• MushuChupacabra@piefed.world
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    Recognizing that their brand is cancer, AIPAC halts public endorsements and traceable direct contributions to candidates

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    “We have examined our political impact, and discovered that we are just as toxic as the nation we represent.”

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      The KKK is known to put their public facing support towards those who they wanted to lose. That is at least before Trump gave their ideology enough cover to give real endorsements. I guess that’s where we’re heading with AIPAC

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    The best part about this is that their new policy will still bribe politicians with millions in cash, but will now enable those politicians to state they do NOT take PAC donations or money from AIPAC. They’re publicly stating they will do the same bribes behind closed doors now to give politicians cover on the incredibly unpopular policy of Israel First. Truly absurd.

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    In other words, they’re going to hide their donations and influence from the public.

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    I suspect Chuck took them aside and said, “Fellas, we gotta work something else out here”

    But yes. Donating via many individuals now, instead of as a PAC. Is what the PAC will be doing.

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    Start the clock in January, Democrats will have 6 years maximum to legislate away the Citizens United loopholes and enaxt long-overdue court reform as well.

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      Trump will veto for the next 2 years, but making him do that will help set the stage for a president who won’t.

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    Is it because they know it would be akin to organizing deck chairs on the titanic or do they know the fix is in? 🤔

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    All this means is they’re going to donate through Shell-PACs (donation made by “Totally-not-from-AIPAC-wink) to hide their direct influence.

    Since disclosure laws only go one level deep, it’s trivial to do.

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    Because they see maga is starting to fail. They want to start bribing democrats now. But they know they can’t do that openly.

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      But they do contribute to Democratic candidates. They spent over 30 million just in Michigan against El Sayed.

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      It’s moderately sized deal. AIPAC actually only started doing direct contributions a couple of years ago; before that IIRC they had their members and subsidiary PACs give bribes donations instead. Still, presumably they made that switch for a reason, so backtracking like this is basically them admitting that nobody likes them. I’m admittedly not as sure about the endorsements part.

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        If nothing else, it’s a sign of the Overton window shifting and the US population growing more frustrated with the USA’s relationship with Israel.