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

Summary

Arab Americans who supported Trump in battleground states like Michigan express concerns over his key appointments, particularly pro-Israel figures like Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, and Elise Stefanik, who oppose a two-state solution and back Israel’s actions in Gaza.

While some voters hoped Trump would prioritize peace in the Middle East, his picks have fueled unease about his administration’s direction.

Outreach leaders like Massad Boulos, who engaged Arab American communities during Trump’s campaign, have yet to secure roles, leaving some supporters questioning their expectations of Trump’s policies.

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  • maaan… how the fuck are people this uninformed about who donald trump is and what he's about? did all these people think supporting him would curry them favor, and make their people safer than if a less insane candidate took office? like, i geuinely don't understand how you hear what this motherfucker says and not realize his whole entire deal i hating people who aren't cishet white men. like i can get my friend who the first ever election she voted in in our country was 2016 when she grew up with different formats of propaganda, but he was president for four years, and this go around he's been more mask off, and the people saying he's dangerous have been more direct in their messaging.

    like… how are people this illiterate beyond just reading comprehension? like, why don't you got anything comprehension, what is this?

    • 54% of American adults have the reading comprehnsion skills of a 5th grader, or worse.

      How?

      Republicans have spent many decades defunding public education, with no effective pushback.

      • Republicans have spent many decades defunding public education

        Republicans have also spent many decades developing psychological operations aimed at controlling the news and churches.

      • we're going to fix this. i don't know how yet. and it won't be easy. and it won't be short term. but we're going to fix this, so read to a kid. make them remember reading time as the best part of their day. make them love the things AI can't twist: physical artifacts

      • So true. And getting rid of good teachers through low pay and other disincentives.

        My daughter had a completely unqualified "substitute" teacher for her entire sixth grade here in Indiana. Her qualifications? She ran a children's theater troupe in Orange County, CA. Really. Never taught a class in her life, which is why she did at least two blatantly illegal things (only one of which I knew about in time):

        1. Punished my daughter for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance. That was decided as her right by SCOTUS in the 1940s.
        2. Told the kids that the 2020 election was a lie and Trump was the real president.

        I wish I had known about the second one during the school year because I read her the riot act on the first one.

        And now she's in online school in the 8th grade. It's a public school, but done online. The teachers are accredited, and they are (overall) decent. It is run by Pearson, the evil company that makes the textbooks most public school kids use, so she's learning from the same source as most kids in the U.S.. Since I'm a "learning coach," meaning I make sure she stays on track, I'm reading what they're teaching her and it's ridiculous.

        Right now she's doing English grammar. Shit that does not matter outside of academic fields like linguistics, things that are not necessary to know for good writing and reading. You don't have to be able to define a participle to know how to read or to write well. And frankly, it's really fucking confusing to the point that I can't follow it sometimes. Even her teacher keeps screwing it up based on what I overhear while she's doing her lessons. What they do teach about composition is insane and stupid. She's supposed to start a formal essay essay with a "hook," which usually ends in a question mark. So an essay on, say, compound interest is supposed to begin with something like, "do you know people can earn interest on the interest they already earn?" rather than a fucking topic sentence. That's supposed to be the second sentence. She actually got marked down for not having a hook and just starting the essay in an adult manner.

        Social studies isn't any better. In fact, it's far worse. They're covering the 19th century right now. First, Washington's entire presidency was one single lesson. Then there was another lesson with 11 very long pages about Marbury vs. Madison (again, mostly an academic topic that Americans only need basic knowledge of). More recently they had four very short pages on the accomplishments of women in the 19th century. Harriet Tubman got two paragraphs.

        On top of it, absolutely nothing in either class has any sort of context she can apply to her own life. Does she want to know how the checks and balances system of the U.S. federal government can affect things she cares about? Too bad, they're just going to tell you what they are and move on with maybe a brief explanation of the background rather than the ultimate results. Does she want to know how to keep paragraphs concise and not use ten words when one will do? Too bad, it's time to learn about gerunds. You know how important it is to know what a gerund is, right? College-level English term papers require you to write detailed explanations of such things what with how essential they are.

        And I won't even get into the bullshit they teach her about drugs in her health class.

  • As an Arab-American myself, I say fuck them. They deserve all the shit that's to come their way. The dude said it loud and clear "let Bibi finish the job". I know the Democrats didn't do shit either, but at least they never said they wanted to deport everyone, which means you'll still have a fucking voice. You can protest them when they're in office. He was very clear with his stance on minorities. Some of them argued with me about "nuclear family and religion" and fucking bullshit. Dumbasses, you don't need Trump to have a nuclear family and have your religion. It just never makes sense to me.

  • German jews who voted for Hitler got concerned soon after the elections too. Many ethnic Germans too, but all they had to do was say "ich hab es nicht gewust" afterwards. The second World War has been so well documented. Yet many still haven't learned anything from history.

  • Some, with faces made of leopard food, considered the slight possibility of maybe one day starting to consider regretting enthusiastic vote for their own faces to be served as main course at leopard dinner...

  • I hope this topic for which numerous articles have been written won't have the knock on effect of a whole population of people being dragged and demonized in public. Certainly has that vibe to me.

    • It would be really awful if Trump voters were dragged and demonized in public.

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