So what you're saying then is that if other legislation pops up in other countries and we are found to be guilty and they fine us then we are just supposed to take that money right back from them? Lol... Why wouldn't they be able to do that to us as well? How much money do you think these suits are going to be worth?
You think our solution is just to *** everyone over and then continue on like BAU? You don't think that will have consequence? Do you even have any idea of how different national governments work together?
It's causing bad blood already... No suits have been filed and it's causing bad blood and speculation on how things will change due to this action...
This legislation does nothing to protect us... It only isolates us and may lead to other nations being unwilling to assist us when looking to a beige our goals abroad... Also this whole idea of doing something just cause we can and *** everyone but ourselves is just ridiculous... We live in an increasingly globalize do society... it's not in our best interests to keep alienating ourselves from that community and yes doing things to damage our own global interests... Your problem seems to be that you think only of the self and what benefits you can see without truly understanding and thinking out the implications and problems down the road...
I'm glad you trust Bernie but didn't he abstain from voting on this?
Our body of government doesn't vote on legislation passed in other nations... Also they craft it then vote on it so they know it's coming...
He co-sponsored it and Abstained from voting because he was campaigning.
Your fault is assuming that even if other governments did this that they would have the power to do anything about it, they don't but we do. That is the thing. There is no way this can hurt anyone in the US economically. If anything it will hurt foreign relations, but if it is it is because people are afraid of being found guilty. I don't know why it is so hard to understand that. They can't sue us and demand money from us in the same way we can't sue them and demand money from them. We place a lien on their assets within our country.
I specifically explained why and how this legislation could protect us from future terror attacks. You are completely ignorant of our position in the global economy. Every single one of your arguments against this legislation is a stretch and a maybe. We aren't alienating ourselves from anything, you clearly don't understand what this means or how it will operate. This passed legislation doesn't make us enemies with anyone, it holds foreign entities who loan from us responsible for their actions against our country.
You also completely ignored how this legislation will cause more transparency on terrorist attacks.
97 to 1 is a huge margin you are assuming that 97 representatives just voted on JASTA so they could go home and wave some flag? No they voted on it because it was clearly in our interest, there would have been a lot more controversy in this bill if it was just for seeming patriotic.
While we should consider the after effects of legislation, we can't predict them all and if we always thought about the negatives of every piece of legislation passed and refused to pass them on that list vs. the positives then we probably would never pass legislation.
Arguing about this is pointless though, I digressed from my original point of just explaining why JASTA is necessarily a bad thing.
I admit, there may be some negative whiplash but we can't just chalk up the negatives without considering the positives.