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(90,700 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:33 PM 12 hrs ago

Chris Murphy: 'I have news for you - we aren't taking over Gaza.'

Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT 30m
I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza.

But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.





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Chris Murphy: 'I have news for you - we aren't taking over Gaza.' (Original Post) bigtree 12 hrs ago OP
Yup senseandsensibility 12 hrs ago #1
Trump's dementia is getting bad. gab13by13 12 hrs ago #2
Quite the opposite. This is exactly the kind of thinking Bluetus 9 hrs ago #21
Maybe he'll just fucking die already Orrex 9 hrs ago #24
It's been twelve fucking years since the golden escalator. Aristus 9 hrs ago #32
That's my fear, that he'll go the Kissinger route. Orrex 8 hrs ago #33
Also a distraction from the confirmation hearings of these unqualified horrendous nominees. nature-lover 12 hrs ago #3
That may be a good thing. Amaryllis 12 hrs ago #4
What a truly fine example of a human being and leader he is. Biophilic 12 hrs ago #5
Murphy would make a good president. gab13by13 12 hrs ago #6
Murphy is one of my favorite Senators. yellow dahlia 12 hrs ago #8
I just said the same thing. yellow dahlia 12 hrs ago #7
Yep leighbythesea2 11 hrs ago #9
Yes the FOCUS NEEDS TO BE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR GOVERNMENT Meowmee 11 hrs ago #10
Absolutely! A very calculated distraction. summer_in_TX 10 hrs ago #16
Probably a just a distraction OrangeJoe 11 hrs ago #11
That's really all this shit is. Mr. Evil 11 hrs ago #12
Everything is... littlemissmartypants 11 hrs ago #13
The grocery and gas prices.... Klarkashton 10 hrs ago #14
Cadet Bonespur's fantasies Skittles 10 hrs ago #15
Heather Cox Richardson's Sunday video is a must-watch. summer_in_TX 10 hrs ago #17
Her video today was just as informative LittleGirl 10 hrs ago #18
Thank you! summer_in_TX 9 hrs ago #31
I'm sorry LittleGirl 10 hrs ago #19
Is there a single place in the world that he doesn't want to destroy and/or invade? Dave Bowman 10 hrs ago #20
The Arab World will be on fire.🔥 James48 9 hrs ago #22
Terrorists probably already moondust 9 hrs ago #27
TSF's son-in-law Jared "The Mannequin" Kushner Seinan Sensei 9 hrs ago #23
It's a textbook example of Steven Bannon's strategy to AdamGG 9 hrs ago #25
Upon formal annexation the people of Gaza would become subjects of the US LS0999 9 hrs ago #26
He didn't say anything about formal annexation, though he did say "own it" Renew Deal 9 hrs ago #28
Gaza, Greenland, Panama. It's always something. Sneederbunk 9 hrs ago #29
Look over there while I steal your wallet and watch. NoMoreRepugs 9 hrs ago #30

Bluetus

(515 posts)
21. Quite the opposite. This is exactly the kind of thinking
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:09 PM
9 hrs ago

Trump has ALWAYS had. He has always been a lawless bully with no regard to laws, customs, or norms. He's almost 80 and it has worked for him his entire life.

Aristus

(68,937 posts)
32. It's been twelve fucking years since the golden escalator.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:56 PM
9 hrs ago

We’re still waiting. That motherfucker is going to live forever.

nature-lover

(1,745 posts)
3. Also a distraction from the confirmation hearings of these unqualified horrendous nominees.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:36 PM
12 hrs ago

yellow dahlia

(1,015 posts)
8. Murphy is one of my favorite Senators.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:59 PM
12 hrs ago

He has been bringing a genuine voice to the events of recent months.

yellow dahlia

(1,015 posts)
7. I just said the same thing.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:57 PM
12 hrs ago

This is a distraction from the take over of the government. It is the grifter's MO - look over here...smoke and mirrors...the shell game.

Meowmee

(6,806 posts)
10. Yes the FOCUS NEEDS TO BE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR GOVERNMENT
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:30 PM
11 hrs ago

Sorry for the caps... but this is urgent.

OrangeJoe

(460 posts)
11. Probably a just a distraction
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:39 PM
11 hrs ago

If dip shit is serious about this and not just doing a carney “Rubes look over there” routine he’s going to have to work hard to sell it.

Over on Breitbart, where I occasionally lurk and troll when I get bored, the right wingers are not down with this latest idiotic idea. While the editor of Breitbart is a full blown Zionist racist, many, many readers are more garden variety anti-Semite’s and isolationists. They are not happy at all and some even have the geopolitical sense to predict one, two, many 9/11s if we get further involved over there.

littlemissmartypants

(26,440 posts)
13. Everything is...
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:56 PM
11 hrs ago

A fu>king distraction with him.

Listening to him is equal to watching someone squirt diarrhea into the air in front of a crowd that is totally dumbfounded and covered in it.

It's a complete waste of time and intelligence.

He's a compulsive liar.

Why can't people grasp that?

Skittles

(161,403 posts)
15. Cadet Bonespur's fantasies
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:34 PM
10 hrs ago

YOU FUCKING IDIOTS WHO VOTED FOR THIS POS, FUCK YOU, YOU DISGRACED AMERICA

summer_in_TX

(3,415 posts)
17. Heather Cox Richardson's Sunday video is a must-watch.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:49 PM
10 hrs ago

In her Politics Chat: February 2, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson focused and explains exactly what Elon is doing. She says there's a possibility of stopping it. But we have maybe 3-4 weeks at most.

We are in a constitutional crisis.

LittleGirl

(8,539 posts)
18. Her video today was just as informative
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:53 PM
10 hrs ago

Feb 4, 2025. One hour length.

Must watch video. (No link, sorry)

summer_in_TX

(3,415 posts)
31. Thank you!
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:48 PM
9 hrs ago

It takes longer to process and upload an hour video, I guess. I'll look for it tomorrow.

LittleGirl

(8,539 posts)
19. I'm sorry
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:56 PM
10 hrs ago

I cannot and will not listen to the orange clown, twitter person and Bibi. Both of these mass murders should be in jail and not having a press conference about how they are going to solve the problems they created.

Just another distraction to the coup that is happening with Musk having access to ALL OF OUR DATA. Our DATA Privacy is gone. Done. Never to be had again. THAT IS A FUCKING TRAVESTY. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE AREN'T IN THE STREETS!

Seinan Sensei

(811 posts)
23. TSF's son-in-law Jared "The Mannequin" Kushner
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:10 PM
9 hrs ago

sees Gaza as valuable Waterfront Property, ripe for development, “and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it ‘cleans up’ the strip”

(3/19/24 The Guardian)

LS0999

(12 posts)
26. Upon formal annexation the people of Gaza would become subjects of the US
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:11 PM
9 hrs ago

Which means they would gain constitutional rights as citizens of the United States. Annexation doesn't mean only the land that, means the people as well. If Gaza is too unsafe for them to go back to then they could resettle anywhere in the US mainland. I wonder how that will go over with their MAGA base. Is this just a distraction from Elon's looting of the Treasury? Doesn't even make sense.

Renew Deal

(83,443 posts)
28. He didn't say anything about formal annexation, though he did say "own it"
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:23 PM
9 hrs ago

But I take that as Trump-speak for pacifying it. Trump and his lackeys have no intention of moving non-white people to the US.

He wants to own Canada and Greenland, but not Mexico.

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