Perspective

My Photo
Name:
Location: United States

Monday, November 04, 2024

Election eve



Worth watching for the end, in which Seth catalogues all the awful things Trump has done since he became president in2016. People really need to remember this stuff.

Trump in Michigan

- Dearborn, Michigan

Trump courts divided Arab-American voters in must-win Michigan

One might wonder why Trump would bother courting Arab American voters, he being the originator of the Muslim ban and constantly voicing his support of Israel.

But we know that Trump doesn't have any true religious convictions and has been on Israel's side in order to get conservative Christian approval. And we know that he has often been on the side of anti-Semitites, from Kanye West to the marchers at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. And we know that he is an opportunist, who is buddies with wealthy Arab leaders like MBS who can enrich him. And we know that the father of his son-in-law, a Lebanese American businessman, has been helping Trump with voters in Michigan ...

Trump’s In-Law Is Trying to Exploit Democrats’ Weakness With Arab American Voters

[...] Since early this year, a pair of unofficial Trump emissaries — Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman and an in-law of Mr. Trump, and Richard Grenell, Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to Germany and acting intelligence chief — have been crisscrossing Michigan, trying to repackage and sell Mr. Trump to skeptical Arab American and Muslim voters there ...

As weird as it may sound, I thiink that Trump and the Republican party is actually a better fit with many Arab American voters ... the shared emphasis on a social and religious conservatism that restricts women's rights and condemns gay people is just one example of why.

Friday, November 01, 2024

Nooooo



Just watching the news, where Trump is in Michigan meeting with Arab Americans. And who is by his side? RFK Jr., crazy as a bedbug and the soon to be head of everything health and science in the government, if Trump wins. God help us all.