What the fuck? What a clown show
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Weird how all their examples of socialism are extreme wealth inequality...
Maybe their issue is extreme wealth inequality?
Trump: DEMOCRATS NEED TO BE HANGED!
Democrats: Yeah, fuck Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani.
Later, at the gallows...
I'm sure that'll be a comfort to the millions of Americans who are going to suffer and die because they can no longer afford healthcare, adequate food or even a roof over their heads.
Someone please name and shame the dems who wasted time voting for this nonsense.
List
- Pete Aguilar of California;
- Gabe Amo of Rhode Island;
- Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts;
- Ami Bera of California Sanford Bishop of Georgia;
- Brandon Boyle of Pennsylvania;
- Nikki Budzinski of Illinois;
- Salud Carbajal of California;
- Ed Case of Hawaii;
- Kathy Castor of Florida
- Sheila-Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida;
- Gil Cisneros of California;
- Katherine Clark of Massachusetts;
- Jim Clyburn of South Carolina;
- Herb Conaway of New Jersey;
- Lou Correa of California;
- Jim Costa of California Angie Craig of Minnesota;
- Jason Crow of Colorado;
- Henry Cuellar of Texas Don Davis of North Carolina;
- Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania;
- Shomari Figures of Alabama;
- Bill Foster of Illinois;
- Lois Frankel of Florida;
- Laura Gillen of New York;
- Jared Golden of Maine;
- Vicente Gonzalez of Texas;
- Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire;
- Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey;
- Adam Gray of California;
- Josh Harder of California;
- Jim Himes of Connecticut;
- Steven Horsford of Nevada;
- Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania;
- Hakeem Jeffries of New York;
- Julie Johnson of Texas;
- Marcy Kaptur of Ohio;
- Bill Keating of Massachusetts;
- Greg Landsman of Ohio;
- Susie Lee of Nevada;
- Mike Levin of California;
- Ted Lieu of California;
- Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts;
- Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island;
- John Mannion of New York;
- Lucy McBath of Georgia;
- April McClain Delaney of Maryland;
- Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan;
- Gregory Meeks of New York;
- Grace Meng of New York;
- Joseph Morelle of New York;
- Kelly Morrison of Minnesota;
- Jared Moskowitz of Florida;
- Seth Moulton of Massachusetts;
- Frank Mrvan of Indiana;
- Donald Norcross of New Jersey;
- Jimmy Panetta of California;
- Chris Pappas of New Hampshire;
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington;
- Scott Peters of California;
- Brittany Pettersen of Colorado;
- Nellie Pou of New Jersey;
- Josh Riley of New York;
- Raul Ruiz of California;
- Pat Ryan of New York;
- Andrea Salinas of Oregon;
- Brad Schneider of Illinois;
- Hillary Scholten of Michigan;
- Kim Schrier of Washington;
- Eric Sorenson of Illinois;
- Daren Soto of Florida;
- Greg Stanton of Arizona;
- Haley Stevens of Michigan;
- Marilyn Strickland of Washington;
- Tom Suozzi of New York;
- Emilia Sykes of Ohio;
- Dina Titus of Nevada;
- Ritchie Torres of New York;
- Lori Trahan of Massachusetts;
- Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico;
- Eugene Vindman of Virginia;
- James Walkinshaw of Virginia;
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida;
- George Whitesides of California;
- Fredrica Wilson of Florida.
Two Democrats, Representatives Janelle Bynum of Oregon and Deborah Ross of North Carolina, voted present.
Where's that list from? You have names that aren't on the sponsors list and it hasn't been voted on yet.
I knew Wasserman Shultz would be on here without looking.
What's super frustrating is that they're just using "socialism" as a fear mongering buzzword, and providing the worst possible examples (while failing to mention how rampant corruption played a huge part).
Introduced but not voted on yet. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/58
EDIT: Strangely the congress.gov link is no longer working, but the Clerk of the House site does indeed show it as having been voted on and passed, with the full list of yeahs and nays. https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025305
Denouncing the horrors of socialism.
Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships;
Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide;
Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolás Maduro;
Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine;
Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China;
Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered;
Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea, dividing a land of freedom from a land of destitution;
Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their backs;
Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of inflation in the world;
Whereas President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote, “To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it”;
Whereas President James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”, wrote that it “is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest”; and
Whereas the United States was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.
Very flowery. The facts stated might be factual, but prepending every statement with "Socialism did this" is not.
The term Socialism without any additional qualifier is way too broad anyhow. And even then, not all social policy is socialism.
Yea I can do the same thing.
Capitalism caused ww1 and 2.
Capitalism made slaves.
Capitalism poisoned african children.
Capitalism caused 9/11
Capitalism is the reason for drug sales
Capitalism is why I stubbed my toe this morning, because I had to get up early to get to work.
Do they even define the term?
I'm assuming they are lumping in things like democratic socialism with Stalinism and Maoism.
When is the resolution that denounces fascism?
Do they even define the term?
Ha ha ha! No.
I'm assuming they are lumping in things like democratic socialism with Stalinism and Maoism.
Yes.
When is the resolution that denounces fascism?
Ha ha ha! Oh you!
Just read the fuckin’ thing before anyone shits themselves.
This republiQan authored shit talking is specifically to swing back any centrists who may have wandered too far to the left.
Vote Yes = you hate socialism
Vote No = you love genocide
Let’s hit some of the heights here:
Denouncing the horrors of socialism.
- Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships;
- Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide;
- Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolás Maduro;
- Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine;
- Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China;
- Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered;
- Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea, dividing a land of freedom from a land of destitution;
- Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their backs;
- Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of inflation in the world;
. . . etc., etc. It’s bullshit. It’s a setup. And it’s working really well.
Socialism doesn't work when it's being senctioned by capitalism. Socialism only works when it has to bail out a failed capitalist system.