• Avessandra
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t know if I would count “making an announcement on social media” as stopping the genocide, but I understand that for Trump voters the bar on anything must be very low.

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      10 hours ago

      That is objectively already more than dems did.

      With dems we just got news articles about how behind closed doors Biden was super duper mad about the genocide then they’d send more bombs.

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      10 hours ago

      So why are Democrats already spinning their comments as if Biden is achieving a ceasefire right now?

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    8 hours ago

    Shouldn’t the text read something like, “republicans looking at the receipts for the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for”

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      7 hours ago

      100% on your side. But careful not to set yourself up for the same legit criticism that we throw at R’s. Whataboutism.

      edit: but also that would be a pretty great meme, tbf

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      6 hours ago

      Genocide is a bit worse than the wall of whataboutism. But if you want to go there Democrats are building it too so it would be a spidey meme.

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    14 hours ago

    Seems more likely he’ll just let things devolve further…

    Trump would not elaborate on what he meant by his threat — first announced on social media in early December — that “all hell will break out” if a deal is not made.

    “It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” Trump said. -Source

    Not sure he understands the implications of his own statement…

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      13 hours ago

      Stopping a genocide is the opposite of devolving. Trumps statement is a direct threat to Israel. There is no leverage or “worse” for Hamas. Democrats trying to spin Trump stopping the genocide into something bad is comical.

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        13 hours ago

        Trumps statement is a direct threat to Israel.

        You realize he’s literally threatening Hamas here, no?

        “It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” Trump said.

        He seems more likely to stop the genocide by allowing Isreal to just kill everyone so there’s no one left to genocide…

        They are more likely to give Israel a lot of leeway, including releasing Biden’s hold on the transfer of certain weapons to finish the job as soon as possible. Source

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          13 hours ago

          Trump holds no leverage over Hamas. He knows that. The word anyone in that sentence means Israel.

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        Well, let’s see what happens.

        I also highly doubt he’s gonna do anything. Add on top of that, that very few outside countries seem to care about Trump, much less respect him enough to actually listen to anything he has to say.

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            I’m sure all the money AIPAC gave to Trump has no impact. We know Trump to be such a non-transactional person. You drank a big ass glass of the MAGA koolaid dude. Netanyahu and Trump are very friendly, I’m sure he wants to make it look like Trump brought a cease fire for optics. Israel is losing support all over the world, even in Israel, they were pushing towards the optics of a cease fire for a while. You wait and see what really happens. I’m sure the author of the Muslim ban who constantly decries negatively towards Islam is going to stand up for the poor Islamic state over the rich lucrative Israeli state. 🤦🏻

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              Trump gets his funding from Miriam Adelson. the $100 million she gave him is clearly not even close to what the Democrats received. Becacuse Trump is stopping the genocide instantly. Kool aid is supposed to be red but these days it is blue.

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            They already have weapons, both sides, and America doesn’t sit on the worlds supply of weapons. So that will get him nothing.

            His envoy pressing for a ceasefire seems to do very little, as everybody else has been doing the same for a while now.

            What else have you got?