There's one thing you can rely on utterly with creatures of the far left; it's always "nice things for me, but not for thee." It's always been that way. Back in the bad old days of the Soviet Union, pretty much from the get-go, the big shots had their well-stocked private commissaries and their dachas in the woods outside of Moscow, while the ordinary folks waited in line for six days to get their potato ration, and were delighted to learn that the chocolate ration had been increased from 12 grams to 10 grams.
Speaking of Bolsheviks, take a look at the daffy old commie from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, and his travel bills, just as another example. The Center Square's Mark Stricherz has been looking into the old Bolshevik's travel expenses, and it appears that Bernie would put Hugh Hefner to shame when it came to traveling in style.
Sanders is barnstorming the country on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, a series of rallies aimed at opposing President Trump and supporting economic populism. To defray its cost, he is raising and spending money through his principal campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders. Even as Sanders rails against billionaires' political clout and economic inequality, his committee has relied on elite trappings more commonly associated with the wealthy.
The Center Square examined Friends of Bernie Sanders' filings with the Federal Election Commission from the start of the tour in January 2025 through March, a 15-month stretch when Sanders was the featured speaker at 32 rallies at cities, university campuses, and small towns around the country. More than half a dozen other members of Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a New York Democrat, have also spoken at the rallies.
To travel, the committee paid $562,117 for 11 private jet trips and $16,633 for a chauffeured car or limousine service 11 times. For lodging, it paid $29,064 to stay at a four-star hotel 15 times.
Half a million on private plane rides. Thousands for private cars and fancy hotels. That's a lot for a guy who claims to be working for the common folks.
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The chair of Vermont's GOP seems to have a better grasp in this than Bernie does.
Paul Dane, chairman of Vermont's Republican Party, said Sanders is out of touch with ordinary state citizens.
"There's an incredible disconnect between the average working Vermonter, who would never dream of being on a private jet – let alone making it through the Burlington airport without a hassle – and Senator Sanders flying around the country on private planes," Dane told The Center Square in an interview.
A Sanders spokesman did not return two voicemails requesting comment. But Sanders has defended his use of private jet travel as necessary for logistical reasons.
"You run a campaign, and you do three or four or five rallies a week," he said on Fox News last year. "[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?"
That's a weak excuse, Bernie. That's a weak excuse indeed. If you're campaigning, fine, hire a bus, or an RV. Tour the country like that, and it will almost certainly be a lot less than the half a million you dropped on private plane tickets. Or - here's a notion - just fly commercial. Fly coach, Bernie. Show us you're one of the common folks, or at least, you were, back when you were railing against millionaires before becoming one yourself. Come to think of it, that was when you started railing against billionaires, and it's also around the time you started traveling like one.
Nice stuff for me, not for thee. That's the far left for you. T'was ever thus, and always will be. The best thing we can do is to point and laugh. The daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, sadly, doesn't feel embarrassment or shame, as is apparent by his behavior, but we can at least point it out to anyone else who will listen.
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