Congress passed a symbolic resolution on Tuesday to condemn socialism — a move that saw eight Democrats cross the aisle to back the GOP on the measure.
The vote, which has no actual effect on public policy, was swiftly mocked by observers on social media.
“Voting to condemn an economic system that doesn’t exist in our country, to protect the one which we live under that exploits the working class to benefit the obscenely wealthy,” wrote Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of Campaign for New York Health. “This was Congress’ priority as 60% of Americans struggle to afford food, housing and healthcare. Embarrassing.”
Oh my god, torched? If getting slammed didn’t show then, I’m sure this’ll work.
Kathy Castor (D-FL) - (202) 225-3376
Henry Cuellar (D-TX) - (202) 225-1640
Donald G. Davis (D-NC) - (202) 225-3101
Jared F. Golden (D-ME) - (202) 225-6306
Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) - (202) 225-2531
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) - (202) 225-3536
Darren Soto (D-FL) - (202) 225-9889
Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) - (202) 225-6316HO-LEE SHIT. Fuckin’ torched?!?!? That’s a whole new level. I’ll bet that they’ll see the error of their ways now!
torched is a new one… put on the pile…
torched
slammed
hit-back
shamed
blasted
blew up
crushed
the lot meaning fuck-and-all. An article with this in the title is not worth the LED’s illuminating it
I wonder what’s next. Fried? Obliterated? Unmade?
Clapped
Facing calls
Every single person who voted “yes” must be barred from office.
They’re either an idiot, misled on what socialism is and where it’s been enacted, or willfully wasting their constituents’ time on meaningless drivel.
Here are the 8 Democrats who voted in favor of the resolution:
Kathy Castor (FL)
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Don Davis (NC)
Jared Golden (ME)
Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (TX)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Darren Soto (FL)
Gabe Vasquez (NM)Fucking Marie Glusenkamp Perez smh. She’s in a difficult district, but there’s no excuse for some of her votes while in office here.
I swear she’s in every “Democrat crossed the aisle” post. I can’t even write to her because I’m not in her district, even though I had her on my ballot the year she got in.
She’s better than a Republican in that spot in that she votes with her party sometimes instead of never. It’s hard though because I think some of her votes have really betrayed those that voted for her as well.
Cuellar almost lost his primary to an actual progressive — in Texas! This is why it’s important to vote in your local primaries.
“Almost” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Jared Golden isn’t a Democrat, he’s a good ole boy that ran a conservative campaign in a red district and continues to act accordingly.
Socialism like public schools and your local fire departments, roads paid for by tax money instead of tolls. Etc etc.
Don’t worry, the most extremist of conservatives think those are evil, too. Well, at least public schools (and the post office).
The dipshit libertarian wing of conservatism don’t want public roads or fire departments, as well.
Don’t forget the most valuable data center in town, the public library.
Oh, right. I still remember coming into work and some guy was all in a froth over the notion that people are using the Internet, at the library, and their usage was not being tracked. This, at the time when you could still wardrive and find an open Wifi with ease, and he was well aware of this fact, but pointing that out did not quell his quivering rage over this non-issue.
I tried asking more questions, but they seemed to be upset at the notion that “terrorists” could use the library to research a terrorist plot and it wouldn’t be tracked (by W’s admin that is). Mixed in was the concern that teens and the homeless could be using it to watch porn.
It seems he was listening to something on hate radio on the way in and I suspect this kind of rage bait is meant to put the idea into their heads that libraries are cesspools and need to be defunded. I think the more recent rage bait about “drag queen story hour” is another bit of rage bait planted for the same exact reason.
I remember one thing he seemed to be fixated on, as well - people getting “free movies”. Why don’t they just rent movies?
Funniest bit of this conversation, to me, was me asking - “well, do you even use the library? Have you been to any of the local branches? I highly recommend you check it out.” - their answer involved massive indignation at the very notion of them using a library, followed by: “we all have Amazon, why do we even need public libraries?” Well, case closed, I guess.
It’s interesting, with those people, where even the faintest possibility that something positive could maybe be misused is enough to gut the whole thing, but you show imperically how capitalism is used for evil fare more often than for good and they’re chill with that.
3M and DuPont could poison a whole town, cover it up, and then get no real punishment, but if they even THINK about their porn-hungry, homeless strawman that’s enough to burn down their local library. Conservatives are deeply unserious people who cause deeply serious damage.
Oh, yeah, I remember talking to this guy about the corporate death penalty and the idea of a city or state exercising that right on a wayward corporation horrified him. It didn’t seem to matter what they did; they should still be permitted to conduct business in any jurisdiction, no matter what the law is or the public sentiment, because “merica” (that was almost literally the reasoning, FFS).
But this guy was a total simp for corporations at nearly every turn. The idea of the Founders’ original plans for intellectual property he thought was just ridiculous ( at the time, the concern was Mickey Mouse falling into public domain, as it should. This was in the mid-00s. ) and he thought was some Communist plot. 🤣 I’d love to know what he thinks about Steamboat Willie now in the public domain along with many other things now.
Republicans being out to lunch and wasting everyone’s time with culture war nonsense I understand, but Dems supporting this is beyond their normal level of ridiculously poor work. This is an embarrasment to the whole party and those 8 dems need to lose every bit of standing, support, and any seats they have within the party structure. I’m sure they will get right on that.
These 8 are the revolving villains that will take turns voting for or against legislation to make sure nothing moves left but status quo remains.
I maintain that the US military is the very embodiment of socialism.
It’s okay guys, they were swiftly mocked on social media for it!
Set the aisle on fire
Everything about this compliant Congress is embarrassing.
Don’t say torched unless the building burned down.
Can’t wait for the BBB cuts after midterms. It will suck seeing good people struggling but all the dumbass maga will be giving the face-eating leopards a feast.
