Bernie should have won.
Fuck everyone who voted for Hillary in the primary to guarantee a trump presidency.
Bernie should have won.
Fuck everyone who voted for Hillary in the primary to guarantee a trump presidency.
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..
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...
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?
You'd think this would make the oil industry actually push for an independent Palestine, but oh well.
And how can they justify a proxy genocide against Islam without Israel?
Meanwhile congress is slap fighting over who gets to kill the poor
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.
I've heard a lot of joke names for trump, but "Mango Mussolini" takes the cake lol
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.
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.
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