is offering the same thing a month later.

Both of these offers were by rethugs from the house. Why do you think they are doing it?

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THERE IS A GOOD PROBABILITY THAT THE REPUKES MIGHT LOSE THE HOUSE IN THE MIDTERS


and with their devious games, they are hoping to divide the Democrats among themselves hoping that the rethugs will retain the majority in the House.

I really hope people don't allow themselves to get played by these thugs, and not vote for your DEMOCRATIC representative.

NOTE: The bill offerred by massie is a terrible bill the way it is written, and they are hoping people WON'T read it or understand it. It is NOT as black and white as they want you to believe.

Whether it is the corporate media, or the rethugs, no DEMOCRAT should be fooled by what the rethugs are doing.

If Democrats don't win at least one of the Houses, it is over. This is the only way we can stop trump and his anti-Democratic thugs for completely taking over the country.

So much so that he was primaried out of his office, with a lot of help from AIPAC. Trump hates him, btw.

The end result is the same.

Masse himself is an antisemite just based on his associations with holocaust deniers and prominent antisemites.

I also bet he knows the odds that it will pass are nil, and regardless of his revenge motivations which are undoubtedly true

Forget Israel, Massie is a consistent opponent of any US foreign aid to any country.

The point is we have been conned multiple times in 2000, 2016, and 2024 by different elements all intent on division.

In 2000 it was Nader. In 2016, it was the rethugs and a media that gave him a free pass. That is when we lost the Supreme Court. In 2024, the rethugs with the media's help did a 2016 redux.

Have we learned anything from that?

I doubt it, but hope we have.

That word gets thrown around far too often when someone opposes what Israel does in even the slightest way.

his greater motivation is that he is an isolationist. He also voted against a resolution supporting Ukraine's sovereignty and was opposed to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

If the subject is foreign aid, he is against it. It would not be surprising if this were to pass, he would turn his attention to ending aid to Ukraine.

much I suspect by the media.

The media want to exploit the Israeli/Palestinian issue.

Putin needs Trump to stay in power. Losing the House and Senate to the Democratic Party will open up all kinds of investigations.

Why is Massie doing this? Who paid him to do this is probably the more pertinent question.

Putin has lots of dirt on lots of Republicans.

Whatever Massie's intent, the immediate effect is that Democratic politicians are (again) subjected to a litmus test played out on social media.

It's a "when did you stop beating your dog" trap and it's being used to defeat Democrats at the polls.

No money for Netanyahu's illegal genocide. PERIOD. End of debate. Fuck Netanyahu. Fuck AIPAC.

how they voted on this issue.

In a just world, we'd be dealing with Netanyahu the same way we dealt with Bin Laden. But our world is not just right now.

one House, and if by some miracle the Senate also.

That is the only way we can actually do something, perhaps even getting rid of the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court.

in a just world you wouldnt embarrass yourself comparing Bin Laden to Netanyahu...lots of Jewish Dems feel they have no political home in the Democratic Party with it's newfound obsessive hatred of Israel and tacit support of the raging antisemitism flooding our discourse....make it a litmus test issue and you will hand the 2028 election to the GOP...Genocide is a blood libel which couldnt even be proved in the ICJ trial...there are actual genocides happening but Israel is held to a standard that no other nation is

The billionaires have a very, very strong incentive to keep the GOP in power. The money train is almost unbelievable. Monopolies, no bid contracts, federal oversight and regulations destroyed, workers used as slaves with all rights stripped away, permanent war profits - it's the greatest dream of the sociopaths.

All they have to do is discourage enough people from voting for Democrats.

It's almost ridiculously easy and it's worked so well in 2016 and 2024. (I think they let Biden win in 2020 only to blame the Covid recession on him, which worked beautifully).

It's happening again.

I already assumed that was the case.

He didn't take $1.5 million dollars in AIPAC money for nothing.

..while protecting whatever the hell he considers "overly broad."

Ending U.S. military support for genocide and war crimes by Israel is a moral imperative.

It is also a moral imperative to support Democrats over Republicans to save this liberal democracy of ours from destruction by the radical right.

In our current crisis, I think most in the Pro-Democracy coalition are clear that electing Democratic Party nominees (or the Independent candidate, in the case of Dan Sullivan in NE) outweighs the former. If the will of the people is cut out, we can't effect change on anything, Including the intolerable support of war crimes.

But the immoral support of a war criminal state by so many of our electeds and candidates is a sort of lunacy that is so obviously wrong it is difficult to fathom. If these people don't wake the fuck up, we will end up destroying America's liberal democracy in the name of supporting a war criminal state.

On edit: And to those who would brand me anti-Semitic, I say bullshit. Nothing I have ever said about the actions of the Israeli radical right government is more extreme than the condemnations in the Israeli press.

this issue to stir things up, and as the OP mentioned, revenge against trump, though it won't be much of revenge against trump because in the end he lost his seat which is what trump wanted.

Otherwise, we are colluding with murderers. Palestinians should be getting those funds, and it would be little enough for what has been done to them. It sounds like a new amendment needs to be written that spells out the specifics.

I don't hate Israel. But, I hate what they have done to Gaza and its people. It is imperative to stop enabling them.