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I'm pretty sure Hamas believes there are only two genders. That probably applies to the entire Muslim world. So that puts you in a difficult spot. It sounds like you are totally on board with the infinite genders crowd and also in agreement with the 'chopping off' surgeries for children, which would put you totally at odds with Islam. That must be quite an internal conflict with leftists. Pro-trans, lgbtq+++ agenda, but you can't appear to be Islamophobic at the same time.

No surprise that USAID also gave a lot of aid to Gaza and the West Bank. (Obviously, much of that aid would have enriched Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, as well as being used to procure weapons) USAID has been a major funder of support for Palestinians in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank. In a November news release, the agency said it had invested over $600 million in economic support funding for Palestinians since 2021. This was in addition to over $1.2 billion dedicated to humanitarian assistance for Palestinians since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched multipronged attacks on Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostage, marking a major escalation in the conflict. So with DOGE, now it's possible that Trump and Elon will be cutting off an important revenue stream for these terrorist entities.🙂 great news.

I'm very pro-Israel and I think the IDF has done a fantastic job in Gaza. How about you?

A racist, criminal, settler colonialist country that happens to have a population that is 20% Arab?

You haven't read everything I've posted on here and I wouldn't expect you to and the same goes for me reading everyone else's posts. I can assure you I despise Hamas to the core. I oppose their cause completely and I would like to see them crushed.

You can't answer my question either huh?

Why didn't they try that kind of opera in Gaza? They are pretty tolerant over there....aren't they?

Let's just pick one. Explain how the US benefits from a "transgender opera" in Columbia? What would be the reasoning behind that?

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities” $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria” Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban These are some of the things USAID was paying for with taxpayer dollars. This is not to suggest that USAID did not do some good things, but how can anyone defend the kinds of things listed above?

If I see that a product that I need is made in Israel, that makes me even more inclined to buy it.😉

Common sense vs leftist ideology. I'll take common sense. Carney won't be any different from Trudeau.

Over many decades, billions of dollars in aid has gone to sub-Saharan Africa, primarily from Western nations. It is fair to ask why all those countries still seem to be always lagging behind the rest of the world. Where did all that money go? Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former military ruler, was a billionaire - and not in naira, but in dollars. Upon his death in 1998, the Nigerian government uncovered over $3 billion linked to the sadistic despot held in personal and proxy bank accounts in tax havens as diverse as Switzerland, Luxembourg, Jersey and Liechtenstein. Following a series of negotiations between the Nigerian government and the Abacha family, Abacha’s first son, Mohammed eventually returned $1.2 billion to the Nigerian government in 2002. Another theoretical billionaire was Mobutu Sese Seko, the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over his 30-year reign as ruler of the resource-rich Central African country, Sese Seko amassed a personal fortune estimated by various sources (including Transparency International) at somewhere between $1 billion and $5 billion. Experts believe virtually all of it was illicitly acquired from the nation’s coffers and stashed away in Swiss banks. While his reign lasted, Sese Seko earned an international notoriety as a poster boy for the excesses of typical African despots. He owned a string of exotic Mercedes cars and divided his time between plush palatial residences in Paris and Lausanne, Switzerland. He also developed a special taste for pink Champagne and flew in fresh cakes from Paris for his consumption. But one of the wealthiest, albeit lesser-talked about African leaders to emerge from Africa is Nigeria’s former military president, Ibrahim Babangida. The gap-toothed military general and self-acclaimed “Evil genius” is unofficially one of the richest men in Nigeria and in Africa. The 70 year-old former military ruler governed Nigeria from 1985 to 1993 and is widely believed to have laundered some $12 billion earned from an oil windfall during the 1992 Gulf War.

It doesn't look like anything will change within the Democrat party anytime soon. I can't decide if the stuff in the link below is simply pathetic or simply hilarious. Perhaps both.

If they(Biden/Harris) didn't give Ukraine everything they promised, is that not also kind of leaving Ukraine hanging? Just as you guys are accusing Trump of doing? I'm of the opinion that the best option is to end this war asap and neither Russia or Ukraine will end up getting what they want, but the slaughter should end.

Ok, so you clearly didn't watch the link I posted above. I get it. Tens of billions sent to Ukraine unaccounted for might not reflect well on the Democrats that sent all that money there. Better to not ask questions. 🤫

I'm just listening to what the source (president Zelensky....of Ukraine!) is saying. One would think that the man that has gone cap in hand to many nations begging for aid should be keeping a close eye on where this money is going. But he publicly states he has no idea. 'How do you know it went anywhere?' Well it must have gone somewhere. And Zelensky is unable to account for more than half the aid, 58% to be more precise. It's Zelensky who is saying this! President of Ukraine. Surely you have heard of him?

This topic is about abandoning Ukraine so I think this is an appropriate place to discuss tens of billions in missing aid money that supposedly went to that country. Once again, specifically...billions in Ukraine aid money....unaccounted for. You're not even curious in the slightest about this?

And we all know how that went don't we? No comment on all that missing aid money designated for Ukraine? Are you not interested in that?

Back to Ukraine. The Biden/Harris administration did send an enormous amount of aid to Ukraine, but as it turns out, a lot of it cannot be accounted for. Who is saying that? Volodymyr Zelensky. It seems that certain people may have become fabulously wealthy from all this aid that may not have had enough strings attached.

Now just who was in charge when the US withdrew from Afghanistan?

Afghanistan?

They just picked one David Hogg to become DNC Vice Chair. Yes, the camera seeking anti-2nd amendment social media activist.

This is what Trump wanted from Canada, more action on securing the border. You guys are bragging that big bad bully Trump backed down but conveniently left out why he is putting a hold on these tariffs.

And the same could be said of Joe Biden. Americans were led to believe they were getting 'the steady, experienced hand at the wheel' kind of leadership. What they got was someone who was clearly not up to the job, not in charge and the most far-left agenda of any administration in history. The election results showed most Americans were not on board with another four years of the same.