Declaring, "We are outraged, we are heartbroken," hundreds of protesters turned out to block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech, forcing cars to take "the long way" to the Capitol. Demonstrators from Jewish Voice For Peace and other groups said they were "holding a people's ...
  • cabbage@piefed.social
    435·
    8 months ago

    Let’s not forget that US/Israeli relations were at an all-time low during Biden’s presidency because he didn’t want anything to do with Netanyahu.

    Not saying the US response to all this hasn’t sucked, but I’m pretty confident any other president the US has had the last 50 years would have been worse.

    It’s not your president. It’s your country. You allowed this to happen over decades, not months or even years.

    And in a race where the other candidate is firmly pro genocide… Yeah, I struggle to interpret this shit in good faith. Kindly fuck off.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      419·
      8 months ago

      Maybe hypothetical other presidents would have done all the same things, but Joe Biden has personally made active moves to support the genocide. “We sent them billions of dollars a year that built a war machine itching to be used” is an America problem. Biden’s proactive actions to arm them and defend them from consequences is a Biden problem.

      And protest actions (and the general polling that’s a follow-on to activism not letting the issue fade away), is part of why Biden is slowly turning toward a harder and more humanitarian stance. None of this has ever been about choosing between two people for the next genocide response, it’s always about making him change course NOW.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
      1031·
      8 months ago

      Nothing to do such as bypassing congress to give Netanyahu weapons to commit Genocide with?

      Or secretly selling 100 shipments of arms to israel to support their brutal Genocide of Palestinians?

      Did Biden not veto the condemnation of illegal israeli settlements in the UN? T

      Did he not veto three ceasefire votes so israel can continue their Genocide?

      Truly Democrat supporters have become as blind to the crimes of their God Emperor Biden as Republicans for theirs.