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  • on finally, new rule.

  • Democratic candidates have to stop telling me who they will not take money from money from bad people.

  • I don't care if they're bad.

  • I just want to know if their money is good.

  • Okay, Democrats always living in the world that ought to be rather than the one that is.

  • My campaign is funded by the people.

  • Well, great, but I got some bad news for you.

  • The people are broke.

  • Bernie Sanders does the best among Democrats, raising 46 million in February.

  • But in the same period, the Republicans raise 86 million, some of it from Americans, because Trump will take money from anyone.

  • Super PACs, corporate lobbyists, drug dealers, Russian mobsters, foreign dictators.

  • He will and has stolen money from his own charities.

  • Meanwhile, Democrats are competing to see not who can attract the most donors but to see who can refuse the most because they're pure, pure losers.

  • Bernie Sanders brags that he accepts no money from corporate PACs.

  • Super PACs, fossil fuels, insurance, drug companies, no, sory.

  • If you want to give Sanders money, you would better be able to prove you don't have any, Elizabeth Warren once boasted that a college student came up to her and said they had a total of $6 to their name but wanted to give Warren three, and she took it.

  • She took half from a person who had $6.

  • This is impurity.

  • It's vanity.

  • It's unilateral disarmament.

  • It's bringing a hug to a gunfight.

  • In 2008 nobody took more money from Wall Street than Obama.

  • And then he got elected and passed the biggest Wall Street reform in generations.

  • He made Elizabeth Warren's plan the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a reality.

  • So when he ran for reelection, Wall Street was best and did not give him nearly as much.

  • But he took what they gave, and then he fucked them again.

  • Theo, this'd how you played the game.

  • Call him impure.

  • A corporatist of moderate.

  • Fact is, he did more to rein in Wall Street than all the peacocking comment boards Socialist combined.

  • And I don't care which old white guy we wheel into the Oval Office.

  • If Trump Comtech money from criminals and foreign governments, you can take it from Aetna.

  • And here's a little secret about economics.

  • When you take money from bad people, it's money that they the bad people don't have.

  • You say it's not a donation at all.

  • It's a fine.

  • But Democrats, they don't just reject money.

  • They returned it.

  • Warren and Cory Booker gave back their donations from Harvey Weinstein.

  • Why the money didn't rape anybody?

  • Because it's money.

  • It doesn't know where it came from.

  • For fuck's sake.

  • It's money, not Kale.

  • Bernie loves to say my average donation is $18 but that's also a donor class.

  • Half the adults in this country live around the poverty level.

  • They can't afford to be part of this feel good grassroots fundraising system, so none of it is pure.

  • The only fair solution is complete public financing of campaigns.

  • But But until that happens, get off your high horse about wine caves and billionaires who want to help.

  • Purists keeps saying, You can't buy an election.

  • I say against Trump.

  • Please do not to sound like a trophy wife, but Mike Bloomberg's money is very attractive to me.

  • He's promised to spend billions on whoever is the Democratic nominee.

  • That's a really good offer.

  • Even if you hate him.

  • Think of it as a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch the world's ninth richest men spend a fortune to elect a socialist.

  • Oh, but but wait.

  • Bernie says if he's the nominee, he's not taking a dime from Bloomberg.

  • Really, Really.

  • In an election we have all agreed is existentially.

  • You couldn't use a $1,000,000,000 war chest.

  • Bloomberg's money wasn't dirty when it was changing gun politics or getting tons of women elected for taking on climate change.

  • He spent 40 million on 24 House races in 2018 and the Democrats won 21 of them.

  • So maybe stop badgering the guy every five minutes because he told a blow job joke in 1980 Be nice.

  • He's paying or offering two for the election.

  • Let him just so I don't have to see any more of these mass text messages from candidates acting like they know me.

  • Hey, Belle, get the fuck out of here.

  • You don't know me like that.

  • I got one from biting the other day That just said, Hey, you up!

  • So you say some of the people donated to Democrats or bad?

on finally, new rule.

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