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[–] coolasbreeze@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

Colour me suprised.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Dems finally got a big shot at change. Will they go for it or revert to the same-old, same-old? Just like the mid-term shake-up there needs to be a dem party shake-up or I fear everything will revert back to the entrenched establishment.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

They got a big shot in 2008 too.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago* (3 children)

they also had their big shot in 2020, 2018, 2008, 2007, and 1955 to 1995 -- they have a recorded and verified history of not taking their shot at change so it's silly to expect or hope that this leopard will change its spots.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth [S] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Still? Did autocorrect get that from "silly?"

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 child)

yes to autocorrect, but i spotted it right before you pointed it out -- thanks anyways though.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth [S] 1 point 8 minutes ago

Always a pleasure. Autocorrect is getting worse!

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

there needs to be a popular shakeup. fascists won't just grow a conscience and stop being fascists without being forced to.

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[–] Denfa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Hi AIPAC, Can we see a list of attendees?

[+] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz -12 points 23 hours ago (14 children)

Doesn’t matter, nobody on the GOP side except Massie switched, so this was irrelevant. If he’d had the votes this would be a story. He didn’t.

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[–] Nola@piefed.zip 50 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

This is missing the forest for the trees

The issue is not they missed the vote, it's why they did and what that says more broadly about the party's capture.

3 of those house members are explicitly on the board of this AIPAC front group, another 5 of them took money this election cycle.

In the first major symbolic vote since the election, these Dems were prostituting themselves for a front group advancing the interests of an ethno supremacist foreign government engaging in a genocide that just helped manipulate our nation into a war and is seeking to re-escalate it.

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[–] tortina_original@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

And not only that.

There cunts have been blaming voters for not voting, foryears. Go vote, you have to vote, it is important to vote.

And now when it is their turn to show everyone how it is done, they fuck off to suck dick. Imagine if few thousand people in Mississippi didn't go vote because they assumed there was no point in it.

American politicians are truly biggest pieces of shit.

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[–] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago*

they fuck off to suck dick

I fully agree with your comment but please, no need for this.

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[–] coolasbreeze@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

A perfect diagnosis.

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[–] rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works 21 points 23 hours ago

Yes it matter. Fuck anybody who did not vote for the empeechement and anybody who defend them

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[–] Akh@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

My understanding is it failed by seven votes, with 11 democrats as no-shows….

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 23 hours ago

Yes, this obviously was performative, but image matters, and the image they’ve projected is that they support both the genocide and war with Iran.

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[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

It's messaging, a show of where their fealty lies. Fealty to the zionist entity by choosing it over this. And a middle finger to anti-genocide pro-Palestine factions of their party who came out to vote for them that they don't give a fuck about them and will always prioritize serving the zionist entity over even domestic concerns.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth [S] 3 points 16 hours ago

Akzhually 🤓

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 10 points 23 hours ago

It is NOT the Democrats fault for being at a Meeting on how we can give MORE TAXPAYER MONEY to Israel INSTEAD of Doing their Jobs protecting Americans! It's the REPUBLICANS Fault!

-LITERALLY you!

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Actually one Democrats said that there was bad car accident in the area which made them late and Republicans closed vote knowing not everyone was present.

Apparently she was a minute late: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/11/pete-hegseth-impeachment-congress-traffic-jam/92724473007/

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth [S] 12 points 23 hours ago

The tweet in this article said another Democrat saw no such thing.

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[–] Denfa@lemmy.world 4 points 55 minutes ago* (1 child)

Oh Please. Stop buying their bullshit. They chose their priorities. They’re fucking lazy from doing nothing for so long they think their only job is to be the do-nothing opposition party and vote to kill civilians and send money to Israel. Republicans aren’t our biggest hurdle to progress. Centrist dems have been supporting conservative causes since the 80s. There is always some stupid excuse centrists give while republicans continue to get their legislation passed even when they don’t control the house. It’s been happening for 45 years.

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https://www.hoover.org/research/how-fdr-saved-capitalism

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth [S] 1 point 7 minutes ago

since the 80s

Since always.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 25 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

This is going to end up as excellent fodder to use in the 2028 primaries against the non-retiring reps who pulled this shit

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

No, it won't. People will have forgotten all about it by then.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

Only if they don't have any DSA opposition.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago

I love the thought of that.

I think the best case scenario is that Dems spend the next two years suppressing DSA's and we end up getting more of them in 2028.

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[–] Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 23 hours ago

By design

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Julia Brownley (California)

J. Luis Correa (California)

Laura Gillen (New York)

Steven Horsford (Nevada)

Jonathan Jackson (Illinois)

Nancy Pelosi (California)

Brittany Pettersen (Colorado)

Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico)

Haley Stevens (Michigan)

Marilyn Strickland (Washington)

Frederica Wilson (Florida)

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

If you got excited last week, just understand that nothing's probably coming of the change in power except for two years of sham hearings that accomplish nothing.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

I take it Democrats just aren't going to fucking learn? Pick any poll ya like, Americans are steadily dropping support for Israel.

[–] Nola@piefed.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

They made it very clear this election that many in the Establishment would rather lose elections than upset Israel or their donor class.

That is why I am perplexed by some of the responses to things like Alex Karp saying he is a Democrat.

It's not the oligarchs scared of accountability, it's them dabbing on us and using the public sphere to openly signal they are willing to shift their money in either direction as long as their interests are met.

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[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.)

Just got reelected and already missed the first critical vote. Awesome job…