That’s the entirety of the Biden administration foreign policy. Wake up, people. It’s been like this the entire time and you are only noticing right now.
I’m taken aback by the childish surprise over something that’s been obvious for years. The US political establishment is suffering from extreme senility that has nothing to do with Biden’s health issues. It’s like that Apple ad I posted yesterday. There are no new ideas, no vision. The goal is to preserve the status quo at any cost in order to pretend that nothing is happening and we can hobble on fussing about pronouns and other inane minutiae.
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Biden is worried, and rightly so, about criminal prosecution for all the bribes the family took during his long and lucrative career. He needs to hold onto power as long as he can and then, if possible, hand the scepter off to a cooperative Democrat. The idea that a Trump DOJ might appoint a Special Prosecutor must terrify him.
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If Biden didn’t exist, we’d be in the exact same situation. We are in a philosophical and intellectual dead-end that has nothing to do with any specific individuals.
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You know I hate Biden but this man has wrecked his presidential campaign to try to appease Israel. The one moment where he hesitates to give them unconditional support to conduct their military campaign, this is how Israel reacts. Ingrates. I remember you said a long time ago that helping people out makes you think they’ll appreciate it, but oftentimes it just leads to them resenting you. This couldn’t be more true of client states of the (declining) american empire. The more you give the more these people despise you. End this alliance and treat them just like any other country.
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This isn’t his support to give or withhold. We aren’t living in a monarchy. His job is to carry out the will of the representatives in the Congress. We are getting distracted from the terrible precedent that is being created. What’s the point of Congress passing anything if a single dude can throw it all out to serve his individual political purposes?
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He isn’t doing anything that goes against the constitution. The american president enjoys these powers. This is exactly how the system was designed. Precedent?? American presidents routinely veto and threaten to veto bills.
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Trump was impeached based on an unproven allegation that he did exactly this. An allegation that was denied by everybody involved. And now when Biden openly does it, even Trump supporters justify it because somebody convinced them that American world dominance is bad.
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Because the left’s entire amoral playbook is: use the system against your enemies. You can do the same thing and not ever be prosecuted or censured.
The whole whingeing “But Biden did the same thing and nobody said anything (IT’S NOT FAIR)” argument = us continuing to assume the rules mean something to these psychopaths. We lose.
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I’m also tired of the complaints about the double standard, believe me. But let’s at least not do the Left’s work for them, shall we? Even from the strictly utilitarian motive, it’s got to be good that Leftists are tearing each other to shreds, right? But no, let’s drop all that and defend Biden because, God knows, leftists always break ranks to defend us, right?
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Heh.
I sincerely hope they cannibalize each other. Because the only other hope for civilization is for the rest of us to band together and Bukele every last one of them. Perhaps there’s some other solution I’m just not seeing.
I’ve been dealing with the propaganda machine up close and personal this year, and it’s killed any optimism I might’ve had. 12yo relative, comes to stay with us once or twice a year, for anywhere from 1-8 weeks, and has done for the last 4-5 years. Financially stressed home situation means raised by the school system and afterschool programs more than parents. Still, up until this year, not a problem. Appallingly ignorant, but no behavior issues.
This year? Suddenly has become an entirely different person. No apparent conscience, hopelessly addicted the dumbest imaginable YT content, and constantly lies and steals from me to maintain access to same. I do not think I can allow these visits in the future. Having such a person under the same roof is too stressful, and I no longer want this person to be in contact with my kids.
What changed?
Somewhere in that interval, approaching adolescence with its incessant drive toward conformity, it was decided that we, the religious branch of the family, were socially and morally backward people, and therefore the enemy. As we are the enemy, any action against us is perfectly justifiable– same as if you were a righteous saboteur in occupied France, right? Just by virtue of attending church, we are evil, hateful people, and it’s OK now to violate family loyalty, hospitality, basic civility, and any other moral rule that might get in the way of whatever the hell selfish BS makes you dopamine-high for a fraction of a second. An addict, in a culture that 100% supports not just the addiction but all the pathological behavior that goes with it.
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And just in case you have never stumbled across the low-IQ end of the internet, this is the sort of content the modern savages reckon it is a sin to withhold from children:
Warning: may cause seizures and frontal lobe degradation at *any* level of exposure.
But heaven help you if you deny it to children. Because then YOU are the enemy, and any action against you is completely justifiable.
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Yes, it constitutes “book banning.” It’s the most ridiculous, self-pitying approach ever. Not forcing people to read their drivel is akin to “banning.” Or genocide, because why not?
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…they wouldn’t phrase it this way, but they are literally being taught that if you get anything out of compulsively scrolling through this garbage heap, that *this is an expression of your true self* which it is wrong to deny you.
And then we wonder how the trans madness happens.
It’s why they’re all so frantic to keep parents out of any curricula decisions. It’s desperately important that there not be *any* responsible adults in the picture.
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\ hopelessly addicted the dumbest imaginable YT content, and constantly lies and steals from me to maintain access to same
Why should he steal money from you to access Internet?
Or does he steal his phone?
Do you confiscate his phone, when he comes to visit?
\ An addict, in a culture that 100% supports not just the addiction
I think most readers here are at least a bit addicted too, but taking away his phone for the duration of the visit wouldn’t help fight it.
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In good news, N found an English translation of Astrid Lindgren’s Carlsson and is joyfully reading it to Klara. As my mother quipped, “Finally, an American child exposed to the right Carlsson.”
Few things compare with sharing one’s favorite books with one’s child.
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the child does not have a phone. Child continually steals *my* phone– a primitive flip device that is extremely difficult to access internet with (so I never do), but child is that desperate. Child, in the process of doing this, nuked my phone service that I had paid a year in advance (I don’t buy data) and I was forced to port my number to a new carrier and pay for new service before my old plan had expired as I could no longer make phone calls.
Anyway, it feels very uncharitable, but I’m relieved to have the child out of my house, and have shared all the sordid details with the child’s parent.
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Gosh, he sounds truly addicted. It’s so sad. But you shouldn’t have to carry the expense, so I’d never blame you for wanting him to go.
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You know that presidents can veto bills, right?
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You know that this isn’t what happened, right?
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Israel is like the drug-addicted son who’s been spoiled and enabled by his parents for so long that a mild talking-to from them is met with absolute hysteria from the petulant child. “You hate me!! You never loved me!! I hate you!! You’ve ruined my life!!”
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“Israel minister of national security” is quite an empty title. Ithamar Ben Gvir is extreme Right provocateur, doing his best to bring the Right-est voters to him in the next elections. His use of social media reminds of Trump’s, only Ben Gvir’s is worse, believe me or not.
// The one moment where he hesitates to give them unconditional support to conduct their military campaign
You misrepresent what is going on. Reword it as “the one moment where Biden decides to send message to Hamas they shouldn’t agree to any compromise deal about hostages with Israel since they definitely won’t lose this war thanks to America and to send message to Iran’s terror proxies Israel is weak and should be attacked again soon and to send message to ALL American allies in the Middle East they should rethink their policies since USA cannot be trusted”
This message has been understood thus and is widely discussed both in Israeli and Arab media.
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Just read this and had to share:
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