• ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Exactly, the whole point of this was to entrap Rashida Talib into voting against

    I know she got some flak here for voting present instead of against but this was designed to create attack ads saying "she voted against condemning antisemitism"

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      11 months ago

      She can just vote present or skip the vote entirely. Its the traditional move for Congresscritters that want to vote "No" without having an official "No"-vote on their record.

      But its hardly a "trap" in the meaningful sense. Not like Talib isn't a known quantity in her district. This is just House Leadership pretending like they're doing their jobs, while the country sinks into the morass of economic doldrums and social strife. If anything, incumbents being too vocal in their dogged support of Israel are setting themselves up for outsider opponents who want to capitalize on the anti-Israeli sentiment that's been building for weeks.

    • plinky [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Is she the only good one left standing?

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Barely. She's hurting on money. But that's the price to pay for being a #FrauDSquAd aoc-rashida Democrat. I hope she rallies her district to go vote for the Green party as the Democrats aren't shielding her and mask off threw her to the Naziyahoos. Get spicy.

        let-them-fight

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      “she voted against condemning antisemitism”

      Mighty rich when USA voted in UN against condemning nazism. And, almost every single rep voted for zionism which is in fact antisemitism.