To the “lets not vote” crowd because Biden didn’t do something or other, this will be your congratulations.
There won’t be a Gaza to level by the time the next term starts. “Uninstructed” and similar campaigns are trying to get Biden to influence his policies now, not make a statement about which man will be better in the next genocide.
There’s been a Gaza for decades, it’s not going to stop just because the genocidal Bibi tries to, even if it is being turned into rubble. The primary uncommited campaign is good, and I support it, but people saying that they’re gonna vote for Trump over Biden / that they’ll abstain entirely are just not going to help either present or future atrocities — wiping your hand clean doesn’t save lives.
Saying they won’t vote for Biden is the only leverage they have to exercise to prompt policy changes. “Uncommitted” scoring big in Michigan was effectively the first time Biden even started to pay attention to anti-genocide voters. Again, the goal is to make Biden change his stance so that he wins the election. Threatening his election is the leverage, not the end goal.
Yes, but it only works so much as that leverage exists. When the alternative is Trump, that leverage isn’t gonna be realistically useable come November — and there are definitely folks who don’t just say they won’t vote for Biden over this issue (which is imo good, since that’s the whole point of a democracy). I just worry that this strategy actually does extend to the general election and make even more people suffer even more… IMO, focus should be on bottom up — specifically the legislative branch, where there’s quite a few especially in the House where a primary campaign could do well and force the issue at hand.
Trump is an enormous amount of leverage. Biden basically has to adapt if he cares about stopping Trump.
The ones that will suffer most under Trump are the ones threatening to get him elected. The Dems know this. If anything, that’s leverage Biden has and is using, unfortunately.
Leverage against who?
At the end of the day though we just have to see whether current strategy works out come election day, I feel. Or if/when, God willing, a peace is attained.
That voters are a single unit that will in the end have to choose between Trump and Biden is a false assumption, because people aren’t objective robots and the representatives you see online or leading campaigns are just the tip of the iceberg. Many Muslim voters aren’t going to stay home because they don’t think there’s a difference between Trump and Biden, they’ll stay home because they’re mad as hell and maybe voting wasn’t that essential to them in the first place. The people speaking out, and the political junkies online, are probably all going to end up voting for Biden (at least in states where voting for president matters), but they’re in tune with and representing sentiment for voters within their communities that aren’t reachable by a cold argument about relative value.
The Democratic party can’t berate voters into supporting them, they need to actually do things that make them believe in them. There are too many out there for whom politics is a vibes thing and who will never have a direct conversation with a political advocate to tell them about strategic voting for lesser evils. Biden could lose because of Gaza, but that’s not because some politically active people organized a opposition campaign. The voters he’s losing are being lost because he’s adamantly rejecting the position of the majority of his party while genocide and starving children are playing on the nightly news. That doesn’t go away if all these advocates just pretend it’s not happening. They’re putting a spotlight on the danger, not causing it.
Trying to make this an election issue is moronic. Neither side is with Gaza, making his a moot point. Not to mention this is an election for the American presidency, not for president of Earth and Gaza. Deal with this outside of the election, through Congress and the Senate, but to make this an election issue only helps Trump and will hurt Gaza in the long run
Ah, the genocide-apologia account pops in with the clarion call of “protest some other time in some other place in a way that doesn’t impact the target of your protest”. And we’ve all seen your posts. We know sure as shit you don’t give a fuck about “helping Gaza in the long run”.
This isn’t an election issue, this is a “right now” issue with a warning for danger in the election if he continues. Biden not changing his tack is what helps Trump. He’s the active party in all this. The campaign didn’t “make it an election issue”, they’re just trying to make him recognize it.
You’re mistaken in thinking this issue somehow gets solved before the election. An issue that has persisted for the entire length of isreals existence.
In this gambit to “stop Biden from supporting genocide” they have over played their hand and guaranteed Trumps win. The opposition will make certain this issue is at the forefront until election day despite any action from Biden.
You can argue all you want because I pray that I am wrong.
Lending your support to a genocide in progress isn’t lesser evil. It’s simply evil.
A former aide to President Donald Trump and current co-host of ABC’s The View
What a dystopian fucking sentence!
At least it’s not another lobbyist or oil/finance company board member.
True, just a professional fascist swamp dweller for the last decade plus change:
Before 2014, Griffin wrote articles for her father’s far-right website WorldNetDaily, where she served as a “special Washington correspondent for WND.”[7][6] In 2010, Griffin was a media intern for Congressman Tom McClintock and began a one-year position as an associate producer on The Laura Ingraham Show.[11] In the 2012 Presidential election cycle, Griffin was the spokesperson for the College Republican National Committee, traveling the country discussing the youth vote. In 2014, she was named Press Secretary for Congressman Mark Meadows; she was later named as his Communications Director. She went on to work as the Communications Director for the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving under Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows.[12]
Ignore the trump shit. They hired someone that worked for WorldNutDaily?
Yeah, the whole false equivalence appearance of neutrality bullshit they have going forces them to REALLY scrape the bottom of the barrel sometimes…
wrote articles for her father’s far-right website
Now we have nepo-fascists to worry about too? Damnit.
Good news, everybody! It’s already mostly leveled, so the odds of there being anything left by next January are slim.
He’s fat, but he’s not that fat.
to be fair… he does everything without a thought.
He’s incapable of thought. somebody should stuff him in a dark lab and do some psychatric tests for… I dunno… the next decade?
This really shouldn’t be surprising. The man has signalled and announced his desire to shoot first and ask questions later at the slightest provocation. He’s also very vocally pro-Israel. Anybody crowing about “Genocide Joe” is a bad actor intentionally trying to confuse the discourse with bullshit noise. There is no ethical vote except for Biden. Every single US president has been pro-Israel, so just drop that argument and start focussing on how to materially improve living conditions of actual Americans.
Broke: People being opposed to the ongoing genocide in Gaza are going to get Trump elected.
Woke: Biden’s uncritical support of an unpopular genocide in Gaza is going to get Trump elected.
Biden could just, you know, stop giving arms to Israel.
Stop sending them bombs right now, and withhold money until they can prove they’ve stopped murdering civilians. This is an easy solution, it’s such a low bar, yet Biden is unable to clear it.
If I were to turn on my Machiavellian reptile brain and looked at this situation (from what I’ve read) as if this was a game or something…
Israel is kinda like The West’s attack/guard dog in the Middle East. That dog is getting out of control. The only leash that The West has on Israel is their funding, remove the funding and they remove the leash, and now we’ve got an out of control dog with nukes and no leash. It may not seem like the leash isn’t doing much to control it but it’s far better than letting the dog loose. Especially considering how powerful the dog is, how it seems to have more control over The West than the other way around, might have to do with all the religious leadership on both sides looking forward to the red cow they’re sacrificing this month, maybe their prophecy of a “second coming” and (nuclear) fire raining from the sky to end humanity is kinda the point.
I’m going to stop the reptile brain before it mentions how we typically deal with bad dogs that can’t be tamed, because god forbid THAT’S taking things too far.
Given the way it is portrayed on the news, I thought it already was practically leveled. Or does this mean extra leveled? Like salt the earth.
I mean, the news also convinced my mother that Portland was leveled by the George Floyd protests… and she lives in Vancouver Wa.
Has no one seen Gaza lately? Looks like Biden has done a pretty good job of leveling it, without a thought, and several million dollars richer for it.
All they want is the beach front property to build condos. They don’t care about people.
Human life has no value to these people, never has.Woah, what an offensive categorization of the Israeli people.
They also want a new canal to undercut Egypt’s suez.
It’s netanyahu and that corrupt government, not the actual citizens of Israel.
It’s actually drilling rights for all the oil under that beach (sound familiar?), but yeah, condos too I guess.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A former aide to President Donald Trump and current co-host of ABC’s The View is warning Democrats that protest votes could potentially lead to more catastrophic events in the Middle East.
Joe Biden is on pace to face presumptive Republican nominee Trump in a rematch of the 2020 election, but the president’s handling of the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, which quickly escalated following the October 7 terrorist attacks, has drawn scrutiny from many within the Democratic Party.
Griffin went on to say she was “conflicted” because of the options for president but implored voters to think of the long-term ramifications of not voting for Biden based on this singular issue.
Co-host Sunny Hostin seemed to empathize with the protest voters in the Midwest swing states that are predicted to ultimately determine the results of the November 5 election.
When Joy Behar, another co-host, interjected and said the war could end quicker if Hamas released hostages, Hostin said anything short of a ceasefire could continue to galvanize such voters against Biden.
On Wednesday, Andrés told Reuters reporter Jeff Mason that his nonprofit “was deliberately targeted” and questioned how the U.S. could supply aid and military support to Israel.
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Trump no doubt made deals to acquire beachfront land in Gaza… Just need to get those dead bodies cleared away
Like this is that difrent from biden
All you “genocide” claimers are gonna get the orange man elected.
Can we be at least a little nicer about the point you’re making? Poor form to assume bad faith when anyone with a heart wants Biden doing more. The problem is that Israel is deliberately forcing Biden to eat shit on this issue because guess what, Bibi has every reason to prefer Trump in 2024.
Unfortunately there are more nefarious forces that intend to sow defeatism and apathy. I had one such buffoon tell me they’re voting 3rd party. Don’t fall for this garbage.
You mean like what Biden is doing right now?
US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
These “but muh Trump would” statements are as tone deaf as Biden saying he cares about his Muslim constituents.
Trump pardoned literal war criminals, sold weapons to Israel too, and forced through a sale of weapons to Saudis too. You’re acting as if the world is black and white, with no scales
Joe Biden is almost done fully leveling Gaza already. Sends 1800 more bunker buster bombs to israel.
