Money can't buy happiness but it can buy you the American government.
It's the best government money can buy!
Remember when the DCCC was mad at AOC and said any consultants who work with candidates trying to unseat incumbents would be blacklisted? https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democratic-leaders-stand-firm-on-incumbent-favor-rule-rebuff-liberal-cries-of-blacklist/2019/04/02/117a7714-54bd-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html
Almost like the dnc goal is to always do what fucks over those wanting to move the party left
Like most people, they really really really like money
I remember when the party threw its weight behind Henry Cuellar because his opponent was a progressive, and claimed it was because he was an incumbent.
No mention of Hillary Clinton endorsing the AIPAC candidate.
The precedent was the Citizens United ruling. This is just a case in point.
How is this not foreign interference? It should be doubly so if money is free speech. They are directly influencing our lives, at all.90 winning, I'd even say those tinfoil hat jyoo conspiracy theorists have some credence, its just Israel not the Jewish people.
How is this not foreign interference?
Oh, it absolutely is, but it's ok because it was used against a progressive. Which party is gonna do something about it? The one that hates progressives, or the other one that really hates progressives?
How is this not foreign interference?
Because AIPAC doesn't take any foreign money, it's funded entirely from within the U.S.
The only response I have is money needs to be removed from politics.
Oh I completely agree, just wanted to point out that AIPAC is homegrown interventionism, not foreign like people tend to think.
Israel definitely has to have some form of contact though. There's absolutely no way they dont.
Foreign funding and domestic funding with the express purpose of gaining advantage for a foreign nation is a distinction without any practical difference.
classic emotional response disconnected from reality. AIPAC is not Israel. Take your crying about Jews and apply it to Citizens United please.
You fucken think Israel has no contact with AIPAC? Really?
Lattimer looks like he has brain worms
Precedent? I don't even know why they bother when they can simply legally and openly bribe whomever wins anyway
Right? I was about to say, this can't be the first politician AIPAC has bought and placed into our government.
Yes, it's a dangerous precedent to have someone in office who calls rape and sexual violence "propaganda".
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