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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You are the reason I dislike liberals.

You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

Be more like AOC. She asked her constituents that voted for both her and Trump why they voted for Trump so that she could understand them.

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Rubles.

They did it for the rubles

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Do you know anyone in your personal life that fell victim to a scam? Used car? Telemarketer?

How many times would it take that victim being scammed by the same person before you called them dumb?

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What does calling people dumb accomplish? Get them to hate you?

Why don’t you do something productive like help them recognize scams?

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It socially shames you into making better choices.

If you were dumb yesterday, you can be not-dumb tomorrow if you admit to yourself that you were dumb.

It’s called personal growth, you won’t see it anywhere on .ml or whatever cesspit you dragged your opinion from.

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Trying to teach stupid people? Obviously, you’ve never taught. Try teaching a fish to use a unicycle, then get back to us .

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Not everything has to be about teaching a lesson, sometimes it can be just an observation of a fact.

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Hard to do when they’ve decided the scammer is God and anyone who says otherwise is the enemy who deserves to die.

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Found another not smart person, guys

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You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

They said while looking down their nose through a smug sense of superiority

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You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

Strong anti-generalization assertion.

Except

You are the reason I dislike liberals.

Ah shit, you opened with a cheesy generalization. Validating to see the"every accusation is a confession" thing holds.

But let’s get into it.

  • one was bad but could be swayed

  • one was worse on all counts for all criteria, was only getting worse, can’t be fixed and would tear down all the checks and balances that make government work

They picked the second option, overwhelmingly, despite the massive damage to the very fabric of the nation and the insanely worse prospects for them as a recognizable minority.

Logic it out.

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First off all, I didn’t vote for the orange turd. Let’s get that out of the way.

Second of all, there is PLENTY to criticize on the conservative side but I don’t want to see another fascist in office so I’m trying to improve the liberal side.

Muslims had a SIGNIFICANT impact on the results in my state. You are minimizing their core issue - getting democrats to actually support not killing Muslims in Gaza. Thats it

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their core issue - getting democrats to actually support not killing Muslims in Gaza

And by choosing that as the core issue they chose to have even more death in Gaza. Even if they convinced the Democratic Party to now shift on this issue entirely, they completely lack the power to do anything about it because they lost the election and control zero branches of government. It’s very difficult not to see this coming from an entire galaxy away.

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She asked her constituents that voted for both her and Trump why they voted for Trump so that she could understand them.

This is like asking someone to explain why they believe the world is flat or that we didn’t land on the moon.

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When those people vote you need to know why. Or be snide, that’s worked out great for the Dems

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It’s because they’re stupid and/or bigoted.

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“It’s real simple… Trump and you care for the working class.”

Yep, real smart people there. Anybody who voted for both of them together is an idiot. They represent polar opposites of the political spectrum. She’s basically the most progressive politician after Bernie, and he’s the most regressive. She’s thoughtful in the way she expresses herself, and he spews verbal diarrhea and lies as if he would instantly die if he said anything true.

Anybody who thinks Trump cares for the working class is fucking delusional. He’s shown time after time that he doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t directly benefit him. He’s a fucking monster and anyone who can’t see that has to be stupid.

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I think many people already understood they vote with their feelings instead of their brain. They care more about how a candidate makes them feel than about their policies. They care more about “the vibe” than anything logical. And it’s fucking us all. A candidate shouldn’t have to stroke anyone’s fee fees, people should use the meat in their skull prison to make a sound and reasonable choice.

But i guess this country is certainly too stupid to make basic reasonable choices when presented with options. So you have a point. Don’t call them stupid or idiots because their feelings are more important to them than reason. Fucking cromagnon politics. Gonna be even more important when the DoE is ripped out.

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This only supports my statement.

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I read some of the comments from AOC’s constituents. Many of them were not smart people either.

If you want to learn what it takes to sway dumb people, you can run a very unethical campaign like Trump’s and get the Presidency.

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Next time she won’t have to ask either

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