Bernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to Israel
Israel’s response ‘has been grossly disproportionate, immoral and in violation of international law’, senator says
Bernie should have won.
Fuck everyone who voted for Hillary in the primary to guarantee a trump presidency.
It was less that and more the Democratic Party completely rigging the election, and committing election fraud, in plain sight for the primaries.
It's also the way baseless smears (he owns more than one home! He once wrote something that, if taken completely out of context, is misogynist!) were amplified by neoliberals. The same neoliberals that would throw a hissy fit if someone mentioned how much Hillary "earned" from speaking to banks and hedge funds.
My understanding is that the US primaries are private affairs and the organisations can pick their candidates however they want. The democrats certainly did some unethical shit to snub Bernie in favor of Hillary, but I don't know if Primary shenanigans can qualify as the crime of election fraud (unless some of the states protect their primary elections in the same way they do for real elections).
the Democratic Party completely rigging the election
Its very hard to do the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" rah-rah election dance in The Most Important Race of Our Lives, when you've got "elections are horribly run and routinely compromised by party insiders" rolling around in the back of your head.
I've been a Texas resident for my entire voting life, and the GOP nakedly fucking with the elections process is just something I can't talk about to anyone.
Bernie should have won.
Its funny, because one of the worst things about him has been his decades-long staunch support for the Israeli state.
The big difference between Sanders and Biden is that he's cognizant. The ship is turning on US support for Israel and Bernie sees it. But Biden's got his head entirely lodged inside the Beltway news circuit. He's more worried about how Claudine Gay's firing is going to impact his poll numbers than what horrors Netanyahu plans to inflict on Gaza in order to force Palestinians into a Congolese exile.
It was a bit telegraphed that she backed away from Obama with promised of party electors after he left office. The r’s appeared to have known as well, because they were attacking her his whole presidency. The dems made a deal with a powerful political block in their party, and the r’s capitalized on it. If her ego would have let her back down, whole different world.
But her ego wouldn’t let her back down, so here we are.
The DNC fucked him over man. No one wants a real progressive who cares about people as president.
i am once again thanking you bernie sanders for saying the things
Whoever is still claiming that Bernie doesn't speak truth to power anymore hasn't been paying attention for the last month or two. Better late than never to return to being the chief advocate for what the people wants but most of Washington doesn't! ✊️
Whomever is still claiming that Bernie doesn’t speak truth to power anymore
Who ever claimed that? It's essentially been the man's entire career. If he wasn't publicly speaking up early enough in this case, I'm sure it's because he was bending ears behind the scenes.
Not arguing with you, just sort of aghast that anyone (magas excepted - but we expect their opinions to be trash) would try to claim he's not a true servant of the people.
Who ever claimed that?
A SHITLOAD of people.
It's essentially been the man's entire career
True. I didn't say they were right, just that they were saying it.
If he wasn't publicly speaking up early enough in this case, I'm sure it's because he was bending ears behind the scenes.
No doubt about it.
Not arguing with you, just sort of aghast that anyone (magas excepted - but we expect their opinions to be trash) would try to claim he's not a true servant of the people.
Agreed, though I'd add Neoliberals and people who don't have any ideals of their own but still like discussing politics for the tribalism and the mud slinging. Of course, there's significant overlap between these groups..
He has been publicly speaking since the start basically.
Whomever is still claiming that Bernie doesn't speak truth to power anymore hasn't been paying attention for the last month or two.
Hasnt been paying attention for the last decade or 4...
You know how neoliberals and their propaganda machine be..
But without Isreal as an intermediary, how are politicians supposed to funnel billions of dollars to their friends in the defense industry?
And without letting Israel demolish and "resettle" Gaza, how are they supposed to get their hands on all of that sweet offshore gas that the Palestinians aren't letting them have anymore?
Still plenty of kit needed in Ukraine.
And how can they justify a proxy genocide against Islam without Israel?
Europe is rearming and we could arm our Kurdish allies.
Or we could keep selling tanks to cops. Heck maybe suburban Iowa could use some police owned AA guns.
Easy: we just start a proxy war somewhere else. Throw a dart on a map of the global south, and you'll probably be ok.
I volunteered on his campaigns. Bernie is almost always right.
If I was American I would always vote for Bernie Sanders.
But if Biden can just ignore congressional oversight, what will this do? Can someone sue to enforce oversight?
He's currently behind the mango Mussolini in the polls and, other than "at least I'm not the other guy" being a much less effective strategy for an incumbent than a challenger no matter how awful the challenger is, this is the main reason.
Biden may be a corrupt right wing reactionary, but he's not enough of a fool that he's not beginning to realize the fact that he probably has to change course on this or run a very high risk of losing the last fair and open US presidential election.
Calling Biden "corrupt right wing reactionary" is untrue.
That isn't to say I wouldn't prefer Bernie Sanders, or that I agree with everything Biden's done.
I just think that accusation is inflammatory and baseless. It would be more helpful to use accurate descriptors.
I'm not a fan of him ordering the rail union back to work but he's also asked for the DEA to review a proposal to reschedule marijuana, acquitted existing inmates on marijuana charges and forgiven as much student loan debt as he is able without intervention from Congress.
To me this does not paint the picture of a "corrupt right with reactionary"
Congress can override an executive order. But the president can veto that action. But Congress can stop a veto with a 2/3s vote.
So if they controlled 2/3s of Congress they could stop anything he tries to do.
That actually seems pretty balanced.
i think the executive branches crazy override powers are by design. it needs to be quick to respond to issues of national security or something.
i think it would be nice if there were a process to sue the crap out of parties which are abusing these mechanisms, though im not sure what that would look like.
This is incorrect. The executive was never intended to be anywhere near as powerful as it has become. It has become increasingly powerful over the years for a suite of reasons, some perfectly legitimate (like the threat of nuclear war), but most because of cowardice in the legislative together with the conservative theory of the unitary presidency.
There's an entire body of literature in poly sci on the subject and how it can be addressed.
Impeachment?
It's a bad solution for a number of reasons, but it's the one we were given for punishing officials who abuse their power.
About time.
Hes been pushing for it for months if not decades.
He was last heard opposing a ceasefire.
Are you sure you're remembering right?
About time, Bernie.
And yet, he has condemned any kind of Ceasefire to happen. This is just more comfy talk by someone who has zero chance of ever even being NOMINATED for a primary spot much less actually being president. I like Bernie and DO think we shouldnt fund the Netanyahu killing machine but why dont we ever call out bullshit like this for what it is, theater.
Being a senator is an important job. We shouldn't judge every action by a senator as if it's designed to get them elected as president.
This is a valid point. But it IS still theater when someone says "we should really not be letting these people kill all these other people" but also refuse to say they should leave and stop firing. Its theater.
What's insane to me is that he's bowing down to the Zionists while he spoke out against them in the past. And they certainly haven't been rewarding him politically since they did everything in their power to make him lose in 2016.
Better late than never I guess.
Correct. The record shows he hasn't ask for a cease fire and should have done more early on. You are right, and don't let the fandom of a political figure get in the way of the facts of a situation. I respect Bernie and that's why I along with others needed him to stand against what's happening.