Biden & Dems only like filibusters that protect Vladimir Putin: Biden colludes with Russia

"At consequential moments in history, they present a choice," President Joe Biden said, slightly fumbling the words in his infamous Atlanta speech last week. "Do you want to be on the side of Dr. [Martin Luther] King or [former segregationist Gov.] George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?"

In other words, are you with me, or are you with Satan?

This was Biden’s way of spelling out the need to abolish the Senate’s legislative filibuster, which would allow the majority — currently Democrats, believe it or not — to pass sweeping legislation with a bare one-vote partisan majority.

Unsurprisingly, Biden’s strident bad-faith insults failed to persuade any Republicans or the few Democratic holdouts. Of course, Biden had literally held the “Jefferson Davis” position on the legislative filibuster for decades, and he continued to hold it until about five minutes before delivering his appalling speech. That might have hurt his cause a little bit.

Even so, this double standard only scratches the surface of the Democrats’ hypocrisy on this issue. Because within hours of attempting this Senate power grab, Democrats found themselves on the defensive over a much-needed bipartisan bill that would have imposed meaningful sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The bill in question would have blocked the opening of Putin’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline. The pipeline is controversial because, by design, it will let Putin swallow Ukraine without any pushback from customers who depend on Russian gas in Western Europe. Currently, Putin is trying to pressure Europeans by constraining the supply of gas in Ukraine, and most of Europe, as a precursor to his expected aggressive war against Ukraine.

This is why NATO opposes Nord Stream 2, and even Biden, as weak as he has been against Russia and Putin, has at least offered lip service against the pipeline.

But there’s just one problem — Biden is taking Putin’s side on these sanctions. He doesn’t want the United States to impose sanctions against the Russian autocrat, even as Putin menaces Ukraine, abuses human rights, hacks U.S. companies and infrastructure, and interferes in U.S. elections.

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