U.S. politicians have been able to undercut such logic by touting vague notions of “national security” in response. But that excuse won’t work with respect to Israel. Let Israel worry about its “national security” while Americans focus on funding our needs.
Not only could antiwar and pro-Palestinian activists center the financial costs of gifting weapons to Israel as an election issue, but Harris could use it as political cover for doing the morally right thing.
Biden and other Democrats must draw the starkest possible contrast between Trump’s unhinged childishness and Biden’s competent adulthood.
Rather than sell Biden’s policies, sell Biden’s character. Rather than dispute Trump’s arguments, condemn his temperament.
And ask Americans the following question: Do they want a sociopathic infant at the helm again, or a sane grown-up?
Source: Conflict, Emotion, and the 2024 Election | The Smirking Chimp
The Democrats and the Republicans are outdoing each other to prove who can get us to World War III fastest. Joe Biden and the Congressional Democrats are making a convincing bid to be the leading warmongers. The Congressional Democrats just voted unanimously in a vote of 210 – 0 to extend the Ukraine War with another $61 Billion to kill more Russians and Ukrainians, and by a lopsided majority of 173-37 for another $14 Billion to extend Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Donald Trump weighed in before the vote that Ukraine’s survival and strength is “important to us”, and that Europe should pay more. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson did his part for warmongering by calling Russia, China, and Iran the updated axis of evil. The slur was just in time for Secretary of State Blinken to fly to China to threaten more US sanctions if China trades with Russia in ways the US disapproves.
Source: War parties, the peace candidate, and the US election – Pearls and Irritations
Take all of your anxiety about what a second Trump presidency could do to the country and the world, take all your anger that what’s going on in the Middle East could lead to that outcome, and direct it at Joe Biden in the form of the most important message anyone on the planet can be delivering right now — the message he needs to hear, loud and clear, every time he opens his mouth in public:
Cease-fire now.
Source: Biden Is Backing Israel’s Genocide — and Risking Reelection
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