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To End 'Nightmare' in Gaza, Sanders Moves to Block Funding for Israeli Weapons
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Please let him succeed this time! 🤞🤞🤞
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But according to Nancy Pelosi, it's just Chinese propaganda!
With all due respect to her, which is none, Nancy Pelosi needs to go away and never speak to the public about anything again.
Age caps in politics when?
Not age caps, periodic mandatory cognitive function tests.
Bernie is only slightly younger than Pelosi chronologically, but at least a couple decades sharper mentally. Trump is YOUNGER than Bernie but as senile as the day is long at the height of summer.
Though most start to decline at or a few years after 70, some people can stay sharp long after and we need people like Bernie just as much as we don't need people like Pelosi.
This is just the latest example of why I lol so hard when some con whines about Nancy and claims she is some kind of radical leftist.
After I catch my breath, I ask them exactly which policies make her "radical" and be as specific as possible. Not sure I've ever had an answer that involved anything coherent - maybe one of them has complained about her insider trading, but don't seem to realize it's not confined to her or even just Democrats.
I find her exhausting for a lot of reasons, but they just have been told to hate her because she's a women of some prominence who does not have their lips wrapped around the base of tiny d's mushroom and the right wing haaaaaates that.
I'm guessing it's because he's anti-Semitic.
That might have been too subtle, I feel like a number of people are going to miss the joke there.
Though it makes me sad, you are probably right. Wayyyyy too many people levy this kind of thing at Sanders (and Chomsky, lol) as a supposedly serious charge.
Conservatives love a good genocide. They are falling over themselves in delight at the innocent families being slaughtered wholesale and are demanding even more weapons be sent.
Conservatives will aggressively fight any bill that seeks to impede genocide. For that reason, I do not think this ammendment can pass.
Fuck the conservatives, but there isn't exactly much liberal action on this front either.
Yes and meanwhile most of the so called "liberal" democrats are also actively supporting genocide.
I think last time Sanders tried this, which was only a month ago, he only got like 8 senators to sign on.
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Fuck yeah!
The USA should not be sending any forms of “aid” if a country has enough resources and wealth to build and maintain nuclear weapons.
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Unfortunately Israel doesn't need our funding or weapons.
Yeah, we could cut off every possible kind of funding to Israel and they'd still have sufficient military resources to level Gaza a hundred times over
So, we should just keep supplying more?
I agree that we should take it further. Support, and demand, a cease fire now. There is a lot of inertia and this is a step in the right direction where a lot of other people are running in the wrong direction.
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Send em over to israel... In the same way israel is sending em to gaza
The man who should have elected in 2016 AT THE LATEST.
I'm going to go cry in a corner as Biden gets another country wrapped up in endless war so he can save democracy using... Zionism, guns, and drones.
Let's organize a write in for Bernie this election
Bernie might not run for reelection at the end of his senate term later this year. I can't blame him for wanting to get away from it all; he will be 83.
There are socialist third party candidates already running. Claudia/Karina from PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) and Cornell West. I think it would make more sense to throw support behind one of them.
I agree. If you are in a decidedly red state that will already vote for a Republican. A socialist runner up would be hilarious.
Heck even in a decidedly blue state. I would be willing to do that in California, but just not the swing states.
There was an app for the 2016 election called #NeverTrump that tried to do exactly this by means of "vote trading". Voters in swing states that wanted to vote 3rd party would get matched up with Californians willing to put in their "protest vote" in CA in exchange for voting Hillary in the swing state. Obviously it didn't work, but this isn't a new concept. The stakes are too high a third year in a row to fuck around.
I love Bernie, but that's how you hand Trump a win. If you live in a swing state you're unfortunately stuck voting for the lesser of two evils.
And if you don't live in a swing state then your vote doesn't really matter.
Yeah, because it worked such wonders the last time...
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