Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel
Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel
Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged to introduce a resolution to block the Biden administration's proposed $20 billion sale of additional U.S. weaponry to Israel.
It's not a 'sale'. It's a handout to the welfare apartheid state, while Americans are wondering why their roads are falling apart, their education sucks and no universal health care.
Tell that to the arms companies that are supplying about 5 bil worth of stuff for 20 bil of taxpayer's money
Give it all to Ukraine instead.
Fuck Israel. Fuck putin.
Lets go Bernieee
Bernie is a national treasure. His qualities as a politician and as a human being are going be recognized by the generations to come.
But please think about the shareholders!
How very antisemiti...oh, hang on...
Thank you, Senator Bernard Sanders. You rock and you're my hero.
I wish Bernie would weaponize the filibuster the way Rand Paul does to block these things. I'm glad his heart is in the right place and I'm glad he does these things, but he doesn't want to play dirty and it's 2024, you need to play dirty when they're willing to.
The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn't have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie's filibuster.
Maybe, but I feel like it's worth a try.
He already endorsed Biden and Harris. This is just bad acting.
You're bad acting
Must hurt to be downvoted to hell and a broken English reply not only makes more sense but also gets upvoted.
This guy has a consistent habit of being on the right side of history.
Politicians hate him for his one simple trick
There’s an alternate timeline where Bernie won in 2016 and restored the middle class in America. Living wages, affordable housing, affordable everything, universal healthcare, and a common sense foreign policy.
I’m not saying he’s perfect. He would have made mistakes. But he would have been the best president since FDR.
There’s an alternate timeline where he wins and can’t get anything through because there aren’t enough progressive Dems in the senate.
It doesn't take too many traitors to the party to ruin any attempts at passing progressive legislation sadly. Even if it's not the usual suspects like Sinema or Manchin someone will always step up, and if they don't get voted back into office later then they'll just cash in those connections with a lobbying firm.
So the same as if any other Democrat won but unlike the other Democrats, at least he would have still tried?
In no timeline would it be worse though.
Or where upon it seems he'll be blocked, he goes individually to each of the blocking members states or districts, and campaigns his ideas directly to those who will be most affected, both upsetting precedent and dra international attention to individuals blocking the legislation.
You act like there wasn't a plan. I assure you , there was a plan.
Being in a position where the entire country hears his very reasonable, very easy to understand words over and over again would eventually have an effect. Even the die-hards would eventually be asking themselves if it is in fact reasonable that corporations are assfucking each and every one of us every single day. Some of them would vote in a more progressive representative.
Would he get everything passed? Absolutely not. But he would get some good stuff through.
In that case, Bernie’s executive orders would have blotted out the sun. How do courts strike down student loans being forgiven under a new legal theory every month?
Bernie on the right side of history as usual
If Hillary's primary team hasn't taken over the DNC, we'd be coming out of term 2 of Bernie with one of the most progressive Supreme Courts in modern history...
Like just stop for a second and think about how much shit would be different if we took the slam dunk of Bernie against trump in 2016, instead of trying to cram Hillary Clinton down America's throats.
We were this fucking close to a functional society
But instead the corporate side of the party would rather lose an election and blame Sanders and the Greens for losing. Same thing in 2000. Nader gave Gore a list of policies and said he'd drop out and endorse him if he just promised to implement just 2 of those policies. Instead of doing that, he chose to lose, and then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened, setting off an unprecedented loss of civil liberties and law enforcement abuses under Bush (and I would still say that Bush Jr was probably worse than Trump in terms of body counts and terrible policies that are still in place).
He would rather be on the left side though.
If there is one thing you can accuse Bernie of, it is definitely not being a good human.
Edit: Welp I totally fucked up and said that wrong and then went to sleep. I intended that to be a double negative and missed the double part. I caucused for Bernie and I think he is one of the most amazing people to ever live. Sorry guys, I goofed but time and I deserve the downvotes for my fuck up.
It won’t work, but bless his actual heart for trying.
Hey isnt that the money for Ukraine ?!