USA 2024 presidential election

I feel like you are projecting your own beliefs here.

Any Arab Americans that I heard being interviewed were furious about the Biden Administration's attitude to the suffering of the Palestinians and were angry with Harris for not allowing any Palestinian to speak at the DNC.

This American Life dedicated an episode (link below) to this about 6 weeks ago. It was around an Arabic guy who was an operative in the Democratic party. He was both trying to convince his friends, family and community (in Michigan) to vote for Harris while also desperately trying to get the Harris campaign to allow a Palestinian speaker at the DNC.

Ultimately he failed at both tasks. He couldn't even convince his own father to vote for the Democrats. His father's attitude was "Why should I stand with the Democrats when they won't stand with my people?".

He held a public meeting with his community try to convince them. There was a lot of push back. Some people wanted to vote for Jill Stein. Others planned on not voting. One guy said he'd vote for Trump as Trump had stated that he would bring peace to the middle east and he wanted to believe him.

Indeed-a wide range:from racists to misogynists to conspiraloons to anti-vaxxers to tech bros drooling over crypto to anti-semites to woman-haters to gun lovers to prosperity gospellers, evangelicals and end-of-days nuts that only care about Israel to climate deniers to Wall streeters looking for tax breaks to born-again confederates to mexican haters to Arab/Moslem haters to people that love to see trash getting one over on somebody to perverts to secret and not-so-secret 'strongman' lovers to people that don't care if the world burns if the price of petrol goes down. A broad coalition to be sure.

The genocide in Palestinian is not small scale. it is one of the greatest blights on humanity since WW2

After Trump picked Gaetz for AG it was clear that basic competency or even any qualifications were required for a role. I therefore suspected that RFK Jr was going to get a job. Still pretty shocking to see it actually happen though. Those two picks have completely overshadowed the Tulsi Gabbard pick - a literal Putin and Assad apologist.

I'd never even heard of his pick for Defence Secretary before but now that I have and seen his history that's also a joke pick.

Trump is basically taking the Boris Johnson attitude of prizing loyalty above all else but he's turning the dial all the way up.

Seems like he's likely to try some chicanery around forcing a recess of Congress in order to get all these clowns appointed.

2025 is going to be fascinating…

Not so much in scale as in the sheer destructive power visited upon a limited, overcrowded area with an utterly callous disregard for the civilian toll. It reminds me of the title of an unrelated book ''Hell in a very small place''. Te reiterate my point, are Arab Americans comfortable with this, conservative or not? Are they agreeable with the deaths of a score or scores of lebanese or Gazan civilians in exchange for, say, the killing of one or two Hezbollah or Hamas operatives?

If they do that it would very much fit the current authoritarian profile of the Republican party.

Trump has picked Howard Lutnick to lead his trade and tariff strategy.

Lutnick has certainly changed his tune on Ireland and is now gunning for us.

"It's nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense. We don’t make anything here any more".

Here is what he said just 11 years ago about Ireland.

Howard Lutnick; "Irish Government Is Focused On Bringing Jobs To Ireland" - YouTube

He needs to stop looking for scapegoats and focus on the USA's main problem. Skilled workers there don't get out of bed for less than $50 an hour.