cuttings one's nose off to spite one's fate is a terrible idea. Imagine that.

But of course, they will never actually take responsibility for a shitty decision. People seem allergic to acknowledging they made a mistake.

To forgive anyone who voted for him. I’ll die mad as Stephanie Miller says.

between the kind of person Biden and Harris are, and the kind of person Trump is. It's difficult for me to fathom how anyone can make any kind of moral equivalency.

Biden did not cause the situation that unfolded after October 7th. It was thrust into his lap like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.

And to me, it was always pretty clear that the orchestrated protests naming him Genocide Joe (followed by Killer Kamala) were a way to turn the election. I am sure that plenty of the participants didn't go out to protest just to get Trump elected, but that was a byproduct. It is hard for me to feel a whole lot of sympathy now that the Dearborn community is experiencing some buyer's remorse (though I will try). But I just cannot understand how they couldn't appraise the character difference between Harris and Trump. It's not as if they are marginally different. The gap is wider than the Grand Canyon.

I am from Michigan but live in Seattle now. We had a former city council member named Kshama Sawant who took it upon herself (after creating a fair amount of discord in Seattle and ripping her constituency apart) to go to the Muslim communities in Michigan to ensure that Harris lost. I cannot imagine what really motivated her to do that. It was maddening. She (Sawant) is an educated person. She saw the damage Trump did in his first term. She knew exactly who he was and can't possibly have believed anything he said. Yet she still went out and undermined Harris.

I always believe there are darker forces at work somewhere, but I still don't get the willful misunderstanding.

Many are religious conservatives

Any excuse not to vote for a woman.

in his first term is a special kind of stupid. One shakes one’s head sadly…

after hearing the author David Fromkin on WABC in NY on the "Bachelor and Alexander" show when Fromkin was on a book tour in the early '90s.

That whole mess in that area has been going on for a LONG LONG time - all an artifact of the European colonization, partitioning and breakup of the Ottoman empire and their own colonies around the world after WW1 & WWII.

And sadly what is being described by them is way worse on the continent of Africa.

What they are experiencing is by no means "unique". Most of the Lebanese being attacked are Christians but again, the destructive random borders generated by Europeans (in that case, France) ended up being a flashpoint with the creation of Israel.

Those who have come here to the U.S. need to LISTEN to those who came BEFORE them who TRIED to WARN them of the fickleness of this country. They are lucky that THEIR ANCESTORS didn't come here this way like mine did -

as a Michigander. They overwhelmingly voted for Trumpler and now they're paying a dear price.

because of STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLES like them

There’s not a face to be found.