467 - Bernie Sanders

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Tim Dillon sits down with Senator Bernie Sanders to discuss his new book “Fight Oligarchy”, immigration, American funding of the wars in Ukraine & Gaza, the Democratic Party, transgender issues, and affordability of healthcare. Bernie’s new book “Fight Oligarchy” is available now online and in most book stores.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
0:02.5	The book is Fight Oligarchy, Bernie Sanders.
0:05.3	It is out everywhere.
0:07.4	You can get it on Amazon.com.
0:09.3	You can go to a local bookstore, which is always a good idea.
0:13.0	Support a local bookstore, and I'm sure the author of this book, will appreciate that.
0:18.3	Bernie Sanders, Senator, thank you for coming.
0:22.0	My pleasure. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. Bernie Sanders, Senator, thank you for coming. My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
0:29.0	I really appreciate it. This book, when you walked in, we talked about it is not big, but it is something that you've been talking about for many, many years. What is the importance of writing this
0:35.0	now? Because you just got off a tour with the same name
0:39.2	about fighting oligarchy. I think, Tim, this is kind of an unprecedented moment in American
0:46.9	history. And I think what the book touches on are issues that the media in general, my
0:53.6	colleagues in Congress are not very comfortable
0:56.7	dealing with. And that is power and wealth. Who owns the country? How's that? Pretty simple
1:03.2	question. Who really has the power? And what we are looking at right now is a moment in history
1:09.0	where we have more income and wealth inequality
1:12.6	than we've ever had.
1:13.6	And I think what the American people have got to decide is whether they are comfortable
1:18.6	with a situation in which one person, Mr. Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households.
1:29.9	Is that really what America is supposed to be about?
1:33.7	Top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom, 93%. And while the very richest people in America are becoming phenomenally richer,
1:39.7	60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.
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