Bernie Sanders Crashes Coachella Music Festival

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Apr 13, 2025, 02:17 AM EDT


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) played the political equivalent of his greatest hits during a surprise appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday. The 83-year-old progressive icon took the stage ahead of indie pop artist Clairo’s performance to deliver a fiery speech, where he raged against President Donald Trump, corporate greed and the billionaire class.

Rallying young voters to defend democracy, Sanders told audiences, “This country faces some very difficult challenges. The future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.” “You can turn away and ignore what goes on, but if you do, you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up and fight for justice, to fight for economic justice, racial justice and social justice.”

Boos echoed through the crowd as Sanders began to sound off against the president.

“He thinks that climate change is a hoax,” the senator continued. “He is dangerously wrong, and you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.”

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[sop]

2. Huge crowds seem to show up wherever he goes.

[snowybirdie]

8. I nelieve

Chocheilla draws huge crowds annually

[sop]

11. So, that's the only place where Bernie's showed up?

[SSJVegeta]

21. The commenter ignores that he and AOC attracted the 35,000 in LA the same day

And yes, has crafted much legislation: everything from 10% caps on credit cards to universal health care...

Bernie bashing will never end.

[._.]

3. You forgot..

You forgot to add "imho". It's not ours.

[ShepKat]

6. thanks

that too

[snowybirdie]

7. Sorry

To offend your sensitivities

[SSJVegeta]

22. Bashing Bernie with lies is offensive to anybody with common sense.

[ShepKat]

4. He's the amendment king :)

His causes are just and he's only beholden to the people.
don't underestimate the power of motivation.

[Srkdqltr]

5. And where are you speaking tonight? Easy to criticize from a computer screen.

[snowybirdie]

10. Sorry

But I choose to dislike the man. Isn't Democracy about choice?

[walkingman]

12. The fact that Bernie is not on the coattails of either the DEM/GOP is a factor in his

legislative success. I personally like his message much more than my elected Reps/Senators but being a Texan that is not saying much.

For liberals/progressives like myself, I appreciate hearing someone express my viewpoints. Otherwise I consider most of the congress simply "paid employees" of their donors.

IMO, our nation needs more not less progressives in Congress. I'm 74, so I know it won't happen in my lifetime but I can hope!!

[NoRethugFriends]

16. Right. Because trying to energize young people against this president is such a terrible thing.

[Stargazer99]

18. Our people have to wake up first!! We are so controlled by money and brain washing by business it is pathetic

There is business that frankly doesn't care if they are killing life on this planet as long as they get more and more profit....I would call that evil and yes that is the stinking value of capitalism

[SnoopDog]

19. You are allowed to hate anybody you want...

Senators Sanders is a great Democratic ally. You can tell that by what is actions are… like traveling the USA fighting for our democracy. Him and AOC and a few others. I don’t see any other prominent lefties or Democrats doing this - do you?

[questionseverything]

20. The clinic money from the aca is one example of Bernie's work

But some wealthy people with a couple homes in different states wouldn’t know they exist because they don’t know or care about the people that need those clinics

[democrank]

9. Bernie shows up.

Again and again and again

[murielm99]

13. But he doesn't show up where he should.

I choose to dislike the man as well.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

26. Where should he be?

I'll wait for your answer.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. He's been showing up for decades. While some people used the office for personal gain then disappeared from sight when...

… they didn’t get their “turn” - and now do nothing but tweets.

We have jobs to be done. Some people are doing those jobs.

[lapucelle]

33. ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 1991 to Apr 2025, Sanders missed 825 of 6,158 roll call votes, which is 13.4%. This is much worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

[SSJVegeta]

36. Looks like he missed the most votes in years during covid, when he was running for president and campaigning for Biden/

Harris

[Clouds Passing]

14. And speaks truth to power

[Uncle Joe]

25. I believe running track and cross country helped develop his stamina, discipline and focus.

Not only does Bernie show up, but I don't know of any political leader in my lifetime that's better at staying on message.

[lapucelle]

34. I get email messages from him and his wife 2 to 3 times a week asking for money.

[et tu]

17. omg he is an independent

and a progressive with common sense
he's been for the working class- always
it's like when obama is criticised for not doing more
[r's made it next to impossible] and joe [who did a
helluva lot with the mess he inherited]. so let's keep
arguing and divide our members- r's love us for it.

[LisaM]

23. Why didn't he do GOTV back in late 2024?

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That would have been far more to the point, IMO. Except that back then, campuses were all holding rallies that effectively suppressed the vote against Harris, with the totally false narrative that Biden was responsible for the misery in Gaza (completely untrue, but the people at the campus rallies were not in listening mode, they were too busy cosplaying with their gear ordered on Amazon). No one will ever convince me that part of the strategy was to defeat Harris. While I realize many kids showed up in good faith, I think the stagers, err, organizers, had a concealed agenda.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

27. in 2004?

I assume you mean 2024 and are too full of blind hatred to get the year right. Bernie was all over the country in 2024 campaigning for Harris.

[LisaM]

28. I do mean 2024. Thank you.

I will fix that.

[LisaM]

29. Thanks for the correction.

I am not full of blind hatred. I think Bernie's support of Harris (and Hillary Clinton) was rather tepid. He may have done a few events but he wasn't in the news for holding huge rallies and he didn't go to any campus events that I heard of in say, Ann Arbor or Madison.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

30. By what measure?

He crossed the country campaigning for Harris. He did way more than most Senate Democrats.

Grand Rapids.

Lansing

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/campus/2024/10/06/bernie-sanders-kamala-harris-tim-walz-michigan-state-university/75545298007/

Madison

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/10/29/bernie-sanders-aoc-slam-trump-encourage-progressive-voters-in-madison/

[Hassin Bin Sober]

32. He did a lot more (100% more) than SOME people.

Unless you are counting a handful of tweets.

[jalan48]

24. Bernie speaks class politics, not identity politics and that offends some on this site.

[thought crime]

35. Green New Deal

Bernie has a progressive populist economic message that builds on the New Deal and connects to FDR, the founder of the modern Democratic Party. Just read Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights, Four Freedoms, proposal to cap the income of the wealthy, etc. To improve living conditions for working class people and middle class we have to provide social services and build infrastructure. And must stop climate change. This isn’t an alternative to “identity politics” or rights based agenda, it is a foundation for it.

[Rhiannon12866]

37. My Message to Coachella. - Senator Bernie Sanders

April 13, 2025.