US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

Sorry that Zelenskyy/putin clip is fucking funny

DNC scrambling sending out all caps emails to each other like “WHO IS THE CARETAKER AND WHY ARE KIDS ADDING HIS MUSIC TO VIDEOS OF JOE BIDEN ON TIKTOK?!”

— peretsky (@la_meme_young) July 12, 2024

oh no lmao

wow

He was supposed to be a Caretaker president

very hauntological moment

Biden is almost literally a ghost of a lost future

jesus christ lmao

Here for some hauntological moments

The disintegration loops mean nothing to these born after 9/11 tiktokers, sad

When Biden was young those records the Caretaker samples didn't even have scratches

Oh boy... pic.twitter.com/vXT9OPGkS6

— ℳatt (@matttomic) July 12, 2024

for clemenza

Thanks--brilliant!

A losing battle is raging

We live in a world where truth, satire, and deliberate misinformation are all crowded into a very narrow space, throwing elbows and stepping on one another's feet.

This is all terrifying… but also hilariously absurd at the same time.

A takedown of Heather Cox Richardson: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/biden-step-down-history-heather-cox-richardson.html

This is all terrifying… but also hilariously absurd at the same time

yeah wish Kubrick was still around to write the screenplay

“And by the way, look at the numbers in Israel. I mean, my numbers are better in Israel than they are here.”

Fuck off, you treasonous coward. Your responsibility is for Americans, not bloodthirsty Zionists

Yeah, give the blood to thirsty Americans first!

We live in a world where truth, satire, and deliberate misinformation are all crowded into a very narrow space, throwing elbows and stepping on one another's feet.
and each is correct, but your demo spec is key


This is all terrifying… but also hilariously absurd at the same time.

nah. it’s now boring. and quite literal and express.

I can't even tell if that Immaculate Grid thing is supposed to be true or not. Even if it were true, wgaf? If that's the measure, I've got the worst case of dementia ever.

It's more of the lying news media defaming Biden.

it's a joke

"not bloodthirsty Zionists"

wait is this one of those tiki torch blood libel things? if so stop i don't like it. take it to the palestine thread that i avoid. i like coming here. you can hate israel without using terms like that.

I mean, what other term do you want to use? Ethnic cleansing to build more houses? That satisfy you? Ugh.

Americans are bloodthirsty as well, which their “misadventures” post-9/11 demonstrate. You’re grasping at straws

"bloodthirsty" and the blood libel are definitely adjacent enough to avoid imo

but scott, you can hate white supremacists without saying "tiki." I don't think the Māori deserve that!

The CNN gag is part of a little meme offensive from go-Joe folks trying to argue that standards for his cognitive sharpness are absurdly high and hey, he’s actually fine.

Which to me is silly because, like, I watch him and clearly see an elderly man working hard to put together thoughts and sentences. For people who don’t see that, there’s no way to make them obv.

A NY Times link, so apologies:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/12/opinion/biden-trump-electoral-map-outlook.html

I like how Rep. Brittany Pettersen is part of the Problem Solvers Caucus. Getting Biden to step down is a problem that needs to be addressed

belonging to that caucus gives her centrist/moderate cred

Really? I thought she and her husband were both progressives

God as my witness, I thought Heather Cox Richardson was Wonkette

"You’re grasping at straws"

i'll bet you a million dollars that you have never written "bloodthirsty russians" on this board. its just a term that i definitely see people use when talking about israel/zionism/jews in a way that they never use for any other country. so it makes me nervous. that's all. hate all you want. just be aware of, like, history.

We've been over this on other threads but to some of us the using the word Zionist as an insult makes you sound like a Turner Diaries aficionado.

Israel has continually elected (democratically) the people pursuing genocide, is that true of Russia?

I can't deal with Heather Cox Richardson's seventy paragraph essays

Julian Castro has thoughts

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/julian-castro-on-the-biden-problem-and-what-the-democratic-party-got-wrong-ep

Listening to Biden in Michigan right now. He just talks in circles. A friend and I have been noticing how many times he re-directs himself with "anyway."

he keeps walking in circles! he's so close to everyone.

i wonder what he smells like. he's like two inches from these people. uh oh he touched someone, careful...

He's said "anyway" twice since I posted.

that we’re still tone policing use of the word Zionist while the Zionist entity has murdered nearly 200,000 human beings is completely absurd

There are good Zionist on both sides

“Fine people on both sides.”

Ok, I’ll make it easier. Fuck America, Russia, and Israel. There. Zionism is shit and always will be. The idea that any nation is destined to survive is inherently arrogant and stupid

an ex-gf texted me something like 'the zionists control everything!' and I was like whoa, cool it there proudboy... I get what she's saying but the language is still problematic

she's not talking to me now

he's so close to everyone

Don't stand

Don't stand Joe

Don't stand Joe close to me

bringing it baxk to the thread, i will note that while i am horrified by so many people waving away our president’s support for an obvious genocide, i was equally horrified to watch a NYT video about Arab American voters in Michigan basically saying that they will do anything to defeat Biden…even vote for Trump. which… i may withhold my vote for the Dem nominee but there is no fucking way in hell I would vote for Trump, especially if I cared about Palestine. the binaristic element shown in some understandings of this issue completely blow my mind. like, you’re angry at Biden for supporting Israel, so am I. so you’re going to vote for the guy who does Adelson’s bidding and instituted the Muslim ban? that’s some thickly idiotic reasoning, I gotta say

As I mentioned in last month's thread I'll vote for him because he actually respects the constitution. The bar isn't high, but the table stakes are literally fascism and voting rights. Keeping Project 2025 is entirely what my vote for Biden (if it sadly ends up being him) is for, and that supercedes everything else, including all foreign policy and the terrible immigration policy of late.

I'm taking P25 seriously and wish more people would too. Rule of law is a low bar, but it's either that or let's just go full accelerationism and tear up the Constitution and start over?