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    6 months ago

    Weird they don’t say who the first one was…

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/01/04/second-biden-administration-official-quits-in-protest-against-handling-of-war-in-gaza/

    “Days after Israel began carrying out aerial strikes in Gaza in response to a terror attack on its territory by Hamas in early October, a senior State Department official who worked on arms transfers became the first Biden official to step down in protest. Josh Paul, who served as a director at the department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, publicly announced his exit on LinkedIn in opposition to the provision of additional military aid to Israel. In his resignation letter, Paul wrote that he believed “the response Israel is taking, and with it the American support both for that response, and for the status quo of the occupation, will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people — and is not in the long term American interest.””

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      6 months ago

      “and is not in the long term American interest.”

      Nope, but it is in old man Bidens interest for that juicy juicy Zionist/Jewish/Israeli vote… He obviously doesn’t think there are enough Palestinians here or people who care about them and he knows that he has us by the short hairs… It’s either Bomb Money Biden or Adolf Trumpler. Man I love the American voting system.

      Anyone remember the turd sandwich vs the giant douche episode? Yeah that’s us every 4 goddamn years… And no, I’m not saying they’re the same, I think a giant douche is miles better than a turd sandwich…

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        God I miss the 2008 election. Sarah Palin was a sack of crazy, but otherwise it was beautiful.

        McCain, while someone I disagreed with on almost every issue, was a classy candidate who shut down unwarranted attacks on Obama’s heritage and patriotism.

        Dude also saved the ACA shortly before his death - acknowledging that while he didn’t like it the GOP didn’t have a better plan to replace it.

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          A-fucking-men.

          I don’t know enough about McCains past to say whether he truly was “good,” but from what I would see of him during that election I at least had respect for him, I can’t say that about any current Republican even though there are people like Mitt Romney who has his occasional good days. I definitely questioned McCains judgement for picking Palin though lol