US Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.

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    “Hey, asshole. Shut up and get on the plane.”- Trump Administration to this chucklefuck in a couple months.

    You voted for this, you stupid motherfucker. Now you get to enjoy the ride like the rest of us.

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      There won’t be planes, or deportations. There will only be caged slave laborers in concentration camps owned by his friends, with the government (read taxpayers) paying the rent month after month, year after year.

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    I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face!

    I mean what did they expect? Yes, i didn’t agree with Bidens current policy or what Kamala was going to do, but I knew trump would be worse.

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    I honestly have no idea how any Muslim could vote for Trump unless they were completely ignorant. He is not their friend by any stretch of the imagination. It’s not going to end well for them.

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    All this time/effort organizing around him when a 5 minute Google search would have shown you he’d pledge unquestioning support for Netanyahu

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      Not to mention Trump’s “sharpie realignment” of Israel’s border during his last term. These people have rocks in their heads if they thought this was going to go any other way.

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      This is what I don’t get.

      Trump is like everyone’s marvel superhero, he’s whatever they imagine they want, the alternative to everyone else… Even very legitimate and thought out criticism can somehow conclude with supporting Trump when that makes no sense.

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      You are the reason I dislike liberals.

      You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

      Be more like AOC. She asked her constituents that voted for both her and Trump why they voted for Trump so that she could understand them.

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        Do you know anyone in your personal life that fell victim to a scam? Used car? Telemarketer?

        How many times would it take that victim being scammed by the same person before you called them dumb?

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          What does calling people dumb accomplish? Get them to hate you?

          Why don’t you do something productive like help them recognize scams?

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        She asked her constituents that voted for both her and Trump why they voted for Trump so that she could understand them.

        This is like asking someone to explain why they believe the world is flat or that we didn’t land on the moon.

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          When those people vote you need to know why. Or be snide, that’s worked out great for the Dems

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            “It’s real simple… Trump and you care for the working class.”

            Yep, real smart people there. Anybody who voted for both of them together is an idiot. They represent polar opposites of the political spectrum. She’s basically the most progressive politician after Bernie, and he’s the most regressive. She’s thoughtful in the way she expresses herself, and he spews verbal diarrhea and lies as if he would instantly die if he said anything true.

            Anybody who thinks Trump cares for the working class is fucking delusional. He’s shown time after time that he doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t directly benefit him. He’s a fucking monster and anyone who can’t see that has to be stupid.

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              Anybody who thinks Trump cares for the working class is fucking delusional. He’s shown time after time that he doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t directly benefit him. He’s a fucking monster and anyone who can’t see that has to be stupid.

              Yep. He had four years and the only thing he did was give away gigantic bags of goodies to the already obscenely wealthy. He didn’t do anything for the working class.

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        I read some of the comments from AOC’s constituents. Many of them were not smart people either.

        If you want to learn what it takes to sway dumb people, you can run a very unethical campaign like Trump’s and get the Presidency.

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        You just look down on other people instead of trying to understand why they did what they did.

        Strong anti-generalization assertion.

        Except

        You are the reason I dislike liberals.

        Ah shit, you opened with a cheesy generalization. Validating to see the"every accusation is a confession" thing holds.

        But let’s get into it.

        • one was bad but could be swayed

        • one was worse on all counts for all criteria, was only getting worse, can’t be fixed and would tear down all the checks and balances that make government work

        They picked the second option, overwhelmingly, despite the massive damage to the very fabric of the nation and the insanely worse prospects for them as a recognizable minority.

        Logic it out.

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          First off all, I didn’t vote for the orange turd. Let’s get that out of the way.

          Second of all, there is PLENTY to criticize on the conservative side but I don’t want to see another fascist in office so I’m trying to improve the liberal side.

          Muslims had a SIGNIFICANT impact on the results in my state. You are minimizing their core issue - getting democrats to actually support not killing Muslims in Gaza. Thats it

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            their core issue - getting democrats to actually support not killing Muslims in Gaza

            And by choosing that as the core issue they chose to have even more death in Gaza. Even if they convinced the Democratic Party to now shift on this issue entirely, they completely lack the power to do anything about it because they lost the election and control zero branches of government. It’s very difficult not to see this coming from an entire galaxy away.

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    “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

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    Seriously? What did they think was going to happen with donvict in office? I just can’t even right now. If I thought things would be any better in 4 years, I’d beg/borrow/steal to get on that 4 year cruise…

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    Voting has consequences. The time to wake the fuck up was two weeks ago. I guess the next best time is now.

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    No way. The guy who said he’d give Netanyahu a blank check to destroy Gaza opposes Islam? Color me fucking shocked.