A new Sanders book is set to be released in two weeks.

[lapucelle]

You can pre-order it now on his personal page at Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/Bernie-Sanders/e/B01NAJEW2P/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1542053037&sr=8-2-ent

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has a $158 billion question for the wealthiest person in the world.

“Jeff Bezos and his company, Amazon, make huge profits by paying their employees wages that are so inadequate that many of them need public assistance just to get by,” the senator says. “How absurd is that?”

But try to ask Sanders why he’s set to sell his upcoming book, “Where We Go from Here,” on Amazon and you won’t get an answer.

“This is a book question — you’re going to have to ask the publisher,” Sanders’ spokesman Joshua Miller-Lewis says. “I can’t handle any book-related stuff.”

https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/19/bernie-sanders-amazon-set-make-strange-bedfellows/

[rzemanfl]

1. That isn't what BS meant when I was young. n/t

[ADX]

2. +1...nt

[MontanaMama]

8. I always think the same thing

when I see BS in a post.

[Tom Rivers]

3. Thread title is a bit misleading....

[grantcart]

5. Or not

[lapucelle]

6. ...

I changed it anyway. I wouldn't want readers to miss the opportunity to visit BS's personal page on Amazon.

[Cha]

11. :)

[redstatebluegirl]

4. Yes, Bernie needs money again.

Live on your salary Bernie like the rest of us do. I am so sick of him right nowe.

[Bfd]

9. Heard its hard to pay DC rent on an elected public official's pay

That's the word this week.

What could possibly be in the 'book' that hasn't already been repeated whenever a mic is nearby.

Maybe there'll be a chapter on racial vs not racial.


Odd that he has now turned to one of those billionaire corporations to assist the mass sale of his book.

It's a pretty big glaring contradiction, considering that was the main theme of his 2016 campaign.

But I see its now 2018 so..never mind.

[redstatebluegirl]

10. His wife isn't working anymore so there is that. Plus she may have some legal issues after

pushing a small college into bankruptcy.

[Bfd]

12. Think she justs heads up the mysterious Sanders Institute now.

Along with bs's son

Cush job if you can arrange it.

[Blue_true]

25. Where are the people that sling around the "lucky sperm" insults?

They always seem to vanish when their hero is on the fryer.

[Bfd]

29. Nary a chirp**

Lol. "their hero is on the fryer."

[Small-Axe]

19. And one can only take so many $200,000 Golden Parachutes...

while bankrupting the institutions one mismanages into failure.

I wonder what's up with Jane Sanders bank fraud charges?

[LexVegas]

7. ...

[Bfd]

13. I'll look for it in the 'last chance mark-down bin' & give it a head shake.

Didn't he once admit he was in it for money & media, or something like that?

[Cha]

14. lol.. "it's a book question." Anyway.. "Where Do We Go

From Here".. is The Democratic Party Won the House! That's where we ARE.. Thanks to our BIG BLUE WAVE that you said you "couldn't see..", BS.. remember that?



lapucelle

[Bfd]

16. Yup. BS & Michael Moore said it. Appears Pelosi was the truthful one!

Thanks to our BIG BLUE WAVE that you said you "couldn't see..",

Speaker Pelosi saw it. Guess that's why she's speaker & they're peddling books on that Big Bad Corporate Amazon.

[Cha]

18. Nancy Pelosi knew/knows what she's talking about..

She being a big part in making it happen!

Amanpour interviews Congressman-elect Tom Malinowski (D flipped seat that was R since '81)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11406195

Pelosi: I am on a mission

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11415958

Bfd

[Bfd]

20. She also vowed months ago to investigate Trumps Taxes, as soon as the Dems won back the House.

Trump's taxes will be a priority, she said.

She already had her methodical agenda in order, months ago.
Can't wait to watch her demolish Trump.
It'll be an act of mastery, the thing history books will tell of forever.

[Cha]

22. It's not nice for any pol to Hide their Tax Returns

from the American Voter.. I don't care who they are.. gop, indie, or Dem.

Good on Nancy.. because that will tell us a LOT MORE about the Imposter.. bet that's another strong reason trump's had such MELTDOWNS since Wednesday

[betsuni]

15. K&R

[elocs]

17. What's the title? "Get Off My Lawn You Damned Kids!" n/t

[Bfd]

21. LOL Pretty much

[lunamagica]

23. K&R for visibility.

[Blue_true]

24. Amazon pretty much dwarfs other booksellers.

Close to the only game in town.

[lapucelle]

34. BS could negotiate a contract that does not allow marketing and distribution through Amazon.

BS would certainly make less money, but he wouldn't be actively contributing to, profiting from, and perpetuating what he insists is an abusive system .

Maximizing personal wealth shouldn't be the primary concern, especially since the fiery senator is the beneficiary of what he himself characterizes as a component of a "rigged economy".

Companies like Amazon that escape paying taxes and that choose to offer low wages to their employees, despite the company’s soaring profits,” Mike DeSanto, co-owner of Phoenix Books stores in Burlington, Chester, Essex, Rutland and Woodstock, has written in a commentary.

“As a small retailer competing with Amazon,” DeSanto continues, “big box stores and the shift to online shopping in general, it can be difficult to bring in enough revenue to stay in business and to provide my employees with high wages and robust compensation packages.”

snip==========================================================

But DeSanto notes his stores, like most other local independents in the state, have their own websites — ones he suggests the senator could link to.

“If I was Bernie, I’d say, ‘I just want you to buy the book — and buy it at local bookstores.’”

https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/19/bernie-sanders-amazon-set-make-strange-bedfellows/

[Blue_true]

38. You make a good argument.

A person of his stature has more negotiating power than an everyday Joe. He could tell a publisher what sales channel to take and he would make less money, while standing on principle. But looks like he chose the route of least resistance.

[apcalc]

27. Lemme guess... it costs $27.

[Bfd]

30. Haaaahaahaa

rofl...

[melman]

28. Still trying to make something out the 'Amazon personal page'?

lolol

[Hav]

31. Well, admittedly, it is funny

that he uses Amazon to sell his book. Priorities, I guess.

[melman]

32. No it's actually not

It's a made up nonsense issue.

[Hav]

33. Well, sorry, I think it's funny

but sometimes I laugh at stupid stuff. Maybe hypocritical would have been a better description.
And it's not made up. Amazon is apparently a pleasant partner to get his books sold.

[lapucelle]

36. Wilfull participation in a "rigged system" in order to maximize personal wealth

is not a nonsense issue when there are other options available and especially when one decries anyone else who does so. BS should at least be able to meet the standards he sets for everyone else.

Sanders’ staffers view any inquiry about the senator’s Amazon sales a “gotcha question,” although they won’t explain why on the record.

"Standards for thee, but not for me."

https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/19/bernie-sanders-amazon-set-make-strange-bedfellows/