• DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “It’s treason then…”

    Meanwhile Left wing voters in 2024: “So this is how liberty dies . . . with thunderous applause”

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      8 months ago

      And entirely too many lefties, “I don’t like either candidate so I won’t vote.”

      Or worse (and thankfully a much smaller number), “I’m going to let trump get power again so things can really bad really quick so we can get The Revolution™ started.”

      Picking the lesser of 2 evils is unfortunately how our system functions. And not voting at all ensures that the candidate you hate the most has an easier time winning. And I’d prefer if the worst candidate doesn’t get power so we can actually change things for the better.

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        8 months ago

        I’m not buying that yet. I think the whole “oooh gen whatever is turning on biden” is a truckload of bullshit printed up by The Usual Suspects.

        Voter participation has been very high even recently.

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          I will definitely vote for Biden, but his disgusting simping for Israel makes me a lot less inclined to donate money to his campaign. I might end up only donating to anti-Trump PACs instead.

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            8 months ago

            I appreciate your position, and I am not questioning your choice of which candidate to support. But understanding that as of right now there are literally only two viable choices shaping up for president in 2024, I have to ask which is more tolerable: Biden maintaining US status quo support of Israel throughout his term, or Trump going out of his way to recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel in 2017 in spite of the fact that Tel Aviv had been the de facto capitol since 1949?

            I am NOT advocating for any side in the current conflict, only pointing out that whatever Biden’s crimes, Trump literally went out of his way to destabilize the entire Jerusalem situation in 2017 out of the blue, and for no better reason than that he could, quite possibly even at Netanyahu’s specific request (I have no proof, but look at cui bono here). So Trump upset that whole fragile diplomatic arrangement even against UN and worldwide condemnation, causing Hamas to respond by calling for a new intifada over the insult.

            And then, just to make sure he got that point across good and well to ALL sides, Trump set the opening date for the new US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Of course there were more protests, and more violence, and the IDF alone killed 58 Palestinians with tear gas and sniper fire that day, according to the above Wikipedia link.

            So looking at the current conflict, and speaking solely for myself, to me it is entirely possible that even with the present bloodshed, there are more Palestinian bodies lying murdered at the feet of Trump than at the feet of Biden. Nothing to be proud of, for sure. Just something to note in any comparison between them.

            As bad as the situation is now, it will get inestimably worse under Trump . . . and Trump’s already proven he’s Netanyahu’s bitch, because you’ll never convince me Bibi wasn’t behind that particular stunt, right down to having the new US embassy in Jerusalem open on the precise day Israel celebrated 70 years of independence.

              • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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                8 months ago

                No, I wrote it in response to your comment not because I didn’t read it and see you’re voting for Biden, or because I disagree with you in any way, but because to me the gulf between them seems SO wide on the subject of Israel that it seems disingenuous to even compare them in the same terms, as though they’re both just regular candidates and Trump isn’t actually intent on completely blowing up the Middle East.

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    8 months ago

    Can I just say that this is my absolute favorite picture of him. It’s the exact same expression my kids made when they shit in their diapers.

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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Trump was at a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, commenting on a recent report from Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee.

    The report, published on January 4, said Trump’s businesses had received at least $7.8 million in foreign payments during his presidency.

    Foreign governments and government-controlled entities had made payments to Trump’s hotels in Washington, Las Vegas, and New York.

    “President Trump never sought or received Congress’s approval to keep these foreign payments, as the Constitution requires,” the authors wrote.

    Trump was indicted in four separate prosecutions last year and faces 91 criminal counts, ranging from falsifying business records to election interference.

    Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, and recent polls suggest a close fight between him and President Joe Biden.


    The original article contains 319 words, the summary contains 126 words. Saved 61%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    8 months ago

    I do enjoy that he just keeps admitting to the things that he is in trouble for.