Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Some media outlets are now passing around the idea of slandering Bernie Sanders as anti-Semitic.
 
Uh, Bernie is jewish. And he had relatives who died in the holocaust.

Whenever it comes to funding social safety nets or beneficial programs, you’ll have critics screaming “HOW ARE YOU GONNA PAY FOR IT!!!!1!1” before you even finish your sentence. When it comes to paying the Military Industrial Complex, they find a way to pay for more than the contractors even ask for. Bernie calls them out for exactly that in the latest Pentagon Budget bill.

@igotnopicks  

 
We do, but the Republicans in the Senate won’t act on it.

Only a Republican can state blasphemy of this level and truly believe it.
 
Like a day after Trump said he had it worse than the Salem Witch Trials no less.

We need more media in cartoons, games, and movies which involves themes of taking back the wealth stolen from normal people by the rich.
 
Seriously, fuck the elite and their cronies in Government positions.

@CaptainXtra  

 
You might be looking for Means TV.

@CaptainXtra  
Might I recommend 1973’s Robin Hood? It’s the furry one.
 
Although…  

@CaptainXtra  
Joker?

@Lord Goku  

Well if that’s the way you want to run with it, the caption should actually be that he was fighting against a petty, childish, incompetent, and thoroughly corrupt ruler who abused his power and exploited the poor all to indulge his own greed and self interest.
 
After all, the taxes on the poor was only an issue because of the corrupt leader. Him and the thugs he empowered to collect them. Once they had all been removed from power and an actual leader put in place instead, things got better.

@Lord Goku
 
When the story of Robin Hood was conceived, there was no distinction between “big government” and “big business”. Business was sanctioned by the crown, and wealth concentrated through tithes, taxes, and levees.
 
There is no 1 to 1 modern equivalent for a “villain” for Hood. It is better to say that he battled “corruption” in its totality. Represented as one force back then, but is multiple forces now.

@Zincy  

 
Capitalist forces aren’t eternal. It may be more fitting to say that based on the structures and relationships of feudalism he was fighting landlords. All the land was the king’s land and everyone paid rent to the king for it, some more than others. As farmers without land of their own, serfs and peasants paid their rent for being on the land in the form of a share of their produce for it, and not for their own consumption or sale.
 
Robin Hood is a Maoist parable confirmed.

@CaptainXtra  
In the sci-fi category, two films from this decade come to my mind: Andrew Niccol’s In Time (which has a pretty clever setup where genetical engineering has stopped the aging process at 25, but time is used as currency and running out of it means dropping dead — which often happens to the poor, who literally live one day at a time, while the rich have centuries or even millenia at their disposal) and Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (where the poor are piling up in squalor on the surface of an overcrowded, derelict Earth around which orbits a space station where the rich notably have miraculous life-saving medical technology they’re selfishly hoarding for themselves).
 
Tangentially, there’s also Spielberg’s Ready Player One, where the main antagonist works for a big tech company intent on merchandising the freeware virtual reality platform that’s the only source of freedom for people seeking escape from a real world that has gone to shit (and which culminates with a ranged virtual battle between his forces of corporate drones and ordinary users rising in rebellion — and who end up defending the heroes IRL as well). Oddly enough, while big business must’ve somehow managed to repeal or circumvent the 13th amendment sometime by the 2040s, since putting indebted users in a lifetime of indentured servitude is apparently a common practice of theirs, they seem to have failed to buy out the police, who ends up arresting the big bad at the end.

The dumbest concept ever uttered was “American Exceptionalism”.
 
Declaring exceptionalism to a fluid state is in and of itself unexceptional. Because it means you are not open to improvement.

Dems are about to be cucked by the senate

@Commune  
Interesting view you have…

@CaptainXtra  
What are the concrete chances for a solid third of Republican senators to suddenly look beyond their partisanism and do the right thing? They’re the same pieces of shit who voted in rapist Brett Kavanaugh as a US justice.

Gonna give out a random hot take here.
 
I don’t like Trump overall, but if there’s one thing I agree with him on, it’s his protectionist trade policies. Open border free trade is part of what’s screwing us over, I think tariffs and protectionism are needed. Damn right I love trade wars.

If I’m correct, the House just voted to give Trump the Boot.
 
Of course we all know how the Senate will react to that…

Welcome Trump you are now the third president impeached.

@Dustcan  
Not that I’m saying he is, but I believe those categories have greater than zero overlap.

Trump has officially become the third president to be impeached, following in the footsteps of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. The House voted for 2 charges and both passed with Abuse of Power getting 230-197 and Obstruction of Congress getting 229-198.
 
I’m not finding any breakdown of how many of those are Dem or Rep votes.

Rip in pepperoni Orange Man

All I can gather is that a single Republican voted yes on one charge but no on the other. And Tulsi Gabbard voted “Present” on both.
 
Good thing she’s no longer in the race.

@Lord Hypno  
Except neither Johnson nor Clinton got successfully convicted by the senate (Johnson’s failed by one vote while Clinton’s didn’t even get an absolute majority; each time, not a single Democratic senator dared voting against either), and it’d take a miracle that’s not likely to happen (judging by the vote tally, next to none of the Republican representatives jumped party lines to charge their executive leader) to go another way for Trump either.

Pelosi is saying she might delay sending the Impeachment charges over to the Senate until McTurtle promises to hold a fair trial.
 
I am this close to giving her a compliment for once. But the ball’s still in her court so she can still bungle it.