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bpfish's avatar

I find myself in the odd position of strongly agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene on this one. She's the sane one here, this bill is that fucking ridiculous. How can you even control whether people boycott?

Josh Gottheimer needs to be held accountable for this. Why is any Democrat cosponsoring any legislation that in any way targets any form of free speech in this current climate?

https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/05/house-pulls-bill-anti-israel-boycotts-conservative-backlash/

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michaelflutist's avatar

Yeah, I hope we can agree that this is completely absurd and a total violation of the First Amendment.

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Alex Hupp's avatar

I really hope this NJ gubernatorial race will be the last we hear from Gottheimer.

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dragonfire5004's avatar

Large number of conservative Orthodox Jews who register as Democrats and vote to have a say in who gets elected in New Jersey. Not exactly rocket science to figure out he’s trying to juice their primary turnout (and they vote as a bloc like no other voting group in America, just ask the last conservative Dem who got elected to the legislature based solely on their vote).

It’s honestly smart strategy for him to try to take some of the moderate or electability concerned Democratic primary voters and coalesce the conservative Democrats to him to hopefully squeak by with 20-30% as the Dem nominee against Sherrill and the rest of the field. That’s his only pathway and that’s why he’s sponsored this bill. He knows not to try for the left vote because they hate him and this is his sole potential pathway to the Governorship.

Expect more of this stupidity up until primary day.

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Zero Cool's avatar

And Hasidic Jews as well, located in Passaic and other parts of NJ.

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PollJunkie's avatar

I know people who are tactically voting for the candidate who's leading in the NJ primary solely to prevent him from winning it.

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Paleo's avatar

One of the reasons I intensely dislike Gottheimer and would not vote for him if he wins the primary.

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Zero Cool's avatar

I am not one who thinks a boycott of Israel is the right approach to resolve the conflict between the country and Palestine. However, if any U.S. citizen wants to boycott Israel that's a right they have.

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Justin Gibson's avatar

That bill is a gross insult to the freedom of speech.

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