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Richard's avatar

96 out of 100 senators are owned by AIPAC. That explains it, common sense combined with math.

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Shaun King's avatar

Indeed.

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Terrance J Stodolka's avatar

Well the Senate politicians only care about their own bank accounts... As their own math is not with some real number other than 1+ 0>0000 but mostly with symbols of + or - or their favorite with +++$$$$$$...

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Jon Olsen's avatar

Consider the probability that you would be born of these two parents (out of 8 billion) and that this particular ovum met this particular sperm unit for fertilization.

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CJ Schepers's avatar

You lost me at “math” but had me at everything else. The democrats are just as complicit. By accepting that blood 🩸 money, they are just as guilty. Remember: evil prevails when good people stand by and do NOTHING.

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Old Reprobate's avatar

It Genocide in the United States.

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Elenara Joubert's avatar

I’ve been watching this phenomenon at the House and Senate for awhile. As of 2025, 294 members of the House and Senate were millionaires. That’s more than half. As Thomas Massie said AIPAC has “minders” in every office to tell senators and reps how to vote on anything that pertains to Israel. The majority of the House and Senate is owned by Israel, a foreign country. Our presidents and their administrations are owned by Israel. Israel has extremely rich pro-Israel Americans backing up their takeover and ensuring that Israeli “sponsors” maintain control. The rich pro-Israel folks own the biggest corporations, defense industries, tech industries, and media industries, etc., so together they make up the top 10%. Millionaires and billionaires run our government. Any millionaire worth more than $1.5 million benefited from Trump’s tax bill, as did billionaires. The millionaires include 294 members of the House and Senate.

Anytime you start to wonder why Palestine doesn’t matter to our elected officials, except for Bernie and a few others, it’s because they’ve been bought. At the very start of Trump’s presidency, the Democratic Party leadership told democrats to be quiet and do nothing while Trump dismantled the government to better benefit the top 10%.

Did you know 250 state legislators are in Israel now on a trip paid for by Israel? They are attending “50 States One Israel”. There are 5 legislators from each state attending, while Israel is busily conducting a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

That’s why our government doesn’t care about the cold blooded sadistic genocide in Palestine. Plus all the millionaires and billionaires are making huge profits off of their stocks or ownership in all the multinational companies selling weapons, military vehicles or technology to Israel for their multiple wars and the genocide. I highly recommend reading Francesca Albanese’s (UN Special Rapporteur for the OPT) last report “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide” about companies benefitting from the Palestinian genocide. It’s on the UNHCR website. The report is why Trump/Rubio sanctioned Francesca and won’t allow her into the U.S.

Bottom line is that the American people don’t matter to most of our elected officials. To both political parties, only the donors matter. We should still fight back because there is nothing worse than a mosquito and that’s what I decided to become - a mosquito in the ear of every member of my state in the state or federal House and Senate. Like any good mosquito I never give up the fight.

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Elenara Joubert's avatar

Rep Becca Balint from Vermont just said Israel is committing a genocide.

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Elenara Joubert's avatar

Senator Peter Welch from Vermont used the term genocide in referring to what Israel is doing in Gaza, Palestine.

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Old Reprobate's avatar

It's the same in the House of Representatives. Overall the United States Congress is just a third branch of the United States governments two party corporate duopoly system of government we have to live under at the moment. I say moment because the 2026 primaries are chance for the electorate to boot a good deal of them to the curb. Vote, please.

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Sergei Kochkin's avatar

Shaun King. Profound blessings to you. I am feeling particularly bad today as this genocide is metastasizing into a Holocaust. Let me share my post today.

GAZA BECAME THE STAGE FOR THE UGLIEST WORD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW : GENOCIDE

- A U.N. commission said Israel has checked off four of five criteria, and

- Netanyahu responded by screaming, “antisemitic blood libel” at the jury;

- Marco Rubio stood behind him, Washington nodded along, and Congress increased their military aid to enable more mass slaughter of humans.

- Universities and the media capitulated denying what their senses and brains knew to be true.

- Souls simply against genocide, mass slaughter and holocausts are persecuted.

- The screams intensified, the pain became unbearable, unconscionable, all man made.

- The bodies kept stacking higher, but not as high as they could be since many were simply vaporized by American bombs.

- The victorious population will breathe the remains of these vanquished souls for generations.

- International law is supposed to mean something after Rwanda and Bosnia, but apparently it now means “wait years for the Hague while civilians starve.”

- Don’t worry about The Hague; they are sanctioned and persecuted. They are powerless. Ha ha ha!

- Atrocity has been reduced to another political fight, one side armed with evidence, the other with denial, both knowing which one wins headlines faster.

- The greedy oligarchs lust over the potential Gaza Riviera, the casinos, and extracting the Jurassic age riches under the soil and in the ocean. Never mind that it is built on the bones of women and children. Our loyal historians will wipe these crimes out by rewriting history. Don’t be concerned - Out of sight out of mind.

- The spiritualists, theosophists and Kabbalists among us call it simply a conflict in the “school house for the soul”;

- The evangelicals breathlessly “proclaim it’s biblical”;

- Some are cheering for Armageddon and end-times thinking they will be raptured first because they are THE TRUE believers;

- They send prayers and thoughts and burn their incense while thinking about and sending happy emojis while wearing their rosy colored glasses as if this will comfort the countless souls who are terrorized, bludgeoned, starved, imprisoned, and tortured.

- Hey some sophists proudly proclaim; it’s yin and yang, its duality and polarity. Get enlightened like me.

- Ultimately we have to hang on to the belief, and have faith the size of a mustard seed that justice will prevail, that there is some form of hidden calculus to this reality, which is but an aberrant inauthentic outlier among countless realities;

“That the first shall be last, and the last first.”

We are all buried under the rubble in Gaza.

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Jacqueline Kazel's avatar

We have an awful lot of work to do to rescue our country.

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