- America's favorite octogenarian commie is OK with you standing in long lines to wait for commercial flights, but don't you dare ask him to do it.
WATCH: @BretBaier challenges Bernie Sanders on why he spent $221k using private jets during his ‘fighting oligarchy’ tour pic.twitter.com/lMii8D4HC1
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 7, 2025
I love the bit how Sanders considers it abhorrent that "people on top are doing phenomenally well" as if he hasn't used his position in government to enrich himself, thus catapulting to "the top."
Back to the excessive private jets usage. This rationale from one of Bernie's staunch defenders falls flat.
Bernie Sanders is 83 and had to be in multiple states in the same day. In that situation you fly private.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 8, 2025
Uhhhh...he "had to be?!?!?!" Why, exactly? This demagoguery tour with Tide Pod Evita Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was something he's *chosen* to do, yet the insinuation here is that if he doesn't travel to multiple states in a day, he'll lose out on some sort of livelihood (which, come to think of it, may be partially true; demagoguery can be lucrative).
Ironically, exempting yourself from a group you decry despite having so much in common with them might be something an oligarch would do.
- I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the only political organization to which I donate money regularly is the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.
In a recent statement, they called out the grifter group MN Gun Rights.
Once again, Minnesota Gun Rights is pushing out a misleading email claiming the “Assault Weapons Ban” (SF 1596 / HF 2449) is heating up and about to pass.
Let’s be clear:
❌ This bill has had zero hearings.
❌ It has no support from DFL leadership this session.
❌ We’ve spoken with nearly every GOP legislator, including the so-called “soft” ones — none of them support this bill.
This legislation is not moving. It is not a current threat.
This is yet another example of MGR’s tired playbook:
➡️ Stir up panic with alarmist rhetoric
➡️ Target low-information gun owners
➡️ Fundraise off fear and falsehoods
They’ve done it before. They’re doing it again. And it’s hurting the real fight to defend gun rights in Minnesota.
We’ll continue to oppose this bill, and we’ll keep the pressure on at the Capitol - where we are today (and they are not).
But misleading supporters with lies to line your pockets? That’s not activism. That’s a grift.
It's similar to what PAC Action 4 Liberty does.
A4L yearns for another Democrat trifecta.
— Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) May 8, 2025
It's their best fundraising environment.
They betray conservatives while pretending to be their champions.
My RTing them will get more engagement than they could get on their own.
But I'm happy to expose their treachery. https://t.co/kTGln1Ks71
Just a friendly reminder that when an organization makes its biggest fundraising haul when the political side they supposedly support is in peril (real or perceived), these people can not be credibly seen as "allies."
Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, until now. Cardinal Robert Prevost is originally from Chicago, and served as the head of the church's Dicastery for Bishops.
He was elected to be the successor to Pope Francis by the College of Cardinals Thursday, May 8, 2025. He has chosen the papal name Pope Leo XIV.
As is custom (particularly in America), people want to look at the papal election through their own political bent. It's somewhat understanding now, given that Leo XIV is the first ever American born pope. But as Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire points out, a papal election is not something that can be (or should be) viewed in that context.
If you aren't Catholic then you don't believe that this Pope was elected through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, so you'll troll through his Twitter feed and analyze his selection through a modern political lens, as if he was just elected to a seat in the US senate rather than the Chair of Saint Peter.
If you are a believing Catholic then you do (or should) believe that his election is ordained by God. You view it through the lens of 2,000 years of Church history and the eternal will of the Almighty God. From that perspective, playing the gotcha game with old tweets is silly and bizarre.
This is why any conversation about the Pope on this site is destined to be disjointed, confused, and ultimately useless.
My own very early impression (as someone in the second category) is that there are some good signs and bad signs with this new Pope. I want to see what he actually does with his papacy before I pass any kind of judgment. If he does things I don't like, I'll say so. As I did with Pope Francis. In the meantime, I'll pray for him and for the Church.
One final thought: If Saturday Night Live doesn't address this historic event with a sketch about Da Pope (in the motif of Da Bears), then it's a dereliction of duty.
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