A slim majority of voting Democrats defied leader Jeffries, backing failed Massie amendment to cut $3.3 billion

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      If the Senate flips in the Midterms, one of the first things they need to do is replace Schmuck as leader, then investigate him. He couldn’t have done a worse job as Senate minority leader if he’d been paid, and they should make sure that wasn’t the case.

      He doesn’t get to do the worst job of any minority leader in history, and just walk away with over $200 million in insider trading, and who knows what other corruption, without explaining himself. He needs to leave in humiliating fashion, explaining to America how he thought supporting Israel and Insider Trading was more important to him than getting health care for Americans, or even preserving the shitty system we had.

      Ending the government shutdown last Fall, and surrendering our health care, just as the pressure was starting to work, was one of the worst government betrayals I’ve ever witnessed. How the MAGA comedy duo of Schmuck & Jeffries weren’t forced to resign in humiliation is beyond me.

      He needs to leave in public disgrace, that’s what he’s EARNED.

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    I heard an interesting theory from a YouTube video creator who made political videos (can’t recall who)

    But the gist was this.

    Democratic reps and congressmen take turns voting against the people’s wishes. So that no single one has a long track record of going against the people. Just a handful of times.

    With, of course, the majority vote being orchestrated behind the doors.

    This is how so many of Trump’s cabinet picks had Dems voting for them but a different Dem every time.

    So no single Dem could be called out for “always voting with Republicans”.

    I think this woman who theorized this is on to something. Wish I could remember who it was. But yeah I think she’s right. It’s all orchestrated.

    The Dems are intentionally losing bills and budgets that the people want.

    They have been, and are currently, working with the “opposition”. Because most of both sides are actually all working for Israel’s goals And billionaire’s goals.

    Certainly Not ours.

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      I don’t know what youtuber you saw say that, but it sounds like something that the Drey Dossier might make a video about. Any chance it was them?

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      Oh, yeah, that’s an old strategy. If you’ve got a Dem Rep in a purple district, they can’t vote for that Commie bill, or they’ll lose their seat to a MAGA. There may be a few of them, so when it comes time for the vote, they let a few cross over, so they don’t get slammed in the election for being too liberal.

      But they should still pass their bill by a vote or two. When they are letting enough cross to sink a bill, or to vote for the other side? That’s political party treason, and the party needs to explain themselves.

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      Might be their strategy, doesn’t matter for me. Democrats who even voted no once to Bernie’s stop arms sails is clearly victims of lobbying and did so to preserve their positions. So they can’t be trusted no matter how many times they vote yes to arms sales. This is the level at which people should held them accountable.

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      I’ve heard this from a lot of leftist streamers and youtube creators as “rotating villain” theory. It’s basically proven, as only when a majority is gained do congress people start flaking off of what should be an obvious win. Leiberman, Sinema, Cuellar, Fetterman, Manchin, etc.

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        Yes, those people were notoriously loyal otherwise…

        Or maybe these same people all tend to come up on close votes and we don’t pay attention to who voted for or against the housing reform bill that just passed because they didn’t matter this time.

        Either name a dem that voted against the housing reform bill or drop “rotating villain” as the always go-to theory.

        It’s a good thing to keep it mind, but it generally isn’t applying in this political environment.

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        Wasn’t an influencer and they had examples. It was someone who made YouTube videos about political content. Not all women making videos are “influencers”.

        I don’t think it’s far fetched to consider the corp Dems are using a playbook. They have a strategy. They don’t just wing it.

        Wasn’t it revealed recently that booker was a guest to some Republican billionaires meeting at a hotel or something?

        They are all in it together.

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          Yes, anyone making a video on social media is an influencer, especially if they make content meant to influence. Political influencers are influencers. Influencers you agree with are influencers. Anyway I didn’t realize Booker was all Dems. Was he a guest at a Republican billionaires meeting at a hotel or something? You can’t take a half-beat to confirm before accusing? This is exactly what I’m talking about; Second or third hand conjecture used to demonize an entire party that encompasses three fourths of voters rather than doing the legwork of looking at readily available information. Now think, who does this behavior benefit? And it’s not just you, this is all political discourse at the moment. It’s no wonder foreign state actors spend millions under the table on American influencers to control narratives.
          There are absolutely Dems who need to GTFO. We can look at their actual voting records, which are generally pretty consistent, to see who’s controlled and who isn’t. Anything less is counterproductive at best and the reason conservatives are actively dismantling are government and civic protections as we bicker over trivialities in actuality.

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            I guess your definition of influencer is different than mine. I think of influencers as a face selling products and lifestyle crap. Basically advertising.

            But your definition expands to include pretty much anyone making any commentary on anything. Even local news reporters.

            Here is the Booker incident I am referring to. https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

            And I’m sure there are a handful of good Dems. I can think of a few. But like 80% of them are corrupt and need replaced.

            If the majority were working for the people we wouldn’t be in this shit show we are in now.

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            Almost the entire party (ok 2/3s) did vote no to some of Bernie’s stop arms sales to Israel motions. So I think it is ok to demonize them when majority of the party seems to be in there for their own interests.

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      Judging from 2024, the angry voters will do ABSOULTELY NOTHING, while hoping the ship will kinda, sorta, right itself-ish.

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        Judging from 2024, the angry voters unpopular Dems will do ABSOULTELY NOTHING

        Fixed it for you.

        Also, more recent events such as Mamdani and candidates he endorsed beating “Centrist” (actually right wing to far right) establishment Dems who had the backing of the entire DNC machine would indicate that the angry voters ARE doing something.

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      Plus all of the Republicans.

      (Yes, I know the fascist fucks are a lost cause and that’s why they don’t get mentioned, but we should still maintain the expectation anyway.)

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        nothing to apologize for, not mentioning republicans in these situations leads directly to .ml style dumbdumbitis

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    If you still feel like you need to provide “aid” to a country with a higher QoL than yours, higher ranking healthcare and education than yours, better-equipped social services than yours, and higher GDP per capita, you are a sad, brainwashed, controlled paypiggy.

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      Israel has lower gdp per capita ($60k PPP) then the US ($94k).

      This is just to say they’re providing that better qol despite having less money.

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        They have interest in the banks who own the fed. We pay more in intetest on our debt that we spend on defense. That’s where it comes from. Plus all the other wealth. It’s way bigger than you think.

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        Because we are paying for it. Yet we don’t have enough for our own people?!?

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          America QoL is fucked not because they’re paying for others, but because of inequality.

          In the US, GDP per working person (or, how much money each worker generates) is well over $150k.

          Wages are less than half that, on average.

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          It’s also easy to boost the standard of living of some when you deny the rights of others.

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        does that GDP number include the billions we give them in aid? We give them far far far more than the 3.8 billion thats advertised. 3.8 billion directly plus another 12.5 billion in military aid just in 2024. And I imagine similar in 2025 but dont have the data. What could America have done with a spare ~17 billion? and thats not even counting the horrifyingly expensive missiles we expend to protect them, military operations in the region to benefit them, the wars we engage in at their whim that only serve their interests. When you factor in the wars we are probably a trillion dollars into supporting these genocidal chucklefucks.

        https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts

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          Yes, Israel is playing build-a-Reich and America is paying for it.

          However, that’s not the reason why Americans are struggling - monstrous income inequality and zero social policies are the main ones.

          Go out and vote out every incumbent bloodsucker out in primaries, like in the recent NY primaries.

          Keep it up for 6 years, and it will cause a literal revolution in America.

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          What could America have done with a spare ~17 billion?

          COULD have done a lot, WOULD probably just squander it on wars, tax breaks for billionaires, and subsidies for the companies of billionaires.

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      Trump is donating millions to Europeam maga aligned groups, those millions are taxpayers dollars. Not in the same orbit but completely unacceptable.

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    As a JEW I’m TERRIFIED now! I CANT believe Lawmakers think it’s OK to NOT send our Tax Dollars to a Foreign Country I’ll NEVER Visit so they can have things I’ll NEVER Have while SABOTAGING the Iran Conflict by CONTINUALLY Shooting babies in the Face! I’m TERRIFIED!

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    defied Jefferies

    Bullshit

    In a lengthy statement the day before the vote, Jeffries said that the amendment was “overly broad” because it would limit “funds for longstanding initiatives,” including refugee resettlement and peacebuilding, and that it would “restrict our country’s ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.”

    Jeffries said he would not whip other members to vote against the amendment and acknowledged that urgent changes were needed to American policy toward Israel.

    He didn’t think it was pro-Israel enough, but wouldn’t organize Dem votes against it.

    Don’t let neoliberals pretend to be progressive

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      Party members voting independently with their brain, what a quaint concept. Stalin and Mao would have never let that slide.

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        They both had the single party cooperation the oligarchs have in modern America…

        You get that right?

        Stalin and Mao lied about being communists and had an oligarch class like we do right now?

        Anyone that doesn’t like those two, should be the most pissed off at our current polticial environment