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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.
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.
Imagine if the people of the nation had enough money for food, shelter, and political donations.
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.
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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.
This idea that China is somehow going to save you or the world is brain death.
Xi loves what Trump is doing. Why would he risk stabilizing the U.S. when he could just not and continue to madly profit?
Also are you Han Chinese? Because if not, see my first point.
I don't think Xi Jinping loves when Trump puts 1quadrillion% tariffs on China.
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Meaningless posturing because they knew it wouldn't win. Wake me up when they have a majority and actually do something with it.
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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.
..now? They just did this now? What was the inflection point?
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.
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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.
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Schumer (D-Tel Aviv) voted against.
And yet the Dems are leaving him as leader?
failed just as planned. i can’t take them ~~seriously~~ never mind i do take them seriously after they rejected the call to stop taking AIPAC money. of course they are not going to stop. they just need to choose the defectors. and shumer is too cowardly to answer for his own demands
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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Democrats: against every war but the current war.
The war to end all wars
I'm assuming they know it won't pass because of the Republican majority so they are virtue signaling. I can't trust either side.
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Bare minimum but a start I guess
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".
Now send iron dome to Gaza and sanctions against Israel
75%?
Too little too late. Anyone that supported Israel and defended their "right to defend themselves" needs to be hung. They're just trying to weasel their way into the left's good graces.
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Hold off the saves act and then do it again after they loose the midterms.
Does this mean the tankies are actually going to vote in the midterms?
Or are they just going to have a harder time coming up with excuses why Democrats are so bad that it's better just to let Republicans hold onto power?
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