DNC members rejected a symbolic resolution to limit the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and dark-money corporate groups in Democratic primaries — an unsurprising result that is nevertheless a blow to those within the party that have been infuriated by the pro-Israel group’s recent interventions.
They also punted on a pair of sweeping resolutions concerning conflicts in the Middle East that pushed the party to support conditioning military aid to Israel. The measures were referred to the party’s nascent Middle East Working Group, which is meeting for the fourth time this week and has been slow to coalesce around an agenda.
Not taking a stand against Israel’s genocidal actions is taking a stand in favor of it.
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”
– Rush
And these morons wonder why their numbers are abysmal even in the face of the worst most fascist president and Congress of my lifetime. I’m done with the Democrat party, fucking scumbags.
Precisely the reason they lost in 2024 and are doomed to keep losing. Never learning their lessons or actually being a better choice. Fuck the DNC and fuck AIPAC entirely.
I’ve been done with the Democrat party when they decided to help fund ICE when they were busy fucking around in Minnesota. Like, the fucking evidence to not fund them was in front of your faces, how the fuck can you go in to vote to refund them with a straight face?
Democrats are going to have a hell of an uphill battle these mid-terms and the general election. That’s their fault.
That’s about the same time I finally wrote them off entirely. Completely unacceptable and they think because they’re the only other major party that they can hold us hostage? They can kick rocks.
There’s even someone in this very thread defending it
Oh they made their stance perfectly clear, don’t worry about that.
No stance, is a stance.
Probably explains the recent regurgitation of shitlib kamala memes…
What the DNC is actually doing, straight from the DNC chair:
Let’s be clear on what really happened: Today, the Resolutions Committee voted to pass a resolution condemning the corrosive influence of ALL dark money in Democratic primaries. We had various resolutions that focused on different industries and groups, and instead of going one-by-one, we passed a blanket repudiation.
I have made my position on this clear from day one: We must end the influence of dark money in our politics and restore power back to the people.
https://x.com/kenmartin73/status/2042289231008080292
Quick edit:
Obviously they need to get the fuck off Twitter tho…
Do they consider AIPAC “dark money” though, would be an interesting question to have answered. Do they have the resolution posted?
Do they consider AIPAC “dark money” though
Yes…
That’s what the quoted words mean…
There’s nothing yet, but will like eventually show up here:
This vote was just the committee. Martin could be making all these calls himself, but that would be undemocratic.
He’s going thru committees, they vote on if it goes to all ~400.voting members of the party. Once that vote happens and it passes (or very unlikely fails) then they would announce it.
Billionaires own the media.
Ask yourself why as soon as the party elected Martin, every billionaire owned talking head suddenly did a 180…
That’s not a bad sign that billionaires wont stop shit talking the party, it means they lost control of it and they’re willing to sabatoge it even if it helps trump.
Because if they don’t control the DNC, a real FDR type could get into the oval.
That’s what they’re scared of, and everyone from Faux to CNN leaped to act like this was the DNC loving Israel.
C’mon…
You really didn’t see any of this on your own?
I’m seriously asking, because it’s hard for me to predict how an average person sees shit like this
That’s what the quoted words mean…
I always understood dark money as donations made in a way that obfuscated who was actually donating so I was wondering if direct “contributions” from AIPAC were still considered ok since it’s just a “regular” donation.
You really didn’t see any of this on your own?
Not really to be honest. I’ve always seen the media as attacking Democrats when it’s economic policy that helps people and attacking Republicans when it’s culture war stuff. I didn’t notice a shift when the new chair took over, not to say you’re wrong and it didn’t happen.
if direct “contributions” from AIPAC were still considered ok since it’s just a “regular” donation.
PACs are “dark money”.
Some kinds are worse than others, but AIPAC is “American Israel PAC”.
It was literally created because it’s predecessor was finally forced to register as a foreign agent. Bso the first people it donated to, was everyone on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.
But the reason this ain’t just flipping a light switch, is the DNC can say “no PACs” but they can’t legally prevent a PAC from spending money… By definition a PAC can not coordinate with a campaign.
That’s what happened with Kat and Bliss. Neither are pro-Israel, both had spoken out.
But AIPAC was more afraid of Kat than Bliss, so they bought ads for Bliss even tho he was publicly condemning Israel. literally no one can prevent anyone from running a campaign ad.
So the DNC could take the easy win for the press and just say they banned it, but theyre trying to find a way to actually fix it, not just get the credit for saying they will.
Last I heard they were talking about requiring a candidate who got a PAC ad, to pay that much to the state party from their own campaign funds.
But the obvious problem with that, is AIPAc or someone can dump expensive and purposefully ineffective ads to bankrupt a campaign.
Like, we need to change the actual laws, and to do that we need to gain seats, not just Ds but progressives willing to fix shit.
We’re making progress, it’s just the absolute worst time for people to be giving up on the party. No matter what happens, we need people voting in Dem primaries.
Thanks for the info! The hardest part is definitely getting the votes to actually change laws. Voting to cut off a money supply can’t be popular among the more selfish politicians. :/
The fight definitely isn’t over…
But the hardest part is. That was getting the DNC back from neoliberals, who had held control of it for 30+ years.
That happened 15 months ago.
And none of the next steps, would be possible if that hadn’t happened.
