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Rep. Cori Bush Tells AIPAC She’s ‘Coming to Tear Your Kingdom Down’ After Primary Loss (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It took the 2nd most heavily funded House primary in US history to unseat a member of the squad. It came in 2nd only because the 1st was to unseat Jamaal Bowman.

The writing is on the wall, AIPAC's and the pro-fascist Israel lobby's days are numbered. Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn't a sustainable strategy.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn't a sustainable strategy

I want to agree with you on that, but it's pretty clear that promoting fascism is at least in the short-term very profitable. Plus the money they spend ousting anti-Isreal politicians means they are more likely to get US Military money, so they spend less on their own military, which frees up funds in order to... influence US politics. I don't like it, but so far it appears to be an effective strategy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'm not saying that they'll run out of money, I'm saying that spending in a campaign has diminishing returns. In a single district there's only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads. Summer Lee was also critical of Israel, but they didn't even bother to try to unseat her because she wasn't vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago

Its hard to track down precise numbers but US aid to Bibi is in the range of 12 to 24 billion, so 12,000 to 24,000 million, just since october 7th, 2023.

Then keep in mind that in the last major attack from Iran, Israel itself did almost nothing. The US and its allies, including Jordan, did almost all of the heavy lifting on blocking the attack.

Bibi has money to burn and hes proven three times already that he wants Trump in charge of things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Takes a lot to look at AIPAC successfully defeating two of their highest priority targets and giving it a negative spjn for AIPAC.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Regardless of their immediate success, the issue was that they had to do this at all. They didn't used to have to spend much to unseat a candidate they didn't like, and now they do. The campaigns they used to unseat both didn't even attack them over Israel, which says a lot about how the Democrat base feels about the issue. There were also some squad members, like Summer Lee, who are critical of Israel but not vulnerable enough for AIPAC to even bother. Money can only go so far.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn't a sustainable strategy.

We would need to compare how much they spend to how much they have, or how much they gain on the regular, before we could make that assertion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's not a question of how much money they have to burn, it's a question of how effective the money they spend will be. In a single district, there's only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy.

Money for us "normal folk" and AIPAC are completely different things. AIPAC can throw as much money around as they like. It's like claiming Louis Vuitton destroys millions of dollars in property every time they burn their unsold merchandise

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (50 children)

I will donate to her so set it up we should be helping her. It bullshit and should be 100% illegal. It literally a foreign government interfering in our elections. Why the fuck are we allowing this?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

In 2010 a Repub SCOTUS decided corporations are people. They were able to do so because in 2000 a Repub SCOTUS illegally decided the election for the Repubs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, the GOP had project 2025 planned for decades and the DNC had project “suppress any semblance of leftism in the US” going on since the Southern Strategy.

One of them succeeded.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

I hope she can

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Go get them, Ma'am. Fuck them for what they did to you. And then come back and run again next round pushing even harder.

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