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Biden does what we knew he’d do and calls for Israel to “just call for a ceasefire” — 15 Comments

  1. As it is said, “elections have consequences”. While I personally believe that a sound, fair election was impossible with the mail-in voting of 2020, the sad reality is I know many nice, decent, well-meaning people that voted for this man. For me they fall in the category of “believing what they wish were true”. Reality deals a painful blow when that kind of mindset is the motivator. And the pure HATE (of Donald Trump) and his supporters (again, their perceived reality of who his supporters were/are) was a big influence. And here we are. All the masks are off for the non-deluded. As I listen to people (for instance our wealthy clients) I find myself asking, what lies do they believe? What lies have they embraced to hold the position they hold and make the statements they make? It is enlightening.

  2. the sad reality is I know many nice, decent, well-meaning people that voted for this man.
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    I know feckless boobs who voted for him. I know others whose political intelligence is characterized by petty malevolence who voted for him.

  3. Biden doesn’t have any agency. The source of this is either Blinken, who appears to be a terminally fatuous man, or the campaign types, who are making calculations in re the Muslim vote in Michigan.

  4. “I know feckless boobs who voted for him.” Art Deco

    While I don’t spend time with feckless boobs, I don’t doubt that many such voted for him. But it is quite sobering how hate & fear can move people in even evil ways. The “Good Germans” are a prime example.

  5. Sharon W:

    Agreed.

    The people I know who supported Biden and as far as I know still support him (although somewhat more reluctantly) are both good people and well-meaning, and most of them are quite intelligent. They are informed by the MSM, however, and they are surrounded by like-minded people. So I’m the only outlier who ever challenges them, and I don’t do that often because it just doesn’t change anything.

  6. Art Deco:

    I have said over and over – and I will say it again – that although I agree that Biden is very cognitively challenged and that many advisors are guiding him strongly, he DOES continue to have some “agency” and some say in the matter. He was Obama’s VP when he (Biden) had all his marbles (never a huge number, but still). Obama’s policies were just fine with him at the time and they’re just fine with him now.

    I have heard Biden speak in interviews many times and he often is fairly coherent. We see clips of his worst moments. But his better moments have made it clear to me that he is still at least somewhat of a player in his own presidency in terms of decision-making, and that he is following in Obama’s footsteps as well as being guided very much by Obama’s people.

  7. It’s also a matter of these nice, well-meaning people voting Democrat their entire life and having their identity as smart, good, caring people so tied into that. Very few of them are going to change.

  8. What good will Michigan do Biden if many other swing states swing against him? Has the general sentiment in the US moved so decisively against Israel that Biden will gain more votes from supporting Hamas than he’ll lose from abandoning Israel?

  9. Keep in mind, when the US military had overwhelming evidence of Iranian involvement in attacks on US military personnel during the Iraq occupation, including capturing IRG officers, Senator Joe Biden threatened to impeach President Bush if he ordered military retaliation.

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