Bernie Sanders breaks from Biden and Blinken to support ICC’s arrest warrant request

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/21/bernie-sanders-icc-arrest-netanyahu-support/73785126007/

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  2. Should’ve broken a week in when it was obvious this was going to be a second Nakba. But, better late than never.

  5. Headline: “Biden is fucking up w/ regards to Israel”

    The comments in this sub: “Outrageous! Send this post straight to heck!! Mods, why is this outlet whitelisted???”

    Headline: “Bernie Sanders says Biden is fucking up w/ regards to Israel”

    This sub: … well, shit.

  6. Genuinely wanna know what it is that makes the rest of the Dems such loyal toadies. Is the AIPAC money so great that they’d risk potentially losing the White House over it?

  7. Not once, but twice, a pro war shrivelled neoliberal was chosen over this man who rarely misses.

  8. Biden supporting the arrest of Netanyahu will make Netanyahu bomb fewer people.

    A claim not in evidence. You people just want to hear things you want to hear, and Bernie, as always, is happy to oblige.

  9. He doesn’t need. or even want, a teat to suck on, so can say the things we all know

  10. Bernie’s always on the just side of morality. Not always on the politically popular side, but god damn, he’s never as far as I can tell, been on the wrong side of history. Go back 20-40-60 years he was always on the moral side of an issue.

  11. I really fucking wish Biden would follow Bernie’s example. It is time for profiles in courage. This is the only way the thoroughly fucked situation in Palestine can be resolved. The UK (forever responsible for the absolute nastiest colonisation crimes) shat the bed snd condemned an entire population (the Palestinians) to genocide at the hands of Jews. There is simply *no way* the world will simply forget that. There has been a genocide, violence, rape, and an entire population has been put through the meat grinder for two thirds of a goddamn century. That level of criming should never be forgotten.
    And it will not. Mark my reddit words…

  13. Oh, Bernie, you’re the one that got away. ❤️💕

  14. Good. Biden should be fucking embarrassed by the way he and his administration have conducted themselves today. It’s a disgrace.   

    If the ICC and other respected bodies come back and rule that Israel is indeed conducting a genocide (which, by all accounts, they *are*), then that idiot is serving Trump to us on a silver platter in November.    

    Regardless of how much of a fool Trump is, or how much worse he would be for Gaza, there’s just no media campaign in the world that can save a candidate who willingly covers themselves in the radioactive waste of that word. It’s electoral suicide in front of the lower information, undecided voters who will see hit ads showing nothing but his undying support for it.

  16. Fucking hypocrisy coming from America and Biden, America one of the founding fathers of the ICC after the Second World War to hold nations accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This same country along with despot countries run by dictators and Israel didn’t sign on to it, no wonder when one looks at Americas wars and Guantanamo and Iraq episodes. Best America keeps its mouth shut about the ICC, and I sincerely hope the ICC continues unabated and unafraid of Americas and Israel’s threats.

  18. It seems to be completely bypassed that ICC is also charging the Israeli defense minister as well as 2-3 Hamas leaders. These are the people doing war crimes and the civilian population is caught in the middle.

  20. Cool. You know what I wish Senator Sanders would spend his time doing instead of weighing in on foreign policy? Setting up his successor.

    Because for some fucking reason this 82-year-old man who has already had a heart attack is, in 2024, running for ANOTHER six year term. And he’s doing this while the governor of his state is a Republican. When he eventually dies in office (as he’s seemingly determined to do), he’s going to be replaced by a Republican appointed by Governor Phil Scott. This is literally a slow-moving RBG all over again. His decision to try to ‘stay relevant’ is probably going to end up costing Democrats the Senate down the road.

    The only reason he doesn’t care is because, as he’s always made perfectly clear, he doesn’t give a single fuck about the the Democratic party. However, in the face of his reckless disregard for stopping the Republican takeover of this country, I’m not sure he gives a single fuck about anything besides himself.

    *(I have exactly zero sympathy for these public figures who put their own self-interest ahead of literally tens or hundreds of millions of the people they represent. RBG literally killed thousands of women when she decided not retire in 2010 because she liked being a bit a celebrity for progressives and, with the Senate majority as tight as it is today, Sanders is lining up to do this shit all over again.)*

  21. I appreciate Bernie Sanders courage and principles. He is truly one of a kind in Washington DC. There should be many more like him.

  22. Shows guts, doesn’t just cater to the latest poll

  23. To think, if America hadn’t screwed the pooch. We could have had this man as president.

  25. If we did everything Bernie suggests, the world would be a better place.

  26. Thank god for Bernie. Biden is going to pay a huge price for blindly playing this horror down the political middle. US credibility is forever damaged in exchange for supporting the crimes committed by the Israeli state.

  27. But he wouldn’t dare match that energy with Xi or Maduro or Un or Khamenei, real human right violators of millions… which is why he has 0 credibility to lead the country imo. And that’s a shame because his statements on the economy are true but so off touch with this

  28. Bernie Sanders, knows what’s up.

    Biden’s inability to support the ICC is absolutely damaging for his ability to get re-elected as his own base involves a lot of ethically conscious voters who have so far, been extremely let down with the responsibility of their American taxpayer dollars.

    They will vote for someone like Jill Stein to keep in touch with their own ethical values & that argument of “your third party vote is going to support Trump” isn’t going to land in the way that you think it will.

  29. If Sanders was president I think he actually would pick an AG that would investigate Thomas and others for corruption and force them to resign. 

    Instead Biden uses executive power to go after the ICC while protecting the Republican Court

  30. Bernie is consistently the voice of reason, problem is no one will listen to him

  31. I like this man, he is the gold nugget in a pile of crap.

  32. The only politician in Washington with any balls and with any actual conscience.

  33. The US doesn’t even recognise the ICC. It would be unprecedented if POTUS sided with an international organisation the authority of which his own country does not even recognise. There’s just no way that’s going to happen.

  34. Netanyahu is already running from the law. But an international court, that’s somehow too much.

  35. Our entire political cabinet is a joke right now.  

    While Bernie may be right, if democrats cant get behind Biden over *Israel* then how can they expect the people to vote for him? 

  37. It would certainly be an interesting trial. I don’t like Netanyahu, but he’ll look like a saint next to Sinwar.

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