The difference is that Biden IS the current president and is the one that sidestepped congress to give Israel aid without many strings attached. Yeah, come November, don’t choose orange, but that doesn’t mean Biden shouldn’t face pressure in the meantime.
He isn’t, but he’s one third of the government (one half when it comes to foreign policy) and he’s only been using that position to make the situation worse.
What a weird comment. As if Congress isn’t universally despised by antiwar activists. Let me know how else protestors can feasibly make demands directly to an entire branch of government that isn’t just one person.
Yeah and if I could vote for other states congress people then that would matter but until then I just got like two dudes who represent me there, probably different ones than you. Probably ones you’ve never heard of, so am I really gonna dox my district by talking about two specific dudes who few if any of you are familiar with?
Administration officials, who will all have direct approval from the White House, have been openly criticizing Israel, albeit in the weakest way possible. That is a shift, but it’s just words and no where near substantial enough to back off and trust they’re going to do the right thing. It’s progress only insofar as the starting state was “the civilian deaths were unfortunate events no one could be blamed for because Israel is doing the most any nation could to prevent collateral damage and death”.
Blinken said “there does remain a gap between exactly what I said when I was there, the intent to protect civilians, and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground”. And Biden said "I want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. Not stop going after Hamas, but be more careful”. Weak and without any threat of actual action, but not the gaslighting of earlier.
Remember when BLM heckled Bernie during 2015 campaign?
If you think Biden is your problem, wait until orange gets elected.
The difference is that Biden IS the current president and is the one that sidestepped congress to give Israel aid without many strings attached. Yeah, come November, don’t choose orange, but that doesn’t mean Biden shouldn’t face pressure in the meantime.
And then Congress voted overwhelmingly to not attach said strings after the fact. Biden isn’t the only problem here.
He isn’t, but he’s one third of the government (one half when it comes to foreign policy) and he’s only been using that position to make the situation worse.
What a weird comment. As if Congress isn’t universally despised by antiwar activists. Let me know how else protestors can feasibly make demands directly to an entire branch of government that isn’t just one person.
Yeah and if I could vote for other states congress people then that would matter but until then I just got like two dudes who represent me there, probably different ones than you. Probably ones you’ve never heard of, so am I really gonna dox my district by talking about two specific dudes who few if any of you are familiar with?
If anything increase the pressure so they actually feel threatened enough to get some progressive work done.
Problem is that the pressure of today may lead the orange man to win tomorrow.
Then maybe Biden should do something differently. It’s his reelection and he claims his only reason for running is to defeat Trump.
Completely see your point, but unlike Trump, Biden might actually be movable by protest during an election year.
Granted the White House’s position on Israel has already shifted considerably since their lockstep pledge of unity.
How has it shifted
Not the other guy, but there’s been some posts on lemmy saying some white house staff are pressuring Biden to rethink his Israel position.
There is a lot of room to hide in those words
And here I thought making shit up was exclusive to conservatives.
Your skepticism is warranted but the lack of links in my comment is sheer laziness.
I will update it with links if you don’t mind waiting.
I can wait. Names of people with direct access to Biden and quotes please. Since you know this is a fact, it should be easy.
Administration officials, who will all have direct approval from the White House, have been openly criticizing Israel, albeit in the weakest way possible. That is a shift, but it’s just words and no where near substantial enough to back off and trust they’re going to do the right thing. It’s progress only insofar as the starting state was “the civilian deaths were unfortunate events no one could be blamed for because Israel is doing the most any nation could to prevent collateral damage and death”.
Like whom?
Blinken said “there does remain a gap between exactly what I said when I was there, the intent to protect civilians, and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground”. And Biden said "I want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. Not stop going after Hamas, but be more careful”. Weak and without any threat of actual action, but not the gaslighting of earlier.
He might be. But this childish hyperbole isn’t the way to do it.
I’ll take ol’ Joe over the orange cancer any day.
And trump would likely be worse. All the conservative dipshits love what Israel is doing right now.
Not likely, he will be exponentially worse.
Probably. At least Biden has the ability to understand the criticism.
They sure do. Some of them are even Republicans.
This argument is an insult to all voters.
Unfortunately, it’s the game you are living in
I think it was in 2020 when that idiot got up on stage with him.