US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

im pretty sure trumps whole ostentatious presentation has been brought up by people who dont like him at least a few times

I’m puzzled about the purpose of the video now. doesn’t he basically just tell the story the NYer reporter, but with roseanne barr? what was he trying to dispel exactly

the man has a brain worm kevin

(if we're talking houses, Bernie's houses were a thing, unsurprisingly imo)

something that only seems to happen to men tbh

only the worm knows for sure xxp

you should be smart enough to know that this is a bad look for a Dem candidate

the only people who ever seem to pipe up about these things are pundits who say they are concerned that others might think it's a bad look

but maybe somebody can do a poll asking likely voters if they think it's okay for the vice-president of the united states to wear an expensive necklace sometimes and then we can put these grave concerns to bed

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the only people who ever seem to pipe up about these things are pundits who say they are concerned that others might think it's a bad look

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, August 5, 2024 11:50 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

are we pundits to you

regardless john edwards haircut and al gore flying on private jets even tho they are bad for environment are easily two of the stickiest tales about those two

well now see i like that insta account mostly cuz its pictures of preachers in megachurches and then it tells you how much their sneakers and such cost and fuck a preacher but i like kamala so i don't care. but i'd never seen so many comments before for a post. most people were like she can do what she likes fuckoff.

https://www.instagram.com/preachersnsneakers/

Weren't "Bernie's houses," like, a reasonable family home for a successful official plus an apartment that he needed in DC plus a cabin in the woods? No need to do Fox's work for them here imo. I wasn't even a hard Bernie stan at the time but I feel like when a family member asked me recently "What do you make of the accusations that Fauci profited off the vaccines" -- like, I see no need to accept that question at face value or that framing.

bernies was a modest lake house purchased years ago that was due to housing crisis now worth one million dollars or smth

obama getting a bunch of cash dumped on him by wall st immediately upon leaving office maybe on at the very top of his list but its def on there

and just generally do people feel like theyre being ruled by unaccountable ultra wealthy elites, going to go with a big yes

I’m puzzled about the purpose of the video now. doesn’t he basically just tell the story the NYer reporter, but with roseanne barr? what was he trying to dispel exactly

I think the difference is that the New Yorker makes it seem like the whole thing was a lark -- he picked up the bear simply because he was "tickled" that he found it and then "got an idea" / "thought it would be funny" to drop it in Central Park with the bike. Whereas the story he tells to Roseanne is that he picked it up because he planned to skin it and save the meat, but ended up not having time to do that, so he was in a bind and had to put it somewhere. But it's an insane story either way.

yeah hes a redneck whos gonna eat the bear meat lol

oh john kerry windsurfing too

I don't think there's anything wrong with it but Sanders's "cabin in the woods" cost him $575,000 -- he's a guy with a second home, which is something most people don't have! He's a rich guy! Almost all Senators are! He's probably below median richness for a Senator, but yes, national politicians, of every political persuasion, are primarily very rich people. (To be clear -- primarily 5%-1%'ers, like Sanders, doctor rich, not .01%-ers like Trump or Pritzker or Bloomberg.)

id just make them all get real jobs and replace them with not rich people personally, and then id make it a law that those people are never allowed to get rich

Xp, I thought one of those properties was something his wife inherited.

"the Clintons have an estimated net worth of $120 million today, according to Celebrity Net Worth.Nov 9, 2023"

thats the best they could do, sad

I don't think U.S. Congress reps are necessarily rich, by the way -- they're younger and there are fewer people who get in by being rich. Like, I don't think Ocasio-Cortez is rich, I think she has more normal-person finances. Of course at some point she'll get a 6-figure book deal but that's still not the same as being a doctor and having a 6-figure annual income.

"Al Gore is a former senator, Vice President, environmental activist, and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $300 million."

he keeps it all in his lockbox.

and he gets the royalties from inventing the internet

anyone in congress who plays ball with the corps can have no show board jobs or whatever and be rich when they get out

"Bernie Sanders is an American politician who has a net worth of $3 million. Bernie Sanders has been a United States Senator representing Vermont since 2007. He has also undertaken a number of Presidential campaigns. Bernie's most recent financial disclosure is from 2018. At that point, he estimated his net worth to be $1.7 million, the vast majority of which was earned from book advances and royalties. As we detail in the next section of this article below, according to his tax returns, between 2009 and 2018, Bernie earned $4.7 million. He and his wife own around $1.8 million worth of real estate, though they carry mortgages on all three properties."

even anti corp people like like aoc can prob do a somewhat down market version and do pretend work for big non profits or whatever

I’m ok with people being rich and having nice things that I don’t have. Just pass good policy plz, you can do both.

the problem is they tend to not do that

i do have a problem with people being rich tho fwiw or at least super rich

I thought one of those properties was something his wife inherited.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/08/10/bernie-sanders-buys-a-half-million-dollar-vacation-home-and-the-internet-cries-hypocrisy/

https://people.com/home/bernie-sanders-summer-home/

It's a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house, 1800 square feet. It's not a cabin, it's a house than the house where my family and I live. He bought it, his wife didn't inherit it, but he did use proceeds from selling a place his wife inherited -- yes, if you have family money that you can use to buy a $575,000 seasonal house, you are rich. But I don't think there's any hypocrisy in being rich and sticking up for not-rich people, I think sticking up for not-rich people is the morally correct stance for everybody at every income level. Hypocrisy would be having the generational wealth to buy a second house and then saying that you shouldn't have to pay taxes to support people who didn't work hard for their wealth like you did.

tho i do think the whole conversation about rich politicians is somewhat looking at it backwards, its a symptom, the only thing that gets good things for ordinary people is people power, using that power to influence the political system

There's better shrimp at the parties of the people who don't want you to do stuff

im willing to get some nice shrimp

shrimp is bugs

you'll all be forced to eat it when the ELITES TAKE AWAY YOUR RED MEAT

theyre good tho, not as good as lobster (also bug)

people should probably be eating more bugs tbh

i will eat more lobster, for the environment

ELITE ENTOMOPHAGIST DETECTED

havent had a lobster since last summer, sad

last summer i also harvested my own oysters, what a time to be alive

ahh that sounds fun. the ocean is a distant rumor where i am.

the ocean is so incredible

like hulk

When I lived on the east coast I never ate fish. Now that I'm in Montana, on the shore of a giant lake, I eat fish a couple of times a week, it feels like. Still not gonna eat bugs, whether shrimp-sized or lobster-sized.