GOP leaders scheduled the vote after Democratic primary voters embraced a number of democratic socialist candidates.
But two moderate Democrats — Golden [Maine] and Gluesenkamp Perez [Washington] — defected and helped the procedural vote succeed, putting some of their Democratic colleagues in a politically tricky situation.
House Democratic leadership condemned Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez’s decision later Tuesday.
“The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust. It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a joint statement with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar.
What this is actually about:
This is pure Republican PR. They included a poison pill in the resolution so that Democrats would vote against it, and then they can associate those Democrats with socialism. The reality is that far more than 8 Democrats would have voted in favor of the resolution of it hadn’t included that.
“They’re trying to force us all into brutal gulags, suppress dissent, torture us and kill millions of people!”
— Says the people who support forced prison labor, solitary confinement, waterboarding, suppress dissent and the ongoing death of millions through economic imperialism.
Okay, then disassemble your military. No more paid education, healthcare, housing and subsidized groceries. That is, after all, socialism.
Roads, police, fire departments, all socialism too.
The police and military are not socialism. Socialism is not “when the government does stuff.” Ghenghis Khan was not a socialist.
Yeah, well, when fascists call capitalism they don’t like “socialism”, they can fuck off anyway.
Performative bullshit. Socialism already exists in this country. See US Agricultural as an example.
The way this should be phrased is “Many Democrats join Republicans in condemning Social Security and Medicaid. Vowing to end social programs that help Americans.”
Replace Medicaid with Medicare to scare the Boomers more.
Jesus was a socialist
And a Palestinian Jew
The Judeans Peoples Front!
Nah dude, Jesus was chill with literal slavery
Truly, that is the issue most salient in the US right now.
Not right wing authoritarianism, decay of the checks and balances, large scale vote manipulation, and the economic squeezing of the population
The Democrats who supported the resolution included:
Reps. Kathy Castor of Florida,
Henry Cuellar of Texas,
Don Davis of North Carolina,
Jared Golden of Maine,
Vicente Gonzalez of Texas,
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington,
Darren Soto of Florida and
Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico.Those who voted present were
Reps. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and
Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire.Fuck every one of these DINO ass hats. I hope they all get cancer.
Just want to remind everyone - Pelosi supported and even robo-called on behalf of the anti-choice right wing D.I.N.O. Republican Henry Cuellar over his progressive primary opponent Jessica Cisneros… who he beat by only about 200 votes.
Oh, also Cuellar is pro-NRA… and Nancy Pelosi’s robo call support for him beating Jessica (again the pro-choice candidate that the NRA did NOT prefer) went out on THE DAY OF THE UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING.
Cute. And they even got their trained pet news agency to write a whole article about it
How precious
Still have millions of American children starving, yes? Tens of millions of Americans without healthcare? glad to see that this was so much more important…
But Israel need support , and ammo ,lots and lots of ammo,
Yeah, well, so does Tennessee
Except they’re actually Americans
Why need Tennessee lots and lots of ammo ? , revolution ?
If anything, counterrevolution, because there’s a lot of brainwashed people there that like to stay stuck in their religious delusions/cults and are anti-progress. Their “religious freedom” involves suppressing others who don’t agree with the cult of their Semitic sky wizard.
Was that supposed to be a sentence?
Lol
“in all its forms”
So, the military is condemned by the house, then? The US military is one of the biggest socialist organisations on the planet. It’s almost like these fucknuts don’t think before they speak.
The military is not socialism. Socialism is not “when the government does stuff.” Ghenghis Khan was not a socialist.
This is my biggest argument for socialized healthcare. The military can do it for all the families and it’s pretty fucking good(servicemember healthcare is garbage). Most people walk away from a childbirth only spending a few hundred and only because the hospital cafeteria is criminal pricing.
Who controls the means of production for the military, is it the soldiers or the joint chiefs?
Why do Americans conflate socialism with social programs?
There is 0% of socialism in any military.
Socialism is the democratization of the workplace, that is all.
Single payer healthcare is not socialism
Building roads and infrastructure is not socialism.
Snap and ebt are not socialism.
The post office is not socialism.
Getting free stuff is not socialism.
Socialism is when workers control all means of production and decide what to do with what is produced.
There would be no capitalists in socialism because they would be illegal.
Voted for the resolution: Kathy Castor (FL), Henry (TX), Don Davis (NC), Jared Golden (ME), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Darren Soto (FL) and Gabe Vasquez (NM).
Voted present: Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (PA) and Maggie Goodlander (NH).
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Also a staunch Zionist and a huge fan of AI. She took the seat after redistricting swung it from 60/30 R to 51/49 D.
If you wonder why people despise Democrats, this woman is a textbook example of why.
What exactly does this accomplish? Or is it just more masterbatory self-affirmation bullshit?
Yes, that plus it gives spineless Dems in battleground districts a chance to go “see? I condemned them! I’m one of the ‘good’ ones! Please don’t vote me out and kick me off the corporate gravy train!”
We must condemn this disgusting idea of the government actually helping its citizens!
The only people who can’t afford socialist policies are the wealthy. And if you are reading this, that is not you.
They absolutely can afford it and will still be grotesquely wealthy. The ultimate goal is the eliminate class distinctions all together, but that might not happen instantly.
