Bernie Sanders blasts Trump for federal loans and grants freeze: ‘He is not a king’
Bernie Sanders blasts Trump for federal loans and grants freeze: ‘He is not a king’
Senator denounces order to pause all funding and says it’ll have ‘devastating impact’ on ‘most vulnerable people’ in US
Summary
Senator Bernie Sanders condemned Trump’s order to freeze all federal loans and grants, calling it a “dangerous move towards authoritarianism” and “blatantly unconstitutional.”
The directive, exempting Social Security and Medicare, is expected to impact universities, nonprofits, food assistance programs, health centers, and disabled veterans.
Sanders emphasized that Congress holds the “power of the purse” and urged Americans to oppose the order.
Attorneys general are preparing legal challenges to overturn the freeze.
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Republicans, everyone who voted for him and everyone who decided to not vote or to vote for third parties all decided that he should be king.
Absolutely. There are also Dems in Congress/Senate that have been voting yea to his bills. It's disgusting.
"Yeah, every single Republican hates us and are openly corrupt, but like 2 Dems (usually caucusing Independents) are also bad."
Im confused, are we supposed to pretend that there aren’t also democrats that are voting for Trump initiatives? Because trying to remove accountability for that seems idiotic.
Drawing attention to the outliers that vote against party lines is something that is often done by concern trolls to argue both sides are the same and sow apathy for democrats. This is most noticeable around election time.
You may not be trying to do that but your comment resembles what they would say. Usually blaming all democrats for the actions of a few going against the party.
The Democrats (there's five or six of them) that are voting for Trumps insane bills need to be named and shamed. It doesn't have have anything to do with "both sides".
So name those Democrats instead of painting the whole party with the same brush as the Republicans
I never said all of them. You're way over reacting. The ones that are voting for the bills are easily found on the gov site that documents bills.
The comment you replied to literally says five or six of them.
Here's me naming and shaming them:
https://lemm.ee/post/53639210Notice it's not the entire party like you dumbly assume for some reason.
I can see how your first comment would be construed as if there was a way more significant number of them. While you don't call out a number or say most/all/whatever, its so general that it could be read as implying many of them. A quick edit could clear that up for others.
The Democrats (there’s five or six of them)
I can see how your first comment would be construed as if there was a way more significant number of them
The Democrats (there’s five or six of them)
Which part of 5 or 6 is confusing you?
The number is 6. Is that even more confusing ? Was it because I wrote the words instead of the number? How few Democrats do you think are in the party?
Fetterman (D-PA), Yea
Hassan (D-NH), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Yea
Kim (D-NJ), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Slotkin (D-MI), Yea^Incase you don't want to click on a simple link.
Dude. Tone it the fuck down.
I'm not the same person, I'm explaining your wording from your first comment could be misunderstood. Which, I will remind you, in its entirety:
Absolutely. There are also Dems in Congress/Senate that have been voting yea to his bills. It's disgusting.
So stop behaving like a dick please. At no point in THAT comment, which is what I said, did you say a number.
If you don't want those laws to pass, vote and vocally support parties in a way that opposes Republicans. Shitting on Dems in this context will give us: fuck all, jack shit, and a real bad time.
Republicans don't shit on themselves and each other over all the horrible stuff they do. They celebrate it. And that strategy is winning against us.
Im not American, I’m just looking on in shock and horror at your two party system and the justifications you all seem to give your favourite team honestly.
If you're not here to support the solution to the problem then fuck off, you're not helping.
Yeah I’ll fuck off about your dumb ass countries politics when you stop trying to imperialize mine. The liberal do-nothingness that’s plagued your country is a bullshit attitude that is now affecting my country, and im not going to sit here and pretend it doesn’t piss me off.
And there it is! The both-sides-bad anti-liberal argument you always hear from a Tankie who probably supported Trump from the start.
I'm curious what you do to support the solution, other than keyboard warrior.
Voting dem is the solution, I support voting dem.
Dems introduce bills for public healthcare, campaign finance laws, and taxing the rich. Get 60 dems in office, and keep them there for when the tax laws expire again (we just lost this cycle) and everything will fall into place.
I agree with you
Im not understanding what you're trying to say. There are five or so Democrats voting for Trumps antics. And yes, all the Republicans vote down the line, that's what they do.
I'm trying to say we need to support Democrats unconditionally if we want anything to improve. Any Democrat is better than Any Republican.
Whats your example on 5?
Support democrats unconditionally? You’ve lost your fucking mind.
Any Democrat is better than Any Republican.
No
Democrats: Campaign Finance Laws, Tax the Rich, Saving the Planet, Medical for All, Nobody is Above the Law, Keeping Peace in the Middle East, Standing Up Against Hostile Dictators
Republicans: Destroy Academics, Pregnant Child Brides, Bribes are Good, POTUS is a King, OIL OIL OIL OIL, Putin's their Friend, Cut Taxes for the Rich and Raise for Everyone Else
It shouldn't even be a contest and yet somehow here we are.
In optimization problems where you are trying to find the minimum or maximum, you can get stuck in a local valley/crest where one option looks better than any other nearby options but if you move far enough away, you start getting even better options.
There is no middle option until after we let progressive reform happen.
This isn't an optimization algorithm. This is dog training. Two thirds the dogs are taught lies and one third left to fend for themselves, and the lies are more effective.
The DNC wants to pass all the reforms we want to see, but we're being taught the opposite is true and never giving them enough votes to make it happen.
Any American politician that helps your country fall or divide is better for the rest of the world.
I called it, you're a Trump supporter.
The USA is at the helm of NATO, which protects the majority of the worlds democracies from the two largest militaristic expansionist dictatorships of the world China and Russia.
The fall of the USA will herald the darkest and most cruel point in human history, with more total suffering of people based on status than has ever occurred, if we're not already experiencing it now.
Lol im absolutely not a trump supporter but go ahead and do whatever the brain worms tell you to do you dumb fuck. Americans just have zero idea of how much pain and suffering their country causes the rest of the world.
They hated Jesus because he spoke the truth
Supporting democrats unconditionally was what brought you guys into this mess in the first place lmao 🤣
100% this. He's going to operate as a king, and remove anyone in his way that disagrees. He will take every concession afforded to him by the spineless Republican party and some spineless Dems also.
Many people that voted for Bernie in 2016 voted for Trump in 2024. Many people eople who voted for Trump in 2024 also voted for AOC down ballot.
The Democratic party has basically made every single mistake they could possibly make in the last 8 years. To lost to fuckin Trump not once but twice is fuckin embarrassing.
Let's see if they learn anything by 2028. I doubt they will but here's to hoping.
I'm hoping the voters will learn again by 2028 if there are any left.
Yeah the Neolibs would rather burn the country down than lose power.
We need a new leftist party that isn't the Democrats.
The leftists were the ones who back Trump to own the libs.
Hopefully they realize their mistake for the next election.
Nice Strawman,
Now let's see Paul Allen's
Trump is full of McDonald’s not straw.
I'm pretty sure that people who didn't vote or voted for other candidates didn't decide he should be king, kind of by definition.
Nah they saw the choices and didn't care to participate in any meaningful way so they can't just wash their hands of the choice they made.
"If you don't want to eat your vegetables, then you can go to bed without dinner. Which do you want, vegetables or bed?"
"I WANT ICE CREAM!"
"That's it! GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
"I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THIS!"
This is the perfect analogy
Little did he know, there was a mini fridge at the room stocked with ice cream
And also an ICE squad, for extra care
I mean, Harris got more votes than Biden did in the majority of the swing states. It's okay to lay the blame squarely on the people who, you know, actually chose Trump.
It’s okay to lay the blame squarely on the people who, you know, actually chose Trump.
And I did, along with the other people who are to blame.
Well that's not squarely then.
Trapezoidal
To quote rush
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice \ if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice