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.”
Congress torched
Weird, I don’t see a video of it burning?
It was a declaration of loyalty to the robber barons. Remember every one of the names of those who voted for this. They are not on our side.
But they are more on our side than a Republican so still vote for them in the upcoming generals.
Anybody for sale will only appear to be on your side when it doesn’t matter, Finite Banjo.
We treat this like a stupid joke, but they will be putting us in camps for socialism soon.
Which, in this case, means anything that isn’t strictly oligarchy.
HO-LEE SHIT. Fuckin’ torched?!?!? That’s a whole new level. I’ll bet that they’ll see the error of their ways now!
They burned down the whole building over this?
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) 225-6316A phone call better spent canvassing for their replacements. Nobody cares about being condemned.
Oh my god, torched? If getting slammed didn’t show then, I’m sure this’ll work.
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
Clapped
I wonder what’s next. Fried? Obliterated? Unmade?
Facing calls
You really torched the people who wrote that headline!
are we finally done with “slammed” and have moved on to “torched”?
“pitchforked” will be fun for a day
Still waiting for disemboweled.
They’re lucky they weren’t eviscerated
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.
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.
Whelp, at least we know who the assholes are.
Rotating villains.
It’s just the first step to start a new round of McCarthyism.
I maintain that the US military is the very embodiment of socialism.
I maintain that the moon is the very embodiment of cheese, but that doesn’t make it any less delusional.
It’s not democratically controlled.
Election time: Smaller government!
In office: Let’s waste our time with inane bullshit that accomplishes nothing!
Think of the salaries, healthcare, and so on for all of the reps, their aides, capital police, janitors… it’s millions of dollars out the window wasted for them to bloviate yet another day. Good job.
What makes it so very absurd? Every single one of them benefits from what they would call socialism. Minimum salaries, guaranteed vacation time, the best healthcare on Earth, and on and on and on, all things that they have voted against.
The problem is bOtH of our parties are much too socialist for Amazon and too little socialist for the vast majority of the workforce.
Link to votes
