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allthebrazilianpolitics · 1 year

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The Biden Stop on Lula’s World Tour

Lula spent 48 hours in Washington, D.C. Next up: China. Lula is traveling the globe, trying to restore Brazil’s reputation as a country that can collaborate with almost anyone.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was in Washington, D.C., last Friday for meetings with President Joe Biden and, earlier in the day, with Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Just over a month into his unprecedented third term, Lula is eager to turn the page on the calamitous administration of Jair Bolsonaro. Lula is traveling the world, visiting Argentina and Uruguay to signal a recommitment to South American integration, hosting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Brasília, and meeting Biden to reset Brazil’s relationship with the United States. His aim is clear: restore Brazil’s reputation as a country that can collaborate with almost anyone.

Lula and Biden seemed to hit it off. A private meeting scheduled to take 15 minutes lasted almost an hour. Numerous reports pointed out the rapport the two men seemed to enjoy in the Oval Office, and Biden accepted an official invitation to visit Brazil at some point before the end of his term. Afterward, Lula called Biden the most worker-friendly president in US history, a dubious assessment the Brazilian president said was largely shared by union officials he met with on his last day in Washington. Lula and Biden had previously spoken over the phone, with the US president congratulating Lula on his election, his inauguration, and expressing his support after the antidemocratic insurrection in Brasília on January 8, but this was their first time meeting in person. The hope for both sides is that direct personal engagement can lead to the implementation of policies that both countries see as shared priorities.

In a joint statement released after their meeting, the two leaders committed to working together on several issues that are uncontroversial for their respective political projects—combating climate change and racism, supporting democracy and human rights. These are substantive matters that these hemispheric powers can and should be working closer to address. Biden, for example, reportedly said he will work with Congress to contribute $50 million to the Amazon fund, a mechanism through which foreign governments can contribute to preservation efforts in the world’s largest rain forest. Although the Brazilian government was hoping for more, this contribution—and US officials indicated that it was just an initial investment—is being hailed as an illustration of Brazil’s renewed stature in global affairs. (By contrast, Bolsonaro threatened violent retribution for any government that intervened in the Amazon.)

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #united states #us politics #foreign policy #international politics #luiz inacio lula da silva #joe biden #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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bearkunin · 10 months

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Just a bit of a microhistory on Obama's supposed squandered supermajority. I think this is important to clear up, because it still gets referenced to this day to cast the Democrats as no-good do-nothings.

Obama was inaugurated to work with the freshly minted 111th Congress. It was well known that Republicans had already decided that they would be the party of ‘No’ and wouldn’t give an inch, no matter the issue or the policy ramifications for the country.

But it did not matter, right? Because Obama had 60 votes! A supermajority! Well, no.

In the November 2008 elections which elected Obama, Democrats gained 8 seats, taking their total from 49 seats to 57 seats.

There was also two independents elected who would caucus with the Dems: Joe "too rightwing to be a Democrat" Lieberman and Bernie "too left-wing to be a Democrat" Sanders.

That’s 59 votes in the caucus, not 60, (assuming you could get independent Joe Lieberman (and the likes of anti-abortionist Ben Nelson!) and independent Bernie Sanders on the same page, which is no easy feat).

Also, that 59 includes Al Franken, who was not seated at the start of the 111th because of the recount and subsequent appeals in Minnesota.

So, really, on the afternoon Obama was inaugurated, Dems had, at most, 58 votes - again, counting McCain-endorsing Lieberman and socialist Sanders.

And that only lasted a few hours. Sadly, during the celebration, already-ill Ted Kennedy had seizures and, during the following months, would only be available to vote sporadically. He went months without casting a single vote.

On April 28, 2009, Arlen Specter became a Democrat. He openly admitted that he was doing this to avoid “the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate” and would “continue [his] independent voting”. Apparently, Joe Biden also played a part in him crossing the aisle, so good job there.

Still, Specter was certainly no liberal all of a sudden. For instance, even after the switch he openly opined that "There's still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner [over Al Franken]." So now we are counting Republican supporting Specter and Lieberman in our "supermajority."

But Kennedy was not the only Democratic Senator with health issues. Robert Byrd was in hospital from May 15 through to the end of June.

So now, Dems have at best 59, if you can get Specter, Lieberman, Nelson, Sanders, and everyone else on the same page and Kennedy and Byrd could be somehow healthy enough to cast a vote, which they mostly were not.

On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was finally seated. His election was close and recount was entirely called for, but the delay in seating him was entirely political.

And that is 60, on paper. But in practice, Byrd and Kennedy were not voting.

Although no longer in hospital, Byrd did not return to the floor of the Senate until July 21, 2009.

The Senate was also busy with the pressing business of confirming Sotomayor, the first Dem SCOTUS nominee in 15 years, opposed by many on the right (Wise-Latina-Gate!) to the Senate. A vote that Kennedy missed altogether and Byrd attended in a wheelchair.

On August 25, 2009, Ted Kennedy passed away. Of a potential 270 votes in the first three-quarters of 2009, he was able to participate in just 9 of them.

Even on an interim basis, Kennedy wasn’t replaced for a month, and not without a fight. Legislation was passed restoring the governor's power to make interim appointments to serve until the special election stipulated. On September 25, 2009, Paul Kirk was appointed to the seat, only after a Republican lawsuit seeking to block the appointment was thrown out.

So now you are back at 60. This includes Byrd, who missed more than half the votes during this window. And, again to stress, too-rightwing-to-be-a-Democrat Lieberman and too-leftwing-to-be-a-Democrat Sanders.

January 20, 2010 - Scott Brown (R) was elected. Ending even any discussion of supermajority.

Between September 25, 2009 and January 20, 2010, you have 117 days. Not senate in-session days. Total days. That was really the only time they had 60. And that 60 was contingent on getting every single vote: Dems, Independents (both left and right!), interim, infirm, Byrd, Bernie, Spectre and Nelson and every Senator who knew voting with Obama meant sealing their electoral fate.

There are two lessons that should be taken from this:

1. What matters is how left the 60th most-rightwing Democratic vote is. Replacing Bernie Sanders or, say, Chuck Schumer, with Joseph Stalin himself doesn't matter. What matters is getting, and keeping, the Arlens and Spectres and Liebermans of the world as left as possible.

2. Where safe blue seats do matter and can make a real difference is in regards to gerontocracy. It matters less that Byrd or Kennedy were super progressive or super moderate but if they could turn up to vote at all. The fact the US is going through this again with Feinstein is embarrassing. Young blood is important beyond just fresh ideas.

#US Politics #politics #history #obama #democrats

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janekim · 1 year

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#YearofRabbit California Policy Dream List for Working Families

One year ago, I joined the Working Families Party to expand its organizing to the largest state in the nation- California. Tasked with the goal of activating an electorate which overwhelmingly voted for Bernie Sanders for President in 2020 and identifying and winning candidates who actually represent the working families of California, we got to work.

California Working Families Party endorsed 59 candidates in the 2022 election cycle and hosted more than 300 events– doorknocking, phonebanks, text banks and virtual townhalls to support them. In a promising story of California’s future, 56 of our WFP endorsed candidates identify as people of color and the majority are women.

In our inaugural year, eight California Working Families Squad Legislators, committed to fight for tenant protections, climate justice and fair wages won, expanding our corporate free squad in Sacramento from two to eight. While Democrats dominate California, too many legislators have sided with big money, choosing Big Oil or Big Pharma over the health of our communities. In fact, Big Oil (more on this later), is the biggest political spender in California funding 78 out 120 state legislators.

Six Working Families mayoral candidates won, Karen Bass for Los Angeles Mayor, Paloma Aguirre for Imperial Beach Mayor, Ulises Cabrera for Moreno Valley Mayor, Eduardo Martinez for Richmond City Mayor, and Rex Richardson for Long Beach City Mayor and Sheng Thao for Oakland Mayor. (Check out our GOTV Rally for Karen Bass for Los Angeles Mayor with Senator Bernie Sanders co-hosted by the California Working Families Party!)

California WFP also backed progressive champions for Board of Supervisors, City Council and Board of Education races to impact local communities and build a pipeline of candidates for higher office. This is a promising bench in California where three out of four eligible voters under 30 is a person of color.

California Policy Dream List 2023-2024

“Liberals want to do nice things. And progressives understand that you have to take on powerful special interests to make it happen.” U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

Winning office is not our goal. Winning a Working Families policy agenda which lifts all working Californians is our goal. As we enter #YearofRabbit, a zodiac animal known for steadily moving towards their goal, here’s my California Policy Dream List- winnable, fundable + impactful.

1. Grow our California Squad to 20 by 2026, ensuring corporate free, Working Families champions make up ⅙ of our California legislature.

While this may seem small, a group of 20 courageous and energetic leaders can move an agenda while activating and organizing our base. They can shine a light on the corporate backed legislative agenda and introduce a peoples first policy agenda to positively impact the lives of everyday Californians.

2. Medicare for *ALL* Kids

At least 4M children across our nation lack access to health care today. While our ultimate goal is Medicare for ALL, starting with children is a good start. Imagine a world where all newborn babies, rich and poor, go home with a name, birth certificate and health insurance.

Providing children with health care is relatively cheap. The average child's medical needs, including vaccines and checkups, are routine, low-cost and preventative. Children make up a quarter of the U.S. population, but generate less than 12% of total health care spending and children would improve Medicare’s financial profile by lowering average costs.

Guaranteeing coverage for all kids would benefit all families– low-income and working-class families would be enrolled automatically without paperwork or expensive outreach and education programs in multiple languages. Medicaid is currently the third-largest anti-poverty program, responsible for raising 2 to 3M people out of poverty— reducing medical debt and bankruptcies. Medicare for Kids is also a subsidy to middle-class families who currently spend money on co-pays for visits and medication and sometimes significant or unaffordable deductibles. In fact, private health care does not guarantee access to care when out of pocket costs effectively eliminate access. In addition, all children will get continuous, uninterrupted care with a familiar doctor instead of getting yanked in and out of coverage due to parent’s change of employment, job loss or change in income.

Finally, we will raise a generation of voters who will not view Medicare as a socialist fantasy or nightmare but a generation which will have normalized a single payer healthcare system.

Oh, it’s also popular. According to a 2019 poll by Data for Progress poll, 80% of registered Democrats support Medicare for Kids.

3. Take on Big Oil

Big Oil is the biggest political spender in California, yet most voters in our blue state are unaware of the power the industry holds in Sacramento. 78 out of 120 California legislators, Republicans and Democrats, accepted oil money. California is the 7th largest oil producing state and continues to approve fracking permits as wildfires and smoke choke our communities. Worse, over 7M Californians live within one mile of an active oil well, putting them at greater risk of asthma, cancer and early births.

After a decade of organizing, this past September, the California legislature finally passed a bill (SB 1137) to ban NEW oil drilling within 3200 feet of homes, schools and playgrounds and within days, Big Oil announced they were gathering signatures to repeal this bill. Other billionaire corporations also unhappy with policies to support workers, gathered signatures to overturn AB 257, a first in nation bill to establish sectoral bargaining for fast food workers. Both have qualified for the November 2024 ballot.

We can defeat those pro-corporate ballot initiatives and go on offense. Finally tired of $8/gallon headlines, Democrats announced they would introduce a bill to penalize oil price gouging. Financial reports revealed that the five companies producing 97% of all of California’s oil and gas, quadrupled their profits in the first nine months of 2022. California had the highest gouge gap in the nation–billions of dollars went from the pocketbooks of hardworking Californians only to enrich billionaire CEO’s and shareholders. It’s time to fight back.

4. Raise the Minimum Wage: One Job Should Be Enough

The Fight for 15 had real, measurable impacts on workers' pay. This January, California’s minimum wage rose to $15.50 and an estimated 5.6M Californians will earn at least $20B more, an amount larger than all of California’s major public assistance programs combined.

Yet, we have still not kept up with the living wage needed across California. There is not a single county where a minimum wage worker can afford to rent a two bedroom apartment for themselves and their family. New York and Rhode Island introduced $21/hour and Idaho and Massachusetts introduced $20/hour. California can and should continue to lead this fight for minimum wage workers, the vast majority of whom are women.

And we should raise the minimum wage for all workers including incarcerated inmates who currently make pennies on the hour for jobs which include fighting California’s wildfires.

5. Tax Extreme Wealth

During the pandemic, billionaires grew $2 trillion while millions of Americans filed for unemployment or risked their lives as essential workers. 44% of that wealth grew in California alone. California has the most billionaires and the highest poverty rate in the nation. This is a policy failure.

In month, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York and Washington all introduced a Wealth Tax on the extreme rich. The California Wealth Tax is modeled on US Senator Elizabeth Warren's, specifically targeting extreme wealth over $50M and $1B. If passed, it would generate $22.3B/year for California. California has one of the most progressive income tax rates in the country, effectively taxing for example, a rich doctor who primarily earns their money through income. However, the wealthiest Californians report very little income– avoiding taxes on the vast majority of their wealth. We should remedy this inequity and tax all wealth.

5. Free Bus Pilots

It is exciting to see cities such as Washington DC and Boston pilot fare free bus programs while New York legislators consider similar proposals. Free bus programs make public transportation more accessible, encourage people to ride instead of drive, reduce congestion and pollution, and disproportionately benefit low-income individuals and families (again without the hassle of paperwork, expensive outreach programs and bureaucratic income verification). Imagine cities which provide free buses for residents and visitors to ride to work, school and play!

California is changing

Over the next decade, we are going to see the continued growth and power of California voters currently under 45. And they are disproportionately people of color and immigrants.

California is ready to lead a working families agenda for the nation. There is a growing base of multiracial, cross-class voters that want to tackle widening wealth inequality, the untenable affordability crisis, and wildfires turning our communities to ash. Our challenge is to organize that base of voters into a movement that can make this wish list a reality and deliver for the people.

#california #politics #election #medicareforall #year of rabbit

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personal-blog243 · 2 years

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Why am I already thinking about the 2024 election? 🥲

I wish that there would be a decent candidate that could run on a left wing platform and actually win and actually keep their promises! So far the closest thing we have to a left leaning politician who isn’t full of shit is Bernie Sanders. I think it’s funny that he has “old man yells at cloud” energy but is still likable and has appealed to younger voters. I like that he hasn’t changed hardly at all since the 60’s. The biggest problem is that he is very old and frankly I’m afraid he would die before Election Day or Inauguration Day.

I’m afraid if Ilhan Omar or Ayanna Presley run for president the racism and sexism hurled against them would be too hard to watch.

So what are we thinking? Raphael Warnock? Beto O’rourke? I understand that from a leftist perspective elections are not going to save us and it’s all a bullshit farce and all that, but what’s the take on what we should do?

For the record I’m not saying this is the only thing we should do or care about I just wanted to vent some thoughts.

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just-waluigi-things · 3 months

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Idk if I’ll ever get over the fact that the people who were so disgusted by how trump is “uncouth” and “has no respect for norms” don’t seem to care that Biden is out here saying bloodthirsty mask-off imperialist shit into microphones on the regular. Remember when Bernie sanders looked cold and grumpy at Biden’s inauguration and people threw a bitchfit about it lol.

#chickens = home (roost)

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yihannah · 5 months

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Cell Phone Photography #15

The Bernie Sanders mittens meme captures U.S. senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont and former 2020 presidential candidate who was photographed seated during the 2020 inauguration of Joe Biden wearing a face mask and distinct mittens hand knitted by one of his supporters and constituents which went viral. This particular meme stood out to me in relation to one of the quotes from the readings:

“You as the person who created something are not the most valuable person on the chain” Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezeburger “The MVPs are the people who change it, appropriate it, and turn it into something greater.”

While this photograph may be trying to articulate Bernie as a presidential candidate who lost to President Biden with the setting being the inauguration during the pandemic, the circulation of this particular photograph of Bernie, like the Doge meme, does not have a singular meaning or a meaning with only one interpretation.

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myfriendthecouch · 2 years

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#meme #not my meme #not mine #meme dump #photo dump #Bernie sanders #Bernie #Bernie meme #twitter #twitter post #MsReeezy #Inauguration #inauguration 2020

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sgreffenius · 10 months

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I guess it's time to run again. I ran the first time a while back, but I can't remember which year. I know it had to be before 2016, because I would never want to run against Clinton, Biden, or Trump. Who knows, though, if James Comey had not schemed with Hillary and Christopher Steele to get the Donald elected, I might have been president. You can't tell about these things.

Now Never Trumpers say Anybody But Biden, and Let's Go Brandon means Make America Great Again. There's never been a better time to elect an independent candidate. Too many voters and politicos think of independents as spoilers, not because they actually are, but because that's how they get you to vote for one of their candidates. You could say that the winner of any election spoils every other candidate's chance to win, but no one knows the winner until after the election.

So I figure my chances are as good as anyone else's. I have ambition, money, name recognition, speaking skills, a desire to serve, a vision for my country, and other qualities our two presumptive candidates do not have.

Let's take two qualities that you do not often see anymore: honesty and integrity. Honesty means people trust you because you speak the truth. Integrity means people trust you because you value what is right, whether it advances your own interests or not. You cannot be a leader if people don't trust you.

How many people believe Donald Trump possesses these qualities? Case closed.

Now think back to the first important speech Joe Biden gave after the election in November 2020. It was not his inaugural address. It was the one he delivered about a week after the election, when returns from a few close states confirmed that he had won. You will remember his emphasis on the theme of unity, and the foundation of unity, communal trust. He promised he would lead the entire country to restore broken bonds of community in our nation. His main goal, he said, would be to rebuild our nation so we could work together again.

I remember thinking as I listened, "Well we'll see. I'll believe it when I see it." He can launch the future as he sees fit. Who am I to second-guess his intentions when he still has two months before he becomes the nation's leader?

How long did it take after Inauguration Day to discover that Uncle Joe was just another grifter in aviator sunglasses? He did not pretend to remember what he said in November, but set to work on a presidential agenda even more divisive than his predecessor's. Many said, "We have just elected Bernie Sanders," but at least Bernie would have told us the truth in November. Bernie's words after the election, and his actions the following spring, would not have exposed him as a fraud. Uncle Joe made a point of lying, and did not seem to care.

So that's why I want to run. The country needs a good leader. It also needs a candidate who can spoil both major parties in the same election. You could say Trump tried to do that in 2016, but he spoiled only one party, his own. Meanwhile, try as they might, Democrats' five-year effort to spoil their party failed, as Biden's victory attests. Yet most people do not trust the Democratic party, either. Thus our need for a leader who does not answer to either tribe.

I appreciate your support, and next year, your votes.

#2024 election #biden #trump #independent candidates

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mossyoak78552 · 1 year

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An article in Newsweek on Trump's claims about Veterans 1-20-21

Fact Check: Did President Trump Pass the VA Choice Act, as He Says?

In his final days in office, President Donald Trump made several speeches highlighting the achievements of his presidency. Trump gave a final speech at Joint Base Andrews after leaving the White House for the final time Wednesday morning prior to the inauguration.

The Claim

During a taped farewell address Tuesday, Trump boasted his accomplishments in health care and claimed credit for the passage of the VA Choice Act.

"We passed VA Choice, VA Accountability, Right to Try, and landmark criminal justice reform," Trump said.

On Wednesday, he added, "We took care of the vets, 91 percent approval rating. They've never had that before the vets have given us the VA. The vets have given us an approval rating like it has never been before. We took care of our vets and our beautiful vets, they were very badly treated before we came along. And as you know, we get them great service and we pick up the bill and they can go out and they can see a doctor if they have to wait long periods of time."

The Facts

The VA Choice Act, or the Veterans Access to Care through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act, was passed in 2014 under President Barack Obama.

According to The Hill, the bipartisan bill expanded the number of options veterans have for receiving care and granted the United States Secretary of Veteran Affairs more power to fire executives. It included "choice cards" for veterans to see non-VA providers if they could not get appointments with the agency within 30 days or live more than 40 miles from a clinic and added nearly $500 million for hiring additional nurses and doctors. Senators Bernie Sanders and John McCain were the main architects of the legislation.

The bill came after the major VA scandal in which VA staff had been instructed to falsify their waiting lists to cover up lone wait times for basic care. The issue was especially prevalent at the VA medical center in Phoenix, where veterans waited 115 days on average for an initial primary care appointment, according to an interim independent report by the VA's inspector general at the time.

In June 2018, Trump signed the Mission Act, which made it easier for veterans to seek private care. This was an update of the VA Choice Act and consolidated the existing health care programs under the Veteran Affairs Department into one central program. This measure expanded the eligibility requirements for private care based on certain criteria so that veterans are able to seek a non-VA doctor if their VA wait is 20 days, if they live 30 minutes away from the nearest VA facility or if "a veteran and the veteran's referring clinician agree that furnishing care or services in the community would be in the best medical interest of the veteran," according to the New York Times.

According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, an additional 640,000 veterans each year will seek care outside the VA system, and the legislation requires VA to negotiate a contract for veterans to seek care at private walk-in clinics.

Trump repeatedly has claimed credit for passing the VA Choice Act. According to the Washington Post, Trump has mentioned some version of his VA Choice Act mistruth more than 156 times.

While speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in 2018, Trump conflated the act passed under Obama and the Mission Act expansion.

"We passed Veterans Choice, the biggest thing ever, the biggest thing. That's got to be the biggest improvement you can have. So now, if you can't get treatment that you need in a timely manner—people used to wait two weeks, three weeks, eight weeks, they couldn't get to a doctor—you will have the right to see a private doctor immediately and we will pay for it," he said.

More recently, Trump began to distinguish the two pieces of legislation in a way that disparaged Obama's version and bolstered his update.

"For more than 45 years, they were trying to get Choice," Trump said in a video posted on his personal Twitter account. "Obama gave you a weak version that didn't work. It was a joke. I gave you the Mission Act, which is phenomenal, and it's worked out fantastically well."

However, Trump returned to taking credit for the Choice Act shortly before the 2020 presidential election.

"And for our great veterans, we passed VA Choice and VA Accountability," Trump said at an event in Erie, Pennsylvania.

His press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, also cited false statistics about when the update was signed.

"After finding in 2015 that as many as 307,000 veterans could have died waiting for care on Obama and Biden's watch, another 2017 VA Inspector General report found that President Obama created 'several barriers' to veterans receiving outside care," McEnany wrote in a statement. "President Trump fixed Obama's broken VA and offered actual, permanent choice to millions of veterans."

The Ruling

False.

Trump falsely took credit for passing the VA Choice Act several times during his term in office. The Choice Act was passed under Obama. Trump passed an update and expansion of that bill known as the Mission Act in 2018.

I'll expand on the way Trump has treated Veterans. Because of his hatred for John McCain, he has stated numerous times that John McCain isn't/wasn't a hero. Everyone knows that McCain was captured and tortured by the Viet Cong and spent years in prison. Trump told people that he doesn't like people who get caught. Trump's Daddy bought him a "Fake" deferment for bone spurs so he wouldn't have to go fight in Viet Nam while the rest of us got drafted because our Daddies weren't rich enough to buy us a deferment.

FUCK TRUMP! and FUCK YOU!

Stop flirting with me. I’m not gonna date you.

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paintbynumbers · 1 year

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Bernie Sanders on going viral: ‘There I was with my mittens on the moon, at the Last Supper, on the Titanic’

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 1 year

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Brazil's Lula to Meet With Bernie Sanders Ahead of Friday White House Visit

Sanders was an outspoken advocate for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's freedom when the fellow progressive was jailed on what critics called politically motivated corruption charges.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet Friday with Sen. Bernie Sanders as part of the recently inaugurated leftist leader's visit to the United States, his first official foreign trip.

According to a statement from his administration, da Silva—who defeated far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro in last October's runoff election—will meet with Sanders (I-Vt.) at Blair House in Washington, D.C. at 12:30 pm local time, five hours before President Joe Biden hosts Lula at the White House.

According toThe Hill, Biden "extended an invitation as a sign of support after Bolsonaro's supporters stormed the country's Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace" last month in an echo of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

Da Silva, who arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Thursday, is also scheduled to meet with Democratic members of Congress and representatives of the AFL-CIO union. He is accompanied on the trip by numerous members of his cabinet.

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #united states #us politics #luiz inacio lula da silva #bernie sanders #foreign policy #international politics #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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thesheel · 1 year

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"Look, I think I can work with Republican leadership in the House and the Senate...we can get things done...Once this president is no longer in office, I think you're going to see his impact on the body politic fade, and a lot of these Republicans are going to feel they've got much more room to run and cooperate." (Joe Biden) After the inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden will inherit a failed government with a severe economic crisis and deteriorated healthcare amid the coronavirus pandemic. But Democrats are so confident that Biden compromise with Republicans will make their way easy. Not only this, but he will also face the opposition, driven by Trump's ideology, who refused to accept the American mandate. The blind following of Trump by the Republicans is clear proof that they are not going to let the rhetoric of election fraud go. Joe Biden talked about unifying America as he reiterated that he is also ready to work with the GOP in the American interest. However, the Republican party, dominated by Donald Trump, believes that the election was illegal, and so does the president of the United States. Trusting Trump-led Republicans will be falsified and misled approach by the Biden administration, as doing so will only disappoint them later. It seems that Biden has established an optimistic tone toward Republicans responsible for the destruction of the United States during the four years of Trump's presidency. Despite pursuing Biden compromise and optimism, convincing Republican leaders who have not even admitted his win is a whole new challenge. More than 125 Republican congressmen sided with Trump in the recently filed Texas lawsuit. Similarly, only 26 Republicans have so far congratulated Biden for the election win. Amid all this, what will be the Republicans' approach to maintain a balance between their boss Trump and the Biden administration? How will they face the wrath of the Trump base, given that Trump is eyeing the 2024 presidential campaign? Is all the optimism of Joe Biden misguided, and will it backfire? Let's explore. An Optimistic Yet Falsified Ideology of Biden Compromise President-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will inherit a deeply divided country. American politics had decency in the past, which is no longer here, as the gap between Democrats and Republicans is growing unprecedently. The hate-driven politics pursued by Donald Trump damaged the country more than anything else. Similarly, the prevailing health crisis also depicts the falsified narrative of Donald Trump, which he propagated amid the coronavirus pandemic. The worrying part is that most Republicans believe that Trump did not do any harm to the country. Biden has pitched himself as a person who can compromise with the Republicans for the interest of America. The episode of the coronavirus stimulus package demonstrates how Republicans played politics to make Biden's presidency hard. Despite this, Biden compromise settled Democrats for a package of $900 billion instead of their initial demand of $2.2 trillion. His dream to bridge the gap has been termed unrealistic by progressive Democrats like Bernie Sanders, as they believe that GOP leaders cannot be trusted and should be kept away from governmental affairs. Owing to a rampant divide in both political ideologies, it isn't easy to anticipate the kind of bipartisan legislation that could be introduced. Climate change, for instance, will be a topmost priority of the Biden administration. However, Trump refuted it for a long time. Similarly, the foreign policy approaches of both parties also differ drastically. While Biden wants to expand the US role globally, Trump pursued cutting off America from the rest of the world. These extreme policy approaches evince that despite Biden compromise, it is not easy to bring Republicans to the table. How Republicans Will Backstab Biden: "Lindsey's been a personal disappointment because I was a personal f

riend of his." (Joe Biden) Lindsey Graham was an old Republican friend of Joe Biden. As Biden won the election, he did not even endorse the victory. Instead, he propagated the baseless claims of election fraud of Donald Trump. Biden expressed his disappointment, but there is a lesson hidden deep inside it. Leftists believe that compromising with the Republicans will make them realize that they should also join hands with Biden. They further voice that making them friends and urging social media outlets to take down hate-speech can bring people together. However, this remains highly debatable if such things could bring about any change to the MAGA-hat wearers who perceive Donald Trump as God. The 46th president of the United States can also pursue compelling the less polarized state governments to break the ice. Still, it will require a lot of effort, as Trump's base is spread all over the country, and any Republican compromise will make them angry. Many believe that if the Republicans try to speak sense, this will ease things. However, this is also a false notion, as the Republicans who accepted the election results were highly criticized not only by Donald Trump but also by his supporters. For instance, former Republican Senators Jeff Flake, Bob Croker, Senator Mitt Romney, and others who endorsed the election results faced the brunt of the Republicans. Similarly, Republican governors who did not support the Texas lawsuit were on the hit list of Donald Trump. Donald Trump took to social media and wrote, Who is a worse governor, Brian Kemp of Georgia or Doug Ducey of Arizona??? These are two RINO Republicans who fought against me and the Republican Party harder than any Democrat. They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen. Never forget, vote them out of office. (Donald Trump) The Republicans will even deny the conservative Supreme Court if it throws out the Trump campaign's baseless lawsuits against the 2020 elections. Fox News, a favorable channel for Republicans, also became the center point of the discussion recently, as they broke the news against Trump. Trump also criticized this media outlet, which had a massive contribution in his 2016 win, for speaking against him. Right-wing media channels, especially the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, need to portray the truth to make people aware of how Trump pursued the falsified narrative of election fraud. According to the annual report of the Public Religion Research Institute, Fox News has been working for decades to structure conservatism in American politics and shaping Republican partisan politics. The report also mentioned that in the last four years, Trump had used news channels as his personal platform to forge an insulated, radicalized movement making 40 percent of the Republicans immune to logical reasoning. So, even if Biden makes a lot of compromises, the change is not expected to come until media outlets voice a narrative that being on a common platform of Biden will bring benefits for the country. Remembering the Merrick Garland episode: Never Forget It seems that Joe Biden believes that the only radical individual in the Republican party is Donald Trump, as he said during his campaign trail, "The thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House." (Joe Biden) Yet history suggests otherwise. Donald Trump is just a pawn in a whole bigger system. In 2016, when Joe Biden was serving as the Vice President to Barak Obama, his many policies, and especially the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, were held hostage by the Republicans. Garland, a Harvard-educated Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals, was nominated for the Supreme Court by then-president Barack Obama. However, the Republican-dominated Senate declined to vote in his favor. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, the Senate President at that time, argued that the nominati

on belongs to the next president. Moreover, in a speech that year, Mitch McConnell recalled that it was the proudest moment of his life when he looked into the eyes of President Barack Obama and said that," Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy." McConnell also mentioned that the most important thing they wanted to achieve was to see President Barack Obama serving one term. Joining hands with Republicans will mean joining hands with Mitch McConnell, who will try his best not to let the Democrats serve two consecutive terms. Biden wants to mend the divide in American politics and re-establish the two-party system. Joe Biden even said during his presidential campaign in the Democratic primary that he could consider a Republican running mate. President-elect Joe Biden should remember his past with Republican lawmakers before entertaining them further. Republican lawmakers, in general, are to blame equally for the deep-divide in the country started by Trump. Trump could not have done anything without the support of the Republican lawmakers who endorsed all of his policies. All of the Republican lawmakers tried to be in his good books, just not to be criticized. Modern GOP, Just Another Name of the Old Beliefs There is no doubt that Biden will need cooperation from GOP lawmakers if they succeed in maintaining their Senate majority in the Georgia run-offs. Biden is committed to project his victory's credibility against the groundless claims of Donald Trump. There has been a conflicting tone of Biden concerning GOP leaders. He has criticized them for the Texas lawsuit, which would have invalidated nearly 20 million votes. Yet he has also said that the only thing wrong with GOP is Donald Trump, and he would be ready to work with GOP after Donald Trump. Many Democrats are now voicing their concerns that, if not stopped, the Republicans will seek to subvert every future election. Joe Biden should re-consider the possibility of reaching bipartisan agreements with the Republicans when they perceive him as an illegal president. Doing this will encourage them to continue playing on both sides and continuing this behavior in the future. Another important thing to consider regarding the modern GOP is the influence of the Trump base. Most of the Republican decisions are evaluated under their acceptance by the Trump base. It will not be wrong to say that Trump followers drive the modern GOP. Even if Biden ignores this fact and joins hands with Republicans, he will be ready to entertain the groups he always negated. Conclusion The deep divide in American politics, in recent years, is created by the radical policies of Donald Trump. The decency and honor that used to prevail in the country are now completely absent. Along with reviving the economy and saving the citizens from a pandemic, Biden has to bring the legislatures on a single platform. However, joining hands with GOP leaders to achieve peace should not be considered, as it will only disappoint him. While Biden's intentions are fair, too much optimism is bound to backstab. Many events decry that any such optimistic Biden compromise will only waste time, which America cannot afford in the times when the country is surrounded by unprecedented challenges.

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