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Trump and Congressional Republicans sat on foreign aid for six months and now they have the balls to criticize
They didn’t just sit. On multiple occasions they attempted to draft legislation to provide Israel with aid independent of Ukraine and Taiwan. Biden said he’d veto any attempts to pass a standalone Israel aid bill in February, and yet they tried again after the Iran retaliation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/05/joe-biden-veto-republican-standalone-israel-aid-bill
Actually, they demanded that all foreign aid was wrapped into one package and border security be added. So, there was a long negotiation on border security. The Senate got through that, passed it and sent it to the House. Trump then told the House Republicans that he wanted to use border security as a campaign issue. So Johnson sat on it another three months, created his own bill without border security, and passed it. The Senate followed, and put it on Biden’s desk.
Yes you're both correct. It was during that three month period (late January to April) after the version with border security got killed by Trump's meddling, where Republicans were trying to push a stand alone Israel aid bill without Ukraine aid, and Biden issued his veto threat to any standalone Israel aid bill. The article the person you're replying to linked was in February, after the border security version one with everything together had failed.
Sure, Johnson was trying to find alternatives and decided just to strip out border security in the end. He and Trump figured out that if Ukraine was lost they would be blamed. Biden, for his part, didn't want piecemeal legislation at that point.
This election couldn't come sooner.
If that's how you feel, you're in for a bad next four and half years.
I think Biden will get back in. That will be far better than hearing from Trump anymore..
This is literally their job.
That is literally not doing their job.
Exactly.
This is what abstaining from voting will invite for protesters and Palestinians.
We tried to tell them.
Future tense. We should continue to try. I won’t judge someone who votes for Trump with conviction. The voter disenfranchisement manipulation on Lemmy is what needs to be challenged. It’s an unethical disengagement strategy, historically used by Republicans to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
I would legitimately be interested to hear what convictions a trump voter had that were real, actual, policy positions.
They’re just generic sales slogans and whatever gaffes he makes that the crowd applauds loudest for. Not actual considered positions.
That’s largely been my experience too, but I’m willing to hear out anything other than the “you can’t vote for that guy” line anymore. Trump’s base will vote him in if enough abstain. Inaction is action.
Lemmy didn’t cause this:
No it didn’t. Those protests are driving the change we keep seeing in the news, and I applaud them for it. They wouldn’t do anything but get arrested and vilified if Trump were in office, as he said in the posted article.
[Biden is] ”taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses."
I don’t think Macklemore is on Lemmy.
We can offer evidence and opinions, but people are gonna vote as individuals, as they should. Motivating others to vote for Biden was always going to be an uphill struggle because of his age, but with the ongoing genocide… whew… it just makes people defensive and hardens their resolve to defend their position.
That’s fine. Healthy debate is good for the democratic process. Biden certainly has flaws. I personally see many more in Trump. The point is, people should vote, and encouraging others to abstain is disingenuous and unethical.
As for the genocide, Biden is currently pulling away from Israel and Trump literally just said that the US should do the opposite in the posted article. That’s not really an argument.
That's a map.
We're discussing voter manipulation and encouraged disengagement of voters.
Stop being dense.
It’s a map of potential voters that conceivably won’t vote for Biden. Which is entirely relevant because despite the success of swaying voters on Lemmy, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to overall disengagement.
The point- When Biden loses in November, it will be erroneous to blame it on the small number of voters on Lemmy. The blame will rest on Biden and the DNC, not the small numbers of voters on Lemmy.
I'm sure centrists have some conspiracy theory for why the genocide they supported for so long isn't as popular as they wanted it to be.
The one in Ukraine? Those tankies seem to be FINE with it.
We haven't been sending weapons to Russia in order to commit genocide.
Thank you for the demonstration of exactly what I was talking about. Centrists can't imagine that Netanyahu's genocide isn't as popular with everyone else as it is with centrists, so they have to pretend that there are tankies behind every rock.
BuT bOtH SIdEs, cAnT YoU sEe I'm e n L I g H t E N e D?
Been telling them this for a long time now. Can’t get past their outrage.
Good. that's the message we need to go back and forth here to get uneducated voters away from voting trump because "Biden genocide". Trump will be worse.
The bOtH siDeS crew must be losing their minds
Recently, I was arguing with one, and they unironically suggested we'd be in a better position now if Trump had won in 2020.
Which is to say, I think you need to have one first in order to lose it.
Oh, the Nazis are angry that a genocide is being paused? What a shocker!
Was it a body slam? Trump is quite fat.
Are we not pointing out "slammed" any more? I'm okay with that trend dying.
So that means it's a good idea.
Sociopaths.
Now you know it’s the right thing to do.