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What Biden said in public we know — and I was angry with him.

What he said in private, we do NOT know, but Bibi is not pleased with Joe right now … Maybe Joe did tell him they have to have a “Come to Jesus moment.”

But Joe is STILL an improvement over Donnie, hands down.

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Mar 29, 2024
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Yes, there is still too much martial orientation to the US global footprint. And I was damned angry at Joe for the hug, and for vetoing the first UN cease-fire resolution, and for mouthing platitudes about a “right to defend,” with “protecting noncombatant civilians and children” stuck on as an afterthought.

But the reality is, there’s a ton of talking going on in that region out of earshot of microphones and not on camera. And we have two actors in Israel who are currently wedded to keeping the violence ongoing — Hamas is getting what it wants from the chaos, and I don’t think Hamas cares a fig about the suffering of Palestinian civilians. And Bibi has been holding the wolves off his butt, with the majority of Israelis wanting HIM gone, too, but leaving him in place as long as the “war” continues.

For sure, Joe Biden does not want to lose votes. He needs votes to keep the Fascists out of Washington.

For sure, Donnie thinks his antics will win him votes to keep him out of jail.

BUT, to see both of them through a single lens as portending equally dire consequences for both our country and the world? You are gravely mistaken.

Biden is moving — he has done it far too slowly — but he has moved toward supporting the call for a cease fire in Gaza. A lot of people in this country are making it tough on him NOT to go there …

Donnie is doing nothing but promise a fasciset administration from Day One. Nothing in this world can influence Donnie to do anything good for anybody but Donnie. But he is proving to be an excellent foil for the Fascists.

I don’t discount your point. I disagree with your conclusion.

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Mar 30, 2024
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Well, we have a serious disagreement then.

And you can try to dress your opinion up as morally superior, but we have a difference of opinion THERE, too.

Have a nice day.

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Mar 30, 2024
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Your rhetoric and your juxtapositions reveal your attitude. Moral over strategic. {As though strategies can have no moral components?}

I find no morality in enabling the Republican Party of Freedom Caucus radicals, Heritage Society reactionaries, and Trumpian fascists to take over a 250-year-old imperfect-but-struggling-to-function democracy.

{No one said you’re not entitled to your opinion. Of course you are. So am I. I as much as stated that when I said we have a serious disagreement, but in your need to be self-righteous, you take out after me. Well, go ahead. I can’t stop you from being self-righteous.}

My remarks follow right on yours, though. You get what you give.

These days, I can’t tell if I’m talking to a person or a robot.

Have a really nice day.

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