Bernie Sanders says progressives need to 'shake up the status quo' in New York. But Democrats have run New York City for over a decade, with the highest combined tax rates in the country and a city budget larger than the entire state of Florida. They are the status quo.
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Bernie Sanders appears on screen celebrating the progressive sweep of three New York congressional seats and calling for war on the 'billionaire class.' Bongino runs a Grok AI search live and pulls up Sanders's estimated net worth: $2–3 million [1] — Dan Bongino "Bernie Sanders just declared war on the billionaire class and cheered New York's progressive congressional wins. His estimated net worth? $…" 40:30 . He then pivots to the New York City governance record, noting the city has been run by Democrats for over a decade — confirmed by another Grok search showing the last two mayors, Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio, are both Democrats — which makes Sanders's 'fight the status quo' framing nonsensical. Bongino caps the segment with his most visceral attack of the episode, calling Sanders a lifelong bum who has never added value to society and whose real danger lies in exporting his philosophy to a national movement.
Bernie Sanders just declared war on the billionaire class and cheered New York's progressive congressional wins. His estimated net worth? $2–3 million. Bongino calls him the most dangerous man in America — not despite his hypocrisy, but because of how effectively he exports it.
Bongino claimed New York City's municipal budget is larger than the entire state of Florida's budget, used to illustrate the scale of New York's progressive spending.
Bernie Sanders, who campaigns against wealth accumulation and the 'billionaire class,' has an estimated net worth of $2–3 million, making him a millionaire himself.
Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, who campaigns against capitalism and private property, has a father who is a landlord renting his Miami condo for $1,750 a month.
New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier campaigns on eradicating Western civilization and hates capitalism. Her father is a Miami landlord charging $1,750 a month. Alinsky Rule 4 delivers again.
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Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
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