Cori Bush loses primary after a pro-Israel group spent millions campaigning against her
Cori Bush loses primary after a pro-Israel group spent millions campaigning against her
Her defeat is another loss for progressives in a race defined by Democratic divisions over the war in Gaza, with pro-Israel groups pouring millions into a campaign to oust her from office.
knew the US was depraved on an intellectual level before Netanyahu's address to congress, but seeing that really broke something and I haven't really been the same since
Usually it's a bit more subtle, or enough steps removed that people can pretend it's not so openly monstrous.
Not this time.
Only one cool politician left in the US Congress, and it's partly because she's from the city with the largest Muslim population in the US.
And Muslims have faced decades of mass murder and racist propaganda which presumably influences why American Muslims are more clear-eyed about what politics to support. Is that what it takes for people in the US to have any kind of conviction?
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FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE????
US SENATOR: Foreign campaign funds? I thought you guys were our allies.
ISRAELI CIVIL SOCIETY ORG DIRECTOR: Mhmhm Yeees, that's what we wanted you to think! presses button embedded in his desk
ISRAELI CIVIL SOCIETY ORG DIRECTOR's name card flips over with the sound of a motorized whir, revealing that his name is actually VLADIMIR PUTIN
"Nah it's called lobbying kiddo" -
F
Never believed in electoralism anyway
Walz becomes VP nominee in morning
Cori Bush loses in evening
Democrats are where progress goes to die anyways.
I don't want to fedpost but I really want to fedpost
Even before the electoral cycle started, they’ve been going after Bush hard on some trumped up accusations of misuse of campaign funds or something like that. Not unlike what AOC had to deal with briefly - I’m guessing she made some sort of deal with the DNC that Bush didn’t.