I thought musk controls the purse. Why is he even pretending to involve Congress at this point?
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ah yes the age old solution of giving killers weapons so they stop killing. never fails.
Rare earth minerals in Israel?
Israels export economy is mostly diamonds and intelligence services honed via their genocide. So yes, but they also have the pee tapes.
He wants a new hotel.
Well what do you know... lots of real estate just opened up!
People who refused to vote for Harris because of her stance on Israel - THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED!
Yes this is a lot less than Biden sent.
He's got 4 years to catch up. After all he has to fund the removal of all Gazans he proposed.
What I want is to replace First-past-the-post voting with STAR voting.
Imagine all the time you'd save from not having to go to every single thread to blame people literally unrepresented in government for the democrats failures.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
And you would only be able to pass voting reform through democrats.
No one forced the democrats to do this:
No one stopped them either. Dems and Repub leaders both want this
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If enough people voted, the Democrats would have given people free health care, stopped financing wars, torture and genocide, improve public transit, boost public education, and lowered the cost of groceries. If only enough people voted for the Democrats, they could be in power and bring change. They just need a super majority to install a welfare state and turn into pacifists. Of course!
The Democrats had a filibuster proof trifecta for 73 days in 2009 and they passed Obamacare. Republicans spent the next decade trying to destroy it. I'm not saying Dems would do all of what you said, but when they are given the chance they move things in the right direction.
I get your sarcasm, but let’s be clear - Dems have had a supermajority 3 times in the past 25 years, and we got none of this shit. They’re full of crap when it comes to fulfilling campaign promises. Wish we could say the same for republicans.
Well it's certainly an improvement over the eight billion the Dems just sent.
Trump has 4 years to catch up. He has to fund his plan to remove all Gazans.
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Fuck off you disgusting piece of shit. Imagine being such a dumb fucking cunt you attempt to scold random voters for the Democrats decision to support genocide and claim it's their fault somehow.
Hey, dipshit, who kept signing off on arms shipments the past fucking year? Hey dipshit, who declared a redline in Rafah only for nothing to happen? Who gave a deadline of 30 days for aid to increase, nothing improved, then they just meekly announced they weren't doing shit as punishment?
Personal attacks aside, yes it is the fault of voters for Trump getting into office. That's how elections work.
Democrats wouldn't stop the war. Republicans wouldn't stop the war. It was irrelevant to the choice of who to elect.
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she did nothing but indicate her intentions to do the exact same thing, just as biden before her
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Just curious, if Kamala did the same arms transfer shortly after getting elected; how would you respond or what would you do?
Would you assure others that she is working tirelessly on a ceasefire despite her vow to always give them the ability to defend themselves?
I think they pretty clearly wanted the Democratic party to stop arming Israel, which did not happen, and probably wouldn't have happened if they were elected, either, given they made no promises on it and gave no real indications of course correction.
This is like if the guy on watch duty on the Titanic spent a year screaming about how they're heading directly for an iceberg, the captain did nothing, and then got mad at the guy on watch when the iceberg sank the ship.
Have you considered the possibility that this is not what people who voted against KKKlansmala wanted, but trump did it anyway?
He was very open where he stands, and even was complaining that Israel did not wipe Palestine faster.
Trump isnt open on anything. He says something then the opposite and then agree with both statements. This isnt an exception. He said some of the most inhumane shit about the palestinians i ever heard, and he also criticized Netanyahu harder than any potus ever did. If you say he is clear about this issue, please teach us because the rest of the world cant say the same. And to add some context, 1b is a very rookie number, to say at least. Biden did 8b a few days ago in a single move. Idk if hes testing the waters with the american public and will subsequently give more or if he is giving a farewell kiss to israel and wont send a penny from now on, but theres 0 chance any potus could go without paying tribute to aipac, even if meager
There was no distinction between the candidates on this issue. Biden just sent $8 billion in arms less than a month ago. There were plenty differences between candidates, but this is not one.
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Ah yes, giving Netanyahu even more bombs is totally the right way to bring about a ceasefire and definitely won't just lead to more Palestinians getting blown up.