Excellent advice from Sen. Merkley just now on MSNBC

[senseandsensibility]

Of course that means there is no way trump will follow it.

Basically, he said that trump needs to capitalize on the gratitude Israel has towards the US now by demanding that they endorse a cease fire. The cease fire needs to be used to return to negotiations.

There will be many, many negative repercussions of the unilateral action taken last night. Are we just going to suck up all the negative and dangerous blowback without demanding anything in return?

I fear the answer is yes.

[marble falls]

1. Sensible and TACO are contradictory.

[Bayard]

2. How about a cease fire with Gaza?

[Attilatheblond]

5. Trump doesn't control Bibi

The votes of Zionists seems to be the real power with that man.

[LymphocyteLover]

10. Yes. That's actually what I thought Markey meant.

[vapor2]

3. Looks like Bibi has all the cards

[Amaryllis]

4. Merkley said he found out about Iran strikes from someone he had an apt with who called him to see if they were

still on for their apt. Senators were not even notified this had happened.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Republicans were notified, Democrats were not.

[senseandsensibility]

7. Shameless

partisanship that the WH press corps will not call out.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. fucking disgusting Republicans

[BaronChocula]

8. The thought of this upcoming week

has me wanting to quote Lloyd Bridges from the movie "Airplane."

[senseandsensibility]

9. Yup

And we can count on the media to cheerlead the trump administration through all of it.

[BaronChocula]

11. I can't wait for the "both sides" approach

"Democrats have no plan to rein in Trump"

"Iran bombing exposes Democrats' lack of strategy"

"Bombing poses further setback to Democrats"

"Democrats gave no input on war plans that weren't shared with them"

I may go into another news blackout aside from what I read here.

[senseandsensibility]

13. A NYT specialty

That is, when they are not just flat out acting as republican stenographers. I may join you in that blackout.

[sop]

14. This is what Trump wants:

[BidenRocks]

15. This is what happens when you refuse the hotels and casinos.

Bibi feels the same with Gaza.

[Nanjeanne]

16. Delusional if he thinks either Trump or Bibi want to do that.

[senseandsensibility]

17. To be fair, I don't think Merkley

suggested that trump would listen to him. He was just giving his advice and the sanity was refreshing.

[Nanjeanne]

19. I don't think Merkley thinks Trump would listen. I just wish instead of talking about Trump as if he is rational

or even remotely a normal President one disagrees with -- that people would recognize the urgency of what is happening and stop using words that normalized this situation. His advice is simply going to fall on deaf ears and pretending that we have a government that we can "disagree" with isn't what will save us. I like Merkley. I think Democrats are making big mistakes in this normalization of this situation.

[senseandsensibility]

20. Yeah, the Dems approach needs to be like the one

from Tea Pain on bluesky that I posted in another thread. Basically, hey maga, remember how you voted for lower gas prices and an end to war? We're not going to let you forget.

But I'm afraid they will let them forget because that type of message needs to be relentless.

[Exp]

18. Agreed, WTF does Israel EVER GIVE us back? They are our LARGEST foreign benefactor by a huge margin! nt