Green Privilege (Updated)

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Bernie Sanders Claims He's too important to Fly Commercial

Sanders, of course, has been "fighting oligarchy" with his pal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), aka AOC, but the problem is that a) most people don't know even what "oligarchy" is and b) Sanders reportedly spent $221,000 on private jets so he could attend those "Fighting Oligarchy" rallies. 

In April, Fox News spotted the two "party of the people" reps exiting a private plane that cost a whopping $15,000 an hour to fly. Here's more from the Fox News website: 

Sanders boarded the luxury Bombardier Challenger private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California, on Tuesday afternoon, according to a photo captured by a source on the ground and shared exclusively with Fox News Digital. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, whom the source also spotted boarding the private jet, spoke at their 'Fighting Oligarchy' event in Bakersfield just hours earlier. 

Flight records reveal the jet landed at Sacramento Mather Airport on Tuesday evening, which is about a 20-minute drive to Folsom, California, where the self-identified Democratic socialists hosted their second rally of the day. After publication Thursday, Fox News Digital obtained new footage of Sanders and AOC exiting the private jet in Sacramento Tuesday evening from California resident Matvei Levchenko.

The jet Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez were seen boarding and deplaning made stops in Salt Lake City and Boise prior to landing in Bakersfield, according to flight records. The arrival dates match the duo's 'Fighting Oligarchy' events in Salt Lake City and Nampa, which is about a 25-minute drive from Boise Airport. 

Fred Baier: "You know, Elissa Slotkin, senator from Michigan, she said you shouldn't be using 'oligarch.' It's over people's head. You've gotten criticized from other people. Free Beacon says Bernie Sanders spent $221,000 on private jets fighting the oligarchy tour — paid for by friends of Bernie Sanders —that you've spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on private jet travel over the years. How do you push back on both of those things?" Baier asked. 

Sanders' response? "When's the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode at national airport?"  (Because it always comes back to Donald Trump.) 

"No, no...he's also not fighting the oligarchy," Baier responded. 

To which Bernie replied, "No. You run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. The only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. Think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United waiting, you know, while 30,000 people are waiting? That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're gonna do it in the future."

Champion of the Little People, even though they should know better than to delay their betters by clogging up airports, when they should just stay put.

UPDATE:

That’s a pretty poor response for a story that’s three weeks old. The Free Beacon first reported this on April 17, which also notes that Sanders has spent “millions” on private jets over the last several years even apart from “fighting the oligarchy”[.]

Note that Sanders is  “fighting the oligarchy” alongside a Congresswoman who crashed into her first year in office, ala the Kool-Aide Man running through a brick wall, demanding to ban “farting cows and airplanes,” and now she’s happily flying across the country as well on a private jet.

Bernie’s Website states, “Climate change is a threat to the planet: We must address it”

You must address it. As for he and AOC: