Way more Dems than Golden want to continue this war. But they know it's politically toxic to vote for this war.
So Dem leadership gets Golden to be the one vote to make sure this fails. He's not running for re-election, so he has nothing to lose. That's how this works.
Mamdani: if you have a house in NYC that you don’t live in that is worth over $5 million, you have to pay an extra tax on it
Guy from my grade school who is now a Suffolk County police officer:
There are millions or even billions of people in this world who fundamentally do not understand that children everywhere are the same. This precious child, the tens of thousands dead in Gaza—people don’t connect them to the idea of their own child being violently killed.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
He was a college student studying information systems who volunteered in the reserve. He probably had a bright future. He likely believed the pervasive lies Americans are fed from birth that joining the US military means "serving your country" and "defending freedom." What it really means is fighting barbaric imperialist wars and taking away life and freedom from others. The bitter truth that those who loved him won't have an easy time facing is that no ordinary American will be freer or safer for his loss. He died for "Israel" and for the Epstein vampire class — none of whose children have rushed to volunteer in Trump's war of murder and aggression.
gavin newsom agreed w ben shapiro *six weeks ago* that israel “is not committing a genocide.” today he called israel an apartheid state. i’m happy that his consultants told him supporting israel is no longer a popular position, and blown away by his belief in absolutely nothing
I personally asked Rep Crockett if she would support the Stop the Bombs Act to end offensive military aid to Israel.
She pretended like she had never heard of it and asked her staffer to follow up with how she had supplied aid to Palestinians, which isn’t the same as stopping Israeli offensive funding for the IDF at all!
After tens of thousands had died it was unbelievably cynical to me.
Every time I brought this up and simply asked that she take the same stance as Talarico on this issue, many of her supporters tried to argue it didn’t matter, or they both were the same on this issue, or that I was a bigot for asking.
The Iran war and the genocide in Gaza are unbelievably horrible, and I hope Crockett’s loss in this primary will help her and others in Congress realize how Democratic primary voters are through hand waving away universal human rights and done with AIPAC aligned policies.
@JustinBonomo progressives to win and not be able to control how they vote/legislate. Schumer and Jeffries make so many baffling decisions (to us normie dem voters), but they all make sense when you realize they are 100% controlled by the party's biggest donors and their consultants.
@JustinBonomo Dem voters absolutely are moving to the correct side, the problem is the DNC and a lot of the establishment dem politicians don't care. They're there to serve their biggest donors (super rich, PACs, big corps) and would rather lose with their preferred candidates than allow