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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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[–] SecretSauces 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I am firmly of the opinion that there is SOMETHING Israel has over the US that is probably super classified and super damning. Why else would BOTH parties, in one of, if not THE most influencial voting season in our country, agree on supporting Israel?

For how much the Republicans stand with Israel (and how many actually don't care about genocide since pretty much every Neo-Nazi is Republican), it should be the BIGGEST soft-ball issue to run on for Dems to oppose, being the party of "the rights of the people". But they have the presidency and continue supplying weapons to them for their war engine. No matter how many words are said, actions speak louder.

[–] Jiggle_Physics 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They are the US intelligence operation in the middle east. They are an attack dog for the things the US finds important, meaning they agree with us on economic operations, and will go to war to protect it. Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. These are all just countries who are willing to actively work in the economic interests of the US as it benefits them. This allows the US access to their intel, to put military facilities in their countries, to use new weapons systems through their conflicts. They protect the standing of the petrodollar.

The US doesn't give a shit if a tiny, powerless, economically insignificant population, or a thousand, get wiped out. Preserving US domination is more important to the US government, and states like Israel will kill anyone in pursuit of that status quo. The only people they would need to have black mail on are government actors who aren't willing to support them, there are not a majority of those, yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Seeing what we did to Assange, Manning, Snowden and others, it's not exactly encouraging.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're absolutely right.

It's religion. The Jews are in Israel. The Jews are the "chosen people". Religion is retarded and it MAKES people retarded. That's what they've got. Every American moron who is overtly Bible thumping or not is a vote in jeopardy if anybody says boo against Israel.

Religion was great when it was driving human progress around AD 1000, now it's a fucking anchor slowly drowning us all.

Prayer does not empirically improve conditions of people who are sick. The most xtian countries in the world are the worst off by basically every metric. And yet, this brain cancer survives. Luckily we have flax_vert to convert us all or make us want to jump off our local bridge.

[–] RangerJosie 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This country is 1,000,000 Onion Articles in a trenchcoat.

[–] sorval_the_eeter 2 points 6 days ago

In a trenchcoat, naked, flashing children in a schoolyard, yes.

[–] VinnyDaCat 27 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I like Joey for a lot of things, but his handling of Israel is not one of them. The words simply don't match the actions. They might decry Israel's actions but quietly they're giving them the go-ahead.

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[–] mlg 26 points 6 days ago

When this originally leaked months ago (almost a year actually), people were getting down voted for saying Biden was just mad that Netanyahu was making him look bad in PR.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I saw Biden give a press conference about the hurricane, and as he was walking out the door one of the reporters asked about his communication with Netanyahu, and he said over his shoulder "We didn't talk about the hurricane."

[–] Vatowine 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I do like his sassy one liners.

[–] sorval_the_eeter 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People liked Trumps sassy one liners too, as much as they didnt want to. And Bush's. The more brazenly stupid the better.

[–] Vatowine 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah...the people didn't care for the felon, the man who says he just gets to say grab em by the pussy, the one who quoted hitler in such as way as to make it CLEAR he read it thoroughly and vibed with it, or if that wasn't bad enough, being the little bitch boy of that disgusting Russian warmonger. But yes, Biden one liners are a problem /s. I'd grace the average pea with more critical thinking than you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And than he sent them billions in bombs?

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[–] hark 6 points 6 days ago

I'm surprised biden could call netanyahu anything when his mouth is firmly glued to his ass.

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