One of his many word salads involved an offer to split the tolls between us and Iran, so yeah, that’s what he wants. The dummy simply didn’t realize access to the strait was so valuable until after the bombs started dropping.

Yeah but like…would you consider having a normal adult conversation with them about it before calling in the police?

Turbo Karen lol. How neighborly, bet she’s a Christian.

Ok, interesting. That is consistent with the reporting and Bernie’s statements in this article: Common dreams on DNC resolution

The rumor for why people are pissed about them tabling the AIPAC-specific resolution is that 2 of the likely presidential candidates in ‘28 pressured them to do so. Because apparently it is still forbidden to call out Israel’s misdeeds amongst Washington elites. I’m about 99% sure those two are Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. Any thoughts on other likely culprits?

That aside, I’m inclined to agree with Bernie here. Wishy-washy policy is the last thing we need to properly meet this moment and galvanize support from the voting base. Why not the general dark money resolution, and then double down with an AIPAC money resolution to be firm and clear, since the outsized AIPAC influence is already a kitchen-table topic of interest amongst US voters?

Great question. I wish I had good answers for this because I’d be jumping in and doing it too. It’s going to take some work. I have some concepts of a plan I’ve been iterating on, wouldn’t mind hearing your thoughts on this.

A big piece of the puzzle is going to be getting rid of FPTP and implementing national ranked choice (or star) voting, then electing officials who will promise to get rid of the electoral college. These alone would make the US system much more democratic, and enable us to elect a 3rd party official much more easily. We can do this at the state level, one state at a time. If a particular group gets really good at organizing and making it happen in a given state, maybe they can get crowd funded to help proliferate the cause to other states.

From there, it’s a matter of organizing to get required signatures for party representation in the various state elections. I think this probably works best starting at the local level, and we can start building towards that moment now with our various groups for organized labor, anti ice, socialism, etc. I don’t know if we necessarily need to galvanize nationally behind a single party, so long as each state is putting forward candidates who will represent the people’s interest above donor interests.

Once we have those people in office, they must use the power of Congress to restructure the Supreme Court. It’s broken right now due to the highly partisan judges. Right now there are 9 judges, I think we should add 10 more and do so with a mandate that they must overturn Buckley v Valeo and Citizens United. Those two disastrous decisions are what makes it possible for the legal bribery to take place which wholly captures our politicians. Take away the bribes, and all of the sudden they have to be accountable to voters again, instead of corporate/billionaire interests. And perhaps most importantly, would not be doing Israel’s bidding at every turn.

There are many other tweaks and improvements we could make from there, but the only other one I’ll mention here for now is that the new Congress should also restore the Fairness Doctrine for news media. Without it, American mainstream news has become full on propaganda. We should not be aiming to brainwash our own people to such an extent, or at all for that matter. A well educated populace is crucial for maintaining a healthy, vigilant democracy. This could go a long way towards restoring something like that…although as the boomers die out, so too does the relevance of mainstream news, so this one can easily get a bit more into the weeds once you consider the breadth of content consumed by younger generations.

Yes, I thought of them right away upon reading this. I do appreciate the positive vibes and keeping hope alive, but as is always the case in politics, the votes matter more than the rhetoric.

Would be interested to hear @givesomefucks@lemmy.world thoughts on these developments.

This is pretty devastating news for anyone who had hoped the new DNC would be any different from the old guard.

Banning Israel’s dark money spending in Dem primaries should be a total no-brainer. If they can’t even commit to that, then there’s really no hope for the party which has become increasingly divorced from the needs of its constituents.

This is a massive indicator that it’s time for a new political party in the US which is actually left of center, unlike the Dems. They are simply too corrupt to be trusted to do the right thing.

Yep…crazy to think that Obama’s light-hearted roast of mushroom dick eventually led to all this madness.

Agent Krasnov putting in work.

Hey now, don’t forget Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz. I’ll #NeverForget those blood thirsty war mongers, nor the untold millions of lives they ruined.

And especially keen to remember who has always been at the epicenter of inciting these conflicts: Israel.

These poor people want so desperately to be rescued by Trump, who gives less than 0 shits about them.

If only Joe Biden didn’t jack up their utility rates so high…! (/s)

By next week Trump will already have launched the nukes to defend precious Israel. lol Chuck you are worthless. Enjoy your vacation I guess?..

Good point, and yeah no, they were murdered.

The state leadership did seem to have politically outmaneuvered the US and Israel, however. I think that was OP’s point. They definitely won the culture war and controlling the narrative…not hard considering they were not the aggressors.

Netanyahu is on video making these claims in attempt to pull the US into war with Iran as far back as the 90s…!

Good analysis, agreed on all points.

That’s fine. Pack it up and go home boys and girls. If Israel wants to keep scrapping with Iran, it shouldn’t be our fight.

If they want their mega donor money to continue flowing in, they are expected to stay bad at it.

Israel is a vile terrorist state hell bent on destroying western order in their unending quest to colonize and steal land from their Arab neighbors. They call this the greater Israel project, and there’s a map of said vision hanging in their offices in the Knesset. Make no mistake, they are out to steal land and ethnically cleanse any who oppose them.

What’s worse, due to corrupt and idiotic decisions by the Supreme Court allowing the purchase of US politicians, as well as massive amounts of pedophilic blackmail collected by Jeffrey Epstein, a known Mossad agent, Israel has completely captured the American government. They work for Israel, not America, and it’s shameful to watch. If you ask me, since they love Israel so much, they should just move there and work at the Knesset instead.

But I digress. None of this necessarily has anything to do with Jewish beliefs. You are the one conflating these things, and this is a classic tactic used by Israelis to derail any sort of criticism whatsoever of the country’s terrible actions. Is it so hard for you to understand this premise of Israeli regulatory capture of US politicians, and to see how this post alludes to that grim reality?

I think it’ll happen this weekend at the latest, Israel will launch strikes and claim they do so in defense or some such nonsense. Just like they always do. They’re terrorists, it’s their nature.

It’s not his job to initiate impeachment, but that doesn’t change the fact Schumer works for Israel and doesn’t give a crap about our country or our people. If he did, he’d be making a joint statement with Jeffries with a concrete plan for removal. There is no other course of action to take, given how destructive Trump’s policies are for us and other western nations.

Fuck SCOTUS for making it legal to bribe politicians and allowing Israel to buy them all. What a mockery of a sham America has become.