No other Democrat senator supported convicted felon Charles Kushner for a top diplomatic role.

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    Kushner did a lot worse than lying to the FEC and tax evasion. Charles Kushner was pardoned by Trump for those back in 2020 but he admitted to a lot worse during the plea deal. This guy is absolute scum.

    Real estate developer and political contributor Charles Kushner was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his pleas of guilty to assisting in the filing of false tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.

    Kushner further admitted at his plea hearing that he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness - his sister - and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex. Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness’ husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witness.

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    Weird how everyone mocks the “both sides” people, even when both sides jump on board the nepotism train.

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      Because it’s not “both sides.” There are three sides, here. You’ve got Republicans, who are universally awful. Then you’ve got corporatist Democrats, who are also universally awful, although marginally less so. Finally, you have actual Democrats like AOC, who aren’t awful in the slightest.

      The “both sides” people never differentiate between the second two groups. What we need is more of group #3 and less of groups #1 and #2, but pretending all we have is #1 and #2 is bullshit that doesn’t help anyone.

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    What was the point of all of that filibustering, if he was just going to act like a corrupt douchebag? These dudes are always slimy. Didn’t he save someone from a burning house and date Rosario Dawson? What a waste. I would be surprised if he was even straight at this point.

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    Republican nepotism.

    50 / 51 Republicans voting yes.

    44 / 45 Democrats voting no.

    “Democrats are bad.” “It’s the ratchet effect.” “They’re all against us.”

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      Dems care about us!

      They just hate Trump as much as we do.

      Reminder that neither Biden nor Kamala said no to Israel. If they aren’t enemies, they’re at least self-serving cowards. Biden didn’t use his immunity to bolster the middle class, he used it on his own family and half-ass some debt forgiveness.

      They lost two elections because they ignored wealth inequality and labor unions in favor of virtue signalling and petty culture wars that all failed (woooooke!).

      All I see are two enemies fighting it out. Fuck em both. America deserves better.