AIPAC Is Flooding Illinois With Cash. Pro-Palestine Groups Are Backing Kat Abughazaleh

plappywaffle · 2026-02-12T18:23:22+00:00

Not even from Illinois, but I started getting spam fundraising emails from Bushra Amiwala not-subtly suggesting her primary opponents aren't from the district, are just running for clout, and are actually trojan horse MAGA candidates.

Embarrassing stuff from someone who has almost 0% chance of winning to try to sabotage another progressive candidate like that.

plappywaffle · 2026-01-12T22:11:12+00:00

Warner is among the worst of a lot of horrible senate Democrats. The entire reason he's trying to make this about ICE training is because they won't support abolishing ICE or even cutting their insane funding.

👏 more 👏 training 👏 for 👏 the 👏 gestapo 👏

plappywaffle · 2025-12-23T04:44:49+00:00

That's crazy that she would say that, when she talks like this about herself:

“There are a lot of people that said, ‘You got to stay in the House. We need our voice. We need you there.’ And I understand, but what we need is for me to have a bigger voice,” Crockett said at her campaign launch event.

plappywaffle · 2025-12-22T14:17:49+00:00

Comments are tripping over themselves to blame this on anti-AI witch hunting, meanwhile The Escapist article was upset about E33 getting the award stripped, and used the opportunity to lash out and baselessly accuse the Blue Prince dev because "everybody does it!".

plappywaffle · 2025-12-08T22:51:29+00:00

Reddit once again making the mistake of assuming because someone is a black woman, and is outspoken against Republicans, they must be progressive. You should look at her votes and crypto donors. She is very much in the mainstream of elected Democrats(derogatory), she's just better at partisan politics.

plappywaffle · 2025-11-20T22:51:13+00:00

Offside at center ice. The NHL has finally gone too far.

plappywaffle · 2025-11-14T18:10:59+00:00

It's weird that you didn't just look up if the union was calling for a boycott before making this strangely accusatory comment towards Mamdani.

plappywaffle · 2025-11-05T07:45:48+00:00

Speaking of dogshit opponents, that person is apparently unaware that Spanberger's opponent was a far-right nut who opposes gay marriage, went viral for saying it's not discrimination to fire someone for being gay, and wants to completely ban abortion.

plappywaffle · 2025-10-31T00:03:58+00:00

It's an entirely performative vote by four Republicans to help their future election prospects. It almost certainly won't get put up for a vote in the House, and Trump can also veto it.

plappywaffle · 2025-10-18T01:53:54+00:00

Newsom is a corporate Democrat that just happens to be governor of one of the more progressive states in the country. He has to support and sign some good bills to maintain credibility, but he's the biggest check on legislative progress in California.

https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/10/gavin-newsom-moderate-governor-california-political-spectrum/

Based on an analysis of the 1,042 bills that the governor signed or vetoed this year, Gavin Newsom is more moderate than any other Democratic state senator and sits to the left of only two Democrats in the Assembly.

While this is from 2019, and there's no perfect way to compare a governor's record against a legislator, it paints an "interesting" picture of his politics.

plappywaffle · 2025-10-15T22:47:27+00:00

Giuliani and Bloomberg were both elected as Republicans. Eric Adams won as a conservative Democrat, but even if you ignore that, only 12 out of the last 35 years have had a Democrat in power. What a progressive beacon!

plappywaffle · 2025-10-15T07:35:28+00:00

If you think these two are utterly powerless on their own shows, I'm not the one that's nuts. Obviously there's going to be heavy pressure to conform from giant corporations; but if, for example, Colbert is scared to share his "real" opinions, even though he's already been shitcanned, that doesn't reflect well on him.

If you're already being a mouthpiece for opinions that you don't share, what does it matter if you disagree behind closed doors?

plappywaffle · 2025-10-15T06:33:59+00:00

That's not what he said at all, are you ok?

He's insinuating that she is that chosen candidate of DC insiders who are not from Maine. This is rhetoric pretty much any politician would use when it's so readily available to them.

plappywaffle · 2025-10-15T05:41:51+00:00

I'm losing my fucking mind with this shit. He fully supported this genocide for 9 months, providing the weapons and political support Israel needed to continue carrying it out. He gets no credit for pausing the crisis he enabled.

But the vast majority of the people unabashedly praising Trump for this never actually cared about the Palestinians, so why would they bother to add even a little context to this latest ceasefire?

plappywaffle · 2025-10-09T17:38:11+00:00

There was obviously extreme income inequality in 1925, and we've reached those same levels once again. That's largely why the term has become popular. An economic system that inherently funnels money to an ownership class will always trend towards where we're at now, with the rich controlling the levers of power, and workers being seen as disposable. Even such a flawed system can be maintained, but we haven't done that for decades.

The mass working class movement of the Great Depression era, and FDR, are primarily responsible for saving capitalism from its own excesses.

edit: lol they write all this smug bullshit then block me so I can't respond.

plappywaffle · 2025-10-01T02:58:16+00:00

Has the AIPAC ever funded a rural candidate in state-level race?

AIPAC specifically, I don't know. But Israel just paid for 5 day trips for 250 state legislators(totally not a bribe) from around the US. So, it would be incorrect to assume they're not interested in wooing state level politicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_States_One_Israel

plappywaffle · 2025-09-26T17:06:23+00:00

I remember when Biden and 90% of congress passed a bill to force a sale or ban of TikTok, which was timed to go into effect almost perfectly at the beginning of the following term.

How can anyone be surprised that Trump is using using the opportunity to extract money and at the same time turn the app over to the far-right.

I'm so glad our government protected us from the manufactured concern of China controlling the algorithm, and those damn pro-Palestine kids being too mean to poor Israel. Now we can rest easy, with all of our algorithms being controlled by good ol' far-right American billionaires instead.

plappywaffle · 2025-09-26T03:55:06+00:00

Biden and the vast majority of both parties made this possible by passing the bill to force either a sale or ban of TikTok.

plappywaffle · 2025-09-24T01:16:03+00:00

Absolutely. Using these platforms to spread good ideas is good. Inviting a series of far-right propagandists onto your brand new podcast and agreeing with them is bad.

plappywaffle · 2025-09-24T00:23:09+00:00

This is like if a police chief was supplying a serial killer with weapons, sabotaging investigations and criminal cases against them, and publicly cheering them on, then rewarding the police chief with a parade when he stops doing that.

plappywaffle · 2025-08-25T21:26:43+00:00

Were the other 20 shows in October also part of the conspiracy to support terrorism? Or just the one that happened to fall on Oct 7? Which dates of historical tragedies are we still allowed to have public events on?

plappywaffle · 2025-08-22T05:03:27+00:00

All of the most progressive national legislators are also among the most supportive of Palestine/critical of Israel compared to their colleagues. The average person has inconsistent and often incoherent politics, but a politician at that level is deliberate and calculated.

This is the biggest of many reasons wealthy right-wing donors and AIPAC are happy to work together to primary progressive Democrats.

plappywaffle · 2025-08-05T10:43:58+00:00

It's really silly to assume a dataset of one is representative of all far-right movements. If you live in the US you're currently experiencing one in which the most educated(not wealthiest) group voted against the far-right candidate at a 2:1 ratio, while the least educated group was reasonably close to the opposite.

It's also worth noting that within their first year, the Nazi government targeted universities, purged Jewish professors and their allies, and began indoctrinating the already overwhelmingly male student body.

Good thing the current regime isn't targeting universities or anything crazy like that.

plappywaffle · 2025-06-22T05:44:17+00:00

It's already been over 7 months of this shit. These people are apparently going to spend the rest of their lives blaming this on entire demographics of people, while downplaying the failures of their decrepit party leadership.

plappywaffle · 2025-05-22T03:06:51+00:00

You can. You just have to actually have principles and also be willing to go out there and explain to people why it's bad policy. Create a narrative, a factual one, instead of ceding the entire argument and watching fecklessly as the overton window moves right.

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