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Sanders Administration- Winter 2017
Winter 2017
"Well, I wonder how future President Sanders will deal with this thing from McCain..."
"Holy hell the thing about the interview about Till..."
"That ends the Dakota pipeline..."
The final weeks of the McCain Administration were unsurprisingly quiet since it seemed to reflect the lack of activity from the executive branch in the last year or so. A growing number of people have attributed this to McCain's decline in health, with some believing he may die within the year. Despite this, they still have managed to try and do some actions in the last days of the administration. A notable instance in the middle of Janury, which would see a large influx of a few thousand American soldiers to Poland to ensure protection from any possible future aggression from Russia. According to the McCain administration, the plan is to rotate the forces every nine months. Other nations involved in the rotation are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The US Armoured Brigade will also carry out military exercises in the Baltics, all part of President McCain's response to Russia's intervention in Ukraine and to reassure nervous Nato allies. Russia in turn responded by calling it a threat to national security along with it being a destabilizing factor for European security. The McCain Administration responded with recalling the past transactions of Russia such as the Georgian-Russian War along with the invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. President elect Bernie Sanders has noted that while he will honor McCain's choice and let the soldiers remain there for the alotted time put in, he noted that his administration would be more focused on domestic affairs and improving the well-being of the American citizens. However, he did make a rather sly remark encouraging Russia to try and do the same.
Vechicles moving into Poland
However, beyond the prepations for Bernie Sanders to be sworn into office, there were relatively few other events going on in the beginning of the year. However, one event that would be thrust upon would be new revelations regarding the case of Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. The new revelations would come as a result. Author Timothy Tyson released details of a 2008 interview with Carolyn Bryant, during which she disclosed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. Tyson said during the interview, Bryant retracted her testimony that Till had grabbed her around her waist and uttered obscenities, saying "that part's not true". The jury did not hear Bryant testify and the judge ruled it inadmissible, but the court spectators heard.. Meanwhile, the defense wanted Bryant's testimony as evidence for a possible appeal in the case of a conviction. In the 2008 interview, the 72-year-old Bryant said she could not remember the rest of the events that occurred between her and Till in the grocery store. The entire thing sent some pretty big shockwaves throughout the media in regards to how innocent people of color will die because of the lies of whites as well as the horrific bias in the Justice system, which started rapid talks for the Sanders administration to begin working to address the various issues.
Picture of Emmett Till during his final Christmas
Before long though, President Bernie Sanders would be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States and he would already be planning sweeping changes and various decisions. One that came out on the spot was on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial oil pipeline protested because of the potential environmental harm along with the encroachment into Native American land, specifically that of the Standing Rock Sioux. Unsurprisingly, among his first days sworn in office, President Sanders would see over the US army corps of engineers, along with a number of federal agencies, to halt permits for construction along with working to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline to begin with. Additionally, Sanders would work for federal agencies to investigate additional projects threatening native American lands and would quickly end up in the news over his bold and brash statements along with actions. He spoke against the environmentally damaging side effects and the total disrespect toward the indigenous people along with the protestors. While this did earn him the ire of some police officers, it did also cement his popularity with his support base, viewing him as following through along. It would become clear that Sanders is willing to do what it takes to pass through and deal with various problems, even at the cost of controversy or issue, such as preparations to pardon Edward Snowden regarding the issues of the NSA though at the very least offering clemency. It would be a growing shock on how much would come to change under the Sanders Administration.
Standing Rock protest march from September 2016
"Well, I wonder how future President Sanders will deal with this thing from McCain..."
"Holy hell the thing about the interview about Till..."
"That ends the Dakota pipeline..."
The final weeks of the McCain Administration were unsurprisingly quiet since it seemed to reflect the lack of activity from the executive branch in the last year or so. A growing number of people have attributed this to McCain's decline in health, with some believing he may die within the year. Despite this, they still have managed to try and do some actions in the last days of the administration. A notable instance in the middle of Janury, which would see a large influx of a few thousand American soldiers to Poland to ensure protection from any possible future aggression from Russia. According to the McCain administration, the plan is to rotate the forces every nine months. Other nations involved in the rotation are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The US Armoured Brigade will also carry out military exercises in the Baltics, all part of President McCain's response to Russia's intervention in Ukraine and to reassure nervous Nato allies. Russia in turn responded by calling it a threat to national security along with it being a destabilizing factor for European security. The McCain Administration responded with recalling the past transactions of Russia such as the Georgian-Russian War along with the invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. President elect Bernie Sanders has noted that while he will honor McCain's choice and let the soldiers remain there for the alotted time put in, he noted that his administration would be more focused on domestic affairs and improving the well-being of the American citizens. However, he did make a rather sly remark encouraging Russia to try and do the same.
Vechicles moving into Poland
However, beyond the prepations for Bernie Sanders to be sworn into office, there were relatively few other events going on in the beginning of the year. However, one event that would be thrust upon would be new revelations regarding the case of Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. The new revelations would come as a result. Author Timothy Tyson released details of a 2008 interview with Carolyn Bryant, during which she disclosed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. Tyson said during the interview, Bryant retracted her testimony that Till had grabbed her around her waist and uttered obscenities, saying "that part's not true". The jury did not hear Bryant testify and the judge ruled it inadmissible, but the court spectators heard.. Meanwhile, the defense wanted Bryant's testimony as evidence for a possible appeal in the case of a conviction. In the 2008 interview, the 72-year-old Bryant said she could not remember the rest of the events that occurred between her and Till in the grocery store. The entire thing sent some pretty big shockwaves throughout the media in regards to how innocent people of color will die because of the lies of whites as well as the horrific bias in the Justice system, which started rapid talks for the Sanders administration to begin working to address the various issues.
Picture of Emmett Till during his final Christmas
Before long though, President Bernie Sanders would be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States and he would already be planning sweeping changes and various decisions. One that came out on the spot was on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial oil pipeline protested because of the potential environmental harm along with the encroachment into Native American land, specifically that of the Standing Rock Sioux. Unsurprisingly, among his first days sworn in office, President Sanders would see over the US army corps of engineers, along with a number of federal agencies, to halt permits for construction along with working to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline to begin with. Additionally, Sanders would work for federal agencies to investigate additional projects threatening native American lands and would quickly end up in the news over his bold and brash statements along with actions. He spoke against the environmentally damaging side effects and the total disrespect toward the indigenous people along with the protestors. While this did earn him the ire of some police officers, it did also cement his popularity with his support base, viewing him as following through along. It would become clear that Sanders is willing to do what it takes to pass through and deal with various problems, even at the cost of controversy or issue, such as preparations to pardon Edward Snowden regarding the issues of the NSA though at the very least offering clemency. It would be a growing shock on how much would come to change under the Sanders Administration.
Standing Rock protest march from September 2016
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