There’s nothing that spells hypocrisy more than elites like climate fraudster John Kerry galivanting across the globe on high-priced junkets to “save the world,” or the thousand plus jets that regularly descend upon at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (along with countless ten-SUV motorcades), or Doom Pixie Greta Thunberg showing up all over the globe but acting as if she used wind power to get there.
Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the latest to hop aboard the hypocrisy train as they fly around in private jets on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour and living like… well, oligarchs.
If they have any self-awareness of how two-faced they look, they’re not showing it. In fact, Sanders has exactly zero apologies to give, as he told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier Wednesday evening:
This is good @BretBaier asks Bernie Sanders why he spent $221k on private jet travel during his “fighting the oligarchy tour.” Bernie says he’s too important to fly commercial and wait in line like normal people. “No apologies.” pic.twitter.com/2gVIhsz7A4
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 7, 2025
What, you want me to wait in line like the little people? Sanders seemed to be doing a comedic routine cosplaying as crabby Larry David from “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” You want me to take the middle seat or have to wait for my bags, what, are you serious? I’m fighting oligarchy heah!
"You run a campaign, and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. [It is] the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United…while 30, 000 people are waiting?" Sanders said on "Special Report." [Yes, he actually said this.]
"That's the only way to get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're gonna do it in future."
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These two inauthentic characters are everything wrong with the Democrat party, from CA Gov. Gavin Newsom to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, to the entitled likes of former President Joe Biden and his equally talentless VP Kamala Harris—they preach one thing, but do another. They want you to cut down on your vehicle use while they fly around the globe, they want you to replace all your appliances with crappy ones so you can do your part—but Kamala was perfectly happy to show up Monday at the gross “Hunger Games” elite fest, that cutesy $75,000 a ticket Met Gala, to show you how she’s in it for the little guy.
Hundreds of private jets sit on the runway at Davos as the world’s biggest hypocrites, the globalist elites, discuss climate change: #davos pic.twitter.com/Pe3JjyQjaW
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) January 22, 2020
And the Jet Bern isn’t just taking a few little regional flights here—he’s racked up quite the mileage:
Sanders' campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent over $221,000 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. The filing, which was released last month, shows that Sanders dropped the massive haul between three private jet companies: Ventura Jets, Cirrus Aviation Services and N-Jet.
Meanwhile star proponent of the “Green New Deal” thinks it’s OK to take flights that cost up to $15,000 an hour to spread the gospel.
I’m going to paraphrase my good friend and colleague Ward Clark here—when I see these hypocrites actually living like they believe what they’re preaching, then maybe I’ll take their endless bilge seriously.
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