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bigtree

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45. I think you're assuming levers of influence that didn't exist for Biden
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:04 AM
12 hrs ago

...in the wake of the massacres and rapes.

I've been alive and aware of deadly back and forth conflicts involving Israel since Golda Meir. The U.S. has never had the influence over the sovereign ally that so many people insist on.

It's really something, with all of the problems, risks, threats, and challenges to Americans from the Trump regime, that someone has decided that ANOTHER COUNTRY should take priority in our political appeals?

Fuck the people who can't see a doctor because they can't afford health insurance. Fuck the black folks like me who just lost federal protection of their voting rights. Fuck the people under assault and seige by ICE?

No, some other godammed country takes priority for some. That conflict will go on just as it has for decades and decades, while people in THIS country suffer.

I expect the party to recognize, acknowledge, and pledge to remedy and end the abuses in THIS country, by this administration and republican party FIRST, before galavanting off from that defense and support in the election to divert tthe focus to some other godforsaken nation.

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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 12 hrs ago #42
This message was self-deleted by its author betsuni 12 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 22 hrs ago #27
Golly. H2O Man 19 hrs ago #28
responding to your continued effort to tell me what I believe bigtree 17 hrs ago #29
You are funny! H2O Man 17 hrs ago #30
you might not find it as funny if I did the same dishonest and demeaning thing bigtree 15 hrs ago #31
I think that H2O Man 15 hrs ago #32
I think it's sad that you can't find something that actually affects Americans to prioritize in the next election bigtree 14 hrs ago #33
Comic genius! H2O Man 14 hrs ago #34
like I said bigtree 14 hrs ago #35
Ha! H2O Man 13 hrs ago #36
lol, sweating 'Robert' bigtree 13 hrs ago #37
I have never H2O Man 13 hrs ago #38
there you go again, claiming I said things I haven't said or implied bigtree 13 hrs ago #39
You are confused. H2O Man 13 hrs ago #40
the hubris in representing to me that you know ANYTHING substantive about what I believe bigtree 12 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 13 hrs ago #41
I think you're assuming levers of influence that didn't exist for Biden bigtree 12 hrs ago #45
I am reminded H2O Man Yesterday #26
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