This guy just walked into the capitol of the United States and criticized the American people for exercising their first amendment right. The audacity.

  • @shalafi
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    2484 months ago

    Why are we allowing this man to address Congress? And why did anyone show up?

    • @pageflight
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      1054 months ago

      And isn’t there an arrest warrant for him? Oh right:

      Netanyahu’s visit comes two months after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced he was seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

      • FenrirIII
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        884 months ago

        The US doesn’t respect the ICC’s authority anyway.

          • @not_that_guy05
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            364 months ago

            Which is not a bad thing at all. Do the crime do the time. Am I right?

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              244 months ago

              You’re absolutely right. However, when it comes to American foreign politics, glaring hypocrisy is not a bug, it’s a feature.

            • @acetanilide
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              34 months ago

              Only when you’re poor and especially when you’re black

          • @barsquid
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            154 months ago

            What’s the downside?

            • @isles
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              84 months ago

              Just that they have to decide to hand themselves over and that seems unlikely.

    • @[email protected]
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      424 months ago

      over a hundred Democrat congresspeople boycotted the speech. The republicans had their staff sit in to make the crowd look full

      • @Freefall
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        224 months ago

        Yup, shoulda sat in, then up and left when he started his speech.

      • @IndustryStandard
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        24 months ago

        They had so many absentees they needed Elon Musk to fill up the benches. Which is when you know it is bad.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      384 months ago

      Because his crimes against humanity feed the military industrial complex, to which both major parties are subservient.

    • Nora
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      204 months ago

      Half of them were fucking clapping. It’s surreal.