Whoa!! Bernie Destroys Trump in Surprise NC Rally

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was in for a rude awakening. Senator Bernie Sanders in Asheville, North Carolina, before a packed crowd bringing the House down. An incredible speech as part of his Fight the Oligarchy tour, going to states and areas that voted for Trump and making sure that people understand the stakes to Fight the Oligarchs. The crowd in Asheville was pumped up. Watch as Senator Bernie Sanders took the stage in Asheville. Play this clip. Let's welcome him to the podium because it's time to rise, to rise, to rise. Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people.

0:57Ben Meiselas:Then here, Senator Bernie Sanders had a powerful moment of his speech where he called out the fraud, the phony, the criminal, the felon, Donald Trump. And Bernie Sanders did not mince words. Watch this powerful moment from his speech in Asheville. Let's play it. And Donald Trump comes into office. I am the champion of the working class. I just love workers. Well, this guy is not only a pathological liar, he is a fraud of the worst kind.

1:42when trump campaigned for president i don't recall him telling his supporters that he was going to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top one percent $900 billion in tax breaks to large corporations. I don't recall Trump telling his supporters that he was going to throw 15 million people, including many hundreds of thousands here in North Carolina, off of the health care that they have. and let us be clear and this is not just me talking there have been studies about this when you throw 15 million low-income and working-class people off of the health care they have when you cut back on the affordable care act and force premiums to go up all over this country Do you know what happens?

2:44People die. That is the simple truth. And there have been studies out there, and I feel uncomfortable telling you this, because it's so horrible, but it's true. There have been studies out there, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, suggesting that when 15 million people lose their health insurance, when costs go up, 50 ,000, 5-0, 50 ,000 Americans a year will die unnecessarily. Thank you, Donald Trump.

3:17Trump did not campaign on taking free school meals for up to 16 million kids away from them. He did not campaign on doubling or tripling monthly student loan payments for millions of Americans who are already drowning in debt. But it's not just his big, beautiful bill. Trump did not tell his supporters that he was going to shut down Social Security field offices all over America, making it harder for the elderly and the disabled to get the benefits that they have paid for. He did not tell the veterans of this country who put their lives on the line to defend us that he was going to throw 83 ,000 employees in the VA out of their jobs, which means worse health care for our veterans.

4:16He didn't tell the American people that he was going to impose a$50 billion a year voucher program on America, which will go a long way to destroy public education in America. He didn't tell the American people that they were going to have to pay substantially higher prices because of his absurd tariff policies.

4:46In other words, what Trump has done is made a very bad situation worse. worse. And I want to say though, it's not just domestic policy that we have got to be concerned about. I am proud to tell you that I have led the effort in the United States Senate to end the funding of the Netanyahu war machine in Gaza.

5:29It is not acceptable to me or the overwhelming majority of Americans, whether you're Democrat, Republican, or independent, that in Gaza right now 60 ,000 people have been killed, mostly women, children, and the elderly. 140 ,000 have been wounded, mostly women, children, and the elderly. entire infrastructure, schools, health care systems, wastewater plants, water plants have been destroyed. And now with U.S. taxpayer money, children are being starved to death. Not acceptable.

6:09Ben Meiselas:We've got to change that. Another powerful moment right here from Senator Sanders. Let's play it. If we stand together and do not allow Trump and his minions to divide us up based on the color of our skin or where we were born or our sexual orientation or our religion. If we stand together, we can defeat oligarchy, we can defeat authoritarianism, and we can create a nation and a government that works for all. Why drop a fortune on basics when you don't have to? Quince has the good stuff, High quality fabrics, classic fits, and lightweight layers for warm weather, all at prices that make sense.

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8:11So good. Today in the richest country, again, this is almost unimaginable. In the richest country in the history of the world, 60 % of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. Anybody here living paycheck to paycheck? Yeah. I grew up in a family living paycheck to paycheck. Anybody here dealing with stress every day, trying to feed your families, pay your medical bills, pay for your housing? Well, tens of millions of people are in exactly that same position. Today in America, again, the richest country in the history of the world, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

8:58Millions of Americans can't find affordable housing. Our educational system from child care to college is much too expensive and much too inadequate. Our health care system is completely broken.

9:21We got 85 million Americans who are uninsured or underinsured. In America today, half of older workers, people who have worked their whole lives, have nothing in the bank as they face retirement. 22 % of seniors are somehow, I don't know how, trying to survive on$15 ,000 a year or less. we have again as the richest nation on earth the lowest life expectancy of many any major country of earth you all know that we live on average about four years shorter lives than people in other wealthy countries but here is what you don't know and that is that if you are working class in America, you're going to live seven years shorter life than wealthy people.

10:20Why is that? Why? Stress. Stress. Now, stress is the word. I held a hearing a couple of years ago, and we talked about poverty as a death sentence. You all know what I'm talking about? What it means is if you are working class in America today and you wake up in the morning and you say, how am I going to feed my kids? Is the landlord going to raise the rent? And if he does, how am I going to pay? Where am I going to go? Because there's no affordable housing in the community. What happens if my mom gets sick and needs prescription drugs that she can't afford or my kid gets sick? what happens if my car breaks down and i can't afford the thousand dollar bill the mechanic tells me it's going to cost and if i can't get my car fixed i can't get to work and if i can't get to work i'm going to lose my job and if i'm going to lose my job what happens to my family There are millions of Americans who are living that nightmare right now.

11:35And in the richest country on earth, that is totally wrong and unnecessary.

11:52But it's not only it's not only what's going on now. You know, when you see people in America angry and disgruntled, there is a reason why. And one of the reasons is that over the last 50 years, as you all know, there has been an explosion in technology. Right. Every worker in America is far more productive, producing a lot more than that worker did 50 years ago. Now, one might think that with all of that increase in worker productivity, workers will be making more money, right? Wrong. because over the last 50 years, real inflation accounted weekly wages for the American worker have gone down.

12:49There was a study that the Rand Corporation did, and it said that during that same period of time, there was a$75 trillion redistribution of wealth going from the bottom 90%, you all, to the top 1%.

13:17So here we are right now. Terms of basic necessities of life, the housing system, broken. Educational system in terms of child care, in terms of kids being able to afford to go to college, in terms of the pressure on public schools all over America in deep trouble. Wages in deep trouble. Workers are going nowhere in a hurry. Housing a disaster. People spending half of their incomes on housing. 20 million households. 800 ,000 people in America who are homeless.

13:52Ben Meiselas:And then finally, Senator Bernie Sanders left on a very powerful note. You'll see the crowd giving him a standing ovation in Asheville. Now, this follows his stops in West Virginia. Let's play this clip. The good news is that throughout our history, in very, very dark and difficult times, the American people came to it, led by working class people, came together to take on incredible power and corruption, and they won. They did it then. We can do it now.

14:39In the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg a few days after that battle where tens of thousands of soldiers died trying to end slavery in America. And he looked out onto the field and he said that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

15:32Trump and his friends believe in a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class. and that is not what millions of americans fought and sometimes died for so brothers and sisters in this difficult moment in american history in this unprecedented moment we have got to respond in an unprecedented way.

16:09We need you. You can't sit it out. Sorry, I know it's tempting. You can't put your head over your covers, over your head. We need you to join us in the struggle. Now, I don't have a PhD in mathematics, but I do know that 99 % is a hell of a bigger number than 1%.

16:39brothers and sisters let's go forward let's take on these oligarchs let's beat them thank you very much well there you have it folks let me know what you think hit subscribe let's get to six

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