Is America a Great Country, or What?

Everybody knows by now that Senator and Democrat POTUS candidate Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is a $Millionaire.

Yep, he wrote a book about the evils and perils of capitalism, and then made $Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars from having written it, due to the inherent benefits of capitalism.

Ummmm, what?

Kind of ironic, don't you think?  A man who has railed against capitalism for his entire life has managed to succeed in spite of himself.  I can't think of a better endorsement of the System he reviles, can you?

Anyway, here's a guy who lived the first half of his life as a complete and total loser.  He was a part-time furniture maker and lumberjack and writer of romance novels, rape fantasies, actually, but never earned a full-time paycheck until he became Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. 

At the age of 40. 

I guess that full-ride to the University of Chicago he received didn't qualify him for a "real" job post-sheepskin.

He and his first wife lived in a one-room hovel with a dirt floor.  No electricity or running water.  Really (everything I write is carefully resourced).  That was after he and his blushing bride took their honeymoon in Soviet Russia.  He was a big fan of Soviet-style politics, back then, even though he claims otherwise, and is on video extolling it for the folks back home.

The new wife took umbrage with their new living conditions and his continued failure to succeed and bailed on him, post haste.    

He then ran for and won a seat in the House.  And then the Senate.  And that's where he's been ever since.  For 20 years.  During which he's accomplished, ummm, nothing.  Nothing for the people of Vermont.  Nothing for America.

Well, that's not true entirely.  He actually got two post offices named.  That's not nothing, I guess...

He then decided to run for POTUS in 2016 and attracted a humongous following, mostly of disaffected yutes ("what's a yute?") with college degrees in Medieval Lesbian Poetry and a yuuuuge student debt who are currently living in dad's and mom's basement and employed un-gainfully asking that age-old question: "would you like fries with that?" 

So here's a guy who is a poster boy for the American Dream!  A lightweight chronic complainer with marbles in his mouth who couldn't make life pay off, but always only because of somebody else's fault.  We're seeing a lot of that lately, aren't we? 

And then the donations started pouring in.  $Millions in donations!  $Millions and $Millions!  

And he chases the Hildebeest all the way to the rigged DNC convention, only to be robbed of it at the very last minute as he was rounding the clubhouse turn.  

That's okay, though.  He wrote a book about it, as I mentioned up there above, and started cashing in.  He then bought another house, and another, the last one on the beach, and a brand-new Audi A-8.  You know that car, right?  That's the one Iron Man drives.  Just $150,000 a copy, plus options......

Those of you who donated to Bernie, doesn't it make your heart swell with pride when you see him cruising down the boulevard in the supercar you paid for?  Sort of, "redistributionism" in reverse...

So, ladies and gentlemen, if you ever needed proof that capitalism is the best way to do things, Bernie just forked over his tax returns.  They prove this cantankerous old buzzard made it into the $Millionaires Club last year.  But that's okay, he said it's only due to his having written a best selling book, and that anyone who wanted to be a $Millionaire could do the same.

Ummmm, Bernie, isn't that the rock-bottom best endorsement of capitalism you could offer?

So, to all of youse out there who'd like to be a millionaire like Bernie, here's The Chuckmeister's advice:  Run for President!  It matters not whether you win or lose.  You'll get rich in either case!  You can buy nice new cars and houses and fly around on private jets.  Is America a great Country, or what?