There is some irony in that every time I talk to conservative friends/family about the things I loath Biden for, they’re reasons they should love him, if only the media reported on it.

He’s weak on the border? The one he tried to close, but was blocked by republicans, so he went around congress to illegally kick out refugees?

There’s too many brown people? He’s deported more people than Trump did.

He’s left Israel out to dry? He sent everything that was allocated to them, and more, and even bombed Yemen to support the genocide of Gaza.

Abortion? Who exactly is letting Roe lie dead?

Welfare? He ended covid protections, child poverty skyrocketed.

No, but he wrote the 94 crime bill, which heuristically targeted black people with the 100:1 rule.

You really don’t understand what I’m saying do you?

No amount of messaging or vote shaming or self delusion can override the dogshit policies Biden has enacted trying to appeal to “moderate republicans”.

But if you learned nothing from 2016, I’m sure in November you’ll blame everyone but the people with power.

Do you genuinely believe that people who are angry about supporting a genocide are bots?

They both suck. You have to pick one

That’s how Trump won in the first place. You cannot message your way to winning an election. This is not a problem with voters, it’s a problem with democrats passing right-wing policy, and can only be solved by the democrats.

If you pick the wrong guy, you also won’t be able to protest for any kind of change.

You don’t get to say that while cops are beating the shit out of students for protesting. You shouldn’t be pissed at me, you should be pissed at the guy doing things that lose the election.

If everyone in Gaza is dead or displaced, it literally does not fucking matter. That is the path Israel is on, which Biden is assisting with.

You are delusional if you think you can win an election on “the other guy will be more vocal in his support for genocide”.

Instead of coming at me for pointing this out, you should be coming at any dem who isn’t calling for a massive u-turn in policy before it’s too late.

This is the same head-in-the-sand thinking let everyone around Biden tell themselves that he was fit for this debate.

level headed voice trying to minimize palestinian casualties

Biden isn’t doing that though, you can’t send someone the bombs they’re using to cause those casualties and say you’re trying to minimize it. Minimizing Palestinian casualties would be using all tools at your disposal to make Palestinian casualties the as low as possible.

The question is would you rather a president who openly facilitates the slaughter of Palestinians or pretends to oppose the slaughter of Palestinians while facilitating it.

The answer is it doesn’t fucking matter, ethnic cleansing is ethnic cleansing.

I’d hope it would have you asking yourself why you’re supporting the same policies we all agreed were bad under Trump.

These shithead illegal immigration policies probably wouldnt even be in the spotlight if scared old white people weren’t the biggest swath of participating voters.

Fascists are never going to vote democrat.

Triangulation doesn’t work. When you triangulate yourself to be 1 inch left of hitler, the people who want hitler vote hitler, and the people who wanted not-hitler don’t vote. When you get elected for being not-hitler, and proceed to facilitate genocide, people who wanted not-hitler don’t vote

You learned nothing in 2020.

You learned nothing when Obama lost the house and senate in 2010 after not pulling out of Iraq+afghanistan, ending the war on drugs, and doing other stuff that voters expected of him, instead tryed to reach out to moderate republicans.

You learned nothing when Kerry lost after campaigning on doing the wars more competently in 2004.

And you will learn nothing in November.

Now what the fuck do we do about this impending presidential vote?

Pressure Biden to cut off all aid to Israel and sanction them until they give equal civil rights to Palestinians and return their homes, use military hospitals to provide healthcare to women, send in the military to destroy the child-drowning fence on the rio, etc.

Doing good things instead of bad things is only way Biden can hope to be reelected (no, the republicans or the parliamentarian or the SCOTUS or Joe Manchin or civility and norms aren’t an excuse).

You don’t get to promote right-wing policies in another futile attempt to court moderate republicans (who will always vote for the real thing over diet-fascism) and then complain about division.

This is exactly how we got here. You want to stop eating shit? Stop supporting objectively evil policies and then complaining that other people won’t support them with you.

Blue Maga about to explain why actually it’s good when Biden does it and you’re a russian bot if you think otherwise.

Oh whoops. Good catch.

Here’s one from 2 months ago that’s no less bloodthirsty: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-half-of-jewish-israelis-say-israel-should-run-gaza-after-the-war-0-say-hamas/

Only 4% of Jewish Israelis […] say “Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has gone too far.”

With regard to the prospect of a ceasefire, about 80% of respondents voiced their opposition to a unilateral Israeli ceasefire lasting 48 hours and continuing for a longer period of time if rocket fire stops. Most — about 65% — also said they would not support an immediate ceasefire in order to discuss terms for a longer-term truce. Most participants, just over 60%, said they would agree to a ceasefire only if an agreement were reached on conditions for sustaining quiet on the Gaza border.

“A quiet gaza border” means they want to return to the pre-Oct 7th siege of Gaza. These people are not left, they just want the eradication of the Palestinian people to happen quietly and politely.

So they were choosing between the governor who privatized the power grid and supports statehood vs a “small government, pro-business, pro-statehood conservative”.

Really seems like they’re just gonna continue to get fucked.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-90-of-jewish-israelis-say-gaza-op-justified/

Over 90 percent of Jewish Israelis believe Operation Protective Edge is justified, with less than 4% saying they think Israeli has used excessive firepower against targets in the Gaza Strip

Where is your “Israeli left”?

Believe whom?

Liberal media, the guys who trick you every week into thinking Biden wants to stop doing <unambiguously evil thing>, he’s just unable to, or actually it’s electorally unpopular not to facilitate genocide, build Trump’s wall, continue locking immigrants in camps, send bombs to Ukraine/Taiwan/Saudi Arabia, sanction Cuba, or increase the tariff on EVs and solar panels.

These things didn’t stop being bad when team blue started doing them instead of Trump.

The president of the United States does not have the power to control another country

The US literally gives Israel the bombs they drop on Gaza, the direct military support that stops neighboring countries from helping, and the diplomatic support that prevents Israel from being more economically isolated than North Korea.

And all three of these things are within the purview of the executive.

Amazed that you still believe them, it’s been 8 months of leaking stories about how much Biden hates what Israel is doing (while providing unlimited support and protection). Then again, yall spent 9 years convinced that Trump is going to prison next week.

I’m sure a kid getting good grades on their bible test will indicate they’re suited to more advanced education.

I have very good memory. I remember people in the streets to end the immigrant concentration camps and police brutality, I remember fury at Trump’s trade war with China, I remember Trump talking about getting rid of Roe v Wade.

And then I remember all that same shit getting worse under Biden while the libs went back to brunch.

I can also remember having the same experience when Obama continued and expanded Bush’s wars, spying, and bailouts for wallstreet, and somehow libs were telling me these things were either good or electorally smart (turns out no, triangulation doesn’t peel off moderate republicans, it just makes people stay home).

This is the horseshit that gave us Trump in the first place, and the dems are deadset on doing it again.

Damn, it sure would suck if Trump did the same thing Biden is doing right now.