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They can be hung too. Like from the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French.
To show we are sorry and ask them back.
All the more apt
We must make it easier for workers to join trade unions, grow the union movement and prevent corporations from violating labor laws with impunity by passing the PRO Act — legislation I will be introducing tomorrow.
Call your representative and both of your senators and let them know you expect their support of this legislation. Better yet, write. On paper. Longhand. It's harder to ignore when you communicate like a boomer.
If you live in a red state and you think your legislators won't listen to you because of your political affiliation, or if you live in a blue state but your legislators won't listen because they are the sort of corpo nitwits who just voted with republicans to censure Al Green, remember: you can lie to them and pretend to be a member of a cohort they give a shit about.
Pretend to be a republican who is considering voting for democrats because of your support for this one piece of legislation.
They have no qualms about lying to you. Lie your ass off. They deserve at least that level of disrespect.
They can't be beaten by voting for blue oligarchs. He implies voting for the blue ones will get rid of the red ones.
he does not. He's arguing for collective action, once that is on the table blue or red will have to answer to demands of the many. So, no, he's not asking to vote blue, he's asking to grab pitchforks... that guy is Independent and caucused with dems but he never shied away from lambasting Dems.
Bernie is my hero and he deserves better than to be fighting still at his age.
Then where is that version of Bernie been the last four years?
erm... he bid for presidential chair twice, got torpedoed by Dems twice.. he's been punching above his weight all the way, considering he's Independent and Dems have no obligation to listen to him at all, they have actually ended up following his lead as he was putting progressive items on agenda that others had to copy. For a single man he's done a LOT. For a guy outside the party to get support that he's got within the party is already an accomplishment.
where is that version of Bernie been
JFC, your takes are absolute dogshit, but this syntax gave me a stroke. I weep for the species.
Right now, he's not asking to vote blue because it's not an election. He'll be singing a different tune in about a year and a half
is there a party capable of carrying the election outside of the two? I can guarantee that if viable party was formed with progressive program he'd dump Dems.. As it stands american electoral system forces him to support one of the two evils. For goodness sake they've torpedoed him twice now... so I don't think it's alegiance... it's sheer pragmatism.
They didn't torpedo him, he was a sheepdog from the get go. Every election since Reagan, the DNC has had a party sheepdog to keep disenfranchised voters herded up and contained in the party with the illusion that they will someday have a seat at the table.
do you even read? He's arguing to remove all big money from politics red or blue... which part of that is "voting blue oligarchs"?
What amazes me is how consistently the only two people that argue on behalf of people get scoffed at. AOC and Bernie are the only hope of sanity US has... they really need their own party and "steal" all the voters from under Dems... but Bernie is spent, AOC is not ready for this heavy lift... while everyone is busy knocking them both down. good job, keep at it.
No one is ready for it. Buck the fuck up buckaroo, the storm is here.