
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 10:25 AM
Apr 2019

If "millionaire" means "net worth greater than $1 million", then almost certainly, yes. If you mean "income greater than $1 million annually", almost certainly not.

By net worth, $1m is at about the 85th percentile line, which is somewhere firmly within the Upper Middle Class (which Sanders has never claimed not to be a member of).

All of which distracts from the fact that a person's wealth does not mean their ideas are good or bad. People from anywhere in the socioeconomic spectrum can have good ideas.

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primary today, I would vote for:
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TCJ70

(4,387 posts)
4. Yeah...people are trying to turn this into a negative...
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 10:30 AM
Apr 2019

...despite the fact that he’s advocated policies that would negatively impact himself financially. That’s not a strike against him...

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elleng

(131,107 posts)
6. REALLY stupid,
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 10:42 AM
Apr 2019

and sadly predictable.

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BlueFlorida

(1,532 posts)
8. It is the hypocrisy
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 10:49 AM
Apr 2019

When one rails against a certain group and then are caught belonging to it, it is a fair attack.

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Hassin Bin Sober

(26,339 posts)
9. He doesn't "rail against a certain group"
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 11:02 AM
Apr 2019

He rails against undue influence by a certain group gaming the system so they don’t pay their share while buying elections.

“Caught belonging to it”

You mean by his Senate disclosures available for the last couple years that show his book royalty income? Yeah he was “caught”

It’s funny all the people wailing about his taxes already know he’s had a couple years with income over $1 million dollars. How do they know this since he’s been “hiding his taxes”? Because he has publicly disclosed the income per The Senate disclosures!

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Hassin Bin Sober

(26,339 posts)
14. Lol. Welcome to 2017
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:58 PM
Apr 2019
Book deals, salary make Sanders a millionaire
April McCullum, Free Press Staff Writer Published 4:15 p.m. ET June 5, 2017 | Updated 6:31 p.m. ET June 5, 2017


https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/05/sanders-rakes-865-000-book-deals/371038001/

Sen. Bernie Sanders' income spiked in 2016 as he finished a bid for the presidency, according to a new financial disclosure report filed Sunday with the U.S. Senate.

The independent Vermont senator earned a $795,000 advance for the book about his presidential campaign, "Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In." The publisher also paid for Sanders and his wife, Jane, to take a 19-stop cross-country book tour, according to the financial disclosure.
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TCJ70

(4,387 posts)
10. Why is that hypocrisy? It's not like his policy proposals have changed...
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 11:40 AM
Apr 2019

...to protect himself.

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BlueFlorida

(1,532 posts)
12. spin spin spin
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:10 PM
Apr 2019

His standard line from his one speech, "millionaires and billionaires" changed to just "billionaires"

Quelle surprise!

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TCJ70

(4,387 posts)
13. From January of this year:
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:33 PM
Apr 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,339 posts)
15. Yeah, that's my favorite. Just declare he stopped saying millionaires. Demonstrably false.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:59 PM
Apr 2019

Silly season

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