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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The White House, in a reflection of their public confidence (hubris?) regarding the politics of Biden’s positioning on Israel, arranged a call with Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).

Fetterman, who has delighted in trolling left-wing critics by resolutely standing with Israel since Oct. 7, told me young voters should consider the implications of enabling a candidate who would likely given Netanyahu even more of a free hand.

“If you sit this out, or throw your vote away, you now are effectively empowering Bibi, and you’re definitely going to be empowering Trump,” cheeto-man he said.

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We can set this up very directly: it’s us versus them — and us is just voting for us, and them means voting for a third-party or Trump,” as one Biden official put it to me. brump

In the short term, that means seizing on any chance to complicate the ballot access of the third-party candidates freedom-and-democracy and attempting to discredit their motives or at least highlight the less savory aspects of their character.

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Later this year, Biden officials hope to dispatch trusted progressive surrogates to warn against a third-party flirtation — hope you like the Midwest in fall, Senator Sanders! flattened-bernie — and plan to bombard the internet with the same message on digital ads even sooner.

One idea: Enlist a series of sicko-zoomer younger voters who admit to being tempted by a third-party hopeful but explain they’re backing Biden because any other choice ensures Trump’s election. maybe-later-honey

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm loudly cheerleading the ongoing genocide, but have you considered someone else might support it even more than I do?funny-clown-hammer

What a fucking idiot.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Listen, the sitting US Senator who has given Israel carte blanche to kill everyone, who literally wore the Israeli flag like a cape and heckled people calling for ceasefire, is definitely not doing anything to checks notes "...effectively empower Bibi," or the current president as much as someone else would

Not at all

[-] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago

"Trump will let Israel genocide even harder" is not the great argument they think it is.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You need to start from the premise that leftists are being hysterical and genocide isn't really happening.

Then you need to double down and insist you are right to be hysterical about the hypothetical genocide Trump might do.

Finally, they want to be able to indict you as fake Leftists who never really cared about Palestine when Joe Biden loses and Trump doesn't fix Biden's mess

"Leftists who didn't back Joe Biden caused the deaths of a billion people in the Middle East" will be added to the Black Book of Communism, in the end.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure 2000 pound bombs is completely unleashed, you can't go much bigger than that without nukes. Just like libs want us to vote "harder", Trump's psychopathic bloodlust isn't going to make those bombs explode harder. Any vote I make will be a vote for the dissolution of the great Satan.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

What would trump do differently exactly? The US has given Israel full support already

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

At least Trump is likely to have a falling out with Bibi

[-] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago

“If you sit this out, or throw your vote away, you now are effectively empowering Bibi"

Ok? Isn't Joe empowering Bibi now (and, in the hypothetical he wins the election, in the foreseeable future)? Do these assholes hear themselves?

[-] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago

Fetterman, who absolutely supports the genocide, warns that electing trump would give absolute support to the genocide? And that's why he's anti-trump? What?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I think he means that libs will still believe that Trump will make things worse, not that it's true, but this might be a certified Stroke Moment™.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Yeah but Trump will do it in a way that doesn’t put on airs that he’s worried about innocent Gazans dying. And we all know democracy dies in the lack of performative hand-wringing.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I don't want to disempower Bibi, I want a one state solution that doesn't involve Israel.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, I dont take Fetterman seriously anyway, it's just more of the same Trump fearmongering

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Liberals have to maintain that they're the good guys, always

So that means Trump would do something worse than what Biden is literally currently doing

What that imagined evil he'll perpetrate is, I'm never told

Maybe they're implying he'd nuke Gaza

Maybe they're implying he'd send in American troops

We don't know

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

DC land hasn't felt the burn yet. They are still too comfortable and think they can just toss a token and get away with it in November.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago

Fetterman, who has delighted in trolling left-wing critics by resolutely standing with Israel since Oct. 7

doing a little 'trolling' by supporting a genocide

[-] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

Waving the Swastika flag from my rooftop to epically troll those dumb bleeding heart commies who love the Warsaw terrorists so much

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Look at how upset those leftists get when I loudly cheer on the slaughter of Palestinian children by the thousands. It's all just a joke to me!

[-] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago

potentially costing the president millions of liberal votes

What the fuck is he calling me

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

oh shit oh fuck even the ghoulest dems have figured out we're libs... THE JIG IS UP!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

we’re libs

who’s “we” motherfucker. what are you implying about me. go on and tell me

[-] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago

Few in the administration sense the danger more than Vice President Kamala Harris. From holiday parties to a dinner at her residence last month for a group of prominent Black men, Harris has been telling sympathetic Democrats outside the White House that she recognizes the political challenge posed by Biden’s unwavering public support for Israel, I’m told by officials familiar with her comments at the events. Harris told people she’s making the case privately for the administration to show more empathy for the plight of innocent Gazans, an internal push that my colleague Eugene Daniels reported in December.

Lmao just like everything else she says she is doing, she isn't doing jack shit. She's useless

[-] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

show more empathy for the plight of innocent Gazans

So basically thoughts and prayers for the victims while continuing to supply Israel with weapons.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

What empathy

[-] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Isn't that one reason they have her as vp or were they surprised and now stuck with her

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They picked her because of her skin color and being female, and honestly her terrible personal demeanor means that they barely broke even on the bargain. She sucks.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

insert inappropriate laughter jokermala

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It is essentially comedy becoming reality, the internal affairs of the Harris camp reads like an episode of Veep.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i sure fucking hope so. i truly believe that the most important immediate goal for a broad left wing mass movement in the united states is breaking the back of the Democratic party one way or another. nothing else can be done in the political sphere as long as this efficient machine of recuperation and neutralization is still standing.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

In 2020, after the Sanders ratfuckimg and it was between Biden and Trump, i always held that Biden was the accelerationist choice. Or at least that hus presidency would be more radicalizing than a 2nd Trump term.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same - the incoming polarization seemed pretty obvious. It's too bad that it's all based on partisan lines and not on any variation of their platforms, but it was also obvious that wasn't going to be the case.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah both of those outcomes were pretty obvious, but Dems becoming a full on Blue MAGA party is overall a good outcome. It dispells the notion of "fixing it from within."

There's no way to transform the Dem party, or any kind of path through liberal democracy. There is no "pushing Biden left." There has been no harm reduction. None of the alleged arguments for why Dems should be supported hold any water anymore. That's a positive thing.

No one can make any of those arguments and seem remotely reasonable anymore.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That has been my logic, too. But in a more ideal world, they'd actually be open to transformation and this would be a lot less painful. That's just not the world we live in, unfortunately. We never would have gotten to this point if it was. Still, it's too bad that's the case.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

This honestly feels like it's finally about to happen. People aren't falling for this bs any longer.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

Beyond paid advertising, the president’s aides are still weighing him joining TikTok and, regardless, intend to leverage the platform by pushing their digital native supporters to make the Biden case on the app.

Lmao. Like that little fuck in the Audi who made a good case for why the Romanov children had to go.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

If people aren't willing to break the Dem party's back over aiding a genocide, what more is it going to take?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

But it’s also because Democrats are still catching up to the possibility of their coalition unraveling over Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

jagoff

[-] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

"enabling a candidate who would likely given Netanyahu even more of a free hand."

"we're not going to do a damn thing other than protect Israel in the process. Not a single thing." - Biden when asked if there would be any conditions on aid to Isreal

Once again, until a liberal can explain to me what is "even more of a free hand" then explicitly saying your support isnuncondit8onal and nothing they would do could stop it they cans top lying to our fucking faces with this line

Also getting pretty sick of articles of liberals complaining about struggling with voters that they are intentionally and even antagonistically doing the opposite ofnwhat the voters are clearly saying they want.

Like the article says that feyterman had really been enjoying telling people that are opposed to genocide and then goes on to say how the people he's intentionally trolling aren't being mature and voting for him anyway.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't get why they're complaining, CPUSA fully stands behind Biden.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Idea for a bit. Changing your name to Genocide Joe and running on a 3rd party ticket

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

biden-point The other Biden has escaped from the mirror biden-rember

[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

One idea: Enlist a series of younger voters who admit to being tempted by a third-party hopeful but explain they’re backing Biden because any other choice ensures Trump’s election.

USians don't even know how to interact in good faith at this point. Everyone is a troll now.

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