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Just a few years too late.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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Best time to cut ties with Israel was 20 years ago.
Second best time is now
I didn't disagree.
Democrats: against every war but the current war.
If the Ds had enough votes to block passage, magically, just one would vote against.
We need a country to bribe our reps more than Israel does, this is the only way. Oops, I mean donate.
China, you're our only hope.
lol imagine if we achieve the death of US imperialism and the dawn of global communism simply by bribing the politicians more than the capitalists do.
We need a country to bribe our reps more than Israel does
It's a circular scheme. Money we spend arming Israel goes to their weapons manufacturers. Their MIC collects a profit, which is milled back into campaign donations to US Congresscritters. Congresscritters take the money and rubber stamp more tax-dollars to Israel, to buy more weapons, to generate more profit, to bribe more of Congress.
China, you’re our only hope.
President Xi, please liberate our people.
Bare minimum but a start I guess
Now send iron dome to Gaza and sanctions against Israel
Hold off the saves act and then do it again after they loose the midterms.
DIdn't the DNC vote those sorts of policies down in terms of adding em to the next platform when they run? Seem to recall seeing that recently.
If so, my guess is this is a political maneuver to try and reclaim the votes they lost for unflinching support of Israel. It's the "Well, we can all vote no now, to look good to the voters and hedge our bets to get elected -- but then once elected, we just go back to the status quo, which we technically never said we'd veer away from, so no harm no foul".
Cool! Now let's do that 2 years ago
If you know popular legislation will fail then it's easier to support it.
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..now? They just did this now? What was the inflection point?
The inflection point was they knew it's gonna pass anyway, so they used the opportunity to feign alignment with their voters for a change.
they knew it’s gonna pass anyway
Legislation doesn't just pass by magic. There has to be a critical point of majority support. In this case, there wasn't.
The final 47–52 tally disappointed advocates who had hoped to draw more GOP support.
This feels a bit like the Epstein stuff. Liberal politicians recognizing how ugly their primary bids could get and how dangerous the general could be for pro-Israeli candidates going into 2028 and have decided to hedge their bets.
Meanwhile Republicans seem dead set on making this a referendum on the US-Iran War, which their caucus largely supports.
They were probably told to wait until Israel got most of what it wanted and then were allowed to do this to save face. Fuck all democrats who voted yes previously, this will not absolve them. They deserve to rot in the same cesspit with Trump and Netanyahu.
Israel hasn't stolen all of Lebanon yet
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Hey Dems, this is the kind of hings we want. Keep it up. Do actual healthcare and debt reduction next!
Future: Sorry, even though there are 55 Democratic senators now, six of them won't vote for it because of inscrutable reasons and there's just nothing we can do!
And apologists wonder why we don't like the Dem neo-libs.
Are Democrats feeling the Bern at last?
Imagine if you will - a world where we would have had Bernie instead of Sweet Potato Hitler V1.
Never forget kids: The rich are the true and only enemy.
Hell, I'm still imagining a world where we had Gore instead of Junior.
I'm old. I'm STILL imagining a world where we got Dukakis instead of Reaganomics 2.0
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If they did this about 2 years ago we wouldn't have Trump.
I guess an eventual response is better than no response. Although for many is this juat a decision to win votes? Like I want representatives that have morals, but I suppose ones that listen to their voters is better than the current situation
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