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“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

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[–] Aceticon 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The logical conclusion in the face of Biden's other actions such as keeping on sending weapons to Netanyahu and protecting him in the UN, is that this "leak" is a purposeful and carefully crafted bit of PR from Biden's team.

By their own track record, Biden and his minions are about as trustworthy as Netanyahu.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Biden and his minions are about as trustworthy as Netanyahu.

You're leveraging 'about as' pretty heavily here.

[–] Aceticon 2 points 2 months ago

There is no real different between two kind of shameless liars covering up mass murder of children.

One might even say Netanyahu is at times less dishonest (if one could measure "honesty" at such infinitesimal levels) because he's more open about his murderous intentions.

Biden on the other hand is a full blown hypocrite who claims to want to stop Netanyahu whilst knowingly sending him the very 2000lb bombs used in residential areas in Gaza and Lebanon, a kind which the US Military itself does not use because its collateral damage is too massive.

They're both sociopaths, it's just that while Netanyahu is playing a "strong man" character whilst Biden plays the "powerless to act gentleman", and many in more modern nations don't recognized the shameless lying under the latter style as easily as they do under the former.

[–] samus12345 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why does Biden need PR when he's a lame duck?

[–] Duamerthrax 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aceticon 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

His VP can come out and voice her disagreement with his actions, distancing herself from him and those actions.

It's the simplest solution by far.

Not doing so and instead having the party loyalists go around raging at any who criticize Biden's complicity in Genocide, is not the simplest solution.

And yet here we are, with the tribalists piling up on any criticism online instead of Kamala Harris simply voicing her disagreement with Biden's policies.

One wonders why exactly the chosen option is not the simplest and most likely to lead to a Trump defeat.

[–] Duamerthrax -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lol. All this is performance anyway. If Harris voiced her disagreement with Biden, the right wing media would have a field day with how disorganized the Dems are and how they can't be trusted to lead.

[–] Aceticon 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The "right wing media" (what I would call the far-right media here in Europe) will say pretty anything quite independently of it being true or not. They've relentlessly been making shit up about Democrats and will keep on doing so.

The people who believe the "right wing media" are never going to vote for Kamala because they already believe a massive pile of unbelievable bollocks about her.

"The right wing media will say" isn't quite the powerful argument that you think it is for the future POTUS to keep her association with an unrepentant Genocide enabler and supporter.

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 2 months ago

I'm explaining their rational for the theater. Not mine.

[–] sorval_the_eeter 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Living in fear of right wing bullying is not productive. We can either cower or we can kick them in the face or ridicule them when they go low. The dems do far too much cowering the past few decades. Americans love a good snappy comeback, and so far all we have doing it is old coach Waltz.

[–] sorval_the_eeter 10 points 2 months ago

Because his abysmal approval ratings bring Harris's down too. Harris has never been good at formulating any statement of her own principles-- even back when she was running for president against Biden, she had no platform, just bromides that polled well. She's a cardboard cutout.