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I’m just going to pray for the innocent people in Gaza. I don’t know what else to do.

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I feel the sane way but I gotta do more than pray. I have to do something. Rep. Rashida Tlaib endorsed the Gaza Soup Kitchen (gazasoupkitchen.org) if you want to help feed Gaza kids and their families. Every little bit helps….

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I just donated!!

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I certainly will. Thanks for this link.

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I’m so scared for them. Biden should stop sending money and bombs NOW. How can we get him to stop before he leaves to give Palestinians a fighting chance. They need to be saved.

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Again, Zeteo staff, looking backwards and finding fault is not important at all, not even helpful. Please stop wasting our time with this.

What would be much more interesting and productive is to delve into an understanding of who this block of voters are who endorsed Trump. We need to start thinking about a strategy on how to partner with them. What is Trump’s attraction for them? 71% of those people are white voters, mostly uneducated. How will we inspire us going forward?

Can you help with that work?

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One more ask: can you find some of this voters, interview them, so we begin to understand what moves them? Your help would be appreciated!

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Hi. I'm a gay man from Texas. My dad was a pastor. These people you're talking about are my family. Let me let you know right now, that you already do not understand.

It's abuse. Trump abuses those who listen. They walk away from the TV angrier and angrier and only leave it when made to do so. They watch it all day, every day.

When you talk with them, it's every abuser's tactic to humiliate you for disagreeing with them, logic be damned.

Some are nicer about it, some are meaner about it, but that's always the end of it.

People who are in their camp who are capable of moral understanding find their own way out.

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Thank you for sharing this, Eubaba. The abuse piece is an important element.

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I am sure that you an educated fool, so there is very little chance that you'll understand the value of finding where one person, or a group of people, made a mistake before they start 'going forward'. See, that's a necessary step to keep the compass pointing in the right direction. As for your 'dream' of engaging with 'uneducated white' voters floating around out there, their feelings of dispossession can only be cured with more genocides and 'cleansing'. But then again, I don't suppose you are a history buff, so there is very little value in trying to help you understand American history from that perspective.

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This is the journalism that matters at a time like this. Thank you for delivering on your promise, Mehdi.

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I respect Mehdi’s opinion very much , and afraid of Trump and even more of afraid from Kamala , She said it herself , she would not be different than biden . 40 thousand dead is Gaza didn’t matter to Biden and Kamala , she said it too bad with the killing , What about the price of groceries in US .. Satanaho would play her the same as Biden ,, We will never forget or forgive them , She really deserves to lose ,

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Arabs in the USA don't realize what they've done. I am hoping Israel just gets it over and done with without more killing. Now with Trump's approval, they can purge all Palestinians and annex the West Bank and maybe even the Golan Heights. No one will stop them because the UN and the international community are toothless. Iran may try but they will be destroyed. Let's get it overwith.

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Nov 7·edited Nov 7

I'm telling you right now MH, if Zeteo starts going everything Trump, I am going to unsubscribe. We will have to wait and see what will happen. I won't pay to be fearmongred.

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Relax, Chill little. Don't try to blackmail Mehdi, that's why he is founded Zeteo. Let the man speaks.

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One last note for you in particular, Mehdi: I will continue to read you on Zeteo as well as my longtime news source Propublica. I am finished with news for big corporate profits. You are an honest reporter and almost as forceful as necessary but I am 20 years your senior and I have had enough of this country's game. Tomorrow I go to officially purge my voterregistration after religiously voting for almost 45 years. I have a life to live without being constantly reminded of the permanent stupidity in this country. Hard work ahead? Hell, I just want to enjoy what little life I have left.

As-salamu alaykum.

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Nov 7·edited Nov 7

What to expect?!?!??! Even more shit

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Merhdad my man, you wanted this chaos for some big reset because you said things couldn't get worse, even though they always can. Thought you'd be celebrating. Is phase 2 happening any time soon?

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Justin,

I understand you might be depressed, sad, disappointed, I am too but it is not right to put words in other people's mouth because you are frustrated. Find me link I ever said that. Find me a quote from me I ever said anything positive about this charlatan.

But I do hope Democrats and our people learn from this, if we and our country were to survive the phase two. For Democrats losing is something, losing to a convicted felon is another.

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Well... I thought you said something to that effect here: https://zeteo.com/p/say-i-am-not-joe-biden-michael-moore/comment/74044795

But I don't think anyone here is in the mood for more arguing. I still think you're one of the good ones here even if I haven't always agreed with you. Just trying to make sense of it all...

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If you did make any sense of it at all, please do share as I can't for the life of me.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Whilst Palestinian’s were (and are still) being burned, bombed and massacred, for over one year, with little food, water or medicine, the USA being complicit in genocide, with less than perhaps 10% of the entire population speaking out against it, that the other 90% chose to remain quiet, watching the horrors unfold on live TV, and did nothing to stop it; in fact they still vigorously watched in silence, in a bid to protect themselves, their lives, their livelihoods, their careers, their businesses, their status etc….

GOD sees this all, yes?

Then, God has clearly not forsaken the Palestine people, because they would have died anyway, under Harris and worst still Trump, so God, has now, has HE not, PUNISHED the USA, by bringing a racist and radical fascist into power, and as Mehdi put it, “buyers regret” will soon be felt, but with a mere 10% suffering collective punishment; compare the reverse in Gaza; 90% innocent people suffering for the terrorism of 10%.

Now, at last surely, the 90% who watched in silence will suffer, very badly, and eventually under Trump, yes?

Well in my view, that is God’s justice!!

Will those 90% or so, feel the pain under Trump? Perhaps they will, finally, now feel the pain and suffering of the Palestinian people; that they watched in silence?

This was GOD’s will - after all, HE works in the most mysterious ways; Yes?

I know the above post will hit nerves, but I trust you understand, that I simply believe God has given the USA a “taste of its own medicine” - in the most extreme way - for me, that is poetic JUSTICE!

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Yeah yeah, "America bad", religious nut version. I'm sure you'll find an upside to a mushroom cloud over New York too. Get real.

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Trump used due process to fuck us. We can use it against him. Tie him up in courts!

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I have no idea what you mean. Even in the absurd situation where his own attorney general would be willing to indict him for crimes, a sitting president cannot be indicted while he is president! That’s why Michael Cohen could be tried and convicted for the Stormy Daniels payment while Trump was president, but not Trump himself! It’s the entire reason he ran for president - to avoid being tried for all the trials that “are being tied up in court” now. His sentencing for the NY trial was scheduled later this month. That won’t happen now thanks to everyone who voted for him or refused to vote for Harris. Thank you for that!

Furthermore because we have an unashamedly biased court, any crimes he commits as president would be immune from prosecution. He could send seal team 6 to shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and he could probably get away with it *by law*! When we told you it was dangerous to let him back in to the White House, we knew what we were talking about.

Most of the people who refused to listen or thought Harris was worse, did not really understand any of this!

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May there be a plague upon both the parties of American politics. I hope Trump does his worst for America.

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Spread the word that If Joe Biden will step aside NOW - Kamala becomes President until the January Inauguration, with full immunity!

HELP SPREAD THIS -- please, the entire world is grieving including the people in the nations under Vlad, Kim Jung Un, and certainly the people in Ukraine and many under the duo from hell, Musk & DJT

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Elon Musk, one of Trump’s oligarchs, was present this morning on a call Trump had with Zelinsky. It was reported that at one point Trump handed the phone to Musk. Guess Musk was needed to splain things to Zelinsky.

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Biden is a lame duck president, he might as well do the right thing and enforce a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Stop sending arms and military aid. If he needs an incentive - it might help Dems win the mid-terms.

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I've posted this elsewhere but it belongs here too.

The reason Trump won was voter apathy. People who said things like "they're all the same" and "the lesser of two evils", etc., who simply did not vote. Call it intellectual laziness. Call it a lack of the imagination required to foresee outcomes. Call it uninformed cynicism. Whatever you wish. But it's the folks who took no action that handed Trump the prize.

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Québécois politicians are under pressure urging the federal government to protect the border from Americans fleeing Trump.

https://youtu.be/1cAA2SnVkKo?si=_DT7haI26r9YpxQw

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