Monday, June 24, 2019

Some Tweets from Mike Gravel


  •  Pinned Tweet
    We're proud to release our new ad, "END ALL WARS." Listen below for words from Mike on his goals on the debate stage. We're extremely close to qualifying for the Democratic debates in July, but WE NEED YOUR HELP. Donate at and send Gravel to the debates!
  •   Retweeted
    Jacobin interviews maverick presidential candidate . A scourge of American imperialism and an old-school populist, the former Alaska senator is the anti-Joe Biden.
  • We're nearing the threshold for the July debates, and YOU could be the person to put us over the top. Send Mike to the stage and watch him tear Joe Biden apart.
  • If there's one lesson from 2016 for Democrats: excited minorities, not apathetic majorities, win elections. To win elections you need to inspire people's imaginations. And lackluster half-measures will simply never do that. Audacity will win every time.
  • Every single day we do to other countries what would be considered "abominations" if done to us. Unless we make our conduct moral, the roosters of today will come home to roost. End the wars, bring the troops home, stop the bombings. That's the way forward.
  • That is not using every available procedural tool she has to cripple the Administration's concentration camp system is proof that she supports it. Moral turpitude. There is no opposition to child concentration camps in U.S. government today.
  • Donald Trump has been credibly accused of first-degree rape again. There is no justice in a country where a man is not locked up for committing such an evil act. At least 15 women I know of have accused him of similar acts. The House needs to investigate.
  • Let's not be fooled by figures who play up being against war one moment then let their true colors fly the next. The rhetoric of anti-war is powerfully appealing, so charlatans use it all the time. Be principled. No war. End the empire.
  • Mike is running to end America's imperial policies (no Iran War), legalize marijuana, fundamentally reform our politics through direct democracy, abolish mass surveillance, tackle the climate crisis, dismantle America's carceral state, and build a foreign policy of peace.
  • Right now in America children and families are being deprived of basic hygiene products, herded into mass detainment, kept in freezing cold rooms in facilities which are closed to international oversight groups and the press. Fascism is developing before our eyes
  • The media has given Buttigieg a pass on a lackluster record in South Bend that shows him to be more concerned about public acclaim than the lives of average people. Why the pass? Because he's an articulate white kid with all the right credentials. His constituents know the truth.
  • unchanging, unapologetic, unaware is a disaster waiting to happen. If you are serious about beating Trump, you need to be serious about beating Joe and giving us a serious progressive for the White House.
  •   Retweeted
    I wrote the proposal for transportation, check it out and donate $1 to so that he can call for nationalizing the trains on the debate stage
  • If thinks the epitome of bipartisan dealmaking is getting buddy-buddy with segregationists to push the Democrats away from civil rights, just imagine what sorts of "deals" he'll be able to make with Mitch McConnell.
  • Our govt. has created an unaccountable, violent agency to oppress undocumented people and asylum seekers, one which serves the purpose of terrorizing and imprisoning human beings whose only infraction is escaping countries torn apart by the legacy of American Imperialism. End ICE
  • Democrats who make endless appeals to "civility" and genuinely believe that Republicans will come to the table after Trump is gone are completely delusional. We are living in a world of political and legal hardball - pretending we aren't is forfeiting any chance at change.
  • Remember for a moment that we live in a country where one idiotic, authoritarian man has unilateral control of whether we enter into a shooting war with a country of 80 million over the destruction of a tin can deliberately violating their airspace. This needs to end.
  • The majority of people in this country want to tear down the established order, brick by brick, and start anew: an end to the corruption, the self-dealing, the plutocracy. They want a new beginning. And if Democrats won't promise to do that, fascists will.
  • Does anyone deserve to have a billion dollars? No. Anyone who answers yes to that question cares more about their 13 figure friends than the lives of the global poor.
  • "Show me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are."
     
  • Read Mike's plan for peace in Israel and Palestine in :
  • Every Democratic candidate is lying about Israel and Palestine. They know that there will be no two-state solution. To continue pretending that there will be one is to tacitly support a brutal occupation that will only hurt Palestinians and Israelis alike.
  • Here is Brookings, the "liberal" think tank endorsing thousands of more piles of charred corpses to avoid looking "weak." There is nobody weaker than these plugged in immoral hacks. Slashing the Pentagon budget in half is the bare minimum.