The event was hosted by the group Elect Democratic Women, which funneled nearly $2.4 million from AIPAC into congressional races this cycle.

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    It makes sense. AIPAC stooges love Hegseth. He’s the best thing to happen to Netanyahu’s fascist administration since DJT. They went for their marching orders, alongside all the AIPAC loving Republican Congressmen. This isn’t a problem with the Democrats. It’s a problem with Congress being controlled by Israel. It’s a problem with allowing foreign money to drive foreign policy through dark money PACs.

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      go demand it from them. this is the sort of thing that’d actually be easy to get if usians got up from their couches sometimes.

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    Dems finally got a big shot at change. Will they go for it or revert to the same-old, same-old? Just like the mid-term shake-up there needs to be a dem party shake-up or I fear everything will revert back to the entrenched establishment.

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      they also had their big shot in 2020, 2018, 2008, 2007, and 1955 to 1995 – they have a recorded and verified history of not taking their shot at change so it’s silly to expect or hope that this leopard will change its spots.

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      there needs to be a popular shakeup. fascists won’t just grow a conscience and stop being fascists without being forced to.

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    Doesn’t matter, nobody on the GOP side except Massie switched, so this was irrelevant. If he’d had the votes this would be a story. He didn’t.

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      My understanding is it failed by seven votes, with 11 democrats as no-shows….

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      This is missing the forest for the trees

      The issue is not they missed the vote, it’s why they did and what that says more broadly about the party’s capture.

      3 of those house members are explicitly on the board of this AIPAC front group, another 5 of them took money this election cycle.

      In the first major symbolic vote since the election, these Dems were prostituting themselves for a front group advancing the interests of an ethno supremacist foreign government engaging in a genocide that just helped manipulate our nation into a war and is seeking to re-escalate it.

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        And not only that.

        These cunts have been blaming voters for not voting, foryears. Go vote, you have to vote, it is important to vote.

        And now when it is their turn to show everyone how it is done, they fuck off to suck dick. Imagine if few thousand people in Mississippi didn’t go vote because they assumed there was no point in it.

        American politicians are truly biggest pieces of shit.

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          The libs will probably believe their excuse that they really were planning to but got stuck in traffic.

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          they fuck off to suck dick

          I fully agree with your comment but please, no need for this.

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      Yes, this obviously was performative, but image matters, and the image they’ve projected is that they support both the genocide and war with Iran.

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      It is NOT the Democrats fault for being at a Meeting on how we can give MORE TAXPAYER MONEY to Israel INSTEAD of Doing their Jobs protecting Americans! It’s the REPUBLICANS Fault!

      -LITERALLY you!

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      It’s messaging, a show of where their fealty lies. Fealty to the zionist entity by choosing it over this. And a middle finger to anti-genocide pro-Palestine factions of their party who came out to vote for them that they don’t give a fuck about them and will always prioritize serving the zionist entity over even domestic concerns.

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        Oh Please. Stop buying their bullshit. They chose their priorities. They’re fucking lazy from doing nothing for so long they think their only job is to be the do-nothing opposition party and vote to kill civilians and send money to Israel. Republicans aren’t our biggest hurdle to progress. Centrist dems have been supporting conservative causes since the 80s. There is always some stupid excuse centrists give while republicans continue to get their legislation passed even when they don’t control the house. It’s been happening for 45 years.

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          A lot what you say is true, but this was doomed to fail. All Democrats present voted against and all Republicans voted pro (this was to move impeachment articles to judiciary committee effectively killing it), there were also 7 Republicans not present.

          If Democrats had the number in quite sure Johnson would wait for the other 7 to show up. How Republicans voted clearly shows us that Hegseth is safe at least until January.

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            I agree Hegseth’s days are numbered and it wasn’t getting through the senate, but it was a very bad look right after the midterms when everyone is watching. I guess it’s irritating to me they aren’t present for their most basic job. It looks like complacency has set in. like they’re accustomed to being the loser party so why try?

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              I mean be realistic. Democrats won big, but until January it is the same environment we had for the past 2 years. Republicans still control everything.

              Until January there’s no impeachment of anyone unless some Republicans defect and they showed us they rather double down.

              I didn’t like Jefferies as a speaker I don’t trust him and I don’t think he even has necessary skills, but this specific thing is not his fault.

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                No, it’s entirely his fault that he’s a bad leader and can’t get everyone to show up for a vote. That’s literally his job.

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        The tweet in this article said another Democrat saw no such thing.

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          Messie himself admitted that he didn’t gave any heads-up to anyone, because last time he did Johnson scheduled vacation.

          There were also 7 Republicans that missed the vote. It looks Johnson called the vote to move it to judiciary committee (essentially looking the bill) as soon as he had the number to block the bill. If the Democrats would show up he would wait for the other Republicans.

          I think it is pointless to work out over this specific thing, when the impeachment in no way would pass without some Republicans voting for it as well and except Messie no one showed a spine.