• theparadox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I am just destroyed by this. I genuinely had a little faith in humanity that people wouldn’t fall for this bullshit but I guess I sorely was mistaken.

    Laitmer is a conservative, racist piece of shit who is going to take over Manchin’s job of fucking things up for progressives. Fucking hell this sucks.

    To top it off, Israel just successfully dropped a political nuke on a critic and will likely have everyone running scared in the future.

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          5 months ago

          It matters though. The weight of a single Rep in the House is far less than a US Senator. It sucks, of course, but very relevant. He can’t be a Manchin.

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        5 months ago

        You can abuse your position as a holdout and potentially fuck everything up in either chamber. Bills require passage in both chambers… but I’m sure you knew that.

        I just hope there are enough gains in the house to make his ass irrelevant.

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      5 months ago

      Israel also failed with every other progressive so far. And this guy had a target on his back from the day he pulled the fire alarm to delay a vote.

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      5 months ago

      To top it off, Israel just successfully dropped a political nuke on a critic and will likely have everyone running scared in the future.

      And then in a decade or so when Israel does something equally heinous we’ll have an entire new generation wondering why the US supports Israel.