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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        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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            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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    Behind door #1: Isn’t as one-sided as you regarding a war in another country that involves your religion.
    Behind door #2: Tried to enact laws that openly discriminate against your religion just a few years ago. And is also totally one-sided against you regarding that same war.

    It’s a tough choice.

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      Behind door #1: Isn’t as one-sided as you regarding a war in another country that involves your religion.

      They’re way more one-sided about the “war” (genocide) than I imagine the vast majority of Muslim and pro-Palestinian voters are, just in the wrong direction. What part of unconditionally supplying weapons to a country that is indiscriminately slaughtering civilians is “not one sided,” oh “rational_lib?”

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    Local sheep upset that wolf he voted for has appointed butchers to several cabinet positions

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    I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face!

    I mean what did they expect? Yes, i didn’t agree with Bidens current policy or what Kamala was going to do, but I knew trump would be worse.

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    They were upset by the democrats as well, which is probably why they turned to the only other party in the country. I know people are going to rush in and say “but the democrats would be better than trump!!” and that may be true to some extent, but the genocide started and progressed unabated under democrats. I guess Muslims can just get fucked, huh folks?

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      I mean, these people (the leaders in the article) threw basically any minority group in the US and all of Ukraine under the bus to make their point. I’m not gonna say anything about all Muslims, but these leaders can definitely get fucked.

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        Don’t worry, they have plenty like the above commenter who are willing to give them plenty of asspats and play apologist about how they opted to kill more of the people they supposedly want to save AND massacre American minorities.

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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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        They weren’t thrown under the bus, they were already lined up in front of the bus by democrats who then pointed at the republican bus driver and screamed that they would be driven over if they didn’t vote democrat.

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          Have you ever heard of an analogy before? Because that’s like…the Stretch-Armstrong of analogies.

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            There is a reason why the go-to argument to vote for democrats is “because the republicans are worse”.

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              Is that because Republicans are worse?

              Listen, we aren’t going to make Democrats better by letting Republicans win, that just lowers the bar for the even further

              If you want real change it’s going to take drastic action with significant personal risk from a lot of people.

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                Always responding with “republicans are worse” does nothing except to shut down conversation of the complicity of democrats in all of this. It’s like pointing at a homeless person in the US and saying “well it could be worse, they could be homeless in a war-torn country”. It locks down the conversation to the two choice fallacy and blocks any conversation on avenues for that real change you are referencing. These voters are misguided, but it’s telling that democrats are so shit that these people thought a trump administration could offer anything different.