Some Arab Americans who voted for Trump say they are concerned about his picks for key positions

[Coventina]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Just a week after winning several of the nation’s largest Arab-majority cities, President-elect Donald Trump has filled top administration posts with staunch Israel supporters, including an ambassador to Israel who has claimed “there is no such thing as Palestinians.”

Meanwhile, the two Trump advisers who led his outreach to Arab Americans have not secured positions in the administration yet.

The selections have prompted mixed reactions among Arab Americans and Muslims in Michigan, which went for Trump along with all six other battleground states. Some noted Trump’s longstanding support for Israel and said their vote against Vice President Kamala Harris was not necessarily an endorsement of him. Others who openly supported him say he will be the final decisionmaker on policy and hope he will keep his promise of achieving an end to the conflicts in the Middle East.

Albert Abbas, a Lebanese American leader whose brother owns the Dearborn, Michigan, restaurant Trump visited in the campaign’s final days, stood beside the former president during that visit and spoke in support of him.

Now, Abbas says it’s “too early” to judge Trump and that “we all need to take a deep breath, take a step back and let him do the work that he needs to do to to achieve this peace.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/some-arab-americans-who-voted-for-trump-say-they-are-concerned-about-his-picks-for-key-positions

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Take a deep breath and hold it, you moron!!!

[Rebl2]

1. Oh brother

🙄🙄🙄

[Walleye]

2. Gee whizz guys, maybe you shouldn't have wasted your vote on a racist

Pieces absolutely the last thing that Trump wants. All I really have to say to them is “suck on it”

[Basso8vb]

3. I don't fucking care about these backstabbers.

FAFO

[AloeVera]

12. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Relative to "back-stabbing" I mean.

FAFO turns out to be quite universal and predictable - it really doesn't care what side you're on, but it does follow the sequence of events. Sort of like the law of every action (and non-action?) having a reaction.

A lesson for all.

[yardwork]

28. It seems a lot of people were blinded by their hatred of Jews.

The Biden efforts toward a two-state solution were rejected by these Muslim Arab groups. They preferred to elect a madman to do what they really want - let other countries wipe Israel out, along with all its citizens.

Once Israel is gone, there will be "peace."

However, Trump never pays his bills or keeps his promises. If something happens, it's entirely down to whether it benefits him or his owner, Vlad Putin.

Rubio's feckless behavior may cause WWIII, but the outcome of wars is uncertain.

Iran - Muslim but vehemently not Arab - will have a new ayatollah soon. He sounds pretty intense.

Meanwhile, the Saudis watch and wait and Putin plots world domination. Not a great time to elect a madman to the U.S. presidency.

[AloeVera]

44. Many people were blinded by the genocide.

GEN-O-CIDE.

Could be why many stayed home too. Genocide may tend to depress the vote, not that I've seen any discussion of that. Self-reflection is hard.

Now if a genocide of Arabs/Muslims is something that makes you go Yeehaw! or makes you look away or rationalize or deny it - then you wouldn't understand the Mulsim/Arab vote. You might even use the opportunity to confirm your fears of anti-semitism by a semitic people.

"Biden efforts towards a two-state solution"...



Now that I've picked myself off the floor, l have just one thing to say about that:

YOU CAN'T BE FUCKING SERIOUS??!!

As for nuclear war, we have NEVER been closer to one than since oh, the last couple of days. When the present is so frightening, it's kind of redundant, as well as deflective, to scare-monger about the future.

I'll leave you with a thought. If the current Administration were funding a genocide that killed oh at least about 200,000 Israelis, and in reality probably a few hundred thousand more - would you be able to bring yourself to vote for that Administration?

I'm just saying, have some human understanding of human limits. You really can't know unless you were standing in their shoes. As you cannot know what it's like for them to witness 13 months of atrocities against them, with no pushback from their own government. Must be pretty infuriating and depressing. That at least shouldn't be hard to understand, as surely they are just as human as you and me.

[Blue_Tires]

24. Co-signed

There wasn't any "wait and see" from Arab-Americans with Biden and Harris, they demanded immediate action...

I'm really curious to know what the Trump campaign "outreach" to Arab-Americans was like... What exactly was the selling point that earned their vote? They didn't really swallow that bullshit about Trump boasting he could end all the fighting in the Middle East with just one phone call, right?

[yardwork]

25. It sounds like Trump sent some low-level staffers to meet with Muslim Arab groups.

They promised a bunch of things and now they've disappeared.

Trump never pays his bills.

[atreides1]

4. WTF?

Peace will come when Gaza has been cleared of all Palestinians and when the West Bank is a suburb of Tel Aviv!

And according to Mike Huckabee there is no such a thing as a Palestinian!!!

[paleotn]

11. Oh, but we're all pissy about Harris

Morons. Total morons.

[getagrip_already]

38. There are no palestinians....

So there is no problem with them.

There are only some terrorists and squatters illegally occupying kushner estates.

Dont worry, they wont be there long. That also goes for Ivanka City, formerly known as Lebanon, and jarad town, formerly yemen.

[comradebillyboy]

42. On the other hand the Palestinians think that the

total elimination of Israel and all its Jews is the only way solve their problems. The Palestinian leadership doesn't want a two state solution. Jew free from the river to the sea is what the want.

[yardwork]

57. That's what they say, and I believe them.

[republianmushroom]

5. Damn, dudes, cry me a river.

I believe you were warned.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Well, let's just call the fucking....

[Macrophylla]

7. At this point

I don't care about their concerns.
They should embrace what they say they wanted. Their finding out is none of my concern now.

[paleotn]

8. Arab Americans who voted for Trump?

That’s troubling in itself. What idiots!

[Sundance1220]

9. Trusting a demented liar

to do what they think is right. This should go splendidly.

[wnylib]

51. They have no memory of Trump's Muslim ban?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Karma can be a pain

Link to tweet

[Cha]

49. Idiots on Display getting their Karma is a ***** in Real Time.

We TOLD Them SO.. Did They Listen?!!

NO!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. These idiots are suffering from buyer's remorse

[Cha]

55. And so fucking Soon..

they’re smart enough to catch on Now But Not to know Assface Sacred Cow is a GD Inveterate Liar 🤮☠️☠️

[MagickMuffin]

13. They'll be okay, * told them so

So

It must be true! He will “protect” them alright!

[Trailrider1951]

14. fail

https://sjcpl.org/wp-content/webpc-passthru.php?src=&nocache=1

[yardwork]

15. Trump won because of us....

“We are very disappointed,” he said. “It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people, which is a failure on the side of President Trump, to the pro-peace and anti-war movement.”

[Cha]

50. ..

[BannonsLiver]

16. Tough.

[sarisataka]

17. Own it

Link to tweet

[bluesbassman]

18. Hope they all know good plastic surgeons for after the leopards get done with their faces.

They’re approaching the find out phase of the journey.

[keithbvadu2]

19. To protest against democrats, muslims got what they wanted:::: Trump.

Congratulations!

???

[The Unmitigated Gall]

20. Oh, he'll "acheive an end", Arab-American Drumpf voters.

Gaza as a parking lot for Jared's new Mediterranean resort villas.

[tanyev]

54. Exactly.

And he’s made no secret of it. How do you reach people that won’t listen?

[Baitball Blogger]

21. "Concerned" is such a useless word.

[yardwork]

26. They join Senator Collins in her eternal concern.

[RJ_MacReady]

22. oh well

Don't care at all. I was detached from Gaza before but now I just don't care.

[JohnSJ]

23. Anyone who voted for the sociopath deserves whatever happens to them.

[TheKentuckian]

29. It is far worse than merely voting for Chump

The willfully rabble roused, lied, and slandered their way to taking likely millions of rubes with them, to Puti...err...Stein, or to stay home or leave the slot blank.

They go under the first bus that passes and I'd love to give the whole lot the Clockwork Orange treatment and force them to take in the death and destruction they dictated.

[JohnSJ]

34. All to music of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

[TheKentuckian]

45. I was more thinking Vogan poetry in Hebrew and a goodly amount of gay sex sounds

but FINE!

[Norbert]

27. There are no do-overs for voting

You were warned, you ignored the warnings, now deal with it.

[yaesu]

30. I thought they would be happy living in a shithole country if they voted for tRump? nt

[Maru Kitteh]

31. Well Mr. Abbas, at least he's a "strong male" right? A real MAN. Take your comfort there. Asshole. nt

[RockRaven]

32. Oh no! It's the entirely predictable consequences of one's own actions!

That dastardly villain strikes again! Who could have foreseen it!?

[Irish_Dem]

33. They are either lying or fools.

[J_William_Ryan]

35. Arab Americans who voted for Trump are idiots.

As are everyone else who voted for Trump.

[yellowcanine]

36. Is it a Susan Collins level of CONCERN?

[Crunchy Frog]

37. He'll end the conflict, alright. By eliminating one of the sides.

Too bad if this wasn't already clear to them, because pretty much everyone else knew.

[Yavin4]

39. The Leopards Ate My Face - The Song

Origin of the song:

&t=31s

[getagrip_already]

40. Many will see it first hand....

Citizens or not, they will be deported. If they, or their parents lied on their imigration forms, they will be decitizened and deported.

Who will stop it?

[TheKentuckian]

46. Y'all will see that your imaginations were laughably short of reality

and the brains fucking dead.

Dumbest motherfuckers in history and butchers of who they pretended to care about.

Bubfuckingbye!!!

[AloeVera]

47. All of it undeniably true.

I would add the renewed aerial assault and ground invasion and starvation of north Gaza a month before the election. How is that for good timing? Yet again, nothing was done to mitigate the horror, which now included the forcible transfer of the population.

Also campaigning with Liz Cheney, as well as Dick Cheney's endorsement were tone-deaf moves.People have long memories of the Iraq War and who war-mongered for it.

Bill Clinton's "help" didn't help either. He came down pretty strong and intractable on the Israeli side.

I think Blinken's decision not to enforce the law in order to continue pandering to Israel was seen exactly for what it was. The timing couldn't have been worse.

I read all these FAFO and other angry comments with horrified fascination. It's as if Muslim/Arabs are not allowed to be simply human or are not recognized as victims. Hence no awareness of the victim-blaming and deflection so prevalent. It's sad to see.

[Volaris]

43. Yep thats a leopard on your face.

[Cha]

48. Oh "they're Concerned" are they? Well, We're More

Than Concerned about Our Fucking Democracy that they Helped Destroy.

So Fuck Off, Dictator Voting Gullible Idiots.

[CentralMass]

53. Gullible rubes take awhike to realized they've been screwed by a conman.

[DFW]

56. The concern of any American Arab or Muslim who voted for Trump

That concern is of no concern whatsoever to me. If something evil happens to any relatives of theirs "back home," I put it squarely on their backs. No "I made a mistake" counts with me. They knew what they were doing when they cast their votes. The least they can do is own it--especially when their relatives in the Middle East suffer because of it. When they are denied mercy visas by the Trump Administration, even when their US relatives offer to foot 100% of the bill, if those relatives voted for Trump, they have no one but those relatives to blame.

Second thoughts? Misgivings? You are not in the second grade any more. Own it. Tell your relatives straight out what you just did to/for them. You didn't own the libs. You slammed the door in the faces of your family.