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kansasobama

(1,551 posts)
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:42 AM Yesterday

How about Dems abandoning the Abandon Harris supporters

What a nice Christmas gift?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/very-troubling-leader-of-abandon-harris-movement-now-anxious-about-trump-appointees/ar-AA1wwb5j?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=e7083253bddb443387b6845fa8f3cc69&ei=27

In interviews with NBC News, prominent members of the "Abandon Harris" maintained they made the right decision to either not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris or cast their ballot for Donald Trump despite previously being in the Democrats' camp.

As NBC's Jillian Frankel reported, members of the movement withheld their votes from Harris primarily because of President Joe Biden's policies involving the war in Gaza and now they are hoping for the best after Trump assumes power although there is a great deal of uncertainty.

According to Uncommitted National Movement co-founder Layla Elabed, the sister of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), "There’s been many ways in which Harris chose the path of Liz Cheney and the donor class on a range of issues, and abandoning working families in places like Dearborn, who make up the people Democrats claim to be fighting for. And I think at the same time, Trump came in and fed a community that was grieving and in despair with lies and false promises.”

Bryarr Misner, who worked as a campaign manager for the Abandon Harris campaign in Pittsburgh, admitted they voted for Trump, with NBC reporting, "He said the point of the Abandon Harris campaign was to punish the Democrats for supporting Israel during its war in Gaza, which the campaigners view as a genocide, and he hopes the Trump campaign will be more willing to negotiate with group leaders."

As Misner explained, "President Trump, he continuously came and he was in the community. While I don’t believe that he’s going to enact policies that will benefit the community, he at least showed that he was willing to show up for the community."

One leader of the movement did admit some doubts now that he has seen some of Donald Trump's Cabinet appointments.

"Farah Khan, a co-chair of the Abandon Harris campaign in Michigan, said she’s been a lifelong Democrat, but not anymore. She viewed voting against Harris as a moral issue as the war continues to unfold," telling NBC, "Anybody with their right mind would not go back to the Democrats, because they have not shown any change, and they’re going to have to work really, really hard to win their votes back."

Addressing how Trump appealed to the Muslim community, she stated, "He at least, at least came and spoke to the Muslims. He heard them and said, ‘Okay, I will finish. I will end the war in Middle East,’ even if he didn’t say, you know, a genocide, but he said he will bring peace. And that’s what the people wanted to hear, and that’s why he got the votes.”

She did express reservations over the president-elect's choice of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, an ardent evangelical Christian, as ambassador to Israel, and ex-Rep Tulsi Gabbard to oversee the Department of National Intelligence (DNI).

“It is very troubling. It’s worrisome. And some of his Cabinet picks, like Tulsi Gabbard and then Mike Huckabee, have made Muslims anxious, but we still have to wait and see how things pan out, because it’s too early to say anything about Trump, and we all know that Trump only listens [to] Trump,” Khan admitted.

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Can I add my opinion? FU Rashida, Layla and Abandon Harris supporters. May you reap what you sowed.

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How about Dems abandoning the Abandon Harris supporters (Original Post) kansasobama Yesterday OP
Or... Think. Again. Yesterday #1
If there are normal elections kansasobama Yesterday #2
Or past time, but we still shouldn't .... Think. Again. Yesterday #4
These folks have an uphill climb JustAnotherGen Yesterday #17
Before making assumptions, I want to see some convincing evidence that they might be willing to fight the rightwingers. Beastly Boy Yesterday #77
They are pathetic, uninformed people who apparently have no idea of American policy towards... brush 16 hrs ago #129
Or.... Happy Hoosier Yesterday #7
Okay. Any other significant voter blocs you want to cut away? Think. Again. Yesterday #9
Yup. Pretty much all th epoor MAGAts Happy Hoosier Yesterday #19
Looks like we're gonna need a smaller tent. Think. Again. Yesterday #20
I think maybe we do. yardwork Yesterday #25
DING DING DING! harumph Yesterday #48
Exactly FHRRK Yesterday #80
If it means we aren't attacked from within... Happy Hoosier Yesterday #93
I don't see how reducing the number of Democratic votes will help anything. Think. Again. Yesterday #97
Except that we're talking about people that apparently aren't Democratic votes. They have their own little party. Walleye Yesterday #101
Except that we're talking about people that apparently aren't Democratic votes. They have their own little party. Walleye Yesterday #102
The thing is JustAnotherGen 16 hrs ago #123
What democratic votes? marinero 9 hrs ago #133
people that share viewpoints or vote MAGA or Trump stopdiggin Yesterday #99
they made the cut. WhiteTara Yesterday #31
No, I was clearly referring to the post I replied to. Think. Again. Yesterday #32
Isn't it more accurate to say that they cut themselves away from us, wnylib Yesterday #105
significant voter blocs ? Wiz Imp Yesterday #111
They were in MIchigan . . . . hatrack 1 hr ago #137
Indeed. Trying to placate uncompromising comradebillyboy Yesterday #10
This. yardwork Yesterday #26
yep. they basically said they voted for TSF johnnyfins Yesterday #79
How do you recommend doing so? displacedvermoter Yesterday #22
I believe they will learn quickly... Think. Again. Yesterday #23
Welcome them back how? What concessions should be made? yardwork Yesterday #34
The OP I replied to is certainly not the way. Think. Again. Yesterday #40
Saying mean things about people on DU has zero impact. yardwork Yesterday #45
You do realize we are not in a vacuum, right? Think. Again. Yesterday #49
.... yardwork Yesterday #51
I don't see the humor. Think. Again. Yesterday #54
I know. yardwork Yesterday #57
I believe DeepWinter Yesterday #70
Then perhaps they shouldn't have posted... Think. Again. Yesterday #76
Then I expect an apology. Happy Hoosier Yesterday #94
I don't see how... Think. Again. Yesterday #98
They oppose LGBT . They are interests are closer to right wing Christians JI7 Yesterday #37
Then so be it... Think. Again. Yesterday #42
If their aim is to divide, you cannot force them to unite with you. Beastly Boy Yesterday #74
The author of the OP might not be happy to hear that. Think. Again. 22 hrs ago #113
Nor sure about the OP, but many people, not only those addressed in the OP, will certainly be unhappy to hear this Beastly Boy 21 hrs ago #115
If the OP, indeed even just the title of OP... Think. Again. 21 hrs ago #116
OP as in "Original Poster", whom you referred to, the OP whose happiness or displeasure with my post I am not sure of Beastly Boy 20 hrs ago #118
nah. Think. Again. 20 hrs ago #120
But wait! H2O Man Yesterday #100
Isn't it possible... Think. Again. 22 hrs ago #112
"We all know Trump only listens to Trump." yardwork Yesterday #3
Evidently some people are blaming Hamas BunkieBandit Yesterday #78
I foresee a great number of opportunities ahead where all this shit won't amount to a tinker's damn EYESORE 9001 Yesterday #5
Yes. Shit is going to hit the fan. rubbersole Yesterday #61
The s_ _ t didn't hit the fan hard enough Felicita Yesterday #90
And folks JustAnotherGen Yesterday #6
"Silly rabbit - trix are for kids." comradebillyboy Yesterday #15
Walking in the Rain JustAnotherGen Yesterday #18
They didn't care about the Palestinians Keepthesoulalive Yesterday #36
Many of these folks JustAnotherGen Yesterday #44
For all of us Keepthesoulalive Yesterday #50
They don't even care about Palestine other than using it JI7 Yesterday #39
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Yesterday #55
Of course he will finish the war quaker bill Yesterday #8
Gaza will become the newest luxury waterside resort... Think. Again. Yesterday #11
Kushner already leaked their plan to bulldoze Gaza Ritabert Yesterday #14
Yup. Think. Again. Yesterday #16
It is what the Abandon Harris voters chose to vote for sarisataka Yesterday #28
I believe they were actually... Think. Again. Yesterday #30
Their choice will cost more Palestinian lives both daily and in the long term. sarisataka Yesterday #33
I disagree... Think. Again. Yesterday #38
No, it's not clear. They say hateful things about Biden and Harris JI7 Yesterday #41
The evidence supports your conclusion. yardwork Yesterday #56
There was/is no choice that gives a quick end sarisataka Yesterday #46
They were very specific about... Think. Again. Yesterday #53
And they made their choice sarisataka Yesterday #58
Please point out for me where Trump said thucythucy Yesterday #106
👍 Dark n Stormy Knight 8 hrs ago #134
Or maybe they succeeded at their goal. yardwork Yesterday #59
There have always been those in the Middle East community sarisataka Yesterday #63
Voters are citizens. yardwork Yesterday #69
"I got mine" is cross cultural sarisataka Yesterday #71
We are all the same. All full of human flaws. yardwork Yesterday #73
They're still stupid if they think Trump's better Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday #85
And American lives JustAnotherGen 16 hrs ago #124
THIS! happy feet Yesterday #66
"It's too early to say anything about Trump." Baitball Blogger Yesterday #12
Tyottally 3auld6phart Yesterday #13
it's funny. since 11/5 mopinko Yesterday #21
Russian propaganda, start to finish. yardwork Yesterday #27
smelled funny from day 1 to many of us. mopinko Yesterday #103
Many of us said that. Loudly Arazi Yesterday #107
You're in good company. yardwork 21 hrs ago #114
I know! Where are they? LeftInTX Yesterday #89
pushing some other lies. mopinko Yesterday #104
Trump never deviated from his alliance with Netanyahu and Christian Nationalists delisen Yesterday #24
Only two possibilities: yardwork Yesterday #29
Most Muslims are socially conservative Arazi Yesterday #109
I'm back to the same place JustAnotherGen 16 hrs ago #125
1000% agreed Arazi 16 hrs ago #128
Lauren Underwood JustAnotherGen 16 hrs ago #130
She's a star Arazi 15 hrs ago #131
Where were the ads showing Netanyahu praising/endorsing Trump in MI? andym 21 hrs ago #117
IMO their reasoning is simply: the genocide is happening under Biden cadoman 20 hrs ago #119
I never considered them to be democrsts or liberals JI7 Yesterday #35
Hope they get a big taste of the shit sandwich they voted for. the_liberal_grandpa Yesterday #43
So frustrating ecstatic Yesterday #47
You can't fix stupid! nt pazzyanne Yesterday #52
Absolutely ridiculous. awesomerwb1 Yesterday #60
And middle east politics comes to america. 1WorldHope Yesterday #62
They can enjoy Trump then. hadEnuf Yesterday #64
Do not allow AverageOldGuy Yesterday #65
STUPID FOOLS! Clouds Passing Yesterday #67
Karma. They are going to find out all the good that they did, and think about doing it again. usonian Yesterday #68
Trump hates Muslims you fiking morons. BradBo Yesterday #72
Prominent member from Pittsburgh PennRalphie Yesterday #75
Stupid Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday #81
Lying works jayschool2013 Yesterday #82
One word- sarisataka Yesterday #84
How dumb would it be to tell people who vote to fuck off? Autumn Yesterday #83
I'm curious then Montauk6 Yesterday #92
He lied to them and they believed him. And the media... Autumn Yesterday #96
These are some really dumb people. GoodRaisin Yesterday #86
If you're only willing to listen to lies and/or what you want to hear? peggysue2 Yesterday #87
They're all cowards. Every damned one of them. 634-5789 Yesterday #88
Absolute idiocy and ego. ... littlemissmartypants Yesterday #91
I don't know where to begin MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #95
Why Trump's hardline position on U.S. policy in Gaza matters LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #108
When The Felon Rolls Out Muslim Ban 2.0 Deep State Witch Yesterday #110
You can't fix stupid. BannonsLiver 20 hrs ago #121
They sound like morons standingtall 20 hrs ago #122
Yup. The loss of Jewish support is far more dire than Muslims Arazi 16 hrs ago #126
Notice how all the protests ended as soon as Trump won? They got what they wanted! LeftInTX 16 hrs ago #127
These "Uncommitted to Reality, Abandon all Common Sense and Reason" episodes of The Trump Show are fabulous! betsuni 15 hrs ago #132
How about let the people decide in a meaningful and fair JCMach1 3 hrs ago #135
Some day, far into the future, we will learn that this is/was Putin Op modeled after so many others in the past msfiddlestix 1 hr ago #136

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
4. Or past time, but we still shouldn't ....
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:51 AM
Yesterday

....start chasing off anyone who might be willing to fight the rightwingers.

JustAnotherGen

(33,833 posts)
17. These folks have an uphill climb
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:12 AM
Yesterday

Getting black women to vote for Palestinians over the horrors that are going to be inflicted on our community - here since 1619, leading movements, taking all of the shit sandwiches that AmeriKKKa has consistently thrown at us.

Like - if I have to choose between making sure they don't forcibly sterilize the young people in my family and Americans who are Muslim/Arab being rounded up -

I'm going to take care of my own family.

They have done this to Black Americans before. 5 of my great nieces (age 6 months to 15) are half latina.

https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/

Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. Black women, Latina women, and Native American women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Rico’s economy would benefit from a reduced population. Sterilization was so common that it became known as “La Operación (The Operation)” among Puerto Ricans.


I can't do both. It's not a reasonable request to ask me to care for others before the beautiful girls I share DNA with. Not a thing. Not happening.

It's happened to us before - and those folks that admitted to voting for Trump have a long row to hoe before they will get my empathy, care, or concern.

It didn't have to be this way.

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)
77. Before making assumptions, I want to see some convincing evidence that they might be willing to fight the rightwingers.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:55 AM
Yesterday

Voting for Trump is not very convincing.

brush

(58,042 posts)
129. They are pathetic, uninformed people who apparently have no idea of American policy towards...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:00 PM
16 hrs ago

Israel since it was created in the late 40s. Both parties, Democratic and republican have supported Israel and to think it would change because a lie-a-minute trump showed up for a minute in their community and made some vague statements is absolute foolishness.

Many of the dummies are already having second thoughts about their foolish vote.

At least Harris called for a end to the violence and killing in Gaza.

Happy Hoosier

(8,559 posts)
7. Or....
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:02 AM
Yesterday

They can go fuck themselves.

At least that's my attitude for the moment. Many of us warned against this movement. We predicited what they would do. Some here ignored, downplayed, or outright encouraged it (at least at first).

Now we're all fucked. But their "cause" perhaps most of all. If they want to recognize they fucked up and acknowledge that, that's a good place to start. Otherwise, they can stew in the shit they helped create. Fuck 'em. Tired of getting shit on by people I've tried to help.

Happy Hoosier

(8,559 posts)
19. Yup. Pretty much all th epoor MAGAts
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:14 AM
Yesterday

I have a little list.

And just about ALL the so-called "Progressives" that have consistently undermined the party.

My anger and resentment at these fools runs very, VERY deep.

I can get over it, and will. But it sure would be fucking nice for some of these useful idiots to at least acknowledge they were wrong.

I won't hold my fucking breath.

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
25. I think maybe we do.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:44 AM
Yesterday

I think maybe the Democrats need to stop trying to be all things to all people and start focusing more intentionally on our core message - which happens to be what Trump and Vance lied and said they cared about: poverty.

If the Democrats stop trying to please spoiled people and focus on eliminating poverty and increasing workers rights, maybe we'll start winning again.

And all the spoiled trust-fund babies can go back to throwing red paint on Jewish people's homes and voting Republican, just like their mommies and daddies do.

FHRRK

(981 posts)
80. Exactly
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:00 PM
Yesterday

Basically, less is more!

Hard for some to understand, but there are some groups that need to be told to F off!

Happy Hoosier

(8,559 posts)
93. If it means we aren't attacked from within...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:41 PM
Yesterday

I’ll take it.

I’m done trying to help people who hate me. At least for now.

Walleye

(36,439 posts)
101. Except that we're talking about people that apparently aren't Democratic votes. They have their own little party.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:02 PM
Yesterday

Walleye

(36,439 posts)
102. Except that we're talking about people that apparently aren't Democratic votes. They have their own little party.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:02 PM
Yesterday

JustAnotherGen

(33,833 posts)
123. The thing is
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:34 PM
16 hrs ago

In the article they are clearly not Democratic Party voters.

More eligible voters stayed home than voted for Trump.

I'd rather throw the Garbage Trumpers in the trash and motivate those who have never voted in their lives.

stopdiggin

(13,019 posts)
99. people that share viewpoints or vote MAGA or Trump
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:53 PM
Yesterday

really are not inside or included in any tent that I care to inhabit (or would indeed describe as Democratic). So - despite your trying to reframe the question - I'm losing no sleep over the departure of 'voters' exhibiting this behavior.

Never my friends - a part of the coalition - or a reliable ally in the first place.

wnylib

(24,797 posts)
105. Isn't it more accurate to say that they cut themselves away from us,
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:12 PM
Yesterday

and not the other way around?

They formed an opposition bloc specifically to defeat Harris and elect Mr. Trump. They spent last spring and the summer working first against Biden and then against Harris. Their demonstrations were anti Semitic and pro Hamas. Their support for Hamas, which terrorizes Palestinians as much as Israel, shows that they do not support the Palestinian people.

There are other people to focus on, i.e. the working and middle classes of all backgrounds who are struggling to survive in a billionaire world.





Wiz Imp

(2,464 posts)
111. significant voter blocs ?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 02:14 PM
Yesterday

Abandon Harris (which I never even heard of) is far from a "significant voting bloc"

johnnyfins

(1,485 posts)
79. yep. they basically said they voted for TSF
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:56 AM
Yesterday

Because he showed up and told them what he wanted to hear...

displacedvermoter

(3,237 posts)
22. How do you recommend doing so?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:21 AM
Yesterday

Voters whose leadership admit "Trump only listens
to Trump" but vote for him anyway, hoping for the best, are pretty hard to unite with.

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
23. I believe they will learn quickly...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:23 AM
Yesterday

...what a mistake they made, and I think we should be ready to welcome them back.

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
34. Welcome them back how? What concessions should be made?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:55 AM
Yesterday

What bills should be watered down or abandoned to get their vote, only to have them vote Republican again?

What rewards should be given to Rashida Tlaib to "welcome her back" and what will it cost us with our loyal constituents, who reliably vote Democratic every election?

To be specific, what issue that matters to Black women should be abandoned in order to welcome back Muslim Arab voters?

Because that's what "welcoming back" means. It doesn't mean saying nice things about them on DU. It means making political sacrifices in order to woo them back. Is it worth it?

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
45. Saying mean things about people on DU has zero impact.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:04 AM
Yesterday

Saying nice things about people on DU also has zero impact.

If you're serious about "welcoming back" Muslim Arabs who voted for Trump, the Democratic Party is going to have to make major concessions to this voting bloc. And it's a voting bloc that is already quite conservative. Many Muslim Arab voters don't like gay people, their religion is inherently deeply sexist, and many of them aren't too keen about Black people, either. So what are you going to give them?

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
49. You do realize we are not in a vacuum, right?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:12 AM
Yesterday

So far, this OP has 874 views.

DU is an open, publicly accessible site that a lot of non-members look to in order to gauge Democratic Party sentiment.

DeepWinter

(594 posts)
70. I believe
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:44 AM
Yesterday

Yardwork is "laughing" because here we are concerned how we look(to people outside of DU), rather than concerned how we are.

If I'm reading to room right.

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
76. Then perhaps they shouldn't have posted...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:49 AM
Yesterday

....that how we are doesn't matter to people outside DU, or inside.

"Saying mean things about people on DU has zero impact

Saying nice things about people on DU also has zero impact. "

Happy Hoosier

(8,559 posts)
94. Then I expect an apology.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:46 PM
Yesterday

Their idiocy will hurt a lot of people. I’m willing to reconnect with them when and if they admit that their tactics were not just a monumental error in judgment but an actual harm to this country and its people. If they can’t do that, then they’ll just do it again.

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)
74. If their aim is to divide, you cannot force them to unite with you.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:46 AM
Yesterday

The best you can do is to appease them. They made it clear that the price for appeasement is to sacrifice Kamala, the symbol of our unity.

Fuck them and their demands.

And that, BTW, goes for anyone who is bent on dividing us.

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)
115. Nor sure about the OP, but many people, not only those addressed in the OP, will certainly be unhappy to hear this
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 04:49 PM
21 hrs ago

Especially the last sentence of my post.

That was my intent, actually.

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
116. If the OP, indeed even just the title of OP...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 04:58 PM
21 hrs ago

...isn't divisive to you, then I don't know how to explain the word "divisive" to help you understand it.

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)
118. OP as in "Original Poster", whom you referred to, the OP whose happiness or displeasure with my post I am not sure of
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 05:32 PM
20 hrs ago

or cared enough to address.

And just in case it is not clear enough, I didn't reply to the original post, I replied to yours. This makes either the original poster or the original post unnecessary for you to explain to me, nor did I request any such explanation.

But you are welcome to try and address MY post should you find anything else in it that is unclear to you.

H2O Man

(75,779 posts)
100. But wait!
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:55 PM
Yesterday

Aren't there advantages to being pure that outweigh winning elections? Isn't it better to hold grudges that insure future defeats? I mean, if the chip on one's shoulder is pure, doesn't it allow for a sense of moral superiority that makes losing all the more worth-while?

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
112. Isn't it possible...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 03:54 PM
22 hrs ago

....they tried a political move to achieve something they deeply cared about and lost the gambit?

Much like the Democrats just did?

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
3. "We all know Trump only listens to Trump."
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:48 AM
Yesterday

Thinking that was her first, but not last, mistake.

This entire travesty was created by Putin to turn Democratic voters against Biden. The rhetoric is so familiar - straight from 2016.

BunkieBandit

(119 posts)
78. Evidently some people are blaming Hamas
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:56 AM
Yesterday

and October 7 for what happened to Madame Vice President election loss as well as Putin and his cronies. And many university campus too. President Biden did his best to hold back Israel too.

EYESORE 9001

(27,618 posts)
5. I foresee a great number of opportunities ahead where all this shit won't amount to a tinker's damn
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:55 AM
Yesterday

All the crises that lie ahead will focus minds away from internecine skirmishes like this.

rubbersole

(8,712 posts)
61. Yes. Shit is going to hit the fan.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:27 AM
Yesterday

And it will cover/embarrass/adversely impact us all. Let us hope we'll be able to rectify the worst of it. The country's reputation on the international stage might not recover. Sorry kids...most of us tried.

Felicita

(44 posts)
90. The s_ _ t didn't hit the fan hard enough
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:25 PM
Yesterday

from 2016-2020. People didn't learn or didn't want to learn how bad for the country and humanity this orange maniac is. It's hard to believe the anti-Harris muslims forgot the muslim ban in the first Dump administration. Oh well, maybe they'll learn this time.......maybe......

JustAnotherGen

(33,833 posts)
6. And folks
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:57 AM
Yesterday

Wonder why the 92% are just sitting here like

Like - these folks cared more about people in Palestine than they did about those of us here since 1619 - leading movements.

No more.

My family, my community - that's it. My job is to make sure my family are the *lucky ones*.

I'm not lifting a finger to help them. Whatever happens - happens.

They own this. It's on them.




"Anybody with their right mind would not go back to the Democrats, because they have not shown any change, and they’re going to have to work really, really hard to win their votes back."


"Bryarr Misner, who worked as a campaign manager for the Abandon Harris campaign in Pittsburgh, admitted they voted for Trump, with NBC reporting


Silly rabbit - trix are for kids.



Keepthesoulalive

(811 posts)
36. They didn't care about the Palestinians
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:57 AM
Yesterday

They wanted attention and they will get it and possibly deported. The Palestinians have been nothing more than a bargaining tool for horrible people on both sides and they will suffer more because of arrogant self serving idiots.

JustAnotherGen

(33,833 posts)
44. Many of these folks
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:03 AM
Yesterday

Are 2nd and 3rd generation Americans. Their performance has created a problem of hell for their community.

Keepthesoulalive

(811 posts)
50. For all of us
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:13 AM
Yesterday

This I’m going to punish the president because I didn’t get my attention fix is going to hurt the whole world. All we can do right now is watch it burn , mainly the Middle East.

JI7

(90,897 posts)
39. They don't even care about Palestine other than using it
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:00 AM
Yesterday

to get their hatred of Jews on.

Response to JI7 (Reply #39)

quaker bill

(8,241 posts)
8. Of course he will finish the war
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:02 AM
Yesterday

He said that Israel was not going fast enough. He will make it faster and likely more deadly. I believe he likes the plan where Israel annexes and resettles the northern half of Gaza. That is the version of 'peace' he prefers. He has no problem with them killing as many folks as it takes to get it done, he just wants it done faster.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
28. It is what the Abandon Harris voters chose to vote for
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:48 AM
Yesterday

but it was more important to them to teach Democrats a lesson- do you feel educated?

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
30. I believe they were actually...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:51 AM
Yesterday

...more immediately concerned about actual Palestinian lives being lost on a daily basis.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
33. Their choice will cost more Palestinian lives both daily and in the long term.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:55 AM
Yesterday

They knew it and chose that path anyway.

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
38. I disagree...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:59 AM
Yesterday

...it was clear they were only trying to achieve a quick end to the massacres.

It's true they failed, but that was their goal.

JI7

(90,897 posts)
41. No, it's not clear. They say hateful things about Biden and Harris
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:02 AM
Yesterday

that they never say about Trump.

And they just hate Jewish people. Their concern for Palestine only goes as far as using it as an excuse to hate Jewish people.

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
56. The evidence supports your conclusion.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:16 AM
Yesterday

Also, if you polled the Muslim Arabs who voted for Trump in MI and PA, I expect their beliefs would align very closely with the GOP platform, across the board.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
46. There was/is no choice that gives a quick end
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:06 AM
Yesterday

however there was a choice:

Choose the party that while supporting Israel is trying to negotiate an end to the conflict and the suffering of the Palestinian people
-or-
Choose the party that is already making plans to build resorts on the rubble of the Palestinian's homes after they are gone

One of those was clearly closer to their goal, yet it did not matter when it came to their vote.
Perhaps there was another goal which was more important- they failed at that as well.

Think. Again.

(19,120 posts)
53. They were very specific about...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:15 AM
Yesterday

...demanding the U.S. stop supplying Israel with weapons, period.

Their concern was for the immediate stop of the massacres.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
58. And they made their choice
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:23 AM
Yesterday

to support the side that will not only continue supplying Israel but will actively encourage more aggressive tactics...

How does that support their goal? Unless the expectation is Hamas can keep hiding behind Palestinian civilians for four more year until the Democrats return on bended knee to beg for their votes. It seems pretty clear voting for Harris would save years of suffering by building on Biden's efforts.

thucythucy

(8,767 posts)
106. Please point out for me where Trump said
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:27 PM
Yesterday

he would "stop supplying Israel with weapons, period."

If that was their goal, they've failed miserably, and were deluded to the point of hallucinating to think it could ever happen under a Trump administration.

Here's an analogy: it's 1861 and I want an immediate end to slavery. That's why I'm going to support Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. I bet that'll teach the Union a lesson.

Said no abolitionist, ever.

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
59. Or maybe they succeeded at their goal.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:23 AM
Yesterday

Setting aside the vaguely whiny quotes being handed out to media, maybe this is how it's going down:

They're looking forward to tax breaks, deregulation, and the government's retreat from civil rights for people they don't like. They're looking forward to the Trump administration.

If Trump makes things worse for Palestinians in Gaza, well, that might not happen... and if it does, there will be a big opportunity to continue grousing and complaining about a situation that doesn't really affect the lives of wealthy Muslim Arabs whose families have been living in Dearborn since the 1950s.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
63. There have always been those in the Middle East community
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:29 AM
Yesterday

who have been willing to sacrifice every drop of Palestinian blood in the struggle against Israel. This time it comes with additional benefits.

But what if Trump starts talking a Muslim ban again? "We survived four years of him before, we can survive another four"

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
69. Voters are citizens.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:37 AM
Yesterday

Trump can't legally deport citizens, and why would he deport citizens who voted for him?

Will the wealthy voters in Dearborn care if non-citizens are deported? Maybe? Will it really happen to their families? Unlikely.

It's the same miscalculation that the Democratic Party made about Latino voters. If you can vote, you're a citizen. Lots of Latino citizens are resentful of undocumented immigrants. And Hispanic/Latino is a very diverse identification. Puerto Ricans whose families have lived in New York for generations are insulted at the suggestion that they are the same group as undocumented people from
Mexico or Honduras. Cuban Americans in south Florida are not happy about undocumented people coming from communist nations. Mexican Americans in AZ who've been here for generations are not happy that others seem to be getting better deals.

Over and over, people forget that other people are just like us, with all our petty resentments and points of view. Humans are bad at seeing the big picture.

sarisataka

(21,284 posts)
71. "I got mine" is cross cultural
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:44 AM
Yesterday

historically we have seen it as immigrants arrived in waves, Irish, Swedes, Poles, Italians..., Chinese on the west coast

All the same reasons have been given for scapegoating the new arrivals jobs, health, benefits

happy feet

(1,122 posts)
66. THIS!
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:35 AM
Yesterday

Anyone paying attention knows this. Yet, they choose to believe a pathological liar's promises to end the war and negotiate peace with out asking 'how he plans to do'? In fact, the media NEVER asks him how he plans to carry out his absurd promises --- that's why people are in la la land believing in the liar's promises which he has given zero thought to how he would accomplish --- except the tax cuts for the wealthy and retribution against his 'perceived' enemies, of course.

3auld6phart

(1,306 posts)
13. Tyottally
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:10 AM
Yesterday

Agree with that last sentence. Gawd damn turncoats. Fry in hell with that Maggots.

mopinko

(71,969 posts)
21. it's funny. since 11/5
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:17 AM
Yesterday

i havent seen the watermelon crew on xitter. recent bombings were barely talked about.

things that make u go hmmm. or not.

Arazi

(7,078 posts)
107. Many of us said that. Loudly
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:56 PM
Yesterday

Fairly sure I’m still blocked by a substantial number of DUers for pointing this out

delisen

(6,580 posts)
24. Trump never deviated from his alliance with Netanyahu and Christian Nationalists
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:38 AM
Yesterday

Netanyahu was openly pro Trump and openly anti-Biden
Kushner, Trump’s son in law was open about his plan to develop Gaza as prime waterfront property. He never indicated he wanted to do this for benefit of Palestinians
Trump openly worked against Palestinians during his first term
Trump: not Harris,is the well-known opportunist and liar

I do not find the reasons put forward by the Abandon Harris faction to be credible.

Right now if they truly believe that they got Trump elected they could be demanding that Trump be accountable to them. Yet they are presenting themselves as helpless and dependent upon the mercy of a strongman with no history of mercy.

They attacked and abandoned Harris, yet they act powerless against Trump. Something does not add up.

The killing in Gaza is horrific. Working for Trump and against Harris made no sense.

yardwork

(64,774 posts)
29. Only two possibilities:
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:49 AM
Yesterday

1. Like many people who voted for Trump, their whining about the Democrats was just cover for their intention, all along, to vote for the Republican. They were always going to vote Republican and they're just stirring shit when they claim "the Democrats abandoned us."

2. Or, they were totally brainwashed by Russian propaganda and Trump's lies.

Arazi

(7,078 posts)
109. Most Muslims are socially conservative
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:59 PM
Yesterday

And have been steadily moving away from Dems because of our acceptance of LGBTQ folks into the tent. Our open advocacy for their rights is offensive to them in fact.

The trans issue was blown up into a major campaign theme by Rs and certainly resonated with many Muslims.

Tbh, I’m not sure we would have had Muslims in the Dem camp this year anyway. The I/P war just put a punctuation point on what was an inevitable shift imo

Arazi

(7,078 posts)
128. 1000% agreed
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:49 PM
16 hrs ago

Let the Arab-American cohort go. I’m so over trying to pander to this fickle group.

Put more resources and energy into new projects. I’m beyond frustrated at Dems shutting out voices like AOC, Maxwell Frost, the TN 4, David Hogg …

JustAnotherGen

(33,833 posts)
130. Lauren Underwood
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:16 PM
16 hrs ago
https://underwood.house.gov/

This woman is amazing. Her legislative accomplishments are outstanding. She'll be Speaker some day.

I'd like to see Buttigieg in Party Leadership.

Jeffries and my Senator Booked are amazing. They both have that Gen X Cynicism that the Magat Party has tapped into.

Booker should be a key face and voice in the Party.

Arazi

(7,078 posts)
131. She's a star
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:29 PM
15 hrs ago

It’s crazy that Dems aren’t capitalizing on promoting these folks.

Yet here we are…

andym

(5,726 posts)
117. Where were the ads showing Netanyahu praising/endorsing Trump in MI?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 05:02 PM
21 hrs ago

Were there any?

cadoman

(972 posts)
119. IMO their reasoning is simply: the genocide is happening under Biden
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 05:36 PM
20 hrs ago

While their support seems illogical if you only look at the rhetoric, if you factor in death, destruction, and loss of territory, they did have it better under the previous admin.

Israel is achieving amazing success with their military operation right now and is well on the way from converting "the horrors of October 7th" into Greater Israel. They have dislocated an entire people and competing religion under the generally-accepted view of self-defense and are now free to rule and rebuild that land as they see fit. They will have a plentitude of newly impoverished people who will be desperate to work and unable to negotiate--already present on site. Very nicely executed.

Now don't get me wrong, if the Muslims were winning they would undoubtedly be quite happy with Biden for allowing them to openly engage.

JI7

(90,897 posts)
35. I never considered them to be democrsts or liberals
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:57 AM
Yesterday

I never considered them to be on my side.

ecstatic

(34,519 posts)
47. So frustrating
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:10 AM
Yesterday

Our first priority should have been to protect ourselves so that we could continue pressuring those in power to protect innocent civilians in Gaza.

Enabling trump was the most stupid and shortsighted thing they could do. Did they give 2 shits about what's going on with the Supreme Court? Did they forget about the immunity ruling?

Now all of us are fucked and we will continue to be for a long time. trump doesn't give a solitary fuck about Gaza--he just sees prime real estate. Undoing the damage in the US and Gaza 4 years from now might be impossible. Great job, guys! You thought you were putting Harris back in her place, but she will be absolutely fine.

hadEnuf

(2,796 posts)
64. They can enjoy Trump then.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:30 AM
Yesterday

He got their votes because he went to their neighborhood?

I doubt he'll be back again. He isn't going to need votes next time, remember?

Fools.

AverageOldGuy

(2,181 posts)
65. Do not allow
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:32 AM
Yesterday

them back into the Democratic Party. Tell them to call their Savior and see if he answers.

usonian

(14,638 posts)
68. Karma. They are going to find out all the good that they did, and think about doing it again.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:37 AM
Yesterday

PennRalphie

(326 posts)
75. Prominent member from Pittsburgh
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:46 AM
Yesterday

Bryarr Misner is such a household name in Democratic circles that nobody’s ever heard of him or this “movement”.

jayschool2013

(2,483 posts)
82. Lying works
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:01 PM
Yesterday

"Lie to us, and make us feel good. Even though we know you're lying, we'll vote for you because we liked your lies."

Fuck that.

Autumn

(46,668 posts)
83. How dumb would it be to tell people who vote to fuck off?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:03 PM
Yesterday

There seems to be an assumption that people owe their votes to politicians. It doesn't work like that it. The candidate has to work to get those votes.

Montauk6

(8,768 posts)
92. I'm curious then
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:41 PM
Yesterday

What strenuous work did Trump do to earn the votes of groups his past actions and future promises clearly antagonize?

It seems like Democrats are constantly working their asses off trying to help Americans and the country while hanging on by their fingernails. Republicans just lie, deny and evade. Oh, forgot to mention how part of the Dem chore list is cleaning up the eventual mess the Republicans leave.

Seems to me it’s the other way around on the who owes whom.

GoodRaisin

(9,638 posts)
86. These are some really dumb people.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:13 PM
Yesterday

They should be very worried. The next visit they get might be Trump’s boy Homan.

peggysue2

(11,520 posts)
87. If you're only willing to listen to lies and/or what you want to hear?
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:20 PM
Yesterday

Then you vote for the guy who feeds you lies non-stop.

As for waiting for things to pan out??

Thirty thousand+ lies told in Agent Orange's first term is a clear indication of 'how things will pan out.' And unless there's been collective amnesia, one of his first acts was a MUSLIM BAN.

No one in this group or any other can say they were not warned, multiple times.

We were all standing at the edge of the of the abyss before the election. The self-righteous decided to jump into the darkness.



littlemissmartypants

(25,906 posts)
91. Absolute idiocy and ego. ...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:41 PM
Yesterday

Self-aggrandisement at the expense of everything and everyone else.

This is what you get when one psychopath believes in another psychopath.

I spit in their general direction.

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,550 posts)
108. Why Trump's hardline position on U.S. policy in Gaza matters
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 01:57 PM
Yesterday

Donald Trump has a message for voters who disapprove of President Joe Biden’s Israel/Gaza policy from the left: The Republican intends to be vastly worse.





https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-hardline-position-us-policy-gaza-matters-rcna150391

In theory, Donald Trump might recognize the electoral opportunity and try to appeal to those who disapprove on the incumbent president’s Israel/Gaza policy from the left. In practice, the former president has an unsubtle message for Biden’s critics: If given the chance, the Republican intends to be vastly worse.

The Biden White House, for example, acknowledged this week that it is, as the Associated Press reported, “weighing measures to help Palestinians living in the United States who want to bring family from the war-torn region.”

Soon after, as Reuters reported, the presumptive GOP nominee shared his thoughts on the subject at a campaign rally.

Your towns and villages will now be accepting people from Gaza and various other places,” Trump said, eliciting boos from the crowd. “Under no circumstances shall we bring thousands of refugees.” Last week, Trump described the pro-Palestinian protests as driven by “tremendous hate” while asserting that the violence at a 2017 white nationalist rally with some Trump supporters in Charlottesville, Virginia, when he was president was small by comparison.


Note, at one of his campaign events yesterday, Trump appeared to goad his followers in Wisconsin into booing Palestinian refugees.


At the same event, the former president also vowed to restore and expand the Muslim ban he imposed during his first term......

The former president also endorsed ongoing Israeli military operations, saying, “We have to let Israel complete their war on terror. It’s a horrible thing, but they have to do it.” Trump added that Israel must “clean out the cancer.”

Let’s also not forget a New York Times report from March that said top members of Trump’s team want to expel Palestinians from Gaza.

It’s as if the Republican is going out of his way to alienate voters who, given their frustrations with Biden’s policy, might be inclined to give Trump a second look.

TFG will bring back the Muslim ban, give Bibi free reign to bomb and destroy Gaza and expel Palestinians from Gaza so that Jared can build his resorts.

Deep State Witch

(11,364 posts)
110. When The Felon Rolls Out Muslim Ban 2.0
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 02:10 PM
Yesterday

Or starts deporting them, I wonder how many of them will be begging for help?

Too bad, so sad. Enjoy getting your face eaten by leopards.

standingtall

(2,999 posts)
122. They sound like morons
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 06:12 PM
20 hrs ago

Probably educated people who think with their emotions instead of their brain cells. Trump might end the war in Palestine by ending Palestine altogether allowing Israel to do whatever it wants turning it into a parking lot and building resorts there. They've subjected Palestine and themselves to the mercy of the Trump administration for at least 4 years all, because they wanted to punish Democrats. Congrats morons you played yourself.

U.S. elections are binary decisions and the demand for the Biden/Harris administration to reverse decades maybe 50 plus years of U.S foreign policy was completely unreasonable. Although we appreciate the support of Arab Americans they are not the only constituents we have and if Biden did what they demanded it may have cost us with other constituents. Gaza also isn't the only place in the world where genocide is going on either. Been happening in the Congo for longer and some of the people who were funding the genocide in Congo had their assets frozen by the Biden administration and you can bet those assets will be unfrozen by the Trump administration.

Worth mentioning I believe the people living in Palestine would've preferred anyone, but Trump and most Arab Americans Nationally supported Harris just some entitled activist in key swing States especially Michigan. Who possibly cost us this election if not directly then indirectly with their toxic influence.

Arazi

(7,078 posts)
126. Yup. The loss of Jewish support is far more dire than Muslims
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:44 PM
16 hrs ago

They’re a far more reliable Dem voting block.

We’ve crushed a lot of goodwill with our Jewish friends trying to appease a group that was trending away from us anyway

betsuni

(27,311 posts)
132. These "Uncommitted to Reality, Abandon all Common Sense and Reason" episodes of The Trump Show are fabulous!
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:37 PM
15 hrs ago

The characters are even dumber than the regular Trump supporters! Pretending to be Democrats but despising and lie-bashing the Democratic Party has become so popular the last decade or so, and enough idiots believe it quite easily.

msfiddlestix

(7,857 posts)
136. Some day, far into the future, we will learn that this is/was Putin Op modeled after so many others in the past
Fri Dec 27, 2024, 12:54 PM
1 hr ago

just classic.

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