Fuck AIPAC and fuck their money. Democrats should not be working with this foreign influence operation. It's disgusting.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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If it were any other country sinking this kind of money into politics, there would be hearings, investigations, sanctions, etc.
Yeah... It is pretty crazy that a PAC explicitly intended to give influence to a foreign country is legal in any way.
Thanks 2010 SCOTUS for determining unrestricted SuperPAC money is 100% okay and unrestricted donations to a SuperPAC is 100% okay.
Citizens United and SpeechNow solidified how fucked American elections are.
While I think that the supreme Court is slanted shite, isn't every ruling they make just a "that's not what we think the law currently says" meaning we should instead be blaming Congress for not writing an updated law that clarifies what we want?
At least we know that when bad stuff is happening, Bowman won't hesitate to sound the alarm.
Can we get campaign finance reform or are we just going to ignore the blatant power imbalance of lobbying and political action committees in the political process.
Fair elections shouldn't be judged based on their dollar amounts, but looky here, that's what this whole article is about. More money on my side wins, yay! Good thing my great grandparents exploited more people when I was young and I have all the money in the world to manipulate people!
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Israel is like the panicking drowning person and the US is the person that gets drowned trying to save them.
Foreign influence
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC has launched its first ads attacking Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District.
“NY-16 Democrats are united in rejecting MAGA’s threat to our freedoms, which is why Trump Republicans are funding a $1.9 million ad spend to distract us from their attempt to buy our seat,” Bowman campaign spokesperson Lawrence Wang said in a statement to The Intercept.
The pro-Israel lobby planned to spend $100 million this cycle to oust members of the Squad who have been critical of U.S. military funding for Israel and led calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Latimer’s campaign came under scrutiny when it first launched for leaving the Bronx, part of which is in the district, off of his website and only mentioning Westchester County, which is a primarily white suburb.
“While the biggest threat to Black America is white supremacist policymakers, they financially support the folks causing us the most harm,” Lee wrote.
AIPAC supported several candidates of color last cycle, including Glenn Ivey, Adam Hollier, Henry Cuellar, Shontel Brown, Valerie Foushee, and Don Davis.
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So, the party's going to do what it did for Coathanger Cuellar and protect the incumbent, right?