Bernie Sanders, Socialist Hero and Champion of the Proletariat, just bought himself a $600,000 vacation home. (His third).
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.
Sanders’ new waterfront crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
Gee, do you think he will be using this or his other home to shelter homeless transgendered illegal immigrant Muslims? Yeah, neither do I.
“Excuse me, …but
whyhow doesG_Da committed Socialistneedafford astarshiplakefront dacha?”Strange, his college-president wife’s Burlington College recently declared bankruptcy and close. Hmmmm…..dodgy real estate deals and $10-million in imprudent debts?
Six-percent commission => $600,000 ??
Yet Bernie expects you to feel guilty if you can afford the rent on your one-bedroom apartment. (Which, BTW, you pay with money that you earned by working sixty hours a week.) And he will accuse you of being greedy and selfish if you vote for a candidate who promises to cut your taxes from 35% to 34%.
Hmmmm…wonder if The Clinton Foundation had a anything to do with this purchase? And it’s his 3rd home. What a fecking hypocrite.
Damn! I have only two homes (*) — clearly, I need to switch to socialism if I want to get rich.
(*) the one of which I own the tax bill and the one close to my job which I rent so that I don’t have to spend 3+ hours of every weekday driving to and fro.
Bernie is a frugal person who has carefully managed the meagre salaries he started receiving when he finally commenced working during his mid-life years. This is made even more remarkable when you realize that such frugality occurred while simultaneously making remarkable strides spreading the principles of socialism amongst the peoples.
A selfless and thoughtful politician, Bernie even eschewed haircuts and managed his own mane by having his goats graze on his head as he read the thoughts of Chairman Mao to them from his little faded red book.
He and his wife Babra Imelda Madonna Sanders have long been savvy to scouring the waste cans after meet-and-greets for containers that comply with the Vermont redemption deposit laws of 5¢ for sodas and stuff and 15¢ for liquor cartons, cans or bottles. Sometimes they would barely have room left over in their AMC Gremlin to sit, let alone carry the leftover potato salad and bags of munchies.
Three homes may seem excessive to some, but do not forget that this Good Shepherd of socialism must move about the state spreading the doctrine and he must not only have shelter, but he must have a place for his disciples to rest and recharge as they lubricate their elbows.
It should also be remembered that no man ever fed a hungry child by complaining about how the millstones of socialism slowly and thoroughly grind the flour that forms the essential bread which nourishes and sustains the unicorns with vital sustenance.
Good on Bernie. He is well on his way to having a way-station in every middlesex, village and farming center from which to go forth and carry the lantern of light and hope and change that will illuminate the new tomorrow of socialist peace, harmony, tranquility and lavish comfort for its dear leaders.
Heliotrope….HAHAHAHAHA!! Excellent. Absolutely excellent.
Thank you for a great laugh this afternoon.
Love this blog, V the K. Thanks.
One does have to live in a world of fantasy in order to rationalize being a socialist. My hat is off to Heliotrope. I look forward to anything he has to say.
Bernie’s defense might well be like the “Little Tin Box” number from the play “Fiorello”. (Howard da Silva and Tom Bosley were two of the stars). One stanza had him (da Silva’s character) giving up smoking for a month or two which enabled him on a paltry salary to afford a yacht.
politics pays well. I think he likes it a lot better than the welfare he collected for his first forty years.
Ah, Heliotrope for the win! That’s some epic gold wordsmithing right there! Thank you for the laugh! (I actually got a visual of the goats munching on the Bern’s hair).
Note that it’s a “camp”, …not a “lakefront weekend estate”.
Bernie got kicked out of a Hippie commune for not doing his fair share.
Lets check in on our favorite socialist utopia:
“This is not a joke nor even an exaggeration. I just found out that my sister in law’s other brother-in-law was arrested in Venezuela at the airport while trying to leave the country. His crime, he was an employee for a company that went out of business. Waiting for more? There isn’t any. Maduro has decreed that any business that goes out of business has committed economic treason and its employees are subject to arrest. They had already arrested numerous owners and managers but this is the first time they went after rank and file worker bees. ”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/240560/
How to become rich ‘n’ famous: “selfless public service”.
i read on snopes.com that this dacha was paid for with proceeds from the sale of his wife’s parents’ house in maine which she inherited but which they could not use since it was a great distance from their primary home. if only we could all inherit a house from our parents!!! sheesh!!!
^ As you well know, confiscatory taxation is only for the “little people”