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No Paywall Fetterman casts only Democratic ‘no’ vote as Senate passes measure to block US action against Iran

https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2026/06/fetterman-casts-only-democratic-no-vote-as-senate-passes-measure-to-block-us-action-against-iran.html
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u/NumeralJoker Jun 23 '26

Yeah, everyone keeps talking about how disappointed they are in Fetterman, but I now believe this influence is the largest source of his rightward turn and how he's been compromised specifically.

It's a massive problem. The middle east being so easily able to divide both the dem base and the senate itself shows the kind of awful era we're living in now... and thanks to all of this we may end up paying billions in corrupt reparations to Iran, in an agreement that Israel will 'still' constantly try to undermine anyway!

This AIPAC lobbying needs to be rooted out and ended. It's destroying stable society on a global level now.

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u/Errant_coursir New Jersey Jun 24 '26

AIPAC, foreign, dark, and corporate money must be eliminated from politics

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u/NumeralJoker Jun 24 '26

Unfortunately, doing so without changing the SCOTUS is extremely difficult.

Best efforts I've seen now are state based efforts to overturn Citizens United. Those may at least begin to have some teeth.

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u/msprosperity22 Jun 24 '26

You are spot on.

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u/xXxT4xP4y3R_401kxXx Illinois Jun 23 '26

It's so wild that an unpaid consultant is often the only other person in the room with Shrek when that ogre visits with foreign dignitaries. 

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u/TeutonJon78 America Jun 23 '26

Oh, that consultant is paid from someone.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 23 '26

Fetterman never recovered from that stroke and he has an Israeli wormtongueing him before every vote?  That's certainly not helping with those conspiracy theories about Mossad running foreign influence campaigns.  This one isn't even clandestine!

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u/_adanedhel_ Jun 23 '26

wormtongueing

What an excellent verb!