Bernie Sanders - From the Senate Floor: Where do we go from here?

[cliffside]

Below is from the transcript starting at 16 minutes ... click on more in the description, then "show transcript"

"16:01
need mr president we don't talk about it
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too much maybe we
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should but there are three Wall Street
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firms Black Rockck Vanguard and State
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Street that
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combined are the major stockholders in
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95% of our corporations got that three
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Wall Street firms three are the major
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stockholders in 95% of American
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corporations so Mr president that is one
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America people on top doing phenomenally
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well not only do they have economic
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power they have enormous political
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power that's what's going on there they
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live like kings that's one America but
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there is another America
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and in that other America 60%
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60% of our people are living paycheck to
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paycheck"

[Carlitos Brigante]

1. K&R! nt

[cliffside]

2. A little more "and on Mr Musk, I must thank him, because he has made it very clear we are living in an oligarchic ..."

Sanders had made this point before, equating addition to drugs, alcohol etc with addiction to money/power.


"25:40
so I think the bottom line of all this
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the American people I think are catching
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on and Mr musk I must thank him because
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he has made it very
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clear we are living in an oligarchic
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form of society if anybody out there
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thinks that Mr musk is running around
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out of the goodness of his heart trying
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to make our government more efficient
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you have not a clue as to what is going
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on
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what these guys want to do is destroy
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virtually every federal
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program that impacts the well-being of
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working people social security Medicare
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postal service public education you name
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it so they can get huge tax breaks for
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the rich and eventually make government
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so inefficient that they will have the
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ability as large corporations to come in
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and privatize everything that is going
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on
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so Mr president this is a pivotal moment
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in American history and I sense that the
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American people have had it up to here
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they are prepared to fight back they do
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not want a government run by
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billionaires who have it all whose greed
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is
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uncontrollable you know we have in
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Vermont and I think all over this
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country serious problem with addiction
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with drugs people drinking too much
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alcohol people smoking too many
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cigarettes but the worst form of
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addiction that this country now
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faces is the
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greed of the
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oligarchy you might think that if you
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had 10 20 billion dollars it would be
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enough you know kind of enough to let
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your family live for the next 20
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generations but it's not for whatever
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reason whatever compulsive reason they
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have these guys want more and more and
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more and they are prepared to destroy
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social security
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Medicare nutrition programs for hungry
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people in order to get even more that to
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me is disgusting so Mr president we are
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at a pivotal moment in American history..."

[usonian]

3. The worst form of addiction that this country now faces is the greed of the oligarchy

And we all pay for that greed; some with their lives.

Bernie is a Buddha committed to the well-being and liberation of all. 🪷

In a world gone out of its mind.

[cliffside]

5. Yes, hopeful we'll win!!! Good, or shall I say, bad/truthful quote. nt

[keep_left]

4. Does anyone know how to download this? Video DownloadHelper...

...isn't recognizing the video either here or at YouTube. I do have an older version (9.3.0.1) due to an older OS and browser, but VDH still seems to be working just fine otherwise. I'd like to keep this one for offline storage if possible. TIA.

[cliffside]

6. Sorry keep left, Im no help in that department, hopefully someone else will chime in ...

[keep_left]

7. Thanks, I may need to take this to Computer Help/Support.

I think YouTube just made another one of their changes that breaks VDH until the next release. It's happened before.

[usonian]

9. I am aware of a command line tool

Look up "ytdl" on the internet.

I used to use an online version that you fed the video URL and it produces a linked video to download. Not sure if any of these are still around. I can check. Was busy today.

Browser extensions vary.

No guarantees, but others on computer help may be video fans.

Good luck.

[keep_left]

11. I have both of the command-line downloaders on...

...a Linux box of mine (youtube-dl and yt-dlp). Unfortunately, one of them appears to be broken (library dependency problems), the other simply refuses to download, and it does indeed look like the reason is that YouTube just made some major changes. Each time they do that, all the download software seems to break, sometimes for weeks or months. I'm going to check the Video DownloadHelper forums next.

[William769]

8. In today's society Bernie's voice needs to be heard.

I'll be the first to admit, I used to worry about getting my car washed & frivolous things like that. no More. Now I have to pinch my pennies and it's getting worse for me so I can imanginge how it's getting for other people and It has to change. I now feel guilry that I could afford some of the finer things in life as others suffered. I don't believe any of us should suffer. I hope I didn't sound privilighed in this post because I did not mean to, I just have a better understanding of what's going on.

I hope this post makes sense. I'm trying.

[cliffside]

14. Hope you are doing better today ...

in my opinion, it is always good to remind ourselves how lucky we are in comparison to others.

That being said we can do better as a country for all of us. If our country wants to compete with other nations we need to be healthy and educated, something the current administration fails to grasp.

Be well!

[ReRe]

10. K&R

It astounds me that this OP has so few views and recs. I hope that my rec will bring it to a few more people's ears. It was one of his best speeches on the floor of the Senate.

[usonian]

12. I shared it with my family.

It is classic.

[cliffside]

16. Thank you! Back in 2016 the MSM never covered his rallies, money should not buy an election for any candidate ...

that goes for each party.

[cliffside]

15. Appreciate the knr, it is long, but there is a transcript, the totality of the destruction is mind boggling ...

at least in my circle more people are paying attention.

[usonian]

13. K&R

Churchill, eat your heart out.