The Keith Edwards Show - Bernie Sanders Leaves MAGA Crowd Speechless

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

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This is going to be a positive video. It's going to be a positive video. So if you don't want to see some positivity, keep scrolling. But we're going to talk about some good stuff happening in the country now. Now, of course, there's lots of bad stuff happening. But we cannot dwell on the bad. We must also focus on the good. And there is many good, there are many good things happening in this country. And there are candidates rising up to meet the moment all across America. I'm going to talk about a couple here in this video. One, the former mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who's now running for the district of PA-8. I'm going to show you her launch video in just a moment. And then also, Bernie Sanders is continuing his oligarchy tour, where he is getting working class, regular folks out and energized, and he's also now backing a candidate. Can't wait to tell you about who.

First, here is that amazing, amazing ad. Northeastern Pennsylvania, NEPA for those who love it. Our folk heroes are the workers. People here work hard, and we stand tall. Our new congressman, almost a bit short. Rob was handed the keys to a family fortune at 19. Workers here built that company. Rob sold it to foreign private equity.

Rob ran for Congress on a promised demand stock trades. This year, he's already made 600 trades. Six hundred. Sold Chinese stocks the week of a tariff, buys missile stocks before a war, buys jet stocks before a big contract. Overseas crypto, buys crypto stocks before a vote. Said he wouldn't cut Medicaid? Cut Medicaid for over 25,000 of our neighbors.

Sold Medicaid provider stocks just before the vote, profiting off of Pennsylvania's loss. So people keep asking Rob, a congressman worth around $50 million with a secret helicopter, to stop trading stocks and focus on the people. Rob protests, saying, what am I going to do? Just leave it there and lose money and go broke? My story, it's a little different. I met my husband at his small business.

We're raising our family here, and we're proud to call Nifa home. When our mayor went to prison for corruption, the Democratic machine thought they could put in another crony. So I took on the powerful and corrupt Democrats. It ran for mayor as an independent, with a simple idea. The government should work as hard as the people it serves. They called it page against the machine. As mayor, we did things differently. We lowered costs, cleaned out the corruption, managed the finances,

bought the utility companies, built pool parks. We slashed the cost of doing business, built nearly a thousand. and more homes and welcome new businesses so everyone here has a shot at the American dream. We listened. Rob isn't brave enough to hold a single real town hall. I've held dozens in Trump country. We built a government for everyone. Rob says Scranton is...

Not what we want. Well, Rob, I say day trading away the public trust is not who we are. So yeah, I'm running for Congress because people here deserve a lot better than a rich kid disrespecting our hard work and proud legacy. We can stand tall against a Washington that takes advantage of working people, make it work for us. people deserve a future they can believe in and a government that works as hard as they do always so if you like what page is offering

please these folks need your help these are these are not going to be the front page candidates who are going to make viral waves online but they're still just as important so her donate link is below I don't get any money for it she doesn't even know I'm doing this this is truly just to help candidates get over the finish line because we have to win

in 2026. We have to. Now, Bernie Sanders is continuing his fighting oligarchy tour, and he is backing a candidate. Someone we talked about here, but here first is how Bernie Sanders has described what is happening in this country. Is the American people do not want an oligarchic form of government? They do not want an authoritarian form of government. They do not want an authoritarian form of government. They do not want to live under a calipocracy where a president gets rich by being president. And they sure is hell a sick and tide of the ongoing war of the rich against the working class of this country. Bro, bro, that's what I'm talking about. Now, there are folks who call me a hypocrite because I

promote Bernie Sanders, but I also say that we have a gerontocracy problem in this country. I actually think those two things can coexist. One, Bernie Sanders is actually using his platform to bring in the next generation of Democrats. He's trying to do what he can to seal his legacy, not by promoting himself, but by energizing and uplifting the next generation of talent. That is completely different than the people who we talk about on this channel sometimes, who just need to retire. and they've done a great service,

but it's important to know when to pass a torch. And I think that's what Bernie Sanders is actively doing here. He is passing the torch. It's not something you just do once. It is something you do multiple times, and he is continuing to pass it down. Now, who he's passing it to? Got an audience like this.

Look at that. That's nuts. And where is it? It's in Maine. And who's running in Maine? That's right. we have Graham Platner. Platner.

Graham Platner is running in Maine. And here's a little bit of what he had to say. Susan Collins' charade is wearing thin. This is the easiest applause lines in these speeches. No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. No one cares while you sell out to corporations and no one cares while you sell out to corporations. and no one cares while you sell out to a president who are all engineering the greatest redistribution of wealth

from the working class to the ruling class in American history. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe v. Wade. Selling out the same working class voters who've delivered mandate for change after men, mandate for change is not forgivable. A performative politics that enables the destruction of our way of life is disqualifying for the role of United States Senator. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

And Maine deserves an alternative who is not at risk of being mistaken as being beholden to the same status quo that she is. I am running because it is time for change. Democrats? Democrats. Please, please just listen to this message. I think how I'm going to run this channel is I'm not going to endorse some primary. I'm just going to tell you who and what people are seeing. What I feel like is important, what I think is bad.

So if anyone else is running against Susan Collins, wants to either show me clips or put me in touch and come on for an interview, please do. But this is the message. This is the message. I think it's a winning message. I mean, we all are all getting screwed over by the wealthiest people in this country. Donald Trump just profited $5 billion from a cryptocurrency he created over the weekend. I'm kind of wanting to live in a society, not like that. And I'm going to try to show you politicians who are pushing that message. He also said this about Gaza. Our taxpayer dollars

can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza. I like that guy. I like that guy. I'm going to leave his donate link below too. What the hell? Donations for everyone. So please do check

out these folks. This is what it's all about. It's all about putting on a message, putting yourself in front of people. So this is the beginning of primary season. It's the beginning of the 2026 election. It'll begin in earnest really November. And really it's the beginning of making sure Donald Trump has as little power as possible. So thank you for watching. If you like this video, please hit like on the video. If you like a hope-filled video, let me know. I like to do

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