Bernie Sanders Admits There Was Democrat Party Corruption & Collusion Against His 2016 Campaign
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've spent the last hour or so talking about the
Joe Biden prostate cancer diagnosis and what it means. Essentially,
I think on a human level, we need to be
thinking about this as a human being and a person,
and I hope that we feel that way. I hope
genuinely we are. If you're a person of faith, you're
praying for the well being of everyone that you are
(00:21):
aware of, and we don't wish ill on anyone. That's
I think where society has grown now. I'm sure that
there are some exceptions for some people, and I'm not
here to tell you what to think or what to do,
but I like it when our society can at least
be cordial with one another and understand that, hey, these
are human beings that we're talking about here. We don't
(00:41):
want people to wish this stuff on us, so golden rule,
I don't want to wish it on them either. If
that being said, you cannot escape the political ramifications of
this Biden announcement, because, as we heard from another man
who called in and said that he's dealing with prostate
cancer right now at a very low level. There's no
(01:02):
way that aggressive stage five level prostate cancer which is
advanced to the bone. They say somehow is just now
discovered and diagnosed without anybody knowing that he had had
prostate cancer before. It is not that type of cancer.
It is not something that just pops up if you're
getting regular physician physicals. That's just not something that happens.
(01:24):
I'm not an expert, but I've heard from enough people
out there and read from enough experts that this is
still very treatable. It is still something that with the
proper treatment in the care that he will receive, he
can live a while longer. This is not going to
be something that will debilitate him to a point where
he can no longer walk or live. However, it does
(01:46):
lead you to the inevitable conclusion that this has something
to do with the release of this book that's coming
out tomorrow. CNN anchor reporter, What would you call Jake Tapper?
Is he an anchor? Would that be the easiest way
to describe him? Yeah? What do you call those guys?
Because he's not really over I guess he did. He
have his own show, Yeah, but he doesn't really opine
(02:09):
too much. He just kind of reports things and then
has people who are experts on the show. I don't know.
You know who Jake Tapper is. He is still considered
pretty left leaning and works for CNN and hasn't been
a Trump you know, ally by any means, I don't.
Trump's had a lot of problems with Jake Tapper since
his political career began, and then Axios kind of has
a similar reputation, but they're one of their reporters. Alex
(02:32):
Thompson wrote this book with Jake Tapper. It's called By
the Way Original Sin. President Biden's Decline, its cover up,
and his disastrous choice to run again. This is coming
out this week this week, Okay, This entire situation right
is on the heels of what was a very tumultuous
probably twelve months. I mean, I remember us when I
(02:53):
got hired in the summer of twenty three. We were
kind of talking about noticing that Joe Biden is just
not the same type of guy. Certainly seems to be slow,
he's losing his sharpness, he doesn't communicate very well. It's
a problem for the President of the United States. And
he still was adamant about running again, and we were
trying to figure out exactly why there's no way this
guy can last another four years. Then the debate happens,
(03:15):
and then of course all the public pressure, led by
George Cloudy of all people, in an op ed in
the New York Times to get him out of the race. Well,
of course this was after well after the primary and
caucus season to potentially determine who could be a legitimately
democratically elected person to be the nominee for the Democrats.
(03:35):
We lost our ability to vote. So what ends up
happening is they just hand the keys of the Vice
president Kamala Harris. She runs a campaign that spends like
a billion dollars and they're looking into a lot of
where that money went and how that was spent, and
she still loses by a larger amount than Hillary Clinton
did back in twenty sixteen. Now, I bring all this
up because of the implications that this has with this
(03:57):
book and Joe Biden's diagnosis. The Democrats have been playing
a style of politics that has shut out the American people,
their voter base that somehow still will go to the
plate and always bat for them no matter what. Enter
Bernie Sanders, a guy who kind of accidentally ran into
being the most popular candidate. It seemed in the twenty
sixteen cycle and the twenty twenty cycle, for whatever it's worth.
(04:20):
And then somehow the rules seem to change a little
bit in the way that delegates were counted midway through
helping Hillary Clinton get over the hump and defeat Bernie
Sanders to get the Democratic nomination, and the same thing
happened with Bernie Sanders win. Joe Biden was in the mix.
In twenty twenty. The Democratic Party, apparently not a fan
of Bernie Sanders as a general election candidate, decided to
(04:42):
take the vote out of their people's hands, their voters' hands,
and essentially select the person themselves that they think gave
them the best chance to win in each of those
two elections. Bernie Sanders joined and this was a good
hour and a half conversation. I'm interested in watching the
whole thing. But he he was on the Flagrant podcast.
Flagrant as in like flagrant foul. If you will, you're
(05:05):
gonna hear the voice of Andrew Schultz. He is a
guy who's the main host and the creator of the podcast.
If you're familiar with Andrew Schultz, he is an actor.
He's been He's a guy who's a comedian and he's
got a couple of buddies. He does this Flagrant podcast
with Akash Sing is going to be the second voice
you're gonna hear asking a question of Bernie Sanders. Now.
(05:27):
Their conversation piece here is about feeling like they didn't
have a true voice during the Biden debacle last year.
So here are comedians Andrew Schultz and let me just
get this name correct, Akash Sing. These two guys are
talking to Bernie Sanders on their Flagrant podcast and this
released seven hours ago, and here is Bernie answering their questions.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The problem I think a lot of voters had is
like they didn't even know if it was her. We
didn't even know if Biden was president. We didn't even
know if these were her talking points. And we felt
that over the last four elections, Democrats we felt that
we didn't have a say on who could be president.
We talk a lot about the Republicans being autocrats and
oligarchs and taking over democracy, But from the Democrat perspective,
(06:15):
and as I'm a lifelong Democrat, I felt like the
Democratic Party completely removed the democratic process from its constituents
and they I think they need to have some accountability
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No argument, I don't for you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I mean I wanted you to. Like twenty sixteen, I
was like, this is going to happen, this guy's going
to do it, and it felt like they It felt
like they stole it from me. And I'll be honest,
it broke my heart when you supported him. Look, but
you have in the world that I live in, you
got a choice. And I mean a lot of people
pleading my wife agree with you. But you know you're
(06:50):
down to a choice. It's going to be Hillary Clinton
or is it going to be Donald Trump? Not a
great choice, but it ended up being him anyway. So
why don't we burn it down?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, because it's easy to say, burning it down means
that children are not going to have you know, food,
that's the schools will deteriorate, people will not have healthcat
I got it. And you know I'm an elected official.
I got to represent the people. No, I can't turn
my back on.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But then could we not also say, if ostensibly there
hasn't been a fair primary for the Democrats since two
thousand and eight, are they not also a threat to democracy?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
We often hear fair enough that is that is Yeah,
I'm not going to argue with that point.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh okay, for whatever it's worth. And again, this was
from the Flagrant podcast. This is an hour and a
half of I'm sure if it's a conversation like this,
I'm intrigued because you know, if you don't like to
listen to Democrats, you're missing out because sometimes they talk
about things in a much more honest way than you.
I think many conservatives give them credit for. There's not
(07:47):
a lot of people in the inner circle that think intrinsically,
and we'll ask these types of questions because they're trying
to live the lie outwardly, so nobody thinks anything weird
is happening. But when you have people like Andrew Schultzen
akashing in this Flagrant podcast talking to Bernie Sanders and
saying that this felt crooked, felt like they stole it
from you, broke my heart that you supported them, him
saying I can't turn my back of my constituent. I
(08:09):
gotta do what I need to do to maintain my
whatever poll and influence that I have in this caucus,
even if I'm technically an independent. And then they say
and then Akash saying comes in and says, aren't they
just as much a threat to democracy than what we
were saying the Republicans are? And Bernie Sanders says, yep,
I have no argument for you. I won't argue though,
(08:29):
I won't argue that point. Is this the start of something?
And I don't know if this is going to gain traction.
Bernie is, for better or worse, losing his influence with
each passing year. I'm just saying this because Bernie Sanders says,
guess how old is he in the eighties? Eighty two,
eighty three, He'll be eighty four in September. This is
(08:49):
a guy who, for again Nancy Pelosi, made it to
a very advanced stage like he is. He still seems
to be pretty sharp. But the Democratic Party is not
going to go in a direction where Bernie Sanders is
going to have much influence. They are going in the
direction where people like Gavin Newsom are probably the next
type of person, Josh Shapiro, people that are in that
(09:11):
generation forties to fifties. They need to kind of develop
those people. David Hogg is kind of at odds with
some of the Democratic National Committee at this point, but
he seems to be a couple of generations away from
really having the opportunity to be a louder voice. So
AOC's kind of in there in the middle as well.
Bernie's voice is going out. Maybe he does kind of
(09:32):
burn it down a bit on his way out, who knows.
I don't think he would have the exact same conversation
with an AOC or a Gavin Newsom because they have
a lot more to lose than Bernie Sanders does at
this point. But it is quite fascinating to hear him
speak on that because it does like they haven't had
a legit political primary season since two thousand and eight,
and Bernie Sanders, who was a part of it multiple times,
(09:54):
agreed with that assessment by these podcast hosts. Wild Stuff
Songer on news radio eleven ten kfa B
We've spent the last hour or so talking about the
Joe Biden prostate cancer diagnosis and what it means. Essentially,
I think on a human level, we need to be
thinking about this as a human being and a person,
and I hope that we feel that way. I hope
genuinely we are. If you're a person of faith, you're
praying for the well being of everyone that you are
(00:21):
aware of, and we don't wish ill on anyone. That's
I think where society has grown now. I'm sure that
there are some exceptions for some people, and I'm not
here to tell you what to think or what to do,
but I like it when our society can at least
be cordial with one another and understand that, hey, these
are human beings that we're talking about here. We don't
(00:41):
want people to wish this stuff on us, so golden rule,
I don't want to wish it on them either. If
that being said, you cannot escape the political ramifications of
this Biden announcement, because, as we heard from another man
who called in and said that he's dealing with prostate
cancer right now at a very low level. There's no
(01:02):
way that aggressive stage five level prostate cancer which is
advanced to the bone. They say somehow is just now
discovered and diagnosed without anybody knowing that he had had
prostate cancer before. It is not that type of cancer.
It is not something that just pops up if you're
getting regular physician physicals. That's just not something that happens.
(01:24):
I'm not an expert, but I've heard from enough people
out there and read from enough experts that this is
still very treatable. It is still something that with the
proper treatment in the care that he will receive, he
can live a while longer. This is not going to
be something that will debilitate him to a point where
he can no longer walk or live. However, it does
(01:46):
lead you to the inevitable conclusion that this has something
to do with the release of this book that's coming
out tomorrow. CNN anchor reporter, What would you call Jake Tapper?
Is he an anchor? Would that be the easiest way
to describe him? Yeah? What do you call those guys?
Because he's not really over I guess he did. He
have his own show, Yeah, but he doesn't really opine
(02:09):
too much. He just kind of reports things and then
has people who are experts on the show. I don't know.
You know who Jake Tapper is. He is still considered
pretty left leaning and works for CNN and hasn't been
a Trump you know, ally by any means, I don't.
Trump's had a lot of problems with Jake Tapper since
his political career began, and then Axios kind of has
a similar reputation, but they're one of their reporters. Alex
(02:32):
Thompson wrote this book with Jake Tapper. It's called By
the Way Original Sin. President Biden's Decline, its cover up,
and his disastrous choice to run again. This is coming
out this week this week, Okay, This entire situation right
is on the heels of what was a very tumultuous
probably twelve months. I mean, I remember us when I
(02:53):
got hired in the summer of twenty three. We were
kind of talking about noticing that Joe Biden is just
not the same type of guy. Certainly seems to be slow,
he's losing his sharpness, he doesn't communicate very well. It's
a problem for the President of the United States. And
he still was adamant about running again, and we were
trying to figure out exactly why there's no way this
guy can last another four years. Then the debate happens,
(03:15):
and then of course all the public pressure, led by
George Cloudy of all people, in an op ed in
the New York Times to get him out of the race. Well,
of course this was after well after the primary and
caucus season to potentially determine who could be a legitimately
democratically elected person to be the nominee for the Democrats.
(03:35):
We lost our ability to vote. So what ends up
happening is they just hand the keys of the Vice
president Kamala Harris. She runs a campaign that spends like
a billion dollars and they're looking into a lot of
where that money went and how that was spent, and
she still loses by a larger amount than Hillary Clinton
did back in twenty sixteen. Now, I bring all this
up because of the implications that this has with this
(03:57):
book and Joe Biden's diagnosis. The Democrats have been playing
a style of politics that has shut out the American people,
their voter base that somehow still will go to the
plate and always bat for them no matter what. Enter
Bernie Sanders, a guy who kind of accidentally ran into
being the most popular candidate. It seemed in the twenty
sixteen cycle and the twenty twenty cycle, for whatever it's worth.
(04:20):
And then somehow the rules seem to change a little
bit in the way that delegates were counted midway through
helping Hillary Clinton get over the hump and defeat Bernie
Sanders to get the Democratic nomination, and the same thing
happened with Bernie Sanders win. Joe Biden was in the mix.
In twenty twenty. The Democratic Party, apparently not a fan
of Bernie Sanders as a general election candidate, decided to
(04:42):
take the vote out of their people's hands, their voters' hands,
and essentially select the person themselves that they think gave
them the best chance to win in each of those
two elections. Bernie Sanders joined and this was a good
hour and a half conversation. I'm interested in watching the
whole thing. But he he was on the Flagrant podcast.
Flagrant as in like flagrant foul. If you will, you're
(05:05):
gonna hear the voice of Andrew Schultz. He is a
guy who's the main host and the creator of the podcast.
If you're familiar with Andrew Schultz, he is an actor.
He's been He's a guy who's a comedian and he's
got a couple of buddies. He does this Flagrant podcast
with Akash Sing is going to be the second voice
you're gonna hear asking a question of Bernie Sanders. Now.
(05:27):
Their conversation piece here is about feeling like they didn't
have a true voice during the Biden debacle last year.
So here are comedians Andrew Schultz and let me just
get this name correct, Akash Sing. These two guys are
talking to Bernie Sanders on their Flagrant podcast and this
released seven hours ago, and here is Bernie answering their questions.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The problem I think a lot of voters had is
like they didn't even know if it was her. We
didn't even know if Biden was president. We didn't even
know if these were her talking points. And we felt
that over the last four elections, Democrats we felt that
we didn't have a say on who could be president.
We talk a lot about the Republicans being autocrats and
oligarchs and taking over democracy, But from the Democrat perspective,
(06:15):
and as I'm a lifelong Democrat, I felt like the
Democratic Party completely removed the democratic process from its constituents
and they I think they need to have some accountability
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No argument, I don't for you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I mean I wanted you to. Like twenty sixteen, I
was like, this is going to happen, this guy's going
to do it, and it felt like they It felt
like they stole it from me. And I'll be honest,
it broke my heart when you supported him. Look, but
you have in the world that I live in, you
got a choice. And I mean a lot of people
pleading my wife agree with you. But you know you're
(06:50):
down to a choice. It's going to be Hillary Clinton
or is it going to be Donald Trump? Not a
great choice, but it ended up being him anyway. So
why don't we burn it down?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, because it's easy to say, burning it down means
that children are not going to have you know, food,
that's the schools will deteriorate, people will not have healthcat
I got it. And you know I'm an elected official.
I got to represent the people. No, I can't turn
my back on.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But then could we not also say, if ostensibly there
hasn't been a fair primary for the Democrats since two
thousand and eight, are they not also a threat to democracy?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
We often hear fair enough that is that is Yeah,
I'm not going to argue with that point.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh okay, for whatever it's worth. And again, this was
from the Flagrant podcast. This is an hour and a
half of I'm sure if it's a conversation like this,
I'm intrigued because you know, if you don't like to
listen to Democrats, you're missing out because sometimes they talk
about things in a much more honest way than you.
I think many conservatives give them credit for. There's not
(07:47):
a lot of people in the inner circle that think intrinsically,
and we'll ask these types of questions because they're trying
to live the lie outwardly, so nobody thinks anything weird
is happening. But when you have people like Andrew Schultzen
akashing in this Flagrant podcast talking to Bernie Sanders and
saying that this felt crooked, felt like they stole it
from you, broke my heart that you supported them, him
saying I can't turn my back of my constituent. I
(08:09):
gotta do what I need to do to maintain my
whatever poll and influence that I have in this caucus,
even if I'm technically an independent. And then they say
and then Akash saying comes in and says, aren't they
just as much a threat to democracy than what we
were saying the Republicans are? And Bernie Sanders says, yep,
I have no argument for you. I won't argue though,
(08:29):
I won't argue that point. Is this the start of something?
And I don't know if this is going to gain traction.
Bernie is, for better or worse, losing his influence with
each passing year. I'm just saying this because Bernie Sanders says,
guess how old is he in the eighties? Eighty two,
eighty three, He'll be eighty four in September. This is
(08:49):
a guy who, for again Nancy Pelosi, made it to
a very advanced stage like he is. He still seems
to be pretty sharp. But the Democratic Party is not
going to go in a direction where Bernie Sanders is
going to have much influence. They are going in the
direction where people like Gavin Newsom are probably the next
type of person, Josh Shapiro, people that are in that
(09:11):
generation forties to fifties. They need to kind of develop
those people. David Hogg is kind of at odds with
some of the Democratic National Committee at this point, but
he seems to be a couple of generations away from
really having the opportunity to be a louder voice. So
AOC's kind of in there in the middle as well.
Bernie's voice is going out. Maybe he does kind of
(09:32):
burn it down a bit on his way out, who knows.
I don't think he would have the exact same conversation
with an AOC or a Gavin Newsom because they have
a lot more to lose than Bernie Sanders does at
this point. But it is quite fascinating to hear him
speak on that because it does like they haven't had
a legit political primary season since two thousand and eight,
and Bernie Sanders, who was a part of it multiple times,
(09:54):
agreed with that assessment by these podcast hosts. Wild Stuff
Songer on news radio eleven ten kfa B
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