"Genocide Joe": Biden Heckled During Campaign Trip For Supporting Israel President Joe Biden was called a "loser" and told to "go home". This was his first economy-focused campaign event of 2024.
US President Joe Biden was heckled by protesters during his visit to Pennsylvania on Friday over his support for Israel in fight against Hamas in Gaza.
Polls have also shown Biden's support slipping among Black and ethnic minority voters, who helped drive his 2020 election win against Trump.
Analysts say Biden's best hope now is a simple but quite specific number: that wages continue to rise faster than prices as they have done since April of last year, allowing consumers to feel that their wallets are fuller.
It's like these people don't realize that unconditional US support for Israel has been the norm for the past forty fucking years, and that Biden is not only not at the top of the 'supporting Israel's genocide' list, he's actually probably at the bottom as far as presidents these past 40 years go. And if the Palestinian genocide only just interests you now, well, you've clearly not been paying fucking attention.
Children, morons, and disingenuous cretins. Some are all three.
Nope, that's business, diplomacy, and the only reason we have any leverage at all. Which coincidentally is the only reason the first cease fire occurred and the only reason any aid is getting into the prisoners in Israel's concentration camps.
I expect the president to get with the times, especially during a major world event and human rights catastrophe. the voter base he's going for supports israel less and less and the trend is downwards
You're attacking people who are on your side, and this upcoming election is too important for this type of behavior, don't you think?
Also, an argument based on appeal to tradition is no argument at all. Slavery used to be the norm, openly opposing equity for women and LGBT+ people has been the norm.
These are no longer acceptable in 2023, nor should they be; nor is supporting the genocidal state of Israel. If people have just woken up to that, then good for them -- this progress should be praised and encouraged.
These are not "morons" or "children" or ... whatever else you called them/us. (I'm so disgusted with your incivility and abuse of power, as well as your discarding the opinions of large swaths of empathetic voters, that quite frankly I can't be assed to re-read that comment.)
You’re attacking people who are on your side, and this upcoming election is too important for this type of behavior, don’t you think?
Sorry, I don't play civility politics with "BOTH SIDES" types who spend all their time talking about how voting is worthless but they're totally going to vote for Biden, if only everyone else is nice to them and doesn't object to them passing around intellectually bankrupt talking points.
Also, an argument based on appeal to tradition is no argument at all. Slavery used to be the norm, openly opposing equity for women and LGBT+ people has been the norm.
You either don't understand the argument or don't understand what an appeal to tradition is. The argument is not "This is old, therefore, it is good", the argument is "This is not new; Biden is not the architect of this policy, this is not a split-second decision that we can just reverse, this is a longstanding policy of the US that would take wide consensus to change"
These are no longer acceptable in 2023, nor should they be; nor is supporting the genocidal state of Israel. If people have just woken up to that, then good for them – this progress should be praised and encouraged.
"These are no longer acceptable", only public opinion polls in the US and abroad show that's absolutely not true. And if you've just 'woken up' to this, then it's pretty fucking important that you understand that other people are still asleep, and, like you, will take time to wake up, rather than passing around "GENOCIDE JOE" cliches.
These are not “morons” or “children” or … whatever else you called them/us. (I’m so disgusted with your incivility and abuse of power, as well as your discarding the opinions of large swaths of empathetic voters, that quite frankly I can’t be assed to re-read that comment.)
"Abuse of power is when someone says something, and the more I disagree with it, the more abuse it is"?
"Abuse of power is when someone says something, and the more I disagree with it, the more abuse it is"?
More like when you engage in unhinged personal attacks and rules violations to the point that a more effective mod has to treat you like a delicate young child and remove your comments.
Two of us have said we plan to vote for genocide-supporting concentration-camp building Joe, but that's not good enough for you, is it? If we criticize him for his fascist-aligning genocide-supporting words and deeds, Big Bad Mod Daddy will piss his pants in the thread.
Were Biden stupid enough to follow your advice to not worry about "the norm" as you put it, the same results. The only way to get actual change without disastrous consequences is to build popular, ie not a tiny minority of a very very few, support. Cutting ties with Israel both removes all our influence and assures a much larger blow back by the far larger number of folks that would view it as a betrayal. Voting third party is a waste of time until there is ranked choice or some similar. Not Voting to teach the Dems a lesson gets us another round of every more disastrous results. In 2016 this exact same idiocy resulted in the loss of Women's Bodily Autonomy.
But the naive morally superior fools, provided they are not just shrubbery like the source of most of the talking points, in this thread would simply remove more protections for more minority groups.
Well, I mean you remember him as the president that ended slavery, if that wasn’t the most impressive thing about him then you probably have said said president who got shot in the theater by that actor