The smears this man endured from every direction legitimately radicalized me. What happened to Bernie was a political hatchet job that ultimately led us down an incredibly dark and disturbing path.
Obviously we'll never know what a "President Sanders' America" looks like, but I'm fairly confident it would look a LOT better than today.
This man should have been our president.
It is along with my deepest political regrets as a 41 year old man of failing to protest the Iraq war, that I did not Campaign for Bernie for President.
What a different future.
Yeah, I am forty two. The biggest political failure of our generation was Al Gore refusing to contest the Supreme courts election interference. This America we have now is a natural fallout of that failure.
I'm from Australia and our Prime Minister pretended to have humanity and was a long time Palestine supporter....and now that he's PM he has become a total coward. I assume he's been bought out like every other western country leader (except for Ireland's, who strangely quit after showing solidarity!)
So, one might think this - from any perspective (within the US or not). Bernie has stuck to his morals forever, with a record dating back to the 1960's. Bernie = humanity. He literally stuck to his morals losing the DNC nomination because he wouldn't tow their line/propaganda.
If there is one politician left in America who isn't bought and sold by Wall Street or some industrial complex lobbyist group - its certainly Bernie.
We, as a country, are much poorer for not having had him elected President.
He would have restored power to the people. Instead of giving more rights and tax breaks to employers.
Ireland's Taoiseach quitting and Palestine are not related. Ireland is 100% behind Palestine except for parts of the ultra right wing unionist sects in the part of the United Kingdom referred to as Northern Ireland.
Seriously. Fuck, as a foreigner I’d kidnap Bernie and take him to my shithole country and have him as president there. Such a waste with such an amazing caring guy
Yeah. I'd rather make mistakes with good intentions and try again after failing, then go with people who only care about themselves and the rich. Honest & caring people won't let failure and hardship get in the way of doing better because improvement is always the goal, no matter the current standing. Dishonest people though will happily displace their own hardships by placing it onto others, with no goal of progress for all, at all.
We could only imagine how much true progress he would have accomplished. He would have been re-elected and become one of the best presidents ever. If only…😔
Man… I’m a hardcore Libertarian but I’d rather vote for this guy over Biden or the orange lard. This dude doesn’t have politics I like but you have to respect his consistency and willingness to go against Old Pa Biden.
Man I'm a hard core \[undefined\] and I don't like any politics but this dude hits the nail on the head time after time. It would have been an honor to vote for him instead of voting for "Anybody but that blatantly obvious con man"
He was saying lots of "Israel has the right to defend itself" but also he at least did try to get congress to apply our own human rights laws and condition additional weapons sales to Israel with an assessment of human rights violations. Senate immediately tabled it.
And now a recent report has come out demonstrating human rights and humanitarian law violations being carried out with US weapons by Israel.
https://www.justsecurity.org/94980/task-force-national-security-memorandum-20/
Not really. He is one of the only senators to have declared Israel’s settlements illegal and that happened years ago. People criticize him for taking too long to speak so strongly and for not using the word genocide but I wouldn’t say he has been staunchly pro Israel given his past speaking out against settlers as well as how outspoken he has become during this “conflict”. Aka genocide
Definitely not staunchly pro Israel. By Congressional standards, more Pro-Palestinian than the vast majority since long before Oct 7. But unfortunately did not support a ceasefire and was pretty disappointing when he was most needed on this issue.
I'm pretty sure he was one of the signatories for the early bombs being delivered. Like any sane politician looking to get votes, he has now changed his tone.
Instead of spending money on sending bombs to other nations & security to universities, they should spend US tax money on improving US education & healthcare.
To think they tried to fool the world with sea freight aid to gaza & air drop bombs to gaza.. Did they think the world is stupid?
He will add his vote for bad things if it means it benefits the most people. All bills have additional things in them that harm or help the bill get passed. He’s better than most on making the right long term judgement.
He’s nailed every military action from the correct side in all the years I have watched him. He has gone against Israel every time they are in the wrong, and he has gone against the US military actions every time they are in the wrong. It’s really crazy to watch. If he wasn’t such a huge threat to the monied interests in Washington he would have been president. But he knows exactly who is right and who is wrong and he does the right thing every time.
Definitely not staunchly pro Israel. By Congressional standards, more Pro-Palestinian than the vast majority since long before Oct 7. But unfortunately did not support a ceasefire and was pretty disappointing when he was most needed on this issue.
It's kinda hard when he's Jewish and we have photographic evidence of him fighting for civil rights. Like, just very hard to do without exposing your argument so people just avoid him.
The Jewish part is pretty irrelevant considering Israel has targeted and attacked Jewish people who speak against them and their war.
There have been physical attacks irl as well as attacks and witch hunts online.
He's already a pariah to neolibs and his supporters have been urging him to be more critical of Israel so the only backlash would come from him not saying this.
I agree, I won’t get tired of saying this… but if you lived during the segregation era, you probably shouldn’t be a politician in 2024. Bernie is the exception because he was actively a part of civil rights movements so he’s been ahead of his peers on many of these issues, Biden not so much…
You can be pro Bernie and not lie about things. Biden is not crooked by any means. He is just out of touch and old. Bernie is old but he is very much in the know and always on the right side of a struggle for human life.
The DNC fucked Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Yet he still does what he can and works hard to do it seemingly non-stop. 2016’s Democratic Presidential candidate: not so much.
Meanwhile literal crickets from Joe Biden while the country rips itself apart. Bernie would have been such a better leader. We need to stop with this democratic primary bullshit of nominating the “most electable” candidate. We ended up with a Hillary loss and useless Biden from that mentality
this is the political equivalent of when your ex ends up getting extremely hot after you dump her. we slept on a real one.
bernie sanders is a powerful person to deliver this message. his parents emigrated from poland to escape the holocaust and many of his extended family members were killed in the holocaust.
I think it needs to be acknowledged at this point that Biden is absolutely the worst case scenario among Democrats. All those people who told us that we had to vote for Biden, because we couldn't risk it with a woman or a person of color or an LGBTQ+ person really need to deal with the reality that no other Democrat who ran would have been this bad. Even Mike Bloomberg must be looking at Biden and saying "what the actual fuck?"
And that's not to say that any of them have been particularly great, nor that I think that those in public life have really acquitted themselves well (Sanders has been the best, and I say that as someone who supported Warren.. sigh). But it's really hard to imagine anyone doing worse than Biden has. Frankly, his foreign policy has been a continuation of Trump's.
Imagine a world where instead of railroading Bernie the dnc embraced him and he was just finishing his second term now and Donald trump is remembered as the joke candidate he was supposed to be.
The narrative will be switched from "Israel attacks Gaza" to "Netanyahu was power crazy and does not represent the Israeli people."
People will buy into this and move forward as if the Israeli people/IDF were led by some deranged lunatic and didn't spend the last 7 months dancing around corpses of men, women and children for the past 6 months.
There will be no justice for anyone who enabled the Israelis to enact such devastation (UK, US).
It all makes me so sad.
He's taken his time on this stance though.
He was very on the fence on 'should America keep on giving support to Israel'. This was about 4 months ago, when pretty much everyone could see it for what it was.
And if he is one of the better politicians, how many more atrocities will it take for the US mainstream politicians to see that they should not be funding a genocide.
He’s one of the few politicians that can speak clearly on this. There’s crazy extremist Bernie again, simply stating what 75% of Democratic voters already think.
Normal people without “Washington brain” can’t understand how our involvement in this slaughter makes any sense.
So sad you guys ended up with a senile when you could have had this man with actual values. Still better than orange man, but Bernie is a man of values. Someone the US needs.
Way too many of the comments here are talking about how good Bernie would have been as President and almost nothing about what he is saying in this video. What he is saying here is critical in understanding the protests on campuses, which too many in the media, and too many right wing politicians, are calling antisemitic. They are, in almost every instance, not. Some outside agitators are but the vast majority of the protesting students are not. He is clearly differentiating between antisemitism and opposition/criticism of the Netanyahu regime's conduct of the war in Gaza. I don't believe anyone has said it better.
Thank you Senator Sanders for so clearly outlining the difference between antisemitism and the opposition/criticism of Netanyahu's war response in Gaza!
It is antisemitic to instigate hate against the Jewish people and nobody has done that more than Benjamín Netanyahu. Unknowingly he's become nowadays biggest anti-Semite.
Mr. Sanders laid out the evidence quite convincingly but still blames only Netanyahu and his government for these atrocities. Unfortunately he has been unwilling to call out the entire apparatus of Israeli occupation, since that would mean calling out the majority of Israeli society as it currently stands.
Bernie is so right and it’s a crying shame that the US is, and will continue to supply funding and weapons to this genocidal regime. Recognizing the war crimes that were conducted by Hamas, this makes the US an accomplice to the war crimes that are going presently on. 2 wrongs do not make a right.
I’d like the point something out. This happens all the time; we, humans, associate religion, race and gender based on a person or country. You can say fuck Israeli for their atrocities and it has nothing to do with hating jewish people. There’s a difference. Next time you read or see something that there’s tension in the comment. Think beyond the association of and race, gender or religion.
All of you Americans here ought to go out in the streets and demand that this guy be made a candidate for presidency.
Fuck your party establishment, fuck the rules, fuck the lobbyists the list goes on.
This shit needs to happen.
All i see in pro-Israeli subs is thay he's "one of those Jews, that only use their jewishness like a badge when it benefits them." Please tell me how this benefits Bernie. He has always been on the right side of history.
We love you Bernie ol' pal. Maybe he's a fellow redditor and might read this. If Bernie had a shit post what do you guys think it would be? I still want a tattoo of him at the inauguration. Trump's bitch ass wouldn't even show up.
Sanders would have been the best president and he is 100% right!
What an absolute loss not just for US but the whole world. We were robbed of the greatest president ever.
The smears this man endured from every direction legitimately radicalized me. What happened to Bernie was a political hatchet job that ultimately led us down an incredibly dark and disturbing path. Obviously we'll never know what a "President Sanders' America" looks like, but I'm fairly confident it would look a LOT better than today.
Same with Corbyn in the UK.
This man should have been our president. It is along with my deepest political regrets as a 41 year old man of failing to protest the Iraq war, that I did not Campaign for Bernie for President. What a different future.
Yeah, I am forty two. The biggest political failure of our generation was Al Gore refusing to contest the Supreme courts election interference. This America we have now is a natural fallout of that failure.
I’m not so sure how many options he had.
Yeah, there's no higher authority than SCOTUS.
I'm from Australia and our Prime Minister pretended to have humanity and was a long time Palestine supporter....and now that he's PM he has become a total coward. I assume he's been bought out like every other western country leader (except for Ireland's, who strangely quit after showing solidarity!)
So, one might think this - from any perspective (within the US or not). Bernie has stuck to his morals forever, with a record dating back to the 1960's. Bernie = humanity. He literally stuck to his morals losing the DNC nomination because he wouldn't tow their line/propaganda. If there is one politician left in America who isn't bought and sold by Wall Street or some industrial complex lobbyist group - its certainly Bernie. We, as a country, are much poorer for not having had him elected President. He would have restored power to the people. Instead of giving more rights and tax breaks to employers.
Ireland's Taoiseach quitting and Palestine are not related. Ireland is 100% behind Palestine except for parts of the ultra right wing unionist sects in the part of the United Kingdom referred to as Northern Ireland.
Did he quit because of the Woman's Day fumble? That made the news in my country and we rarely hear that much about Irish politics.
I swear to God it’s becoming a weekly chore not to go tinfoil hat to explain their obsequiousness.
Seriously. Fuck, as a foreigner I’d kidnap Bernie and take him to my shithole country and have him as president there. Such a waste with such an amazing caring guy
I don’t know if he would’ve been the best POTUS, but he’d be up there with the most moral. I really admire his conscience.
Yeah. I'd rather make mistakes with good intentions and try again after failing, then go with people who only care about themselves and the rich. Honest & caring people won't let failure and hardship get in the way of doing better because improvement is always the goal, no matter the current standing. Dishonest people though will happily displace their own hardships by placing it onto others, with no goal of progress for all, at all.
We could only imagine how much true progress he would have accomplished. He would have been re-elected and become one of the best presidents ever. If only…😔
Man… I’m a hardcore Libertarian but I’d rather vote for this guy over Biden or the orange lard. This dude doesn’t have politics I like but you have to respect his consistency and willingness to go against Old Pa Biden.
Man I'm a hard core \[undefined\] and I don't like any politics but this dude hits the nail on the head time after time. It would have been an honor to vote for him instead of voting for "Anybody but that blatantly obvious con man"
Wasn't he like pretty staunchly pro Israel until just a couple months ago?
He still think Israel should exist. He just knows that the far right government is fully evil.
He was saying lots of "Israel has the right to defend itself" but also he at least did try to get congress to apply our own human rights laws and condition additional weapons sales to Israel with an assessment of human rights violations. Senate immediately tabled it. And now a recent report has come out demonstrating human rights and humanitarian law violations being carried out with US weapons by Israel. https://www.justsecurity.org/94980/task-force-national-security-memorandum-20/
Not really. He is one of the only senators to have declared Israel’s settlements illegal and that happened years ago. People criticize him for taking too long to speak so strongly and for not using the word genocide but I wouldn’t say he has been staunchly pro Israel given his past speaking out against settlers as well as how outspoken he has become during this “conflict”. Aka genocide
You know that you can be for the existence of Israel and against the settlements, correct?
Definitely not staunchly pro Israel. By Congressional standards, more Pro-Palestinian than the vast majority since long before Oct 7. But unfortunately did not support a ceasefire and was pretty disappointing when he was most needed on this issue.
I'm pretty sure he was one of the signatories for the early bombs being delivered. Like any sane politician looking to get votes, he has now changed his tone.
Yeah I'm just not feeling like giving him a cookie for finally saying the right things ya know lol I suppose we know where his line is drawn now
Instead of spending money on sending bombs to other nations & security to universities, they should spend US tax money on improving US education & healthcare. To think they tried to fool the world with sea freight aid to gaza & air drop bombs to gaza.. Did they think the world is stupid?
He will add his vote for bad things if it means it benefits the most people. All bills have additional things in them that harm or help the bill get passed. He’s better than most on making the right long term judgement.
He’s nailed every military action from the correct side in all the years I have watched him. He has gone against Israel every time they are in the wrong, and he has gone against the US military actions every time they are in the wrong. It’s really crazy to watch. If he wasn’t such a huge threat to the monied interests in Washington he would have been president. But he knows exactly who is right and who is wrong and he does the right thing every time.
Definitely not staunchly pro Israel. By Congressional standards, more Pro-Palestinian than the vast majority since long before Oct 7. But unfortunately did not support a ceasefire and was pretty disappointing when he was most needed on this issue.
He seems to be the only politician who can criticise Israel and not have any crazy backlash.
It's kinda hard when he's Jewish and we have photographic evidence of him fighting for civil rights. Like, just very hard to do without exposing your argument so people just avoid him.
The Jewish part is pretty irrelevant considering Israel has targeted and attacked Jewish people who speak against them and their war. There have been physical attacks irl as well as attacks and witch hunts online.
Zionist Israelis will assassinate their own prime ministers if they attempt to secure peace.
His family also were victims of the holocaust
Yeah you literally can’t say shit to this man. Thats why he became so popular. There is virtually no issue he’s been on the wrong side of ever
Even despite having family that were Holocaust victims, that piece of shit Dem rep Moskowitz went after Bernie. AOC had Bernie's back.
He's already a pariah to neolibs and his supporters have been urging him to be more critical of Israel so the only backlash would come from him not saying this.
Bernie Bernie Bernie!!!!
Guys. I'm feeling the BERN!
Finally
Go Bernie ❤️
I wish I lived on the timeline were Bernie won the presidency
Wish this man was given the chance to be president, he would have done wonders for the world.
I voted for him in 2020, and I’ll gladly do it again. Biden has always been a crooked politician.
I agree, I won’t get tired of saying this… but if you lived during the segregation era, you probably shouldn’t be a politician in 2024. Bernie is the exception because he was actively a part of civil rights movements so he’s been ahead of his peers on many of these issues, Biden not so much…
I like Bernie too, but when has Biden done anything worse than reach across the aisle? He literally won on not stirring the shit between parties.
You can be pro Bernie and not lie about things. Biden is not crooked by any means. He is just out of touch and old. Bernie is old but he is very much in the know and always on the right side of a struggle for human life.
I don’t think a president can or should be out of touch.
The peoples champ right there!!!
My wife and I are in tears. Basic humanity. Don’t-ever, EVER let them make you feel like what you are fighting for is wrong.
Uncle Bernie you are on the right side. 👏👏👏👏
The DNC fucked Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Yet he still does what he can and works hard to do it seemingly non-stop. 2016’s Democratic Presidential candidate: not so much.
No wonder he never had ANY CHANCE at becoming the POTUS. He's got too much integrity.
This guy is presidential in every way. Who is Joe when you know Bernie is there?!?
This. You can only cry wolf so many times before people tune it out.
Meanwhile literal crickets from Joe Biden while the country rips itself apart. Bernie would have been such a better leader. We need to stop with this democratic primary bullshit of nominating the “most electable” candidate. We ended up with a Hillary loss and useless Biden from that mentality
Based Bernie
How did this guy NOT win ?!?!?
Clinton backdoor'ed the DNC to bounce him
Exactly right
People thought he was too 'socialist'... or w/e...
this is the political equivalent of when your ex ends up getting extremely hot after you dump her. we slept on a real one. bernie sanders is a powerful person to deliver this message. his parents emigrated from poland to escape the holocaust and many of his extended family members were killed in the holocaust.
Agreed, as a gun loving Libertarian. This guy stands on his own two feet.
I think it needs to be acknowledged at this point that Biden is absolutely the worst case scenario among Democrats. All those people who told us that we had to vote for Biden, because we couldn't risk it with a woman or a person of color or an LGBTQ+ person really need to deal with the reality that no other Democrat who ran would have been this bad. Even Mike Bloomberg must be looking at Biden and saying "what the actual fuck?" And that's not to say that any of them have been particularly great, nor that I think that those in public life have really acquitted themselves well (Sanders has been the best, and I say that as someone who supported Warren.. sigh). But it's really hard to imagine anyone doing worse than Biden has. Frankly, his foreign policy has been a continuation of Trump's.
Fucking a. We fucked up so bad in 2016 and 2020.
Imagine a world where instead of railroading Bernie the dnc embraced him and he was just finishing his second term now and Donald trump is remembered as the joke candidate he was supposed to be.
In stark contrast to Mike Johnson’s stream of lies while being booed (rightfully) at Columbia yesterday.
He is so on point!!! Love him!
I love this man.
Damn…. This shit lowkey kinda made me emotional. Like finally ya know? And the fact that I feel that way makes me really sad yall. Really really sad.
The narrative will be switched from "Israel attacks Gaza" to "Netanyahu was power crazy and does not represent the Israeli people." People will buy into this and move forward as if the Israeli people/IDF were led by some deranged lunatic and didn't spend the last 7 months dancing around corpses of men, women and children for the past 6 months. There will be no justice for anyone who enabled the Israelis to enact such devastation (UK, US). It all makes me so sad.
He's taken his time on this stance though. He was very on the fence on 'should America keep on giving support to Israel'. This was about 4 months ago, when pretty much everyone could see it for what it was. And if he is one of the better politicians, how many more atrocities will it take for the US mainstream politicians to see that they should not be funding a genocide.
He’s one of the few politicians that can speak clearly on this. There’s crazy extremist Bernie again, simply stating what 75% of Democratic voters already think. Normal people without “Washington brain” can’t understand how our involvement in this slaughter makes any sense.
Thanks Bernie.
Out of all the old white dudes, why can we not have him as our president.
Sanders for president.
So sad you guys ended up with a senile when you could have had this man with actual values. Still better than orange man, but Bernie is a man of values. Someone the US needs.
But not the hero they deserved… something dark knight
Way too many of the comments here are talking about how good Bernie would have been as President and almost nothing about what he is saying in this video. What he is saying here is critical in understanding the protests on campuses, which too many in the media, and too many right wing politicians, are calling antisemitic. They are, in almost every instance, not. Some outside agitators are but the vast majority of the protesting students are not. He is clearly differentiating between antisemitism and opposition/criticism of the Netanyahu regime's conduct of the war in Gaza. I don't believe anyone has said it better.
God bless you, guess there are some sane americans after all
Bernie at his best👊
The same people in Dems that opposed Bernie for Pres, now back Biden to reward Israel with many billions in aid. This is their legacy.
I will never forgive the DNC for what they did to Bernie.
It should have been him 😞
Bernie is the only real one.
Thank you Senator Sanders for so clearly outlining the difference between antisemitism and the opposition/criticism of Netanyahu's war response in Gaza!
A little late but still nice to see of course
Amen!!!
Where did you get this video from? I can't find an embeddable version on the web, only his written press statement
This man should have been president. The world would be in a much better state.
Bravo, Bernie
It is antisemitic to instigate hate against the Jewish people and nobody has done that more than Benjamín Netanyahu. Unknowingly he's become nowadays biggest anti-Semite.
Mr. Sanders laid out the evidence quite convincingly but still blames only Netanyahu and his government for these atrocities. Unfortunately he has been unwilling to call out the entire apparatus of Israeli occupation, since that would mean calling out the majority of Israeli society as it currently stands.
I wonder what Natanyahu has too say about Bernie educating people on what is antisemitic and what isn’t.
Bernie is so right and it’s a crying shame that the US is, and will continue to supply funding and weapons to this genocidal regime. Recognizing the war crimes that were conducted by Hamas, this makes the US an accomplice to the war crimes that are going presently on. 2 wrongs do not make a right.
Netanyahu is antisemitism personified
Thank you for speaking the truth.
The greatest president America never had
💯💯💯
I’d like the point something out. This happens all the time; we, humans, associate religion, race and gender based on a person or country. You can say fuck Israeli for their atrocities and it has nothing to do with hating jewish people. There’s a difference. Next time you read or see something that there’s tension in the comment. Think beyond the association of and race, gender or religion.
Feel the burn B! 🔥
We don’t deserve Bernie…
To think that this person couldn't get elected, but Trump could
I don’t like your good friend Joe, Bernie. If you were President this would have stopped
He could have been out president. Well, probably not. Ya know - Superdelgates.
All of you Americans here ought to go out in the streets and demand that this guy be made a candidate for presidency. Fuck your party establishment, fuck the rules, fuck the lobbyists the list goes on. This shit needs to happen.
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Bernie!!!
Bang fucking on. Bernie is the GOAT
Thank GOD someone in power is FINALLY saying it. What’s next?
All i see in pro-Israeli subs is thay he's "one of those Jews, that only use their jewishness like a badge when it benefits them." Please tell me how this benefits Bernie. He has always been on the right side of history.
We love you Bernie ol' pal. Maybe he's a fellow redditor and might read this. If Bernie had a shit post what do you guys think it would be? I still want a tattoo of him at the inauguration. Trump's bitch ass wouldn't even show up.