Not voting for either and not advocating such, just wondering if this lib talking point holds up in reality. I know he recognized Jerusalem as the capital, but dem reads as far more committed overall to the zionist project to me.

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      Trump was the best thing for leftists in the U.S. because it got a bunch of on-the-fence libs to wake up and smell the coffee in a way that never happened in my lifetime, even under Bush.

      Now a lot of those libs have gone back to sleep with Biden, but Biden is basically playing the Obama playbook with only a tenth of the charisma and it isn’t working. Even my dyed-in-the-wool Democrat mother just recently admitted to me that she doesn’t see much of a difference between Biden and Trump politically but she can’t stand Trump (which is fair, she doesn’t find him as tragically comedic as I do). I told her to vote however she wants, cause it genuinely doesn’t matter, but if she wants to signal displeasure she should vote third party.

      To the OP’s point, Trump would be just as bad, if not worse than Biden on Israel. But that is because those decisions are not made by the president, we don’t actually get to vote on policy in this country.

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    Yes, but we’d also see more resistance by libs. Similar to how deportations went down under Trump.

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    Probably yes, but you can never be sure with Trump, he really is the wildcard candidate. The Isntraelis have been getting more and more unhinged, and all it takes is them mouthing off at him one time for the friendship to sour. Cause he’s a vain, petty shit and every interaction has to stroke his ego, while Bibi is in a tenuous position and cannot afford to be seen as weak to anyone rn

    But then again maybe the Zionist blob can jangle shiny enough keys in front of Trump to smooth things over

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      Looking at a situation like when Biden “paused” a weapons shipment and israel threw a hissy fit and various ministers started saying things like “Biden ♥️ Hamas”, I genuinely wonder if Trumps ego would have been activated causing him to turn on israel, at least a little.

      Plus, I could see him absolutely loving seeing something like the crowds in Yemen chanting some shit about him being strong or some other positive adjective. The man is pure ego and loves crowds. But they are brown so he might fucking hate that so idrk

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        There’s two wolves inside Trump. One is an inveterate racist scumbag. The other is up it’s own ass with egomania. Both have hypertension.

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    Yeah. No doubt he would. He moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. He’d be more hawkish than Biden, hell, Netanyahu would probably be friendlier toward Biden and the US currently if the option of Trump wasn’t on the table.

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    Yeah. And not to sound like a lib but he’d probably be even worse. He and his in law would be the first to step in and claim real estate so he’d be pursuing the genocide out of pure greed along with every other motivation.

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    Yes, but Biden and the machine that controls him needs to be sent a message that states in very simple terms fuck you all forever die in a fire you deserve worse than I can possibly summon with words,

    Vote 3rd party. Doesn’t matter who.

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    Yeah of course, there are some things that you cant turn your back on in US politics. Israel is one of them. It doesn’t matter who the president is and what they do is roughly the same.

    Its all the same and the American project goes no matter what because the president is just a distraction.

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    Theoretically Trump could, in a the sort of way “only Nixon could go to China.” Democrats could never do that in part because they have always had this chip on their shoulder about having to prove they’re “tough” on foreign policy, going back to the start of the Cold War.

    Most likely though, Trump won’t be any different from Biden’s current inhumane policies. They most likely way I could see Trump changing things would be for the worse.

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    Yes, but for owning the libs reasons instead of the absolute ideological commitment that Israel has the god given right to kill as many Arabs as possible that Biden has

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    Maybe, maybe not. There’s no way to know. But I think it’s telling that Palestinians are not begging Americans to vote for Biden because “Trump would be worse”. This is a talking point wholly invented by Liberals because they don’t care one bit whether Trump would be worse for Palestinians, they just care about Biden not losing.

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      I mean we could compare and contrast various figures in both of their admins and how much sway they have. Kushner vs Blinken and all that. let’s start a Hitlerians bracket voting contest