The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning to send Israel more than $6.5 billion of weapons aid that included Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing a congressional review process.

The packages of four weapons systems had been under review for months by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The State Department is supposed to wait for approval from the top two members on each of those committees before announcing the aid. But in this case, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio circumvented that norm.

It was the third time that the Trump administration has bypassed this part of the congressional process, called informal review, to send weapons to Israel.

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    Remember when Republicans were screeching about Biden giving away ‘too much taxpayer dollars’ to Ukraine?

    …crickets now.

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    Thank dog we torpedoed Kamala for her genosidal transphoblic failure to support the proletariate

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      Kamala lost fair and square. She was a shitty candidate who ran a shitty campaign. Supposing that Arabs and tankies are what lost her the election, well, perhaps she should have tried to win them over? Perhaps she could have promised to stop supporting the mass slaughter, for instance, but I guess unconditional support for Israel was more important than keeping Trump out of the White House!

      And yet, despite the total failure of the Democrats to stop Trump, you still cling to them. “If only those damn Arabs had voted for us! So what if we’re killing their families?” “Tankies torpedoed Kamala for not being the perfect candidate!” Pathetic! You should own your failure - the Democrats failed you, and you failed yourselves and everyone else for not demanding more from them. You could have used this to grow as a person, morally and intellectually. Instead, you just fall back on scolding like in 2016. You’ll never learn a thing.

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      100% this.

      It feels like we have about an average of about 4 headlines per day in which the tankies and the reactionary centrists are exposed as the frauds or the useful idiots that they are…

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      Biden did it too and kamala would have done it too. Get lost you hypocrite

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            If it means a a free Palestine under Hamas rule, or Israel and women LGBTQ having rights I guess I’m aa pro Israel cuck. I hate all religion I just hate the extremists Fascist clowns like yourself more. Women have a right to their bodies. Did that make you cry bitch?

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              I mean Palestinians has the right to kill idf terrorists committing genocide You defend one of the two scums who is giving billions to Israel so you are again exposing your hypocrisy and that money is used to keep the women you pretend to defend. Fuck you and your whole family nazi

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                I didnt help install Trump Nazi. You did.

                Imagine thinking harris and trump are the same? LMAO now I know you are fucking retarded and I’m wasting my time arguing with a religious Nazi with an IQ of 0.

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                  I didnt help install Trump Nazi. You did.

                  It is you who helped installing the nazi trump

                  Imagine thinking harris and trump are the same? LMAO now I know you are fucking retarded and I’m wasting my time arguing with a religious Nazi with an IQ of 0.

                  I never said that harris is worse or the same as trump , you are the retard. The nazi is you, you admitted that you wanted the gestapo to kidnapp me , you can’t afford to condemn harris agreeing with the new hitler about the plan to exterminate Palestine. Fuck you and your whole family

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          Fuck you and your whole family. I do not support war criminals no matter where they come from including genocide trump and genocide joe. Go organize an orgy between your family and biden family, you piece of trash .

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            For not supporting a war criminal you surprisingly did more than nothing to get the worst of them in power. It’s almost like you care about identity politics more than actual real life outcomes for people you supposedly care about

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            No fuck you. Palestinian protest voters like you are the reaspn Trump is in office a second time. What’s wrong clown? Things not better for the people of Gaza under the antichrist that you helped put on power by not voting?

            Personally I don’t give two fucks about the middle east. I hate that Gaza children are being murdered, I very much want all funding to Israel reduced to 0. But when it comes to women and LGBTQ rights being pro Palestine while Hamas is in charge is being about as dumb as you are.

            But you probably don’t care about those rights anyway do you. So in my eyes, you are a right wing theocrat of a different made up religion

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              Fuck you. I never supporter Trump and never asked anybody to vote for him and I said multiple time that he is a genocide supporter while you support one of the two war criminal and genocidal enabler

              Personally I don’t give two fucks about the middle east.

              So fuck off, scum. As a decent human being I do not want any harm for Americans despite not being American and thinking that they do not know what is good for them.

              I hate that Gaza children are being murdered

              You support one of the two war criminals while I support neither so you just a liar and a hypocrite . You clearly love seeing them murdered

              So in my eyes, you are a right wing theocrat of a different made up religion

              I don’t gives a damn of your trashy opinion about me. If you defend trump or biden or harris gaza policies than you are a nazi to me

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    Isn’t this just one more impeachable offence? Why am I typing this. We all know it is but yet here we are.

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      Republicans have decided they don’t care if the President overstep his authority anymore, as long as it hurts people they hate. A category which includes Palestinians, I guess.

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        Nah, they don’t care if Palestinians get hurt. They do however care if the land special to their cult is favored above all because that’s what the man baby in the sky would want. So they send everything to Israel in the hopes that man baby in the sky will choose them as special people too

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          You never cared about palestinians. You know very well that every single goddamn president gave billions to israel , you know very well that Harris would have let israel exterminating Gaza. I don’t think you ever condemned israel war crimes either

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            6.5 billion vs 147 million. While both are bad, one is undeniably worse. 44 times worse to be precise. An analogy for the whole last presidential race

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              It is as bad with Biden and would have been as bad Harris. All three of them are war criminals that should be in jail

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      I don’t remember you asking Biden to be impeached for the same action but yeah it should be a good reason to impeache

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        I feel Congress is more the bread part. If you don’t have money, they’ll let you live. But just barely. Don’t want the slaves getting too comfortable.

        The circus is 'ol “grab 'em by the neck pussy” Drumpf.

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          Republicans made Congress a distraction. Democrats let it happen.

          Once people figure out politics is just business then the perspective changes. It’s just that people like distractions more than paying attention. See Fox News Propaganda for a great example of both.

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      I’m sure he’ll 5-head chess this into a “Aha! I meant to do that, because now we don’t have to talk about it anymore and we can concentrate on the important stuff!” speech immediately followed by caving to literally the first R demand.

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    Either Congress fix this by taking action against this administration, or just scrap it altogether and fire all of them.

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    And the rampage to destroy a superpower goes on. Trump is not a very good president but he is a good and loyal friend to “others”.