Why is Biden not addressing Israel or the university protests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's made it clear he's in full support of what ever Netanyahu does

Not sure what else you want him to say.

He's not likely going to make any sort of a statement about protests because it will be used against him politically.

This is going to lose him the election.

I think even before 10/7, Biden was on the road to losing. Inflation has been on the rise his entire term in office and so has war (Ukraine, Gaza). I can’t wait till he leaves!

[Anonymous]

Why did Johnson think he needed to go to Columbia? Did he think it would help??? It is only adding fuel

[Anonymous]

I will vote Biden because Russian trolls are trying so hard to get Trump elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did Johnson think he needed to go to Columbia? Did he think it would help??? It is only adding fuel

Watch the guy's interview with Erin Burnett. To say he comes across as a zombie spewing lobbyist talking points is to do a disservice to zombies trying hard to come across as authentic individuals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's made it clear he's in full support of what ever Netanyahu does

Not sure what else you want him to say.

He's not likely going to make any sort of a statement about protests because it will be used against him politically.

This is going to lose him the election.

no it won't

do these pseudo terrorists on campus prefer Trump? In what world does Trump help their cause. Biden is their best bet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of bad actors. Online trolls trying to persuade American voters.

There will be no 2028 dem nominee if you sit out to “teach them a lesson”. You may think you’re being altruistic but you’re actually being naive and self-centered. And it will harm America.

If you think that change the unpopular policy that is driving down Biden’s polls in key states he needs to win. New York(7%), New Jersey(6%) and DC(5%) are the only states with higher than 5% Jewish populations. They are safe blue states. Every other state is 3% and less and are not in play. Biden can not even bring himself to call for a ceasefire. He is actively giving the finger to his base. Stop being stupid and make the correct political call.

Fight all you want until it comes down to vote but sitting out the election or voting for Trump in protest is short-sighted, self-centered, and not remotely productive to your ultimate goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will vote Biden because Russian trolls are trying so hard to get Trump elected.

Same. And I see victims and aggressors on both sides of the war as does anyone who hasn’t been brainwashed by Tik Tok or radicals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did Johnson think he needed to go to Columbia? Did he think it would help??? It is only adding fuel

Republicans are trying to take advantage of the protest situation at these high-profile universities in order to stoke culture war divisions before the election. And there’s probably also some hope that they can influence current very liberal/leftist administrations to resign and be replaced by more conservative administrators … to what end, I don’t know, probably not possible at the Ivies or other elite colleges, probably possible at big state universities. But it’s mostly to show up and bring attention to a culture war topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of bad actors. Online trolls trying to persuade American voters.

There will be no 2028 dem nominee if you sit out to “teach them a lesson”. You may think you’re being altruistic but you’re actually being naive and self-centered. And it will harm America.

If you think that change the unpopular policy that is driving down Biden’s polls in key states he needs to win. New York(7%), New Jersey(6%) and DC(5%) are the only states with higher than 5% Jewish populations. They are safe blue states. Every other state is 3% and less and are not in play. Biden can not even bring himself to call for a ceasefire. He is actively giving the finger to his base. Stop being stupid and make the correct political call.

Fight all you want until it comes down to vote but sitting out the election or voting for Trump in protest is short-sighted, self-centered, and not remotely productive to your ultimate goal.

Voting for Israel over the US is short sighted, self centered and only remotely productive if you are planning to move to Israel. It is amazing that you are unable to break with Israel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should this not be something Biden should be updating the American public?

No. Why do you think he should? US foreign policy is not dictated by entitled college kids living on Daddy's $$$$ and who have never, and will never, serve their county in the military or in any other way. The frightening aspect is that many of these dilatantes will be in positions of authority and national importance some day.

The Viet Nam demonstrations did influence national politics and the upshot was that we got Nixon. I must admit that Nixon was a kindergartener compared to Trump but that's another story.

I'm so tired of idiots like you. These kids are on the right side of history. The behavior of the government of Israel is not defensible. They are committing war crimes in Gaza. The events of 10/7 were horrific, but they do not justify the continued slaughter of innocent Gazans. These students have the right intentions and are quite brave.

What is disgusting is a hypocritical GOP that supports anti-Semitic white supremacists on one side but are quite happy to use this situation to undermine higher education and try to score political points in an election year. They are absolutely full of BS and don't really give two hoots about any Israelis or Jews or higher education. They just want political power and Trump in the Presidency. Disgusting hypocritical charlatans and so many of you fall for it.

The naivete is all you. You really think these protests are grass-roots college kids? The students are so silly to think they are anything more than pawns to some seriously funded, bad acting organizations, who want to see nothing more than Hamas stay in power in Gaza. How can you support any student, person, or organization who supports Hamas? And also, anybody who doesn't understand why the US must support Israel are deniers. Period. There is no other explanation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of bad actors. Online trolls trying to persuade American voters.

There will be no 2028 dem nominee if you sit out to “teach them a lesson”. You may think you’re being altruistic but you’re actually being naive and self-centered. And it will harm America.

If you think that change the unpopular policy that is driving down Biden’s polls in key states he needs to win. New York(7%), New Jersey(6%) and DC(5%) are the only states with higher than 5% Jewish populations. They are safe blue states. Every other state is 3% and less and are not in play. Biden can not even bring himself to call for a ceasefire. He is actively giving the finger to his base. Stop being stupid and make the correct political call.

Fight all you want until it comes down to vote but sitting out the election or voting for Trump in protest is short-sighted, self-centered, and not remotely productive to your ultimate goal.

Fight how? There is zero indication Biden has any interest in what this segment of his electorate has to say. Yes we can keep trying but if he doesn’t want to listen…I’ve said it before: Biden is not an idiot. Biden has been in politics for a long time. If he wants to tell us we’re irrelevant him why shouldn’t we believe him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should this not be something Biden should be updating the American public?

No. Why do you think he should? US foreign policy is not dictated by entitled college kids living on Daddy's $$$$ and who have never, and will never, serve their county in the military or in any other way. The frightening aspect is that many of these dilatantes will be in positions of authority and national importance some day.

The Viet Nam demonstrations did influence national politics and the upshot was that we got Nixon. I must admit that Nixon was a kindergartener compared to Trump but that's another story.

I'm so tired of idiots like you. These kids are on the right side of history. The behavior of the government of Israel is not defensible. They are committing war crimes in Gaza. The events of 10/7 were horrific, but they do not justify the continued slaughter of innocent Gazans. These students have the right intentions and are quite brave.

What is disgusting is a hypocritical GOP that supports anti-Semitic white supremacists on one side but are quite happy to use this situation to undermine higher education and try to score political points in an election year. They are absolutely full of BS and don't really give two hoots about any Israelis or Jews or higher education. They just want political power and Trump in the Presidency. Disgusting hypocritical charlatans and so many of you fall for it.

The naivete is all you. You really think these protests are grass-roots college kids? The students are so silly to think they are anything more than pawns to some seriously funded, bad acting organizations, who want to see nothing more than Hamas stay in power in Gaza. How can you support any student, person, or organization who supports Hamas? And also, anybody who doesn't understand why the US must support Israel are deniers. Period. There is no other explanation.

Don't support Hamas.

Don't support Israel.

Want the country I was born in, live in, and pay taxed in to stop supporting Israel, at least unconditionally.

There's no denial going on here. The denial is on your end in thinking that your love for Israel must be shared by others, otherwise they are flawed in some way. The denial is in thinking that others must bow before Emperor Netanyahu like you have. Get over yourself. You're not chosen.

And when you play the tired game of trying to create credibility around your views by arguing that you're "not even Jewish!", just know that nobody believes you and that nobody is chosen. Not you, not "them", not anybody. A big part of the poison in this well of conflict emanates from that core belief of superiority. If it was only abandoned for one minute, a peaceful coexistence might be possible.

But if you keep thinking you're better than others, and that everyone else is to blame for the conflict you ALWAYS seem to find surrounding you, you'll never find it. And you'll never have it. Is that what you want? For yourself? For generations of Jews (and Arabs) to follow? No peace? Seriously? Because it's not coming through the vengeful "take to or leave it" apartheid treatment that exists in the region. Israel can try to kill everyone who opposes it, and the army arrayed against it will just grow and grow and grow. Can't kill fast enough. Barely killed 5% of Gaza and the train is already derailing.

But there's a way out. It involves compromise and accountability. We'll see it if happens. I hope for everyone's sake that the ONLY side that can change the direction here (Israel) chooses to do so. Save that horseshit about the Palestinians being able to change the direction by turning over hostages, or rejecting Hamas through some imagined formal ceremony, or whatever. Those distractions would do NOTHING to change the dynamic controlled by Israel. And you know that. So the choice is for Israel to make ... no peace and eventual dissolution of the state in its current form, or peace.

[Anonymous]

What's for Biden to address? The best thing Biden could do is broker a hostage release in exchange for some sort of extended ceasefire.

But the protests happening in university's are on private property or state property. It's for university presidents or state governors to address.

Personally, I don't think setting up human tent villages in the middle of a campus is really all that necessary to express one's 1st Amendment rights. These students can protest all day between classes and then go home to their dorm rooms. They don't have the right to interrupt the functioning of a college campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should this not be something Biden should be updating the American public?

No. Why do you think he should? US foreign policy is not dictated by entitled college kids living on Daddy's $$$$ and who have never, and will never, serve their county in the military or in any other way. The frightening aspect is that many of these dilatantes will be in positions of authority and national importance some day.

The Viet Nam demonstrations did influence national politics and the upshot was that we got Nixon. I must admit that Nixon was a kindergartener compared to Trump but that's another story.

I'm so tired of idiots like you. These kids are on the right side of history. The behavior of the government of Israel is not defensible. They are committing war crimes in Gaza. The events of 10/7 were horrific, but they do not justify the continued slaughter of innocent Gazans. These students have the right intentions and are quite brave.

What is disgusting is a hypocritical GOP that supports anti-Semitic white supremacists on one side but are quite happy to use this situation to undermine higher education and try to score political points in an election year. They are absolutely full of BS and don't really give two hoots about any Israelis or Jews or higher education. They just want political power and Trump in the Presidency. Disgusting hypocritical charlatans and so many of you fall for it.

The naivete is all you. You really think these protests are grass-roots college kids? The students are so silly to think they are anything more than pawns to some seriously funded, bad acting organizations, who want to see nothing more than Hamas stay in power in Gaza. How can you support any student, person, or organization who supports Hamas? And also, anybody who doesn't understand why the US must support Israel are deniers. Period. There is no other explanation.

More bogeyman distractions. Great.

No, people are just fed up with entitled a-holes in a desert fighting over sand. Normal people tend to look at the power dynamic and assign blame proportionally based on that dynamic. People clouded by personal conflicts of interest do what you do - blame the other side as 100% of the problem.

But again, just bogeyman nonsense. If you can just get people to be xenophobic for a second, you can get them to reject the message ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of bad actors. Online trolls trying to persuade American voters.

There will be no 2028 dem nominee if you sit out to “teach them a lesson”. You may think you’re being altruistic but you’re actually being naive and self-centered. And it will harm America.

If you think that change the unpopular policy that is driving down Biden’s polls in key states he needs to win. New York(7%), New Jersey(6%) and DC(5%) are the only states with higher than 5% Jewish populations. They are safe blue states. Every other state is 3% and less and are not in play. Biden can not even bring himself to call for a ceasefire. He is actively giving the finger to his base. Stop being stupid and make the correct political call.

Fight all you want until it comes down to vote but sitting out the election or voting for Trump in protest is short-sighted, self-centered, and not remotely productive to your ultimate goal.

Voting for Israel over the US is short sighted, self centered and only remotely productive if you are planning to move to Israel. It is amazing that you are unable to break with Israel.

We agree. If you begin with +1 to clarify that you’re adding on to the comment, it makes threads easier to read.