US Foreign Policy 4.0: making the world safe to flee to if the MAGAts win here

[Kepler]

Closer every day.

“As Israeli forces again use US weapons to decimate civilian towns and villages, this time in Lebanon, and violations continue in Gaza and the West Bank, Senate Democrats are making clear that there is a new consensus forming in Washington: US arms sales must comply with US and international law, without exception,” John Ramming Chappell, an adviser at the Center for Civilians in Conflict, told Responsible Statecraft.

Cavan Kharrazian, senior policy advisor at Demand Progress, called the vote “historic” adding that “[t]he Overton window is shifting, and Congress is finally starting to catch up with the majority of Americans who don’t think we should keep spending taxpayer dollars to ship more weapons to Israel.”

Only seven Democrats voted against both resolutions: Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.).

 

[ticapnews]

VBNMW! It makes a huge difference.

 

[unofan]

VBNMW! It makes a huge difference.

In the general, yes it does.

 

[ticapnews]

In the general, yes it does.

Yes, we could never have passed the new minimum wage increase without the brave Democrats who voted to raise it in spite of its pathetic poll numbers. Oh, that's right. The Democrats voted against that despite it being overwhelmingly popular, with one Senate Democrat bringing in a cake just in case the Marie Antoinette "Fuck the Poor" vibes were too subtle.

What VBNMW tells the Democrats is that if a Republican says they will murder 100,000 people and the Democrat says they'll only kill 90,000, you'll vote for the Democrat instead of saying "Hey, maybe we shouldn't kill anyone." And if you think this is hyperbole, imagine those 90,000 people are Palestinians who lived in Gaza. Of course, even mentioning them would get me thrown out of the Democratic National Convention for being antisemitic.

 

[Kepler]

That is changing, ticap.

Slowly, people are waking up that Jews and Israel aren't the same thing.