yea there's one solution and it ain't voting
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The Republicans snuck these into a bill about our funding for the UN, State Department, and foreign aid. It was a shameful tactic.
I have always voted for funding for the State Department, UN, and USAID in my 10 years in Congress.
I have already voted no on military sales to Israel, voted for funding UNRWA, voting for funding the ICC and co-sponsored Tlaib's genocide resolutions.
AIPAC is currently spending against me in the district because of my record on Gaza.
rokhanna@irl https://nitter.net/RoKhanna/status/2012301652158566873
we are reaching smolbean level previously thought unreachable
Lol he is saying no one on the Dem side read the bill because they trust the Republicans so much? I kind of doubt that... They all want to be Republicans, but they can't drop the (D) label in their respective districts, so they always have to offer some small resistance, like tweets or voting down some less important bills to show how tough they are against the Republicans.
There are only two parties, they just need to hold on to that (D) branding and they are extremely likely to get around 50% in every general election.
Lmao
He deserves to die twice as much for this as for doing it on purpose. It's not like these assholes have difficult jobs, yet they still can't be bothered to even pay someone to do it for them.
Nah I'm sure it's some massive scandal that Ro will fight tirelessly and endlessly to expose. Certainly he won't just move on from it into next week because none of this effects him. Right?
Because if people in the government tricked other people in government into doing something that would be a big deal! And you would expect the people who got tricked to be really really mad and do something about it.
The parliamentarian! Rules based order! Democrats ~~hide behind~~ uphold those things all the time! They've probably got blood in their eyes right now right?
((Sarcasm aside: God damn America and fuck that lame weasely lie, oh my god "I didn't know!!! : (" lameasssss))
Fucking lauren boebert voted no. 
poor staffers, small amount of time, would you look at the time, oops, voted to finance entity again, see you next podcast.
Who cares, it is only a war crime according to my own public statements. Just a whoopsie like the Iraq war, time to run for president now!
ctrl-f is hard, while control oil flows is easy
"Dems don't cater to the left because they're an unreliable voting bloc" " "Don't let good be the enemy of perfect"
The good:
House website isn't loading for me. Any other reliable sources?
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
we've been out of excuses for the lack of terror for a long time
Democrats are such cucks.
You will never be “cool” with republicans. Go ahead and brag about how you were all good little boys and sucked the GOP off on command. You know what Americans will do? Ignore everything you’ve done for them and keep voting for Republicans.
Harm reduction in action
Harm obfuscation party
A new Deutschland Uber Alles moment every month from now on.
If you thought 2025 was the year where a decade happened every week, then get ready for 2026 where every day a new farce happens.
There are farces where decades happen. Doesn't make sense? Well neither does this bloody planet 