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Oh my God, he has donors who share similar beliefs and desires???!!!! Burn him! Welcome to America dude, where politics is an extremely expensive endeavor and donors are the only way you’re getting anywhere beyond the school board. Did you listen to Rowe’s podcast? I haven’t, but I will.

Back to the thread topic: Listen to Mike Rowe interview JD Vance. Politics aside, I genuinely hope we get a man like Vance as our next president. A sincere, humble, honest, blue collar, military vet, entrepreneur of a man with a young family who actually represents the majority of America. It would be so refreshing to have a leader who's not putting on a narcissistic front, and is simply trying to do the best they can for the country and people they love. https://mikerowe.com/podcast/

For the millionth time it isn’t about “the Jews.” It is about the government of Israel and every time you guys falsely accuse people of racism you dig the hole even deeper for yourselves. But by all means continue and let’s see how far public sentiment for Israel can crater, I doubt we’ve found the bottom yet. Just keep shouting “anti semite” like the right wing doppelgänger of a blue haired smith college student and then ponder, along with the great mysteries of the universe, why your arguments keep losing traction. I have an issue with a government. A foreign government that we give a shit ton of money to. Not a people, not a race, not an ethnic group. Full stop. My claim the government of Israel has outsized influence on our politics is based on: AIPAC not being registered as a foreign lobby, and yes being extremely influential and powerful despite there being a handful of domestic lobbying groups that are bigger Netanyahu visiting DC more than any other head of state in recent years especially in the lead up to the war Sitting US senators quoted as saying the main reason they ran for office is to be a defender of Israel Batshit dispensationalist Christians who believe it is their religious duty to support a foreign government Israel being the largest recipient of US foreign aid since its founding The legislation CURRENTLY being pushed to merge some of the US and Israeli government defense functions The fact that we have attempted to or have toppled the governments of all 7 countries listed in the Israeli clean break strategy That our welfare baby country actively defies us and sabotages our negotiations on a routine basis Campaign donations to Trump in the hundreds of millions from the Adelsons motivated entirely by Israel support (Trump admitted they won’t leave him alone about it) The sitting US ambassador to Israel endorsing the greater Israel project But yeah since the AARP is bigger than one pro Israel lobbying group probably I’m a racist and it’s all just a conspiracy. PS. Saw we’re back to bombing as of last night. I’m sure this one will do the trick

They're not a foreign lobby you walnut. Thomas Jefferson was so livid about the US failing to support the French against the British, he resigned. Was Thomas Jefferson secretly a French lobbyist? Americans are allowed to have foreign policy views. And they're allowed to donate and vote based on them. That doesn't make them puppets of a foreign government.

Your entire rant is batshit crazy, but I’ll call these couple out: As one example, Ukraine received 3-5x the foreign aid as Israel for multiple years. Your statement is 100% false. Even in 2021 (pre-UKR and Biden as POTUS) Israel received 4.5% of our foreign aid…man, that’s a scary big number, the Israeli government clearly has a controlling stake in our politics! Also, it’s almost like we give foreign aid to countries at specific times to drive outcomes we want. Crazy mind blowing, amirite! AIPAC is not a foreign group based on FARA (1938), which clearly states groups will only register as foreign agents if they are “controlled, directed, or funded by foreign governments or political parties.” None of those apply to AIPAC, except in your progressive conspiracy mind. How are you measuring your “extremely powerful” statement? AIPAC made up about 2% of the lobbying financial efforts in 2024. If we’re measuring by direct donations to candidates, they are so far down the list it’s laughable you’d even bring it up. If we’re going purely by PAC/SPAC, they’re not in the top 5, and I’m being generous by including all of the “sub-PACs/AIPAC-adjacent”in that assessment. In conclusion, a picture is worth a 1000 words, so if you could look in a mirror, here’s what’d you see:

Vance is deep into the pockets of billionaires. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/07/16/jd-vance-and-peter-thiel-what-to-know-about-the-relationship-between-trumps-vp-pick-and-the-billionaire/

Sure wish there was a difference anymore.

Reading that Belgium is upset and stomping their feet is a form of the soccer flop. They know good and well the Balogun call was piss poor. And I kinda agree with them that Trump should have stayed out it, phone call and all, and just stuck to mean tweeting. In honor of the flop, here is a good one.

Or....agree to multiple deal and violate all of them - The lies began when Iran’s nuclear weapons program was first exposed. In 2002, an Iranian opposition group reported that Iran had built secret enrichment and heavy water production facilities in violation of treaty commitments. Following extensive diplomacy, Iran signed on to the Tehran Declaration in October 2003, agreeing to “suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.” However, in August 2005, Iran resumed its enrichment activities. This led to diplomatic action that resulted in a series of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions imposed on Iran starting with resolution 1696 in July 2006. Iran’s continued defiance of its pledge to halt enrichment led to a series of resolutions including 1737, 1747, 1803, 1835, and 1929. The consequences included monetary sanctions, import and export weapons embargoes, a travel ban on Iranian officials for their support of terror and other proscribed activities, and a ban of the development of ballistic missiles. (Iran often defied these penalties.) Everyone wants to hang their hats on JCPOA and turn a blind eye to them violating Security Council Resolution 2231 which endorsed JCPOA but limited their ballistic missile program....clearly they violated that (see Ballistic missiles shot at Diego Garcia). If that is not enough how about all the continued funding to Hamas and Hezzbolah...How many Americans have to die from Irans actions before it matters? Do any of you guys actually spend time in the vault?