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Why is Congress just now standing up to Israel? Oh yeah, we know why. (see below)

It's ONLY because Trump's in the White House. Do you want proof?

OK.

Your liberal selective outrage (is there any other kind?) is pure
hypocritical theater. I never heard any of you whine and complain when Obama was president and giving Israel the most money of any president or Congress.

If you're going to condemn the 2026 aid package, you need to condemn every Democrat-led Congress on this list that spent the last 80 years building the very foundation you're now whining about.

Historical Record: Israel Aid Under Democrat-Led Congress & White House

(Included... when Democrats maintained the Senate majority)

I have updated the list to include all years where Democrats held a majority in at least one chamber of Congress (House or Senate), regardless of the President's party. This adds the Eisenhower years (where Democrats held Congress for most of his term) and the Republican President years (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and both Bushes) where Democrats held the "purse strings" in
the House or Senate.

Democrat-majority Congresses, which DID vote to give Israel aid.

1. Harry S. Truman
House and Senate: Democrat
1949: $100.0 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1950: $0.1 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1951: $35.1 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1952: $86.4 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)


2. Dwight D. Eisenhower
House and Senate: Democrat
1955: $52.2 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1956: $50.8 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1957: $40.8 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1958: $71.5 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1959: $53.3 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1960: $51.7 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)


3. John F. Kennedy
House and Senate: Democrat
1961: $110.1 Million | Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
1962: $93.0 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1963: $102.7 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)


4. Lyndon B. Johnson
House and Senate: Democrat
1964: $39.5 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1965: $73.3 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1966: $124.7 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1967: $30.7 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1968: $106.5 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)


5. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
House and Senate: Democrat
1969: $160.3 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1970: $93.6 Million | Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
1971: $634.3 Million | Speaker: Carl Albert (D)
1972: $430.9 Million | Speaker: Carl Albert (D)
1973: $493.4 Million | Speaker: Carl Albert (D)
1974: $2.62 Billion | Speaker: Carl Albert (D)
1975: $692.8 Million | Speaker: Carl Albert (D)
1976: $2.36 Billion | Speaker: Carl Albert (D)


6. Jimmy Carter
House and Senate: Democrat
1977: $1.76 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1978: $1.79 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1979: $4.85 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1980: $2.11 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)


7. Ronald Reagan
House: Democrat (Entire Term)
1981: $2.38 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1982: $2.26 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1983: $2.50 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1984: $2.63 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1985: $3.37 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1986: $3.64 Billion | Speaker: Tip O'Neill (D)
1987: $3.02 Billion | Speaker: Jim Wright (D)
1988: $3.04 Billion | Speaker: Jim Wright (D)


8. George H.W. Bush
House and Senate: Democrat
1989: $3.04 Billion | Speaker: Jim Wright (D) & Tom Foley (D)
1990: $3.03 Billion | Speaker: Tom Foley (D)
1991: $3.71 Billion | Speaker: Tom Foley (D)
1992: $3.12 Billion | Speaker: Tom Foley (D)


9. Bill Clinton
House and Senate: Democrat (1993-1994)
1993: $3.10 Billion | Speaker: Tom Foley (D)
1994: $3.10 Billion | Speaker: Tom Foley (D)


10. George W. Bush
House and Senate: Democrat (2007-2008)
2007: $2.50 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)
2008: $2.42 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)


11. Barack Obama
House and Senate: Democrat (2009-2010) / Senate: Democrat (2011-2014)
2009: $2.55 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)
2010: $2.80 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)
2011: $3.02 Billion | Speaker: John Boehner (R)
2012: $3.10 Billion | Speaker: John Boehner (R)
2013: $3.15 Billion | Speaker: John Boehner (R)
2014: $3.61 Billion | Speaker: John Boehner (R)


12. Donald Trump
House: Democrat (2019-2020)
2019: $3.80 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)
2020: $3.80 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)


13. Joe Biden
House and Senate: Democrat (2021-2022) - Senate: Democrat (2023-2024)
2021: $3.31 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)
2022: $3.31 Billion | Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D)
2023: $3.31 Billion | Speaker: Kevin McCarthy (R)
2024: $3.80 Billion | Speaker: Mike Johnson (R)

Which administration gave the most?

1. Barack Obama (D)
Total: ~$27.7 Billion (Directly provided) + $38 Billion (Guaranteed Pledge) Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (2009-2010), Mixed/GOP (2011-2017)
The Record: The highest-ranking contributor in history. Beyond annual aid, he provided over $3B for the Iron Dome and signed the 2016 MOU, legally committing the U.S. to $38 billion through 2028.


2. Ronald Reagan (R)
Total: ~$23.64 Billion
Status: Republican President | House: Democrat (Entire Term)


3. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (R)
Total: ~$18.23 Billion
Status: Republican Presidents | House/Senate: Democrat (Entire Term)


4. Joe Biden (D)
Total: ~$13.73 Billion
Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (2021-2022), Senate: Democrat (2023-2024)
The Record: Biden maintained the record-high $3.8 billion annual baseline and added massive supplemental packages in 2024 for advanced air defense.


5. George W. Bush (R)
Total: ~$11.85 Billion
Status: Republican President | House/Senate: Democrat (2007-2008)


6. Jimmy Carter (D)
Total: ~$10.51 Billion
Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (Entire Term)

The Record: Authorized the $4.85 Billion package in 1979-the largest single- year aid total at the time-to fund the Israeli military's relocation from the Sinai.


7. George H.W. Bush (R)
Total: ~$9.20 Billion
Status: Republican President | House/Senate: Democrat (Entire Term)


8. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
Total: ~$834 Million
Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (Entire Term)
The Record: The first president to sell "offensive" weapons (tanks and jets) to Israel. Prior to this, aid was mostly food and infrastructure loans.


9. Bill Clinton (D)
Total: ~$6.20 Billion (During Democrat-led Congress years 1993-1994)
Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (1993-1994)
The Record: Signed the first 10-year MOU, which began the process of phasing out economic aid in favor of permanent military grants.


10. Donald Trump (R)
Total: ~$3.80 Billion (During Democrat-led House years 2019-2020)
Status: Republican President | House: Democrat (2019-2020)
The Record: Oversaw the initial implementation of the OBAMA-SIGNED $38B MOU while working with a Democrat-led House.


11. John F. Kennedy (D)
Total: ~$305 Million
Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (Entire Term)
The Record: Kennedy broke the long-standing arms embargo and authorized the first major missile sale (Hawk missiles) to Israel.

12. Harry S. Truman (D)
Total: ~$221 Million
Status: Democrat President | House/Senate: Democrat (1949-1952)
The Record: Provided the very first $100 million loan to help the new nation survive its first year of independence.


13. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Total: ~$220 Million (During Democrat-led Congress years 1955-1960)
Status: Republican President | House/Senate: Democrat (1955-1960)

The Record: The most conservative with aid, focusing primarily on food and economic development rather than military hardware.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy
from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDS'ers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late- night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."
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