While party leaders such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and big Democratic donors, are pro-Israel, actual Democratic voters have moved on from Israel with remarkable speed and consistency.

They’ve been lame ducks for all but one week of this congress and stand no chance in hell of retaining their positions.

Because they got their positions due to threats from a biased DNC chair against starte parties, then a week later the neoliberals lost the DNC chair.

The VF money that was being used as a threat/bribe to state parties has been getting dumped on the state parties ever since

There’s no more carrot or stick to get neoliberals those positions.

We only got six months till the new congress, and whomever occupies the minority leadership positions till then just flat out doesn’t fucking matter.

The Australian government wouldn’t have seen the first two posts…

But three posts to the same Lemmy community?!?

There’s no way this won’t land on the proper desk

/s

he puts his money where his mouth is.

Then why does he still have over 2 billion dollars*

Anyone that is a billionaire doesn’t care about helping and all the help they give is a PR campaign

Wake the fuck up

The “puppy” is a multi billionaire who spent $200,000,000 on his own primary and is one of the largest individual donors to super pacs in American history…

But trust me bro, he’s totally progressive and is gonna decide to not be a billionaire any day now…

Clearing trump going from one of the largest donors to the Democratic party to… Well, all of this, wouldn’t happen again!

This time we’ll just pick a good billionaire, duh.

/s

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/california-governor-results

The “jungle primary” is designed to get two shitty Dems and a Republican to the general.

But a billionaire who has a D by their name is an obvious liar. If they actually believed their own policy, they’d just have start giving money away long before a billion.

Simple people love simple answers.

It’s a lot easier to blame trump personally and pretend we’d have been fine without him. Even tho most of the people saying Trump’s the only problem, said the same thing about Bush.

It’s easier to blame the sacrifice goat (especially when the goat is evil) than it is to understand if that goat was never born the same people would have just brought out a different goat.

Republican and neoliberal presidents are always just empty suits for the oligarchs.

But simple people never pay enough attention, they don’t look past the surface. They’ll never understand how to fix the underlying condition, because they only notice symptoms.

Merrick Garland who also did far too little far too late, are only two of many events in a long chain that built up to this.

More people didn’t vote than voted for Kamala or trump…

The problem is voter turnout, because people thought even if Kamala won, Dem.votersbwouldmt.

It ain’t that complicated.

trump likely wouldn’t have won 2028 from blue collar run of the mill prison

Definitely wouldn’t have won from Gitmo

Joe Biden broke America when America rallied around him as the only other option and his first action in office was to tell his voters if they thought he’d do anything they don’t know how politics worked…

That crashed 2028 turnout and is why trump was elected the second time.

We already had the negative consequences, we have to understand why it actually happened.

Our capitalist society legally obligates corporations to maximize share holder return at all costs.

If they don’t, the shareholders sue the corporation they own, and win.

It’s not “greed mode” it’s not even that they’re always in that mode.

It’s like a fucking George Foreman grill, there’s no switches or modes. If it’s plugged in, this is what’s happening. There’s no way to have the system plugged in and not doing this

Like if someone turned on a light switch, and then asked why the room gets brighter every time they turn the switch on. Everything is working as designed…

Yes…

None of those are happening normally.

If a bus slams into the bus stop at 90mph, you don’t just step onto it. Even if it arrived at the right time.

That’s not true at all …

What the actual fuck about today do you think is normal for the entire existence of America?

All the sources for anything in the oval are people trump pays

Especially when it’s about phone calls a handful of people were in the room for, if it leaks it’s intentional.

Which could mean they’re testing the waters of cutting ties, or just to distance himself in the public eye but nothing changes.

Yeah…

But those professors who get to hire their own assistants are themselves hired by HR.

You might need a PHD to head a department, but it’s not like all the professors go to the library and the school president watches for smoke.

I think a big factor is effort isn’t rewarded.

The only people I see giving a fuck these days are veterans, or others who are used to doing shit because no one else will do it. In any military organization at least 20% are pulling a Marshawn Lynch every day they put a uniform on.

Why bust your ass instead of doing the absolute bare minimum to not get yelled at?

It’s like running from a bear versuses running after a rabbit. Fear motivates you to not be slowest, pursuit of rewards motivates you to be the fastest.

There’s no reasonable expectations of rewards, were all just avoiding getting eaten

I know HR is a social joke and has been for a very long time…

But I really think a big problem is we made the people who decide who gets hired, fired, and prompted be some of the dumbest fucking people in a company.

Especially since once someone is HR, they tend to be HR at any company they work at. Like how CEOs are disconnected from everyone else.

It’s not just kids…

I don’t know if people are relying on AI and losing critical thinking, long term COVID, micro plastics in the brain, or with the lack of reward for labor everyone just stopped giving a shit.

But something has fucking happened in the last 5 years.

Way too many people are just incapable of incredibly basic thinking.

Won’t someone think of the multi billionaire hedge fund manager who’s one of the largest individual donors to superpacs and has spent 200 million on this primary?!

Why is no one mourning Steyer’s pocket change?

Do people understand that if he only had $2,400,000,000 before this and may be close to only having two billion dollars?

If he had spent over twice as much, he might only have 1.999999999 billion dollars!

Why don’t we just give the multi billionaire California? It’s what he wants?

Edit:

His torrent of ads has opened the one-time presidential candidate to criticism that he is trying to buy the governor’s chair, and his ad total represents more than 20 times the amount spent by his nearest rival, fellow Democrat Xavier Becerra, as the two duel for a spot in the November election.

Nationally, his spending is unparalleled — no one is even close.

In Georgia, Republican health care executive Rick Jackson has spent about $83 million on advertising in his primary race for governor, which is headed for a June runoff, ranking him second. The third place spot is held by his Republican rival, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who has President Donald Trump’s endorsement and has spent nearly $31 million on ads, according to AdImpact.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/billionaire-tom-steyers-ad-spending-breaks-records-in-california-governors-race

Remember how we laughed at Republicans for spending 120 million in the texas primary combined?

Well, you know what they say:

The blood of my enemies never sets on Middel Earth

Biden spent decades telling anyone that would listen that he believed the only way to deal with Israel was to give them everything they asked for…

When I ama didn’t do that, he spoke out as VP against his own president.

Kamala not only refused to respond in kind, she went out of her way to explicitly say if elected she’d be the same as Biden.

This is one of a very few areas where it would have happened regardless of who was president.

And that’s a huge problem we can’t ignore.

He already did…

Thered been a non partisan commission planning this for like a decade, trump fired them and put maga in charge.

People quit because of that, so now they’re saying they’re gonna do the thing theybalreadyndid that caused the problem.

They’re handling this just like the Strait of Hormuz