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Not content with ramming their collective left foot into their mouths, they decided to shove the right one in also.
https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/17197159828500...Speak on it, sis. AIPAC's dark money grift & anti-democracy propping up of insurrectionists are attempts to undermine the will of the people.
They spread lies, distort truth, and spend millions of dollars targeting Black & brown elected officials working to end hate & injustice.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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AIPAC endorsed scores of Jan 6th insurrectionists. They are no friend to American democracy.
They are one of the more racist and bigoted PACs in Congress as well, who disproportionately target members of color.AIPAC is a funder of racist insurrectionists! Who target people of color!
Ay, yi yi!
Let's go to their website:
https://www.aipacpac.org/Who do we see there?
Kevin McCarthy
Steve Scalise
Tom Emmer
Famous racist insurrectionists, all these guys. Let's keep going.
Hakeem Jeffries
Katherine Clark
Pete Aguilar
Oh.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Dope1: They spread lies, distort truth, and spend millions of dollars targeting Black & brown elected officials working to end hate & injustice.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I admit I had to do some research on this one. Turns out AOC is right.
AIPAC's political action committee endorsed 37 Congresspersons of the Sedition Caucus who had voted to overturn the 2020 election of Joe Biden.
AIPAC has been spending millions, hidden through a surrogate group, the United Democracy Project (UDP), which makes no mention of its creation by AIPAC, to defeat progressive Democrats and particularly female candidates who might potentially align with "the Squad." UDP spent $2.3m in opposition to Summer Lee (Black, female) in the Pennsylvania Democratic congressional primary race in Pennsylvania and $2m in a North Carolina senate primary to support the incumbent Valeria Foushee against Nida Allam, the first Muslim American woman to hold elected office in North Carolina.
Senator Bernie Sanders said AIPAC provides a platform for bigotry.
In fact, there's a long list of criticisms and controversies surrounding AIPAC separate from AOC's position on the war between Hamas and Israel.
Anyway, just reporting what I found.
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Good for you.
Now go tell all the dems they support - including your Minority Leader - to return every last dime.
Let us know when you're done.
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Dope1:
Good for you.
Now go tell all the dems they support - including your Minority Leader - to return every last dime.
Let us know when you're done.First, that makes no sense. The only ones with a beef against the AIPAC are the democrats I noted, such as Sanders and 'The Squad,' and they're not getting any money from AIPAC anyway. The overwhelming majority of contributions by AIPAC in 2022 went to the United Democracy Project, "an organization comprised of American citizens -- Democrats, Republicans and Independents -- united in the belief that America's partnership with our democratic ally Israel benefits both countries."
Second, I don't see any contributions to Hakeem Jeffries.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-p...
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First, that makes no sense.
You're the one agreeing with AOC that AIPAC funds insurrectionists and racists. Turns out the fund...democrats...so you're both right about that.
But since you're the one backing up her argument that they're Just The Worst, Jerry then it's up to you to make sure that your party is polluted with their cash.
Let us know how it goes!
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Dope1: You're the one agreeing with AOC that AIPAC funds insurrectionists and racists. Turns out the fund...democrats...so you're both right about that.
Wrong, as usual.
I simply said that AOC was right about AIPAC funding -- it has funded insurrectionists. I said nothing about racists and AOC only said AIPAC targets "Black & brown elected officials" and it has through their candidate funding. AOC didn't call AIPAC racists but you seem to have come to the conclusion that targeting Black and brown politicians makes it a racist organization.
And none of what I wrote is "backing up her argument," it's simply stating facts. Reporting facts has nothing to do with agreement or disagreement on issues, as I explained upthread.
Dope1: But since you're the one backing up her argument that they're Just The Worst, Jerry then it's up to you to make sure that your party is polluted with their cash.
Yeah, it's not... for reasons detailed above. Have someone explain it to you. Or show me where I said or implied "they're Just The Worst". You seem to like to put words in other poster's mouths, not an uncommon trait of cultists on the losing end of arguments.
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Okay, so now you want to parse your own thing and move some goalposts.
But you're forgetting something: You're agreeing with AOC's premise - that AIPAC is a bad egg that funds bad people. You even say it has funded insurrectionists.
And we both know thanks to your repeated posts and literal obsession with this topic that there's nothing more banal or evil on the planet than an "insurrectionist".
So it's incumbent upon you to call up Hakeem Jeffries and every other democrat that AIPAC sends money to and tell them they need to send it back, pronto. Because otherswise they're taking money from somebody who supports insurrectionists and whom Cori Bush says spends millions targeting black and brown people.
Go on, now. Let us know what they say.
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AIPAC will take the squad out if and when they feel it's needed.
They can.
They will at a time of their choosing.
In the meantime they taught AOC the facts of life and she's falling in line somewhat.
