 Twice this election cycle. I have done videos Basically detailing all of the really idiotic attacks against Bernie Sanders by the mainstream media and one of the common themes in those videos is that look these attacks are getting more and more Desperate and dim-witted and I think just like a month or two ago I released the video saying you know the attacks on Bernie are getting even dumber and more desperate and It's like each time I put out one of those videos They're listening and they're taking it as a challenge because I've got a couple more attacks for you That are so stupid that it's it's breaking my brain like I don't get how they can print this and think this is a scandal We've got them now Like it's it's honestly baffling to me But nonetheless they keep doing it because they're looking for whatever they can possibly find and if you'll recall last week I did a video talking about how they're just trying to overwhelm Bernie Sanders with a plethora of attacks So that way if they hit him with a bunch of things simultaneously You can't possibly dodge all of that you can't respond to all of it So you have to let some of it kind of go and then their goal I'm assuming is for that you know attack to go unaddressed and Hopefully grow and ultimately consume Bernie Sanders because it's no secret that he's against the status quo And they want to take him down because he's a threat to the status quo So last week the New York Times published a hit piece on Bernie Sanders that essentially portrayed him as an un-American hippie Communist sympathizer and this week political claim that he's turned into an oligarch that he once railed against With his whopping two million dollars in net worth now I want to talk about some new attacks against Bernie Sanders this week because these are the more Moronic attacks where I read this and I thought Why would they think this is a scandal now the title is it kind of suggests that you know There's something really nefarious going on here when it comes to Bernie So the first example I have is by Kristen Tate Published by the Hill the headline reads millions of taxpayer dollars fueled Bernie Sanders to wealth success Now if you just read that headline you'd think Okay, that sounds pretty odd. So what he's benefiting off of our tax dollars Like it reminds you of something that Duncan Hunter was doing was literally indicted For corruption mind you because he was taking campaign funds I believe something along those lines and buying like steam games So you you get the sense that it's something like that something overtly and explicitly Pertaining to corruption, but what's the actual scandal here? He takes a salary as a member of Congress. That's literally the scandal That's what this headline is about Bernie Sanders used taxpayer dollars to propel himself to wealth By accepting a salary as a mayor as a member of the House of Representatives and ultimately as a senator How is that a scandal and I know that you're gonna think that I'm being hyperbolic Let me read to you a paragraph here So you can get a sense of what this person was trying to accomplish today Sanders rakes in $174,000 every year from serving in the upper chamber Senate He has earned two million two hundred forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars in his twelve years there and had earned two million two hundred seventy two thousand five hundred dollars from his sixteen years in the house So federal taxpayers have financed his life to the tune of more than four point five million dollars So he's taking a salary, okay Bernie you hypocrite. Why aren't you working for free? I? Mean is that the assumption? I don't get it. This is the attack. That's what the article was about he's Propelling himself to wealth and to success because he accepted his salary Duh, no shit Sherlock now you can make the argument that members of Congress are paid too much Because I would certainly agree with that. I think that they don't do enough to get paid Six figures but with that being said the fact that he is accepting a salary is not controversial at all at all Not even a little bit In fact, I would be a little bit weirded out if he was working for free Because if you remember of Congress, this is time-consuming right you have to be in DC If that's not your actual home you spend hours upon hours traveling every single week So it's incredibly Draining I'm assuming and taxing on someone so it would be weird for him to not accept a salary But that's literally the crux of this argument. He's accepting a salary Okay, but that's not all so there's another article This was published by Politico by Holly Otterbyn and Politico loves publishing hit pieces on Bernie Sanders But this is an article that supposedly demonstrates how Bernie Sanders has changed Since he accumulated all of his wealth now it chronicles his transition from humble outsider in DC to an insider I guess she'll with an article titled Bernie Sanders extreme makeover a candidate with an aversion to schmoozing and Ring-kissing bows to the necessities of a top-tier presidential campaign. So when you read that, what's the implications? You assume that it's pointing to him selling out. Oh what he's no longer Being principled. I'm assuming he's bowing to the necessities of a top top-tier presidential campaign So does that mean that he is courting wealthy donors? He's holding these private fundraisers. Is that what they mean, you know, when I when I whenever I hear words like Schmoozing and kissing up and kissing the ring that tells me. Oh, well, they're trying to court donors But what does it actually mean? What is this actually about? Let me read a paragraph to you So the candidate with an aversion to schmoozing and a reputation as a loner in the Senate is Bowing to a side of politics. He's long despised Sanders is making dozens of calls each week to elected officials labor leaders and party chiefs according to his aides in between his rallies he regularly meets with politicians behind closed doors and Surrogates including representative Ro Khanna the co-chairman of his campaign are aggressively courting house members in other words He's campaigning That's the scandal because if you want to run for president I think it would behoove you to try to build Coalitions make connections and maybe court the endorsements of members of the House of Representatives. That's what Ro Khanna is doing So that's the scandal here. Do you get it? He's he's uh, he's campaigning Now the reason why he's changed well, you know back in 2016 when he ran against Hillary Clinton He didn't do this. He wasn't having these closed-door meetings with politicians and try to get their endorsements He just said you know Screw it. I'll just campaign on the issues and if I get their endorsements Then I get their endorsements if not, then whatever but what they failed to realize here is that Hillary Clinton basically had the endorsement of Basically every politician and insider locked up before Bernie even entered the race and furthermore I don't even believe he was entering with the intention of winning I think he just wanted to offer voters a left-wing choice and wanted to push Hillary Clinton to the left So now that he's a front-runner. He is a front-runner one of two, maybe I Mean he's in it to win it. So why wouldn't he court endorsements when we saw how powerful that was back in 2016 a lot of the endorsements from Hillary Clinton, you know Particularly pertaining to super delegates gave everyone the impression that she was a foregone conclusion Why wouldn't he pursue that if he knows how powerful that is especially when it comes to mainstream media? But he's attacked for it He had an extreme makeover because he is changing up his strategy a little bit I mean, do you understand? These are the scandals that they're reporting on the quote-unquote scandals He's accepting a salary and he's campaigning, okay, I Don't know Why they would publish something like this like for me. I Dislike a lot of politicians right Donald Trump Joe Biden. I just like a ton Of conservative and centrist politicians, however, this is my thought process if I am covering a story that I don't think actually is Credible or it doesn't say enough about a candidate. I withhold from publishing that video because what it is going to portray me as is Someone who's just looking for any and all reasons to criticize Joe Biden and Donald Trump when that that hurts your credibility I'm not gonna criticize them unless I believe there's a good reason to criticize them and even when I've published some videos I did one about What's his name the guy from Alabama the senator who defeated Roy Moore? I'm blanking on his name What's his name Doug Jones? I published a video on Doug Jones and in the video and I don't even remember what this was about It was an interview that he did and I said look maybe I'm just being you know a little bit overly Skeptical about him and maybe he doesn't mean X and I'm just kind of imposing what I think he means I even put that caveat, but here they're just basically They're going out of their way To be idiotic and say Bernie you took a congressional salary. Gotcha It's just if they think this is going to hurt Bernie Sanders. It's not it's gonna hurt their credibility more than anything Mike is a total loser so don't hit the subscribe button, okay, and whatever you do folks Do not hit the notification bell either Mike treats me so unfairly