cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34201505
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.
from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It’s disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Well it’s not really a war anymore, it’s genocide. Impossible to ignore. Israel donates a lot of money in American politics, maybe time to find candidates they don’t fund
To paraphrase judeo-christan mythology, “it’s easier to thread a camel through the eye of a needle than it is to find a politician not compromised by israeli political donations.”
Was it ever a war?
No it was not.
The only reason they are changing their mind is because it’s too big to ignore because it’s been ignored for too long. It didn’t have to get this bad and something could have been done a long time ago but they chose not to. Never let them forget that they let this happen and that they knew it was happening.
Another day, another PSA.
A photo of Bernie Sanders overlayed with the text: “I am once again asking that we stop referring to far-right conservatives as ‘moderate’ whenever they happen to be Democrats.”
Kibbutz Bernie? The one that refuses to say genocide?
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Moderate Democrats are career politicians who will change their positions at any time to further their own interests. They’re spineless and without a shred of integrity. That’s why you should always back those that have supported Palestine through thick and thin, and that have consistently maintained the same position for as long as they’ve been in politics.
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a book written by Jimmy Carter.
Famous republiQan Jimmy Carter
How is that relevant?
That’s why you should always back those that have supported Palestine through thick and thin
Jimmy Carter wasn’t a moderate, and he’d be left of most modern progressives today. I just don’t understand the “famous republiqan” bit, I haven’t seen anyone claim Carter was close to right wing other than people who think anyone right of Mao was a fascist
He was moderate for the time. He’d be to the right of most progressives today. He wasn’t big on gay rights, for example.
I added the part about famous republiQan because he’s one of the most famous Democrats in history who has done more for Palestine than everyone here put together, complaining that Democrats don’t support Palestine. It was /s
Wild that genocide was okay until they started losing seats over it.
That’s the only motivating factor for democrats. They were almost all 100% on team border wall and “marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman” until their voters’ views on the issues changed/became apparent
Still the fact that they didn’t think genocide would bother us is a really strange shortcoming, this wasn’t an unpredictable response they just really fucking suck at their jobs.
Give them a verbal pat on the back, then vote them out in favor of a candidate not funded by AIPAC.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ritchie-torres/summary?cid=N00044346
These flavor of the week assholes?
Is Donald Trump dead yet?
