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33. I think it's sad that you can't find something that actually affects Americans to prioritize in the next election
Tue May 12, 2026, 10:38 PM
May 12

...I think people who suggest we hyper focus on Israel and Gaza in the next election must not have much other that directly impacts or affects them.

Like, for instance, losing their health insurance subsidies, and consequently their ability to see a doctor. Or, financially strained by Trump and republican policy and inaction to the point of breaking, or already broken.

Or, they must not be associated with the communities of Americans who have just had their voting rights eviscerated by the administration, states, and the courts.

What I really find sad is that I've NEVER seen you, not ONCE, on ANY of the several threads where I was pouring my heart out about people who look like me being targeted by this administration's immigration goons, and the anxiety and fear that has mostly kept me housebound.

But here you expect that I would prioritize another motherfucking country as my concern in the next election to the point that I would want it to dominate the political debate, over my own needs and concerns.

You act as if you know me, but you obviously don't know me; or you just don't care what I believe, or what's important to me. You just want to tell me what I should think is important in the next election.

More than that, you want Democrats to relate to voters that Israel is more important than the struggles Americans are having in THIS country?

I think it's a ludicrous political proposition, and basically blind to the harm so many are facing in this nation; concerns and interests which need elevating to the level of a national discussion with commitments in the election to address and resolve these abuses and neglects.

Har-dee-har-har. Hilarious.

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On a Rainy Day [View all] H2O Man May 9 OP
Individually Saoirse9 May 10 #1
A number of things. H2O Man May 10 #6
When was Dick Cheney "ushered on stage" to endorse? What event was that? betsuni May 10 #2
Okay. H2O Man May 10 #7
you obviously don't see the virtue in enabling the election of a white supremacist, criminal madman bigtree May 12 #24
My brains shut down when I try to understand it. betsuni May 13 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author betsuni May 13 #43
"It is essential that we have a conversation on this complicated issue" Martin Eden May 10 #3
Very good! H2O Man May 10 #8
One Word Martin Eden May 10 #4
it's a hard conversation to have. mopinko May 10 #5
It has been a long while that I have seen so many of Israel's talking points summarized so well and succinctly. AloeVera May 10 #9
It definitely is hard. H2O Man May 11 #11
i absolutely wish that jews believed in hell, mopinko May 11 #13
Thank you! H2O Man May 11 #15
Good OP malaise May 10 #10
Thank you! H2O Man May 11 #12
interesting bigtree May 11 #14
Interesting. H2O Man May 11 #16
I think you can find numerous statements and actions by Sen. Schumer, if you look, that condem every objectional aspect bigtree May 11 #17
Very good. H2O Man May 11 #18
this is false bigtree May 12 #21
Gracious! H2O Man May 12 #22
that has nothing at all to do with what you claimed is my belief bigtree May 12 #23
Sure it does. H2O Man May 12 #25
well, you go on and tell me what I believe bigtree May 12 #27
Golly. H2O Man May 12 #28
responding to your continued effort to tell me what I believe bigtree May 12 #29
You are funny! H2O Man May 12 #30
you might not find it as funny if I did the same dishonest and demeaning thing bigtree May 12 #31
I think that H2O Man May 12 #32
I think it's sad that you can't find something that actually affects Americans to prioritize in the next election bigtree May 12 #33
Comic genius! H2O Man May 12 #34
like I said bigtree May 12 #35
Ha! H2O Man May 12 #36
lol, sweating 'Robert' bigtree May 13 #37
I have never H2O Man May 13 #38
there you go again, claiming I said things I haven't said or implied bigtree May 13 #39
You are confused. H2O Man May 13 #40
the hubris in representing to me that you know ANYTHING substantive about what I believe bigtree May 13 #44
Catch-22, denialism and a few other things... AloeVera May 11 #19
Americans were divided on that conflict bigtree May 12 #20
The attempts at restraint failed because there was little behind them to make them serious. AloeVera May 13 #41
I think you're assuming levers of influence that didn't exist for Biden bigtree May 13 #45
I am reminded H2O Man May 12 #26
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