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Donald Trump did more for Israel in his 4-year term than any other American president in recent history. He was also the best president America has had in a long time. Yet you hate him. Why? I would love to have this mystery explained to me.

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"They can forgive you for being wrong but they will never forgive you for being right"

--Thomas Sowell

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"Biden’s Democrats have been engaging in undemocratic behaviors during the last several months"

Since 2017 actually, when the Clinton campaign passed its Steele Dossier to its allies in the Justice department (Bruce Ohr) in order to begin a campaign of false charges to bring down the lawfully elected president.

We saw this extended in 2020 with an organized censorship campaign to block any dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop before the election, which tied Biden directly to influence peddling.

Evangelical Christians are an important part of the new Republican Party and they support Israel out of deep seated convictions, not electoral needs. I wish the American Jewish community had that level of idealism.

Not to brag, but after reading about Obama's friendship with Palestinian radical Rashid Khalidi, I had the foresight to vote Republican starting in 2008. I will be voting again for the only presidential candidate with Jewish grandchildren. I know what the alternative looks like and, these days, so should you.

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It's actually Biden and the Democrats who are killing democracy. Their use of censorship their control of the media and academia are all antidemocratic. You rant about Trump Jan 6 may or may not be what the media asserted but if you look at policy the Republicans have it all over the Dems on every subject. Sad but true. Stop reading Ms and find the truth elsewhere.

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Oops that should be msm (mainstream media) not Ms which is also not worth reading!

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“October 7th, the Republicans by and large seem to be more in lockstep with addressing these issues.” They are…My church is full of people who vote Republican. Not because we desire to be affiliated with a party, but because that ticket is more conservative and aligns with out values. As Christians, we are deeply concerned about Israel and the Jewish people and vocal enough about it that pro-Palestinian (pro-Hamas) protesters showed up outside of our church on a Sunday morning last month. Not that we’re surprised by what’s happening. Anyone who knows Biblical history shouldn’t be. I’m glad you’re trying to wake up Jewish Democrats. BTW…didn’t Trump create the Abraham accords and move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem? Something every president since 1995 neglected to do. Vote the issues, vote your conscience, but, as the author said, consider that “all the other ridiculous blood libels leveled at the Jewish state since October 7th have come from the Democratic Party.”

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I am a non-Jewish, atheist, transfemme Zionist. I’m practically a unicorn.

And I have spent more time fighting with and being blocked by my supposed “allies” over this past weekend than could be conceived reasonable.

I try to explain how Biden wasn’t particularly strong in 2020. I didn’t want him as the candidate then. And then I was told I was “stupid” and that I “deserved all the bad things that were coming my way” and that they “hope I don’t get killed” in Trump’s America.

And it happened like that time and time again.

I have had so many people abandon me in the course of my hellish journey, but I literally have no idea who to trust at this point.

This felt like a breath of fresh air after a weekend of smog, so thank you for the sanity.

Am Yisrael Chai

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I’m so sorry to hear this. For an ally to experience the same isolation as progressive Jews (🙋🏻‍♂️) is heartbreaking, and makes me appreciate your support even more.

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Joshua, I'm a big fan, but you are out of touch with conservatives in the US. I know Christians who are more zionist than many Jews. I have friends who went to the Jan. 6 protest (not insurrection). One friend saw Antifa members. Trump wanted the National Guard there to keep the peace and Pelosi would not allow it. There are videos of police moving the barricades allowing people into the Capital. While Antifa egged on the destruction, no one should have followed them. Everyone agrees. But is it okay with you that Jan. 6 "rioters" were in solitary confinement for two years? People that didn't harm anyone were being held as political prisoners. Meanwhile, not one person was arrested during the actual riots of the summer of 2020.

Did you ever think about the church that Obama attended for 20 years and the rhetoric he listened to?

Do you wonder why Obama is the only president who never left DC after his terms and why he's been seen on Air Force One with Biden? Why is Biden's entire cabinet the same as Obama's?

Are you hoping Clinton will be indicted for giving Paula Jones $800,000 for sex, or is it just Trump who should be convicted-- and was?

I could go on.

Finally, since October 7 Jewish liberals are befuddled by the anti semitism and can't understand why people don't read the facts. Guess what? I still can't believe that Jewish liberals refuse to read facts about Trump. Most of the lies have been debunked. When he said, "There are good people on both sides," he wasn't referring to the Nazi's. Read the transcript. But Biden and the media still use this talking point.

No one ever counted the times Biden lied--- because he's a democrat.

Biden has proven to be a puppet and not a friend of Israel. In Trump's 4 years what did he do that was dictatorial? What did he do that was anti Israel? How did he threaten democracy.

I'm so so tired of the lies-- about Trump, and about Israel.

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Very well said!!

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People can say what they will, the reality is that polls do (as they always have) under-predict the support that Donald Trump has at any time. January 6 is a horrifying event but - and it hurts to say 'but' - right NOW we see an environment in which antisemitism is accepted among larger numbers of the population, the FBI is missing, and people are regularly - and I know this is an accurate characterization - walking the streets of America with flags & shirts with the symbols of groups dedicated to the death of every Jew. And for anybody who has been asleep, I don't mean Nazis or any other white supremacist group. For the good of the Republic, and the good of American Jewry, the Democratic Party should nominate someone other than President Biden as their candidate for November.

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Underestimate Trump, shit your drawers when Trump wins. Fuck around, find out. Most people on the “left” are still in the fuck around phase. As we all probably were at one point.

“Trump would have to draw an inside straight to win, it’ll never happen.” It happens… minutes pass. “Ok, so Trump won, fair and square… except that he must be the puppet of Vladimir Putin, otherwise, how could he?”

Reading the way media continues to talk about Trump is proof positive, they (MSM) didn’t learn one god damned thing about the electorate since 2016. And now, in 2024, if they don’t know… will they ever?

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The public’s problem is simply that people want America to be great and want a leader who believes in America’s greatness. Trump is the candidate who campaigns on American greatness. People say ‘you don’t understand, Trump is saying he wants to make America great which means that he’s saying America isn’t great,’ who are the same people who don’t get that logic doesn’t get in the way of feelings. And fact is Biden is not running on a campaign that uses the words America & great in the same slogan.

Now Trump is a pathological narcissist mixed with everyone’s racist grandpa in the classic sense of the term, and after 4 years, people are ready end their time with him and move on, but Biden made them feel so bad that they wanna go see the grandpa who is making sure that America is great.

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90% of the Jews in America 🇺🇸 are secular. They vote for the Democratic Communist Party. The Orthodox Jews in America 🇺🇸 vote 80% Republican. Secular vs Torah Observant! 🤨

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I agree with Alison Cipriani that Biden and his admin have been destroying Democracy. Everything the Dems have accused the other party of, they are the guilty ones. A video piece came out recently showing Pelosi saying no National Guards should be sent out to help on Jan. 6th. This from her chauffeur driven limousine. Where was their outcry when Antifa and BLM were burning own police stations and courthouses, when people were killed, fires set, business owners intimidated? Biden and the Dems were in support of those groups just like it's hands off for the Pro-Hamas protesters. Biden's border disaster is endangering the US, his inflation is hurting too many people, contrary to what he says drug prices are climbing and drugs that were available through plans have been taken off the list. He said, "we defeated Medicare." What does that even mean? Does he know? That's doubtful. I'm not a lover of Trump, but I certainly never believed the lies and conjured up tales the Dems put out on him since before and after his inauguration. I will respectfully disagree with Joshua because I believe Trump had some legitimate comebacks to Biden in the debate. The world leaders are salivating as they see this corpse of a president, and they're ready to pounce before January. If only the Democratic party would stop the charade and see this. Oh, and Joshua, if it came to the Celtics vs. Lakers, I'm huge Celtics fan, so....lol.

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Approximately 250 million people. And those two are the best we can we can do? Does anyone have a moral compass? Between fawning over Putin or enabling Iran they both make me want to hang out in my basement. But I live in California and only have a crawl space

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2016 Presidential race : The chosen choice for American voters was supposed to be ; Jeb Bush for republicans and Hillary Clinton for the democrats. Both from "power families" who trade control of the government back and forth. They are "allowed " by the non elected elite that run the State Department,Pentagon,FBI,CIA, NSA and other in bedded bureaucracies to "play". But in 2016 ... that Trump guy came down the escalator and pushed "King Bush 3rd" out of the running. In the election versus "The Czarina-In-Waiting" Hillary,Trump somehow upset that apple cart. So you have all three branches of power mad at you [American voters] for not voting correctly. Conspiracy ? King Bush 1st was also Head of the CIA, and in 2016 he set an underling agent to run against Trump in Utah on a 3rd party ticket. On 21 Oct 2016 "The Egg McMuffin"[Ed Mc Mullins] was leading in the polls with 31% ... He ended up getting 20%,an amazing total. Later, in 2022,the CIA trotted out "The Egg" again versus Senator Lee [know for supporting Trump] and the Democratic party in Utah did not field a candidate ! It was close but Senator Lee was re-elected.

Remember what Trump did as President : Moved Embassy to Jerusalem,and set about getting the Abraham Accords started... In return,Trump and Israel demonstrated "The Arrow-3 anti missile" over the Gulf of Alaska in July of 2019 [Jerusalem Post]. Trump arranged to sell re-fueling tankers to Israel which would allow Israel's "F-35 s" to reach and return from Iran's nuclear facilities. President Biden cancelled that sale on his first day in the White House. Biden did not want to allow Israel to take "independent action" regarding Israel's existence like they did with Saddam's and Assad's nuclear reactors. Biden has allowed Iran to "spin-spin-spin" for 3 1/2 years their uranium to weapons grade purity. This was also combined with massive support for Hamas and Hezbollah ... It might be said that Biden's cancelling of those refueling tankers led to Oct 7. Biden does not realize that Israel is ruled by Children and Grand Children of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising,and Masada.

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If President Biden remains on the ballot, I am sure mr. Trump will be victorious after his debate debacle. (Read the 'Presidentional Transition Project', written by the reactionary Heritage Foundation what that would mean for the USA : a turn to arbitrariness and the foundation of one party rule.)

Americans fortunately don't have experience with authocratic rule and consequently may be a little naive about its implications - if it fancies the chieftain, he'll come after you no matter what the law says, and a minority group as the Jewish community is always an easy target-.

I expect however the Democratic Party to come to its senses before the Convention and respectfully shove the ailing mr. Biden aside for a more promising Presidential candidate.

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Yes, I have to admit I was triggered. I'm sick of everyone accusing Trump of lying (usually without specifying what lies you are referring to) and not acknowledging that Biden and the Dems have lied much more substantially with much greater consequences than Trump. Trump exaggerates his own abilities perhaps. Perhaps he lied about not sleeping with the porn star. The fact that he's a womanizer and has occasional cringeworthy rhetoric is baked into the cake. But that doesn't really affect his policy choices which have been an overall positive. Compare that to Biden running his entire election on hoaxes, such as the Charlottesville hoax and the Drinking Bleach hoax, both of which were entirely made up out of things taken totally out of context. Compare that to hiding the fact that the Biden admin and dems got the media to suppress so many stories, the Hunter laptop, and everything and anything against the Covid narrative... and cancel anyone who spoke out...etc etc. Yes politicians are all crap to some extent, because only narcissists would think they're great enough to be president. Reminds me of the origins of the word "politics": it comes from the Greek words "Poly" meaning many...and "tics" meaning blood sucking vermin.

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That's funny since it's the democrats who are actually ruining America as we know and love it. It's the democrats who want to "fundamentally transform" America, believe that our founding fathers were white supremacists, and that America was founded on white supremacy and is irredeemably racist and our founding therefore illegitimate. Democrat city councils are removing statues of our founders, even statues of Lincoln have been removed. Democrats are pushing CRT and the 1619 project, increasing federal power over state sovereignty, destroying our constitutional separation of powers. I could add numerous other ways in which the Democrat party is destroying America, but you get the point that it's ironic for them to be claiming to save democracy and America from Trump.

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"Because, as the Democrats have been wailing and screaming about for years now, Trump will ruin America as we know and love it, so fielding a more viable candidate makes perfect sense, right"?

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Right now this election brings back memories of the 1968 election-remember that LBJ decided not to run when Walter Kronkite reported inaccurately that the Vietnam War could not be won ( in the same manner as the mainstream media in Gza). Mccarthy had won a few primaries, but RFK jumped in and would have been the nominee if he had not been assassinated. Humphrey was nominated after a raucous convention in Chicago and narrowly lost to Nixon who had to deal with a Wallace third [arty candidacy siphoning off votes from Nixon's Southern strategy. After the election, the activist base of the Democracts, many of whom were anti war , changed the rules of the nominations process to cut down the role of party bosses and union heads and the results were liberal candidates such as Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry. Carter won as a result of the backlash to Ford's pardoning of Nixpn. Clinton ran and won as a moderate . Obama 's team which runs the party may very well be willing to let Biden stay as the nominee , and then have the party lurch even further to the left which would result in moderates and supporters of Israel having no future as Democrats unless they kow tow to Obama's vision of transforming the US and supporting Iran at the expense of Israel

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Vote Democrat? That’s so quaint. So September 2023. So cute. I guess, in a perfect world we would not need to choose between “Unite the Right” and “Students for Justice in Palestine” for which party is LESS antisemitic. But, here we are.

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