āJeffries didnāt even whip the vote,ā one critic said about the House minority leader, who wants to be speaker. āThis is why people want a stronger leader.ā
As House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seeks to become speaker when Democrats retake Congress in January, critics questioned his leadership Tuesday after the Republican-led lower chamber effectively blocked a bid to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by just seven votesāan outcome that may have been averted if more Democrats showed up to vote.
The 211-204 procedural vote effectively torpedoed Congressman Thomas Massieās attempt to impeach Hegseth by sending the outgoing Kentucky Republicanās resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will likely gather dust during the remainder of the GOP-controlled congressional term.
Not giving billions to wipe a people off the face of the earth might be 5% of your beliefs, ranks a bit higher for me. But thanks for telling us that.
So you either did nothing or picked a guy who gives Netanyahu everything he asks for š¤£. Real moral courage.
I donāt know why people still try to play this game. Genocide might be something you can hand wave away, and vote based on marginal data difference like itās for a sports team, but a lot of people actually do have moral courage, AND they do more for poor disenfranchised working class Americans than democrats ever do.
donāt even get me started on people who ONLY vote and then think their political responsibilities are done right there. You are complicit in killing innocent men women and children. You support the racist Military Industrial Complex whole heartedly. Congrats.
You are actively causing more deaths in Palastitine with your pretend morality. Hereās the proof: on the eve of Trumpās loss, when Dems are about to take power, he suggested we should stop giving money to Israel. But you and people like you wasted two years of funding Israel with bombs because of your āmoralityā and what you call āmarginal data differencesā. Nothing marginal about your implicit support for funding Israel.
This logic makes no sense, you think I support Trump? Or other Dem politicians? I donāt understand.
Of course you donāt. Everyone who has spent the last 3 years stating that there is no difference (or only a small difference) between Trump and Kamala/Dems has no idea what they are talking about about has implicitly been supporting Trump, Netanyahu, and bombs dropping on Palastitine while feeling morally superior for some reason. There are obvious differences that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Not just Palastitine, but USAID, ect.
Thatās a funny joke. youāre out here morally defending Dems even though in Gaza specifically Biden killed a lot more innocent people. If you mean indirect support because weāre both (presumably) American, yeah youāre right. I voted for local anti AIPAC Dems, is that what you mean by support?
Bipartisan support of war means that defending democrats foreign policy is defending their actions in genocide. It doesnāt mean much to me, specifically, because Iām privileged as hell (off the backs of poor people in other countries but thatās a different can of worms) and Iām not enduring genocide right now.
But if you defend democrats as being any leas complicit in Genocide then when look in the mirror you see someone who is complicit in genocide. Thereās just no other way to put it unless youāre a Zionist and actually believe Jews are morally superior to everyone and deserve to do whatever they want to Palestinians with US money and protection.
Iām not just talking marginal numbers here, Iām saying democrats (through Obama and Biden) literally set new precedents in global US domination warfare. Obamas level of drone striking literally set record numbers, within his first few years of office. Mind you, just like Trump, he ran on a platform of Anti War, the only difference with Obama is that he was believable.
If you see me pointing out this very obvious problem as such an attack that Iām āimplicitly supporting Trump and Netanyahuā that is so backwards. Why do you even bother trying to get certain people elected if you wonāt hold them to a better standard? Is that not literally what their job is as a public servant? To serve the public?!
Hardline Dem supporters take crazy pills sometimes to justify the obvious complacency in the party and capitalism in general, yāall canāt even let the DSA win for you because theyāre too popular and even their lukewarm anti-war messaging is too scary. Thatās so fucked up. Have a spine.
I will 100% morally defend Democrats. The āBidenā personally killed more Palestinians than Trump is a ridiculous argument that ignores who is actually doing to killing, how long aid has been flowing to Israel, and the start date of the conflict. No one actually believes Trump is less supportive of Netanyahuās actions (or if he remotely cares at all). Trump just happened to be in office when war deaths were in a natural decline.
Deaths related to USAID alone far outweigh Palestinian dealths, and actually a direct action by the administration. Your can support a non Dem/Rep all day, but insisting they are the same is morally corrupt and implicit support for Trumpās actions including the USAID cuts.
First sentence is enough, then. If youāre ok with white supremacy and genocide youāre a lost cause
I voted for De La Cruz.