Bowman loses New York primary in blow to progressives
Bowman loses New York primary in blow to progressives
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Democrats love foreign interference as long as it's against progressives.
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Anybody following this able to give a balanced summary? I find The Hill to tend right-leaning and don't much trust their analysis.
The Hill seems to be placing the defeat of Bowman on his stance against the genocide in Palestine, which is becoming a sort of dog-whistle saying, "stand against the invasion of Palestine, and this is what happens to you." It may in this case be true; I can believe it, but I don't trust The Hill to not be constructing a narrative.
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AIPAc spent like 14 million against him.
I think it I saw an article about how this was the most expensive primary for the House.
So yeah, because of his stance on Palestine (which was "genocide bad") Israel interfered in our election.
But Schumer, Harrison, and Biden take more AIPAC money that pretty much anyone else, so they're going to say this proves voters don't want progress and love genocide.or some other crazy shit.
Our system is broken and abused, and a D by someone's name clearly isn't enough anymore.
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This is all right, I’ll just add that Bowman was among the first to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, basically right after Oct 7th happened. A number of large progressive Dems have rallied to his side (including Bernie and AOC this past weekend), which clearly wasn’t enough.
This was also a D primary, so everyone had a D by their name.
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The Hill fired Katie Halper, a Jewish women, in the past for agreeing that israel is an apartheid state at a time human rights organisations did so.
The Hill just fired one of their most popular reporters Briahna Joy Gray for being too anti-israel and pushing back on debunked rape hoaxes.
The Hill is 100% a Zionist propaganda outlet.
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The other shoe is this is the guy who pulled the fire alarm. The attack ads for his primary have been written for a long time and he didn't have good odds no matter who primaried him. The Dems went with the conservative guy to get AIPAC to fund the campaign and because they don't fundamentally care about ideology, just having the most seats.
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This is the guy who pulled a fire alarm to delay a vote. They were never not going to primary him. His statements on Israel just meant they could get AIPAC to fund his replacement.
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Stark reminder that the Democratic party is fully bought and paid for by AIPAC. Who's AIPACs primary funder again? That's right, Republicans.
A vote for Democrat is a vote for Republicans.
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I am just destroyed by this. I genuinely had a little faith in humanity that people wouldn't fall for this bullshit but I guess I sorely was mistaken.
Laitmer is a conservative, racist piece of shit who is going to take over Manchin's job of fucking things up for progressives. Fucking hell this sucks.
To top it off, Israel just successfully dropped a political nuke on a critic and will likely have everyone running scared in the future.
Machin is in a different chamber
Way to focus on the important parts 🙄
You can abuse your position as a holdout and potentially fuck everything up in either chamber. Bills require passage in both chambers... but I'm sure you knew that.
I just hope there are enough gains in the house to make his ass irrelevant.
Israel also failed with every other progressive so far. And this guy had a target on his back from the day he pulled the fire alarm to delay a vote.
This guy had a target on his back because he's a progressive. The fire alarm thing was just a weak spot.
And then in a decade or so when Israel does something equally heinous we'll have an entire new generation wondering why the US supports Israel.