Why did Arab majority Deerborn, Michigan go for Trump?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Three minutes why Arabs in Michigan voted for Trump

The problem is people think that somehow people think that America is the land of the promised and it’s a given that we have clean drinking water and health care. People don’t see how democracy dies one cut at a time. If you’ve lived in an authoritarian country like I did as an expat, you’d know how quickly things can devolve in 4 years.

I've seen in it in other countries first hand. "A republic, if you can keep it"

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Anonymous wrote:It is very short sighted to think that spending billions of dollars on a war to kill people will have no effect at home.

The democratic party learned a hard lesson.

You don’t get it. You may never get to vote again. You were manipulated by Russia and China to vote third party to destroy America. Trump is not a normal candidate. He has proudly said he’ll be a dictator.

THIS is the kind of thing that makes my liberal self start being anti-immigration. Don’t flee your dangerous, unstable countries with few rights to come here and vote to take away our rights and make us less safe and stable.

Ha! I'm an immigrant and I know every liberal thinks like you despite the professed pro-immigration stance. You only approve of a particular kind of immigrant. You don't really see them as people, and you don't see them as "one of us" either. You and Trump aren't so different after all.

Because you are white

Lucky for you, you dont have to wonder any more. You get what you voted for, dont say we didnt warn you.

You really have no idea of immigrant life. You don't.

Do you have any idea how bad legal immigration services got under Biden? How much longer things took? How outright unhelpful USCIS became? Wherever did you get the idea that Biden was good for immigrants?

Well I guess we will all see now that MAGA has control.

I lived through the first Trump term and in retrospect, while he was personally repugnant to me, the policy-level fearmongering from the Democrats did not come true. My life as an immigrant was not inconvenienced at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Three minutes why Arabs in Michigan voted for Trump

The problem is people think that somehow people think that America is the land of the promised and it’s a given that we have clean drinking water and health care. People don’t see how democracy dies one cut at a time. If you’ve lived in an authoritarian country like I did as an expat, you’d know how quickly things can devolve in 4 years.

And that’s precisely why I’m livid about these voters thinking they were “sending a message.” All they did was stick it to the country that saved them from the ugliness they were fleeing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's the outcome that is most perplexing to me. The explanation being given by the talking heads is that they were unhappy with the Biden administrations support of Israel. But they obviously realize that a Trump administration would be just as supportive of Israel. I would assume that they would go with the candidate who belongs to a party that has a significant faction of people opposed to supporting Israel, which is non-existent in the Republican party. Can anyone help me make sense of this?

Protest vote. She could have met with them in a small group if she didn't want to be cornered. But they were not going to hear anything from her that they have not already heard: "stand with Israel but stop humanitarian crisis in region....blah blah blah"

There is no such thing as a protest vote and that’s what most of this thread is saying.

That is FALSE. Do you want to speak to Dearborn MI residents who did just that???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's the outcome that is most perplexing to me. The explanation being given by the talking heads is that they were unhappy with the Biden administrations support of Israel. But they obviously realize that a Trump administration would be just as supportive of Israel. I would assume that they would go with the candidate who belongs to a party that has a significant faction of people opposed to supporting Israel, which is non-existent in the Republican party. Can anyone help me make sense of this?

Protest vote. She could have met with them in a small group if she didn't want to be cornered. But they were not going to hear anything from her that they have not already heard: "stand with Israel but stop humanitarian crisis in region....blah blah blah"

There is no such thing as a protest vote and that’s what most of this thread is saying.

That is FALSE. Do you want to speak to Dearborn MI residents who did just that???

My god, your inability to think is fascinating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's the outcome that is most perplexing to me. The explanation being given by the talking heads is that they were unhappy with the Biden administrations support of Israel. But they obviously realize that a Trump administration would be just as supportive of Israel. I would assume that they would go with the candidate who belongs to a party that has a significant faction of people opposed to supporting Israel, which is non-existent in the Republican party. Can anyone help me make sense of this?

Protest vote. She could have met with them in a small group if she didn't want to be cornered. But they were not going to hear anything from her that they have not already heard: "stand with Israel but stop humanitarian crisis in region....blah blah blah"

There is no such thing as a protest vote and that’s what most of this thread is saying.

That is FALSE. Do you want to speak to Dearborn MI residents who did just that???

These twits ARE speaking to those voters here in a way they’d never dare in person, and they are saying, “hope you enjoy deportation and seeing your families die because you would not accept nothing changing in terms of the pace of death and policy. We tried!!” And they think THAT is legit the only response.

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Anonymous wrote:That's the outcome that is most perplexing to me. The explanation being given by the talking heads is that they were unhappy with the Biden administrations support of Israel. But they obviously realize that a Trump administration would be just as supportive of Israel. I would assume that they would go with the candidate who belongs to a party that has a significant faction of people opposed to supporting Israel, which is non-existent in the Republican party. Can anyone help me make sense of this?

Protest vote. She could have met with them in a small group if she didn't want to be cornered. But they were not going to hear anything from her that they have not already heard: "stand with Israel but stop humanitarian crisis in region....blah blah blah"

There is no such thing as a protest vote and that’s what most of this thread is saying.

That is FALSE. Do you want to speak to Dearborn MI residents who did just that???

My god, your inability to think is fascinating.

The motherforking irony. Wow!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is very short sighted to think that spending billions of dollars on a war to kill people will have no effect at home.

The democratic party learned a hard lesson.

You don’t get it. You may never get to vote again. You were manipulated by Russia and China to vote third party to destroy America. Trump is not a normal candidate. He has proudly said he’ll be a dictator.

THIS is the kind of thing that makes my liberal self start being anti-immigration. Don’t flee your dangerous, unstable countries with few rights to come here and vote to take away our rights and make us less safe and stable.

You live in make believe land, comrade.

DP. You don’t think this will inevitably loop in legal immigrants? That means they wouldn’t be able to vote again in the US. I can’t see how that won’t happen in massive round ups.

No one legal is in any danger of getting rounded up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It is very short sighted to think that spending billions of dollars on a war to kill people will have no effect at home.

The democratic party learned a hard lesson.

You don’t get it. You may never get to vote again. You were manipulated by Russia and China to vote third party to destroy America. Trump is not a normal candidate. He has proudly said he’ll be a dictator.

THIS is the kind of thing that makes my liberal self start being anti-immigration. Don’t flee your dangerous, unstable countries with few rights to come here and vote to take away our rights and make us less safe and stable.

You live in make believe land, comrade.

DP. You don’t think this will inevitably loop in legal immigrants? That means they wouldn’t be able to vote again in the US. I can’t see how that won’t happen in massive round ups.

No one legal is in any danger of getting rounded up.

Today. Read some history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simple,

Trump has reportedly told Osrael that he wants the Middle East conflict over in Gaza before he is sworn in. Also Iran had a huge drop in their market after the Trump win.

Get Israel to stop bombing Gaza, get Iran to stop allowing Hezbollah to attack Israel, boom,

No conflict in Middle East.

It does not fix the long standing issues that need to be worked out, but at lease no more death on a large scale.

Biden/Harris were doing NOTHING!

What, exactly, were Biden/Harris neglecting to do? From news reports, it seems Palestinians were angry at the US for supplying Israel, but Israel was angry at the US for not supplying enough. What will Trump do to change things? How will he broker peace?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because apparently they want Gaza to be completely destroyed. Because that will be the outcome of their vote.

Gaza is ALREADY destroyed. People are literally starving in the North with Israel saying that there are no civilian left in the North (= those we are still there are all considered Hamas combatants, babies and women included, and can be bombed and massacred at will. The entire leadership of Hamas is dead and same for Hezbollah and Israel is still bombing civilians indiscriminately daily, more than a year after the October 7 attack, all with American bombs and money given by the Biden administration. The Trump administration will allow israel to annex the west bank likely, but then Israel will have millions of palestinians inside its own territory. Trump is a POS and does not GAF about Palestinians but he hates looking weak or bad and hates Netanhyau so he is unlikely to tolerate daily massacres going on for months while politely asking Netanyhau for restraint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is very short sighted to think that spending billions of dollars on a war to kill people will have no effect at home.

The democratic party learned a hard lesson.

You don’t get it. You may never get to vote again. You were manipulated by Russia and China to vote third party to destroy America. Trump is not a normal candidate. He has proudly said he’ll be a dictator.

THIS is the kind of thing that makes my liberal self start being anti-immigration. Don’t flee your dangerous, unstable countries with few rights to come here and vote to take away our rights and make us less safe and stable.

You live in make believe land, comrade.

DP. You don’t think this will inevitably loop in legal immigrants? That means they wouldn’t be able to vote again in the US. I can’t see how that won’t happen in massive round ups.

No one legal is in any danger of getting rounded up.

Tell that to the legal Haitian living un Ohio, working hard, building businesses, owning homes, generally contributing to the improvement if the loca community. Tromp promised to deport them all (presumably revoking their visa?)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It will soon be de facto illegal to publicly criticize Israel without being threatened with deportation for anyone who lacks solid birthright citizenship going back several generations.

But you taught the Democrats a lesson. LOL!

We’ll see.

you do realise that it was basically completely peer pressured, huge consequences for anyone in america to ever say anything other than i am a zionist. I know, im a muslim who is a zionist in that i believe and support an Israeli state should exist free from harrasment and fear of attack from its neighbors. im also against the occupation of WB and Gaza, but i couldnt say the last part, it was a huge taboo to refer to Israel as an occupying power or anything other than a deserved respite for holocaust survivors and purveyor of hummus and falafel. I have been shocked at how quickly that taboo has lifted in the past year, it wont be any big change for the taboo to be enforced again. We have never had 1st amedment rights re:Israel. these kids have broken a huge taboo.

i had never heard of the nakba, i had read alan and naomi and number the stars in 4th grade though. I thought the arabs were mean for not giving some land to the European jews, it never occurred to me that these peopel have literaly been fighting each other for 3000 years since Abraham had a grandson named Jacob and his progeny decided that all of Canaan belonged to them and all the rest of abrahams kids needed to skedaddle. if you read the OT and early muslim history it becomes evident that the children of Jacob are hellbent on taking the whole inheritence and Esaus kids, Ismail's kids and Midians kids need to die. All of these people believe in this similar origin story of abraham teh Patriarch and his offspring and are from this area of the wordl and tehy have been fighting since before Moses even coined Hebrew as a term. All the peopel who belive in thsi myth were not jews, despite what Bill clinton remembers from sunday school 1958, the jews are only the children of one of Abraham's grandkids, he had a lot more grandkids and the rest of them are called Arabs now, they also used to be called samaritans but now they are called Arabs.

What are you responding to? The “we’ll see” was in response to “ It will soon be de facto illegal to publicly criticize Israel without being threatened with deportation for anyone who lacks solid birthright citizenship going back several generations.”. Do you really think the incoming president is going to make it illegal to criticize Israel??

NP. I think the new administration will deport anybody who peacefully protest against Israel if they are not US citizens by revoking their green cards and visas.

[Anonymous]

The protest Nader voters in 2000 ended up giving the presidency to George Bush. Everyone that died in Iraq is because of those stupid protest voters.

And the desire to make the point that you can hurt people is exactly why Palestinians don't have a state. 10/7 was a stupid idea. And to progressives, congratulations, now you have four years of Trump and the Christian right and total support for Likud. Feel good now?

Idiots.

I have nothing but disdain for people trying to make a point with their Jill Stein votes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The protest Nader voters in 2000 ended up giving the presidency to George Bush. Everyone that died in Iraq is because of those stupid protest voters.

And the desire to make the point that you can hurt people is exactly why Palestinians don't have a state. 10/7 was a stupid idea. And to progressives, congratulations, now you have four years of Trump and the Christian right and total support for Likud. Feel good now?

Idiots.

I have nothing but disdain for people trying to make a point with their Jill Stein votes.

Question: where is the less than total support for Likud now? What support do you feel it is lacking today?