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Buyers remorse? (Original Post) Lunabell Feb 2025 OP
A name change- that will fix things sarisataka Feb 2025 #1
To quote this classic clip from Airplane! nycbos Feb 2025 #2
Trump-backing Muslim voters finally realize they 'made a big mistake': expert LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2025 #3
Honestly. tanyev Feb 2025 #4
'We're going to take it': Trump's Gaza plan goes in an indefensible direction LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2025 #5

LetMyPeopleVote

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3. Trump-backing Muslim voters finally realize they 'made a big mistake': expert
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 07:04 PM
Feb 2025

Muslim voters should have never voted for TFG. TFG was always going to side with Bibi and never gave a darn about Gaza or Muslims. Now these voters are realizing their mistake

Trump-backing Muslim voters finally realize they 'made a big mistake': expert: James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Wednesday that many Muslim voters are regretting the decisions they made in the 2024 presidential election.

As Keilar noted while…

#TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T20:08:05Z

Trump-backing Muslim voters finally realize they 'made a big mistake': expert: James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Wednesday that many Muslim voters are regretting the decisions they made in the 2024 presidential election.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-muslim-voters/

James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Wednesday that many Muslim voters are regretting the decisions they made in the 2024 presidential election.

As Keilar noted while interviewing Zogby, Trump received a major boost from Muslim voters in 2024 due to anger against the Biden administration for its role in helping the Israeli government's war in Gaza that has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians and that Zogby described to CNN as a "genocide.".....

When asked by Keilar if he'd spoken with any of these voters since the election, he replied that he had and they were firmly against Trump's recently stated desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza by removing all Palestinians from their land.

"Many of [the voters] stayed home, and some of them voted for Donald Trump," he said. "But they are now feeling very clearly that they made a big mistake. And, you know, sort of like the kid who gets in trouble and his parents send him to his room and he goes out there and starts throwing stuff around... in a pique of anger. All he's got is a mess and that's what we've got here.

"People didn't vote for Kamala Harris. They voted for Donald Trump. They had their tantrum. And now look what we got. We got a crazy man in the White House who's doing and projecting things that are really, really problematic."

LetMyPeopleVote

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5. 'We're going to take it': Trump's Gaza plan goes in an indefensible direction
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 09:23 PM
Feb 2025

“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.

‘We’re going to take it’: Trump’s Gaza plan goes in an indefensible direction

“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
#FvckTrump

Turquoise Cat ✌️💙😻 (@turquoise-cat.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T18:51:50.710Z

‘We’re going to take it’: Trump’s Gaza plan goes in an indefensible direction

“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/re-going-take-trumps-gaza-plan-goes-indefensible-direction-rcna191855

It’s been about a week since Donald Trump surprised much of the world by announcing that he wants the United States to take a “long-term ownership position” over Gaza. As the president described it, Americans would both “take over” and “own” the area, and when asked about the possibility of deploying U.S. military forces to Gaza, the Republican added, “We’ll do what is necessary.”.....

“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how, exactly, this is supposed to happen.

As for the cost, Trump apparently wasn’t concerned, declaring, “There’s nothing to buy.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lhwbfzlbtb2j


For good measure, the Republican added that “nobody is going to question” U.S. ownership of Gaza because ... well, he never quite got around to explaining why.

Just as importantly, as experts in international law continue to explain that his plan is illegal, Trump was asked how the United States could legally claim Palestinian territory as its own. The president cited “U.S. authority.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lhwbhc534u27



It’s a colonizing perspective rooted in the idea that if the United States wants foreign territory, it should take the foreign territory because the United States wants it.


To reiterate a point from last week, if you voted for Trump because you expected foreign policy restraint, I have some awful news for you.
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