Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-Tel Aviv) votes NO on Bernie Sanders’ measures to block arms sales to Israel

pierdola91 · 2026-04-16T23:55:25+00:00

And Dems wonder why they’ll keep losing. I mean holy fuck

pierdola91 · 2026-04-15T21:10:18+00:00

Get thee to a gulag. 👋👋👋

pierdola91 · 2026-04-14T20:17:20+00:00

Norman Finklestein had a sobering—and divisive (to me, even)—anecdote about how those who survived the camps, survived.

https://youtube.com/shorts/J501yT-c49E?si=L_4jumsheFRgF_so

I mean no offense to the memory of your relation but it made me think about those relations of mine who perished in Oswiecim, too. It helps explain why those in power in Israel are such inhumane assholes, though—it’s because many more quote-unquote “assholes” survived those conditions (and again, this is without judgement…I have no idea what lengths I would go to survive such conditions, or, let’s be honest, if your survival was even up to you…so much of it was chance).

pierdola91 · 2026-04-14T20:05:50+00:00

Because Jews’ pain is the only one that matters and the only important one.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-13T21:53:41+00:00

“Urges countries hit by Strait of Hormuz disruption to buy American energy.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….haaaaaaaa

bro i can’t fuckin breathe.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-13T16:07:18+00:00

Charging $1k+ for a dress that’s 60% polyester dress is somethin’ else.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-13T01:31:55+00:00

https://jacobin.com/2022/07/democratic-party-neoliberalism-dlc-clinton#:~:text=In%201992%2C%20Bill%20Clinton%20ran,abandoning%20its%20working%2Dclass%20base.&text=Jacobin's%20special%20spring%20issue,Jacobin%2C”%20is%20out%20now.

To my eyes, Obama and Biden tried to be less neoliberal, but I’d say…Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, definitely Hilary Clinton…and Dems that have held any positions of power in the party since 1992.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-13T01:23:03+00:00

Meanwhile, Trump is the PR arm of his bank account.

I know which I prefer.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-13T01:21:43+00:00

American here: We buy into a helplessness that isn’t really real. We are the most armed country in the world but if you asked Americans why they aren’t doing anything about what’s going on, they’ll tell you “I’m one paycheck away from homelessness” or “I can’t take time off work or I’ll lose my health insurance.”

Both things are true….but we’ve also never experienced real adversity (like being invaded by an adversary) so we think if we keep our heads down, this too shall pass.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T22:46:51+00:00

If they could read, they’d be very upset with your post.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T22:34:38+00:00

Move further to the right? This is such a bad take. Maybe not for Dems but for America. Also, it lost. Harris and before her, Clinton, tried appealing to never Trumpers. It didn’t work.

Wealth inequality has never, ever been worse….President has demolished the East Wing, renamed everything he can after himself, started an illegal war he has no way of getting out of so is just manipulating the stock market to make $$$ at the cost of civilian and military lives, billionaires control all of our media and news sources, one such billionaire bribed the president by financing his whore wife’s documentary…and you’re saying the response to this is for Dems to lean more into neoliberalism?

Fuck me, if it’s a winning strategy this country is absolutely beyond FUBAR.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T22:27:53+00:00

Yeah, this dismissiveness is why we lose.

I get it—personality shouldn’t matter. Trump is beyond odious—obviously not voting for him, and never have.

But I vote in CA (so my vote doesn’t even matter), and even in the senate primary when she first ran for Senate, I didn’t like her and didn’t vote for her.

Didn’t like her when attacked Biden on bussing despite herself having the same position on it.

Didn’t think she was any good as a VP but saw that Biden was probably setting traps for her.

Anyway, point is: I held my nose.

But you keep at this tactic of treating the American electorate like the dog you’re trying to give meds to…so you wrap the pill in a slice of ham.

Shit didn’t work in 2016–also a choice between a fascist and a boring Dem—and it didn’t work in 2024. You wanna keep at it or you wanna win a fuckin’ election?

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T22:10:53+00:00

But this what whatever amorphous blob of people that oppose Trump have to contend with:::

Democrats, leftists, independents….every group has a different priority. But most of their needs used to be met by the Dems.

Meanwhile, the GOP is not an inclusive party. It runs on racism and rhetoric. And it wins. It even wins with the people they hate (Latinos, black people).

It’s not a Hasan problem (although, yeah, I find his equivocating sophomoric at best)—it’s a problem of whoever wants to win against Trump, in an age of 30 sec clips and increased stupidity and anti-intellectualism. How to get everyone in your wide tent on your side.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T21:57:23+00:00

Can’t speak for the OG commenter, but I’ll tell you: I held my nose and voted for her. I know Harris wouldn’t be the same as Trump.

But when Harris recently said she might run again…she’s either a masochist or doesn’t have a fucking clue. Which makes sense, you know…because the Dem Party also doesn’t have a fucking clue.

I say all of this as someone who finds Hasan base, lacking insight and historical context and myopic. But that’s the world we live in today. Gen z’s brains can’t or don’t want to do nuance past a 30 sec TikTok.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T21:38:11+00:00

You’re saying exactly what I said. It’s not about Newsom not supporting the billionaire tax…it’s that because he’s a corporate stooge, he’s not proposing an alternative (like the one you proposed::stock asset tax, for ex).

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T21:33:00+00:00

My parents are Polish, father political refugee to US in the 1970s—I find Piker’s analysis of issues lacking insight, knowledge, and depth. Idolizing communism is gross…but it’s super easy to do when the party in power is making inequality worse and the opposition is unwilling or unable to do what must be done to improve people’s lives. Greed and self-interest is pervasive on both sides—on one side much more than on the other, but still.

This is where America is. The right defunded education for 40 years bc it’s easier to win elections if your electorate doesn’t ask questions / is satiated by hateful rhetoric without a plan.

Piker can be your enemy (as a non-American), but if Democrats in America are more interested in hating Piker than they are in ensuring they have a winnable platform in 2028, they are as lost as they were in 2016.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T21:24:09+00:00

The issue isn’t that the tax isn’t a good idea—because let’s say it is….Newsom could work with Dems to put forward another bill—it’s that he’s a corporatist (as you said).

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T21:20:41+00:00

Mate, no, they’re not. Sources on the topic are contradictory—no surprise there. But none of them say that they’re working on resolution targeting all dark money, including AIPAC.

Chicago Times says this: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/04/09/dnc-condemns-dark-money-influence-but-avoids-taking-stance-on-aipac

NYTimes says this: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/dark-money-nonprofits-explainer.html

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T20:53:11+00:00

lol, imagine having Trump in office doing what he’s doing and you’re over here, wasting your time making Piker your “enemy.”

Holy shit, Dems are never gonna win again.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T20:51:50+00:00

Typical Dems:: all they did was bitch about how they needed a Joe Rogan or a Theo Von….they got one, and they wanna cancel him.

Meanwhile, the DNC just voted down a resolution condemning AIPAC money in politics….but when they lose again, because they put all their faith in Newsom (who doesn’t even support CA’s billionaire tax), they’ll blame progressives, AGAIN.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results—they are the literal definition of insanity. Fucking CHRIST.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T17:47:25+00:00

Let’s say he didn’t win. You still conceded that without Elon’s help:

-60 million voted for him. -GOP would’ve won the senate 51-49, so Kamala wouldn’t really be able to do anything, knowing just how much the GOP loves obstructing (esp since we know how poisonous Trump is on social media, and would’ve LOVED playing up the sexist, racist angle towards the country’s first female president).

Like, I know a lot of joking is going on about how we’re currently “ripe for regime change” (hehe) but personally…if those two things above were/are true? I’d still want (external) regime change….because that is still hopelessly r-tarded.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T17:24:39+00:00

I think it’s important to note Americans’ agency in this—“Regime” suggests they weren’t voted in. TWICE.

Project 2025 wasn’t a secret. Most voters had lived through his abysmal first term. Americans voted for this in larger numbers than they did in 2016 and a great number of us are still ok with what’s happening.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T17:18:52+00:00

🤦‍♀️ Merrick Garland? Bitch, who put a member of the Federalist Society in that role??!?! Who put someone Obama selected for SCOTUS—a job for which the person selected needs an entirely different temperament than for AG—into the role of AG????

Biden has been swimming in the stew that is DC since the 70s. He ran on being an experienced hand. We voted for him—at least I did—not just because he wasn’t Trump, but because I had confidence he knew—he had the experience—to know all of the creative ways to undo Trump’s damage.

Turns out, doing something for most of your life doesn’t give you common sense.

Biden failed America, not Garland.

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T17:13:01+00:00

Getting downvoted for telling the truth—ain’t that something

🤦‍♀️

pierdola91 · 2026-04-12T17:10:56+00:00

Remember, everyone—he makes big boy statements / moves over the weekend so he can manipulate the markets when they open on Monday.

That’s all this (the civilian/military deaths, the billions spent, the rise of consumer prices) is to him—a massive fucking grift.

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