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He's the only Republican member of congress not controlled by Isreal. All other Republicans have an AIPAC minder that they call their "AIPAC guy" that they obey. On every vote they think, well what does my AIPAC guy think. I'll just do what he says. Thomas Massie got rid of his. He's openly critical of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Now Mike Johnson is potentially going to loose the speakership because he needs 50% of the votes and it is assumed that the democrats all vote against the Republican speaker. So really he needs 95%+ of the Republican votes. Literally two nay votes is enough. And Thomas Massie isn't voting for him because of the whole Israel thing.

If a few of the Isreal critical Democrats were to back Thomas Massie we could end up with a Speaker of the House that has no problem talking about how it's corrupt that we give Israel money when we have problems here just to have them use the money to create more problems there.

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[–] x0x7 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is also very critical because Trump is very anti-intervention, except when it comes to Israel. Anything for them says Trump. Someone has to counteract that.