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Title: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on August 22, 2020, 05:24:29 pm
'Unprovoked': Activist Linda Sarsour Responds To Biden Camp Disavowing Her
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Joe Biden's campaign disavowed Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour after she spoke at the Democratic National Committee Muslims and Allies virtual assembly. She appeared at the online meeting of Muslims who will be campaigning for Biden for president.

Biden's campaign spokesman, Andrew Bates, said in a statement to CNN that Biden and the Democratic platform condemns Sarsour's views and opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Sarsour has been involved in multiple controversies over her activism related to Israel.

Sarsour said the rebuke from the Biden camp was "unprovoked".

Sarasour is a Democratic delegate, was a Bernie Sanders surrogate, is a prominent voice in the Muslim community and is connected to the criminal justice reform movement.

Was this an unforced error by the Biden campaign?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKtG9UrUi4

Biden team disavows anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour after she speaks at DNC delegate meeting
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'She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever,' spokesman says
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The Biden camp moved to distance itself from Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour after she spoke at a Tuesday meeting of Democratic National Convention delegates, saying she had “no role in the campaign whatsoever.”

Ms. Sarsour spoke at a meeting advertised on the DNC website as “Muslim Delegates Assembly/Caucus and Council Meeting,” but a Democrat official said the gathering was not run by the DNC or Biden campaign.

A former co-leader of the Women’s March, Ms. Sarsour is known for her advocacy of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, as well as her support for convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh and appearance at a 2015 rally organized by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Biden spokesman Andrew Bates emphasized that the former vice president opposes the BDS movement, which urges consumers and companies to stop doing business with Israel.

“Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform,” said Mr. Bates in an email. “She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever.”
Ms. Sarsour swung back by tweeting, “just came here to remind you that you need a coalition to defeat Donald Trump and that Muslim Americans are an important voter bloc in key states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania & I know a little something about how to organize them.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/19/biden-team-disavows-linda-sarsour-bds-activist-dem/

"You Dont Have To Be Jewish To Be A Zionist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDx-5b7T8M&t=1s

Thing's are just looking so promising. I realize a good strategy for this election is to wait until after a Biden and Harris win before we begin criticizing them considering Trump is the worst of two evils and that Demographic-Blueshift is so much more important than just the election alone, but I gotta say personally I am glad I cannot vote in the election. On the subject of Israel Biden may as well be a Republican rightist.
Title: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 17, 2020, 11:44:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6hI57t08pc

Biden should be shot along with Trump.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on November 18, 2020, 11:20:58 am
I'm not surprised at all, unfortunately....
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on November 18, 2020, 10:27:09 pm
Sunrise Movement: Joe Biden Betrayed Us
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The Sunrise Movement is very unhappy with Joe Biden for picking an oil-friendly staffer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHo1zSklECU
Title: Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
Post by: guest5 on November 18, 2020, 10:34:29 pm
'Today Feels Like a Betrayal': Sunrise Movement Blasts Biden Pick of Big Oil-Backed Cedric Richmond for Key Post
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"President-elect Biden assured our movement he understands the urgency of this crisis; now, it's time for him to act like it."
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Climate campaigners who rallied behind President-elect Joe Biden because President Donald Trump spent his first term serving corporate polluters were outraged Tuesday by reporting that Democratic Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond—who has raked in vast campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry—is joining the incoming administration.
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"President-elect Biden ran on a promise to act decisively to combat the climate crisis, signed a pledge not to let his campaign be unduly influenced by fossil fuel corporations or their money, and said leaders of fossil fuel companies would not be involved in his transition," Prakash said. "Young people helped deliver him a landslide victory powered by historic youth turnout all across the country, with the hopes that those promises would extend to keeping fossil fuel corruption out of his administration."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/17/today-feels-betrayal-sunrise-movement-blasts-biden-pick-big-oil-backed-cedric
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 19, 2020, 10:08:46 pm
Guess who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Ix7B8Pg1A

(At least so far there is no sign of Gabbard being considered.....)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on November 20, 2020, 07:51:35 pm
Erin Brockovich on Biden pick: The fox is in the henhouse
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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich tells CNN's Brianna Keilar why environmentalists denounce President-elect Joe Biden's transition EPA review team pick Michael McCabe over his work with DuPont on PFOA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M2mjre_hIU
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on November 21, 2020, 01:22:27 pm
The link between Biden's Pentagon advisers and the arms industry
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Biden's Pentagon transition team has close ties to the arms industry, and it's raising eyebrows. Here is a quick look at who is on the team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i099GF6lWSs
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 21, 2020, 03:21:57 pm
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The link between Biden's Pentagon advisers and the arms industry

This is actually not a problem in principle. The arms industry merely wants its products to be purchased. It does not care whom its products are used against after they have been purchased. We who want military invasion of countries such as Israel, Myanmar, Hungary, etc. would do well to gain the support of the arms industry through entryism etc.. The arms industry must be made to realize ASAP that it could potentially thrive better by supporting hawkish True Leftist governments (whose enemies are Western countries) than by supporting equivalently hawkish rightist governments (whose enemies are non-Western countries). For example, think about how much more weaponry we would need to purchase in order to successfully invade Israel (which has an Iron Dome FFS):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

compared to invading Afghanistan!

Do I think Biden will invade Israel? Of course not. But the point is that leftists must learn to stop thinking of the arms industry as something to be avoided (and hence abandoned to rightists). Military weapons are just larger-scale firearms:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/

(https://slideplayer.com/slide/14329982/89/images/16/U.S.+Operation+Deliberate+Force.jpg)

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/remembering-the-yugoslav-wars/

For the record, I wish modern weapons had never been invented. But given the unfortunate reality that they have already been invented, it is poetic justice to use modern weapons on those who want to preserve the civilization which invented them.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on November 22, 2020, 02:53:07 pm
"But the point is that leftists must learn to stop thinking of the arms industry as something to be avoided"
These same "leftists" will claim that the arms industry, not Israel, runs U.S. foreign policy.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 24, 2020, 11:04:42 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SEt6m01AkA
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on November 25, 2020, 10:38:06 am
AOC and Ilhan Omar want to block Biden’s former chief of staff
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar are boosting a petition against Joe Biden nominating his former chief of staff to a new role in his administration, calling Bruce Reed a "deficit hawk” and criticizing his past support for Social Security and Medicare cuts.

Why it matters: Progressives are mounting their pressure campaign after the president-elect did not include any of their favored candidates in his first slate of Cabinet nominees, and they are serious about installing some of their allies, blocking anyone who doesn't pass their smell test — and making noise if they are not heard.

Driving the news: Some progressives have privately said the order of Biden's announcements was important to send an early signal the incoming administration took them seriously. So far, they’re suspicious of some of the people being named or rumored for jobs — but happy with John Kerry, Janet Yellen, Alejandro Mayorkas and Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
https://www.axios.com/aoc-ilhan-omar-block-biden-former-chief-of-staff-8e0101c5-0094-415f-af80-5583a8ff8e6f.html
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 25, 2020, 11:20:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvM2PzEsEMA

Worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh9QzCEUS-c

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 09, 2020, 11:15:13 pm
Wtf?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTpVRqF0WKQ

I miss when the US was considered a serious country.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Starling on December 11, 2020, 07:33:56 am

Do I think Biden will invade Israel? Of course not.

(https://slideplayer.com/slide/14329982/89/images/16/U.S.+Operation+Deliberate+Force.jpg)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYXf2G6Ng7M

(https://media0.giphy.com/media/X0Puqlx2pTy4E/200.gif)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on December 11, 2020, 11:05:42 am
In Leaked Audio Biden CAUGHT Admitting He Won't Do Anything As President
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Krystal Ball digs into audio recordings of a meeting between Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and civil rights leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lEGCH9_gvE
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Prite on December 11, 2020, 10:16:08 pm
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In Leaked Audio Biden CAUGHT Admitting He Won't Do Anything As President

I read that Kamala Harris could be a de facto president instead.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on December 11, 2020, 11:27:56 pm
Krystal Ball is a notorious False Leftist who has made excuses for Trump supporters. Her Gentile pheontype perfectly matches her personality.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 13, 2020, 01:43:12 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVsbx-T8KR0
Title: Re: Leftists against progressivism
Post by: guest5 on December 18, 2020, 01:07:03 am
Biden Staffer Says A Naughty Word, Donors FREAK OUT and Demand Apology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2iLO2lUKo

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icecoldpierre
1 minute ago
I hear you on not the "punching down" argument. Ana. but that argument only appliesa to media figures, politicians and people with celebrity or power. For everday folks it is incumbent upon us to let people who agree with Trump's terrible policies, or who are against LGBTQ rights or are racist, sexist etc. Know that we do not agree with them, and their position is hateful and wrong. Calling these people what they are will feel like an insult to them but we need to do this anyway. Public shaming is one of the way you keep these people out of power.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on December 18, 2020, 08:44:00 pm
Defense Department officials halted cooperation: Biden team
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Aides to President-elect Joe Biden, who are trying to arrange a smooth transition of power from the Trump administration, have met resistance to their requests for information from some Pentagon officials, an official on Biden's team said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPejneR0f7E
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on December 20, 2020, 05:45:34 pm
Kayleigh McEnany Goes Full Tattletale On Twitter
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Kayleigh McEnany goes fill tattletale after Biden’s incoming chief of staff speaks the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQmHZh0H5Tk
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 23, 2020, 01:34:47 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrbZC0WF8M
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 29, 2020, 01:35:04 am
Biden will never get it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3V9o30QTpU
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 06, 2021, 10:40:43 pm
So how does Biden react to the Capitol terrorism?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-condemns-storming-of-the-us-capitol-this-is-not-a-protest-it-is-insurrection-213145371.html

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President-elect Joe Biden condemned the assault on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing rioters on Wednesday and called on President Trump “to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege.”

NO!!! By asking Trump to do something about it, you are implying you still respect his authority! The correct response is to remove authority from Trump! Omar gets it:

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1346934098384793606

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I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.

Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.

We can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath.

Pressley gets it:

https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1346933141307584515

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Donald J. Trump should immediately be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate as soon as Congress reconvenes.

This is dangerous & unacceptable.

Bush gets it even better:

https://twitter.com/RepCori/status/1346926083350794240

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I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred Oath of Office.

I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion.

But not Biden. This is how useless Biden is.
Title: Re: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 17, 2021, 09:07:22 pm
Cori Bush Calls Out Biden's Broken Promise
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Cori Bush and AOC continue to push for the American people over stimulus checks. Will Biden listen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittVMHgrdL4
Title: Re: China and United States Relations
Post by: guest5 on January 19, 2021, 09:42:21 pm
Biden Team Hints at Keeping Trump’s Tough Line Toward China
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We are getting new signals that the news U.S. administration will continue some of its hardline policies against China that we saw during the Trump administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl4kTWKLpqw
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 21, 2021, 08:31:22 pm
Palestinians react with outrage to Biden pick’s al-Quds remarks
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Palestinian movements have reacted with outrage at remarks by US President Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state in support of the Israeli regime’s claim to the holy occupied city of Jerusalem al-Quds.

“Yes and Yes,” Antony Blinken said during a testimony on Tuesday after being asked, “Do you agree that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and do you commit that the United States will keep our embassy in Jerusalem?”

Former President Donald Trump rolled out a hugely controversial Middle East plan early last year touted as the “Deal of the Century,” under which he gave the Israeli regime huge concessions at the expense of the Palestinian people.

Those included recognizing al-Quds as the so-called exclusive capital of the occupying regime -- something Tel Aviv had been lobbying for throughout decades -- in spite of Palestinians’ age-old demand that the city’s eastern part serve as the capital of their future state. Trump also ordered relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the city.

Ever since the US’s moves concerning al-Quds, Palestinians have stopped recognizing any intermediary role by Washington in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas said Blinken’s remarks ran counter to international laws and resolutions that recognize al-Quds as an occupied city. Spokesman Hazem Qassem called the comments “an affront to all Arab nations and states.”

Islamic Jihad, Hamas’ fellow Gaza-headquartered resistance group, also called the remarks “a slap on the face of all who have pinned their hopes on the US administration.”

Spokesman Dawood Shihab said Blinken’s position indicated the US’s insistence on supporting the occupying regime and manipulate the truth. “All should know this that the US will never change. It is Palestinians [themselves], who should get rid of the occupation through long-term struggle and endeavor.”

Meanwhile, Abdullah Abdullah, a senior official within the Palestinian Fatah movement that is based in the nearby occupied West Bank, where al-Quds is located, reminded that the US Congress had decided to call al-Quds the Israeli regime’s capital back in 1995.

Trump only executed the decision and now his successor cannot reverse the congressional designation, he reminded. Abdullah, however, urged the incoming US administration to recognize East al-Quds as Palestine’s capital and set up a consulate there so it can start diplomatic interactions with the Palestinians.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/01/20/643483/Palestine-United-States-Biden-Antony-Blinken-Jerusaelm-al-Quds-Israeli-regime
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 21, 2021, 11:05:00 pm
I mostly agree academically with our enemy Buchanan on Biden:

https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-biden-s-america-one-nation-or-us-versus-them

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Among the afflictions from which America suffers, said Biden, are "political extremism, white supremacy" and "domestic terrorism."

How do we overcome these evils?

Said Biden, "Unity is the path."

But how can good Americans unite with white supremacists and domestic terrorists? Ought we not separate ourselves and do battle with them?

Indeed good Americans cannot unite with white supremacists. Indeed we ought to battle them until they are eliminated.

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And who exactly are they?

Surely, among the enemy is the mob that invaded and trashed the Capitol on January 6. But what of the hundreds of thousands who came out for Trump rallies? What of the 75 million who voted for Donald Trump?

Are all the deplorables outside the company of the saved? Are they, as Hillary Clinton once said of them, "irredeemable"?

Yes, every single 2020 Trump voter is irredeemable. They are literally as bad as the ICE/CBP agents who put children in cages, as they were deliberately voting for more of the same.

(2016 Trump voters who did not vote for Trump again in 2020 and who actively helped campaign against Trump in 2020 should be considered on a case-by-case basis:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/red-anti-trumpists/ )

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Biden went on to describe U.S. history as he sees it, as a long Manichaean struggle for the soul of America.

"The forces that divide us are deep and they are real. ... Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the other harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and demonization have long torn us apart."

But if our history has been an endless struggle against racism, nativism and demagoguery, and today's struggle is against rampant anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, violence and lawlessness, as well as "white supremacists and domestic terrorists," how can we credibly call ourselves a "great nation" and "good people"?

Indeed white supremacists cannot call themselves good people. Only those who participated in the struggle against racism may be able to call themselves good people.

As an actual Manichaean, I can confidently say that Biden is not Manichaean at all, so on this point Buchanan is exaggerating. Biden's approach is typically Catholic: he is calling on racists to confess their sins and hence be absolved of them. Manichaeans do not believe in any of this nonsense.

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While Biden identifies the demonic character of the enemy, he does not name them. Who are they? How can we defeat them if the president will not identify them? And if they are evil and we are good, then why should we unite with them rather than ostracize and crush them?

Exactly. I, on the other hand, already identified them above. And yes, we should crush them, not unite with them.

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In Joe's depiction: "We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace only bitterness and fury."

But is "fury" not a legitimate attribute of those fighting the hateful enemies Biden describes?

Indeed it is. Unfortunately, Biden has none.

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After this, Biden went off on a tear against mendacity.

"Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit."

All our leaders have a duty and responsibility "to defend the truth and defeat the lies."

But who are the liars? And if we are to do battle against the liars, why did Biden declare a minute later: "We must end this uncivil war."

Trumpists. And yes, we must battle against the liars. Unfortunately, we cannot expect leadership from Biden in this battle.

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Joe Biden's inaugural was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads.

Yes, it was. What is now clear is that Buchanan (rightist) is on one side of the battle and we (True Leftists) are on the other side, whereas Biden (False Leftist) is on neither.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 21, 2021, 11:44:15 pm
Furthermore, how can Americans ever say they are truly fighting racism when the U.S. supports a racist ethno-state called Israel in the Middle-East? Buchanan the rightist, much like Trumpists themselves, understand what it takes to win. The enemy must be clearly identified and "crushed" once and for all. Biden and the false-left are obviously incapable of crushing any enemies. Even Antifa understands what is required....

I was just thinking the other day to, just imagine if the Union had decided to end all Confederate bloodlines after the civil war instead of trying to appease the South with reconstruction. Had that happened, think of the countless innocent "black" lives that would have been spared just by that action alone. Not only that, but we wouldn't still be forced to fight with these racist bloodlines in the U.S. again to this day.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 22, 2021, 01:33:34 pm
Starting to get the feeling a lot of people believe you can just say the words "unity" and people will just automatically unite. Wishful thinking at best. I do not see much hope for a Republic which is completely incapable of addressing it's fundamental issues in any serious and lasting way.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 22, 2021, 10:41:58 pm
Here is a perfect example of how cowardly Biden is. At first there seemed to be hope:

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-20-at-3.59.01-PM.png)

Then came the Red feedback:

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-21-at-8.27.15-PM.png)

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-21-at-8.35.48-PM.png)

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-21-at-8.37.41-PM.png)

And within hours:

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-21-at-8.45.10-PM.png)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 23, 2021, 11:26:34 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3qPvBbUIU
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 24, 2021, 04:28:39 pm
Iran's🇮🇷 Ahmadinejad on Biden's Presidency: 'It Makes No Difference Who The US President Is'
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Former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discusses Joe Biden becoming the President of the United States, saying who the President is doesn't matter and that important decisions are made behind the scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmZtkaARR7I

The only difference between Trump and the rest of the presidents is that Trump allowed what had been otherwise covert racism to become overt racism. This effected Americans predominately. The rest of the world already knew the U.S. was an extremely racist country on a scale matching the racist ethno-state of Israel. No other countries in the history of humanity have been this overtly racist as both Israel and the U.S. are, except those which partook, and are still partaking, in Western colonialism also. And, lest we also forget demographic-blueshift. But, we could even say Trump is somewhat responsible for that phenomenon as well....
Title: Re: Monetary Wealth
Post by: guest5 on January 24, 2021, 07:09:43 pm
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham says Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan will make the stock market bubble even worse
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Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham warned investors during a Bloomberg interview that the $1.9 trillion in federal aid President Joe Biden is seeking from Congress will further inflate the stock market bubble.

The GMO co-founder told Erik Schatzker that he has "no doubt" some of the stimulus aid will end up in the market. He said the "sad truth" about the last stimulus bill passed in 2020 was that it didn't increase capital spending and didn't increase real production, but it certainly flowed into stocks.

The plan that Biden is proposing contains a $1,400 boost to stimulus checks, robust state and local aid, and vaccine-distribution funds. Grantham said that if the package passed is worth $1.9 trillion, it could lead to the dangerous end of the bubble.
"If it's as big as they talk about, this would be a very good making of a top for the market, just of the kind that the history books would enjoy," said Grantham.
https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/legendary-investor-jeremy-grantham-says-bidens-1-9-trillion-stimulus-plan-will-make-the-stock-market-bubble-even-worse/articleshow/80424761.cms
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 24, 2021, 10:42:06 pm
"No other countries in the history of humanity have been this overtly racist as both Israel and the U.S. are, except those which partook, and are still partaking, in Western colonialism also."

Not all the Turandom countries were former colonial powers (only the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires were), yet today they are more racist than those few former colonial powers which managed to incorporate some Counterculture values.

Back to Biden, however:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/members-migrant-caravan-bidens-immigration-203642560.html

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In his first days in office, President Biden has already abandoned many of his predecessor's hard-line immigration policies, reversing travel bans from certain Muslim-majority countries, declaring a 100-day moratorium on most deportations, and reiterating his pledge to propose legislation providing a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people in the United States illegally.

But none of those policy changes do much for people fleeing Central America now until they make it to the U.S. border — and that trek has become increasingly difficult. The Biden administration has given no indication that it will instruct other countries to ease their crackdowns on U.S.-bound migrants.

Roughly 7,500 migrants, the vast majority of them Honduran, began making their way on foot to Mexico and the United States in large caravan groups a week ago. Most entered Guatemala through the El Florido crossing, but they made it only 27 miles into Guatemala before they were stopped.
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Biden has pledged to support anti-corruption efforts in northern Central American countries and his plans for the region include a $4-billion aid package. Whether his administration will take any steps against the Honduran president is not clear. But some question whether sending more cash to the region is the right strategy in a region where foreign aid seldom trickles down to the most needy.

“Pouring aid into corrupt, predatory governments and abusive security forces is not the answer,” said Lisa Haugaard, co-director of the Latin America Working Group, a human rights organization based in Washington, in a statement. "Nor is the answer just promoting private investment."

Exactly. If a country sees that it will receive foreign aid in exchange for keeping refugees out, it will keep doing so! No, the only correct response to a country that obstructs refugees is to bomb it every day until it allows the refugees to enter. Refugees or WMDs. That is the only choice that should be offered to them.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 27, 2021, 01:39:47 pm
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In an address to the UN Security Council, Acting UN Ambassador Richard Mills outlined the Biden administration's plans to help oversee the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which include to support a 'mutually agreed two-state solution', to 're-open diplomatic missions that were closed by the last U.S. administration', and to commit to restoring humanitarian aid and support for economic development for the Palestinian people.

Mills' address contained subtle hits against the former Trump administration, which seemed to heavily favor Israel when attempting to smooth over Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic relations.

Mills said the Biden administration's approach 'will involve renewing U.S. relations with the Palestinian leadership and Palestinian people, relations which have atrophied over the last four years.'

In addition to attempting to refresh relations with Palestinian leadership, Mills also said that the U.S. would 'maintain its steadfast support for Israel,' as well.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgzZpuvYgtB4hcGFwsh4AaABCQ
(https://yt3.ggpht.com/ZZ62bPjeUCJacn1HbxJncve-st7PTjLG6h6UdCrGwOkAY5TSt9rlsk9wpYHAmuHM8zddZ3GL8WtsmQ=s640-nd)

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/khazars-history-of-the-jewish-turkic-nomads/

Palestine never belonged to Khazars. Meanwhile, let's resurrect the Holy Roman Empire while we're at it and give Europe back to Rome?

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 27, 2021, 10:26:05 pm
It's not even just about today's Jews mostly being Khazars. The Tanakh itself explicitly states that even the original Israelites themselves stole Palestine the first time round:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Land

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The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת‎, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد‎, translit.: ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey") is the land which, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham and to his descendants. In modern contexts the phrase "Promised Land" expresses an image and idea related both to the restored Homeland for the Jewish people and to salvation and liberation.

God first made the promise to Abraham (Genesis 15:18–21):

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

He later confirmed the promise to Abraham's son Isaac (Genesis 26:3), and then to Isaac's son Jacob (Genesis 28:13). The Book of Exodus describes the Promised Land in terms of the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates river (Exodus 23:31). The Israelites conquered and occupied a smaller area of former Canaanite land and land east of the Jordan River after Moses led the Exodus out of Egypt (Numbers 34:1–12), and the Book of Deuteronomy presents this occupation as God's fulfilment of the promise (Deuteronomy 1:8). Moses anticipated that God might subsequently give the Israelites land reflecting the boundaries of God's original promise - if they were obedient to the covenant (Deuteronomy 19:8–9).

Palestine never belonged to the Israelites either.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 27, 2021, 11:16:39 pm
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Palestine never belonged to the Israelites either.

Great point you've made before which I totally forgot about!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on January 31, 2021, 03:36:25 pm
Biden has huge opportunity with Iran but will he take it?
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American author and political commentator John Steppling believes President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity to improve US ties with Iran by removing illegal sanctions and rejoining the nuclear deal.

But the analyst warned that Biden is a “liberal interventionist” who was “instrumental in the invasion of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Bolivia.”

Steppling, who is based in Norway, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday when he was asked by Press TV whether the Biden administration would  avail the opportunity to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal and remove illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s UN ambassador has that the ball is America’s court regarding the nuclear agreement that it abandoned in 2018, adding that Tehran is waiting for the new US administration to take the first step to lift the unlawful sanctions and then rejoin the 2015 multilateral accord.

In an interview with NBC News on Monday, Majid Takht-Ravanchi said Tehran was not prepared to offer goodwill gestures or confidence-building measures until Washington removed its sanctions and returned to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

‘It’s up to the US to decide what course of action to take. We’re not in a hurry,’ he said.

In 2015, Iran and six world states — namely the US, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China — signed the JCPOA which was ratified in the form of UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

However, the US under former president Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out of the JCPOA in May 2018 and reinstated the anti-Iran sanctions that had been lifted by the deal.

The Trump administration also launched what it called a maximum pressure campaign against Iran, targeting the Iranian nation with the ‘toughest ever’ restrictive measures.
Iran: Up to US to take first step by lifting bans, rejoining JCPOA
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If you ask the question, is there an opportunity for anything and you're speaking about US foreign policy, the answer is well of course there is. I mean there's always an opportunity but it never materializes because the US government doesn't think about these things the way you and I think about,” Steppling said.

US foreign policy since the end of World War II has been driven by the same concerns for every single decade and that is the protection of Western capital and markets, the possibility of new markets, and it was driven by anti-communism. And if you look at the record in Africa, for example, the US fought against African independence movements. The Soviet Union, Cuba fought for African independence movements. The US was complicit with the UK in the assassination of Lumumba who was probably the single most important African leader of the 20th century whose life was cut very short,” he said, referring to Patrice Lumumba who was an anticolonial Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960.

Lumumba resisted Belgian colonialism and corporate interests. He was assassinated in a US-backed coup on January 17, 1961.
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So, is there an opportunity to change direction on Iran? Yeah, but I can't see that happening. I mean the X Factor in this, the variable in this right now of course, is that we're seeing a massive contraction of capital. And this is part of ‘the great reset’ is all about. The Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum idea and this is being driven by a certain faction of the ruling class - people of extreme wealth. And it's tied into depopulation schemes and all sorts of stuff, because of the idea of being that since the financial crisis in 2008 the profits are not consistent and they're not reliable, and the profits are much smaller than they were in the past, except for a few people like Jeff Bezos or whoever,” he noted.

“So, they're looking to usher in a more controlled form of capital -- call it whatever you want, people have come up with different names for it, feudalism being one
-- but it's not likely to succeed the way they imagine for a variety of reasons we don't have to get into here but it will impact how the US views its interventions. Now Biden is a liberal interventionist. He was instrumental in the invasion of Iraq. He was instrumental with Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Venezuela, Bolivia. I mean Biden's track record is terrible,” he stated.

“And I can't imagine why he would change given that his appointments so far are all liberal interventionists just like him. They all think alike. And so I can't imagine anything is really going to change. I mean there are always cosmetic differences. Biden will probably return to the perception management style that Obama employed especially in his second term,” he noted.

“And that will be less bellicose and extreme than Trump was. But, it's frankly not substantially going to be different, and Iran loons with Russia as an economic enemy. China, I think, is hard to calculate exactly where China is in this because I think they probably have a lot of backdoor collusion with the US, and we see Xi speaking at the opening of Davos. So that's hard to know and I'm not an economist and I don't pretend to be but it seems to me that what we're going to see is a more controlled form of US imperialism with a sort of more narrowly targeted goals,” he said.
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“But Iran is useful to the US as an international ‘villain.’ That also suits the needs of Israel. It suits Saudi Arabian needs as well. Iran becomes the justification for any aggression they commit.  And Israel and the KSA are both, essentially, US proxies in the region,” he added.

“So, there's an opportunity but it's not going to be taken. I don't think, I can't imagine any way that Biden suddenly changes his very hawkish policies, I mean the hawkish policies he's employed for 30 years,” he concluded.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/01/31/644247/Joe-Biden-is-liberal-interventionist

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/monetary-wealth/
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Dazhbog on January 31, 2021, 07:53:29 pm
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But the analyst warned that Biden is a “liberal interventionist” who was “instrumental in the invasion of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Bolivia.”

Daily reminder that we sooner or later will have to get rid of false left 'anti-imperialist'-types, who equate military action against Turandom with the invasion of so-called 'Third World'-countries.

In purely factual terms, I wish he was right though. So far, American lethal aid to Ukraine merely amounted to a batch of Javelins. What a poor showing from the world's most powerful military!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 01, 2021, 10:26:49 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-keeps-trumps-border-policies-130804953.html

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the new administration continues to use the Trump-era CDC order to quickly expel migrants — including families with children — without allowing them to request U.S. refuge, according to court documents and interviews with attorneys. The government has also not said whether it will allow the estimated 20,000 migrants in Mexico with pending asylum applications to continue their cases inside the U.S.

Mr. Biden has yet to publicly order a review of the expulsions order, despite a pledge made by his campaign. The CDC deferred requests for comment to the White House, which did not offer any. U.S. diplomats have instead been warning would-be migrants in Central America that the expulsions will continue indefinitely.
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"Flatly illegal"

By continuing the border expulsions, the Biden administration is also enforcing a policy implemented under political pressure that has so far failed to pass legal muster in court.
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Lawyers with the group Al Otro Lado are preparing to ask the Biden administration to parole Angela and her family inside the U.S., arguing that her infant was illegally expelled since she was born on American soil, and U.S. citizens are supposed to be exempt from the expulsions order.

"What they did to us was illegal," Angela said.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on February 03, 2021, 10:46:30 pm
Biden won’t change Trump’s policies toward Israeli-Palestinian conflict, researcher tells Press TV
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A French researcher has argued that US President Joe Biden will not make any meaningful changes to the country's policies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict despite being critical of some of the previous administration’s approaches towards the Palestinians.

Speaking with Press TV, Romuald Sciora, a research associate at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), predicted that Biden will not fight against a pro-Israel Congress and establishment.

    “All of their policies in the [Middle East] region are based on viewing [issues] from Israel’s perspective,” he maintained.

The Biden administration pledged its “unwavering commitment” to the Israeli regime days after it replaced the administration of Trump, a close ally of Israel.

According to US National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne, Israel was reassured of the Biden administration’s commitment in a phone call between national security advisor Jake Sullivan and his Israeli counterpart Ben Shabbat.

“Mr. Sullivan reaffirmed President Biden’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s security and expressed appreciation for Ben Shabbat’s contributions to our bilateral partnership,” Horne said in a statement on January 24. “Mr. Sullivan confirmed the United States will closely consult with Israel on all matters of regional security.”
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Under Donald Trump, the US recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital and championed the so-called “deal of the century” with the declared aim of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The deal, however, has been denounced by Palestinians as the “slap of the century”, the “fraud of the century”, the “steal of the century”, and the “joke of the century”.

Trump also forged normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan during his final months in office. The deals, known as the “Abraham Accords”, were censured by Palestinians as yet another stab in their back.

On Tuesday, the White House stated that the normalization deals cannot replace peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

In his first official news conference, State Department spokesman Ned Price said while the Trump administration’s work to broker the normalization deals is welcomed as progress, advancing peace between Israel and the Palestinians remains a priority.

“While we support normalization between Israel and countries in the Arab world, it’s also not a substitute for Israeli-Palestinian peace, and that’s very important," Price said.
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During the news conference, Price also criticized the Trump administration’s aid cuts to the Palestinians, saying the decision has only harmed innocent Palestinians.

“The suspension of aid to the Palestinian people has neither produced political progress nor secured concessions from the Palestinian leadership,” he said.

The spokesman made it clear, however, that the resumption of such aid did not indicate that the US was working in favor of the Palestinians.

“We’re not doing that as a favor, but because it’s in the interest of the United States to do so,” Price stressed.

Sciora, who is also a former president of the French-American Global Forum, told Press TV that the Biden administration will only take "symbolic actions" with regard to the Palestinians.

“Don’t expect any important changes from the US regarding Palestinians,” he emphasized.

    “There will be some symbolic actions, but many of Trump’s policies that continue to negatively affect [the Palestinians] will remain intact,” he added.

Sciora also said pro-Palestinian lobbies in Washington are important in advancing the Palestinian cause.

“With their help and a possible future Labor government in Israel, we may see some [change] in US policy,” he continued.

The French researcher also criticized the White House for keeping silent on the Israeli regime’s preventing of the Palestinian people from receiving coronavirus vaccines.

    “Look at what happened with the vaccine destined to the Palestinian people,” he said, adding, “The situation is just scandalous, but no protest from White House.”

On January 31, the Israeli regime publicized a plan to give 5,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine to Palestinian frontline health workers after weeks of global pressure. The plan still leaves the general Palestinian population without access to vaccine shots.

The decision was criticized by Palestinians and human rights groups for falling short of the regime’s obligations.

“Israel’s provision of 5,000 vaccine doses to Palestinian health workers pales in comparison to the nearly five million doses it has already provided to Israeli citizens,” Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, told CNBC following the announcement.

Israel’s duties under international law after more than 50 years of occupation with no end in sight far exceed just offering some vaccines when it has the capacity,” Shakir said.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/02/03/644496/Biden-wont-fight-pro-Israel-establishment-researcher-predicts
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Nothing quite like cosigning child abuse and racism while claiming that you want to "unite" Americans who are suffering from child abuse and racism on an epic scale. Just by this alone you know Biden is a complete failure and an immoral coward. The U.S. is finished.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on February 03, 2021, 10:52:59 pm
Biden will return to JCPOA but retain some sanctions on Israel’s order: Analyst
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The newly-inaugurated administration of US President Joe Biden will likely be taking its lead from Israel and keep some anti-Iran sanctions in place despite returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, an American author and political analyst has said.

Daniel Kovalik, an academic at the University of Pittsburgh, made the comment in a phone interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on the issue of the so-called US "maximum pressure" campaign and its failure against the Iranian nation’s resolve and resistance.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed confidence a day earlier that America’s economic war against Tehran has failed, as the world community is unanimously urging Washington to return to its obligations under the multilateral nuclear deal it abandoned in 2018.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/01/29/644126/US-Joe-Biden-Israel-Iran-sanctions-Daniel-Kovalik
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on February 04, 2021, 01:36:17 am
Emhoff is likely Harris's handler. Observe this video clip where he roughs up an animal welfare protester. Notice his facial expression, i.e. the archetypal Jewish snarl, which perfectly compliments his phenotype:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VaJFKd62RQ
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on February 08, 2021, 10:18:41 pm
Biden's Treasury Sec: The Aid Cutoff Will Be...
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That's political suicide. Why are they being so stupid? — Ana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fn-IyM1nms

Remember, these are the democrats that are going to hold off Trumpists from now until the end of time....  ;)

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on February 15, 2021, 12:51:52 pm
Fareed Zakaria: Biden's foreign policy plans are 'worrying'
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CNN's Fareed Zakaria says there are worrying signs the Biden administration seems willing to tailor its foreign policy agenda to placate GOP critics and ultimately, it will not work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGcvzfOSOAQ

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It's all under review, nothing has been reversed....
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 15, 2021, 09:16:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQpVELQH7Y

Sure enough:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Coons#Foreign_policy

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Coons is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and is a staunch supporter of Israel. He has also been a guest speaker at AIPAC events. Coons is also a co-sponsor of a Senate resolution expressing objection to the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 because it undermines direct talks between the parties.[67]

In June 2017, Coons co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, Senate Bill 720, which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[68] for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[69] The bill would make it legal for U.S. states to refuse to do business with contractors that engage in boycotts against Israel.[70] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has vocally opposed the bill.[71]
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on February 19, 2021, 05:52:11 pm
Biden Calls Netanyahu, Promises Stronger Alliance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsanxWHpYc
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on February 19, 2021, 05:56:18 pm
Biden's Student Debt Lies DEBUNKED
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Joe Biden’s student debt lies have been debunked in a brand new study.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki66msn2tGc
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 20, 2021, 12:06:13 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/no-president-biden-interracial-couples-235200614.html

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No President Biden, interracial couples on TV doesn’t make America any less racist
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I’m sure you’re wondering how on Earth Joe Biden ended up talking about interracial relationships when he was supposed to be talking about police brutality.
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I don’t know who Joe Biden is talking to, but I don’t know one Black person in America who sees the Proud Boys tearing down Black Lives Matter signs in Washington, D.C. and thinks things are getting better just because a Humira commercial features a white dad and his biracial daughter getting ice cream.

What Biden and many white Americans don’t or refuse to understand is that these new ‘diverse’ commercials are not targeted to Black people and are in no way a sign of racial progress. Most interracial commercials on TV are produced to provide white Americans with a sense of comfort that in the face of changing power structures and demographics they will still dominate the racial pecking order. How do we know this? Because the commercials are based on white fantasy not actual demographic changes as Biden suggests.

Over 70% of the commercials run in the last 4 years featuring a Black and white interracial couple featured a white man and a Black woman. In fact, for certain high-end products like luxury cars, you are more likely to see a white man and his Black wife than you are a Black couple. These ads clearly aren’t reflecting America’s demographics, where 70% of Black/white interracial couples feature a Black man and a white woman.

They do, however, reflect the fact that while white couples prefer same race couples in commercials, they really dislike seeing Black men with white women. In a time of racial unrest for white America, images of interracial relationships are a proxy for racial progress as long as the race and gender dynamics don’t disrupt whiteness. Or put more crudely, woke white America wants to believe it can **** it’s way out of racism, as long as the **** is white.

The uniquely white American, Hollywood and Madison Avenue notion about the transformative nature of interracial sex and marriage is as old as the plantation and twice as ugly. White people gave Halle Berry an Oscar for Monster’s Ball because they believed that bigoted cop, played by Billy Bob Thornton, was cured of his racism after having sex with her (don’t forget he had her husband put to death).
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Candace Owens has a white husband. Proud Boys member John Kinsman has a Black wife. Another Proud Boys member Nicholas Ochs also has a Black wife. Racist troll Milo Yiannopoulos has a Black husband. White guys with Black wives, whether that is in real life, movies or selling insurance, doesn’t say anything about American race relations except that bigotry and sex go hand and hand like they always have.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 23, 2021, 09:07:48 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u60ccBXfNBw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neera_Tanden#Foreign_policy

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In 2015, when Israeli Prime Minister campaigned against the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal, Tanden, as President of the Center for American Progress, invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in Washington D.C.[65]


Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 06, 2021, 09:34:06 pm
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1819751/middle-east

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US blasts ICC decision to probe Israel over war crimes
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Blinken said: “The ICC has no jurisdiction over this matter. Israel is not a party to the ICC and has not consented to the court’s jurisdiction, and we have serious concerns about the ICC’s attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over Israeli personnel.”

The Biden administration “firmly opposes and is deeply disappointed” by this decision, he added. “The Palestinians do not qualify as a sovereign state and therefore are not qualified to obtain membership as a state in, participate as a state in, or delegate jurisdiction to the ICC.”

Reminder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken

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Blinken was born on April 16, 1962, in Yonkers, New York, to Jewish parents, Judith (Frehm) and Donald M. Blinken, the former United States Ambassador to Hungary.[5][6][7] His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews.[8] Blinken's uncle, Alan Blinken, served as the American ambassador to Belgium.[9][10] His paternal grandfather, Maurice Henry Blinken, was an early backer of Israel

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Blinken praised the Trump administration-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.[72][73]
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Blinken stated that a Biden State Department would keep the American embassy to Israel in Jerusalem
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on March 06, 2021, 09:59:56 pm
These people are so sick!!! Glad none of them will ever get close to heaven and God.
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Always throw dust in a sycophants face! — Mohammad
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on March 20, 2021, 09:23:18 pm
Biden steps up migrant expulsion
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The Biden administration has faced criticism for its practice of deporting migrants to locations far away from where they were caught by US border patrol. #BidenMigrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeqyODpfLdU

Let's talk about the playbook being used against Dreamers....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-G2_Hbq2iQ&list=TLPQMjEwMzIwMjGk5DNv7OkZZw&index=2
Title: Re: Refugees Welcome
Post by: guest5 on March 20, 2021, 09:56:05 pm
Biden steps up family expulsions amid border surge
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The United States is expelling migrants to Mexico far from where they are caught crossing the border, according to Reuters witnesses, in a move that circumvents the refusal of authorities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas who stopped accepting the return of migrant families with younger children.
 
#News​ #Reuters​ #JoeBiden​ #Immigration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3fKNoZokGs
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 03, 2021, 10:34:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWC3LdS5Qto

Yet Biden refuses to demolish Trump's wall.
 
Title: Re: Refugees Welcome
Post by: guest5 on April 07, 2021, 10:55:36 pm
10-year-old Latino migrant boy left alone in rural Texas
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US Border Patrol officials found a 10-year-old boy walking alone on a rural road near La Grulla, Texas. US border officials say migrant families are sending their children alone to cross into the United States after first having been expelled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0LukafSPo
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 07, 2021, 11:38:40 pm
This is all the fault of Biden's weakness:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/5/dhs-may-restart-border-wall-construction-plug-gaps/

The fastest way to end human smuggling is to remove the demand for it by letting people just openly walk across the border without fear!

Title: Re: China and United States Relations
Post by: guest5 on April 09, 2021, 11:10:36 pm
Will Biden’s anti-China alliance work?
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Will the United States wind up sharing world domination with China, or will China eventually accept the US as the world’s sole superpower?

The Biden administration - just like the Trump administration before it - hopes to contain China’s growth and influence. President Joe Biden is trying to do the job by creating an alliance of four countries, the "Quad": Japan, India, Australia and the US.

Join host Steve Clemons and his guests, China experts Deborah Lehr and Randall Schriver, as they discuss the range of issues on the table, including Chinese students in US universities, Huawei, TikTok, Hong Kong, Uighur Muslims, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lFrMsgs_UE
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 11, 2021, 10:04:02 pm
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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 16, 2021, 10:48:03 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-white-house-refugee-cap-democrats-congress-jayapal-omar-menendez-durbin-200735430.html

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President Biden’s decision to keep a strict Trump-era cap on refugees was met with harsh condemnation from progressives in the House and two powerful committee chairmen in the Senate.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called the decision “simply unacceptable and unconscionable” in a statement on Friday. She also mentioned Biden’s promise to lift the refugee cap, which is currently at its lowest-ever ceiling since the start of the refugee resettlement program 40 years ago.

“After four painful years of fighting Trump’s all-out draconian assault on immigrants, President Biden promised to restore America as a beacon of hope and committed to increasing our refugee resettlement numbers,” Japayal said.

“By failing to sign an Emergency Presidential Determination to lift Trump’s historically low refugee cap, President Biden has broken his promise to restore our humanity. We cannot turn our back on refugees around the world, including hundreds of refugees who have already been cleared for resettlement, have sold their belongings, and are ready to board flights.”

Biden committed in February to raising the cap of refugees allowed into the United States from the 15,000 set by Trump to up to 62,500. This was significantly lower than the 125,000 he had promised as a candidate last year. The decision has left thousands of refugees who have already been vetted stuck in limbo across the globe.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somali refugee who immigrated to America after four years in a camp in Kenya, said, “There are simply no excuses for today’s disgraceful decision. It goes directly against our values and risks the lives of little boys and girls huddled in refugee camps around the world. I know, because I was one.”

Omar also tweeted a video of Biden from the campaign in which the then candidate signaled that he wanted the U.S. to do more to help refugees. “We, the United States, used to do our part,” Biden says in the clip.

“Completely and utterly unacceptable,” tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “Biden promised to welcome immigrants, and people voted for him based on that promise. Upholding the xenophobic and racist policies of the Trump admin, [including] the historically low + plummeted refugee cap, is flat out wrong. Keep your promise.”

Jayapal, Omar and Ocasio-Cortez were among approximately three dozen legislators to send a letter to the Biden administration calling for the cap to be raised.
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It was not only progressives in Congress who criticized the decision. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., a centrist, also called for the administration to bring in more refugees.

“The United States has a proud, bipartisan tradition of providing refugees protection through resettlement,” Menendez, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said in a statement. “In this time of great global need, the United States must demonstrate its robust commitment as a nation by resettling the world’s most vulnerable refugees.”

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., issued a statement calling the decision “unacceptable.”

“These refugees can wait years for their chance and go through extensive vetting,” said Durbin, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman. “Thirty-five thousand are ready. Facing the greatest refugee crisis in our time, there is no reason to limit the number to 15,000. Say it ain’t so, President Joe.”

Human rights organizations and refugee advocacy groups also condemned the decision.

“Today, President Biden is turning his back on tens of thousands of refugees around the world who have been approved to come to the United States,” Amnesty International said in a statement, adding, “Communities across the United States, from local groups to faith-based institutions, are ready to welcome these refugees.”

The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch family, likewise issued a statement condemning Biden’s refusal to lift the refugee cap.

“From keeping ports of entry closed to legal asylum seekers at the border to keeping most consulates around the world closed to visa applicants, the Biden administration is keeping America’s gates almost as shut as they have ever been,” the group said.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 26, 2021, 12:42:35 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVZMGOsCGw
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on May 02, 2021, 02:15:23 pm
North Korea says Biden policy shows hostile U.S. intent
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North Korea lashed out at the United States and its allies in a series of statements saying recent comments from Washington are proof of a hostile policy that requires a corresponding response from Pyongyang.
 
#Biden​ #NorthKorea​ #Reuters​ #News​ #KimJongUn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4wPFNyores
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on May 09, 2021, 02:38:00 am
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters reacts to Israel’s actions, addresses Biden
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“Oh what, you support them (Israel) in this #genocidal​ removal of people from their homes! How would you like it, Joe Biden?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh07jvjXaK0
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Robert Peacock
15 hours ago
When evil is being committed in the world good people should not stand by and do nothing
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kam a
14 hours ago
Boycott Israeli products, write to your representative notifying them of raising this issue in your national Parliament. This is the least a person can do.
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Sid 86
14 hours ago
Respect to this man far better then most Muslim leaders in the world today.
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areUaware
14 hours ago
Islam is just another filthy Abrahamic religion.

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Abraham (originally Abram)[c] is the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[1] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the covenant of the pieces, the special relationship between the Hebrews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, Jewish or Gentile (non-Jewish);[d][2] and in Islam he is seen as a link in the chain of prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad.[3]
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After a century of exhaustive archaeological investigation, no evidence has been found for a historical Abraham.[7] Some scholars argue that Abraham's story was composed in the early Persian period (late 6th century BCE) as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in Judah during the Babylonian captivity and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counterclaim on Moses and the Exodus tradition.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

Some one has removed the Hitler quote's from the Christian Identity Wikipedia page where Hitler states that Abraham was an ethnic Jew. Both the British Israelism and the Christian Identity wikipedia pages have been completely changed since last I quoted from them and they have both been slammed with what a Westerner would call "knowledge"....  ;D

But you cannot change this little fact, Abraham would have done it had Yahweh not been 'pulling his leg':
(https://www.gospelimages.com/images/content/paintings/50/image_22235_normal.jpg)


Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: SirGalahad on May 09, 2021, 12:16:23 pm
That painting is so eerie, with how the artist perfectly encapsulates the phenotype of someone like Abraham (probably unintentionally, at that). Goes to show that many people already understand our racial theory on a surface level, at least subconsciously
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Zea_mays on May 11, 2021, 09:01:30 pm
US State Department spokesman says Palestinians are not allowed to defend themselves. (Note his phenotype. Why do you think he is naturally inclined to support Zionists over Palestinians?)

https://twitter.com/TheNationalNews/status/1391873402709872646
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 11, 2021, 10:02:32 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/progressives-rip-biden-administration-refusing-142104891.html

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Progressive Democrats on Monday called out the Biden administration for promoting Israel's right to self-defense as the Israeli military pummeled parts of Gaza with airstrikes in response to rocket attacks from militant groups.
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'He can't even condemn the killing of children'

Responding to Price's remarks in a tweet, Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan said, "Is @StateDeptSpox really refusing to condemn the killing of Palestinian children?"

Similarly, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted, "This unsurprising response is devoid of empathy and concern for human suffering. He can't even condemn the killing of children."
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on May 11, 2021, 10:48:52 pm
US State Department spokesman says Palestinians are not allowed to defend themselves. (Note his phenotype. Why do you think he is naturally inclined to support Zionists over Palestinians?)

https://twitter.com/TheNationalNews/status/1391873402709872646

Reading the responses and comments I'm glad to see more people using terms like, "sniveling cowards" and the like, that is exactly what these people are! Weak, sycophantic, sniveling cowards. The arc of justice may be a long one but it's coming for every single one of them! NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on May 16, 2021, 02:22:24 am
Biden IGNORES Palestinian Existence
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Progressive Democrats like Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized President Biden's statement on Israeli's right to self-defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jk0StF57o8
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Zea_mays on May 18, 2021, 10:16:47 pm
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FIRST IN POWER UP: The Biden administration has approved the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel, raising red flags for some House Democrats who are part of the shifting debate over the U.S. government’s support for the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/17/power-up-biden-administration-approves-735-million-weapons-sale-israel-raising-red-flags-some-house-democrats/


Meanwhile, I always thought Sanders would be the best case for anti-Zionism that we could reasonably expect from a US President in the short term. Both because his supporters would demand he lives up to his social justice platform, and because his Jewishness makes it very easy to criticize him if he turns a blind eye to Zionist crimes (via the same criticisms levied against beneficiaries of "white privilege" who claim to be against racism yet do not take sufficient action to dismantle it).
(https://i.redd.it/l6rletpdijz61.jpg)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on May 19, 2021, 11:28:07 pm
Erdogan says Biden has 'bloody hands' for backing Israel
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused U.S. President Joe Biden of "writing history with his bloody hands" following reports of a multi-million-dollar weapons sale to Israel by his administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlOA_JqfPSI
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 21, 2021, 03:52:25 am
https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/1395150425997811712 (video at link)

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This is the missile (JDAM) that is most of the $735 Million worth of weapons @JoeBiden is rushing to Israel to be used in one of the most densely-populated cities on earth.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Dazhbog on May 23, 2021, 08:19:21 am
The Biden-administration is useless in terms of anti-Duginism as well:

https://www.unian.info/economics/nord-stream-2-biden-administration-waives-sanctions-on-corporate-entity-its-ceo-11426062.html

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"Furthermore, I have determined that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG, its CEO Matthias Warnig, and Nord Stream 2 AG's corporate officers," Blinken said.

Why does Blinken (Jew) believe waiving sanctions on Nord Stream 2 is in the national interest of America?

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Today's actions demonstrate the Administration's commitment to energy security in Europe, consistent with the President's pledge to rebuild relationships with our allies and partners in Europe.

Nord Stream 2 was Germany's idea FFS. The burden to fix German-American relations is thus on Germany, namely by ditching Nord Stream 2. If America falters to Germany instead, they are effectively telling Germany that it can cozy up to Russia without having to fear repercussions regarding its relationship with America, emboldening Germany to further deepen its ties with Russia.

Meanwhile, I always thought Sanders would be the best case for anti-Zionism that we could reasonably expect from a US President in the short term.

Maybe, but I think this will decrease the likelihood of a genuine anti-Zionist shift in America in the long run. As long as Sanders isn't too powerful, more authentic anti-Zionists such as Omar and Tlaib have a realistic chance of asserting themselves as the dominant anti-Israel force in American politics, eventually drawing Two-State-Solutionists and other "moderates" otherwise willing to compromise with Israel in one form or another (I will refer to them as "pro-Palestinians" henceforth) to their side out of necessity in lack of a similarly effective opposition to the uncompromisingly pro-Israel forces.

With Sanders in charge, however, it would be these pro-Palestinians calling the shots and there would be no need for them to back authentic anti-Zionists. In fact, they would not even have to make concessions to the latter to enlist their support against the pro-Israelis, as the pro-Israelis themselves can be expected to support the pro-Palestinians against the anti-Zionists. Zionism is after all survivalism, which means that the vast majority of the pro-Israelis can at the end of the day be expected to be happy with whatever solution prolonging Israel's existence, even if it would entail some concessions to the Palestinians.

In summary, I think a Sanders-presidency would marginalize any authentic anti-Zionist force in American politics. Furthermore, it might actually normalize Israel's existence within the confines of a two-state solution or another compromise, or in other words, it would be a step towards sustainable evil.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on May 23, 2021, 09:47:37 am
" Furthermore, it might actually normalize Israel's existence within the confines of a two-state solution or another compromise, or in other words, it would be a step towards sustainable evil."
"Another compromise" includes, for example, a "one state solution" without any mention of territorial reclamation/resettlement of refugees/driving out of all post-48 invaders. It goes without saying that the only way to achieve this will be dropping WMDs on Tel Aviv or a full scale ground invasion. Of course, if this can be accomplished in another way, I am open to suggestions.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Zea_mays on May 23, 2021, 04:43:43 pm
Pic of Biden when he gets a hold of your tax dollars:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hUGxsTuYz80/YKmMFOcvmwI/AAAAAAAACrk/MZdoec9koTgbats9ImQ1Cocod5amQRHlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/biden-supports-apartheid.jpg)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hUGxsTuYz80/YKmMFOcvmwI/AAAAAAAACrk/MZdoec9koTgbats9ImQ1Cocod5amQRHlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/biden-supports-apartheid.jpg
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on May 25, 2021, 12:39:46 am
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More than 500 staff members of Pres. Biden’s former campaign and the DNC have signed an open letter to Biden, calling on him to take greater action to protect Palestinians' human rights.

‘As you tweeted last month, 'No responsible American president can remain silent when basic human rights are violated.' We could not agree more,’ the letter states. ‘That is why we ask you to unequivocally condemn Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians.’ The letter then lists out a set of demands for the Israeli government and calls on the White House to ‘take concrete steps to end the occupation in pursuit of justice, peace, and self-determination for Palestinians.’

Next week, Sec. of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to the Middle East to meet with Israeli leaders following last week's cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. While speaking with ABC News over the weekend, Blinken reaffirmed Biden’s commitment to a two-state solution in the region.

Despite any cease-fire, the Israeli government will continue to enforce a military occupation over Palestinian territory, which the UN has said violates international law. The UN also reports that more than 58,000 Palestinians have been displaced due to the recent violence.
(https://yt3.ggpht.com/WVniZff0XUd3QsrGHFTzcIq-HV-YpZYD17Ti1aaAu4mmflmDgk_Y7dlxFMuU2Xj0M_1cCoXT739_SFk=s640-nd)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 29, 2021, 04:42:49 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84ZPKdhn2k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

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Emanuel's paternal grandfather was a Moldovan Jew who emigrated from Bessarabia.[8] The surname Emanuel (Hebrew: עמנואל), which means "God is with us", was adopted by their family in honor of his father's brother Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem.[9][10]

Emanuel's father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a Jerusalem-born[11] pediatrician at Michael Reese Hospital[12] who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in British Mandate Palestine.[13]
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During his original 2002 campaign, Emanuel "indicated his support of President Bush's position on Iraq
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In June 2007, Emanuel condemned an outbreak of Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip and criticized Arab countries for not applying the same kind of pressure on the Palestinians as they have on Israel. At a 2003 pro-Israel rally in Chicago, Emanuel told the marchers that Israel was "ready for peace" but would not get there until Palestinians "turn away from the path of terror".[67]
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Emanuel made a habit of telephoning CIA Director Leon Panetta and asking about the lethal drone strikes aimed at Al Qaeda, asking, "Who did we get today?".[88]
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On September 30, 2010, it was announced that Emanuel would leave his post as White House Chief of Staff to run for Mayor of Chicago.[90]
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He had 75 contributors give more than $50,000, twenty-five of which were from out of state.[91] Among these high-dollar contributors were Steven Spielberg, Donald Trump, and Steve Jobs.[91]
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Rahm Emanuel faced a great deal of criticism for his handling of the October 20, 2014, police shooting of Laquan McDonald. The dash-cam video of the shooting was initially withheld, and only was released after a judge ordered it on November 24, 2015. After the video release, Emanuel was condemned for covering up the incident and allowing Chicago police to use excessive force against minorities.[121]
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Rahm Emanuel announced preliminary plans to award Elon Musk a contract to build a Hyperloop between downtown Chicago and the city’s O’Hare airport, although it would receive no public subsidies under this plan. However, some criticized the fact that Elon Musk has in the past donated more than $55,000 to Rahm Emanuel’s various election campaigns, suggesting a potential conflict of interest between the two.[163]
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The Emanuels are members of the Chicago synagogue Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel.[31] Rabbi Asher Lopatin of the congregation described Emanuel's family as "a very involved Jewish family", adding that "Amy was one of the teachers for a class for children during the High Holidays two years ago".[31] Emanuel has said of his Judaism: "I am proud of my heritage and treasure the values it has taught me."[31]
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 04, 2021, 01:06:17 am
Don't miss the latest analysis by our expert analyst:

https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2021/06/flynn-calls-for-coup-again.html

Highlight:

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    "Democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world. What we do now -- what we do now, how we honor the memory of the fallen will determine whether or not democracy will long endure," Biden said.
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(Wtf is wrong with you Biden, democracy just gave us Trump, the Republican party is democratically disenfranchising millions of voters, and you just gave the democratic state of Israel nearly a billion extra dollars in funding to continue its system of apartheid which it democratically keeps voting for. And in case you've forgotten, democracy gave us slavery, Jim Crow, ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, and all kinds of other stuff too. Democracy is a system devoid of empathy which panders to the lowest common denominator and the most selfish of voters and political grifters.)

To drive home the absurdity in the lack of law enforcement regarding all the coup organizers and supporters--George Floyd, a random person, was summarily executed while being arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. Flynn, a retired General, former National Security Advisor for the President, and member of Trump's inner circle, has called for a military coup multiple times and faced no consequences. Democratic party leaders at least acknowledged Floyd when they strangely thanked him for "sacrificing his life", but Democratic party leaders act like Flynn doesn't exist. Flynn's crimes pose an existential threat to our nation and the evidence is public record, while Floyd's alleged crime wasn't even proven at the time of his arrest and murder at the hands of police.

When our system of government and law enforcement have double standards this extreme, we have to face the unfortunate fact that we may not even have a functional government anymore. All thanks to democracy, if we want to be even clearer about it.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on June 04, 2021, 09:24:05 pm
You have to be a shyte for brains degenerate to still want democracy after the last five years in the U.S.!!! We need a dictator with the nuts to bomb Israel into dust and we shouldn't rest until we find one!

I don't think the U.S. federal government has been functional for quite some time now! In fact, we could argue ever since the Israeli false-flag on 9/11.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on June 07, 2021, 08:31:09 pm
Biden Admin Gives Palestinians The Middle Finger During Ilhan Omar Questioning
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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar pressed President Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the administration's opposition to the ICC investigation into Israel and Palestine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVH4ZVnsqFQ

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The way he avoids the question here is so slimy....

Slimy people do slimy ****, stop letting slimy people vote other slimy people into positions of power! Had slimy people not voted for Trump we may never have had slimy Biden either!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on June 07, 2021, 09:04:08 pm
Progressives Push Back After Biden's Betrayal
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The Sunrise Movement protested outside the White House to protest Biden's backsliding on infrastructure and climate spending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1oXs55u4WI

Cool name, too bad they're progressives....
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 10, 2021, 12:06:37 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSKZmvSs8Ug

They almost go True Left at 6:50, and then Kasparian ruins it at 7:33.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 10, 2021, 11:52:14 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/root-causes-immigration-talk-kamala-185821660.html

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All This ‘Root Causes’ Immigration Talk by Kamala Harris Is a Cop-Out
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President George W. Bush was right: Immigrants from Mexico come here to do jobs that Americans won’t do. And refugees from Central America come here to escape violence, with a plan to reunite with family members who are already in the United States—doing jobs that Americans won’t do.

Harris is to the right of Bush. Think about this statement carefully. This is how far rightwards the centre has moved since 9/11.

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With hundreds of thousands of would-be Central American refugees trying to enter the United States in search of asylum, the migration crisis is a headache for Democrats. They don’t have answers. All they have are competing factions: Latinos who want to make it easier for immigrants and refugees from Mexico and Central America to come north, and white working-class union members in the Rust Belt states who want to make it tougher.

Or, as I would put it, Americans vs Western occupiers.

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In both political and humanitarian terms, the immigration crisis was already a hot mess. Now, thanks to Harris and her clumsy way of communicating, it’s hotter and messier.

And, as a bonus, Democrats now have a new problem on their hands: A lot of Latinos are pissed off—at Harris and Democrats.

To think, this hurricane was created by three little words uttered by Harris at a press conference in Guatemala City: “Do not come.”

That was the vice president’s harsh message to desperate Guatemalans—and, by extension, Hondurans and Salvadorans—who are thinking of giving up everything they own, leaving their families, and walking more than 1,000 miles to the U.S.-Mexico border to try their luck in the nation of second chances.

“I want to be clear to folks in the region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border,” she said while addressing reporters along with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei. “Do not come. Do not come.”

And they’d be coming to roll the dice and seek asylum from a U.S. immigration system that, on average, awards that golden ticket to only about one in four people who ask for it. Most of all, these people would come because they put trust in the promise from the grand lady in New York Harbor who vows to take in “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

Frankly, that is where this Mexican-American gets pissed off. I shouldn’t have to explain all this to Kamala Harris, of all people. I shouldn’t have to make the case for inclusion and tolerance to the first Black vice president of the United States, or explain why America needs immigrants and refugees to a politician who was packaged and sold to the American people as “the daughter of immigrants.”

My mother was born in Texas, and my father was born in California; Harris’ mother was born in India, and her father was born in Jamaica. And I have a better handle on this stuff than she does?
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In the spirit of the Las Vegas tourism department, the administration hopes that, with a sizable enough investment, we can get to the point where what happens in Central America will stay in Central America. So the Biden administration wants to save the region, but it has no interest in saving the people who live in the region? It’ll take on the challenge of nation building in Central America, but it won’t take in any more Central Americans? What a joke.

After telling the people of Central America not to come to the United States, Harris followed up with this:

“We will discourage illegal migration,” she said. “The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border… If you come to our border, I believe you will be turned back.”

Slow your roll, Madame Vice President. Who said anything about “illegal.” Or didn’t they teach you in law school that the process of seeking refugee status in the United States is 100 percent legal?

This **** has to be sorted out soon, because:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/

Fortunately, Harris appears to be susceptible to pressure:

https://vdare.com/posts/kamala-tells-spanish-language-interviewer-she-didn-t-really-mean-it-when-she-said-do-not-come-in-english

which is why we have to keep it up.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest5 on June 11, 2021, 12:07:22 am
I think that's the "two and two" most people cannot put together. If this racism shyte is not sorted out soon before the real climate crisis hits get ready for the ****-show to get 100 times worse! Then you will be sitting on your arses with your life in shambles wishing you would have done something before it was too late! But, also keep in mind that this is the selfish reason to do something about racism now....
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 16, 2021, 01:53:28 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/illegal-immigrants-slam-biden-harris-153936851.html

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Over 200 protesters gathered Tuesday afternoon in Lafayette Square across from the White House to demand a pathway to citizenship, also known as amnesty, for the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States.

Throughout the afternoon rally-goers could be heard across the park shouting chants in both Spanish and English such as "No papers, no fear!" and "What do we want? Citizenship. When do we want it? Now!"
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"President Biden promised to take action within the first 100 days of being elected," said the man emceeing the event. "What a change of tone, right? When it was just [this] past week when we heard Vice President Kamala Harris say, ‘Do not come. Do not come.’"

Roberts was even more direct, saying Harris "lied" to the immigrant community. "Kamala Harris lied and said she would help us," shouted Roberts from a megaphone.

The protesters also took aim at the top immigration law enforcement agencies with chants of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" after Roberts slammed Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

"ICE and CBP are the largest funded police agencies in this country," Roberts said to the crowd, which then responded with ""Shame! Shame! Shame!"

Every undocumented American must ensure they own:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 02, 2021, 11:50:59 pm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/black-lives-matter-leaders-met-with-biden-officials-and-they-re-disappointed-with-police-reform-talks/ar-AALAGvS
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 05, 2021, 12:12:38 am
This is the image I hope history will remember Biden by:

https://worldisraelnews.com/i-was-shocked-biden-kneels-before-israeli-mother-of-12-at-presidential-meeting/

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(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screen-Shot-2021-07-04-at-9.12.08-PM.png)

“You know what? I have to go down on my knees for honoring you for having 12 children,” before lowering himself to the floor on one knee and bowing his head.
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“The president of the United States, the most strong state in the world, to whom did he bow to? A mother of 12 children for her being a mother,” she said.

Caption in future history textbook: Back when the US used to be a Western country, this was how it treated Israel. Fortunately, the US eventually became American again, thanks in no small part to Demographic Blueshift.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 16, 2021, 01:38:15 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIzL-0bAfGE

TYT left out the most important factor of all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries#Political_positions

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He is pro-Israel, saying at a rally in July 2014, "Israel should not be made to apologize for its strength." Citing his own childhood growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Jeffries added that he knew from experience that "the only thing that neighbors respect in a tough neighborhood is strength."[61] In December 2016, Jeffries condemned the Obama Administration for not vetoing United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 concerning Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.[62]
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on July 23, 2021, 09:47:30 pm
Biden hits new low in Gallup poll
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President Biden's approval rating has dropped to a new low of 50 percent in Gallup's opinion poll, according to results published Friday.

Biden's approval rating dropped 6 percentage points from June in the new poll, which surveyed 1,007 adults between July 6 and July 21.

The lower rating comes amid new fears about inflation, a rising number of coronavirus cases and a slowing vaccination rate.

Broken down by political party, only 12 percent of Republicans give the president a positive job approval rating in comparison to 90 percent of Democrats and 48 percent of independents. The survey notes that his approval ratings among Democrats and independents are the lowest for those two groups to date, while the Republican rating was up 1 point.

Gallup noted that it’s common for presidents to see about a 3-point decrease in their average job approval ratings between their first and second quarters.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/564594-biden-receives-lowest-job-approval-rating-since-taking-office

But Gallup found that Biden’s second quarter average approval rating of 53 percent was better than both former President Clinton's at 44 percent and former President Trump's at 38.8 percent.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on August 06, 2021, 06:53:35 pm
9/11 families to President Biden: Don't come to our memorial events
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Nearly 1,800 victims’ relatives, first responders and survivors are calling on Biden to refrain from attending any memorials over his refusal to release Sept. 11 documents.
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Nearly 1,800 Americans directly affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are opposing President Joe Biden’s participation in any memorial events this year unless he upholds his pledge to declassify U.S. government evidence that they believe may show a link between Saudi Arabian leaders and the attacks.

The victims’ family members, first responders and survivors will release a statement Friday calling on Biden to skip 20th-anniversary events in New York and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon unless he releases the documents, which they believe implicate Saudi officials in supporting the acts of terrorism. The group says that as a candidate Biden pledged to be more transparent and release as much information as possible but that his administration has since then ignored their letters and requests.
Entire article: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9-11-families-president-biden-don-t-come-our-memorial-n1276138

If I were a 9/11 survivor I wouldn't want any U.S. presidents, or any Western leader, coming to our memorial service's either!!! I mean, there's plenty of cowardice to go around in Western governments, but the cowardice surrounding 9/11 by all of them is so despicable and shameful it makes me want to stick a finger down my throat. I'll keep praying that the true and living God of the spirit realm asks their souls about it on their day of judgement. Lastly, for the life of me I do not understand why these survivors are only focusing on Saudi Arabian links to 9/11, are they just not paying attention to anything important either?

NEVER FORGIVE!!! NEVER FORGET!!!

Missing Links - Israeli Involvement in 9/11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGJ5Q9eaHqQ

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Daniel Pavlovsky
1 year ago
JFK knew what was up with these "Canadian geese".

The Day Israel Attacked America
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Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx72tAWVcoM

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard lands in Israel
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Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed in the US in 1985 for spying for Israel, lands in the Jewish state, where he is received by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Pollard, 66, served 30 years in prison for giving away classified US documents, and had been confined by parole terms to the US since his release in 2015, despite Israeli pressure to allow him to leave. The US Justice Department removed the terms and conditions last month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvWLQTzQyoQ

Mark Perry speaks about allegations of Israeli spies posing as CIA agents
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Agents with Israel's spy agency have posed as CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani group Jundallah, according to a report in Foreign Policy magazine.

Using US dollars and passports, the agents passed themselves off as members of the US' Central Intelligence Agency in the operations, according to memos from 2007 and 2008, said the report which was published on Friday.

Al Jazeera speaks with author, historian and journalist Mark Perry authored the Foreign Policy report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHuiMO4juKY

Is it even possible to find serious leadership in the U.S. at this point? Is the U.S. government ever going to get serious about any of the important issues that we face?

 
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 17, 2021, 10:07:24 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvvCaupbnDo
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on September 01, 2021, 01:38:30 pm
Why Joe Biden's Approval Rating is ACTUALLY Collapsing
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Why Joe Biden's approval rating is actually dropping, which goes well beyond the Afghanistan chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo4T-GGTnow
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 19, 2021, 09:52:06 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94eVv9Z49Cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLcaJxYTGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSxpygjYLs

Meanwhile crops are being left to rot in fields due to unprecedented levels of labour shortage:

https://www.eatingwell.com/article/291645/farmers-cant-find-enough-workers-to-harvest-crops-and-fruits-and-vegetables-are-literally-rotting-in-fields/

Why not let all the refugees in and transport them straight to farms all around the country so they can get to work at once? (And then the same rightists calling for deportations are complaining about soaring food prices.....)

Oh well, at least Biden can say he is no worse than Johnson:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-labour-shortages-crops-rotting-field-b1920604.html

The difference is that Johnson is a rightist. Biden is supposed to be a leftist.

When will Biden be assassinated?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on September 22, 2021, 11:04:05 am
Biden administration struggles to explain treatment of Haitian migrants in Texas
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A big decision by the FDA today could mean millions of Americans might be eligible for COVID-19 booster shots as early as this Friday.

Plus,  the Biden administration is struggling to explain the treatment of Haitian migrants by border patrol agents in Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQUN3h9wKI
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on September 23, 2021, 01:49:19 pm
Psaki Rebukes U.S. Envoy to Haiti Who Resigned Over Migrant Treatment
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The U.S. envoy for Haiti resigned over President Joe Biden’s treatment of Haitian migrants along the border with Mexico, drawing an unusually stern rebuttal from the White House and State Department.

Special Envoy Daniel Foote, a career diplomat appointed to the job in July, resigned in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday. He called the Biden administration’s decision to send Haitian migrants back to their own country “inhumane” and said his recommendations for how to address the issue “have been ignored and dismissed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfNroU3RscM
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 03, 2021, 10:14:41 pm
https://www.theroot.com/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-the-democratic-party-and-1847757771

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The attempts at passing voting rights protections have stalled. So has police reform. Immigration reform, too. While the GOP’s obstructionists agenda may be the reason for some of these failures, The Democratic Party must also bear some blame.

Take police reform, for instance. After reaching an impasse with Republicans, Senate Democrats recently conceded that the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is dead. However, congressional legislation is not the only way to achieve this goal.

What if I told you the Biden administration could reform the police without Congress?

As we explained here, most of the provisions in the proposed police reform bills would have been enforced through grants from the Department of Justice, which is part of the executive branch. The Attorney General could simply withhold funding by only certifying law enforcement agencies that banned chokeholds, outlawed no-knock warrants and implemented a police shooting database—some of the major provisions of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. No certification, no money. The Justice Department even has the authority to create a task force to investigate corruption, brutality and civil rights violations within police departments.

If this idea sounds radical, previous presidents have done this. One prior administration used the power of executive order to determine which state and local police departments were eligible for federal funds by setting standards for certification. A former attorney general actually created a DOJ task force to investigate “anti-government extremists” who “violently attacked police officers and other government officials, destroyed public and private property, and threatened innocent people.” To be fair, all of those previously mentioned reforms were enacted by one administration...

The one led by Donald J. Trump.

While there is no guarantee that the next administration would have kept these rules in place, isn’t it funny how the Democratic Party opted for a path to police reform that was more traditional and the least likely to succeed? Perhaps you’d change your mind if you knew that the Biden administration still hasn’t rescinded those pro-police executive orders.
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Of course, reconciliation is a complex process that can only be determined by the Senate Parliamentarian, who interprets the rules of the Senate. It’s not like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) can just fire or overrule the Parliamentarian.

Except he can. It wouldn’t even be an unprecedented move. The GOP actually fired parliamentarian Robert B. Dove in 2001 for the exact same reason—Republicans wanted to overcome a filibuster by passing a bill with a simple majority vote. Lest you think that decision wasn’t as controversial, that budget reconciliation is what gave us the wealth-building tool called the “Bush tax cuts.”

The Democratic Party would have the most loyal part of their base believe that their hands have been tied by their Republican counterparts. However, the truth is that the Democratic Party is not as willing to fight for Black voters in the same way that the GOP will stand on the edge of hell for its white constituents.

When the Republican Party wanted to seat a thong-hating handmaid on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell eliminated the filibuster and found a way to strongarm moderates like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins into compliance. Joe Biden, however, can’t do anything about expanding the Supreme Court. The GOP won’t even acknowledge that we correctly counted votes in the 2020 election but the Democratic Party’s solution to voter suppression is to let the most conservative member of the Senate (Joe Manchin) and the party’s Karen-in-chief (Kyrsten Sinema) dictate the future of Black people’s voting rights.

There are some who would say that anyone who condemns the Democratic Party’s approach to governing is inadvertently aiding the opposition. But the Democratic Party is simply the political tool that Black America uses as protection against the party of white nationalism. And what good is a tool if it doesn’t work when you need it?
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Here’s an idea: What if, instead of denying the disparity in the way Black people are treated, what if we stopped listening to white people and reformed policing?

And politics?

And America?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 05, 2021, 09:44:55 pm
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/574961-biden-on-track-to-beat-trumps-record-for-fewest-resettled-refugees

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The Biden administration is on track to resettle the lowest number of refugees in the history of the program despite big promises it would revamp a system decimated under former President Trump.

The administration had resettled 7,637 refugees by the end of August — a figure experts say makes it near impossible to reach the 11,814 low point under the Trump administration by the close of the fiscal year that ended Friday.
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In February, he said he would raise the cap to 62,500 for this fiscal year — part of a pledge to reach 125,000 within his first year in office.

But he slow-walked the presidential determination that officially set the new number for the program, leaving in limbo refugees with a number of security and health checks that risked expiring shortly after their March flights.

“Because he took until April, all those flights that had been booked had to be canceled and the security checks started to expire and that was really really frustrating. For some of those people, housing had been readied, families were excited to reunify with loved ones — that was a really hard moment,” said Meredith Owen, director of policy and advocacy for Church World Service, a coalition of Christian denominations that helps resettle refugees.

But when Biden finally signed the determination in April, he backtracked significantly, setting the refugee cap at 15,000, the same all-time low used under Trump, infuriating both advocates and congressional Democrats.

“Everyone did a collective ‘What the f---’” Owen said.

The move came as Republicans were hammering Biden on an influx of migrants at the border.

Biden will always listen to rightists over those on his own side. This is why he deserves to be assassinated.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on October 17, 2021, 12:00:59 pm
Smerconish: Why Trump can beat Biden in 2024
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Michael Smerconish asks if Democrats should worry less about Trump stealing the 2024 election and more about him actually winning. Biden's approval ratings have ebbed as his presidency faces many big issues including the Delta variant, roadblocks to his congressional agenda, the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and inflation.

#MichaelSmerconish #CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAXTul_PVUg
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 17, 2021, 10:38:21 pm
Does anyone still remember that Biden campaigned on being different to Trump?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/biden-administration-says-its-ready-to-restore-remain-in-mexico-along-border-next-month/2021/10/15/e97a356a-2d22-11ec-92bd-d2ffe8570c7d_story.html

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Biden administration says it’s ready to restore ‘Remain in Mexico’ along border next month
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Biden officials said they have signed contracts to reopen soft-sided “tent courts” at border crossings in Laredo and Brownsville, Tex., where asylum seekers placed into MPP would appear for hearings via videoconference, as occurred under President Donald Trump.
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The Trump administration used MPP to return more than 60,000 asylum seekers across the border to Mexico, requiring them to wait outside U.S. territory as their claims were processed in U.S. courts. The policy was conceived by Trump officials as a way to prevent border-crossers from being released into the United States — and avoiding deportation — by making asylum claims.

Now our only hope is Mexico refusing to cooperate:

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MPP cannot resume without Mexico’s consent, as the court acknowledged in its ruling

If Mexico were less cowardly, it could even refuse to accept deportees! Gambia is doing this:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/refugees-welcome/msg8821/#msg8821
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on October 18, 2021, 02:00:35 pm
Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at CIA Black Sites. Biden Is Trying to Keep the Abuse Secret.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by Abu Zubaydah, the Guantánamo prisoner who was the first subject of the CIA’s torture program. Zubaydah’s legal team has spent years trying to obtain testimony from two psychologists who helped the CIA design and implement his torture, and the Biden administration is continuing the Trump’s administration strategy to keep key information about Zubaydah’s torture in Poland classified despite the fact that the two psychologists are willing to testify. Several justices contradicted the Biden administration, suggesting Zubaydah, the only witness besides the psychologists to the torture in Poland, testify himself, and expressing frustration that Zubaydah is still being held incommunicado at Guantánamo. We speak with Abu Zubaydah’s attorney, Joe Margulies, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Raymond Bonner, who has long followed the case. “The legal justification for continuing to hold [Guantánamo detainees] has disappeared,” says Bonner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sapMfw9GEqU
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 21, 2021, 03:08:21 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxyKRhhVQ1Q
Title: Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
Post by: acc9 on October 29, 2021, 03:37:50 am
https://www.businessinsider.com/dock-workers-explain-record-shipping-container-cargo-backlog-california-ports-2021-10

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/companies-need-more-workers-to-help-resolve-supply-chain-problems.html

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These days, everything from the seemingly random shortages of items in the grocery store to the small-print warnings that your online purchases could experience shipping delays can all be traced back to a woefully out-of-whack supply chain. ..........Labor shortages at every part of the supply chain are having an impact on companies of all stripes. It’s also affecting economic growth. A survey of local chamber of commerce leaders by the U.S. Chamber reveals that 90% of these leaders say that labor shortages are limiting economic growth in local areas..

...and the UK is faring not much better with their lack of truck drivers to deliver goods which are piling up in ports
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 29, 2021, 04:11:55 am
Yet rightists to this day still think the US (and UK) need fewer immigrants.....
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 02, 2021, 09:39:09 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/containers-more-70-ships-anchored-130026782.html

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The containers on more than 70 ships anchored off Los Angeles would stretch from Southern California to Chicago if laid end to end, an analysis has found
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Containers have been stacked up on the docks for weeks waiting to be unloaded, but a shortage of on-dock workers and truck drivers has led to long delays as ships cannot dock and drop new cargo.

Also on the southern border there are huge numbers of people willing to work but being forced to sit around doing nothing because CBP is not letting them in. Can anyone figure out how to easily solve both problems simultaneously?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 03, 2021, 10:20:05 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/construction-company-owner-says-labor-161629124.html

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Construction company owner says labor shortage means he's paying up to $20 an hour to workers who have 'no idea' how to do the job

Can anyone figure out the easy solution? Because Biden certainly can't!

https://www.nahbclassic.org/generic.aspx?genericContentID=49216
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 20, 2021, 01:41:21 am
For once Harris does something other than agree with Biden:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-appeared-contradict-biden-044356230.html

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Vice President Kamala Harris commented on the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse's homicide trial, suggesting it showed the criminal justice system is not equitable, apparently contradicting President Joe Biden's remarks.

In a tweet Friday evening, the vice president and former prosecutor said: "Today's verdict speaks for itself. I've spent a majority of my career working to make our criminal justice system more equitable. It's clear, there's still a lot more work to do."

While Harris' comments seemed to condemn the outcome of the trial, Biden had stood by the jury's decision earlier Friday.

"I stand by what the jury has concluded. The jury system works and we have to abide by it," Biden told reporters on the White House lawn.

She is still useless, though. What is "more work"? Be specific! Of course her aim is to avoid specifics as much as possible so that no work is actually done.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 24, 2021, 10:08:52 pm
Never mind present-day Red politicians, even Biden is probably more rightist than Reagan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zflp3HmSJTM

Many Americans do not want the US to become economically dwarfed by China in the future, which is understandable. Surely the most obvious way for the US to maintain proportionate economic clout compared to China is for the US to have a population (and hence consumption base) comparable to that of China, which it could trivially attain by welcoming ~1 billion immigrants.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 04, 2021, 08:46:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9DLPW8b4k
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 11, 2021, 12:04:17 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-immigration-policy-played-role-033039461.html

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US immigration policy played a role in crash that killed more than 50 migrants in Mexico
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Recently, the Biden Administration was forced to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as Remain In Mexico, which requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico as they apply and wait for their asylum cases to be heard.

This goes against international and federal law and the principle of non-refoulement – the policy of not returning refugees and asylum seekers who would face danger or severe insecurity if returned to their country of origin. But while the Biden administration was required to reinstate the policy, it also expanded it to include all migrants from the Western Hemisphere, most notably Haiti.
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We have also known that Mexico cannot handle these populations, as the Mexican civil society and U.S. advocates have repeatedly reminded us.

These are the tired, the weak, the hungry and the brave. These are children and mothers who want nothing more than an education, a safe place to sleep, work and live their lives.

We know that these families are coming. I reiterate my call to this administration to partner with Canada and Mexico to find a humane and safe way to process migrants and let them make their asylum cases safely from the United States. It is their legal right to do so.

Surely, death by trailer tractor is not what we want for people who will risk everything just to make an honest living. There has to be a better way.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDuIIpLN5TQ
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 12, 2021, 01:54:37 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/guerrero-stop-letting-hate-groups-111540403.html

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President Biden is making the same mistake President Obama made in his first term: catering to xenophobes while performing compassion toward immigrants.

The strategy lays out the red carpet for Trumpism 2.0.
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Obama tried and failed. By ramping up deportations to historic levels while claiming he was focused on felons, he conflated immigration with criminality in the average mind. Nativists then used his decision not to deport Dreamers — people brought to the U.S. as children — to paint him as an open-borders president.

No matter what Biden does, Republicans will attack his policies as “open borders.” No matter how few people make it to the U.S., Fox News will send cameras to conjure a border apocalypse. Neither Biden nor the Democrats can control that. What they can control is whether they take the bait by playing into and promoting anti-immigrant panic.

This is what I have been saying. If rightists demand ending immigration, never reduce immigration, because this sends the message that the rightists offer an undiluted version of what you yourself have endorsed (but are only offering diluted). Instead, if rightists demand ending immigration, the correct leftist response is to further increase immigration. This sends the message that rightist opinions deserve nothing but active derision, which is the truth.

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On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took the bait during a visit to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, insisting: “I cannot communicate this message too strongly: that individuals should not put their life savings in the hands of smuggling organizations.” He added: “The border is not open.”

The statement stood in absurd contrast to his celebration minutes earlier of the port of entry’s reopening to non-essential travel for foreign tourists. He defended the continued use of a Trump-era public health rule to expel most asylum seekers. Apparently, only people fleeing persecution can bring COVID to the U.S.

Mayorkas insisted that the administration is committed to “respecting the dignity” of asylum seekers. He blamed the reinstatement of another Trump policy, “Remain in Mexico,” on a court order and said the program — which has resulted in hundreds of **** and kidnapping of asylum seekers in Mexico — “does not reflect our values as a country.” Yet the administration has chosen to expand the program to include Haitian asylum seekers, which goes beyond the Trump policy.

About Mayorkas:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg8982/#msg8982

Continuing:

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Cowardice and a lack of imagination are to blame for Democrats’ failure to come up with a cohesive counter-narrative to Republicans’ fearmongering.

The cohesive counter-narrative is simple:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/

What Reds fear is that immigration will make it harder for them to win elections.

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Rather than pressing Biden about his promise to protect millions of undocumented essential workers and community members, many reporters are following the Fox News formula of fixating on the numbers at the border. This spring, Media Matters for America found that Fox News steadily drove the border-crisis narrative, which cable networks CNN and MSNBC then seemed to adopt.
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Republicans understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the agenda. On that, they have benefited enormously from media outlets actively normalizing anti-immigrant hysteria.

We already know who owns the media:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 16, 2021, 01:53:11 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-humanitarian-path-needed-solve-115151574.html

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Opinion: Humanitarian path needed to solve immigration crisis
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Undocumented immigrants in the United States face restriction and racism through policy and detention centers. The public often supports this type of policy and centers through anti-immigration rhetoric based upon baseless claims, such as the exaggerated claims on undocumented immigrant employment. Lawyer and immigration detentions researcher Danielle C. Jefferies writes in the Indiana Law Journal, “…the U.S. immigration system is the largest in the world… Nearly 400,000 people are incarcerated under the government’s immigration detention authority each year.”

In the U.S., many undocumented immigrants who have not committed crimes are sent to live in detention centers, often run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or private prisons. Many private prisons whose purpose is to detain undocumented immigrants often earn huge profits. Jeffries adds, “…a similar two-thirds of all people in the government’s civil custody for migration-related reasons are living behind the walls of a prison constructed to generate income and turn a profit for its shareholders.”

Another interesting point raised by Jeffries is the unconstitutionality of the private prison system spired on by the harsh treatment of undocumented immigrants in these detention systems. Jeffries highlights, “The inability of people in for-profit immigration confinement to hold their jailers constitutionally accountable undermines the constitutional value of dignity.”

Similarly, ICE facilities do not uphold the constitutional value of dignity. In an inspection of four detention centers, the Department of Homeland Security holds standards that require health and safety, detainee care, activities and grievance systems (as cited in Congressional Digest, 2021, p. 7). After the inspection, the Department of Homeland Security ruled that each of the four facilities violated ICE’s detention standards, "Our inspection of the four detention facilities revealed violations of ICE’s detention standards and raised concerns about the environment in which ICE holds detainees in these facilities."

Not only do undocumented immigrants face rough conditions in ICE and for-profit detention centers, but harsh policies in states such as Arizona and Alabama are also a scary reality even outside of jail cells. Author of Killing the American Dream Pilar Marrero highlights the Arizona Law or SB 1070 which allows police to utilize racial and ethnic profiling in confirming immigration status. This portion of SB 1070 encourages discrimination and fear of undocumented immigrants. Another Arizona law, Proposition 200, prevents undocumented immigrants from receiving public services.
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The refugee population from the southern border worldwide and immigrants who are seeking a better life deserve to be treated from a humanitarian perspective. National security is important, but the United States must extend our values of freedom, the pursuit of happiness, and justice to these vulnerable populations.

Immigration reform has long been promised, but undelivered. Twelve million undocumented immigrants are currently in the United States. There needs to be reformation that allows for a path to citizenship and assimilation. The cost to deport one immigrant is $23,000. It is extremely expensive to deport undocumented immigrants, and it does not solve the recurring illegal entry into the United States. Protests and movements such as the Dream Act are just the beginning of immigration reform. It is crucial to recognize the role of the United States on the world stage and to approach immigration reform not as punishing criminals, but as a promoter of humanitarianism.

It is important to educate and bring awareness to the stereotypes and dramatized fear of immigrants, and recognize immigrants’ positive contributions to the U.S. for years. Americans are incredibly blessed to be protected by a Constitution that values freedom and prosperity. Immigrants from all over the world come to the U.S. for refuge, economic prosperity, and higher quality of life. Immigrants, including my family from Germany, trusted America to offer them the pursuit of happiness and freedom. The only solution to the immigration crisis is acceptance of the mistakes and a collaborative policy that stays true to our immigrant roots.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/ice/
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on December 17, 2021, 10:10:17 pm
Let's talk about Republicans winning over Biden....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEB0SH62O0

In regards to Biden and the immigration policies of Trump....

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This is the danger of bumper-sticker politics.... — BOTFC

...and tribalism I would add. It goes to show, rightists are capable of  doing 'good' by accident occasionally.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 19, 2021, 08:18:59 pm
Biden should have been able to predict this, but didn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4yAL8rPPBs

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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on December 19, 2021, 11:22:02 pm
White House issues damning statement against Joe Manchin
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In a remarkable statement after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he would not vote for President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, the White House said Manchin's comments were "at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances." CNN's Joe Johns and Suzanne Malveaux discuss the fallout of the senator's decision. #CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAXMJMj6Nz0
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on December 19, 2021, 11:41:54 pm
Rep. Cori Bush: It's 'Not A Huge Surprise' That Manchin Won't Vote For Build Back Better
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Rep. Cori Bush joined Jonathan Capehart to discuss the Build Back Better Act and what's next for the legislation after Sen. Joe Manchin said he won't vote for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaj9wamHyHU
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 23, 2021, 10:31:04 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/blinken-raised-israel-normalization-indonesia-173733866.html

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the possibility of Indonesia normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel in meetings with officials in Jakarta last week, Israeli officials say.
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The Biden administration is trying to build on the Trump-era Abraham Accords, and in this case, looking beyond the Middle East to the largest of the countries that don't recognize Israel.
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Flashback: Indonesia was one of the countries the Trump administration tried to bring into the Abraham Accords, but the negotiations hadn't matured by the time Trump’s term ended.

Please, someone assassinate Biden now. (As a bonus, it will ensure he doesn't try to run in 2024.)

Reminder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken

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Blinken was born on April 16, 1962, in Yonkers, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Judith (Frehm) and Donald M. Blinken, who later served as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.[5][6][7] His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews.[8]
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Blinken has asserted that "[Biden] would not tie military assistance to Israel to things like annexation or other decisions by the Israeli government with which we might disagree".[100] Blinken praised the Trump administration-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.[101][102]
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Blinken is in favor of continuing non-nuclear sanctions against Iran and described it as "a strong hedge against Iranian misbehavior in other areas".[101]

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on December 23, 2021, 10:40:56 pm
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The Biden administration is trying to build on the Trump-era Abraham Accords,

Why is it only degenerates and evil people ever try and help Israel I wonder? Anyone noticed this as well?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 28, 2021, 02:26:13 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/immigration-smarter-more-humane-way-120019611.html

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Santa struggled this holiday season: He was short of elves.

Our ports didn’t have enough workers to unload the ships that were stuck offshore full of gifts. Trucking companies couldn’t find enough drivers to deliver the goods. Stores needed shelf-stockers. Restaurants couldn’t hire enough cooks.

And yet, to our south, thousands of people clamored to get into the country to do jobs like these.

Our response, year after year? We spend millions of dollars trying to keep them out.
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People in Central America save money from meager incomes to finance their trips, sometimes paying criminal gangs to help them. They face abuse and even death on their trips. If they don’t get in or are deported, they often try again and again. Then they live on society’s fringes, doing jobs Americans don’t want, to send money to relatives back home. They attend church. And they have been shown to commit fewer violent crimes than American citizens — perhaps because they are too busy working.
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We need to find a legal way to admit the resourceful, hard-working people our labor force needs. We ought to pay them fair wages, allow them better living conditions and let them stop hiding.

Never forget that Biden is further to the right on this issue than Reagan was - this is how far to the right everything has shifted since the Counterculture era ended:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986

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Upon signing the act at a ceremony held beside the newly-refurbished Statue of Liberty, Reagan said, "The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans."[2]
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In 1987, Reagan used his executive authority to legalize the status of minor children of parents granted amnesty under the immigration overhaul,[5] announcing a blanket deferral of deportation for children under 18 who were living in a two-parent household with both parents legalizing or with a single parent who was legalizing.[6] That action affected an estimated 100,000 families.
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Nearly three million people applied for legalization under the IRCA.[7] There were two groups of applicants. Aliens who had been unlawfully residing in the United States since before January 1, 1982 (pre-1982 immigrants) were legalized under Section 245A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) while Aliens employed in seasonal agricultural work for a minimum of 90 days in the year prior to May, 1986 (SAWs) were legalized under Section 210A of the INA. Nearly 2.7 million people were ultimately approved for permanent residence.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Zea_mays on December 29, 2021, 07:54:11 pm
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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 09, 2022, 02:38:42 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-little-lies-help-prop-043321052.html

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How Biden’s Little Lies Help Prop Up Trump’s Big One
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Twelve months after the attack, Biden saying anything was an improvement over silence. But there is a profound danger in “remembering” Jan. 6 once a year instead of acknowledging and confronting it daily.

In the space between Trump’s Big Lie about the election and the truth is a web of white lies that Biden and much of entrenched Washington establishment keep telling themselves and the country
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—The lie that there’s a distinction between Trump and the rest of the Republican Party.

—The lie that “unity” without accountability for an attempted coup of the government by Republicans is achievable.

—The lie that Washington, D.C., can return to bygone days of handshakes and deal-making and cocktail parties, and the result will be a government that functions as designed.

—The lie, largely by omission, that white nationalists who came to the Capitol bearing Confederate flags and donning “Camp Auschwitz” hoodies are isolated and contained threats to the public.

—The lie that “this is not who we are” as a country.
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These are not the sort of big lies that propagate on QAnon websites, the dangerous ones that have constructed an alternate reality for Trump’s followers and torn our nation apart. But they are the kind of polite, insidious-in-the-guise-of-innocuous lies that have to be believed by Washington elite in order for elected officials, operatives, lobbyists, and reporters to continue as “normal” in their glossy political lives.

“Whatever my other disagreements are with Republicans who support the rule of law and not the rule of a single man, I will always seek to work together with them to find shared solutions where possible,” Biden said Thursday, as if House Republican leaders, joined by the vast majority of their colleagues, had not voted to overturn his election, exactly one year earlier and yards from where he stood.
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Biden’s apparent desire to be the president he imagined he could be in the late 1980s when he first ran for the office—the president who could host bipartisan meetings and pass appropriations bills with the backing of 90 senators—is in direct tension with the president he needed to be to navigate the nation through this tenuous moment, a president who in the wake of an attempted government coup could immediately and unequivocally call out the Republicans he worked with for decades as easily as they disputed his own election and legitimacy.

It was safer within the “norms”-driven rules of D.C. engagement for Biden to wait 12 months and remember Jan. 6 as an anniversary memory, a flash bang, something Donald Trump once did as opposed to something his party is currently doing.

When network news broadcasts dispatched their anchors to the Capitol for 24 hours on the anniversary of one of the darkest days of American history to “remember”—after spending a year continuing to give platforms to any number of those 147 congressional Republicans who voted to reject Biden’s fairly won electors—they isolated Jan. 6, the memory, from Jan. 6, the ongoing reality.

They are complicit in the Republican desire and push to “move on,” reinforced by the Democrats like Biden who think “moving on” is a stand-in for “healing the nation” as opposed to ripping its wounds deeper and leaving the republic even more vulnerable to this continuous assault.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on January 10, 2022, 08:19:06 pm
The lies that Westerners tell themselves to normalize insanity so that they can function "normally" in an insane world that they have created are of course the most dangerous lies of all!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 12, 2022, 02:03:31 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-urge-biden-grant-deportation-203207185.html

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Biden urges Supreme Court to deny bond hearings for immigrants facing deportation
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In a pair of cases, the Justice Department called on the court to overturn rulings by judges in California and Pennsylvania, who said such immigrants deserve a bond hearing if they are held for more than six months.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said the Biden administration "is on the wrong side in this crucial immigration case."
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The Trump administration appealed those decisions in 2020, and the court agreed to hear the cases last summer. The Biden administration then took up the defense of the government's position in both cases.

The only difference between Biden and Trump these days seems to be that Biden does not support Trump's coup attempt. Policywise Biden is upholding everything Trump put in place. (But rightists still call Biden "far-left" just because Biden does not support Trump's coup attempt.)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 13, 2022, 09:20:50 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71GClR3U6c
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on January 19, 2022, 07:28:03 pm
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Maddow: 'Biden Will Get Pushback From Liberals, But He's Right About Republicans'
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Rachel Maddow joins Nicolle Wallace breaks down President Joe Biden's comments on Republicans during his marathon press conference Wednesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyP3zOLaLM4

Perhaps it's past due time for Biden to reevaluate his supposed "friends" as suggested in the clip above?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 22, 2022, 10:50:33 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBnqKaaSkv8
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 23, 2022, 11:10:26 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brutal-crosscurrent-why-bidens-immigration-100016681.html

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Immigration advocates feel betrayed and frustrated, saying Biden has embraced or even augmented some of the Trump administration's most extreme policies, despite promises to reverse his predecessor's hardline approach to the issue.
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“The inability of the Biden administration to meaningfully roll back Trump-era policies has now made it so that we're in danger of those policies becoming permanent,” said Conchita Cruz, co-executive director for Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project.

Plus, Biden's opportunity to pass immigration reform, which he once cited as a priority, will be significantly diminished if Democrats suffer big losses in Congress come November.

During his news conference last week, Biden only mentioned his proposed immigration overhaul in passing, a sign of how far down his priority list its fallen.
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Immigration advocates have a litany of complaints about Biden's approach to immigration. But perhaps the most irksome is the White House's refusal to repeal a Trump-era policy that allows U.S. border agents to expel asylum seekers to Mexico to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Trump invoked the policy, known as Title 42, as a step to protect public health. The Biden administration has embraced it under the same public health justification, denying critics' assertions they are using it to curb immigration.

Immigration advocates say it makes it impossible for most migrants to seek asylum.
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Advocates also fault Biden for expanding the Migrant Protection Protocols, which forces asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while they await U.S. immigration proceedings.

Biden initially tried to unravel that policy, also known as the "Remain in Mexico" program. But a federal court forced the White House to reinstate the program.

And then Biden expanded it, applying it to immigrants from "any country in the Western Hemisphere other than Mexico." During the Trump administration, only individuals from Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil were enrolled in the program.

The move prompted outrage among Biden's allies in Congress. More than three dozen Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, called on Biden to nix the expansion.

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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Zea_mays on January 25, 2022, 01:30:26 am
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Biden has driven the Democratic Party so far into the ground that he’s given Republicans their largest lead in 40 years.

chart:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FELneHsXEAA_Tpd?format=jpg&name=small

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(Obviously, actual fascists--e.g. original Brazilian Integralists before they became rightist--would have executed Bolsonaro, but that's besides the point).
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 27, 2022, 12:00:58 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/advocates-biden-let-haitian-migrants-103037661.html

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Advocates say Biden has let Haitian migrants down
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“He has definitely failed us,” said Tessa Petit, co-executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition. “Joe Biden came to Little Haiti and said, “We will protect you.’
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Driving the news: Although most Haitian migrants come into the U.S. through the Southern border, a growing number are attempting the dangerous trip by sea.

    In the last three months, three large boats with Haitian migrants have landed in Key Largo, Fla. It’s the first time in over two years that boats have evaded the U.S. Coast Guard. The most recent, a 60-foot vessel crammed with 176 people, no lifesaving equipment and no navigational lights, landed on Jan. 9.

By the numbers: The U.S. Coast Guard says it intercepted 1,527 Haitian migrants off the Florida Keys in 2021, up from 418 in 2020 and 932 in 2019.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 08, 2022, 10:52:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrGnK3WRi-k
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 14, 2022, 02:00:38 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ytU7jW-ZI
Title: Dems Are In For A DISASTROUS 2024 Presidential Election
Post by: guest55 on February 14, 2022, 10:14:24 pm
Dems Are In For A DISASTROUS 2024 Presidential Election
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"Support for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election more than doubles that of President Joe Biden — among people who did not vote at all in 2020.

Respondents to a Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll released this week were asked “If the candidates for the Presidential Election on November 5, 2024 are as follows, for whom will you vote?”

It’s just one poll, it’s early as hell, and it’s from a company with a “B/C” pollster rating from FiveThirtyEight, but it has interesting crosstabs. The overall result — 41 percent for Biden, 41 percent for Trump, 11 percent undecided — is generally similar to other polls taken since Biden’s approval rating took a nosedive.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI_KhxUX5kA


Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 16, 2022, 09:39:53 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/democrats-call-biden-address-disparate-204709890.html

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) are among a group of more than100 Democrats calling on President Biden to address and review the treatment of Black migrants within the United States' immigration system.

The Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to the president dated Wednesday in which they said Black migrants were facing "disparate and often inhumane treatment" within the immigration enforcement process, pointing specifically to Haitian migrants as an example.

"In September 2021, as large numbers of Haitians entered the United States at the Texas border at Del Rio, we saw disturbing images and videos of border patrol agents using horses and horse reins against Black people at the border-who were carrying nothing but food and water," the lawmakers wrote.

"For many, this incident conjured images of our country's treatment towards enslaved Black people and highlighted longstanding concerns regarding the disparate treatment of Black migrants by immigration enforcement officials," they added.

The lawmakers specifically called on Biden to end the use of Title 42, a public health authority that can prevent migrants from seeking asylum by expelling them from the U.S.

"It is time to undo the United States' draconian immigration policies, particularly policies introduced under the Trump Administration, such as the use of Title 42, that circumvent our humanitarian obligations," the lawmakers wrote.

They added that they wanted the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to also do a review of the treatment of Black migrants within the immigration system.

"As a starting point, we recommend the Department of Homeland Security, in concert with the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), conduct a wholistic review of the disparate treatment of Black migrants throughout our immigration system, make available to the public the results of this review and take steps to remedy disparities at each step of the immigration enforcement process," the lawmaker said.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 22, 2022, 08:38:38 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-expands-ukraine-u-shrinks-154015208.html

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As Russia expands into Ukraine, the U.S. shrinks from the world's stage

Vladimir Putin and Russia have ended the Pax Americana by calling what turned out to be America's bluff.

The proof? Russian tanks are moving deeper into Ukraine.

With the end of the Cold War, the United States promised everyone everything, extending its protection as far east as tiny Lithuania. Sure, little buddy, if that bully Russia ever pulls itself off the canvas, we've got your back… But the U.S. reached out too far, promised too much, and now the bluff is called: The embers of imperial ambition can't protect poor, friendly Ukraine.
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We believe peace to be the norm, and wars to be a breach of that peace. Our recent ancestors, on the other hand, saw war as an unfortunate norm and peace to be a nice break. This fundamental change came in the wake of the world's bloodiest war so far, World War II, when Germans and Soviets killed each other at a rate that now is simply unimaginable. Not figurative tens of millions: literal tens of millions.

Thank you, Hitler. Unfortunately Biden is no Hitler.

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Discord at home, disinterest in the world abroad, and fatigue from unwinnable wars has changed that. Americans seem to feel the empire is already lost, and a need to retrench. The world is tired of the American act. And sometimes all it takes to start a war is a lack of resolve on the part of the defender.

America's bluff has been called. Now the only thing that is certain is a world less stable than it has been for nearly 80 years and the inevitable carnage that will follow.

Of course, Trump is still worse:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-putin-plan-recognize-breakaway-212156109.html

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"I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius,'" he said. "Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine - of Ukraine - Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful."

"I said, 'How smart is that?' He's going to go in and be a peacekeeper," added Trump, who regularly praised and sought close ties with Putin during his time in office. "That's the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. There were more army tanks than I've ever seen. They're going to keep peace, all right."

But Biden shouldn't be satisfied with merely being better than Trump on the issue. What is the point of all that money spent on the US military every year if all those expensive weapons are not used when we really need to use them?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 25, 2022, 12:41:03 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-playing-biden-along-220055684.html

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Putin was playing Biden all along
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When the two met last June in Geneva, Biden urged Putin to end his yearslong aggression against Ukraine and stop hacking the United States, telling Putin that he was hurting his “credibility worldwide.” In a call in December, as Putin was assembling tens of thousands of troops along Russia’s border with Ukraine, which he first invaded in 2014, Biden pushed him to deescalate and “return to diplomacy.” Earlier this month, Biden warned Putin that reinvading Ukraine “would produce widespread human suffering and diminish Russia’s standing.”

None of these efforts mattered. In launching a massive assault on Ukraine this week, Putin proved that he sees the world, and his interests, very differently than Biden hoped. He also proved resistant to many traditional tools of diplomacy and deterrence.

Biden’s appeals to Putin’s geopolitical ego didn’t work. Neither did threats of sanctions, words of condemnation, emotional appeals on human rights grounds, deployments of U.S. troops to NATO countries and weapons to Ukraine, or the relatively united front put forth by the United States and its allies. Even an unusual tactic employed by the Biden administration — publicizing significant amounts of intelligence about Putin’s plans — didn’t stop the dictator.

And actions that might have — maybe — changed Putin’s calculus, such as deploying U.S. troops to Ukraine itself, were not ones Biden would consider.
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On Thursday, Biden doubled down on the existing strategy, unveiling more sanctions, deploying more U.S. troops to Europe and promising more diplomacy to keep America and its allies unified. He warned that “Putin’s aggression against Ukraine will end up costing Russia dearly economically and strategically. We will make sure of that. Putin will be a pariah on the international stage.”

At the same time, Biden dismissed questions about whether he’d fully appreciated Putin’s thinking. “I didn’t underestimate him,” he insisted.

This is barely better than Trump saying he won the 2020 election, to be honest.

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Putin is a believer in the ability of hard power to change the global order, and he may simply be less susceptible to what Biden may see as logical appeals to think about his global reputation.

“It’s really hard to counter a revanchist, imperialist mindset,” said Evelyn Farkas, a former Pentagon official who has long urged the Biden team to be tougher on Russia, but thought it performed well in the past few months. “Putin only listens to forcefulness, and at this point really only military force.”

That means it is easy to counter it. Just use military force!

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On Thursday, Biden declined to comment on whether he was urging China to isolate Russia, even as China has criticized the U.S. sanctions on Moscow.

Biden also acknowledged that it could be some time before the new sanctions he’s imposing on Russia have any serious effect, despite their historically tough nature.

“Let’s have a conversation to see if they’re working in a month,” he said.

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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 02, 2022, 08:20:51 pm
https://news.yahoo.com/rep-cori-bush-to-biden-you-didnt-mention-saving-black-lives-once-in-this-speech-165454772.html

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., was seemingly unhappy on Tuesday night after President Biden announced his support for funding police departments.

In his first State of the Union address, Biden told Congress: “The answer is not to defund the police, it’s to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them.”

Shoot Biden. Shoot Biden. Shoot Biden.

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“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,” Bush tweeted. “All our country has done is given more funding to police. The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings."

“Defund the police. Invest in our communities.”

A flagship Black Lives Matter account shared a tweet suggesting it also wasn't happy with the president’s stance on the issue, using a screenshot of Rep. Maxine Waters's face, from at some point in the night, to deliver its message by meme.

Black Lives Matter. Biden's life does not matter.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on March 02, 2022, 09:18:17 pm
So, if you failed to educate racism away I guess more funding will work? Brilliant! Money solves everything yet again wooohooooo! We can all go home now and forget about racist cops gunning innocent unarmed civilians down simply because the color of their skin!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 04, 2022, 08:05:28 pm
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084409254/tens-of-thousands-of-ukrainians-can-stay-in-the-u-s-without-fear-of-deportation

Meanwhile, what about Haitian refugees?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10520599/Democrats-address-Bidens-border-crisis-comparing-encounters-Haitian-migrants-slavery.html

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Biden's invocation of Title 42 to expel many of them was met with criticism from progressives and activist groups. Many allies of the president called into question his campaign trail promise to undo Trump's border policies, which lawmakers said 'circumvent humanitarian obligations' in the Wednesday letter.
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Title 42, which will have been used for two years in March, allows Border Patrol officers to turn asylum-seekers away immediately regardless of their claim in the name of keeping COVID cases down. It's the reason for two million deportations so far.

Is there no COVID in Ukraine? I looked it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory

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Haiti: 71 deaths/million
Ukraine: 2587 deaths/million

Claiming this is about COVID is an insult to our intelligence. It is about it being OK for refugees to be "white". Or even more than OK:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-good-to-be-a-white-refugee

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unlike thousands of Haitian refugees who have tried to seek safety in America only to be met with violence and indifference. Recall the shocking photos of Border Patrol agents on horseback aggressively trying to stop them from crossing. Unlike our staunch support for Ukrainian refugees, the US has visited inhumane treatment on Haitian refugees, often portraying them as being poor criminals.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 15, 2022, 09:23:14 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/us/politics/biden-trump-immigration.html

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Biden Administration Fights in Court to Uphold Some Trump-Era Immigration Policies

Immigration activists and Democrats say there is a disconnect between the president’s words at the lectern and the government’s litigation in the courtroom.

WASHINGTON — President Biden promised to unravel the “moral and national shame” of the immigration policies enacted by President Donald J. Trump. But that was hardly the position Mr. Biden’s lawyers took in a federal courtroom earlier this year.

Appearing in January before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, government lawyers urged the court to let Mr. Biden enforce a restriction imposed by Mr. Trump that allowed migrants to be quickly turned away at the border.

Judge Justin R. Walker, an appointee of Mr. Trump, was confused. The same lawyers had argued weeks earlier that enforcing a different Trump-era border rule would not “align with the administration’s” values. Now, they were essentially saying the opposite.

“What are we to make of this?” Judge Walker asked.

The answer is found in the collision of Mr. Biden’s fervent campaign trail promises to undo Mr. Trump’s harsh immigration policies and the grim reality of trying to manage a surge of migrant crossings amid criticism from Republicans that the president is weak on border security.

The government lawyers in Judge Walker’s courtroom were fighting to uphold a Trump-era public health rule allowing the United States to turn away migrants without providing them an opportunity to ask for asylum.

They have sought to defend the Biden administration — and former Trump administration officials — against lawsuits from parents who were separated from their children at the border, even after Mr. Biden called the separations “criminal.” And winners of a visa lottery, including those increasingly at risk in Ukraine, were surprised to see federal lawyers continue to delay the processing of their green cards.

The gulf between Mr. Biden’s words and his government’s legal arguments is testing the patience of some of his supporters, including top Democrats in Congress. They say the administration is not only moving too slowly on promised reforms, but also is far too willing to use — and defend — Trump-era policies in the meantime.

“The only way I know if I’m reading a Biden or Trump administration brief is by looking at the signature block,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. “There’s simply no daylight on the legal positions.”
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While Mr. Biden formed a task force last year to help unite minors who were separated from their parents under Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, the government walked away from settlement negotiations late last year for the families of some of the 5,500 children.

After it was revealed that the government was considering $450,000 payouts to families, which prompted a backlash from Republicans and conservative outlets, Mr. Biden told reporters that the payouts were “not going to happen.”

The president later said the families deserved some form of compensation. But the administration pulled out of the negotiations in December and has sought to get the courts to dismiss families’ lawsuits against not just the United States, but also the Trump administration officials involved with putting the policy in place.

Lynden Melmed, who served as chief counsel for the government’s legal immigration agency during President George W. Bush’s administration, said there had for years been a break between a presidential candidate’s platform and the approach taken by his legal team once in office.
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Critics, including multiple former Biden administration officials, say the government is using the rule as an easy way to quickly remove migrants who are gathering at the southern border — and to fend off Republican attacks.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 22, 2022, 12:16:50 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-apos-playing-very-strong-204211477.html

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Biden 'playing our very strong hand in a very weak way,' Russia expert warns
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An expert on Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that President Biden is "playing our very strong hand in a very weak way" by squandering the power of the United States to deter Russian aggression.
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By not threatening to use the means at his disposal, Koffler said Biden failed to project strength against Russian adversaries.

"The cardinal rule of deterrence is to convince your opponent that the cost of his hostile action will by far outweigh the benefits, and Biden has done the exact opposite," she said, saying Biden "telegraphed weakness" by allowing Putin to assemble a battle-ready force of 190,000 troops.

I agree. Biden keeps emphasizing what the US won't do in response to Russian aggression! How do you think that sounds to Putin?

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Describing the ongoing conflict as "a three-dimensional battle of the wills" between Putin, Zelenskyy, and Biden, Koffler said, "Out of all of them, we, the United States, have the most superior might: economic, geopolitical influence, military. Combined we just trump both of them."

"And yet, Zelenskyy seems to be winning, despite the fact that the Ukrainian military is so much inferior to Russia. But his will to fight and his leadership style inspiring the Ukrainian people is basically putting Putin on the heels. By the same token, Putin, despite having weaker military, much weaker economy, has been able to outmaneuver Biden.

"And so that's the three-dimensional battle that, unfortunately, we're losing only because of the weakness of our president," she added.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 24, 2022, 11:55:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWzNzdJ7uxE

Ukrainian refugees should go to the back of the queue. After all refugees from all earlier crises who have been waiting to be taken in by the US have been taken in, then we can discuss Ukrainian refugees. Unfortunately, Biden is just another ethnonepotist.

(https://i.imgflip.com/49j8kz.jpg)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 09, 2022, 12:32:37 am
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/african-immigrant-advocates-point-to-double-standard-as-ukrainians-receive-us-relief/ar-AAVTLGn

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In the wake of President Joe Biden announcing plans to welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to the U.S., African and Caribbean immigrants are questioning why so many Black refugees fleeing their conflict-torn countries have been denied similar humanitarian consideration.

Biden also announced that Ukrainians already in the U.S. would receive Temporary Protected Status, meaning that they would not be deported. This is more, advocates for Black immigrants said, than the nation has done for Haitians fleeing after a deadly earthquake and their president’s assassination; for Cameroonians displaced by their country’s civil war; and for the thousands of Black immigrants deported under what they call racist, xenophobic immigration policies.

“The reality is that all over the world, unfortunately, there are many people who are experiencing similar things and don’t get that type of urgency from the U.S. government or attention,” said Samah Sisay, a Liberian immigrant who has spent years working as an immigration lawyer and is now with the Center for Constitutional Rights.

“It’s just clear racism. There’s this feeling that Ukrainians are Europeans and therefore, the immigration system maybe doesn’t view them as a threat in the same ways we see conversations about Black migrants,” Sisay said. “You see how there is this double standard.”

Russia invaded Ukraine last month by land, air and sea, following weeks of tension, sending thousands to various borders seeking to leave the country. African citizens living in Ukraine have reported incidents of racist discrimination and abuse at the country’s borders, including beatings, being denied entry to trains or being left stranded in border towns.

Reports have highlighted the stark differences between the ways African and Middle Eastern refugees from Ukraine have been welcomed into western Europe compared with white Ukrainians. Last month, an alliance of prominent civil rights lawyers from around the world announced it would file an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of Black refugees facing discrimination while trying to flee the invasion. 

Meanwhile, immigrant advocates and politicians have consistently called for relief for Black immigrants and refugees in the U.S. In the weeks leading up to the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. halted deportations to Ukraine and U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., urged the administration in a letter to “extend that same level of compassion” to Haitians in the U.S.
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Advocates have said the racial disparities are clear, and have only been made more evident by the well-documented hardships Black immigrants and refugees face in the U.S., including challenges that make it nearly impossible to find security and safety.
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“We’ve always known that African, Black people always get the worst of the worst,” Bello said. “Ukraine has TPS after days of conflict, and there’s no Cameroonian TPS after five years. That discrimination should not come as a shock because every other program within American immigration justice is anti-Black, anti-African. … Why is it that Black pain doesn’t meet restitution and immigration relief?”
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Although the border is still officially closed to asylum-seekers because of Title 42, a Trump-era Covid policy, a memo last month from the Department of Homeland Security declared Ukrainians exempt from the asylum limits on a case-by-case basis.

In the wake of the decision, immigrant advocates and politicians have urged the Biden administration to end Title 42 expulsions, which, they said, have been disproportionately weaponized against Haitians. The U.S. quickly expelled thousands of Haitians who gathered at a Texas border city after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

“It’s not people saying, ‘The government shouldn’t be assisting Ukrainian refugees,’” Sisay said. “It’s saying the same level of care that you’re giving to these folks, why is it that refugees, mainly Black refugees and refugees of color, don’t get that same sort of care and attention when obviously they also are in need?”

Why do you think?
Title: Re: Demographic Blueshift
Post by: guest55 on April 10, 2022, 03:44:58 pm
Dems Fear For The Worst In Midterms
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Nearly all polls show the Democrats getting slaughtered in the upcoming midterms which are now only seven months away. Caroline Johnson breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DG5E4SZez0
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 20, 2022, 12:32:08 am
Oh no:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7Ieeop0yA
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on April 25, 2022, 12:07:06 am
The Story Biden Refuses To Tell
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Biden is yet again proving that he's not interested in meaningful change. Jessica Burbank breaks it down. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNpbhmPyO0
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2022, 09:37:34 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM-FMl3GcSg

Meanwhile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lC1QurwlM
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 04, 2022, 08:07:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplnegGhtHM
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on May 17, 2022, 09:56:55 pm
'These vital signs are very, very bad': New CNN poll contains rough news for Democrats
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CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod reacts to a new poll that says 65% of Americans are concerned about how things are going in the US.
#CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_ACRZTMMo

Top comment at time of post:
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"Democracy is the belief that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and  hard" ... H. L. Mencken

They've definitely been getting it "good and hard" haven't they....  :)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 20, 2022, 08:02:22 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-biden-hasnt-killed-trumps-103739924.html

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WASHINGTON - With the stroke of a White House pen, President Joe Biden could lower the cost of thousands of consumer and industrial products and strike a blow in the anti-inflation fight that he calls "his top domestic priority."

All he has to do is lift the tariffs on imported Chinese products that President Donald Trump imposed starting in 2018.

But with his advisers split, the potential economic gains limited and the danger of Republican attacks for being "soft on China" looming, Biden is unconvinced.
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"It's a no-brainer to reduce tariff burdens on Americans at a time of high inflation," said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

But as always Biden would rather listen to Red pundits:

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"Republicans would blast President Biden if he cut tariffs substantially," said Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "The U.S. deficit in goods trade with China set a record for the first quarter, despite tariffs, and could set a record for the year. If President Biden cuts tariffs and we do see a record deficit, it's handing Republicans a chance to draw away union voters."
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 21, 2022, 09:09:45 pm
Biden thinks it's OK for Poland to be "white":

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poland-given-pass-rights-violations-115900709.html

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Three months ago, Poland was a political pariah in Washington and European capitals. Today, Warsaw is an increasingly pivotal ally.

Not long ago, Poland’s government was coming in for sharp criticism – and even being punished – for its violations of European Union principles and rules regarding media freedom, the protection of minorities, and judicial independence.

But the Ukraine invasion has overshadowed such concerns. The security imperative has imposed itself.

EU leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron, who now holds the union’s rotating six-month presidency, have muted their criticism of Poland and other self-professed “illiberal democracies” on their eastern flank.

Mr. Biden, for his part, chose Warsaw’s Royal Castle for the major address of his European visit one month after the invasion. He praised Poland’s role in NATO as well as its generous welcome for hundreds of thousands of refugees.

In contrast to how Poland treated earlier waves of refugees who were "non-white".....

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And in extolling the importance of democracy he avoided singling out President Andrzej Duda, a political soul mate of Donald Trump.
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the latest trade-off comes on the heels of Mr. Biden’s insistence that the contest between democracy and autocracy is of central importance in today’s world.

Except it's not. Neither was the original Cold War, for that matter (when the US was happy to ally with other autocracies against the Soviet Union). This is an anti-Turandom war. Poland should be viewed as part of Turandom. It is that simple.
Title: US launches Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity
Post by: guest55 on May 23, 2022, 12:26:49 pm
US launches Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity
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Twelve countries have signed on to US President Joe Biden's new economic pact. They include seven Southeast Asian nations, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. Mr Biden launched his Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in Tokyo. Together, the new framework comprises 40 per cent of global GDP. Meanwhile, Mr Biden has also commented on Taiwan, following questions from reporters in Tokyo. He said the US would use military force to defend the island should China attack. Mr Biden's remarks on Taiwan have angered authorities in Beijing. China has insisted there is no room for compromise on the issue and said it is ready to defend its national interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmD3GRRijyU

Biden Unveils Indo-Pacific Economic Pact To Strengthen Global Supply Chains
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President Biden in Tokyo has unveiled a new economic pact with 12 U.S. allies that aims to strengthen global supply chains as well as counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific region. NBC News’ Carol Lee reports from Tokyo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqQ0skAsujk
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest55 on May 28, 2022, 12:31:30 pm
‘Taken A Sledgehammer To The Solar Industry’: Michael Bennet Slams Biden Admin
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During Senate Floor remarks on Tuesday, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) spoke about solar power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI7lsGqofBg
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 05, 2022, 11:51:08 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-embracing-refugees-not-100040966.html

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Biden Administration should be embracing refugees, not limiting their acceptance
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President Biden needs to help alleviate the crisis by accepting more refugees into the United States.
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In the fiscal year of 2021, only 11,411 refugees were accepted with a cap of 62,500. Similarly, in the six months in which data has been collected for the 2022 fiscal year, the number of accepted refugees is only 8,758. The Biden administration needs to put in a greater effort towards accepting more refugees into the United States.
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The U.S. is currently facing a labor shortage. Studies have shown that refugees do not steal jobs from the American worker, but rather they fill labor shortages, and in the long-term they create more jobs.

The United States needs refugees now more than ever, and we could look like heroes helping alleviate the refugee crisis as we solve our own problems.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 11, 2022, 08:02:31 pm
Good discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeUKI-CNfk
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 15, 2022, 09:54:44 pm
Biden continues to try to please Trump voters:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/us/politics/haiti-migrants-biden.html

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U.S. Accelerated Expulsions of Haitian Migrants in May
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the instability in Haiti, especially since the assassination in July of its former president, Jovenel Moïse, has made it relatively easy for the U.S. government to send flights there. At one point last month, Haitians represented about 6 percent of the migrants crossing the border with Mexico but occupied 60 percent of expulsion flights, according to flight records and internal border data.
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“Haiti can do nothing to slow deportations,” said Daniel Foote, a former special envoy to Haiti who resigned last year in protest of the Biden administration’s handling of the mass migration crisis in Del Rio. Yet sending thousands back to Haiti, which he described as a failed state, would only exacerbate the situation, he said.
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Since September, more than 25,000 Haitians have been expelled from the United States and returned to Haiti. There does not appear to be an end in sight.
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The recent uptick in expulsions of Haitians has again drawn criticism that the Biden administration treats Black migrants differently than others, an allegation it has repeatedly denied.

“The administration must commit to racial equity in its immigration policy and address the anti-Black racism that disproportionately impacts Haitian migrants at the border,” said Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He and others pointed to the swift action that the United States took to allow Ukrainians into the country as they fled the Russian invasion.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 28, 2022, 11:39:49 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt2t9wepG6Q

If people were simply allowed to openly walk across the border without fear of arrest, torture and deportation, this would not have happened.

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest78 on July 13, 2022, 01:24:51 pm
Biden: US-Isrel bond is ‘bone deep’
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President Joe Bide declares on Wednesday there is a “bone deep” bond between the United States and Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1zYrOFGYE

Comment:
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He’s with the Matzo balls now !
He gave up on the tacos !
😂😂😂😂😂😂

See also:
First Lady Jill Biden Compares Latinos to Breakfast Tacos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94hdP5lNkg4

Reminder:
National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship"
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIAhiAj2XyKtl89n6pdxyQ

Just for starters:
Grant Smith: A brief history of unprosecuted Israeli foreign agent, smuggling and espionage cases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZastzZprEQ
John Quigley: 1967, international laq and the cost of U.S. support for the occupation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJVqNcAhwg
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest78 on July 13, 2022, 04:22:47 pm
Majority of Democrats don’t want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, poll shows
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A New York Times and Siena College poll shows that more than half of Democratic voters would prefer that a different presidential candidate run in 2024. CBS News political contributor and Democratic strategist Joel Payne, along with Jonathan Kott, former communications director for Sen. Joe Manchin, join "Red and Blue" to discuss President Biden's prospects in 2024.

#news #2024elections #biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rNL6jA7Ha4
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 14, 2022, 07:29:22 pm
Biden saying something like this at his current approval rating probably works in our favour:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-democrats-believe-israel-222513117.html

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Biden says Democrats who believe Israel is an 'apartheid state' are 'wrong': 'Israel is a democracy'

It is perfectly possible for a democracy to also be an apartheid state. The US itself was such during the Jim Crow era!

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Biden added that his administration has provided over $4 billion in Iron dome funding, which was passed by Congress.

"And I think that I make no apologies. We've provided for my administration $4 billion plus of a billion for Iron Dome. And we're working on a laser project to be able to replace Iron Dome. It's overwhelming our interests that Israel be stable," Biden said.

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 29, 2022, 10:32:25 pm
More betrayal:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/biden-admin-quietly-approves-construction-090950910.html

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Biden admin quietly approves construction of U.S.-Mexico border wall near Yuma, Arizona

"Not another foot."

Those were the words Joe Biden used as a mantra throughout his 2020 presidential campaign regarding the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. But on Thursday, the Biden administration approved a plan to complete a section of the border wall near Yuma, Arizona.

The plan includes filling four major gaps in the wall that continue to allow the Yuma area to be one of the busiest corridors for illegal immigration crossings.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas authorized the new plan, which was started by the Trump administration, in an effort to "deploy modern, effective border measures" and improve "safety and security along the Southwest Border," the agency said.

About Mayorkas:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg8982/#msg8982

Continuing:

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The Biden administration’s quiet approval of the wall’s construction also comes after Biden often used it as a means of contrasting his policies with those of the Trump administration.

In the past, Biden was repeatedly critical of Trump, his border wall, and his immigration policies — which he referred to as "xenophobic" and "racist."
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During an interview in August 2020, Biden told NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration, No. 1."
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 08, 2022, 05:51:16 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/visit-nc-group-finds-no-083000753.html

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On visit, NC group finds no Biden ‘open border.’ Instead they see a war on migrants

The idea that President Joe Biden tolerates an “open border” policy on the U.S. border with Mexico is a familiar Republican claim, but that is not what activists from North Carolina and Washington-D.C. found on a trip to both sides of the border last month.
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What they saw wasn’t migrants pouring in unchecked thanks to a careless U.S. policy. What they saw was a border bristling with concertina wire, cameras, motion detectors and walls three-stories high. They were told how migrants break their ankles after dropping from the top of the walls.
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The visitors saw how the U.S. Border Patrol has sealed many illegal entry points and how the U.S. immigration system, overwhelmed for lack of judges, staff and adjustments in old laws, can’t accommodate all who want to enter legally. In the face of those obstacles, migrants are increasingly taking more dangerous paths to enter the U.S. illegally by walking through the desert or being smuggled inside vehicles
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As a result, more migrants are dying. Nine drowned last week crossing the rain-swollen Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas. In June, 53 migrants died in a sweltering, locked tractor-trailer abandoned in San Antonio by smugglers. Hundreds die every year from the hazards of crossing the desert.
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Elizabeth Johnson of Durham said her visit left her with one overwhelming impression: “Just the horror of the 30-foot wall and knowing that people are dying there to try to have a normal life.”
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Instead of fixing the immigration system, the U.S. is spending billions of dollars to stem the pressure created by a broken one. But the U.S. is losing more than money at the border. It is denying its heritage as a nation of immigrants and shutting out workers the U.S. needs.

The campaign issue in this November’s election shouldn’t be about the “open border.” It should be about Americans opening their eyes.

The reason why there are more refugees crossing the border now than during the Trump era is not because Biden has made it easier to cross the border, but because conditions are getting worse in the refugees' origin countries, so that they are willing to take greater risks to cross than they would have been prepared to take previously.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/texas-city-declares-state-of-emergency-over-migrants/msg9295/#msg9295
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 23, 2022, 08:28:15 pm
The real-world consequences of Biden's inexcusable failure to pass amnesty:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/paid-taxes-now-undocumented-latinos-092602994.html

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They paid taxes. Now undocumented Latinos are aging without savings, government care
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millions of other unauthorized Latino immigrants came to the United States when they were young, able-bodied and hopeful, seeking better livelihoods than they could find back home. They worked in construction, agriculture and landscaping; they staffed kitchens and bars or cleaned houses.

They had families, found community, settled down. And years passed.

Now, as their bodies age and they head into years when many others are pondering retirement, older undocumented immigrants have few resources to rely on. Elder care often relies on public benefits many undocumented immigrants are not eligible for,  despite the fact that most have paid taxes for years.

“They have no way to draw on that money they’ve paid into the system,”
said Tony Payan, executive director of the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

A report from New American Economy, a bipartisan nonprofit, estimated that undocumented workers generated a surplus of $100 billion in Social Security program funds in the decade leading up to 2018 and $35 billion in the Medicare Trust Fund from 2000 to 2011, none of which they were eligible to get back in benefits.

That has left many undocumented immigrants working long past the point of when their bodies can handle it.

Activists share their stories: In Chicago, an older undocumented Latina suffers from multiple chronic conditions, unable to perform daily tasks without severe pain but ineligible to see a primary care doctor. In Houston, an undocumented Honduran woman and longtime U.S. resident copes with the recent deportation of her husband, unable to work because of arthritis in her spine -- but unable to file for disability benefits. And in San Jose, California, an undocumented man in the United States for 32 years suffering from severe diabetes continues to work at an apartment complex, cleaning yards and doing maintenance.

“It’s common to say, ‘Oh, they’re a burden to society and taking advantage of services and don’t pay taxes,’ but it’s actually quite the opposite,” Payan said. “These people are contributing much more than they’re taking in. And when it comes to old age, when they’re really needing those savings and that medical coverage, they just don’t have it.”
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“When you account for all the services that they use and the costs to the state versus their contribution in terms of taxes, the plus to Texas is half a billion dollars,” said Payan. “And that doesn’t even include their actual contribution to the economy at large.”


Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for elder benefits that require Social Security numbers to receive, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds and programs that can provide homecare, adult day care, mental health services and transportation services.

“Undocumented folks have a much harder time accessing food stamps and other kinds of government benefits,” said Sarah Portnoy, a Latino food studies professor at the University of Southern California.
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“Across the board, undocumented immigrants have disproportionately higher health risks,” the authors said, noting that twice as many of those 65 and older described their health as “fair or poor” compared to U.S.-born citizens. Meanwhile, just 29% reported being in “very good” or “excellent” health, compared to 54% of native U.S. citizens.

Undocumented workers often labor in frontline and low-wage jobs and live in overcrowded housing conditions, both risk factors for higher COVID-19 mortality.

During the pandemic, Payan said, the center found that many who were exposed to the virus didn’t seek medical care.

“Many just stayed home and suffered, and many died,” he said.
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“They’re almost in survival mode, all the time,” said Nancy Rodriguez, a clinical psychologist in Oakland, California, who works with undocumented clients through her practice, Healing Corazones. “There’s the fear of deportation, that something is going to happen to you and that your livelihood is going to be taken away. And when you’re in survival mode, there’s a level of not wanting to talk about what’s going on because it doesn’t feel safe.”

Some undocumented laborers have also been subject to abuse, discrimination and unfair practices such as wage withholding.

“They taught to be treated as less of a human being because they don’t have status,” said Camero, of San Antonio’s RAICES. “That absolutely weighs on a person year after year. When does a person like that feel relaxed and at peace?”
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Elders unable or unwilling to depend on family members simply keep working as they reach retirement age, aggravating existing health conditions through physically demanding and often dangerous labor. Jobs likelier to draw immigrants are linked to higher rates of workplace injury – but many incidents go unreported out of fear of drawing attention from authorities.

(https://i.etsystatic.com/32989852/r/il/e336a8/3594068092/il_570xN.3594068092_pk0e.jpg)

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advocates say the most effective way to head off the growing crisis is to grant aging undocumented workers access to federal health programs, as well as a pathway to legal residency.

“What we have to do is allow them to get into Medicare or Medicaid,” said Vargas Bustamante, of UCLA. “And we need to legalize them somehow. Otherwise, the inequities will become much more widespread as that population grows. They have given their productive lives to the U.S., and the least we can do is integrate them into the country as they grow old.”
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 06, 2022, 09:13:45 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/number-desperate-immigrants-die-while-172554494.html

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The Number Of Desperate Immigrants Who Die While Trying To Get Into The US Keeps Rising
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The number of immigrant deaths along the US–Mexico border is on the rise, which advocates and researchers said is the result of strict immigration policies and worsening conditions in native countries.
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Julia Neusner, research and policy attorney at Human Rights First, said the deaths were a direct and predictable consequence of border policies, specifically a Trump-era one that the Biden administration continues to use.

The policy, known as Title 42, blocks most immigrants and asylum-seekers from accessing the US immigration system and quickly expels them to Mexico or their home countries, blocking them from requesting refuge at ports of entry.

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The push factors and the realization that current border policies are unlikely to change anytime soon are making immigrants desperate and take more risks, she added.

“There’s no hope on the horizon,” Williams said. “Before, there was this sort of sense of we can wait this out and it’s going to get better either because the pandemic will go away or the Trump administration disappears or Biden will finally do something.”

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/texas-city-declares-state-of-emergency-over-migrants/msg9295/#msg9295
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 14, 2022, 11:30:47 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/immigration-activists-dismayed-biden-move-180347177.html

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Immigration activist groups are expressing their concern with the Biden administration’s announcement that it will start expelling Venezuelans to Mexico using the Title 42 public health order -- reducing entry pathways to a limited parole program.
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Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, accused the administration of making "an end run around our humanitarian obligations."

"By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump," he said in a statement.

"America must uphold an asylum system that is fair, humane, and orderly for all people regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity or having U.S. ties. It is time for Title 42 to be ended once and for all. It is time for the Biden Administration to make good on its promises and return America to being a beacon of hope," he said.
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The Texas-based Migrant Center for Human Rights claimed the new policy "blatantly violates the law."

"Allowing only a subset of 24,000 Venezuelans, those with ‘supporters in the United States who will provide financial and other support’ to come, is no panacea to this policy’s blanket expulsion of all Venezuelan asylum seekers, especially considering the 15,494 average monthly FY 2022 unique encounters (with over 25,000 in August and 33,000 in September)," the group said in a statement.

"DHS Secretary Mayorkas’ claim that this policy ‘makes clear that there is a lawful and orderly way for Venezuelans to enter the United States, and lawful entry is the only way’ shockingly ignores the situation of tens of thousands fleeing persecution made ineligible for this process and disregards foundational American law that states it is legal to seek asylum in this country regardless of manner of entry."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-begins-deporting-venezuelans-claim-162148971.html

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The U.S. government began deporting Venezuelans held at immigration detention centers, transferring dozens to Mexico on Thursday even though many of them say they had entered the United States before the new immigration measures were announced.

A group of about 150 Venezuelans who were in a detention center in Texas were placed in buses and driven to the border and forced to cross a pedestrian bridge that connects El Paso with Ciudad Juárez, where Mexican immigration officials were waiting.

Jesus Rivero, 26, said that he and his brother Jonathan, 37, were among them and that in their case the new rules were applied retroactively.

“They took us out without telling us anything. ... They treated us as criminals. Without letting us ask anything, they took us out and put us on a bus and when it stopped we saw that they had taken us to the pedestrian bridge between the United States and Mexico,” Rivero said.
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Announcing the new policy on Wednesday, Biden administration officials said it was “unequivocal” that the policy would not apply retroactively to Venezuelans already in the country.

“They will not be sent back,” one senior administration official said. “This program is exclusively forward-focused on those who will be arriving after the announcement. So the answer to that is an unequivocal no.”

Yet it is happening.

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The deportations of Venezuelans who were already inside the United States represent a great injustice, commented the former Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Diego Arria.

Biden is pandering to the right before midterms thinking it will increase Blue seats. In reality, not only will it do him no good (because rightists will see him as a leftist no matter what he does), but it will disgust leftists and hence reduce turnout. Biden will never learn.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/how-the-(false)-left-sold-out-everyday-people/msg11313/#msg11313
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 16, 2022, 09:06:44 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-turning-trump-era-rule-121907682.html

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Biden turning to Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.

Now, with increasing numbers of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Nov. 8 election nears, Biden has turned to an unlikely source for a solution: his predecessor’s playbook.

Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42 — which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court — to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border.
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Biden’s new policy has drawn swift criticism from immigrant advocates, many of them quick to point out the Trump parallels.

“Rather than restore the right to asylum decimated by the Trump administration ... the Biden administration has dangerously embraced the failures of the past and expanded upon them by explicitly enabling expulsions of Venezuelan migrants,” said Jennifer Nagda, policy director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
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“We are extremely disturbed by the apparent acceptance, codification, and expansion of the use of Title 42, an irrelevant health order, as a cornerstone of border policy,” said Thomas Cartwright of Witness at the Border. “One that expunges the legal right to asylum.”
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“People have a right to seek asylum – regardless of where they came from, how they arrive in the United States, and whether or not they have family here," said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 04, 2022, 10:26:06 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/immigration-rights-groups-ask-biden-180041547.html

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More than 280 immigration, faith-based and rights groups sent a letter to the Biden administration on Friday asking it not to send Haitian migrants interdicted at sea to Guantanamo Bay or a third-party country.
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The groups who signed the letter, led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance, urged the Biden administration to instead allow Haitians to be removed from dangerous vessels at sea and taken to the U.S. to claim asylum.

“We call on your administration to prioritize protections for Haitian nationals. This includes halting returns and expulsions to Haiti given the life-threatening conditions there. The administration must not under any circumstances send asylum seekers and migrants to the notorious Guantánamo Bay or other offshore detention locations,” the groups said.

The letter said sending migrants to the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay, which operates separately from the prison for suspected terrorists, would repeat policies of the 1990s that kept migrants in poor conditions. Reports from the time, which are cited in the letter, included migrants being given cardboard boxes rather than cribs for their babies to sleep.

“Your administration should not add yet another chapter to the shameful U.S. history of mistreatment and racism toward Haitian people seeking protection, including those forced to take to the seas,” the letter said.

They also said sending migrants to a third country, rather than allowing them into the U.S. to claim asylum, would be repeating Trump administration policies, such as those that sent migrants to Guatemala.

“The Biden administration should reject the prior administration’s approach, which made a travesty of the U.S. commitment to non-refoulment, subverted international law and encouraged other countries to pursue similarly dangerous and inhumane asylum offshoring and detention agreements,” the letter said.

The groups said those policies disparately punished Black asylum seekers. Similar criticism arose in September 2021 after the Biden administration began mass deportations of Haitian asylum seekers who crowded by the thousands under an international bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 03, 2022, 09:00:17 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-admin-considering-revival-trump-191423935.html

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The Biden administration is considering the revival of a Trump-era policy that places limits on which immigrants may claim asylum after crossing into the country illegally, according to multiple reports.
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Mirroring endeavors that were embraced by the Trump administration to curb the massive influx of migrants at the southern border, the plan reflects the transit ban that was pushed by Stephen Miller, who served as a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump and spearheaded several immigration efforts during his tenure in the White House.

The Trump-era plan, which faced scrutiny from immigration advocates, sought to prevent migrants from claiming asylum in the United States if they did not seek the same protections in other countries.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on December 04, 2022, 03:38:51 am
(https://i.redd.it/85qween4xfh91.png)

This was from the r/neoliberal sub. They criticize Biden for being a social democrat. I actually agree with them, because social democracy is a racist nordicist system, which they seem to implicitly recognize as the sub is pro open borders.

Regarding Clinton, I agree that she would have been much better than Biden. Her "basket of deplorable" comment really showed her willingness to challenge democracy. And if we consider Bill Clinton's anti-democratic policies of increasing immigration (diluting the demos), improving relationships with China, and bombing Yugoslavia, it makes all the more sense. Biden, on the other hand, is a true democrat,  which is no surprise considering he is an ethnonepotist.

This is why I support neoliberalism over social democracy. Neoliberalism is a step in the right direction to True Leftism, because it is not explicitly democratic.

What do you think?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest90 on December 04, 2022, 05:15:40 am
I also follow the sub simply because they have good opinions on immigration, but they are still very pro democracy and pro western. They believe in the ‘end of history’, which argues western liberal democracy will be the final form of government for all nations. This is western supremacy and the complete opposite of what we want. They are also anti-China and pro-Israel. So I’m not holding out many hopes on them, I have more faith in the ‘far’ left even if some of them currently identify as marxists/commies. It’s annoying because both sides hold positions of the true-left, but they still diverge on very important issues.

But I do agree that Clinton would have been better than Biden, both because of her own character and her husband’s influence. Like you said, she was far tougher on Trump and his supporters than Biden who’s more apathetic. If she had been elected this time around, she would’ve had Trump and many of his supporters jailed (obviously we would want them all executed and their bloodlines purged, but at least he would find it harder to create trouble). She would’ve also had a tougher line on Russia, perhaps even military intervention.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 04, 2022, 05:57:04 pm
The reason why I supported Clinton in 2016 is not because I thought she herself was any good, but because a Trump 2016 loss (underperforming the expected pattern of a Red victory after two Blue terms) would have convinced the Red establishment that the reason why Trump lost was because he was too close to the Alt-Right. From there, the Red establishment would have rejected Alt-Right ideas for many terms to come, thus evading the current scenario of the Alt-Right taking over Red politics with Red politicians convinced into the indefinite future that they be at least as close to the Alt-Right as Trump was just to stand a chance. In short, a Clinton 2016 victory would have put the US down a completely different political trajectory than the one it has taken.

Prior to Trump, Red politicians liked to claim Reagan as an influence. I am fine with that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986#Amnesty

We wanted a US where both parties welcome refugees, but merely debate over which party has the better management approach to welcoming them (e.g. relying on the private sector to help them (Red) vs the government helping them directly (Blue)). This would have been a US well-positioned to face the climate refugee challenge that is now upon us. We were almost there before Trump turned up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBbtnzP1dk

We only needed Clinton to defeat Trump in 2016, and all could have gone according to plan. Instead Trump won in 2016, and now in 2022 we have Biden listening to:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/stephen-miller/

But even if Clinton had run in 2020 instead of Biden and won, I am sure she would be listening to Miller now too!

(Finally, let us never forget that Trump 2016 was merely modelling himself after Orban. This is why Hungary must be nuked before the world can return to sanity.)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on December 04, 2022, 06:45:15 pm
Yeah the sub actually criticizes some of Bill Clintons policies such as allowing China into the WTO because China is not democratic. This shows that Bill is actually closer to the True Left than the average neoliberal. As for Hillary, I am aware that her positions on immigrations have shifted to the right since.

As for the sub itself being pro democracy, I think expanding the franchise to "third world" immigrants actually destabilizes democracy by diluting the demos. So it would be more accurate to call them suffragists.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on December 04, 2022, 10:08:19 pm
Who do you guys think would be a good Blue nominee for 2024?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 05, 2022, 09:20:39 pm
AOC is probably as left as we can go for now:

https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/your-local-election-hq/oddsmakers-set-chances-for-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-to-be-elected-president-in-2024/

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as one of the brightest young stars of the Democratic Party and is installed at +1,600. AOC is currently serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York’s 14th district.

The politically savvy 31-year-old has built a massive online following and will be turning the requisite age of presidential eligibility just before the 2024 election.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on December 06, 2022, 12:31:41 am
So basically the female version of Bernie Sanders (Jew). Oh well, at least it's better than Biden. Then again, as with Sanders, we are not so much interested in the candidate themselves as we are in the direction they are taking the Democratic party.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 20, 2022, 06:24:39 pm
Biden only ever listens to the rightist narrative. Meanwhile back in reality:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/15/immigration-reform-congress-worker-shortage/

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Trump, covid slowed down immigration. Now employers can’t find workers.

Economists estimate that ‘two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for close to half of the 3.5 million workers missing from the labor force

Alonzo Arteaga’s title is general manager of a small hotel in Topeka, Kan. But these days, he doubles as a housekeeper, making beds, vacuuming floors and laundering towels to fill an ever-worsening worker shortage.

Like other businesses around the country, Senate Luxury Suites is struggling to keep going without critical employees. The hotel is down to three housekeepers, half the number it had before the pandemic, and Arteaga blames a years-long immigration slowdown, which he says has made an already tough situation worse.

“It’s been three years of trying absolutely everything,” said Arteaga, who has raised pay by about $3 an hour and offers discounted monthly rates to employees. “It feels like the workers really aren’t there.”

A shortfall of immigrants is worsening widespread labor shortages and hobbling the U.S. economy at a time when more than 10 million jobs remain unfilled, particularly in low-paying and physically demanding industries such as hospitality, agriculture, construction and health care.

While the slowdown in legal immigration began well before the pandemic, the covid-19 crisis intensified the process as the Trump administration effectively halted the flow of foreign-born workers into the United States. Although immigration has rebounded somewhat since then, particularly in the last six months, major shortages remain, rippling through the economy at a time when the labor force is also missing workers from early retirements, ongoing health problems and caregiving challenges. Labor force shortages are also contributing to higher prices for some goods and services, as companies raise wages to compete for a smaller pool of workers and to keep existing staff.
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By one estimate, the United States is shy of about 1.7 million legal immigrants based on pre-pandemic migration trends, according to Giovanni Peri, director of the Global Migration Center at the University of California at Davis.

Even though immigration rates have picked up in recent months, Peri says it could be another four years before the country makes up for current shortfalls. Even then, it won’t be enough to catch up to the rapidly aging workforce that is projected to leave millions more positions unfilled.
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“There is no question: We need more immigration,” said Adam Ozimek, chief economist at Economic Innovation Group, a nonpartisan business organization. “Immigrants aren’t just workers, they are particularly flexible, mobile workers, who help address acute labor shortages wherever they emerge. And that’s particularly important in this constrained economy we’re facing right now.”

Visas for college students and highly skilled science and tech workers have bounced back relatively quickly, Peri said. But immigration rates for people without a college education have been slower to make up for lost ground.

“If someone doesn’t have much education and doesn’t have a close relative in the U.S., there is virtually no legal pathway for them to get a green card,” said Watson of Williams College. “There is a pool of untapped talent out there.”

The drop-off in foreign workers began soon after Donald Trump took office, largely on an anti-immigrant platform. Although his administration didn’t make legislative changes, it slowed down visa processing through “a culture of extreme vetting and extreme delays” that was enough to deter immigration in all forms, especially among those without college educations, Peri said.
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Early in the pandemic, Mariama Lowe lost nearly three-quarters of the employees at her home health-care business in Alexandria, Va., to covid illnesses, career changes and early retirements. She’s since gone from 100 nurses and personal care aides — almost all of them immigrants — to 27.

“We’re in a very difficult position, because there is nobody to hire anymore,” Lowe said. “Tech companies can go recruit from anywhere; they have all of these avenues available to them. But a home health agency like me? I don’t have that opportunity. I just have to go with whoever’s here and whoever’s available. And right now, it’s not a lot.”

Beyond creating wider avenues for immigrants to enter the country, business owners, economists and policymakers say there also needs to be a focus on retaining foreign-born workers already in the United States. That includes “dreamers,” undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as young children; recently laid-off tech workers on H1-B visas who may have to leave the country if they don’t find new work within 60 days; and the adult children of highly educated legal immigrants awaiting permanent residency.
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In Napa Valley, Calif., grape growers can’t find the immigrant workers they once relied on to cultivate the region’s hallowed vineyards. Many farmworkers have retired to their native villages in central Mexico, vineyard managers said, and millennial and Gen Z workers never arrived to fill their shoes.

“A younger generation from Mexico never came,” said Michael Wolf, a vineyard manager for nearly 50 years in Napa Valley. “A lot of [vineyards] are struggling. People are using local farm labor contractors to transport workers to Napa from Stockton a couple hours a day in each direction. But that’s not sustainable.”
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Little Bear Produce, which grows 5,000 acres of greens, onions, cabbages and melons on the Mexico border, in Edinburg, Tex. “We’ve been struggling with labor shortages for decades, but now it’s come to a crisis point. The labor force has completely dried up.”

He would’ve liked to have planted 15 percent more crops this year but says labor constraints made that impossible. Little Bear has begun using temporary workers from Mexico to fill in employment gaps, though it’s so costly that it’s become difficult for the company to keep turning a profit. The family-run business is also doubling down on automation and investing in machines that can wash, cut and bag vegetables. Crops still have to be picked by hand, which is becoming more expensive as labor shortages persist.

“This is a plea to Congress that they stop kicking this can down the road. It’s not just farmers who are being affected,” he said. “Consumers are ultimately paying the price — and we’re all consumers; we all have to eat.”

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/vertical-farming/msg15494/#msg15494

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/vertical-farming/msg10125/#msg10125
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 06, 2023, 01:59:08 am
Biden is now worse than Trump:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-01-05/biden-new-border-strategy

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Biden announces major border strategy shift, expands Trump policy
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Though the administration has tried to end Title 42, in recent months, it began expanding the use of the policy by turning back Venezuelans to Mexico. Now Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians will be turned away under Title 42 as well, narrowing the ability of thousands of migrants to seek asylum. Mexico has agreed to allow U.S. officials to return up to 30,000 migrants per month.

“Certainly no court requires the expansion of the policy,” said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney who led the legal challenges against Title 42 in federal court.
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The new rules for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans will remain in place even if Title 42 is lifted, Biden said Thursday.
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Immigrant advocates, who compared the proposal to a Trump-era policy, roundly condemned the new measures announced Thursday.

“President Biden and his administration are now actively pursuing discredited Trump policies like Title 42 and an asylum ban in an attempt to score political points at the border,” said Sunil Varghese, policy director at the International Refugee Assistance Project. “Opening up new limited pathways for a small percentage of people does not obscure the fact that the Biden administration is illegally and immorally gutting access to humanitarian protections for the majority of people who have already fled their country seeking freedom and safety.”

Marisa Limón Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, a group that represents migrants seeking asylum at the border, said the policies put “politics before human lives.”

Meanwhile, Ukrainians continue to be admitted. When is someone going to assassinate Biden?
Title: More documents found at Biden's Wilmington home, new statements say
Post by: guest78 on January 14, 2023, 03:10:38 pm
More documents found at Biden's Wilmington home, new statements say
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New statements from President Joe Biden's personal attorney and special counsel Richard Sarver reveal that additional classified documents were found at his Wilmington, Delaware home. NBC News' Allie Raffa explains the timeline of the discovery and how many documents have been found so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egYBME8Zd9U
Title: Re: Israel
Post by: guest98 on February 02, 2023, 01:36:23 pm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/2/us-presses-pa-to-accept-plan-to-quash-palestinian-armed-groups

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US presses PA to accept plan to quash Palestinian armed groups

The US is putting the onus on the Palestinian Authority to improve security in the West Bank, despite Israeli raids.

The top diplomat of the United States, Antony Blinken, has put pressure on Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to “regain control” of Jenin and Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to a report, putting responsibility for the escalating violence in the territory on the Palestinians, despite continued Israeli raids which have killed at least 200 people in the last year.

The US plan would see the PA clamp down on newly emergent Palestinian armed groups in the West Bank, sources told the Axios news website.

According to the report, published on Wednesday, Palestinians expressed reservations over the lack of emphasis in the plan on Israel de-escalating and decreasing its raids in the West Bank.

The plan, the sources said, includes the PA’s security forces regaining control of the northern part of the West Bank, especially Nablus and Jenin. The officials also said a special Palestinian force would receive training to then be deployed in the area to counter armed groups’ resistance.

The two cities have emerged as a hub for armed groups composed of young Palestinians who have grown frustrated by the occupation and the increasingly unpopular PA.

The Israeli military says its raids have been in part a crackdown on these new armed groups, although raids have long been a regular occurrence in the West Bank.

In 2022, more than 170 Palestinians, including at least 30 children, were killed across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the deadliest year since 2006, according to the United Nations.

At least a further 35 have been killed in January alone, including five children.



Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 14, 2023, 10:38:19 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/biden-yanks-human-rights-candidate-195236638.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has withdrawn its pick of a human rights activist for a post at the Organization of American States for calling Israel an “apartheid state” and blasting a top House Democrat as being “Bought. Purchased. Controlled” by pro-Israel groups.

The U.S. announced Friday the candidacy of James Cavallaro to serve as an independent member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a watchdog monitoring the Americas, praising him as “leading scholar and practitioner of international law” with deep expertise in the region.

But on Tuesday the State Department said that his candidacy was pulled in the wake of an article by a New York-based Jewish publication, the Algemeiner, which revealed Cavallaro's history of posts critical of Israel and U.S. support for the Jewish state.

In one Dec. 2022 tweet, deleted as the Algemeiner article was being readied for publication, Cavallaro used language viewed by many Jews as layered with anti-Semitic tropes to accuse House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, of being in the pocket of pro-Israel lobbyists.

“Bought. Purchased. Controlled,” Cavallaro wrote alongside a link to an article about Jeffries' donations from AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups.

Of course Cavallaro is correct:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/how-the-(false)-left-sold-out-everyday-people/msg16492/#msg16492

Woke comments:

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Cavallaro is telling the truth and the Biden administration, by pulling his nomination, just admitted it.

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So Biden fires someone who was just telling the Truth. Nelson Mandela & Desmond Tutu have both said that Israel is an Apartheid State. You would think that they knew what they were talking about, coming from South Africa & all. But No, our bought & sold politicians basically answer to their Lobbyists & Donors rather than the Truth.

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The Biden Administration:

Ron Klain - Biden Chief of Staff (Jewish)

Tony Blinken - Secretary of State (Jewish)

Wendy Sherman - Deputy Secretary of State (Jewish)

Victoria Nuland - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Jewish)

David Cohen - Deputy CIA Director (Jewish)

Avril Haines - Director of National Intelligence (Jewish)

Dana Stroul - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East (Jewish)

Mira Resnick - State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Security (Jewish)

Anne Neuberger - Senior Director for Cyber Policy on the National Security Council (Jewish)

Ned Price - State Department spokesman (and former CIA officer) (Jewish)

Robert Malley - Special Envoy to Iran - (Jewish)

Dan Shapiro - Advisor on Iran (Jewish)

Phillip Gordon - Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris (Jewish)

Alejandro Mayorkas - Secretary of Homeland Security (Jewish)

Janet Yellen - Treasury Secretary (Jewish)

Gary Gensler - Chairman U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Jewish)

Jessica Rosenworcel - Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (Jewish)

Merrick Garland - Attorney General (Jewish)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: ImpressiveRepresentation on February 15, 2023, 02:42:27 pm
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The Biden Administration:

Ron Klain - Biden Chief of Staff (Jewish)

Tony Blinken - Secretary of State (Jewish)

Wendy Sherman - Deputy Secretary of State (Jewish)

Victoria Nuland - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Jewish)

David Cohen - Deputy CIA Director (Jewish)

Avril Haines - Director of National Intelligence (Jewish)

Dana Stroul - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East (Jewish)

Mira Resnick - State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Security (Jewish)

Anne Neuberger - Senior Director for Cyber Policy on the National Security Council (Jewish)

Ned Price - State Department spokesman (and former CIA officer) (Jewish)

Robert Malley - Special Envoy to Iran - (Jewish)

Dan Shapiro - Advisor on Iran (Jewish)

Phillip Gordon - Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris (Jewish)

Alejandro Mayorkas - Secretary of Homeland Security (Jewish)

Janet Yellen - Treasury Secretary (Jewish)

Gary Gensler - Chairman U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Jewish)

Jessica Rosenworcel - Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (Jewish)

Merrick Garland - Attorney General (Jewish)

Quite impressive representation Jews have in the U.S. Federal government, and Biden administration, considering Jews supposedly only make up 2.4% of the U.S. population:

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Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States has the largest or second largest Jewish community in the world, after Israel. As of 2020, the core American Jewish population is estimated at 7.6 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews

Something tells me that Jews occupy way more than 2.4% of U.S. Federal government positions? "Whites" like Biden and Trump obviously have no problem with this at all...

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest98 on February 20, 2023, 03:49:00 pm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/20/pa-backtracks-on-un-resolution-against-israel-amid-us-pressure

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PA ‘backtracks’ on UN resolution against Israel amid US pressure

The UAE, which had drafted the resolution along with PA officials, has dropped the resolution and the vote apparently amid US pressure, reports say.

Reports by several other US and Israeli news outlets citing diplomatic sources said the PA agreed to drop pursuit of the vote amid pressure from the US government, including promises of a financial aid package as well as a temporary suspension of announcements on new Israeli settlement units and Palestinian home demolitions.

“[US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken reiterated an offer to the Palestinians for a US package of incentives to entice them to drop or at least delay the resolution,” the Associated Press said in a report published on Sunday, citing “diplomats familiar with the conversations”.

“Those incentives included a White House meeting for Abbas with President Joe Biden, movement on reopening the American consulate in Jerusalem, and a significant aid package,” the report continues, adding that “Abbas was noncommittal”.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, longtime Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti said a decision by the PA to withdraw the vote “goes against the Palestinian national struggle”.

“We reject equating between two sides – one that is an aggressor and an occupier, and the other that is living under occupation and apartheid. Some are saying we need to focus on diplomatic and political resistance, so why has the decision been withdrawn? Even diplomatic resistance is forbidden? Even resistance based on international law?

“We call on the Palestinian Authority not to approve withdrawing the resolution,” Barghouti added.

The situation on the ground has become increasingly tense over the past few months under Israel’s new extreme right-wing government, which has taken steps to further ignite tensions including significantly increasing home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and carrying out several large deadly raids in Palestinian cities.

Most recently, on February 13, the Israeli government approved the “legalisation” of nine settlement outposts and announced plans to advance thousands of new illegal settlement units, which prompted the UNSC draft resolution.

The Palestinian foreign ministry said in a statement that the decision crossed “all red lines” and undermined the revival of “the peace process”.

The US has criticised Israel’s decision to expand the settlements, but at the same time also expressed its reservations against a push for the UN to denounce the move.


In response to the dropping of the UNSC vote, Martin Konecny, head of the European Middle East Project, said “anyone framing this as a US diplomatic success is taking a very narrow & biased lens”.

“This is the US arm-twisting Palestinians to shelve entirely legitimate resolution, sidelining UNSC as guardian of int’l order & shielding Israel’s expansionism,” he added.

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest98 on February 22, 2023, 04:44:45 pm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/22/biden-administration-issues-proposal-to-restrict-asylum-seekers

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Biden administration issues proposal to restrict asylum seekers

The new rule would make asylum seekers ineligible for US protection if they ‘circumvent’ legal pathways.

The administration of United States President Joe Biden has unveiled a new rule that could tighten restrictions for tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving at the country’s southern border with Mexico.

The proposed rule, announced on Tuesday, would give border officials the power to turn away asylum seekers who “circumvent available, established pathways to lawful migration” or who fail to seek protection in the countries they travelled through to arrive in the US.

In addition, individuals who violate the rule would be barred from re-entering the US for five years.

Described as an “emergency measure”, the proposal anticipates the end of Title 42, a controversial policy implemented in 2020 under former Republican President Donald Trump that has been used to expel asylum seekers in the name of public health.

In a joint statement on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) described the proposed policy as a “temporary” measure designed to address the spike in border crossings “anticipated after the lifting of the Title 42 Order”, an act that has yet to occur.

But while Biden, a Democrat, has sought to distance himself from his predecessor’s border policies, critics denounced Tuesday’s announcement as a continuation of Trump’s approach to immigration and security.

The Biden administration, meanwhile, described the policy as an opportunity to “incentivize the use of new and existing lawful processes and disincentivize dangerous border crossings”. It also announced it would be accepting public feedback on the proposal for 30 days.

Tuesday’s newly unveiled rule would widen the number of asylum seekers who could be subject to expulsion.

Critics, however, have slammed the plan as leaving “vulnerable people in danger” and unfairly denying “protection to thousands”.

“We are deeply disappointed that the Administration has chosen to move forward with publishing this proposed rule, which only perpetuates the harmful myth that asylum seekers are a threat to this nation,” the senators said. “In reality, they are pursuing a legal pathway in the United States.”

International law, incorporated into the US Refugee Act of 1980, allows asylum seekers to apply for protection upon arriving in the US on the basis that they fear persecution in their home country.




Title: Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
Post by: guest98 on March 14, 2023, 01:50:00 pm
https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/alaska-oil-project-approval-adds-yet-another-climate-concern-1.6312093


It's OK for "white" democracy to destroy the planet?

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Alaska oil project approval adds yet another climate concern

The Biden administration's approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the U.S. to yet another decades long crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change.

ConocoPhillips' Willow project would produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, and using that crude would result in at least 263 million tons (239 million metric tonnes) of greenhouse gas emissions over 30 years.

Demand for oil isn't dropping as the planet heats, and a bitter political dispute over the project, which was approved Monday, has underscored the Democratic administration's struggle to balance economic pressures against pledges to curb fossil fuels. The proposal in the remote region north of the Arctic Circle also highlights the paradox facing the U.S. and other nations: The world's transition to clean energy lags the realities of an economy still largely driven by oil consumption.

"At some point, we have to leave oil and gas and coal in the ground. And for me, that some point is now -- particularly in a vulnerable ecosystem like the Arctic," said Rob Jackson, a climate scientist at Stanford University.

For Alaska, the project promises an economic boost after oil production dropped sharply since the late 1980s, and political leaders from both parties in the state united in support of it. Oil has long been the economic lifeblood of the still-young state, with revenues also helping remote communities and villages on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope invest in local infrastructure.

But the state has also felt the impacts of the changing climate: coastal erosion is threatening Indigenous villages, unusual wildfires are popping up, sea ice is thinning and permafrost promises to release carbon as it melts.

The energy sector accounts for 90% of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide and three-quarters of the total human-made greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.

Yet global demand for crude is expected to continue rising, according to industry analysts and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The planet is "as far from zero emissions as we've ever been" despite the emphasis on renewable energy.

"This administration has pledged to oversee a historic transition to clean energy, but actions speak louder than words," said Earthjustice attorney George Torgun

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 18, 2023, 01:06:32 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/biden-high-tech-border-wall-002640553.html

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Biden’s high-tech border wall unworthy of a country where migrants hope to find shelter
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It may not be made of concrete-filled steel, but it sends the same message: The Biden administration has built a technological wall at the Southern border. Only those who can navigate a glitchy appointment lottery on a smartphone app can now present themselves at ports of entry to seek safety.

It’s in full breach of statutory and international law. This leaves the most vulnerable migrants stuck, waiting in horrific conditions for a day that may literally never come.
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Now, asylum seekers are left to fend for themselves, navigating an app whose terms and conditions and error messages are only in English, and which runs out of appointments in minutes.

CBP One is notoriously unreliable; conditions on the ground add additional hurdles. Our clients live in tents without plumbing, yards from an open pit full of human waste. They don’t have access to reliable electricity or internet. Some are penniless, left selling candy on the streets to afford smartphones so they can access the app in the first place.

Absurdly, CBP One also means that the validity of your asylum claim does not matter. All that matters is whether you have a smartphone, data plan and the technological savvy to navigate securing an appointment.
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Yet, the Biden administration is proposing that all asylum seekers figure out how to use this app or be presumed ineligible for relief, having to provide evidence to overcome that presumption.

It would be up to border agents to decide whether an asylum seeker has met this legal standard, which will only create chaos at the border, in which the most vulnerable will suffer.

It’s not too late for the Biden administration to live up to its campaign promises to “uphold [the] legal right to seek asylum” and stop harming our international reputation in this arena. It should stop treating the right to asylum like a lottery by opening up alternative pathways to the app and allowing lawyers to advocate on behalf of particularly vulnerable asylum seekers directly at ports of entry.
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Citizens can help, too. They can reaffirm their commitment to protecting those who cannot protect themselves. They can submit comments against the asylum rule. And, they can defend human rights by volunteering with or supporting organizations working at the border.

Together, we can overcome the shame of Biden’s technological border wall and create lawful paths to safety and dignity. Asylum seekers believe we’re a country that protects people who are fleeing persecution. It’s time to be that country.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest98 on March 22, 2023, 04:00:41 pm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/21/us-says-it-is-extremely-troubled-by-new-israeli-settlements-law

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US says it is ‘extremely troubled’ by new Israeli settlements law

Washington also denounces comments by Israeli minister claiming Palestinian people are ‘an invention’ of past century.

The United States has renewed its opposition to Israeli settlement policies, saying that Washington was “extremely troubled” by an Israeli law that paves the way for restoring illegal settlements in the north of the occupied West Bank.

State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters on Tuesday that the law, approved by the Knesset hours earlier, violates Israeli commitments to Washington against advancing settlements in the area.

“The legislative changes announced today are particularly provocative and counterproductive to efforts to restore some measures of calm as we head into Ramadan, Passover and the Easter holidays,” Patel said.

He added that the US “strongly urges” Israel to refrain from returning settlers to the area, parts of which are privately owned by Palestinians.

On Tuesday, Patel went on to broadly criticise Israeli settlement expansion. “This is something specifically we have been very clear about — that the growth of settlements and outposts is inconsistent with our views on what steps are necessary to get us to a negotiated two-state solution in a peaceful way,” he said during a news briefing.

Despite the strong words, Patel was pressed repeatedly by reporters about what the Biden administration is doing to sway Israel from advancing its settlement plans, and he failed to outline any measures beyond raising the issue with Israeli officials.


A White House statement describing a call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday did not mention any US criticism of settlements. Instead, the White House said Biden “reiterated his unwavering commitment to Israel’s security” during the call.

“Our commitment to Israel’s security and Israel’s security concerns are ironclad,” Patel said on Tuesday. “But I will also note that we have  — when we need to — very frank and honest conversations with our Israeli partners.”

Title: Re: Refugees Welcome
Post by: guest98 on March 24, 2023, 05:09:57 pm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047438

US and Canada reach deal to reject asylum seekers

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The US and Canada have reached a deal to reject asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings, officials say.

Large numbers of migrants have been making unsanctioned crossings via Roxham Road at the US-Canada border.

The move closes a loophole created by a 2004 asylum agreement with the US on where migrants have to make their asylum claims.

It allowed Canada to turn migrants away at official points of entry but not at unofficial crossing points.

President Biden is in Ottawa, Canada, for 24 hours to discuss a series of economic, trade and immigration issues with his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau.

In his address to parliament on Friday, Mr Biden said the "United States and Canada will work together to discourage unlawful border crossings and fully implement the updated Safe Third Country Agreement".

The US side has also seen a rise in migrant crossings into Canada. The agreement is expected to allow officials on both sides of the border to turn back asylum seekers heading in either direction.

The deal is "not going to stop people", Abdulla Daoud, executive director at The Refugee Centre in Montreal, told the BBC on Friday, adding he is concerned it could "incentivise human smuggling".

Speaking about the new refugee programme, he said: "The numbers are too low. We had 40,000 cross just in the past year - 15,000 is a low number and just from one part of the world, the western hemisphere."

Mr Biden's administration has also proposed to crack down on asylum seekers at the US southern border with Mexico by making it harder for migrants to claim asylum once Covid border controls lift in May. The proposal has met backlash from human rights groups.

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest98 on March 25, 2023, 03:39:31 pm
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/asylum-seekers-continue-crossing-roxham-road

Asylum seekers continue crossing at Roxham Road after Biden-Trudeau pact

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Police unveiled a new sign near the dirt path linking New York state with Quebec, informing people they could be arrested and returned to the U.S. if they crossed

U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced changes to the Safe Third Country Agreement on Friday after a record number of asylum seekers arrived in Canada via unofficial border crossings, putting pressure on Trudeau to address it.

The Safe Third Country Agreement, signed in 2002 and which came into effect in 2004, originally meant asylum seekers crossing into either Canada or the United States at formal border crossings were turned back and told to apply for asylum in the first “safe” country they arrived in.

Now it applies to the entire 6,416-km (3,987-mile) land border. Under the revised pact, anyone who crosses into either country anywhere along the land border and who applies for asylum within 14 days will be turned back.

The new deal’s stated aim is to promote orderly migration and ease pressure on communities overwhelmed by a spike in asylum seekers who crossed at places like Roxham Road to avoid being turned back at official entry points.

But enforcing the amended agreement by apprehending people who cross anywhere along the land border could be a logistical nightmare and put people at risk, critics say.

If the purpose of this change is to deter irregular crossings, said University of Toronto law professor Audrey Macklin, “it will simply fail.”

When asylum seekers crossed at Roxham Road they wanted to be caught by authorities because they knew that was the way to file refugee claims. If the incentive becomes evasion, critics fear, people will be driven underground and toward riskier modes of travel. They will want to sneak into the country and hide for two weeks before claiming refugee status.

“This will divert people into more dangerous, more risky, more clandestine modes of entry across 6,000 kilometers of border,” Macklin said.

“That’s just a job-creation program for smugglers.



Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 20, 2023, 06:35:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_yU-pkHIk

Why?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2023, 02:57:50 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/way-forward-biden-plan-complement-080000588.html

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Just two weeks out from the end of the Title 42 public health border expulsion program — never needed and kept in place long after it even had a plausible defense — the Biden administration this week outlined a plan to open up processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia to pre-screen would-be migrants for refugee or other humanitarian status, and then place them in the U.S., Canada or Spain.

Ideally, this announcement will be a prompt for the administration to double down on revitalizing a beleaguered refugee resettlement system that was allowed to deteriorate badly in the Trump years, both as a result of his anti-immigrant efforts and the effect of the COVID pandemic.

Over the last two fiscal years, the U.S. resettled about 30,000 refugees, less than a fourth of just fiscal year 2022′s cap of 125,000 and the lowest levels since the program began more than four decades ago, even as officials have complained bitterly about the flows of asylum seekers who aren’t functionally being given other choices to seek humanitarian protections in the U.S.

The commitment, made last year, to take in 20,000 refugees from Latin America in this and next fiscal year is a positive step, but it must also be said that this is a drop in the bucket given the volume of need, and it should be the administration’s ultimate goal to significantly expand that number. This program must also be used as a complement to the current asylum program, not a replacement.

The reason that the asylum program frustrates officials so much is the same reason that it’s important: it’s a way for people to reach safety first and plead their case later, if the circumstances demand it. That doesn’t mean that anyone should be satisfied with chaotic flows that force people to traverse through danger, but it also doesn’t mean that we can give up on asylum altogether or foreclose on the possibility of people exercising their right to seek it in service of a more orderly and politically digestible approach.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 11, 2023, 05:15:28 pm
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-asylum-restriction-title-42-expires-border-deportations/

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El Paso, Texas — The Biden administration has finalized a sweeping restriction on asylum that it plans to use to ramp up swift deportations of migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border after the Title 42 pandemic-era emergency policy sunsets on Thursday, according to internal documents obtained by CBS News.

Hundreds of U.S. asylum officers were trained on how to enforce the restriction on Tuesday and the regulation was published on Wednesday, less than 48 hours before Title 42 is set to expire. CBS News first reported the regulation's finalization on Tuesday, as well as the guidance issued to asylum officers charged with implementing it.

The regulation, which is expected to be challenged in federal court, will be a dramatic shift in asylum policy, disqualifying migrants from U.S. protection if they fail to request refugee status in another country, such as Mexico, on their journey to the southern border.

The rule also represents a major pivot by President Biden, a Democrat who campaigned on restoring access to the U.S. asylum system after numerous Trump administration rules made it more difficult for migrants to secure refuge on American soil. In fact, the regulation published Wednesday resembles a Trump-era policy struck down in federal court that Mr. Biden decried in 2020.

If upheld, the Biden administration's rule will cement a growing bipartisan rejection of the asylum laws that Congress enacted in 1980 to conform with international treaties designed to prevent nations from turning away refugees to places where they could be persecuted
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While Title 42 allowed U.S. border officials to cite public health concerns to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants without hearing their asylum claims, the new rule is, in many ways, a tougher policy. Because migrants expelled under Title 42 did not face immigration or criminal penalties, the measure encouraged some to make repeated border crossing attempts.

But those who can't prove they are eligible for an exemption to the new rule will face swift deportation to Mexico or their home country — as well as a five-year banishment from the U.S. — under a process known as expedited removal. If they try to re-enter the U.S. after being deported, they could face criminal prosecution and jail time, the Biden administration has warned.

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While the partial asylum ban has garnered support from some centrist Democrats, it has been strongly repudiated by advocates, progressives and former Biden officials, who argue the policy ignores U.S. asylum law, under which migrants on American soil have a right to request refuge, regardless of how they entered the country.

"It is a profound shift for a Democratic president to implement a new ban on asylum-seekers," said Andrea Flores, who served as a White House border official during the first year of the Biden administration. "It's evidence that the past decade of far-right attacks on Black and brown asylum seekers have significantly weakened the Democratic Party's commitment to providing refuge to people fleeing persecution and torture."

The American Civil Liberties Union, which convinced federal courts to block the Trump administration's "transit ban" on asylum, has pledged to also file a lawsuit against the Biden administration's rule.

"We will sue as we did under Trump," Lee Gelernt, the ACLU's top immigration lawyer, told CBS News Tuesday. "The core illegality is the same."

During one of the 2020 presidential debates, Mr. Biden denounced former President Donald Trump for being "the first president in the history of the United States" to declare that "anybody seeking asylum has to do it in another country."

But soon after Mr. Biden took office, his administration considered doing just
that amid a rise in border crossings.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 20, 2023, 05:31:28 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-deported-11-000-migrants-144151592.html

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Washington — The U.S. deported or returned more than 11,000 migrants to Mexico and more than 30 other countries in a week as part of a Biden administration effort to increase and publicize deportations following the expiration of Title 42 border restrictions, officials said Friday.
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Unlike those expelled under Title 42, migrants deported under U.S. immigration law can face severe immigration and criminal consequences, such as a five-year banishment from the U.S. and potential jail time and criminal prosecution if they attempt to reenter the country without the government's permission.

The Biden administration has highlighted the increased number of formal deportations, and the consequences they carry, as part of a broader campaign to deter migrant arrivals along the U.S.-Mexico border, which reached all-time highs over the past two years.
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The asylum restriction is designed to make it harder for migrants to pass initial screenings that determine whether they should be allowed to present their case to a judge. Those who fail these interviews face swift deportation. DHS on Friday said U.S. asylum officers had interviewed more than 2,700 migrants in the past week.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 20, 2023, 09:40:22 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/democrats-call-due-process-unjustly-100000311.html

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Democrats call for due process for the ‘unjustly deported’

A group of Democrats is pushing the Biden administration to overhaul the process for deported people to appeal their cases, calling the current mechanisms “ineffective and insufficient.”
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“As you know, these processes can include a deported person filing a petition for review, a motion to reopen their case, or even applying for lawful status while abroad after they have been deported,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter signed by 64 congressional Democrats, including 10 senators, and provided exclusively to The Hill.

“In practice, each of these mechanisms are ineffective and insufficient due to the current decentralized review process and the associated lengthy wait times.”

Of the three mechanisms, two involve getting buy-in from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the institution that carries out deportations.

That’s left people who want to appeal their deportation with little recourse and without a clear government interlocutor to make their case.

“I mean, you feel lost,” said Vanessa Vaquiz Mendoza, who was deported to El Salvador in 2020 after living in the United States since 1998.

“It’s scary. I go back and think about it. That’s what it was. It was scary, because nobody explained nothing to me.”
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many advocates say there’s a broader societal concern beyond individual cases — the groups targeted for aggressive immigration enforcement are often the same ones disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system.

“There’s no question that Black and brown immigrants with decades of life in the U.S. who have contact with the criminal legal system are at much higher risk of deportation, detention and separation from their entire livelihoods,” said Nayna Gupta, associate director of policy at NIJC and the author of the paper outlining the legislators’ proposal.

“Just like in so many of the systems that Black and brown immigrants are up against, the immigration system itself is harsher and more punitive for low-income, underserved Black and brown immigrant communities. And that means that those communities are at higher risk of harsh immigration laws being enforced,” said Gupta.

That connection has attracted broad swaths of the Democratic Party to support the proposal, including many members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

“Immigration is a civil rights issue. And what I’m hoping for — and I think it’s beginning to happen — what I’m hoping for is this alliance between Black and brown people becoming inflexible and permanently connected, because we are getting stronger,” Cleaver said.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 25, 2023, 02:10:32 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/migrants-often-cant-access-us-122845140.html

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Migrants often can't access US health care until they are critically ill – here are some of the barriers they face
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Restrictive immigration policy and a fervent anti-immigrant environment creates what immigration scholars call “chilling effects” for undocumented migrants. It makes safe spaces like hospitals and clinics feel unsafe. Fearing that health practitioners will out them for their legal status, many migrants decide to forego seeking care altogether.
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Rodney, an undocumented Honduran man, arrived at a different clinic, also in need of a hernia surgery. However, two things distinguished Rodney from Adrian. The first was that Rodney’s pain was far more intense. Small movements caused Rodney severe pain in his abdomen, and if he pushed himself too far, his intestines could become strangulated, leading to a cutoff in blood flow and death. The second distinction was that Rodney had no ID.

“I’m sorry,” the staff member said. “Without an ID, I can’t check you in.”

Disheartened, Rodney left the clinic with a hand pressed to his stomach. The pain continued, and the waiting game began.

Like other low-income undocumented migrants without an ID, Rodney was unable to legally access a primary care provider and obtain a referral to surgically fix his hernia. This meant that Rodney had no other choice than to wait for his hernia to turn into a life-threatening situation, at which point he would be eligible for emergency care under the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

Rodney’s case was one of many that emerged in my study about how low-income undocumented migrants navigate today’s health care system. Checking for IDs is a routine practice in medical settings. For health practitioners, IDs are necessary for medical reimbursement claims.

When undocumented migrants cannot provide an ID, they are often denied care and begin a trajectory of exacerbated suffering. For some, this means having their long-term care needs relegated to private, medically unaccredited personal care homes. For others, this means an involuntary waiting game where, for many, death seems like the only possible way out.

Under the current system, emergency care becomes possible for low-income undocumented migrants without an ID only after their bodies fail. For Rodney, care was only possible if he let his hernia worsen. In another case in my study, Pedro, an undocumented Mexican man with a urinary tract abnormality, had to wait for his kidneys to completely shut down before he could seek emergency room services.

“I’m just tired,” Pedro told me. “Waiting all the time. And now, I’m waiting to die.”

Health practitioners vow to “do no harm,” but when it comes to immigrant health care, the system is set up in way that legally inhibits them from “doing good.”

And in many cases their illnesses would have been caused by:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

in the first place.....
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 30, 2023, 06:06:45 pm
Bidenism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjNpJz6EKnA
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 12, 2023, 05:36:55 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-border-policies-endangering-migrants-213025377.html

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A scathing report published Wednesday by a nonprofit human rights organization details the dangers and horrors faced by people seeking asylum in the two months since the Biden administration lifted Title 42.

The report, published by Human Rights First, was based on attorney and researcher visits to the southern border. It included interviews with more than 300 migrants and asylum-seekers in Mexican cities such as Reynosa and Matamoros, where thousands of people are camped out in large makeshift encampments amid a persistent and brutal summer heat wave.

Earlier this week, a 15-year-old girl from Guatemala died while in the custody of the U.S. refugee agency.
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"While Biden administration officials have inaccurately touted it as 'working,' the grim reality is that the asylum ban is a refugee protection, humanitarian, and legal travesty," researchers wrote in the report. "The Biden asylum ban has stranded vulnerable people in places where they are targets of kidnapping and violent assaults, rigged the credible fear process against people seeking asylum, and deported many without meaningful access to counsel and despite potential eligibility for asylum under U.S. law."
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"Our findings make clear that the Biden asylum ban is a legal and humanitarian disgrace," said Christina Asencio, director of research and analysis at Human Rights First and a co-author of the report.
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conditions there are quickly deteriorating as temperatures soar, clean water is scarce and criminals take advantage of people seeking asylum or hoping to enter the U.S.
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"The amount of pregnant women, nursing women, toddlers, infants is outrageous," she said.

"Neither government cares if these people live or die," she added, referring to the United States and Mexico.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 24, 2023, 02:13:23 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-no-immigration-border-not-100142384.html

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A major immigration spike in the U.S. came after the end of World War II as we confronted a labor shortage similar to today’s. More than 1 million people were apprehended at the border in 1954. In response, immigration authorities increased and expedited legal pathways for migrants through a guest worker system known as the bracero program.

Under the program, immigration authorities interviewed migrants at the border and admitted them as guest workers. Rather than placing a hard numerical cap on migration, the program admitted people based on the needs of the U.S. economy, with California receiving the most workers among the 24 participating states.

Joseph Swing, the head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at that time, said that “if there is any employer who cannot get legal labor all he has to do is let either the Department of Labor or Immigration know, and we will see that he gets it.” The program brought in more than 4 million braceros (so named for a Spanish term to describe laborers who work mostly with their arms). Border apprehensions fell by 96% from 1953 to 1959.
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Right now we have a system that ridiculously allows only 140,000 employment-based visas per year in a nation with millions of job openings.

We should look at our current temporary work visas — which are essentially smaller scale bracero programs — and stop using hard quotas, instead tying admissions to current economic conditions as we did before. We can also improve upon that approach with stronger protections for migrants by allowing them to change employers more easily and self-petition for permanent residency after several years of work. This would provide migrants with the kind of leverage with their employers that the original bracero participants never had.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 26, 2023, 05:52:51 pm
Thank you!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-biden-policy-234946806.html

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Federal judge blocks Biden policy to stem flow of migrants at southern border
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"A federal court found the Biden administration's new asylum ban illegal," the ACLU, which argued the case, said in a statement on Threads. "The administration now faces a choice: Follow the law or try to block the ruling from taking effect in 14 days, leaving people seeking safety in grave danger."
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: guest98 on July 27, 2023, 07:39:42 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/26/giorgia-meloni-white-house-far-right/

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, rising far-right star, to get White House welcome

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On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will join the small club of foreign hard-right leaders who have visited the Biden White House.

That invitation was never extended to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, and the Biden administration has notably excluded Hungary’s Viktor Orban from its democracy summits. But Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister and the head of its most right-wing government since the end of World War II, is a rare breed of hard-right leader: one who has earned a reputation as someone Washington and Brussels can do business with.

In her nine months in office, she has managed a balancing act, backing ideologically charged policies at home while staying safely within the Washington consensus on foreign policy. It’s an approach that has put her in a position to shape European policy and lead European Union delegations, while helping to establish her as a model for the global right.

Her broad acceptance largely boils down to one word: Russia.

“What marks the perimeter of the ‘acceptable’ right?” said Giovanni Orsina, director of the school of government at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. “The key factor could be the stance on Russia.

Italian diplomats on Wednesday described the Biden-Meloni meeting as focusing on security and energy challenges in the Mediterranean and, especially, on policy in Africa, where Italy is seeking a more active role in part to contain migration to Europe.

she hasn’t shown the sort of authoritarian tendencies that have made the U.S. administration nervous about other European far-right leaders.

I have never felt sympathy or closeness toward anti-democratic regimes. For no regime, including fascism,” she said in her first address to parliament as prime minister, seeking to insulate herself from her party’s ties to earlier post-fascist movements.

she’s proposing a blueprint for a European conservatism placed within the boundaries of respect for representative democracy,”



Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 30, 2023, 05:02:19 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ocasio-cortez-immigration-arguably-administration-153428936.html

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Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Immigration is arguably this administration’s weakest issue’
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Ocasio-Cortez noted the administration has regularly ignored policy recommendations from its allies, a reality that’s fueled speculation among immigrant advocates on the White House’s motivations.

“… [It’s] my belief that some of the hesitation around this has to do with a fear around just being seen as approving or providing permission structures, or really just the Republican narratives that have surrounded immigration,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

The New York lawmaker was sharply critical of the administration over its refusal to open up the executive toolkit to speed up work permits for newly arrived asylum-seekers.

That issue has thrust the White House, Congress, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) into a standoff, with all parties laying and deflecting blame over rising housing costs for migrants who can’t legally work.

“I think the issue that New Yorkers have is not that there are immigrants coming to New York City, but that immigrants are being prevented from sustaining and supporting themselves. We have New Yorkers, and we have New York businesses, that want to receive migrants and want to employ migrants,” said Ocasio-Cortez, listing an array of New York industries eager to find more employees.

“And the Biden administration’s refusal to open up work authorizations or extend [Temporary Protected Status (TPS)] really prevents us from doing what we do best, which is allowing and creating an environment where immigrants from all over the world can create a livelihood here.”

While the eligibility of asylum seekers and parolees for employment is a legal morass with few easy solutions, advocates have been clamoring for the administration to aggressively use TPS.

Under that policy, countries are designated as too dangerous for their nationals to return, and all nationals from designated countries in the United States are eligible to apply to stay in the country and work legally.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 11, 2023, 06:13:56 pm
The correct question to ask is why the rest are not on board:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/103-house-democrats-join-calls-184924523.html

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103 House Democrats join calls for Biden to open up the immigration playbook

Nearly half the House Democratic Caucus is calling on President Biden to put executive muscle into measures to help immigrants and asylum-seekers get work papers.

In a letter signed by 103 lawmakers, the Democrats laid out three legal avenues to allow asylum-seekers and certain undocumented immigrants to work legally, and for some undocumented immigrants to apply for permanent residency.

The House members joined calls by some Democratic senators and an array of labor, religious and civil rights organizations that have been pressing for the administration to adopt a more proactive approach on work authorization.

The lawmakers also underscored their support for expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), but kept their specific policy suggestions to a set of targeted regulations.

“We write to urge the administration to use all the tools available to provide stability to undocumented individuals and recently arrived asylum seekers, seeking to work lawfully, support their families, and contribute to the economy,” they wrote in the letter, first reported by Politico.

“While this letter does not focus on Temporary Protected Status (TPS), many of these individuals come from countries that warrant a designation or redesignation of TPS, and we support those on-going efforts.”

The first focus is on work permits for asylum-seekers.

Many asylum-seekers’ legal inability to work has contributed to escalating tensions between the Biden administration and Democratic mayors, particularly New York’s Eric Adams (D).

“Allowing earlier access to work permits would decrease the pressure on states, cities, localities, and other community groups and provide asylum seekers with the opportunity to live more independent lives, find legal representation, and increase economic growth,” wrote the lawmakers.

Administration officials have also expressed frustration that a number of asylum-seekers are in fact eligible to work, but have not received the proper legal guidance to apply for work permits.

But the lawmakers pointed out that many prospective asylum-seekers haven’t even been able to register their asylum applications due to backlogs, preventing them from taking the next step to apply for work papers.

“As a result, through no fault of their own, they remain ineligible to work, making them unable to provide for their families and contribute to the economy. Many asylum seekers want to work and give back to their new communities,” they wrote.

By law, asylum-seekers can’t get work papers until their application has been pending for 180 days, but regulations don’t allow them to apply for their work permits until 150 days after that application.

The lawmakers proposed shortening that regulatory 150 day period to give asylum-seekers a better chance at getting their papers as soon as they hit the 180 day mark.

They also called on the administration to extend its use of parole since foreign nationals who receive immigration parole are not subject to the 180 day waiting period.

Two other proposals that have been gaining steam in the immigrant advocacy world made it into the letter.

The lawmakers asked for a review of the provisional waiver program, targeted at foreign nationals who are eligible for a visa or green card but have spent more than 180 days in the United States illegally.

Often, undocumented immigrants who marry U.S. citizens are at once eligible to get papers and unable to apply because their record of unlawful presence bars them from changing their immigration status.

“Until recently, the provisional waiver has been a very successful and pro-family-unity policy designed to streamline the family-based immigrant visa process for eligible individuals who are part of American families,” wrote the lawmakers.

“However, backlogs for the provisional waivers have grown at an alarming rate in recent years.”

According to the lawmakers, the waiting period to get a provisional waiver is now 43.1 months on average, up from 4.5 months in fiscal 2018.

“Considering the circumstances, we strongly urge you to take immediate steps to address the backlog that go beyond future promises of increased operational capacity. Applicants and their families need meaningful immigration relief now,” they wrote, suggesting that parole could also help ease the provisional waiver backlog.

Finally, the lawmakers called on the administration to streamline a program that allows longtime-resident undocumented immigrants to apply to stop deportation proceedings.

The cancellation of removal program is available to undocumented immigrants who have been in the United States for more than 10 years, have a limited or nonexistent criminal record and whose departure would significantly impact their family in the country.

But the program is only available to longtime residents who have been placed in removal proceedings.

“Paradoxically, an individual who is more likely to be granted cancellation of removal and adjustment of status is less likely to access this relief because they will not be a priority for removal,” wrote the lawmakers.

Though any undocumented immigrant who fills the requirements could, in theory, make themselves eligible for cancellation of removal by contacting immigration authorities, immigration lawyers regularly post dire warnings against attempting to do so.

But the lawmakers called on the administration to make that process less risky for law-abiding longtime residents.

“Through rulemaking, the administration can address this issue by instituting a coordinated process that allows individuals to affirmatively request a review of their cases to make preliminary determinations about their eligibility for this relief,” they wrote.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: ObservablyNot on September 20, 2023, 04:34:47 pm
WATCH: 'World stands with Israel,' Biden says during meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpbjtv8TM7o

No it does not! There are plenty of nations and people that will never stand with Israel. If this were true, then it would be an absolute condemnation of this entire world before the true and living God of the spirit realm.

A broad and sweeping statement such as the one Biden made also begs questions such as: If Israel jumped off a bridge would this world follow? According to westerners such as Biden it would. Certainly another great reason why this world is in such a terrible condition as it is under western leadership.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: ObservablyNot on September 20, 2023, 04:38:32 pm
Considering the above report, why doesn't Biden support Trump's Mexico-U.S. border wall? Maybe it's time for Biden to come out and support Trump's border wall?

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/?message=21883
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 24, 2023, 08:11:43 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDYvkUnvEus

https://tyt.com/campaigns/dropout
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 25, 2023, 11:54:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxckTVFYcmo

https://tyt.com/campaigns/dropout
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: NoBrakes on September 28, 2023, 03:09:41 pm
In other words, U.S. voters continue to get bamboozled by rightist politicians and their talking points...

Now I even feel bad for joking to myself about Biden's age. Had not yet realized it was going to be a major rightist wedge-issue.

Poll: Biden's health a bigger concern than Trumps | NewsNation Now
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A new NewsNation/ Decision Desk HQ poll found voters feel President Joe Biden's health is a bigger concern than former President Donald Trump who is just three years younger than the sitting president. This, amid growing concerns about aging politicians including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel, R-KY, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcw8uGYSok
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BorderWall on October 05, 2023, 01:45:51 pm
WATCH: José reads from Biden admin. announcement allowing new border wall
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In a striking reversal, the Biden administration waived 26 federal laws to allow for construction of new border wall.  “There's a direct correlation between 245,000 entrants at the Rio Grande valley, and the announcement of a wall," José Díaz-Balart says.  The Biden admin is allowing border wall construction "to contain the fallout from those increased numbers of illegal border crossings," Gabe Gutierrez adds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOYACj0jU0U

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/linda-sarsour-disavowed-by-biden-camp/?message=22240

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It must be done. Stay home and apply for a VISA like the rest of the world
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Ok, and what are you supposed to do for the next 2-3 years while you wait just for your case to be HEARD much less approved?

There were 40 mostly "white" countries that do not need a VISA for it's citizen's to enter the U.S. There are now 41 countries that do not need a VISA for it's citizen's to enter the U.S. with the recent addition of Israel to the list:

https://www.dhs.gov/visa-waiver-program-requirements

US allows Israeli citizens to travel to US visa-free as Israel joins a select group of countries
https://apnews.com/article/visa-waiver-program-israel-united-states-palestinians-bc36df8be0a4c6bd85ef39161e81248b

Because allowing the country that has spied on your country more aggressively than any other country, Israel, and stolen nuclear bomb secrets from your country is always good for national security:

Israel's Aggressive Spying in the U.S. Mostly Hushed Up
https://www.newsweek.com/israels-aggressive-spying-us-mostly-hushed-250278

Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House
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The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cellphone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter...
Entire article: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house-spying-devices-1491351

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In 1963 the Kennedy administration was engaged in a now-declassified diplomatic standoff with the leaders of Israel.[262][263] In a May 1963 letter to Ben-Gurion, Kennedy wrote that he was skeptical and stated that American support to Israel could be in jeopardy if reliable information on the Israeli nuclear program was not forthcoming, Ben-Gurion repeated previous reassurances that Dimona was being developed for peaceful purposes. The Israeli government resisted American pressure to open its nuclear facilities to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections. In 1962 the U.S. and Israeli governments had agreed to an annual inspection regime. A science attaché at the embassy in Tel Aviv concluded that parts of the Dimona facility had been shut down temporarily to mislead American scientists when they visited.[264]

According to Seymour Hersh, the Israelis set up false control rooms to show the Americans. Israeli lobbyist Abe Feinberg stated: "It was part of my job to tip them off that Kennedy was insisting on [an inspection]."[264] Hersh contends that the inspections were conducted in such a way that it "guaranteed that the whole procedure would be little more than a whitewash, as the president and his senior advisors had to understand: the American inspection team would have to schedule its visits well in advance, and with the full acquiescence of Israel."[265] Marc Trachtenberg argued that "[a]lthough [he was] well aware of what the Israelis were doing, Kennedy chose to take this as satisfactory evidence of Israeli compliance with America's non-proliferation policy."[266] The documents reveal the deep concern the Kennedy Administration had over Dimona, and while Kennedy understood the United States and the international community may not be capable of preventing Israel or any nation, he certainly was not satisfied to learn Israel was using Dimona for the production of plutonium.[267] The American who led the inspection team stated that the essential goal of the inspections was to find "ways to not reach the point of taking action against Israel's nuclear weapons program"...[268]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Jonathan Pollard Was One of the Most Damaging Spies in US History
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When Jonathan Pollard was convicted of espionage in 1987, he became the first American to go to jail for life for passing secrets to a U.S. ally. The top-secret information Pollard passed on to Israel is so vast and damaging, the complete list of files is itself top secret. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.

There are few things both liberals and conservatives agree on these days, but keeping Pollard in prison for the rest of his life was one of them. Yet, he was released in 2015 and quickly made his way to Israel -- where he received a hero’s welcome...
Entire article: https://www.military.com/history/jonathan-pollard-was-one-of-most-damaging-spies-us-history.html

Pollard the "Israeli Hero":
(https://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2022-04/pollard.jpg?itok=6eaTFXMP)

And which U.S. president was it that pardoned Jonathan Pollard?:

Trump pardons Israeli officer who enlisted spy Pollard
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JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Aviem Sella, the handler of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, as part of the outgoing president’s spree of clemency actions in his last hours in office.

Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, sold military secrets to Israel while working at the Pentagon in the 1980s. Sella, a retired Israeli air force officer, enlisted Pollard to spy for Israel and fled the United States after Pollard was arrested in 1985. Sella was charged in absentia on three espionage counts, but was not extradited to the U.S. from Israel.

The Pollard case severely strained relations between Israel and the U.S...
Entire article: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-israel-jonathan-pollard-benjamin-netanyahu-united-states-c3d2e46029b23e7bdaa5bda6ec878247
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BorderWall on October 05, 2023, 01:50:51 pm
Correction to previous post: *Because allowing the country that has spied on your country more aggressively than any other country, Israel, and stolen nuclear bomb secrets from your country, to enter your country without need of a VISA is always good for national security:*
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BorderWall on October 05, 2023, 01:53:40 pm
'A promise broken': Julián Castro admonishes Biden border wall reversal
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In response to a surge in undocumented border crossings, the Biden administration announced it is bypassing 26 federal laws to add on to the border wall in Southern Texas.  Biden's reversal on building border wall is "a promise broken" and "a political gamble," Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro says.  Biden "said in the 2020 campaign that he would not build another foot of Trump's border wall."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSaIn9JYHE
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: RealPolitik on October 06, 2023, 12:46:59 pm
'Worst foreign policy deal of my lifetime.' Is Biden going to risk American lives for Saudi Arabia?
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President Biden is weighing a “mega-deal” with Israel and Saudi Arabia that has largely flown under the radar. The discussed deal would involve formal recognition of Israel, in exchange for the U.S. providing a mutual defense pact and a civil nuclear energy program for Saudi Arabia – and no apparent commitment for Palestinian statehood. Mehdi Hasan explains why we could be sleepwalking into the worst foreign policy agreement in decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULCaYq235Q

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How can you have an agreement with crooks and murderers. There is no way to expect they will hold up their part of the agreement?
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If this is true, you're right.  It is the worst foreign policy I've heard of.

Related?:

Realpolitik
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Realpolitik (German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk]; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual', and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises. In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism. It is often simply referred to as pragmatism in politics, e.g. "pursuing pragmatic policies" or "realistic policies".

While generally used as a positive or neutral term, as of around 2014, Realpolitik has been used pejoratively to imply political policies that are perceived as being coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.[1] Prominent proponents of Realpolitik include Otto von Bismarck, Henry Kissinger, George F. Kennan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, as well as politicians such as Deng Xiaoping, Charles De Gaulle, and Lee Kuan Yew.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik

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[...]
A careful look at power realities leads to a more nuanced position. Realpolitik is about the relationship between material capabilities – “hard power” in today’s parlance – and legitimacy, influence, the ability to achieve desired outcomes. From that perspective, power politics is not “back” after having been away on some vacation. It has always been here. It was here when the Cold War ended, when the Soviet Union collapsed, when the U.S.-led alliance of the “Broader West” expanded its aims and influence in the 1990s. Indeed, missing from Mead’s list of “power plays” is the country that remained highly active all along: the United States. What is different today is that power plays are more visible because other countries are pushing back harder. There is nothing new about China’s maritime claim or its views about the U.S. presence in Asia. Nor is there anything new about Russia’s dissatisfaction with the expansion of Western security institutions near its borders. What is new is the willingness of these governments to press their case more forcefully.

If the “return of Realpolitik” school is right, that contestation is likely to increase, especially if the dominant states go on declining while refusing to scale back the degree of global authority. For forceful efforts to upset the global order will be constrained and shaped in ways that make analogies to the past deeply misleading. Three limiting factors stand out: first, what we are witnessing is a power shift, not a power transition; second, major power war is for all practical purposes ruled out as system-changing option; and, third, the thick web of international institutions constrain challengers in novel ways. Together, these limits constrain the options of today’s dissatisfied powers and render the current order harder to dislodge than many suppose.
[...]
https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-return-of-realpolitik/

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 06, 2023, 04:43:47 pm
Would not now be a good time for AOC to announce a 2024 run to challenge Biden?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-slams-sanctions-against-venezuela-141139537.html

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Left-wing congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the US was “contributing to the destabilisation that drives migration” with measures such as sanctions on Venezuela and Thursday’s decision to resume deportation flights to the South American country.

She also demanded that Joe Biden reverse his recent decision to expedite border wall construction.

“We also have to finally invest in meaningful immigration reform,” said Ocasio-Cortez, a New York congresswoman and leading progressive popularly known as AOC.

With Biden lagging behind Republicans in polling regarding the border, on Wednesday his administration announced the waiving of 26 federal laws to speed border wall construction in Texas. That was followed by the decision to restart deportation flights to Venezuela.

The border wall order cited a congressional appropriation passed under Donald Trump in 2019, but amid outcry from advocates for environmental protection and immigration reform, Ocasio-Cortez said: “The Biden administration was not required to waive several environmental laws to expedite the building of the border wall.

“The president needs to take responsibility for this decision and reverse course. A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States.

“You do not risk your life or your children’s lives going through the Darién Gap or traversing hundreds of miles of desert if you have any other options. Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy.”
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Outside Congress, Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said: “Deporting individuals back to a country in distress is inhumane and will only serve to put people back in harm’s way.

“The Biden administration needs to stop pandering to rightwing voters by deporting people and building a wall, and should instead do the job they were elected to do: to protect all people regardless of immigration status. We need investments in legal services, not detention and deportations.

“We call on the Biden administration to abandon this cruel plan, and immediately stop any deportation flights to Venezuela.”

Biden will not listen. He needs to be primaried.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 07, 2023, 09:00:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVUnWjunE_U

https://tyt.com/campaigns/dropout
Title: Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
Post by: . on October 08, 2023, 05:50:25 pm
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/the-u-s-will-send-a-carrier-strike-group-to-the-eastern-mediterranean-in-support/article_ae2190d9-b886-5274-9bfd-1d0656869273.html

The U.S. will send a carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean in support of Israel

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday he has ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead on both sides. Americans were reported to be among those killed and missing.


The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, and its approximately 5,000 sailors and deck of warplanes will be accompanied by cruisers and destroyers in a show of force that is meant to be ready to respond to anything, from possibly interdicting additional weapons from reaching Hamas and conducting surveillance.



Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Greenlight on October 10, 2023, 01:40:16 pm
‘Biden gave Israel a greenlight for ethnic cleansing’: Former Israeli Knesset member
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A former Israeli Knesset member has blamed US President Joe Biden for giving Israel a “greenlight for ethnic cleansing”.

“They [Israel] are led by this mentality of destruction and revenge. They have all the power to do so, and they have been doing this for the last four days,” Sami Abou Shahadeh said.

“Israel is not killing the Hamas leadership, they’re not getting revenge out of Hamas. There is collective punishment for 2.2 million people. Look what’s happening towards the Palestinians in the West Bank, to us, the Palestinian Israelis that live inside the state of Israel. Our lives are in danger because of all the extreme-right fascists.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOm5UyfWfEs
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 11, 2023, 09:23:57 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEYZjrM96nY

https://www.cenkforamerica.com/
Title: Re: War
Post by: Deployment on October 17, 2023, 04:29:26 pm
U.S. troops told to prepare for deployment in response to Israel-Hamas war
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Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky., discusses U.S. troops that have been told to prepare for deployment in response to Israel-Hamas war and the expected House Speaker vote planned for Tuesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO-bMdWeDsM
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: JordanCancelsBiden on October 17, 2023, 05:39:07 pm
Israel-Hamas war: Jordan cancels summit with Biden
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Jordan has cancelled the summit it was due to hold with Joe Biden and Egyptian and Palestinian leaders in Amman on Wednesday.

President Biden is due to arrive in Tel Aviv on Wednesday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was then due to go on to the summit in the neighbouring kingdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vEMfQKeNo
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: genocide on October 17, 2023, 07:32:57 pm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67124831

Blinken emphasises 'deep commitment' to Israel after talks

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken underlined the "deep commitment" of the US to Israel's right to defend itself exterminate after holding talks with top officials in Tel Aviv.

In his second visit to Israel since the deadly attacks by Hamas, Mr Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

He reaffirmed US support and its willingness to aid the country, the State Department said.

"You know our deep commitment to Israel's right, indeed, its obligation to defend itself exterminate and to defend its people," Mr Blinken said on Monday.

Israel has been bombing Gaza and is expected to launch a ground offensive into the territory after vowing to eliminate Hamas.

Appearing at a photo opportunity with Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, the top US diplomat added: "You always have the support of the United States."

The visit comes as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is reaching a critical point with water, food and medical supplies running low.


‘Biden is giving the green light’ to Israel to kill civilians, Gaza resident says

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Just Vision Gaza Outreach Associate Fadi Abu Shammalah says residents “are being killed now by these weapons” and urges the Biden administration to take action on the humanitarian crisis in an interview with Meet the Press NOW.
https://youtu.be/YqP9U_VOaAk?si=-yjVhp8b_ZBU2LAe

The U.S is complicit in enabling and encouraging genocide.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 18, 2023, 05:49:57 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XEpRjjbokQ

https://votesocialist2024.com/about-the-candidates
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: GreenWaves on October 19, 2023, 01:50:41 pm
Biden's Aide Resigns Over New Israel Weapons Decision. US Official Says This In Quitting Note...
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On the day that US President Joe Biden visited Israel, a senior official of his administration resigned. Josh Paul quit from the US State Department over Biden's policy of expanding weapons supply to Israel amid the latest spate of fighting with Palestinian group Hamas, which is based in Gaza. Paul accused Biden of repeating past American mistakes, and only creating a situation which would cause greater suffering of both Israelis and Palestinians. Watch the full video for more.

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #Palestine #IsraelDefenseForces #IsraeliHostages #BenjaminNetanyahu #IDF #IsraelMilitary #IsraeliForces #Mossad #GazaStrip #WestBank #Egypt #Syria #Lebanon #Hezbollah #IslamicJihad #MahmoudAbbas #PalestinianAuthority #Iran #IRGC #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardCorps #AyatollahAliKhamenei #Tehran #EbrahimRaisi #USA #America #USAIsrael #JoeBiden #BidenNetanyahu

0:00 - Introduction
0:48 - Resignation Note
1:38 - Biden's Warning For Israel
2:10 - Gaza Hospital Blame-Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtjweG9uPH8

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Not all politicians are honourlsess like Biden, Rishi and Olaf
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America is funding this......may god have mercy on our souls
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Bravo about time people started waking up to these brutal oppressors
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 20, 2023, 10:16:00 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/watch-ilhan-omar-breaks-down-000547463.html

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., broke down in a fit of rage Friday aimed at President Biden and Democrat leadership over their support for Israel amid the war with Hamas.

Her angry comments came during a press conference held outside the U.S. Capitol alongside a few fellow members of the far-left "Squad" calling for a ceasefire in the war.

"How is it that we have a president who is talking about releasing hostages, who is talking about getting American citizens out of Israel, but could not get himself to say, I want to save and work to save the hundreds, thousands of Americans stuck in Gaza. What is wrong with you?" Omar said after claiming Israel had dropped more bombs on Gaza in the last 10 days than the U.S. did across an entire year in Afghanistan.

"How is this possible? Wait, so [are] certain Americans' lives [more] important than another? Is the American that is living in Gaza less important than the one living in Israel? How is it that you're telling American citizens to go to the south of Gaza, but you can't tell Netanyahu not to bomb the south because there are Americans there?" she said.
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: . on October 28, 2023, 12:22:45 am
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/27/analysis-is-the-us-approach-to-gaza-damaging-ties-with-its-arab-allies

Will unconditional US support for Israel harm its ties with the Arab world?

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The United States’ public support for Israel’s all-out assault on Gaza is undermining its relationships with its Arab allies and risks doing long-term damage to its standing in the region, analysts say.

Perennial US allies such as Jordan have openly criticised what they see as Washington’s green light for Israel to do as it sees fit in Gaza

For its part, the US is “increasingly pushing behind the scenes for better Israeli decision-making, but it’s also providing weapons to Israel carte blanche”, said Josh Paul, a former senior official at the Department of State

“Washington is giving unambiguous and unquestioned military support to Israel despite what many in the region see as a deep injustice. We have tried to frame ourselves as an honest broker, but we’re removing what little credibility we had left in that role,” he told Al Jazeera.

When US President Joe Biden visited Israel last week, he pledged the US’s full support, although he also negotiated a trickle of aid into Gaza and warned Israelis not to be “consumed” by rage.

He also backed Israel’s claim that Palestinian fighters were to blame for a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza, although the main video evidence for that has been debunked and controversy is still raging over who was responsible.

Biden on Friday made a speech from the White House saying he had asked Congress for even more military assistance to Israel, barely mentioning the spiralling Palestinian death toll

‘Double standards’

In an impassioned speech at a Cairo summit on Saturday to discuss de-escalation, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said the message Arabs were hearing from the West was “loud and clear”.

“Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli ones. Our lives matter less than other lives. The application of international law is optional. And human rights have boundaries – they stop at borders, they stop at races, and they stop at religions,” he said.

Omar Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs research institution, told Al Jazeera that “the level of double standards and hypocrisy coming out of the West is hitting home at a more fundamental level than before.

“There has always been a double standard when it came to Israel, but in the last two years, it has become a lot starker in light of the Ukraine conflict. That contrast has been particularly obvious over the past two weeks.”

Even before the Cairo peace summit, Jordan had cancelled a planned meeting with Biden and the Egyptian and Palestinian Authority leaders to discuss Gaza until the parties could agree to end the “war and the massacres against Palestinians”, blaming Israel for pushing the region to “the brink of the abyss”.

Speaking at a press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry also slammed Western “double standards” over Israel’s actions, saying that the suffering it is causing Palestinian civilians is not “self-defence”. Meanwhile, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told the Security Council that the world must take “a firm stand to end the military operations”.

Protests

tens of thousands of protesters onto the streets from Iraq to Morocco.

“Arab leaders also have an eye to their own publics, who are visibly angry and voicing discontent on the streets,” Rahman said.

“People are fed up with this [American] support in the face of what Israel’s doing now,” he said. “It’s not only a threat to Palestinian lives en masse but also a threat to regional stability.”

The anger is not only in Arab capitals.

Over the weekend, HuffPost reported that a “mutiny” was brewing at the State Department where staff were preparing a rare “dissent cable” of internal criticism delivered to senior officials at moments of crisis.

That report came days after Paul resigned over what he called an “impulsive” and “immensely disappointing” policy, warning against “blind support for one side”.

Side-stepping the conflict

Speaking to Al Jazeera this week, Paul said the Biden administration’s attempt to side-step the Palestinian issue even prior to the latest conflict is counterproductive.

And while previous wars in Gaza have stirred similar levels of anger, Rahman noted that this time there was a “fundamental difference” in terms of the effect on US standing in the region.

“The standing of the US as the world’s sole superpower is in decline, and with that its allies are acting more autonomously, taking more assertive postures and balancing their ties with other rising powers like China,” he said.

“We’re at a reckoning. That doesn’t mean the US is ‘just another country’ – obviously, it’s still one of most powerful – but there’s a challenge to that.”

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: FalseClaims on October 28, 2023, 02:10:02 pm
Israel-Palestine war: Three lies Biden has told since the start of fighting
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Middle East Eye takes a look at some of the US president's remarks which have not held up to scrutiny
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US President Joe Biden has pushed several false claims when speaking about the latest round of fighting in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Earlier this week, he delivered a 10-minute speech where he laid the blame for the violence squarely on Palestinian fighters, absolving Israel of any responsibility.

His speech came three days after Palestinian fighters launched a multi-pronged assault on southern Israel, killing at least 1,200 people and taking at least 100 Israelis captive.

According to Mohammed Deif, the leader of Hamas's military wing, the operation was launched in response to an increase in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank and repeated incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Gaza has been under a debilitating Israeli blockade since 2007, leaving about 80 percent of the Palestinians in the Strip reliant on international aid.

Since Saturday, Israel has responded with air strikes that have pummelled the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 people - of which at least 400 are children - and displacing at least 200,000.

The US president was flanked on Tuesday by Vice-President Kamala Haris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his address where he invoked tropes, bluster, and disinformation around the events that took place Saturday.

Whereas Biden repeatedly noted the US would stand with Israel, he neither acknowledged nor sympathised with the plight and horrors meted out to Palestinians in recent days, or since the creation of Israel in 1948.

The speech underlined Washington's iron-clad commitment to Israel, no matter the cost.

Here are three moments that don't stand up to scrutiny.

1. 'I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children'

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Biden made the claim that he saw pictures of decapitated children following Saturday's attack on Israel.

"I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children," the 80-year-old said, describing the Hamas-led attack as the "deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust".

Unverified claims about the beheading of Israeli children have gone viral on social media in the days following the attack.

The claims were circulated widely after Nicole Zedek, a reporter with the Israeli news channel i24, claimed that she had spoken to Israeli soldiers who had witnessed decapitated babies.

In a response to questions by The Washington Post, a White House spokesperson walked back Biden's claim and said the president had not seen pictures of beheaded children.

"The president based his comments about the alleged atrocities on the claims from Netanyahu's spokesman and media reports from Israel, according to the White House," The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

2. 'Young people [were] massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace. Women ****, assaulted, paraded as trophies'

On Saturday, Palestinian fighters broke through the heavily militarised barrier fence separating Gaza and Israel and entered several villages, towns, and the rave or music festival. A bloodbath ensued in which hundreds of Israelis were killed.

Two-hundred and sixty people have been reported dead following the attack, which began at 6.30am on Saturday morning.

Speaking on Tuesday, Biden said Israeli women were "****, assaulted, paraded as trophies".

As of Thursday, there is no evidence to suggest that women were **** or paraded.

Several women are known to have been killed in the attack or taken back to Gaza as prisoners of war, but claims of **** have yet to be substantiated by Israeli authorities or independent human rights groups.

So far, at least one publication, The Los Angeles Times, has retracted the claim, issuing a 'for the record' which reads: "such reports have not been substantiated".

3. 'Terrorists purposefully target civilians, kill them. We uphold the laws of war. It matters. There's a difference'

In his remarks on Tuesday, Biden attempted to defend Israel's bombing campaign of Gaza, claiming that Israel doesn't target civilians and journalists.

This claim has already been contested by the United Nations in this latest bout of violence after residential buildings and UN-run schools being used as shelters for displaced people have been bombed.

On Monday, the UN's Independent Commission of Inquiry said there was already "clear evidence that war crimes may have been committed" by both sides.

Shortly after the attack, Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a broadcast: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.”

A blockade is not necessarily a war crime, but the intentional starvation of a civilian population as a war tactic is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday that “Some of the actions [by Israel] — and the United Nations has already said it — cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people, is against international law. So yes, there are some actions that are not in accordance with international law.”

Israel already stands accused of committing war crimes in all four of its major operations in Gaza since 2008, the first of which saw the use of white phosphorus munitions in densely populated areas, which caused civilian injuries and death.

In 2018, Amnesty International said Israel had committed war crimes when more than 200 Palestinians were killed as they protested during the Great March of Return demonstrations.

And last year, Israeli soldiers killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akhleh.

Her employer, the Al Jazeera Media Network, has submitted a formal request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute those responsible for killing the veteran journalist.

Israel has refused to sign the Rome Convention and join the ICC.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-biden-lies-fighting-hamas-gaza

So when are they going to be held accountable for their crimes?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: NarrativeInCrisis on October 28, 2023, 03:49:35 pm
I have "no notion that Palestinians Biden are is telling the truth".

Biden claims the Palestinians are inflating their official death count. He’s lying.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZZq_jiUSk6o
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 28, 2023, 06:29:21 pm
See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/mainstream-media-rightist-bias/msg22937/#msg22937
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: liar on October 29, 2023, 02:43:57 am
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/28/democrats-biden-reelection-israel-palestine

Left revolts over Biden’s staunch support of Israel amid Gaza crisis

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The president has lost favor with young, Muslim and Arab Americans, important Democratic constituencies

In his first act, Johnson brought to the floor a resolution declaring US solidarity with Israel

Nearly all House Democrats voted to approve the measure, save for a resolute minority who dissented, citing its failure to address the thousands of Palestinians killed in Israel’s retaliatory bombing campaign of Gaza.

The discontent on display in Washington was a testament to the rising anger among the party’s left over the response from Biden and Democratic leaders

That same afternoon, Joe Biden was asked about the rising Palestinian death toll during a news conference at the White House. Biden replied that he had “no confidence” in the death count provided by the Gaza health ministry, which says nearly 7,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began.

“I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a warextermination,” Biden said in comments the Council on American-Islamic Relations described as “shocking and dehumanizing.”

As Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza, Biden is facing extraordinary and growing resistance from his party’s left flank, especially from young voters and voters of color, over his steadfast support for Israel. They have staged demonstrations, penned open letters and even tendered resignations in protest of the Biden administration’s handling of a war

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Coupid on October 29, 2023, 04:23:45 am
I wonder what happens to a government after it narrowly escapes a coup attempt by barbarians only to have the public lose all faith in it's supposed administrators afterward by being one of two nuclear powers bullying civilians in a 300 square mile open prison called Gaza?

Brilliant strategy and ideas these politicians have floating around in the heads. And where the hell are all these so-called "elites" I keep hearing so much about, are they all just off in their mansions stroking the wallpaper and diddling themselves, or what?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: US on October 31, 2023, 08:47:50 pm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/protesters-us-capitol-1.7013762

Biden officials confronted by angry antiwar protesters at Capitol Hill hearing

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Two of President Joe Biden's top advisers asked U.S. lawmakers to provide billions more dollars to Israel on Tuesday at a congressional hearing interrupted repeatedly by protesters denouncing American officials for backing "genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified to the Senate's appropriations committee on Biden's request for $106 billion US to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security.

"I ... hear, very much, the passions expressed in this room and outside this room," Blinken said at the end of his opening remarks. "All of us are committed to the protection of civilians."

The protests at the committee hearing reflect the heightened tensions that have arisen in the U.S. since Oct. 7.

While Blinken and Austin were testifying, FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were at a separate congressional hearing testifying to current threats to the U.S.

The office of Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat, confirmed Tuesday she was the target of threats that have led to charges for a Las Vegas man.

John Miller, 43, is alleged to have left a series of messages with here office between Oct. 11 and Oct. 19 calling her "subhuman" and vowing to "finish what Hitler started." Miller was charged with one count of threatening a federal official and faces a Nov. 13 court hearing.

Muslim-American group plans protest

Meanwhile, Muslim Americans and some Democratic Party activists have said they will work to mobilize millions of Muslim voters to withhold donations and votes toward Biden's 2024 re-election bid unless he takes immediate steps to secure a Gaza ceasefire.

In an open letter entitled "2023 Ceasefire Ultimatum," the Muslim leaders pledged to mobilize Muslim voters to "withhold endorsement, support, or votes for any candidate who endorses the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian people."

As the hearing began, a line of protesters raised red-stained hands in the air as an antiwar protest. Capitol police later removed them from the hearing room after they shouted protests including, "Ceasefire now!" and "Protect the children of Gaza!"

Other protesters who remained silent held up painted hands that resembled blood.





Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: DC on November 04, 2023, 08:19:21 pm
Tens of Thousands attend pro-Palestinian rally in Washington DC slamming US President Biden
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FRANCE 24's Washington correspondent Fraser Jackson reports from a pro-Palestinian rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzvg3Mwmd1Y

U.S. faces increased pressure over ties with Israel
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The United States has felt increasing pressure to push Israel to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Middle Eastern diplomats to hear demands for a ceasefire in the territory, and hundreds of employees from an independent U.S. government agency signed a petition calling for the same. Christina Ruffini reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b08mV7onUfs
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BlindEye on November 05, 2023, 11:43:28 am
Biden accused of turning blind eye to genocide
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US President Joe Biden says progress has been made towards a humanitarian pause in Gaza, as his top diplomat Antony Blinken wraps up meetings with Israeli and Arab officials in the Middle East. But public backlash is growing across the US over the administration's unconditional support for Israel. Yasmine El-Sabawi has this report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YZrAmyV6sE

I suppose the most humane option for Jews in Israel would be to roundup all the Palestinians, put them in concentration camps, and prepare to deport the Palestinians somewhere, I don't know where, maybe Madagascar? Jews would need to be real careful though, I've heard typhus can be a real problem during war-time and can spread through concentration camps like wild fire. They would need to build crematoriums to burn all the infected bodies. Zyklon-B could be used to control the lice that spread typhus, however...

Israel minister suspended after calling nuking Gaza an option
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Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu’s statements ‘are not based in reality,’ Prime Minister Netanyahu says.
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-minister-amichai-eliyahu-suspend-benjamin-netanyahu-nuclear-bomb-gaza-hamas-war/

'First of all the nukes are for Iran you idiot, secondly, if we nuke Gaza we will get radiated too you idiot!'  :)
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BlindEye on November 05, 2023, 11:59:33 am
Biden & Hillary Clinton face backlash; Biden interrupted by protester calling for ceasefire in Gaza
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Voters upset over the White House's response to Israel's war in Gaza could be a risk to Biden's reelection plan.

#israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #latestnews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMcGVG7Bn4

Swing-state Muslim Americans say they ‘can’t’ vote for Biden amid Israel-Hamas war
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Muslim Americans in multiple swing states say they will vote against the current president — but not for former President Donald Trump — in 2024 because of Biden’s support of Israel and handling of the situation in Gaza. NBC News Senior Digital Politics Reporter Alex Seitz-Wald joins Meet the Press NOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXesMR4MOsw
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Gaza on November 05, 2023, 12:53:45 pm
US Senator Bernie Sanders calls out Israel's bombings spree | WION
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Pressure is mounting and continues to mount on the US amid the Israel-Hamas War as the war drags on Washington finds itself in a tough spot with voices of descent coming from within America as well as within the Democratic party. US President Joe Biden has said the progress that has been made on securing a humanitarian pause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUUQYBhLxg

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The US governments position on the conflict and their vetoing of cease-fires is indefensible.
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Wars are between armies, not between an occupied and an occupier.
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I'm voting for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck for president next year. Because at this point, they would do a better job.

American values are now in the toilet and circling the drain fast. This is what the rest of the world is thinking. Good job folks! Well played! As if Trump hadn't done enough damage to "American values" alone...
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: israel on November 05, 2023, 05:20:40 pm
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/blinken-shuttles-from-the-west-bank-to-iraq-trying-to-contain-the-fallout-from-the/article_ae2883bd-65a9-5a78-bf24-24b71dc4c4f7.html

Blinken shuttles from the West Bank to Iraq trying to contain the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an intensifying Biden administration drive to reduce the suffering of Gaza's civilians under Israeli bombardment and to start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory.

President Joe Biden's top envoy traveled through the West Bank city of Ramallah in an armored motorcade and under tight security.

The Biden administration, while remaining the strongest backer of Israel's military response to Hamas' attacks on Oct. 7, is increasingly seeking to use its influence with Israel to try to temper the effect of Israel's weeks of complete siege and near round-the-clock air, ground and sea assaults in Gaza,

Demonstrators held signs showing dripping blood and with messages that included, “Blinken blood is on your hands."

Blinken said that “what we all agree” is that in shaping a future for Gaza

Abbas also condemned Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as a “genocidal war" and urged Blinken “to immediately stop them from committing such crimes,” the new agency reported.

sparked growing international anger, with tens of thousands from Washington to Berlin taking to the streets over the weekend to demand a cease-fire now.

Arab states are resisting American suggestions that they play a larger role in resolving crisis, expressing outrage at the civilian toll of the Israeli military operations but believing Gaza to be a problem largely of Israel’s own making.


https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/11/05/israel-gaza-rashida-tlaib-ad-bernie-sanders-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn

Tlaib accuses Biden of supporting 'genocide.' Hear Bernie Sanders' response
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: bipartisan on November 06, 2023, 09:58:59 pm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67313555

Rashida Tlaib's claims of genocide in Gaza draw bipartisan ire

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Rashida Tlaib of Michigan - the lone Palestinian American member of the US Congress - has accused President Joe Biden of supporting genocide in Gaza.

Her remarks have been met with fierce pushback from the White House as well as many of her Democratic colleagues.

One Republican lawmaker accused Ms Tlaib of "promoting false narratives".

"Joe Biden supported the genocide of the Palestinian people," titles at the end of the video state. "The American people won't forget."

"Biden, support a ceasefire now, or don't count on us in 2024," it adds, referencing the upcoming US presidential election.

She has long angered party leaders and pro-Israel groups with her unflinching criticism of Israel.

But the comment has drawn criticism from all corners, including from Democratic allies in her own state.

On Monday, Georgia Republican Rich McCormick introduced a resolution to censure Ms Tlaib for "calling for the destruction of the state of Israel and dangerously promoting false narratives".

Speaking on the House floor, Mr McCormick said the Michigan Democrat had "doubled down" on "a genocidal call to violence".

Mr McCormick's motion came after his fellow Georgian, Marjorie Taylor Greene, re-introduced her own measure against Ms Tlaib, this time "for anti-semitic activity and sympathising with terrorist organisations".

Ms Tlaib has vowed to keep speaking out, telling the Detroit Free Press in a statement: "My colleagues are much more focused on silencing me − the only Palestinian American voice in Congress − than they are on ending the horrific attacks on civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank right now.

"Instead of attacking me and distorting my words, they should listen to their constituents and call for a ceasefire to save innocent lives," she said.

The Biden administration has so far stopped short of calling for a ceasefire, but has become increasingly cautious in its language on the conflict as it seeks to balance competing interests.



Title: Re: Trump launches 2024 presidential campaign
Post by: AmericanArab on November 07, 2023, 10:03:50 pm
Posting this mostly for the comments to the video. (If you must point out someone's ethnicity at the least put it after their nationality, they may not care much for being an "Arab" for this examples sake, but they clearly want to be an American, especially if they are already a voter).

Arab American American Arab Support for Biden Plummets over Gaza Ahead of 2024 Election
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As protests across the U.S. denounce President Biden for refusing to support a ceasefire in Gaza while arming Israel's deadly bombardment of Palestine, polls conducted by the Arab American Institute reveal Biden's support among Arab American voters is plummeting, dropping from 59% to 17% since the 2020 presidential election. "Something horrible is happening to these people, and this administration is turning a blind eye to it," says James Zogby, the institute's president. "There are going to be electoral consequences." He argues the United States has "blown it" in the Middle East after decades of "disappointments."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dtPACnGESs

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I voted for him in 2020 from MN, but in 2024, he will never receive my vote, regardless of his actions. Too much blood has already been shed, and I won't support that coward.
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I voted for Biden in 2020. God willing, I am NOT voting for Biden in 2024. Biden is the worst president ever.
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I never thought I would say it but if there's only Trump against Biden, I might vote for Trump, IF I vote at all.
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at least trump is a known racist, a known quantity. Biden’s racism was more of a surprise. I am not going to vote for anyone in 2024
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Yes. I am with you. I am not Arab but I voted for him in 2020. I will not vote for him in 2024. The reason: the blindly support of a state that has violated and oppressed Palestinians for 75 years.
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both are awful and people are tired of choosing between two awful things. It isnt rocket science. Peoples lives are just as bad today if not worse under Biden than they were under Trump. Go outside. Vote shaming doesn't inspire people and if more people voted their conscience we'd have better choices and not just "democrat corporate stooge #4"
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the democrats are no better than the republicans.
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They're not great but much better than the Republicans.
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I am not Arab, but most certainly not voting for Biden, regardless of what he does moving forward.
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We need a viable third party candidate. A grassroots movement to take back our democracy and that means massive support for a non corporate candidate.
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Well said, James.
I'm from Scotland.
Biden's lack of compassion is an incredible revelation! America looks like we need to send in the white coats. The country has lost direction. It is very, very ill.

The children are dying like flies. I'm angry.
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I concur 100% with Mr. Zogby. As a Mexican American I’m appalled with Biden’s stance and can’t imagine giving him my vote. I am withholding my vote primarily as a result of his stance in support of this vengeful war.
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Thank you, Mr. Zagby, for such a succinct and brilliant statement of reality vis a vis of how blind and ill-conceived the current policies of the US in Gaza are!
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I'm Native American my heart goes to the Palestinians. 🇺🇸🦬❤️🇵🇸
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 07, 2023, 10:27:07 pm
Everyone can see the impending danger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJtSYtUPKY
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BidenSued on November 13, 2023, 08:11:10 pm
US rights group sues Biden for alleged ‘failure to prevent genocide’ in Gaza
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Complaint on behalf of Palestinian groups and individuals alleges Israel’s actions amount to genocide
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A New York civil liberties group is suing Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

The Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) complaint on behalf of several Palestinian groups and individuals alleges that Israel’s actions, including “mass killings”, the targeting of civilian infrastructure and forced expulsions, amount to genocide. The CCR said that the 1948 international convention against genocide requires the US and other countries to use their power and influence to stop the killing.

“As Israel’s closest ally and strongest supporter, being its biggest provider of military assistance by a large margin and with Israel being the largest cumulative recipient of US foreign assistance since World War II, the United States has the means available to have a deterrent effect on Israeli officials now pursuing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” the complaint argued.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, asks the court to bar the US from providing weapons, money and diplomatic support to Israel. It also seeks a declaration that the president, the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, are required “to take all measures within their power to prevent Israel’s commission of genocidal acts against the Palestinian people of Gaza”. These include pressing Israel to end the bombing of Gaza, to lift its siege of the territory and to prevent the forcible expulsion of Palestinians.

The CCR, which won a landmark case in the US supreme court in 2004 establishing the rights of prisoners held by the US military at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, said that the Hamas cross-border attack on 7 October, in which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 abducted, does not provide a legal justification for the scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, including 4,600 children, and displaced 1.5 million people.

The lawsuit comes as the international criminal court investigates Israel and Hamas for alleged war crimes. But legal scholars say that genocide is a harder crime to prove and question whether the president can be forced to find that Israel is committing genocide and is therefore under an obligation to act.

President Bill Clinton refused to recognise the systematic murder of 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 as genocide in order to sidestep the legal obligation to intervene. He later apologised to the Rwandan people...
Entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine

Bay Area Palestinians sue Biden in federal court over Gaza ‘genocide’ claim
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Palestinians and supporters of their rights sued President Biden in San Francisco on Monday, accusing his administration of backing and funding genocide by Israel in Gaza.

The Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, who Israel says killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages, has led to a five-week Israeli counterattack. According to Gaza health authorities, Israel’s soldiers and bombers have killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, while cutting off food, water and power to Gaza and virtually shutting down its health care system.

Those actions — and their U.S. support — fit the legal definition of genocide, conduct “committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national ethnical, racial or religious group,” said lawyers representing two Palestinian human-rights groups along with individuals, including Bay Area residents, whose family members have been killed.

“This unfolding genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza has so far been made possible because of the unconditional support” from Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, attorneys Johnny Sinodis and Marc Van Der Hout said in the federal court lawsuit.

The plaintiffs are seeking injunctions that would require administration officials to “take all measures within their power” to end the bombing of Gaza, lift Israel’s siege of the territory and its evacuation orders for 1.2 million residents of northern Gaza, and stop “obstructing attempts by the international community … to implement a ceasefire.”

It is unclear whether courts would have the power to order the administration to take such actions, as foreign policy decisions are generally within the authority of the executive branch of government rather than the judiciary. But advocates of the suit said the horrors of the current situation justify unprecedented legal action.

“I have done everything in my power,” plaintiff Mohammed Herzallah of Fairfield, who has lost seven family members in the attacks, said in a statement released by his lawyers. “I have participated in protests, sit-ins, wrote letters to my representatives, civil disobedience. Now I am asking the courts to end this ongoing genocide.”

“That’s what the courts are for,” said attorney Van Der Hout. “U.S. courts can order the U.S. government to do what it has to do under the law.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The suit noted that Biden, after traveling to Israel, promised President Benjamin Netanyahu on Oct. 15 that he would ask Congress for “an unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense.”...
Entire article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bay-area-palestinians-sue-biden-federal-court-18488766.php

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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BidenComplicit on November 14, 2023, 12:18:56 am
Journalist DESTROYS Biden Spokesperson for Being Complicit in Israel’s War Crimes
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Journalist Sam Husseini (https://husseini.substack.com/) exposes US complicity in the Gaza Genocide while questioning a State Department spokesman. Husseini  asks if the U.S. is stopping Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from invoking the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice — also known as the World Court — in the Hague. He also mentions a statement issued by the US Center for Constitutional Rights, warning members of the Congress that their approval of Israel’s support package could make them complicit in genocide and war crimes, and asks whether the US State Department is facing similar possibilities.

Craig Mokhiber responds. Craig Mokhiber is a longtime international human rights lawyer who served as director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza.   His resignation letter has gone viral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOORhK5DNg

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The UK Government is still backing this atrocity it’s utterly sickening to see the footage from Gaza I’m not British I’m Scottish and we’re against this total horror.
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The Hypocrisie is stunning and then the US wonders why 90% of the World despises them.
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The ICC criminal case against Israeli government and IDF and should begin now- and  the American officials  and whoever else is  complicit. No excuses, no pressure. Thank you Katie for this timely interview.
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Just as Craig Mokhiber said if the US admits that it is genocide then the US government will be held responsible legally as well in the Hague Court for supplying those weapons and support to accomplish that genocide.
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American hypocrisy is disgusting.  As an Italian I feel humiliated to be in an alliance with the USA.  I am outraged by the fact that information and freedom in our democracies are empty words.  It disgusts me that in the West everything, even life, is subject to the market.  The worst misfortune a poor country can have is to discover an oil field in its territory, regardless of the policies for the fossil badge.  A deposit has been found off the coast of Gaza.  Muslim states have agreements with the West for the exploitation of fossil fuel reserves.  This is why Palestinian children are still dying.  I can't wait for the pathetic hypocrisies about the west and democracy to fall.  These are meaningless words.  I have nothing to do with the USA nor with the crazy policy it has adopted for a century now.  What we are experiencing is the worst period for all of humanity.  As an Italian I am not "western" nor am I free.  Solidarity with the Palestinians and all oppressed peoples.

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Lock up biden next to trump and as for Netanyahu...
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: toast on November 14, 2023, 04:30:01 am
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine

US rights group sues Biden for alleged ‘failure to prevent genocide’ in Gaza

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A New York civil liberties group is suing Joe Biden for failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/biden-2024-polling-reelection-obama-comparison/675972/

Is Biden Toast?

Yes he is.

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Politicians on November 14, 2023, 01:25:26 pm
Biden’s Own State Dept. Blasts Him Over Israel Position
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An internal memo signed by 100 members of the State Department and USAID has leaked, criticizing President Joe Biden's position on Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw_F75Q8z1w

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 15, 2023, 10:54:25 pm
Ignore False Left TYT's two-state-solution promotion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqm_4T1CYq8
Title: Re: Trump launches 2024 presidential campaign
Post by: Gaza on November 17, 2023, 04:28:22 pm
Majority of Democrats want alternatives to Biden in 2024 but not the ones already running
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In a sign of growing concern about President Biden’s chances of winning reelection, a majority of potential Democratic primary voters (54%) now say they would like to see “another Democrat” enter the race to challenge him for their party’s 2024 nomination, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Yahoo News West Coast Correspondent Andrew Romano breaks down the numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n79koqE6hzA

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: BidenHitsNewLow on November 19, 2023, 03:09:51 pm
Steve Kornacki: Biden’s standing hits new low amid Israel-Hamas war | NBC News Poll
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NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins Meet the Press to debut the latest NBC News National poll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZg87yuAg_0

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Imagine if they took polls with voters who don't have landlines. Would be far lower than this.
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There’s now way it’s even that high. Imagine supporting Biden at this point.
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As a lifelong Democrat with over a decade of experience in the Mideast, there is no way I'm voting for Biden again.

Wow! That's low...   :o
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 21, 2023, 03:19:23 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J3GB6Dg64M
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: GenocideJoe on November 21, 2023, 03:26:56 pm
Biden Spox ERUPTS Over 'Genocide Joe' Nickname | Breaking Points
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Krystal and Emily discuss the Biden admin erupting over accusations that he is supporting a genocide in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2qL9oYfaV0

Paraphrasing, "Biden had no problem accusing Russia of genocide in Ukraine for doing the same exact things Israel is doing in Palestine"...

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/?message=23605
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Pretty alarming when the US national security council spokesman doesn't even know the definition of genocide. That's some halfhearted propaganda, John
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What’s worse is we really all know too. Like in the western world we used to believe we were better and now we know.
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Idea that USA have moral high ground is hilarious for most people outside of USA

Side note: with all these new nicknames floating around in the public like, "Debt-trap Debby" and "Genocide Joe", I'm constantly being reminded of the 'Garbage Pail Kids'. Anyone else here been around long enough to remember the Garbage Pail Kids cards?:

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Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: US on November 23, 2023, 09:03:36 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/23/israel-gaza-war-america-middle-east/

Many in Middle East blame United States for devastation in Gaza

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The entire front page of a Lebanese newspaper this month displayed President Biden’s face superimposed over pictures of dead Palestinian children, under a headline declaring “Western genocide.”

In Egypt and some Persian Gulf states, once-bustling Starbucks and McDonald’s outlets sit empty thanks to a boycott of U.S. brands. And in Beirut, Tunis and other Arab capitals, protesters have marched on U.S. diplomatic missions, sometimes burning American flags, to vent their fury at the staggering death toll in Gaza.

The prevailing view throughout the Middle East is that while Israel is doing the fighting, this is an American war. Without the diplomatic cover and high-tech munitions provided by the United States, the reasoning goes, Israel wouldn’t be able to carry out the massive operation it launched in Gaza to “eradicate Hamas” that a U.N. official this week said has caused “complete and utter carnage.”

In Arab nations, where solidarity with the Palestinian cause has endured for decades, millions are watching as the only force they see as powerful enough to stop the bloodletting in Gaza instead defends it.

“In a very important moment of history, when principles were put to the test, they failed the world,” said Noha Bakr

the war has toppled the United States from its moral high ground, with Biden’s lectures to Russia about safeguarding civilian life in Ukraine now juxtaposed with his more muted statements as Israel bombs schools and hospitals in Gaza.

On social media, at cafes and in nearly every regional publication, Arabs express a blend of despair and rage toward the American reaction to Palestinian suffering.

“I’m gratified that these brave souls, who have endured an unspeakable ordeal, will be reunited with their families once this deal is fully implemented,” Biden said of the hostages in a statement. He made no mention of the Palestinian death toll of more than 13,300, among them more than 5,000 children

 the president’s legacy in the Middle East would be “soaked in blood.”

Since the start of the war, American brands have emerged as the main recipients of street-level anger over the U.S. role in the conflict. A platform called Bdnassh, meaning “We don’t want,” allows users to see if a particular brand is on a boycott list alongside Pizza Hut, Pepsi and many other mainstays.

Pro-boycott videos rack up thousands, sometimes millions, of views on YouTube and TikTok with messaging that buying from big American brands amounts to complicity in the killing of Palestinians. In one video, ketchup turns to blood as a man squeezes it on his McDonald’s fries. In another, a green-and-white Starbucks cup turns crimson while the mermaid logo morphs into a skeleton.

Some boycotters go so far as to call for the public shaming of those who don’t join them.

“If you pass by a Starbucks, check to see if there are any traitors inside,” one Qatari boycotter said on TikTok, urging people to “give them a stare so they can feel guilt.”

Despite the damage-control efforts, many of the restaurants remain empty.

“Their blood is like our blood. They are people just like us,”

The Arab world now has “the largest youth cohort it has ever seen,” according to the United Nations, which counts 60 percent of the region’s population younger than 30. Through social media, Arab youths are connected to like-minded activists around the world.

The United States became a party to the conflict from the outset, by dispatching warships to support Israel before sending politicians or diplomats, said Mohammed Obeid, a Beirut-based political analyst

“Before sending diplomats to find a political solution, they sent their warships and weapons and threatened a response,” Obeid said. “So they actually got involved in this war for the sake of Israel, not for the sake of the United States.

“America’s blind support for what’s happening now is affecting the soft-power capacity of the United States in the region,”




Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: US on November 26, 2023, 09:52:00 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/26/biden-white-house-divisions-israel-gaza/

White House grapples with internal divisions on Israel-Gaza

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Earlier this month, a group of about 20 distressed White House staffers requested a meeting with President Biden’s top advisers, as Israel’s war in Gaza entered its sixth week.

Zients, Dunn and Finer listened respectfully, but some participants felt they fell back on familiar talking points, said a White House official familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private exchange. The administration had to be careful not to criticize Israel in public so it could influence its leaders in private, the advisers said.

The previously unreported meeting of officials underscores how Biden’s handling of what is arguably the biggest foreign policy crisis of his presidency is dividing a White House that has prided itself on running a disciplined and united operation.

 staffers agonize over their positions on highly emotional issues.

Adding to the sensitivity, the unwavering embrace of Israel that many staffers find upsetting stems in large part from Biden’s personal lifelong attachment to the Jewish state, aides said.

there are limits to how much the United States has been able to influence Israel’s actions as it largely refrains from criticizing them publicly. “I think the administration has realized from quite early on that it was in a bind,”

Biden’s “bear hug” approach to Israel has given him credibility with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Biden’s foreign policy team has long been mindful of the influence of Washington’s pro-Israel lobbying organizations. But the changing demographics of key swing states, such as Michigan, home to a growing Arab American community, is prompting some Democratic analysts to question the conventional political wisdom.

The division inside the White House is to some degree between Biden’s senior longtime aides and an array of younger staffers of diverse backgrounds. But even top advisers said they recognize the conflict has hurt America’s global standing. “We’re taking on a lot of water on Israel’s behalf,”

Inside the administration, a growing number of American diplomats, defense officials and aid workers have called for a cease-fire, including more than 1,000 staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development. At the State Department, there have been multiple dissent cables from diplomats urging the administration to use more leverage to stop the violence.

Still, Biden officials are in an increasingly vexing predicament. “The problem they have, which is the problem they’ve had from Day 1, is the Israelis” don’t have “a strategy for doing what they want to do that does not harm, kill and expel a lot of Palestinians from Gaza,” one outside adviser said. “They have to go down south and do the same thing. I don’t know how you do that with 2-plus million people in the south.”


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/26/biden-seeks-to-expand-israeli-access-to-us-weapons-stockpile

Biden seeks to expand Israeli access to US weapons stockpile

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The White House aims to lift nearly all restrictions on Israel’s access to weapons from a crucial US stockpile, enabling a smoother weapons pipeline to Israel, which has paused weeks of its devastating bombing of the Gaza Strip.

The White House asked the United States Senate to scrap the restrictions in its latest supplementary budget request on October 20. If granted, the request would enable Israel to access more high-powered US weapons at a reduced cost, with less congressional oversight.

The request proposes changes to policies governing the War Reserve Stockpile Allies-Israel (WRSA-I), an Israel-based US weapons stockpile that has smart bombs, missiles, military vehicles, and other ammunition and equipment.

The stockpile, set up in the 1980s, gives the Pentagon a strong weapons cache to tap into in the event of regional conflicts.

Israel, the US’s principal ally in the Middle East, has also been able to pull some weapons from the reserve in emergency cases and buy them at a reduced cost. However, it has been able to access only certain classes of weapons deemed “obsolete or surplus”.

The White House’s request would eliminate such conditions, enabling the US to transfer all “defence articles” from its stockpile to Israel. It would also waive a yearly limit on the amount Washington spends refilling the cache, and curb congressional oversight on the transfers.

‘Free-flowing pipeline’

Josh Paul, a former director in the Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, told The Intercept the request “would essentially create a free-flowing pipeline to provide any defense articles to Israel by the simple act of placing them in the WRSA-I stockpile, or other stockpiles intended for Israel”.




Title: Re: Demographic Blueshift
Post by: protests on November 26, 2023, 10:00:41 pm
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/pro-palestine-demonstrators-march-in-rhode-island-disrupt-black-friday-shopping-israel-hamas-war-terrorist-attacks-war-middle-east-conflict-party-for-socialism-and-liberation

Pro-Palestine demonstrators march in Rhode Island, disrupt Black Friday shopping


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Hundreds of demonstrators marched in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, amidst Black Friday shopping to call for justice for the people of Palestine.

The protest began at the Rhode Island State House with a prayer service, and made its way to the entrance of the Providence Place Mall.

One demonstrator, who didn’t want to share her name, said the original plan was to go inside the mall, but Providence Police officers blocked the doors.

The national organization, Party for Socialism and Liberation, spread awareness on social media about the “Shut It Down for Palestine” boycott, which took place around the world.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Hundreds of demonstrators marched in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, amidst Black Friday shopping to call for justice for the people of Palestine.


The protest began at the Rhode Island State House with a prayer service, and made its way to the entrance of the Providence Place Mall.

One demonstrator, who didn’t want to share her name, said the original plan was to go inside the mall, but Providence Police officers blocked the doors.


"There were almost 20 to 30 officers, I think, guarding the front door to the mall,” she said.

She explained that the purpose of going inside the mall was not entirely geared towards the shoppers on Black Friday, but the businesses themselves.

The national organization, Party for Socialism and Liberation, spread awareness on social media about the “Shut It Down for Palestine” boycott, which took place around the world.

The defense contractor headquartered in Providence was also singled out.

"We walked to the corporation Textron that is providing some of those weapons and military equipment to Israel," said Imam AbdulLatif Sackor, Islamic Center of Rhode Island.

The protest remained peaceful. A prayer service was also held.

"We all sort of understand that this is peaceful place where we can all stand together for liberation," said the protestor.

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 26, 2023, 10:34:17 pm
Previous PSL coverage:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/linda-sarsour-disavowed-by-biden-camp/msg22887/#msg22887
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: TrumpUpAgainBidenDown on November 27, 2023, 02:42:14 pm
SHOCK Polls: Trump Now CRUSHING Biden | The Kyle Kulinski Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq4gnpVLi3E
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: AIPACbribing on November 28, 2023, 02:25:53 pm
Biden IGNORED Aides On Beheaded Babies Story, ADMITS He Wrongly Doubted Gaza Death Toll: Report
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Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss new reporting of President Joe Biden's response to October 7th. #Israel #gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgj7QJ21WOo
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Revolt on November 29, 2023, 11:03:21 pm
Biden Faces Revolt Over Israel-Hamas War Handling; Top CIA Official Among Hundreds Up In Arms
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There is a growing revolt within the Joe Biden administration over the handling of the Israel-Hamas war. The revolt has now reached the top ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA's top analysis chief changed her Facebook profile to a Palestinian flag in protest. The incident has left Joe Biden embarrassed, as he continues to support Israel. This comes after more than 400 U.S. administration staff signed an anonymous letter demanding President Joe Biden push for an immediate end to the Gaza war. Another 1,000 employees employed by a U.S. agency for international development echoed the call. This report has full information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxlyD3bdcyE

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Given the type of information that likely crosses the desk of a CIA analyst,
it is possible that an analyst with a moral compass would find the media spin appalling.
The difference between what is said by public officials and
what they actually know and talk about in private about the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians.

That is if we assume there is such a thing as a fair minded CIA analyst.
You never know, may be there is.

Joe Biden Faces a Deep State Revolt
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On Israel, hundreds of federal workers try to undermine his policy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-executive-branch-anonymous-letter-joe-biden-israel-ceasefire-gaza-hamas-f22374d0

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March 7, 2014 | Part Of Institute for Research: Middle East Policy Conference

U.S. -Israel Relationship

A group of former CIA analysts spoke an event that was critical of the U.S.-Israel relationship. They questioned whether Israel was truly an American ally.

“Is Israel Really a U.S. Ally?” was held at the National Press Club by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy along with the Council for the National Interest, If Americans Knew, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?318179-6/us-israel-relationship

Why does it seem like unelected government officials often have better morals and ethics than the elected ones?

Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: end of zion? on December 08, 2023, 08:41:31 pm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-war-day-63-1.7052959

U.S. vetoes ceasefire demand, as UN Secretary-General warns Gaza 'at breaking point'

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Gaza at 'high risk of the total collapse,' says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations Security Council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, diplomatically isolating Washington as it shields its ally.

The vote came after UN Secretary-General Guterres made a rare move on Wednesday to formally warn the 15-member council of a global threat from the two-month long war.

"What is the message we are sending Palestinians if we cannot unite behind a call to halt the relentless bombardment of Gaza?" Deputy UAE UN Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab asked the council.

Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood told the council that the draft resolution was an imbalanced text "that was divorced from reality, that would not move the needle forward on the ground in any concrete way."

"Although the United States strongly supports a durable peace in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support this resolution's call for an unsustainable ceasefire that will only plant the seeds for the next war," said Wood.

Britain's UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward said her country abstained because there was no condemnation of Hamas.

Hamas strongly criticized the U.S. veto in a statement issued late Friday night, saying the it considers Washington's move "unethical and inhumane."

The resolution was backed by Arab and Islamic nations,Guterres and many other countries.

He warned that the Gaza Strip is at "a breaking point" and desperate people are at serious risk of starvation. He said the UN anticipates this would result in "a complete breakdown of public order and increased pressure for mass displacement into Egypt."

The United States kept up pressure on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians during a fierce offensive against Hamas militants across Gaza, despite its security council resolution veto.


https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/un-chief-and-many-nations-demand-immediate-humanitarian-ceasefire-in-gaza-but-u-s-remains-opposed-1.6679768


UN chief and many nations demand immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, but U.S. remains opposed


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The United Nations chief and many Security Council members demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza on Friday, but the United States reiterated its opposition despite a direct appeal from Arab diplomats, virtually dooming any action by the UN's most powerful body.

The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and other leading Arab nations and Turkey were in Washington on Friday on a rare joint mission to press the Biden administration to drop its opposition to a ceasefire given the soaring death tolls among . They were scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday afternoon.

One, the top diplomat of Jordan, told reporters in Washington that the killings of Palestinian civilians in Israel's bombardment and siege of Gaza were war crimes and threatened to destabilize the region, the U.S. and the world for years to come

despite all our efforts, Israel is continuing these massacres."





Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: US on December 19, 2023, 06:18:06 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/19/israel-gaza-united-nations-ceasefire/

Security Council searching for a Gaza vote that U.S. won’t veto

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The U.N. Security Council struggled Tuesday to come up with a resolution that will stop the fighting in Gaza — at least for long enough to implement an effective flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave — but that would not be vetoed by the United States.

A vote on a final resolution, sponsored by the United Arab Emirates, is possible later Tuesday, according to U.N. officials. The goal, officials said, is obtaining U.S. agreement to vote yes, or at least for Washington to abstain to allow the measure to pass.

The Biden administration has vetoed previous resolutions



https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/18/us-says-support-for-israel-unshakeable-as-gaza-ceasefire-calls-grow

Austin says US support for Israel unshakeable as Gaza ceasefire calls grow

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Speaking alongside Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Monday, Austin said US support for Israel was “unshakeable”, as the death toll from the Israeli assault on Gaza surpassed 19,000

the US provides Israel with weapons and diplomatic support

Austin, however, offered reassurance on Monday, saying: “American support for Israel security is unshakable. Israel is not alone.”

Austin’s visit came amid growing concern from foreign governments and international organisations over civilian deaths in Gaza and a deepening humanitarian crisis.

the US has found itself increasingly isolated over its stance on the war between Israel and Hamas.


Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: US on December 19, 2023, 08:24:42 pm
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-formed-coalition-red-sea-part-aggression-against-palestinians-yemens-houthis-2023-12-19/

US-formed coalition in Red Sea part of aggression against Palestinians, Yemen's Houthis say

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The international coalition formed by the U.S. to protect maritime navigation in the Red Sea is part of the aggression against the Palestinian people, the political bureau of Yemen's Houthi group said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the coalition contradicts international law.

"The international coalition that America announced under the pretext of protecting maritime navigation in the Red Sea is an alliance to protect the Israeli entity and to protect Israeli ships. It is an integral part of the aggression against the Palestinian people, Gaza, and the Arab and Islamic nations," its politburo said.

"It aims to encourage the Zionist entity to continue its brutal crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza, this coalition contradicts international law and does not protect maritime navigation, but rather threatens it and seeks to militarize the Red Sea for the benefit of the Israeli entity," the statement said.

"Yemen's armed forces don't represent any threat to any country, we only target Israeli ships or ships heading toward Israeli ports", it added.

"We affirm our steadfast position in supporting the Palestinian people until Israel’s aggression ends, and siege on the Gaza strip is lifted."




Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 31, 2023, 03:53:56 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJsjTE6dvPA
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 03, 2024, 04:39:58 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUWEcox1VuI
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: rp on January 05, 2024, 08:16:22 pm
Old but gold:
https://youtu.be/Vx3NBiQhQxQ
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Schwartze Katze on February 20, 2024, 03:05:28 am
Palestinian Historian Calls Biden ‘BRAINWASHED’ By Israel Lobby
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Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi analyzes Joe Biden and what influences his view on Israel. He describes Biden as “someone who's clearly been brainwashed by the Israeli politicians and the lobbyists who have focused on him for his entire life, starting with Golda Meir.
He has described her impact on him. We can go on what he’s said. He was taken by Golda. And I think he has a casual contempt for the Palestinians. Many of the things he's said are insulting and dehumanizing to the Palestinians. What he said about Palestinian casualties. He's a man who decided support of Israel was an important part of his political persona early on. And there are many, many, many statements by him, “if Israel didn't exist, we’d have to create it, I’m a Zionist” and so on. He’s surrounded himself with people like Blinken, like Sullivan, like Admiral Kirby, who have a contempt for and ignorance of the Arab world and of the Palestinians.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsfDHXrrJ-I

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I think Khalidi's take on Biden and Trump is spot-on.  If it does come down to those two, it will be a lose-lose for the U.S.   Won't make a difference for Palestine since both parties are all-in for Israel.
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Spot on about Biden AND Trump!
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When criticism of Israel upsets some people more than the genocide of 30,000 innocent civilians ~ Being lost for words is an understatement ~

2020 and beyond exposed so many of these ghouls for what they really are it's absolutely amazing!!!
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Schwartze Katze on February 23, 2024, 11:40:55 am
Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations
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A federal court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of racial discrimination and rights violations of Haitian asylum seekers. The suit was brought on behalf of 11 Haitian asylum seekers who were abused by U.S. border agents as more than 15,000 people, mostly from Haiti, were forced to stay in a makeshift border encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuña-Del Rio International Bridge in Texas. One of the plaintiffs is Mirard Joseph, the asylum seeker whose image went viral after being photographed while a Border Patrol agent on horseback lashed him with split reins, grabbed his neck and gripped Joseph by the shirt collar. “This is a critical junction in our country here in the United States as we make sure to uphold human rights and understanding seeking asylum is a human right,” says Guerline Jozef, executive director of immigrant advocacy organization Haitian Bridge Alliance, which helped bring the case on behalf of asylum seekers. “We will continue to push forward and make sure that accountability is served but also we have systematic change in the way that we receive people in the United States.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4ZtQ9_xQ0Y

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If any peoples need asylum its the hatians & Palestinians etc..
What American government has done to their homelands is despicable
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See they’d have shot me because homey on the horse woulda got pulled of and beat till they shot me in my back
R:
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Not likely if you had made the same exhausting, treacherous journey it takes to seek asylum in america.

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The comment section is brutal. Haitian people are seeking asylum. There are unliveable conditions in Haiti for the majority of the population. A lot of them are desperate and just want to live a normal life just as we do.
Yes there are laws and rules to follow but this is not the way to treat human beings or any other being for that matter (yes they’re also people just as worthy and not beneath anyone) Once again, if those fleeing violence and starvation had blond hair and blue eyes it would gain “everyone’s”sympathy and outrage at the brutal and appalling treatment.
It’s sad and sickening. Whatever happened to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" The absence of compassion and empathy is shameful.

To those who may think I’ll entertain their detached triggering racist low class rants:
I won’t. Don’t bother.

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Title: Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
Post by: the great satan on February 23, 2024, 05:37:18 pm
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/progressive-groups-biden-immigration-00142957

Progressive groups preemptively rip Biden over immigration executive actions

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Those groups, totaling more than 150 international, national, state, local and faith-based entities, said in a letter to the White House that the policies under consideration — including an asylum ban between U.S. ports of entry — emulate the approach of the Trump administration and “extremist legislators.”

 “using immigrant communities as a political pawn is wrong.”

Among the ideas the White House is considering include using a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar migrants from seeking asylum in between U.S. ports of entry

The administration is also discussing ways to make it harder for asylum seekers to pass an initial screening, essentially raising the “credible fear standard,” as well as ways to quickly deport others who don’t meet those elevated asylum standards.

“This is a moment of opportunity for the White House to reclaim the narrative around immigration by embracing a humane approach to the border, to asylum, and to immigration policy — not by trying to outdo the extremists,” said Heidi Altman, director of policy at the NIJC, in an interview. “Deterrent-oriented policies don’t work to reduce numbers. They don’t work to reduce operational challenges. The only thing they’re guaranteed to do is cause a lot of human suffering.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/world/middleeast/us-israel-hague-court.html

U.S. Defends Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank at Top U.N. Court

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The United States on Wednesday defended Israel’s decades-long occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem


The defense came a day after the United States issued its third veto against a call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza at the United Nations Security Council, a vote that drew an angry response from nations and aid groups that have urged a stop to the fighting to help Gaza’s civilians.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/21/us-tells-icj-israel-should-not-be-ordered-to-immediately-end-occupation

US tells ICJ Israel should not be ordered to immediately end occupation
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 23, 2024, 05:41:36 pm
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Yes there are laws and rules to follow

The law is that pushbacks are illegal! CBP are the ones not following laws and rules!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/allies/ilhan-omar/msg16053/#msg16053
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: Schwartze Katze on February 27, 2024, 08:56:15 pm
Stirewalt: If Biden gets less than 70% in Michigan, he's in serious trouble | Cuomo
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NewsNation political editor Chris Stirewalt joins NewsNation's Chris Cuomo to discuss the Michigan presidential primary. The battleground state played a key role in the 2020 election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYGRsuKV34s

John King explains 'irreparable' damage to Biden's campaign
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CNN's John King and Jake Tapper discuss the impact of potential uncommitted votes in the Michigan primary on President Biden's campaign for the 2024 presidential election. #CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVSKzII8O6o

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There are cracks in both parties. The question is who has the bigger cracks
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"Irreparable"?? Please. It's February.
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The Arab Americans who say they will vote against Biden on principle are an interesting bunch. Do they honestly think Trump, who plans to engage in militarized mass deportation of non-white people, will be any better? Any friendlier to them or their families? Care about Gaza more?
Title: Re: Biden disapproval
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 11, 2024, 09:04:38 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p23E_Q8Bhhg