I’m sure they’d prefer to arm Hamas and see Israel and the Jews wiped out
In Major Milestone, Dozens Of Senators Vote To Block U.S. Weapons To Israel
Large groups of senators on Wednesday voted against selling $700 million in American bombs and rifles to Israel ? sending a major signal from Congress of U.S. frustration over the mass casualties and starvation caused by the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The bills to block the transfers were organized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and each drew support from more than half of Democrats and their allies in the Senate. Twenty-seven senators voted against the rifle transfer, including Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the Democratic ranking member on the powerful armed services committee, who had never previously voted against weapons for Israel. Twenty-four opposed the shipment of bombs. (Reed and Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island had different positions on the two motions.)
No Republicans supported the effort despite indications that some conservatives want President Donald Trump to be less deferential to Israel.
“Today’s vote was a new high water mark … It reflects the rising tide among voters against continuing to subsidize and arm Israel’s actions in Gaza and its other grave violations of Palestinian rights,” Ari Tolany of the Center for International Policy, one of several progressive groups backing the legislation, said in a Wednesday night statement.
That’s the way the uber-Progressive Jew hating Huffington Post put it. Democrats are thrilled to abandon an ally and empower the Islamic terrorist groups that want to destroy Israel and kill Jews. Hell, many have it in their charters that they want Israel destroyed and replaced with an Islamic caliphate.
Politico, among others, tried to be less Jew hatey
Senate votes down Israel arms sales ban, despite growing Democrat support
The Senate on Wednesday voted down a resolution to bar U.S. arms sales to Israel, exposing new divisions among Democrats and highlighting rising frustration with the country’s conduct in Gaza.
The first of two votes pushed by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders — which came to 27-70 — renewed efforts to halt American weapons transfers in protest of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and a deepening humanitarian crisis. Democrats split on the vote, with 12 new supporters who previously backed arms sales to Israel. (snip)
New supporters included Maine Independent Sen. Angus King, who said this week he would no longer support Netanyahu’s government because Israel appears to be using starvation as a weapon of war.
“I had just had it,” King said in an interview. “I kept expecting that Israel would wake up and realize what an awful thing they were perpetuating, and that surely they would at least open up humanitarian aid. They just continued to not do it, and I just reached the point where enough was enough.”
It’s a war. One that Hamas started. And I cannot find anywhere where King called for the release of the hostages. He mostly rages against Israel and those evil Jews. In fact, a goodly chunk of these Democrats never call for Hamas to release the hostages nor castigate Hamas for their blatant terrorist attack on civilians in October 2023.
When people tell you who they are perhaps you should believe them.
https://x.com/D_Tarczynski/status/1950939124690522162?s=19
The current government in Israel does not have strong support in Israel. It holds only a very small majority. Should one differentiate between Israel and the current government holding power in Israel? Both France and Canada are now openly talking about recognizing the Palestine state.
And in domestic economy news June’s job numbers of high high 140000 new jobs has been revised downward to an anemic 14000 new jobs
May job numbers have mirror revisions
Also Dow has fallen 1500 in last 3 days.
In the last 4 months, native-born Americans have gained 1.8 MILLION jobs. Meanwhile, 1.5 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) lost a job.
A sharp reversal of the last few years.
Not to mention the decrease in the number of federal employees. Most of Biden’s “jobs created” were federal jobs.
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Mr teach is getting more and more outrageous! Netanyahu is starving babies and children in Gaza, a war crime, by the way. Does the US really support starvation of kids as a tool of war?
The America First/Only crowd wants the US to stop all foreign aid. Unless it’s used to starve Muslim kids, right?
Our good friend from Missouri wrote:
How much aid did we send to Germany and Japan before they surrendered in World War II? To have done so would have been aid and comfort for the enemy.
The ‘Palestinians’ have a simple solution in front of them: the unconditional surrender of Hamas and release of the remaining hostages. With that, the war stops immediately, but so many of our good friends on the left never suggest that, do they?
Of course, the leadership of Hamas have no real reason to surrender, even though they have been thoroughly beaten, because they’re living fat and happy in Qatar. Adolf Hitler committed suicide, and the surviving Nazi leaders surrendered because they were actually in Germany as the Allies — primarily the Red Army — were rolling in, surrounding Berlin, and close to the Führerbunker, ready to storm in and drag Der Führer out by his throat to face whatever the Soviets could devise for him. Hamas leaders have no such fear, because the leaders of Gaza don’t live in Gaza.
Perhaps we should at least give Yahya Sinwar some credit for staying in Gaza and fighting, until the IDF caught up to him and sent him to his 72 bacha bazi boys.
Why doesn’t Netanyahu and trump invade Qatar to get Hamas? Or at least demand the Qataris give up the murderers.
After all, Mr trump’s personal luxury airliner from the Qataris is now statesde. Aside… should the US taxpayers pay to modify the plane for Mr trump?
MAGAts hate Jews but hate Muslims an order of magnitude more!! The enemy of your enemy…
The Trump Derangement Syndrome is really pulsing strong in Mr Dowd today!
I have to wonder: in which posts of our distinguished host, or any of the rest of the conservatives here, including from prior to the October 7th massacre, indicate that we “hate Jews”? Please, be specific!
Although it took some time, Mr Dana finally became a true believer in MAGAtism, with a bad case of Trump Devotion Syndrome (TDS).
Although Mr trump is an amoral asshole, to Mr Dana, he can do no wrong. Why? Because Mr trump punishes Hispanics, Negroes, queers, trans, underage teenage girls, rape victims, incest victims, universities, medical research, Bureau of Labor Statistics etc.
Mr trump is working to Make America White Again, which is the prime directive of conservatives! He can rape a 13 year old, grab ’em by the pussy, sell interest in the White House, triple his weatlh in 6 months as long as he hurts the liberals.
Not sure why you guys deny the obvious.
In other words, ED can’t find anything that indicates conservatives hate Jews, so he just makes up a bunch of random stuff.
Which, come to think of it, is SOP for this guy.
Yes, don’t you recall all those right wing conservatives on college campuses around the country the last several years protesting against the Joooos..?
Haha. Mr Jl knows conservatves hate college, those hotbeds of research, education and especially, liberals!!
I do remember all those right-wing conservatives demonstrating in FAVOR of Mr trump, chanting “Joos Won’t Replace Us!!” at the Unite the Right “rally” in Charlottesville VA.
Rimjob conflating his own mistaken ideas with reality again.
He does that a lot.
Many years ago, Salon writer Amanda Marcotte wanted to prove that we wicked reich-wingers were not only trying to outlaw prenatal infanticide, but contraception as well. To prove her point, she cited the group Quiverfull, which eschews artificial contraception and supports large families. She had a whole chapter on them in her book It’s a Jungle Out There.
The trouble is that Quiverfull had a few thousand members, not even into five digits, but that was her evidence in a country of 330 million people.
The esteemed Mr Dowd does the same thing, citing the Unite the Right rally on August 11 and 12, 2017, in Charlotteville, Virginia, in which some people apparently shouted that “Jews won’t replace is.” The trouble with his argument is that the rally attracted, according to Wikipedia, “hundreds of participants.”
Translation: not even a thousand.
Yet, according to Mr Dowd, this means that “MAGAts hate Jews but hate Muslims an order of magnitude more!!”
Yes, there has been some anti-Semitism among conservatives, but it pales in size and virulence to the anti-Semitism on the left.
The highly intelligent and well-educated Mr Dowd knows all of this, yet for some reason, has been unwilling or unable to come up with anything other than his Charlottesville example dozens if not hundreds of times. As Ronald Reagan once said, “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
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His evidence?
Does the often astute Mr Dana believe that any criticism of the current Israeli government is anti-Semitic?
The American rightists dislike Arabs, Persians, Somalis, Berbers, Egyptians, Kurds, Turks and of course, all Muslims. In fact, caucasian Jews are the only middle easterners they can even pretend to tolerate.
Why do the majority of American Jews vote for leftist Dems?
Uh, the claim was MAGA hates Jews. You’ve offered no evidence that’s true. But gee..several people “chanting” years ago sure out-weighs actual destruction at various colleges over the last several years. Good catch..
Lol
Really that is over 400000 jobs per month!
Incredible !
Ahhhh did you bother to in any way attempt to verify those claims made by the White House ?
I did
And was unable to do so.
I would WELCOME all to fact check my claims about the hugely lowered new job numbers for May and June
The federal government just shed 12,000 jobs in July alone, and has lost 84,000 jobs since January 2025.
That’s 84,000 people available to pick the crops and landscape the yards that the illegals were doing before we kicked them out!
Seems those job numbers were originally posted by the now fired BLS Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer, a Biden-appointee.
Oh and here is more of today’s news
Ghilsaine Maxwell today was flown from her maximum security jail to a minimum security club fed in Texas.ehy would a child sex predator with 100s of victims get such treatment ?
Remember !! Epstein was originally given a sweetheart plea deal by the GOZp US Attorney General who refused to prosecute and gave the case over to the state of Florida.
Trump then made that former US Attorney General plum job of Sec of Labor in his cabinet
The Florida US Attorney General???
That was Pam Bondi. He made her his US Attorney General
You don’t see any Dems asking to not release 100% of the Epstein Files
This is draining the swamp? More like force breeding more alligators
What? “You don’t see any Dems asking to not release 100% of the Epstein files”.
The Dems went 4 years without hardly mentioning it at all.
When I want to know what people like me think, I always consult someone who is nothing like me. They have the best insights on people they have never met.