Are there any anti-Biden headlines you don't share here?
That's not a challenge, that's me noting your single mindedness on this topic. I really don't know what your endgame is here other than a Trump presidency.
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This is news. What are you criticizing him for? That he has to modulate what he posts to conform to what you think is correct?
This little hiccup in Michigan is a foreshadowing of what is about to happen in November and people need to accept that reality fairly quickly. Biden's done for. He is losing 5/6 battleground states he won last time.
My criticism is that's almost all they post.
I stand by the fact that this looks fanatical.
The guy is probably biased against Biden. But I think it's important to have different views in communities like this. If we were to hold the election today, Biden would lose 6~7 times out of 10.
People need to realize this and posting only pro-Biden news (which is very common here) will not properly inform people of the facts on the ground.
Well, 2 out of 117 delegates.
The sentiment is nice, though sadly Palestine loses either way since we can't get a President Uncommitted in the white house who will cut ties with Israel tomorrow.
is it really?
if that's what you need to do to console yourselves after getting shellacked last night, go ahead.
that's 2 delegates out of 117 on offer.
people who are concerned about how biden is handling gaza were always going to be heard because that's how biden rolls. nothing has changed in this regard. and if those are the only 2 delegates who can uncommitted out of almost 2000 who officially vote for the candidate and set the convention schedule it's virtually nothing.
It's almost like complicity in a genocide might potentially be unpopular in some segments of the American public. Crazy.
And yet their response is going to be to help get an actual Nazi dictator (or at least wannabe) elected.
There is NO scenario where this turns out good for them. Do they actually think Trump is going to help their cause? He is more likely to just. give Israel nukes...
In all likelihood, Israel already has nukes so that's pretty much a non-issue. Trump would likely give Israel just as much or more support (the only confounding factor is that he's extremely cheap but US money isn't his own money so this may not be a factor), but when a genocide is occurring and both candidates are pursuing a course of complicity, degrees of complicity approach meaninglessness. Your best bet is to reshuffle the deck in order to get a candidate who won't support genocide. Biden should be primaried, but the DNC functionaries likely won't permit this in practice (of course in theory the primary will proceed, just without party support or acknowledgement), so the sooner he's out of office the sooner he can be replaced by someone who might not be comfortable with complicity in a genocide.
That's nice in theory, but the reality is, regardless of what the main stream media says. Trump is an EXTREME threat to the future of democracy in this country.
This is a fuck around and find out moment. He wins and you won't have a chance to "reshuffle" anything now or in 4 years...
For starters, the democracy that permits a candidate like Trump to end it is perhaps a democracy worth ending, especially if it's a democracy that provides so poorly for its people that they genuinely believe he's worth electing.
Second, I think it's hyperbolic. Even with Jan. 6th, he still came nowhere near the coup that mainstream media made it out to be. The people who entered the capitol weren't hardened rebels or dissidents. There were a few with some means mixed in, but by and large they behaved like tourists, with some acting as vandals, and largely incited (read "entrapped") and monitored by the FBI. This also isn't out of character for the FBI, as it had plenty of Muslims they entrapped in the years following 9/11, including one man who was intellectually disabled.
Third and lastly, obviously the Democratic party doesn't think this is a big emergency, since they've had virtually no reaction to polls indicating Biden's flailing numbers. If they thought this was an emergency then they might do something like encourage primary candidates or for him to step down. If they're so confident Trump isn't getting reelected, then I am too.
I’m genuinely surprised and disgusted by the bloodthirsty warmongering of the majority of elected democrats. I’m a far left Jew, not that that should matter at all, but I feel like a lot of elected officials look to people like me for permission to get all riled up and hungry for genocide. But we as Jews should be the loudest voices in the room calling for a complete and immediate ceasefire and immediate negotiations to get the Palestinians the state they obviously deserve. Because, you know, “never forget”….or some such clearly disingenuous aphorism.
It’s despicable to me that anyone, let alone Jews in Israel and beyond, thinks that what Israel is doing is remotely acceptable. We will never get back the moral high ground.
Part of the problem is the lack of distinction between Zionism and Judaism, and even after that the distinction between forms and levels of Zionism. For instance there's been a lot of Orthodox Jews in and outside of Israel who protest against this conflict for varying reasons, most on a genuine moral basis though some for more mundane religious reasons. This isn't even to mention all the Jewish leftists who protest against the conflict as well solely on humanitarian grounds.
Unfortunately what doesn't get covered by the Neoliberal and Corporate (read: Moderate Fascist) media is all the suppression of these protests, especially within Israel by the Fascist Likud party-led government. Haaretz will occasionally do some real reporting and cover this kind of stuff from inside Israel but most Israeli left voices are strongly suppressed within Israel itself, and leftist parties are pushed to the margins of the Knesset. Because of this marginalization, the loudest anti-war Jewish voices come from outside Israel itself, where they have no direct influence over it, but at least are less likely to be jailed for their protests.
It's fine to want your elected representatives to be good people. But I wouldn't count on any politician at that level