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In reply to the discussion: Go ahead, single-issue vote the Gaza War and see how that helps your cause. [View all]thucythucy
(8,174 posts)56. That should work both ways.
The idea of trying to "win people over respectfuly" seems rather lost as well on the people chanting "Genocide Joe."
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Go ahead, single-issue vote the Gaza War and see how that helps your cause. [View all]
lees1975
Apr 4
OP
Plus, I'm sure Netanyahu would like to see Trump back in the White House, how much of this is aimed at us
Walleye
Apr 4
#1
Yes. Those arms deals are approved by Congress, and it takes Congress to revoke them, not the President.
lees1975
Apr 4
#3
If that's the case, then he also needs to go ahead and send aid to Ukraine without congressional approval.
lees1975
Apr 4
#63
This religious war has literally been waged since the dawn of time, centuries B.C.
lindysalsagal
Apr 4
#4
The same people who thought Obama could single handedly mandate single payer health insurance.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 4
#45
You're missing the point. The US gov't doesn't work that way. Congress holds the purse strings...
AnrothElf
Apr 4
#99
No they don't. Once again... willfully and in bad faith misstating the facts and casting aspersions.
AnrothElf
Apr 5
#134
Yes. It's almost like DIY brainwashing. The anti-Democratic propaganda works so well it takes hardly
betsuni
Apr 4
#8
It was (I don't know if it still exists) an airfield in Taiwan that we were briefly deployd to in 1962.
Ping Tung
Apr 4
#64
Right...because all the things people want Biden to do...they'll get from Trump.
CincyDem
Apr 5
#101
A president is actually required to cut off aid if war crimes are occurring.
Big Blue Marble
Apr 4
#96
Punishers think all politicians are selfish elite crooks & liars only in office for money and power (status quo),
betsuni
Apr 4
#97
People who express concern that "Biden's support for Israel" might damage his re-election chances, causing
sop
Apr 4
#39
Yes they do. The ones chanting "Genocide Joe," saying things like "I'm not Palestinian but I do have morals and
betsuni
Apr 5
#100
Rarely works. They complain, Biden does or says what they want as much as he is able, then
betsuni
Apr 4
#69
War in the middle-east is not something new. Say that in one-hundred years and it will be true then too.
twodogsbarking
Apr 4
#24
Who are you talking to?? Muslims in this country, Palestinians who have lost family members or entire
Pisces
Apr 4
#36
Currently the U.S. has sanctions on 20 countries, including North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran
shrike3
Apr 4
#90
Then they are just making an excuse to defend their indefensible ways that they don't really want to change.
W_HAMILTON
Apr 4
#67
The problem with your argument is that theirs is not a rational decision because like too many on the Left
elocs
Apr 4
#57
Yes, but... for some, it's more important to "punish" Biden and the Democrats *
Oopsie Daisy
Apr 4
#79
If we had voted Hillary Clinton in 2016, the bottom three far-right Justices would not be in the Supreme Court.
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 5
#106
These are the same idiotic people that helped kill off Roe, prevented $10k-$20k student loan cancellation...
W_HAMILTON
Apr 4
#66
We lost Roe v. Wade and the SCOTUS due to voters who thought that Hillary was not pure enough for them
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 4
#86
I remember people getting mad at being reminded about the importance of the SCOTUS
betsuni
Apr 5
#102
I can't help being cranky with the "Hillary was right" now thing because trashing her in 2016 was ubiquitous.
betsuni
Apr 5
#120
I asked a million times who the corporate Democrats were. Who changed their votes and policies
betsuni
Apr 5
#117
As bad as the people who think Joe Biden would sell out his country for a few bucks after dedicating his whole life
Walleye
Apr 5
#119
Carter lost, I think, in 1980 mainly because conservative 'Reagan Democrats' voted Rethug. I think that, plus Reagan's
Celerity
Apr 5
#111
Whites shifted Republican beginning in the '60s (when union membership was high, inequality low,
betsuni
Apr 5
#115
Yes, the Southern Strategy of Nixon and the Rethugs, plus the beginning of the RW evangelical poltical movement, both of
Celerity
Apr 5
#118
Biden just did what ya'll seem to think he can't do. He leaned on Nutanyahoo and made him open
Autumn
Apr 5
#132