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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The irony of literally anyone (eligible) not voting for Biden specifically because of his handling of the Gaza situation

I left my primary ballot blank. There was nobody on the ticket who wasn't going to continue the genocide (with perhaps Marianna Williamson as an exception, but I'm not indulging her vanity campaign). Come November, I suspect I'll be in the same spot. Two candidates who are endorsing genocide, with the caveat that one is waving an Israeli sports pennant while the other repeatedly insists he feels really bad about it.

I hate this timeline and I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

Swing by Gaza. We'll sell the Israelis the next round of ammo used to wipe you off the face of the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's a good thing that the only responsibility of a US president is deciding what to do about Israel.

If they were the only person able to veto something like a national abortion ban, or legislation criminalizing trans people, it would really mess with your calculus.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

It’s a good thing that the only responsibility of a US president is deciding what to do about Israel.

Hey now, that's not true. He's also responsible for getting his Too Woke judicial nominees filibustered, appointing a bunch of corporate flacks to the Federal Reserve, doing photo ops at the US-Mexico border while wearing tacti-cool kit and frowning through a pair of binoculars, and fucking up the handling of the next environmental / weather disaster. And who can forget the most important job of any President? Fundraising!

If they were the only person able to veto something like a national abortion ban

Then we're already fucked, because that would imply all this hemming and hawing about abortion being a losing issue for Republicans failed to pan out and now a bunch of sadistic right-wing fucks are crowding into the House and Senate.