US Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.

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    Apologist? You mean like how people like you rush to defend democrats supporting genocide with “other guy worse”? You’re just falling for the two-party tag team. Democrats and republicans play off each other to continually move the country to the right and they rely on people thinking they’re actually opposing parties. Congrats on falling for it, I guess.

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      Spoken like someone who doesn’t actually have to suffer the consequences of throwing the election to fascists. :)

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        Except for having relatives slaughtered in a genocide with the help of democrats :)))

        Look bud, if democrats cared about combating fascism, they wouldn’t be cozying up to war criminals like dick cheney, putting out ad campaigns with republican talking points, and insisting that they must move to the right (i.e. closer to full-blown fascism) after every election defeat while never moving to the left.

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          Except for having relatives slaughtered in a genocide with the help of democrats :)))

          That’s even more fucked up that you cheer on the slaughter of your own relatives under the Trump regime backing Israel to the hilt.

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            As opposed to democrats backing israel to the hilt right now? You may not believe this, but the bombs dropped during democratic party rule don’t hurt less. What’s really fucked up is you thinking I’m doing any cheering. You should really take some time for self-reflection for thinking that me criticizing democrats for the genocide they’ve been fully supporting for over a year now somehow means that I support trump. Who do we vote for if we don’t want genocide? No, I’m not asking for a supposedly “better” genocide, I mean NO genocide.

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              As opposed to democrats backing israel to the hilt right now? You may not believe this, but the bombs dropped during democratic party rule don’t hurt less.

              This may be shocking, but things can absolutely get worse, and ‘to the hilt’ is an English idiom which means ‘as much as possible’.

              You should really take some time for self-reflection for thinking that me criticizing democrats for the genocide they’ve been fully supporting for over a year now somehow means that I support trump.

              Oh, okay, you’re just giving asspats to people who literally voted for Trump, who openly espoused the value of intensifying and backing the genocide by all means possible because you want to criticize the Democrats. Okay. Very believable.

              Who do we vote for if we don’t want genocide? No, I’m not asking for a supposedly “better” genocide, I mean NO genocide.

              There wasn’t a no genocide choice. The idea that picking ‘more genocide’ as a protest of that is somehow understandable is deluded or vile - or both.

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                This may be shocking, but things can absolutely get worse, and ‘to the hilt’ is an English idiom which means ‘as much as possible’.

                This may be shocking, but biden’s support for the genocide is already “to the hilt”. Before you try to explain English to me, try to understand the reality of the situation. The leadership of both parties fully and unconditionally support israel. Things will absolutely get worse because the genocide is going to proceed regardless of which party is in charge. Your tired harm reduction argument falls apart when you understand what is actually happening.

                Here, have a read: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/netanyahu-weapons-biden

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                  This may be shocking, but biden’s support for the genocide is already “to the hilt”.

                  That reflects a severe paucity of understanding of the US’s capabilities in this situation.

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                    I’m well aware of the US’s capabilities, but apparently biden isn’t because he bent over for a fascist in a foreign country to supply their campaign of genocide with billions of dollars in weapons. I dunno, maybe biden enjoys being bibi’s little bitch, but he certainly didn’t do anything to impede the genocide.

                    I would like you to use your capabilities and read the article I posted. Here it is again in case you missed it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/netanyahu-weapons-biden

                    Please read that and tell me how the democratic party would have been different over the next four years.