This Comrade Bernie?
Bernie Sanders making a surprise appearance at Coachella to sermonize on the evils of wealth in front of a crowd of people who paid at least $600 a ticket to be there is peak 21st century Democratic Party pic.twitter.com/53P6TgN4Bq
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) April 13, 2025
Yes, that Comrade Bernie
Bernie Sanders Issues Stark Warning About Trump at Coachella
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent (who always votes Democrat) serving Vermont, made an unexpected appearance at the Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif., on Saturday evening. He offered a stark warning about President Donald Trump during a rousing on-stage speech.
Sanders’ surprise address included calls for the younger generation to “stand up” against the fossil fuel industry, insurance companies, and U.S. states that are looking to roll back abortion rights.
Upon his first mention of the “President of the United States,” the crowd started to boo—a reaction which prompted Sanders to say: “I agree.”
“[Trump] thinks that climate change is a hoax. He’s dangerously wrong,” Sanders warned. “And you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.”
So, you get around 125,000 attending every day of Coachella, and they all take some sort of fossil fueled travel. You have all the celebs, who take private fossil fueled flights. You have all the performers who have to move all their equipment by fossil fueled trucks, along with all the stages and everything else. Plus all the fast fashion clothes and energy used? Oh, and Bernie taking a long, fossil fueled flight to complain about ‘climate change’? Brother, please. He initially flew into LA to speak at another rally with AOC, who also took a long, fossil fueled flight.
Anyhow, that’s not all Comrade Bernie had to say to the crowd
“This country faces some very difficult challenges, and the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation,” Sanders opened his speech saying, appealing to the younger members of the crowd. “Now you can turn away and ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do so at your own peril. We need you to stand up and fight for justice, to fight for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.”
Sanders went on to ask that the crowd “stand up and fight for women’s rights,” and work for economic justice and equality.
“We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class, but not for working families,” Sanders said. Ending on healthcare, he called for the audience “to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies and understand that healthcare is a human right.”
This would be a crowd that does spend a minimum of at least $600 a ticket. Plus accommodation, food, and, more, with the experience costing $2,500 to $7,000 per person. These are not poor people having economic issues. These are mostly entitled Democrats who live comfortably.
Despite earning much applause of his own, Sanders was on stage to introduce singer-songwriter Clairo—born Claire Cottrill—who he praised on account of her own activism.
“I’m here because Clairo has used her prominence to fight for women’s rights, to try to end the terrible, brutal war in Gaza, where thousands of women and children are being killed,” Sanders said.
A crowd that mostly takes the side of Hamas, not Israel and Jews.
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