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womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
Thu May 26, 2022, 02:23 PM May 2022

AIPAC spent millions to attack progressive women of color

Spent 100,000 pushing Irwin and 2 million lying about Summer Lee - claiming she’s not a Democrat. Lee still won and will be the first black women to rep Pa in congress. Same with Jessica Sisneros race - 1.4 million for Cueller but mainly using the money to attack Sisneros. Same with Muslin Nida Allam - 3.4 million PAC money spent attacking her. “ As Common Dreams reported last week, Sanders criticized AIPAC for bankrolling super PACs like UDP and Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) "to buy elections and control this democracy."

Salon


AIPAC super PAC funnels millions in dark money to attack progressive candidates in Democratic races





Intent on keeping the influence of the growing pro-Palestinian rights movement in the U.S. to a minimum in Congress, the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee is pulling out all the stops to defeat progressive candidates including state Rep. Summer Lee in Pennsylvania's 12th District, where voters are going to the polls Tuesday.

As The Intercept reported late Monday, a super PAC started last year by AIPAC called the United Democracy Project (UDP) has spent more than $2.3 million on the district's Democratic primary race.

About $100,000 from the group has gone to support attorney Steve Irwin while a majority of the ads UDP has paid for have attacked Lee as someone who only "calls herself a Democrat" due to her criticism of President Joe Biden during the 2020 primary race.

According to liberal pro-Israel group J Street, UDP has attempted to conceal its connection to AIPAC by attacking Lee's positions on issues unrelated to Palestinian rights, such as her support for Medicare for All.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aipac-super-pac-funnels-millions-in-dark-money-to-attack-progressive-candidates-in-democratic-races/ar-AAXo4bG
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AIPAC spent millions to attack progressive women of color (Original Post) womanofthehills May 2022 OP
"Progressive" Super PACS spend millions on soc media & ads attacking falsley, Democratic Leaders. Budi May 2022 #1
@JusticeDemWatch is an unhinged, obsessive (go look that their thousands of tweets) troll, a Celerity May 2022 #2
I don't think much of the Justice Dems. Voters don't seem to care for them either. emulatorloo May 2022 #4
Not germane to my point about that twitter troll and their deranged shitposting Celerity May 2022 #8
I know nothing about your Twitter trolls. But I do know Justice Dems does plenty of shitposting emulatorloo May 2022 #9
its not 'my' twitter troll, I would never post a loon like that. I am exposing them, as a very small Celerity May 2022 #12
Yes. Shitposting deceit about Dems is what they do -- to draw people Hortensis May 2022 #21
+1 betsuni May 2022 #22
+1 betsuni May 2022 #23
LOL Do you ever tire of being WRONG??? LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #15
No. betsuni May 2022 #20
Fact. Not a single thing they put out doesn't come without links, sources, factchecks Budi May 2022 #3
Weird to post an anti-Democratic twitter person though Sympthsical May 2022 #6
Anti Democratic sourcing. 😂 Budi May 2022 #13
I am Jewish LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #16
Political funding is never unquestionable Sympthsical May 2022 #18
The attacks on Israel by Waleed Shahid are really sad LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #19
Turkey and Syria are CURRENTLY murdering and persecuting Kurds. Hortensis May 2022 #26
It's not weird to post Justice Democrats tweets, even if Justice Democrats is anti-Democratic Party. lapucelle May 2022 #27
Oh yes, those nasty JOOOZ!!1! Buying elections and subverting democracy! tritsofme May 2022 #5
Yes the insinuations coming from Justice Dems are disgusting. emulatorloo May 2022 #7
I have yet to see one of their candidates not blame something on AIPAC. Budi May 2022 #14
I agree with that...I hate this sort of talk. Demsrule86 May 2022 #25
FACTS are terrible things to waste. nt Samrob May 2022 #10
True, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about secret Jewish cabals are old as dirt. tritsofme May 2022 #11
I agree LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #17
I want Summer lee to win...I hope we keep the seat. Demsrule86 May 2022 #24
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. "Progressive" Super PACS spend millions on soc media & ads attacking falsley, Democratic Leaders.
Thu May 26, 2022, 03:01 PM
May 2022

Any gender, any race, any religion, age,....

As for their repeated insertion of AIPAC as the reason for all their ills, it's not a secret they are organized by raging antisemites.
Their backstory tells the truth of who they are & what they want.

The one single theme running thru all their Pacs & Super PACS is antisemitism & its been there from the beginning.

So that's the side they won't outright tell. The rest is a ruse.

When those who organized their many anti-Democratic groups tell you who they are, pay attention.

This is who contributes to the rise of antisemitisn
It isn't even a secret anymore.
They just admit it with evey slogan they speak.




Hamas is supported by Iran. Iran is supported by Russia.
Hamas is the bomb thrower that will never allow for peace in the region.

For every step foward towards possible peace, Hamas will show up & assure that will never hapen.

No one should welcome terrorist Hamas. Unlesss their agenda is the spread of antisemitusm & the end of Israel & the Jewish people. The Jewish State.

They have organized that agenda here in our political system as well & AIPAC is the most repeated word they cite.
There's a reason for this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/122311435#post3

This is from their own acct. In their own words.
The Dem Party is supoosed to embrace this?
No.



You quote the anti-Democratic Intercept.
The Intercept is hardly a Democratic friendly media source.
This derrogatory AIPAC assertion is predictable by their own political history.


Don't bring this fight if you don't want the truth to be told as well.

Celerity

(43,408 posts)
2. @JusticeDemWatch is an unhinged, obsessive (go look that their thousands of tweets) troll, a
Thu May 26, 2022, 03:18 PM
May 2022

CT bullshit artist who attacks and smears good Democrats and Democratic caucus members for years.

I am SO sick of seeing its crackpot filth posted here on DU

it regularly tweets things that would be instantly banned here, yet because few vet tweeters like we do websites, etc, it ends up being a given a voice here to infect and poison the board with its lunatic broth

examples of its shitbaggery:



















Celerity

(43,408 posts)
8. Not germane to my point about that twitter troll and their deranged shitposting
Thu May 26, 2022, 04:59 PM
May 2022

They have erected am ever-expanding, ever flexible CT construct wherein anything or anyone they disagree with is part of some grand plot, and they then proceed to make ridiculous smears based off that. They repeat the same things hundreds, even thousands of times.

They have their CT hammer and anything they disagree with politically is a nail.

Warren is a cult leader?

Jamie Raskin is a sinister threat?

etc etc etc





emulatorloo

(44,131 posts)
9. I know nothing about your Twitter trolls. But I do know Justice Dems does plenty of shitposting
Thu May 26, 2022, 05:02 PM
May 2022

Bottom line is they aren't able to accept that their candidates are not popular w voters so they blame everyone else for their own failures

Celerity

(43,408 posts)
12. its not 'my' twitter troll, I would never post a loon like that. I am exposing them, as a very small
Thu May 26, 2022, 05:36 PM
May 2022

handful of posters keep posting that account on DU, giving them a voice here, which, given many of their attack stances on good Dems and Dem caucus members, is extremely problematic.

Using the same transactional methodology, one could post Fox News or some other RW source when they attack and bash Warren or Raskin or Porter or Sanders or AOC or Tish James, etc etc, simply because that person posting does not like those people politically and uses Fox or another dodgy source as a weapon of attack.

That account openly says that AOC, Sanders, Khanna, etc are Russian/Kremlin assets and stooges. That account openly called Sanders a Russian asset when he calls out American oligarchy.

I am just giving a fuller picture of that twitter account. They are very expansive with their CT and use that expansionism to attack good Dems and Dem caucus members.

Go ahead, post this unhinged tweet of theirs as on OP, see how long it lasts:




Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. Yes. Shitposting deceit about Dems is what they do -- to draw people
Fri May 27, 2022, 08:25 AM
May 2022

who like that and discourage support for Democrats.

They will never be able to form a majority because rejection of the LW mainstream and their choices (whatever they are!) rules them. Strangely, most people don't like that.

Typically, this era's current iteration tried yet again recently to form their own party, unnoticed by most, and as expected failed again.

That's because they can't get along with each other either. Damned good thing too.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,300 posts)
15. LOL Do you ever tire of being WRONG???
Thu May 26, 2022, 08:22 PM
May 2022

I really enjoyed laughing at the quotes in your post. Thank you for the laughs. I have also been following the attacks by the Justice Democrats on people who disagree with their plan to destroy the Democratic Party. I have been following the Justice Democrats and its predecessor and affilaites for a while including the "brand new congress group" and other groups created by Cenk, Kyle Kulinksi, Waleed Shadid, and their ilk. I am on the Justice Democrat email list and I have even listened once or twice to the Justice Democrat podcast which is amusingly called "Just Us" democrats. The Justice Democrats emails are fun to laugh at and I love the hatred this group shows to the Democratic Party, establishment Democrats and best of all corporate democrats. The posts attacking the people who disagree with the plans of the Just Us Democrats to destroy and rebuild the Democratic Party are very amusing.

I have been following a number of posters on twitter who dislike the Justice Democrats who have issues with the concept of the Justice Democrat group wanting to take over the Democratic party and remake into their image.



This poster is not the only person who has issues with the concept that the Justice Democrats want to take over the Democratic Party


Again, the above posts are consistent with the hatred of the Democratic Party by the Justice Democrat group that I see on the almost daily emails that I get from the Justice Democrats.

Over the last couple of days, I have gotten several very funny emails from the Just Us Democrats complaining about people being mean to them. These emails are really fun to laugh at.

If you want to learn more about the Justice Democrats just enter "Just Us Democrats" in the search function of twitter.

Again thank you for always being wrong and for the really amusing posts attacking JusticeDemWatch. I really do not agree with the Just Us Democrat plan to destroy the Democratic Party in order to rebuild in the image of Waleed Shadid. I am proud of being a member of the Democratic Party.

Have fun defending the Just Us people. I will be working to turn Texas blue. Go Beto.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. Fact. Not a single thing they put out doesn't come without links, sources, factchecks
Thu May 26, 2022, 04:32 PM
May 2022

Citations, sources, links, factchecks.

TRUTH.
Whether ya like it or not.
If our corrupt Media did half the sourcing, factchecking, & reporting of critical issues that these people do, we'd have saved our SC from RW christofacsism.
The loss of ROE v Wade
Expansion of Gun Rights
School carnage run amok
Human & civil rights on the brink of collapse to bring about the new American fascist regime .

WE wouldn't be staring into the abyss had MSM done half this research, sourcing & reporting, when the fate of the US Democracy was in the hands of one woman who's warnings were flat out ignored.

They chose to 24/7 promo the showhorses over the workhorse. For profit & celebrity fame.

Truth is, the power of our Supreme Court, our 5th circuit, was the biggest elephant in the room. The one that was completely silenced, omitted from Media discussion.

This brilliant brave group has had it right all along.
And they've wisely sourced, cited, & documented it all.

No wonder Waleed & Max & Marins are sending in the troll cult to silence them
That's what history tells us about those who stood up to finally tell the fking truth.
It is this way throughout history. Against tyrants, killers, theives & organized crime & back door saboteurs.

Every bit of their research is documented, sourced, screenshotted, cited & linked.

Rage on now that those who set out to harm are exposed.
Its the story repeated throughout history.
Of nations under siege, from outside or from within its own boundries of a free Democracy.

Much gratitude to those who sound the alarm.
🍃 💙








Sympthsical

(9,074 posts)
6. Weird to post an anti-Democratic twitter person though
Thu May 26, 2022, 04:55 PM
May 2022

Very, very weird.

If these kinds of unconscionable, completely unhinged attacks can be leveled at Good Democrats to suit purpose, what's the point of listening to whatever follows at all?

I mean, I don't.

Just like pointing it out. That lack of credibility due to use of anti-Democratic sourcing.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
13. Anti Democratic sourcing. 😂
Thu May 26, 2022, 05:42 PM
May 2022

We're well aware of the real antidemocratic sourcing. Actually they really don't source at all, its the centuries old game of propaganda messaging.
We will tell you how to think..
If waleeds's madly backtracking, deleting tweets as fast as they're written, we've done our job.

Democracies die in darkness, indeed. And this brave group intends to do their part to make that not happen.
Waleed can rage deny blame (AIPAC) & rally his soc media 'red rose' trolls all he wants.
Truth is documented, linked, sourced & calling out his game against our Democracy.
Oh & yes, we all know who they are.
And they're so mad they've been exposed.
About damned time, too.
They have Pacs, Super Pacs & money hidden in LLC's. That's all documented & linked as well.

Thankfully this brave brilliant group has been documenting it all along.
Too bad for our SC, that the MSM didn't do a 10th of the research & sourcing these people have done.

Burn it all down they said. ~

They never were friends of Democracy.

Speaking of anti democratic twitter people...
"Its all AIPAC's fault. "




Sympthsical

(9,074 posts)
18. Political funding is never unquestionable
Thu May 26, 2022, 09:52 PM
May 2022

And using bigotry to stymie discussion of lobbies that influence elections is a bit beneath everyone.

I am very pro-Israel, but it is not immune from criticism.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
26. Turkey and Syria are CURRENTLY murdering and persecuting Kurds.
Fri May 27, 2022, 09:23 AM
May 2022

And other minorities. Saudi Arabia etc are murdering Yemenis. Virtually EVERY Middle Eastern Muslim nation is persecuting their own minorities -- millions of desperate and dying people in much worse situations than those in the decades-old territories occupied by Israel. Just google a nation and read.

So, what do those acting behind the labels "Justice Democrats" and its associated groups say about THEM? ANY of them.

CRICKETS?

Ignoring persecution of minorities by Muslim nations, they ONLY attack the Jewish State of Israel. Now, why is that? And everyone should ask himself, if they don't care about systematic atrocities against innocent peoples all over the Middle East region, do they really care about the Palestinians?

Extremely on point, organizers of these groups operating under different labels have lead efforts to defeat Democrats from the left in 2016 and since. They still are. Many of the leaders have stated publicly that they'd never vote Democrat and their goal is to destroy and/or take over (same thing) the Democratic Party. They use the Palestinians as just one of many ways to undermine support for us.

lapucelle

(18,268 posts)
27. It's not weird to post Justice Democrats tweets, even if Justice Democrats is anti-Democratic Party.
Sat May 28, 2022, 10:05 AM
May 2022

Forewarned is forearmed.

Given that Justice Democrats© is very clear that it has "no allegiance to the Democratic Party", it's hardly surprising that this particular group of anti-Democratic Party operatives engages in "unconscionable, unhinged attacks...leveled at good Democrats to suit purpose".



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Budi

(15,325 posts)
14. I have yet to see one of their candidates not blame something on AIPAC.
Thu May 26, 2022, 05:47 PM
May 2022

All ya have to do is check their congressional voting record to know their real purpose.
It's glaringly consistant.

The Intercept..

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
24. I want Summer lee to win...I hope we keep the seat.
Fri May 27, 2022, 08:38 AM
May 2022

However, if she joins the 'squad' I will be disappointed. I have not felt they supported President Biden sufficiently. And I want Democrats to support the president with no exceptions. I know she campaigned for Biden in 20 so I hope that she will continue to support the president.

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