On the rare occasions I see one of them they are still attacking Biden-Harris. Which is fine in a way as they claim to feel passionate about the inhumanity of Israel and there's an argument lacking in pragmatic political reality Democrats didn't do enough.That does not explain the silence re. Trump
I dont mean to criticize the protesters, but the ones who stayed home on election day. They were right to protest. But trump and netanyahu are doing a trail of tears in Gaza, so protest voting is dumb.
It was foreign operators and domestic Trumpers staging and interfering with the protests. I said this all along. It was always clear because they NEVER protested at or anywhere near Trump appeared.
I didn't have ANY expectations that Krasnov would support the Palestinians at the cost of opposing buddy Netanyahu. For some stupid reason, a segment of voters felt the need to punish the last administration for not doing enough. This will not end well for them.
Lots of liberal delusions in this thread. Biden made it possible for Trump to go after these protesters hard. And he is,thats why you don't see them because you were ok with president Blinken setting the precedent of going after these protesters. They weren't MAGA. You all are more MAGA than them.
That the anti Israeli messaging was being pushed by Trump backers. Even during the campaign it was never directed at Trump, even though he was a stronger supporter of them.
It's a great point and one worth raising. I think it could be one of a few things - 1. That there are bad actors - conservatives that fueled some of these protests to skew election results 2. They fear deportation -given what has been happening on campuses. 3. They are part of the Rump cult.
I suspect that the area around the WH is being kept clear. During Trump 1.0, my mother-in-law and I came out of the Renwick and walked toward Lafayette Square, a public space just north of the WH. Folks, including us, were being cleared from the relatively empty square for no apparent reason.
It would not surprise me if Israel closed their eyes when Hamas entered their country. What better way to get the go ahead to invade Gaza with such fire power and fury. It's always what Bibi wanted.
They are either cowards or frauds, and either way Palestine is way worse off because of them. I hope they face the same misery they have caused Palestinians.
The American electorate is really ignorant of world affairs. Israel is behind the money and people period. They played both sides. Paid protesters to protest Harris and not trump then told Dems they would withhold money or primary them if they spoke out.
Because anyone who thinks the Gaza massacres are bad is labeled anti Semitic and jailed and/or deported and/or disappeared. We had freedom of speech and thought under Biden.
Drumpf leaves to play golf every weekend and has parties at Maggot lardo. He goes in to sigh ridiculous orders and watches tv. He sends his lackies out and about, eyeliner goes everywhere and accomplishes nothing. Biden stayed at the Whitehouse and worked.
Yeah, it’s an Israeli psych op. None of them care of Palestinians die. They’re just out there, trying to intimidate people and not speaking out about the genocide. Simple.
No, most of them were bad faith actors or easily influenced by the BS in their social media feeds. There's virtually no Gaza videos in any of my feeds now, and no protests against Trump. It's not coincidental.
So they withheld their votes even though they knew they would never be able to protest again? Wow, they really helped themselves and the Palestinians out.
What's a way you can get Trump to change on this issue? I can't imagine it. The Dems were terrible on Palestine, I knew the Republicans would be quite a bit worse.
They were trying to get a ceasefire and a two state solution. They never would've gotten aid in if it hadn't been for Biden. But they should've known that the guy who instituted a Muslim ban would let Bibi have free rein.
Probably still doing it under the same or a different name. And I understood them. I really really did. I wanted more too, but I absolutely knew we’d GET more under Harris… and I knew we’d not only see it get dramatically WORSE under Trump, but that he’d destroy everything else too.
I’m confused so is committing atrocities against innocent men, women, and children bad or? Feel like that’s probably the most important way to frame any discussion about Gaza
It is always sponsored by Russia.
Fact.
Anything that causes disruption: antivax, extinction rebellion, anything.
Never seen Greenpeace or Oxfam destroying things.
Wait. Protesters arrested and deported,universities targeted and the Gestapo at town hall meetings. Maybe the risk has been made intolerable. The genocide has not ceased.
Every idiot who stood up during those protest or continues in these pro-Palestinian demonstrations is a useful idiot for those who want to destroy American democracy
Yeah, they really put themselves on an island.. now nobody wants to hear their B S. Doesn’t seem like their leaders are very wise in positioning themselves for a good outcome.
Yep . Two visits from Netanyahu, one to Mar a Largo during Bidens Presidency, and a second at the White House a few weeks back . Not one pro-Palestinian protester in sight during either visit and not one student protest since Trump took office ..
This is so curious to me. A month back or so, an IL Dem had a town hall in a red district & was confronted by Palestinian protestors, not magas. It got so heated they tried to get on the stage. Similar happened to AOC recently. But I don’t see the same angry confrontation happening w Repubs. Why?
Yes! I remember when it was in local news I so wished someone had interviewed the protestors because I was really curious about why that particular group seemed to think intimidation was the way to go. Because it happened after Trump had posted that unhinged Gaza music video & being flat insane.
Good point. Thought could be Repubs have no shame so why bother. Though I think everyone in the majority admin should be shamed & held accountable for the now. Plus, it seems counterproductive to try & intimidate Dems at this moment. Intimidation might work more with Repubs, if shame doesn't?
They mistakenly think that the GOP is on their side. They are being used just the same way orthodox Jews are being used and manipulated by trump’s “anti-Semitism rhetoric.
It’s a big shit show
Thank Bannon and a bunch of rich ass holes. Who want to burn it all down and knew Trump was the way to go. So they hired professional demonstration organizers. And
Headed to liberal college campuses. Highways in democratic states. And created a mess. it was all staged
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Propaganda machine bought & paid for. So many easily influenced. Many think that only MAGA cult can be easily influenced. I have many Dem friends who I continually have to give them the facts: 1 insisted that the DNC gave the nomination to H Clinton until I showed the primary results.
They don't confront him because they're the ones who got him elected. The protest voters and protesters specifically prevented the black woman who would have made their lives better from being elected and helped the white supremacist cockroach hold office. The blood of this country is on their hands
Remember how rethugs are always saying paid protesters? That’s probably what those protesters were, paid. Every accusation is a confession with these people.
Hey y’all they weaponized your empathy. Stop falling for the psy-op heartless ploy. If Israel wanted to do this in silence we would hear nothing. Kinda like right now. It’s still going on but no outrage.
Anti-genocide protests are still occurring all across the country — several different ones are mentioned just in today’s Democracy Now headlines segment. I understand that’s not helpful to the racist disinformation you all are spinning up here, though!
BS.
They were stupidly misguided, because they wanted revenge on Biden, true.
But it wasn't them who got the orange turd elected.
Everyone who stayed home did.
Everyone who stayed home AND all who revenge-voted trump or 3rd party. People have agency. These people made an unsound choice based on emotion, not logic and here we are...
I remember asking one girl who was "protesting by not voting" to be realistic and her response was "if that mean voting for genocide then I'd rather be unrealistic as fuck." Like ok at least you're honest about it.
White people elected Trump, not Arabs. Not progressives.
Like, c'mon. Even if you added up the top three third party candidates and switched all their votes to Harris—she still loses. Stop blaming progressives/minorities for the sins of White moderates and conservatives.
It's noticed.
Other's have too.
Newspapers who had NO opinion as to who should govern?
Cowards and Bully's are one in the same.
YES, many of us have noticed other things, like shooters with long guns have stopped trying to kill him. Ears tend to grow back, and those are his teeth and hair color.
It's almost as if the whole issue was a disinformation campaign by a foreign enemy, amplified by the oligarchs who control our social media algorithms, to benefit the Republican party who serve that foreign enemy.
Weird.
I read the same, and just had to shake my head. I wonder if their end goal is for the US to feel some of the pain as Palestine somehow and that makes it all ok? I just don't follow the logic, things in Palestine are worse now, and if nothing else with Harris there could have been opportunities.
I do not understand how they support the Republican Party which is the Party of racists. It’s the same for many Latinos. As an American whose lineage goes back decades here, I guess they truly do not know our history.
This, Jill Stein showing up every 4 years, Gaza “activists” only showing up at Democrat town halls, bots only criticizing Kamala on Gaza but never Trump. It is clear that they are trying to divide left, which was a success this past election.
Allllll bullshit. Israel has publicly stated they are furious Trump is forcing them to make a cease fire because Biden never did. There are constant protests, but like Red MAGA, you Blue MAGA guys pretend not to see things when it benefits you.
Trump wants Gaza destroyed for realty investments... His anti-semite rhetoric is just a smoke screen to get what he wants!! The only way to ensure that is total decimation!! I'm trying to understand how a German can be so pro-Jew!! Yet spew anti-immigrant..
I'm glad he pointed this out and while I empathize with the movement, I don't like the fact they blame everyone else including those no longer in office of somehow creating this whole shit show. How does heckling Raphael Warnock solve anything?
Trump is kidnapping legal US residents for writing op-eds. His FBI is working with Democratic AG's to raid the homes of college students. @keithedwards.bsky.social when are you going to protest Trump to demand an end to the blockade?
Ceasefire? Those days are long gone, honey. Their plan is just as Trump suggested months ago - demolish it and move these poor brown powerless people off their homeland once and for all
"Move them off" is the optimistic view. If you listen to what Israeli government officials have been saying in recent days, the plan is to kill them all, with full backing from the Trump regime, paid for by the US taxpayers.
My theory has always been that the organizers were paid by the Trump campaign. The protesters, although well intentioned, did not understand that they were being used.
Could be that the protesters weren’t as brave as they claimed? No college kid really wants to stand up for Gaza if it means they get sent to a Salvadoran gulag. Yet they still want to paint Biden as the monster.
Aye, but the GOP have been eating all the checks & eating all the balances — whatever happened to the “guardrails”?! The eXeCuTiVe branch must be pruned from the 🌳 of democracy.
It’ll grow back y’all. We can always elect to select the correct! The malignant as fetid diseased oligarch sponsored christofascist confederacy must be stopped immediately to prevent our sacred tree of Democracy from being destroyed. #NoKings #June14 Show up & 🪧🗣️
Mehdi—the Arab & Muslim voters, & those with deep concerns for them, who voted for Trump or declined to vote, made a huge, entirely foreseeable error with tragic consequences for Gaza. And for Israel. Trump is a lying conman. ETTD. Everything means everything. It’s not a clever slogan. It’s truth.
White moderates and Republicans elected Trump. Not Arabs. Not Muslims. Not Latinos or Black men. Why are you white folk always so quick to blame minorities for your own sins?
I'm not blaming. making a point: many people, white, Arab,Muslim,Blacc, chose not to vote because they were infuriated Biden's admin support of Israel. Not voting as protest was a huge mistake.There is no way Kamala would have pursued the policy (if you can call it that) of enabling Netanyahu.
I just don't get how Gaza can be both SO important enough to take blame for Harris's loss while not being important enough for the DNC to have addressed meaningfully before November.
Probably a combination of factors. Racism. Sexism. Not enough time. A campaign focused at a moderate republican voters who never materialized. I wonder what our world would look like if Biden had stuck to his promise of being a transitional president—and allowed a real primary.
Here's the numbers: The inexperienced 18-30 Demo voted in Trump, certainly not what's left of the Boomer Demo who's voting numbers diminished after 2016. I questioned the Palestinian protest at DEM only events as suspicious then and still do today. AGE and Education Results.
Or maybe the Crack downs on the protests got out of control and the students threatened with expulsion or the prez already putting people in jail for speaking up about it...
Their rationale is simple: They don't have the same "juice" within the Republican party to influence trump's policies the way they can with the Democrats.
Makes sense.
"They won't let us into their tent, so we're going to burn this one down instead."
Add to this the current admin’s moves to double the $amount before congressional approval is required and its stated goal to “supercharge overseas arms sales” and you’d think there would be a lot more agitation! https://responsiblestatecraft.org/arms-sales/
I said it back in Trump Season 1! I saw it with my own eyes at a Home Depot making a late 4th meal run to Taco Bell! Busloads of “protesters”. Suiting up! It was a well organized operation to appear organic. Sure enough a bunch of stuff went down early in the AM downtown! Blamed on “Antifa” 🙄
They are very busy telling all of us how right they were. It is disgusting that they used Gaza as a way to end democracy here in the US. Never forgive them and never forget that they can't be trusted. Because they will poke their heads out again at mid-terms and the next presidential to scream.
Yep. I just posted this morning about how you would think Dems won because Gen z is STILL talking shit about Biden’s handling of Gaza. Not only did they hand Trump the presidency, but they also refuse to turn their attention to republicans and their West Bank hotel plans
They can be sent to CETCO if they do and they know it. Bullying Biden was a fieldtrip and hope the pleasure of not showing up for Kamala lingers while the Rivera Gaza is in construction
Why is that? Why aren’t the folks in states like Michigan who thought that Trump was “the answer” getting razzed for voting for him - even though he said LOUDLY AND CLEARLY that he was going to stomp on Palestinians?!! It’s incredible that there no accountability!
Utter ridiculous take.
Biden and Harris allowed it to happen, funded it and did nothing to stop it when most people thought they were decent people
Everyone knew what Trump was going to do.
Because they know that their mistake in voting for Trump is going to lead to end of Gaza as a Palestinian territory and more fragmented West Bank. Palestinians may be confined to an enclave in the Sinai desert.
Biden failed on Gaza. It is probable Harris might have done better. Many of us knewTrump would be worse, not just for Gazans, but for all Americans & anyone speaking up for Palestinians. By targeting activists for deportation, Trump has made organizing dangerous. Harris would never have done that.
Ocasio-Cortez pointed out before the election that thinking about whose leadership leaves the most room for dissent and organizing for justice matters when choosing among imperfect candidates. She was so right. No need to shoot yourself in the foot to make a point in the short term.
He's been known to drastically change his opinion based on the last conservation he had. So there's still a reason to try if it's something that's actually important to you.
Hell, didn't a Kardashian get him to treat inmates better? Nobody would have seen that coming.
A lot of them on SM are from troll farms. They use the same talking points and trigger phrases. I block them instantly. If I make a comment they don’t like, they add me to a list and then block me.
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At first I thought I wasn't following Mehdi 😆
I can believe that.
But shouldn’t Harris have addressed the issue? Or did she and I messed it.
Truly puzzling.
But these people never actually cared about Palestine.
Fact.
Anything that causes disruption: antivax, extinction rebellion, anything.
Never seen Greenpeace or Oxfam destroying things.
MAGA is always telling on themselves.
It’s a big shit show
Headed to liberal college campuses. Highways in democratic states. And created a mess. it was all staged
THE HOUSE Must immediately file for Impeachment.
Disregard any chance of MAGA Vote in DEAD Senate
Just use it to “Itemise, Record & Document” ALL HIGH CRIMES up to this point. FFS
Trump always complains about them and since every accusation is a confession…🤷🏻♂️
Anti-genocide protests are still occurring all across the country — several different ones are mentioned just in today’s Democracy Now headlines segment. I understand that’s not helpful to the racist disinformation you all are spinning up here, though!
I Hope they’re happy with the results.
They were stupidly misguided, because they wanted revenge on Biden, true.
But it wasn't them who got the orange turd elected.
Everyone who stayed home did.
Everyone who wasn’t pro-Nazi told them.
But Dems are the only “bad guys” they care to call out.
2 parties.
One is lackluster and needs reform.
The other is actively trying to kill you.
Prioritize.
Yep. They’re dumb.
Like, c'mon. Even if you added up the top three third party candidates and switched all their votes to Harris—she still loses. Stop blaming progressives/minorities for the sins of White moderates and conservatives.
Their conscience elected a Nazi.
Other's have too.
Newspapers who had NO opinion as to who should govern?
Cowards and Bully's are one in the same.
YES, many of us have noticed other things, like shooters with long guns have stopped trying to kill him. Ears tend to grow back, and those are his teeth and hair color.
Weird.
They should've known better.
Russia fuckin owns us now.
https://qudsnen.co/trump-cuts-contact-with-netanyahu-accuses-israeli-pm-of-manipulation-reports/
oh wait, it isn't an election year.
🤔🤔
I care, but Gaza didn't cost Harris the election.
Makes sense.
"They won't let us into their tent, so we're going to burn this one down instead."
MAGA influencers at work.
Social media algorithms are powerful tools.
Biden and Harris allowed it to happen, funded it and did nothing to stop it when most people thought they were decent people
Everyone knew what Trump was going to do.
Congrats you dumb-dumbs played yourselves and in the process doomed your relatives abroad.
My fellow Latin-Americans are also paying the price for your ignorance and we’ll never forgive or forget
Hell, didn't a Kardashian get him to treat inmates better? Nobody would have seen that coming.