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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
Yesterday

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