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A handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat an effort to force President Trump to go to Congress for approval to continue using force against Iran, while two G.O.P. lawmakers backed it.

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[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Jared Golden (ME)
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Greg Landsman (OH)
Juan Vargas (CA)

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Dig into their past. Fucking shit bag pedos, every single one

[–] dazzlingclitgame@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Controlled opposition. Again.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'd think they'd start making it easier to believe they're not controlled at this point...

[–] dazzlingclitgame@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They don’t care - we’ve got people foaming at the mouth to “Vote blue no matter who” regardless of how they conduct themselves.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Primaries. Vote in the goddamn motherfucking primaries. Get these lick-spittle, piece of shit, controlled-opposition weasel dicks out.

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cuellar just won his primary by 21 points.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

That's exactly what I'm getting at. These fuck-nuggets win primaries because practically nobody bothers to vote in them. He won with 39,133 votes in total versus Villarreal's 24,908, in a district with around 120,000 voters. The biggest winner of the primaries there was "didn't fucking bother to show up."

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 10 points 1 day ago

2 Democrats*

2 Caucusing IND

212 GOP

3 DNC and 4 GOP not voting

Final tally 210 - 216, let's keep our focus on removing 212 people before we blow all our cash removing 4.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Of course they did

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I even got a victory lap email from my dem rep. Who signed onto one of the other bills that would have given trump a path forward.

Goddamn warhawks.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But they are not the same team guys. /s

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No no, they're clearly different teams. The logo for one is a donkey, and the other uses an elephant. One uses blue, one uses red.

See, totally different.

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only 98% of the Democratic representatives voted differently than the Republicans! The whole lot are totally indistinguishable!

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Must be why you have universal healthcare and actually tax billionaires.

Oh wait

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, fun cool use of a stat!

Who among your large 98% is fucking seriously helping? With any of this?

Shouldn't there be a fucking FEW people, out of all these goddamn chucklefucks, who at least a BUNCH of folks would be like -

"Ya know they're fighting against all odds but they've been in the Senate for X years and I guess they finally had enough, can't believe what I just saw"

The only ones doing shit like that - AT ALL - are Marjorie Taylor fucking Greene?

You've got 98% to work with. Where's anything like the effort these historic events merit?