57 points

lmao this is the guy that they felt couldn’t be allowed near the presidency at all costs. It’s like the ultimate indictment of our diseased system that this absolute spineless wet noodle of a politician, who refuses to do more than meekly ask the machine to maybe be just a tiny bit less murderous and then backs down the instant he gets any push back, was who the ruling class considered so extreme and intolerable to their interests that they needed to pull out every stop to deny him power

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So is this good, did he actually extract a concession? Or is this just more of him being totally impotent…

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18 points

He backed down because the Biden Admin was whipping against it and clearly has the party behind them. It is as usual Not The Right Time to take action on this.

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13 points

:maybe-later-kiddo:

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Sounds like an agreement behind closed doors. So Bernie is basically just taking their word for it. Biden has never gone back on a promise before!

Succs love to do this. Give up leverage now for a promise of something later. Don’t give up the leverage until you have secured the bag! Actually, don’t give it up then either, just heighten the contradictions and push for more if you have some power to back it up.

Problem is succs don’t have the power. They have no genuine organized movement or labor power behind them. So they can’t do anything other than posture with statements and parliamentary tricks.

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21 points

it sounds like they convinced him to back off when he had a slam dunk so…

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12 points

Was it a slam dunk? It passed last time, but wasn’t veto proof.

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15 points

well wouldn’t it make more sense to force biden to at least veto it then?

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26 points

“He did what the Houthis wanted him to do…”

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We don’t know

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6 points

Nah, he’s our bitch

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36 points
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Common Bernie L

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44 points

Weak radlib clown

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24 points

and yet that’s still the best america can do because anyone better gets murdered by the FBI

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39 points

goddammit bernie

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