Bernie Sanders Goes on Pod Save America
"Our job is to make sure that American taxpayer dollars is not complicit in allowing Netanyahu's military machine to kill innocent people..." -- Bernie Sanders
Maybe they could all, then, retire, and allow people who can actually do the job a chance.
Even if Biden were to actually yank the rug on Israel tomorrow (instead of issuing pointless threats with no follow-up), the genocide in Gaza would still have the character of a "done deed." Gaza has no infrastructure any more. Aid, still vastly insufficient, is not going to help those who are going to die of starvation-related syndromes anyway. Biden's weapons made genocide possible. Everyone else, maybe except Rashida Tlaib, said some nonsense about "Israel's right to exist" and sat there with index fingers firmly up their noses while Biden was the primary accomplice to a genocide that took place.
That's right, kids. PAST tense. There is simply NO WAY that these people can now turn around and pretend to be good guys. You know, one of the most curious aspects of being dead is that you can't come back, not -- at least -- in the form which you had. And why are they performing the charade now? "Omigod we gotta find an argument for Biden's re-election!" There's also the little matter of how Israel has, for now, lost the so-called "war" against Hamas.
Two days ago, Caitlin Johnstone reflected upon the meaning of all this:
The Gaza genocide is such a massive thing in and of itself — the injustice, the murder, the loss, the unfathomable suffering. But what’s happening in Gaza is also about so much more than Gaza. It’s a moment in history where humanity is thinking seriously about real revolutionary change, and weighing the options between that and continuing along this tired old blood-soaked path we’ve been travelling on for millennia.
But only SOME of humanity are thinking seriously about real revolutionary change. Other parts of humanity are thinking "how can I promote Joe Biden's chances for re-election?"
BIDEN: "Elect me. I'm in the 20th Century."
We are in the 21st Century.
This guy has the nuclear codes… pic.twitter.com/HxndFlYLIw
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2024
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Perhaps Bernie
is finally reading the tea leaves, and at long last they are saying "The election is lost already- time to cut your losses."
Biden has reversed himself to some extent- a few days ago he said that the US would not respond unless US installations were hit by Iran. Today he says that our support for Israel is "ironclad", and we'll respond any way we like, when and if it suits us.
To anyone capable of rational thought, it has been clear for many years now that the latter has always been the de facto policy. We've been carefully not reacting to Israel's disregard (and frankly, their actions in the dismantlment) of international law and the norms of international relations. At this point, it is becoming clear that our Owners actually envy the apparent Teflon-ness of the Israeli regime. Biden wants him some o' that secret sauce, presumably to put on his government-issue ice cream.
I feel very sorry for the people in the US armed services who are going to be sent to die for Israel, since that is now inevitable. Maybe it is time to reconstitute the draft.
Let's fight 5 wars on 6 fronts, he said. It'll be fun, he said. We are Exceptional, he said. Unfortunately, like every other human being who has ever lived, the only thing that we are truly good at is dying... And having said that, I'll quite enjoy watching Biden lose the election, if I'm still alive to see it.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Folks advocating
for Bidets re-election
have no humanity of note
at this point
I’m going with suns micro-nova ‘24
beat the rush for nuclear war!
Thanks cas
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Bernie should be wearing a cone collar
.
Since he’s such a sheep dawg for Joe Biden and he keeps screwing the people who believed in his 2 runs for president. Everything he ran on was the total opposite of what Biden had done for 50 years and yet he said that we must vote Biden because of Trump. Now that every aspect of the economy is in the toilet what’s Bernie saying about it?
Housing is a human right. No shit Sherlock. Hey did you notice it’s gone up 12% under Biden? Over 3 years in and he’s NOW talking about it? F Bernie. He sold out. "No ceasefire!"
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
My main concern --
is these people who are so focused on Vote Blue No Matter Who that they will never see the big picture, nor the need for an alternative mass party of some sort.
Here's something I said on Facebook about this matter:
"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate
Part time gig jobs
Just like Obama’s glorious job reports when Uber and other drive services started up and drove the taxis out of business. Since Clinton the democrats have ruined the economy in favor of the donors.
And the dem base rarely looks at what dems are actually doing and when they fail to get something passed they shrug their shoulders and move on to the next item dems are working on that will also fail. And it’s either republicans fault or the dem rotating villain that dem leadership has lots of actions they can do to make them fall in line. Biden gave Manchin's wife a plumb job that could have been threatened…but no. And remember how they treated Lieberman, may he be rotting in hell. After he tried to get McCain elected the dems wouldn’t threaten all the committees he was on and let him be the rotating villain roadblock to great dem legislation.
Bernie is finally head of some powerful committees, but what has he gotten done for we the people? I rarely hear of what he’s working on. Just imagine if he had won. Nothing would have changed.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
As you suggest --
-- the revolution of diminished expectations happened, life turned to crap for a lot of people, and the Dems shrugged their shoulders.
Mainstream politics, CNN or FOX, take your pick, exists to generate talking points. It doesn't really inquire into anything.
"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate
Imagine, if you will...
...ANOTHER Capitol Riot. A REAL, grassroots one this time (Glenn Greenwald blamed the Feds, and I believe him, because he's the unclefuckin' Lawrence of Brasilia).
No, not just another riot, another 9/11 (but without innocent plane-passengers).
Against Capitol Hill.
RIGHT NOW, while the iron is hot, in Gaza's name before they can "memory-hole" it.
Remember, the public reacted the way they did to those events (as well as Ukraine) because most people saw them without prior context.
This time, for this reason ON TOP OF SO MANY OTHERS, the reaction might finally be different....
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Or, perhaps like
this one, courtesy of the magnificent Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp in "Young Frankenstein":
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
the past foretells the future
the threats of Billionaire influence/control, the threat of a $15 minimum wage and now the threat of rent control in the face of techno gamed property scamming are all under control. Move along, nothing to see here.