Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., told a crowd of thousands at a rally in Los Angeles on Saturday that the U.S. was facing a moment of “extraordinary danger” as he criticized the political, economic and social policies of Donald Trump.
Sanders, who also dropped by the music festival Coachella over the weekend, has been criss-crossing the U.S. to speak out against the new Republican administration.
“We are living in a moment of extraordinary danger,” he said, “and how we respond to this moment will not only impact our lives but will impact the lives of our kids and future generations.”
You “disqualified” everyone for not doing enough and left Palestine to the group who would be fine if all Arabic peoples were wiped out.
But I’m sure Palestinians are weeping thankfully about how you and yours voted.
Sounds less like caring about Palestinian innocents and more about performative righteousness and your personal image.
If Trump and maga appreciate your actions (and boy did they), it puts you on their side, imo.
Unfortunately it seems that your brain doesn’t work, sir.
You seem to forget that the majority of the recent genocide of Palestinians was so far overseen by a democratic president.
Did you think voting for those same people would make it stop?
Does yours?
Try seeing outside of black and white absolutes.
Are you unable to see that this administration is WORSE?
Are you incapable of understanding why people who support Palestine might vote for the lesser evil of two guaranteed options?
You and others like you scream about how we don’t care about genocide, but I’m pretty sure you know the truth and you’re just trying to convince yourself that you did the right thing.
Yes this administration is worse. Cool. We agree. It’s the disastrous policies of democrats that got us here. We know what Maga is. They know what Maga is. They had the project 2025 plans months in advance. What did they give you? An senile candidate who was out of touch with reality and completely controlled by his handlers and then Kamala the coconut cop and a bunch of vibez. You had 0 participation in the democratic process of the democratic party.
Project 2025 is going down right now and they are out here doing publicity stunts. These people are not fighting for you now as the constitution is being shred - when will they ever???
Lol I don’t need to convince myself of anything. I vote my conscience. If nearly all of the country was ok with ignoring the genocide they are sponsoring - well I guess I live in a country of selfish selfish people who need a rude awakening. I don’t know what to tell you.
The whole country ignored 1 million dead Iraqi. This is the natural progression of a society that steps on another to maintain the status quo. Eventually you are going to get stepped on.
If someone told you that you had to sacrifice your entire family in order to “save democracy” would you do it?
Of course not - so why is sacrificing the Palestinians a-ok with all of you people who are now trembling in fear at what’s coming? Why should anyone expect empathy when they weren’t willing to give it?
When analyzing how a situation came to be do you only look to deflect and blame other people or are you going to take some time to self-reflect and question how your behavior or way of thinking may have led us to this point? And what do you do to change it?
I don’t disagree about the Democrats.
We DO disagree that it was worth allowing the administration that is objectively worse for the Palestinians to take charge to make a point about the Democrats.
You’re still missing it.
While saving democracy is certainly part of avoiding Trump, you’re still trying to spin this into something it’s not.
The relevant point here is that with Democrats, they’d probably still be in a load of trouble while the Dems played politics until they figured out just how much of their base supports Palestine.
With the Republicans… they cheer for the genocide. Hell, if they pull enough authority with this grab, they’ll probably send troops to help the IDF finish the job.
People like me voted for the chance to avoid the latter. I’d like to think people like you voted for hope.
But when people who voted for neither major party yell about how Democrat voters are “fInE wItH gEnOcIdE”, when it was a calculated choice in support of Palestine, it starts to feel like virtue signaling.
I’m not missing anything. Maybe you forgot recent history?
To your point, I don’t think republicans are lock step in this issue either. I think there is a significant break between those who support and those who don’t - look at Candace Owens for example. There is also a large contingent who support 0 foreign aid even to the murderers.
I do believe however that thinking anything would move the democrats is naive. They have been telling us for years to shut up and fall in line, and they have done it multiple times to people advocating for Palestine - Bernie did it just this week.
The democrats armed and allowed this all to happen on their watch. They could have shut it down and then Trump wouldn’t be able to continue anything. But they let it happen and continue to happen. This the crux of my position.
They could have stopped it at anytime - anytime a hospital was bombed, anytime a video surfaced of a child being blown away or sniped in the head, anytime one of the bombs Josh Shapiro signed was dropped on a community of destroyed people living in tents, anytime Biden illegally bypassed congress to send more weapons, but they didn’t. This is what people need to realize. They could have stopped it but they didn’t - even with all of the overwhelming evidence that what is/was taking place is evil.
So why would they stop if they won? It’s cognitive dissonance.
You still have faith in democrats while I am looking back at the evidence over my lifetime that says you are better off writing a letter to Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny than getting the democrats to do anything meaningful.