Ahh.
Hold your fingers in your ears and go "LALALALALALALALA".
Always a sound approach.
Trump : Palestinians, please move out of GAZA. We (USA) will clean it up and make it the Riviera of the middle east. Then you can come back.
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Hold your fingers in your ears and go "LALALALALALALALA".
Always a sound approach.
You have no idea what Elon is doing, do you?
I mean, that must be why there have been so many court orders insisting he stop what he is doing, right?
After all, as an advisor, he couldn't be doing anything, so why is it the courts have to keep telling him to stop?
Apparently you do, though?
You have been arguing in support of Musk and Trump's ability to ignore what funds were budgeted for and redirect them at their own whim.
So are you opposed to budgets being redirected or are you only opposed to money going to things you don't like?
Stop what? hes on to the next department...what theyre stopping him was grandstanding as if they are reallydoing something...more uaeless actions....USAID was done last week.
Of course it can happen.
It just can't happen legally.
(Under current interpretation of the law.)
I'm not sure why you're having trouble with this.
Is it about like? Not need? Does Iraq need sesame street? Do sri Lankan journalists need lessons for using pronouns? We can go back and forth....one thing stays...your stance is...keep the funds flowing no matter how ridiculous the purpose is...my stance is...freeze until they weed out useless programs that don't benefit anyone...
I have no idea…nor am I interested in helping launder Biden’s image with retroactive fantasies that blur the historical record.
But would Trump (and the over the moon with joy POS Nation) be pushing this ethnic cleansing if Biden hadn’t been a full partner (in just about every conceivable angle) in the resulting genocide and apocalyptic destruction of Gaza?
This the absolute shame of our time.
Good, I am glad you agree he is violating court orders and is trying to get as much done in advance to make them functionally moot.
We just disagree whether abuse of power by the executive is good or bad.
Being stopped or halted bu the courts doesn't mean he did something illegal...
Absolutely he would have.
He would have completely removed all restraints on Israel, cracked down on protests with police and the national guard, cozied up with the likes of Itamar Ben Gvir, brought back the travel ban on Muslims....
By any objective measure Trump is a worse choice for both Muslims and the Palestinian cause.
Trump is offering something that benefits Gaza long term...Biden doesn't even know where Gaza is...
You didn’t answer my question. You just answered your own question about what Trump would have done if he had been in power instead of Biden.
What I meant was that he wouldn't just be pushing ethnic cleansing now, but he would have pushed for ethnic cleansing had he been in power on October 7.
That is unless you are meaning to say that he wouldn't be pushing ethnic cleansing now, had Biden forced the Israelis to not attack Gaza at all and had acquiesced to the demands of Hamas.
There is no version of reality where that would happen after an attack like October 7.
Right.
You don't like the things you think the money is being spent on and are willing to tolerate lawbreaking to stop it.
Lots of people don't like foreign aid - I think surveys of the US population repeatedly show it should be no more than 10% of the Federal budget.
Right.
Your stance is "freeze everything, regardless of the harm it causes people and despite the fact it is an illegal impoundment by the executive".
My stance is "if you don't like something, change it democratically and legally".
Elon could have made a list of programs he considered "wasteful" and then submitted them to be stopped.
But that's not what was done, now was it?
Most expect the Supreme Court to retroactively declare it not illegal.
But it is in violation of the impoundment law.
Dude, seriously?
I can see right through this. It's a renoviction attempt writ large. Once they are gone they are gone.
But at this point it's pretty much inevitable. Trump was stupid to lay it out like that. Now the local governments have to weigh in. When it was just Israel, and gradually, the Arab on the Street wasn't that motivated. They don't really like the Palestinians anyway so were willing to look the other way.
The Golan Heights, due to Syria, is now in Israrli hands and likely won't be handed back. The West Bank is steadily being taken, and will likely be taken outright in about 10-15 years on the outside. And now they will take the top 5-7 miles of the Gaza strip until the excuse of munitions removal and set up a new border wall. 3-5 years of that and the new settlements will encroach setting off another round of fighting.
Now though it's a riling up. Trump should have kept his mouth shut.
My question remains this:
But would Trump (and the over the moon with joy POS Nation) be pushing this ethnic cleansing if Biden hadn’t been a full partner (in just about every conceivable angle) in the resulting genocide and apocalyptic destruction of Gaza?
