Many political observers have cited polls, especially among younger voters critical of President Joe Biden being over 80 years old.
Well, those younger voters should take a look at this ad exposing Donald ‘I killed Roe v Wade’ Trump’s clear verbal gaffes at public events like saying Nikki Haley was in charge of security at the Nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021, or whales coming ashore because of wind power or beating Obama in 2016.
There is, as Nikki Haley said, a “confused” Presidential candidate in the 2024 race.
It is not Joe Biden.
Younger voters need to consider that when deciding who to turn out and vote for this November.
The country’s fate is on the line and wanting a younger candidate is fine, but ensuring a sane pro-American Republic President is inaugurated, no matter how old, in January 2025 should be the overriding goal.
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So I think the only place where the Palestinian people will rise up and get rid of Hamas is Fantasyland. Hamas has the support of most Palestinians, and the Hamas promise to repeat the 10/7 atrocities “over and over” will come to pass if Hamas is left in power.
Whelp, can’t eat Leseur peas anymore, thanks Liza… 🙂
Israel has a right to defend itself, some of us just think they’ve gone too far, one of their government Twitter/X accounts even posted that not even the Hague was going to stop them.
I did vote for HRC even though I can’t stand her, corporate Dem that she is. Not at all sad that her “friend” Kissinger is dead.
And I’m not sure that’s a good example to use, since most pundits say Bernie would have won, and her arrogance kept her from campaigning in a few key states, there’s a lot of blame for her loss to go around. DNC included. The MSM especially.
Her husband is right up there on the creep scale with the best of them, too. Not #MeToo, for certain.
But we’re all still going to be pals after this, right?
I know I’m strident at times, but I appreciate this blog, the writers, and most of the commenters.
We’re not MAGA-way or the highway folks.
Right?
Cool
The Die Hard Democrats love to blame Jill Stein voters for Hillary’s stunning loss to Donald Trump in 2016. But the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson got 3.3 percent of the popular vote compared to Stein’s 1.07. Now who benefitted, Trump or Hillary? No one really knows.
It seems kind of arrogant for Democrats to demand that 3rd Party supporters/protestors support their candidate and blame them when they lose. It’s actually anti-Democratic. A good strategist knows that roughly 4+ percent of the vote will go to third parties.
I’ve cast a few protest votes, always when it made no difference. I never voted for Bill Clinton. But I suppose I’ll have to vote for Joe assuming we both make it to November.
Love the point about libertarians, liza— thanks loads. If you dare to step out of line you get blamed for diverting crucial votes. If you dared to think that Bidens call for no primaries and no challengers was not a brilliant idea forget it! Id be much happier if that wrath were turned on the party itself for not giving so many folks—potential whole new sectors of the party itself— what they really want in policy prescriptions. Thats what democracy should look like!
Maybe for Democratic leaders the over riding goal should be listening to their base and offerring policy prescriptions accordingly. Hint: the US bankrolling a genocide and bombing yemen are not what young people— or alot of older folks— want. Democracy is supposed to be from the base UP, not a bunch of lemmings following leadership off a cliff…
What genocide? The Holocaust was an attempted genocide. What this country did to Native Americans was an attempted genocide. What is happening in Gaza is not an attempted genocide. Are we supposed to let terrorists attack United States and Israelis sites with impunity. Newsflash: None of these acts by Israel and the United States would have happened if the other side had not started it. With your rationale, we should have let the Japanese get away with it at Pearl Harbor.
Yes an eye for an eye ( or a head) makes the whole world blind. But setting aside our differences, ask a few young people what THEY think. Thats my point. Old farts obviously think wars that young people die in are a wildly successful way to run the world— but young people in this country dont agree.
Young people need to get better educations in history.
History shows there are no good guys on either side.
Jews blowing up British colonizers helped create Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
Wikipedia is the short version, sure, but it’s all blood going back a few thousand years, even before the British trashed the Middle East.
There will not be peace in the Middle East in our lifetimes because the eye for an eye never ends there.
Children don’t choose where they’re born, but we should be able to say “please don’t murder thousands of children with our tax money” and not be seen as the bad guys.
We seldom subject ourselves to ad supported TV, but lately, when we do, we’re seeing ads telling us to support the war.
Commercials for war. Ads supporting the slaughter of children.
And FYI, the “why didn’t the Palestinian’s do anything to stop Hamas” is a very bad argument.
I mean horrendously bad. Victim blaming bad.
Kind of like the “why don’t you go back and fix your own country” thing racists say about immigrants.
I’d be fine chasing down the bad guys, but just bombing the f’ out of people’s homes, people who barely had food or water or freedom because of the Israeli blockades and their homes taken by Israeli settlers, not so much.
Religious wars are the stupidest thing mankind has manifested, ever, and we can be against what Israel is doing and against Hamas at the same time, and say that what is happening is not the answer.
That shouldn’t be a controversial stand and we shouldn’t be scolded for it.
You should see the Hamas propaganda. Not exactly kum bai yah. But what do you expect from a terrorist group that uses innocent civilians as human shields, educates them to hate Jews and Israel, and spends money not on building up Gaza but fundamentalist programs and rockets to shoot at Israel. You are right that the right wing government in Israel is nothing to brag about, especially what it is letting their extremists get away with in the West Bank but even if there was a leftist-centrist government that pulled away the extremists, would Hamas stop shooting rockets? I do not think so.
If history teaches you that its okay to remove a whole sector of the population from the human race and kill them like flies than history is not what any of us need. In fact, their knowledge of history is better than yours— they remember Never Again.
Your comment proves my point that your history education and others that share your views are seriously lacking.
What about “ never again” doesnt mean never again?
Maybe Bibi Netanyahu should be paying for his war since he’s the only one calling the shots. Biden’s balls have shrunk to the size of Leseur peas as he is more than willing to put Bibi’s war on that great American VISA card in the sky (national debt is 34 trillion at this time.) My grandnephew who is 1 yr old will be paying for Bibi’s war. But Biden has been just brilliant, demanding a humane slaughter with pauses and humanitarian aid etc…
Then Liza you can support a third party candidate like RFK Jr, Cornell Wilde, or Jill Stein and throw the election to Donald Trump who is infinitely more pro Palestinian than Joe Biden. That is sarcasm by the way. I remember people that weren’t happy with Hilary stayed home or voted for Jill Stein giving us four years of the twice impeached guy. Look how well that turned out.
Exactly my point. Why can’t we be the “ good guys”, the ones who listen to our base instead of calling them names and dissing them? Why do we always have to be the ones you vote for just because the other characters are whackos and not because we stand for peace and justice for ALL PEOPLES? ( and its Cornell West, by the way)
“I remember people that weren’t happy with Hilary stayed home or voted for Jill Stein giving us four years of the twice impeached guy…”
Hillary won the popular vote but unexpectedly lost Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania shifting the electoral lead to Trump.
I lived in AZ at the time so I can’t be blamed, AZ was not a battleground state in 2016.
But you do bring up a good point, History Man. Biden could find himself with the same predicament, losing battleground states he won by a narrow margin in 2020. Right now the Democratic message appears to be, “Joe will save democracy and Kamala will fight for your right to have an abortion.” And if they win it will be because voters turned out in battleground states to defeat Trump.
Let’s call an ace an ace. No one is excited about the Biden v Trump rematch.
David, to “flip the coin”, are the Palestinians just supposed to turn the other cheek while Netanyahu did everything he could to marginalize/persecute them? Refusing two state solution, encouraging Israelis (especially right wingers) to illegally create settlements on the West Bank, same settlers doing everything they can to spit on Palestinians….
Agree Hamas needs to be squashed and scattered to the winds. But as a wise old someone once said: “Repression breeds resistance”.
As I have said in numerous writings and comments, the right wing government in Israel needs to go. No argument there but to say Hamas did what they did on 10/7 because of what was happening on the West Bank is being a little naive. A two state solution would be nice. I say make Jordan Palestine, do land swaps and hope for the best. I would be curious if Jordan would become a thriving Democracy. It, like the other Arab, Persian, or Pakistani led governments in the Middle East is not. But heh, we can always help for the best.
It’s not naivety David, it’s the historical truth. Agree Likud needs to go along with Baby Bibi who only clings to the presidency to keep his sorry butt out of the slammer. Gee, that sounds familiar!
But in my naivety I would make an appeal to wipe the slate clean with the conditions that Netanyahu be deposed (with the attendant consequences for him), unsettle the West Bank, Palestinians rise up & get rid of Hamas and a true two state solution be implemented. But I don’t get cable or satellite TV so what do I know?
Your solution makes sense on paper.
“Your solution makes sense on paper.” As far as I can see it’s the only one that would work as a long term solution. Unfortunately there’s not enough political will (or too much political cowardice) in the universe to make it happen.
I agree with you on the lack of political will and plenty of political cowardice on the extremist side of both factions.