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FLIPADELPHIA
Apr 27, 2007

Heavy Shit
Grimey Drawer
It's shocking how much of a cesspool Twitter has become. It's been completely taken over by fascists and KHive / Biden worshipping types in just a year or so.

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Automata 10 Pack
Jun 21, 2007

Ten games published by Automata, on one cassette
don’t need two labels to describe them, lol

AmiYumi
Oct 10, 2005

I FORGOT TO HAIL KING TORG

FLIPADELPHIA posted:

It's shocking how much of a cesspool Twitter has become. It's been completely taken over by fascists and KHive / Biden worshipping types in just a year or so.
"this pool full of used diapers smells like poo poo now"

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
https://twitter.com/StolenDans/status/1764648751212142969

Brogeoisie
Jan 12, 2005

"Look, I'm a private citizen," he said. "One thing that I don't have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money I make or didn't."
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1764821600593928669?t=QDd33N6nLq8mcWo6cDNuvg&s=19

Controlled opposition melts down when confronted

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Willa Rogers posted:

the democrat party gets slagged for being oldheads but they've got some real firestarters coming up for the party's future!





these are some terribly ugly children

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008



wah wah you're not helping them!
*votes "present" for rockets for nazis*

FLIPADELPHIA
Apr 27, 2007

Heavy Shit
Grimey Drawer
Lol she ran out of there like people were throwing rocks at her

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

It's so funny that she couldn't even bring herself to lie

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


she only has $357 in israeli bribes shown here:
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?code=Q05&cycle=All&ind=Q05&mem=Y&recipdetail=H
so i guess the dnc probably threatened to cut her off a few years back. or israel just bribes her off the books. or maybe someone threatened to kill her
or hell all three
i suppose if you have principles you don't become a politician

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

shes a careerist loser thats it assigning her to be some cia freak like some goons do is overdoing it imo

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

HallelujahLee posted:

shes a careerist loser thats it assigning her to be some cia freak like some goons do is overdoing it imo

absolutely but let's also not pretend that "cia freak" and "careerist loser" are somehow mutually exclusive groups, lot of crossover there

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

absolutely but let's also not pretend that "cia freak" and "careerist loser" are somehow mutually exclusive groups, lot of crossover there

fair point

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


HallelujahLee posted:

shes a careerist loser thats it assigning her to be some cia freak like some goons do is overdoing it imo

i agree but I'm just wondering if/how they're manipulating her. i think it's most likely that the dnc threatened to cut off support or primary her

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Hatebag posted:

i agree but I'm just wondering if/how they're manipulating her. i think it's most likely that the dnc threatened to cut off support or primary her
they sent nancy to make her cry again

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Hatebag posted:

i agree but I'm just wondering if/how they're manipulating her. i think it's most likely that the dnc threatened to cut off support or primary her

Wasn't she in a district that they basically threatened to eliminate and roll into another one? I vaguely remember something like that

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Yeah I assume the DNC is bringing down the hammer on antiwar sentiment in their caucus as genocide becomes more and more unpopular and threatens Biden's reelection.

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Wasn't she in a district that they basically threatened to eliminate and roll into another one? I vaguely remember something like that

ny state dems were doing redistricting in 2020 but she was raking in like $30 million so she probably could have beaten anyone they threw at her because she's a rep with a national profile and a huge bankroll. her district is mostly the bronx and north queens. i don't know if there's really a way they could cut that up to dilute her constituency without just making a bunch of lines out to long island and maybe letting a republican take it

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

HallelujahLee posted:

they sent nancy to make her cry again

Yeah whatever Nancy said to her to make her burst into tears in public in front of cameras was probably as effective a threat as they ever need whatever it was. if it was only "we're cutting off your fundraising" then even bigger lols.

Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007


lol they ruined her Dune 2 experience

Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007

Hatebag posted:

i agree but I'm just wondering if/how they're manipulating her. i think it's most likely that the dnc threatened to cut off support or primary her

i think it's most likely that she's always been a wishy washy dorkus

The337th
Mar 30, 2011


she made it

she got the bag, and why would she endanger that for a cause that isn't as important as her career

it doesn't take any special effort to manipulate that, the status quo will reinforce her fecklessness

street doc
Feb 20, 2019

Adam Schiff beat Katie Porter. gently caress democrats

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Hatebag posted:

ny state dems were doing redistricting in 2020 but she was raking in like $30 million so she probably could have beaten anyone they threw at her because she's a rep with a national profile and a huge bankroll. her district is mostly the bronx and north queens. i don't know if there's really a way they could cut that up to dilute her constituency without just making a bunch of lines out to long island and maybe letting a republican take it
I mean AOC in particular might have the money to withstand it, but the bankroll that gets thrown at random representatives is unreal.

Summer Lee, running for a totally safe D seat in Pittsburgh, had $2m in PAC money just randomly thrown at her during the primary two years ago and she nearly crashed and burned because of it - and then they tried again with only a lousy million in the general but having (D) next to your name is too powerful. And like, that was two years ago, she wasn't the incumbent (her current primary challenger is courting far-right Hindi nationalists, lmao), nobody had heard of this random lady running in a closed primary.

If the dark money wanted to bring out the big guns I would not be at all surprised - per opensecrets there have already been a few House races that had over $20m total invested in them and if you were to ask individual billionaires if they would pay that to not hear AOC's name ever again I bet they'd take it because she's a shibboleth, right?

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

i think it's most likely that she's always been a wishy washy dorkus

Yeah, I actually believe the Ryan Grim account (apparently corroborated by Tlaib/Omar) that AOC was just crying because she was upset about potentially upsetting her Jewish constituents or something, and Pelosi didn't actually care how she voted (which makes sense, since her vote there didn't matter and IIRC, other "Squad" people voted differently).

Basically she's just kind of dumb and doesn't believe in anything much beyond taking the path of least resistance to stay in office. I don't see any reason she'd need to be threatened by Democratic leadership in the first place - a threat would imply there was ever even a risk of her not being cooperative.

Tatsuta Age
Apr 21, 2005

so good at being in trouble


yeah, AOC and Bernie and Obama all became varying levels of huge disappointment. who's next in the tank, because as far as I can tell, all the back benchers waiting to step up in the next 5 years aren't even starting out looking good, just awful right from the jump

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

Ytlaya posted:

Yeah, I actually believe the Ryan Grim account (apparently corroborated by Tlaib/Omar) that AOC was just crying because she was upset about potentially upsetting her Jewish constituents or something, and Pelosi didn't actually care how she voted (which makes sense, since her vote there didn't matter and IIRC, other "Squad" people voted differently).

Basically she's just kind of dumb and doesn't believe in anything much beyond taking the path of least resistance to stay in office. I don't see any reason she'd need to be threatened by Democratic leadership in the first place - a threat would imply there was ever even a risk of her not being cooperative.

AOC is a careerist. There's no blackmail or big payday; she never actually was a socialist to begin with.

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

AOC is a careerist. There's no blackmail or big payday; she never actually was a socialist to begin with.

Not saying she was a socialist but absolutely something changed from when she got elected and was tweeting out poo poo about the orientation lobbyist meeting for new congresspeople to yelling at people and rushing away Pelosi-style as she's leaving a movie theater because she won't denounce genocide.

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

yeah the size of her paycheck

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Summer Lee, running for a totally safe D seat in Pittsburgh, had $2m in PAC money just randomly thrown at her during the primary two years ago and she nearly crashed and burned because of it - and then they tried again with only a lousy million in the general but having (D) next to your name is too powerful. And like, that was two years ago, she wasn't the incumbent (her current primary challenger is courting far-right Hindi nationalists, lmao), nobody had heard of this random lady running in a closed primary.
Maybe a stupid question, but how much of this is just basically money laundering? Like, they just needed to spend $2 million on TV ad-buys in her district as a favour to someone for mostly unrelated reasons.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





the only actual way you'll ever have an effective left-wing Democrat in Congress nowadays is if they're already independently wealthy

so there's no chance in hell of that happening then

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Halloween Jack posted:

Maybe a stupid question, but how much of this is just basically money laundering? Like, they just needed to spend $2 million on TV ad-buys in her district as a favour to someone for mostly unrelated reasons.
I would assume not much, if only because it all happened at once - like the adbuying could be spaced out throughout the primary, as opposed to "holy poo poo this person's actually winning blitz time" - but I genuinely do not know either. It does seem like one House seat shouldn't be worth that much.

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
do not vote for joe biden

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1765784774918955482

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

Throwing a coin in a fountain thinking of US troops and the IDF accidentally getting into a firefight.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Given the discipline of the IDF, it's not out of the question.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

Never have, never will.

Retromancer
Aug 21, 2007

Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.

Didn't Ilhan Omar get censured for saying AIPAC was a foreign lobbying group?

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

Retromancer posted:

Didn't Ilhan Omar get censured for saying AIPAC was a foreign lobbying group?

She used the hatespeech phrase "it's all about the benjamins" to describe why every politician is taking AIPAC money in exchange for taking AIPAC approved positions.

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

quote:

In response to a tweet on Sunday from a journalist questioning why US political leaders always defend Israel, Ms Omar used a slang term for $100 bills, writing: "it's all about the Benjamins baby."


quote:

When challenged where she thought such money was coming from, the 36-year-old Somali-American tweeted back: "Aipac."


quote:

Aipac spends millions of dollars a year lobbying lawmakers and the US federal government to adopt pro-Israel policies, according to campaign-finance monitors.


quote:

Omar's statement came on the heels of one from House Democratic leadership calling on Omar to apologize for comments they said included "anti-Semitic tropes."

The statement from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and other members of House Democratic leadership said anti-Semitism had to be called out "without exception."

"Legitimate criticism of Israel's policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the United States and Israel share," the statement read. "But Congresswoman Omar's use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel's supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments."

Ilhan is right and the Democrats are loving cowards

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ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

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