DCCC takes massive donations from Palantir and AIPAC

[Gaugamela]

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer need to step down. They are more interested in keeping their jobs than saving democracy.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Someone explain to me why I shouldn't be outraged at this if factual.

[PATRICK]

2. I have it in the shaky history of memory

That with Reagan's election and the disheartening defeat of the Southern moderate Carter(a long term goal of the politicians retreating from Roosevelt's big tent coalition) that a FURTHER "centrist&quot center right) goal took easy front line importance. Namely campaign funds from big donors mattered MORE than rank and file unions, minorities, And naturally, or stupidly, the efforts in actual campaigning by experienced union, minorities, organizations and rank and file volunteers or pros also got shoved into second place, producing a string of losses and all those little things like local elections. Sen. Wright I believe was hailed for this new approach the same way as Reagan was hailed for the same lie of "new" conservatism. Money muffled and muffed everything. What happened to that other thing in the memory hole of how every Congressman from day one had to start raising money. Practically his first week my Rep. Eric Massa was sitting down with Goldman Sachs about the 2008 meltdown and was trying to hold onto our GOP gerrymandered district by dodgy fundraising and still progressive voting? Of course he got kicked out supposedly for rumors that wouldn't even have earned him a post in the Trump government.

This is only a routine matter that is being taken for some new betrayal. A routine matter that itself is much bigger than whipping any individual Dem. The matter also being that AI is an ongoing apocalyptic crime against humanity(and the Earth as a whole) and any compromising like this is a BAD sign that it will not be addressed by those currently in power.

[Gaugamela]

5. I agree, this has been going on for decades, which is how we got to this point. Frankly,

I think we need to acknowledge that there is something wrong with the Democratic establishment, and that it needs to change drastically if we want to save democracy and a world that our children can live in.

[Fil1957]

3. If true, it would explain a lot.

[progressoid]

4. Fast forward to about the 15 minute mark.

It sums up a lot of people's frustration with Dems.

[slightlv]

6. I'm another who's dander is up at this. Getting the billionaires, their money and influence

out of politics means getting it out of politics *completely!" I'm just as disgusted at Dems taking it as I am at R's taking it. It's evil, corrupt money meant not to do good, but to get the government (no matter who's in charge) to do what THEY want and pump that money back into their own coffers, instead of flattening out government and policies so we go back to the way-back days when we had a somewhat level field for everyone.

This just flat out disgusts me, especially when you start talking about Palantir.. It's one of the "Intelligence" agencies I want to see completely disbanded once we take back our country... along with ICE, etc. Palantir and other companies like them are good for one thing, and one thing only -- allowing government to spy and target people whom they legally cannot target themselves. Oh... down blood pressure... down!

[Intractable]

7. I've been calling for Schumer to step down for years.

[Bluepinky]

8. We need to get corporate money out of our political system.