Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Marjorie Taylor Greene nominates Kyle Rittenhouse for Congressional Gold Medal

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has nominated Kyle Rittenhouse to be given Congress' highest award. If approved, Rittenhouse would join a list of recipients that includes people like Mother Teresa, George Washington, and Nelson Mandela.

www.fox5atlanta.com

So in the past few days, she’s done this, proposed some sort of laughable “national divorce” in which red states would be able to secede from The Union and somehow retain the full protection of the US military, but allow their WalMarts the freedom to not stock the sex toys next to the toothbrushes, and then what you linked about losing your voting rights for a period if you move between states.

It would be nice to laugh her off as an idiot, but Hannity ran a segment about the pros of secession last night on FoxNews, so you know the mouthbreathers will be mainlining this BS on a nightly basis.

Murdoch and Co will not be into secession and folks like Hannity will fall in line

 

[Walken]

Some wonderful Bernie interviews in the UK right now

 

[summerisle]

Some wonderful Bernie interviews in the UK right now

 

[Walken]

Is he talking to the public anywhere? Would love to go along

 

[summerisle]

Is he talking to the public anywhere? Would love to go along

 

[summerisle]

Is he talking to the public anywhere? Would love to go along

He's on Radio 4 tomorrow morning :

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks

Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Moomin]

He's on Radio 4 tomorrow morning :

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks

Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.

www.bbc.co.uk

Big fan of Bernie.

 

[summerisle]

Big fan of Bernie.

Doesn't use anodyne trite phrases which politicians use everywhere. Says it as it is.

 

[Rook]

‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

www.theguardian.com

Benjamin Sachs, a labor law professor at Harvard (Harvard the capital of labour's stuggles against the man) , admits to some surprise that several supposedly progressive companies are using hardball anti-union tactics.

WAIT A MINUTE CORPORATIONS ARE NOT THE BENELOVENT OVERLORDS WE EXPECTED??? AFTER THE PRIDE MONTH FLASH SALE I THOUGHT BEZOS AND I SHARED THE SAME VALUES.

 

[carolinablue232]

Big fan of Bernie.

Bit of a hypocrite for me. Self proclaimed socialist who is a career politician and owns 3 homes, is worth over $3mil, and is also on record saying something like “If you write a book, you can be a millionaire too.” Pretty capitalist thing to say imo. He has a different message than some but he’s still a politician.

 

[Prevenger17]

Bit of a hypocrite for me. Self proclaimed socialist who is a career politician and owns 3 homes, is worth over $3mil, and is also on record saying something like “If you write a book, you can be a millionaire too.” Pretty capitalist thing to say imo. He has a different message than some but he’s still a politician.

It's really not hypocritical to be rich and want to help others out of poverty

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Massachusetts prisoners may get shorter sentences for organ donations

A new bill proposes that prisoners get at least two months off their sentences for donating bone marrow or organs

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rita_Poon]

Massachusetts prisoners may get shorter sentences for organ donations

A new bill proposes that prisoners get at least two months off their sentences for donating bone marrow or organs

www.theguardian.com

Will these 'donations' be made at gunpoint? And there's only the biggest health scandal in NHS history that is still rolling along 40 years later to be resolved. (mentioned because of the origins of the contaminated blood scandal)

 

[carolinablue232]

It's really not hypocritical to be rich and want to help others out of poverty

Then why did he not personally do that? It’s easy to say others should do it, but as the poster child for anti rich, maybe he didn’t need that third house and could’ve helped others with that money? After all, isn’t that what socialism is? Career politician. Spreads a message but I’m not sure he actually backs it up.

 

[Prevenger17]

Then why did he not personally do that? It’s easy to say others should do it, but as the poster child for anti rich, maybe he didn’t need that third house and could’ve helped others with that money? After all, isn’t that what socialism is? Career politician. Spreads a message but I’m not sure he actually backs it up.

Well aside from the fact that he probably gives a lot of money to charitable causes, let's have a look at this statement.

You said he's worth 3 million. That's comparatively a lot of money next to someone who is poor, but a drop in the ocean when you're talking about the vast swathes of corporate wealth he is discussing. Someone with a net worth of 3 million isn't going to be able to close the insane wealth gulf in the USA, they're not going to get the millions of people living in poverty and working low-pad jobs on a living wage, they're not going be able to prevent people forking out insane sums of money into their broken healthcare system just to stay alive.

These are all systemic issues that one man, even one with 3 houses, isn't going to be able to do anything about. People aren't poor because Bernie Sanders has 3 houses, they are poor because there are many facets of the US system that either don't help people achieve a good quality of living or actively suppress their opportunities to do so. WhY DoEsnT He PaY DeM is such a blatantly facile argument that I'm actually quite surprised you made it.