LN Web Gems 2.23.17: Bernie Sanders, Double Standards and More

Our spunky LN Writers offer up funny, outrageous and crazy tidbits from around the Web.  So many Gems today, so little time... First up, we see yet another example of the double standard that the left applies to everything but itself.  It turns out that there's a video -- unedited, this time, unlike the one of Milo Yiannpoulous all over the internet -- in which Bill Maher calls a female teacher's pregnancy by her fourteen-year-old student being "in love." Twitchy has the full story. Apparently, the left only cares about such things when it's not one of their own talking about it. Meanwhile, the Washington Post came up with a new slogan: "Democracy dies in darkness." Twitter users, however, had some better ones:

I mean, there’s something to this one. pic.twitter.com/DCyjtbCVBA

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 22, 2017

Woah check out the Washington Post's new slogan. pic.twitter.com/DQN0ue1iLa

— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) February 22, 2017

Finally, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), always good for a chuckle, was visited by the Good Idea Fairy again and foolishly decided to put his idea on Twitter.

I wonder how many members of Congress would vote to raise the minimum wage if they were forced to live on $7.25 an hour for a year.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 22, 2017

The reaction was swift, brutal, and hilarious.

No one is forced to live on $7.25 an hour. They are, however, forced to pay taxes on that $7.25 per hour... https://t.co/7romufBGkq

— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) February 22, 2017

@SenSanders I wonder how you would vote if the government decided to take away your 3 houses

— Josh Mocek ???????? (@J_Mocek) February 22, 2017

You first... https://t.co/EeOrwxNEfU

— Ryan Daniel Ness (@hvness) February 22, 2017