Then make them.
NoneOfUrBusiness
joined 2 years ago
Yes, both sides are in fact bad but that's not really the point I'm making here. Please work on your reading comprehension.
That's not my point. If Democrats seriously attack Trump on this, he'll hit back by attacking them for supporting Obama, and establishment Democrats won't throw their man under the bus. Ergo, nothing will happen. Screw Obama, but that's not the argument I'm making here.
Edit: Aaand there it is.
That's gang and terrorist shit and we're supposed to be better than our enemies about this stuff or what's the point.
Uh... on this particular war crime I have about twenty years of US history for you and you are not going to like it. To respond to your rhetorical question, the point is cheap and profitable oil contracts to increase shareholder value.
It sounds nice, but I think this is a wash.
If Chuck Schumer were replaced last election, what would have changed?
We'd have had one fewer senator organizing the Dem capitulation caucus. We'd have also had one fewer senator capitulating to Trump in March. Maybe, just maybe, someone willing to fucking do anything about Trump would've been in office. Also if he was replaced in, say, 2019 there would have been one fewer pro-genocide reactionary voting to give Israel everything it wants.
and with even a simple majority so much suffering would be completely avoided.
*Delayed. It would've been delayed, just as it was in 2020, because that's the thing: Democrats don't fucking do anything. Their favorite excuse is the filibuster, but they can just get rid of it. It's literally that simple. Whether this is incompetence or malice (though it's obviously the latter), the Democratic establishment needs to go before anything resembling progress can happen. You'll never get fewer Republicans if their competition is Joe "nothing will fundamentally change" Biden or Kamala "most lethal army in the world" Harris. Trump is the result of 50 years of Democrats gargling corporate balls is Trump, and you'll never get rid of Trump if you don't do something about the corporate balls.
That is really not how that works. Reformers are nice, but it's usually more militant leftists who actually get things done through direct action.
Ah, yes, "left" like Chuck Schumer.
No no, the dichotomy is between liberals and conservatives here. The system has done such a good job hiding leftwing politics from people that save for a few aberrations (i.e. Mamdani) they're just not something people think about.
Fucking called it. Even if they had some amount of spine, seriously pursuing this would require them to be willing to throw Obama under the bus and that's just not happening.