Thread by @briebriejoy

I couldn't type fast enough to keep up with Sanders's gems but his old class-based tune seemed to sparkle with new notes tonight. Some highlights: #SOTU

"Trump said “we are born free and we will stay free.” well I say to President Trump: people are not truly free when they can’t afford to go to the doctor when they are sick. People are not truly free when they cannot afford to buy the prescription drugs they desperately need...

"...People are not truly free, when they are unable to retire with dignity...People are not truly free, when they cannot afford a decent place in which to live. People certainly are not free when they cannot afford to feed their families.” @SenSanders

"As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'this country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.'" @SenSanders #SOTU

He called Trump out for talking about one undocumented immigrant murdering a person in Nevada, but not the largest mass gun killing in American history which also just happened in Nevada. @SenSanders #SOTU

He's v astute to agree w Trump about his diagnosis, but say he's wrong about the prescription: "Tonight, Trump correctly talked about the need to address the opioid crisis. You don’t help people suffering from opioid addiction by calling for a trillion $ cut to Medicaid." #SOTU

Sanders pointed out that Trump never mentioned climate change -- but not only that, he bragged about the US being the worlds largest oil producer. 🤮 #SOTU

He wasn't just responsive, he centered his own agenda, talking about how Trump hasn't supported the effort for a $15 federal minimum wage, and that Trump betrayed his campaign promise to protect Medicare/Medicate/Social Security. #SOTU

"Trump said tonight that we should quote “govern not as two parties but as one nation.” I agree. But Trump’s agenda of providing tax breaks of millionaires while throwing millions of Americans off health insurance is exactly the opposite of what the American people want." #SOTU

Then @SenSanders ran through the overwhelming number of progressive policies that a majority of Americans, and in most cases, a majority of Republicans support, asking why, if Americans all want these things, Congress doesn't work to get them?

"The answer has everything to do with the power of the moneyed interests. . . multinational corporations and the billionaire class. All of these groups are spending hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars to get congress to do their bidding."

#wigssnached #SOTU @SenSanders

"The billionaire class must learn they cannot have it all. Our government belongs to each and every one of us, not just the few."

They have the money, we have the people. @SenSanders #SOTU