Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 21:08:24 +0000 Subject: Re: Genocide Joe is beginning to stink like Lyndon B. Johnson Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design References: From: % Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 14:08:23 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240508-4, 2024-5-8), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: Lines: 110 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-gsiqx6w7Rb/TVz4YZ3jukc6T6QqFOsb9REeTQhSzd055xaLzmPoc7WyxGD3RxVn+VdOAYlB/tphaPa/!6DBsZlu820Hxp2LWM+d6c/tJWo+vEuO/M++VUyyfNYtHXxcbeX8/nyswQyui3xe+8zV2VoD/WWns X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 7849 NefeshBarYochai wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 19:05:17 -0600, Sharx335 wrote: > >> On 2024-05-07 6:48 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote: >>> President Biden has the stench of LBJ about him. For those of us old >>> enough to remember, that stink is recalled with sadness and >>> foreboding. >>> >>> After President Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson proved >>> himself adept at passing civil rights and other Great Society domestic >>> legislation that JFK couldn’t. It would have been enough to make him >>> one of our great presidents. But he had a fatal flaw when it came to >>> Vietnam. >>> >>> Johnson saw that war in geopolitical and personal terms. A struggle by >>> Vietnamese nationalists against French and then American oppressors >>> and their South Vietnamese puppets was, to Johnson, an American fight >>> against Communism, the Soviet Union, and China. Once he made that >>> fight his own, he couldn’t “back down” despite the war’s course and >>> the press and TV coverage which, over time, revealed to the American >>> people his mistaken framing and the horrific punishment he, and they, >>> were inflicting on their Vietnamese victims, who declined to submit >>> despite millions dead, more millions maimed, and much of the country >>> destroyed by bombs and napalm. >>> >>> Personal defeat was anathema to LBJ, so he persevered in a war that >>> much of the country came to believe was immoral and wrong as the >>> anti-war movement, led by students and faculty on campus, rapidly >>> expanded and tore apart the country, creating divisions that remain >>> today. When the movement took its protest to the Chicago streets >>> outside the Democratic convention, the police ran amok in full view of >>> the TV cameras, which played a role in Richard Nixon’s narrow defeat >>> of Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 watershed election, which started the >>> country down the more Republican, more conservative path that has >>> largely characterized our politics to this day. >>> >>> President Biden suffers the same flaws. He has been fine all his >>> political life with the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Israel was >>> running an apartheid state all that time, but there was never so much >>> as a peep of criticism of it from him. AIPAC’s money was political >>> mother’s milk for him. He has been the USA’s foremost Christian >>> Zionist for a long time. As President, he preferred the Palestinians >>> docile and quiescent, so that his geopolitical vision of an >>> Israeli-Saudi Arabian pact, leading a Western-dominated Middle East >>> against Iran, could be born. When Hamas struck on October 7, Biden >>> couldn’t see it as part of a resistance struggle against 75 years of >>> oppression. He saw it as a challenge to him and his hopes for >>> stabilizing the region to permit him to focus on his hot war against >>> Russia and his cold war against China. Palestinians be damned. >>> >>> So he unleashed Israel, knowing it was going to lay waste to Gaza to >>> “restore deterrence.” Despite his issues with Benjamin Netanyahu, he >>> gave him his full support, never expecting that there might be an >>> uproar in America over an Israeli genocide of Palestinians. His >>> recent, tone-deaf visit to Michael Douglas and Katherine Zeta Jones to >>> raise a few million from well-heeled Democratic contributors >>> exemplifies the bubble in which Biden lives. He continues to support >>> the genocide with tens of billions because he does not really believe >>> that he can lose the country over it, and because he has no empathy >>> for the Palestinian victims of Zionism. >>> >>> It is redolent of the same stench of arrogance that brought down LBJ. >>> Today’s suppression of the rapidly expanding anti-genocide movement on >>> campuses mirrors what we endured back then, and strongly suggests that >>> we are looking at a repetition of 1968 at the upcoming Democratic >>> Convention in Chicago. His prospect of a narrow victory over Trump in >>> Michigan and the other few critical battleground states is already >>> endangered, and the anticipated reaction to the violence the >>> authorities will visit on American young people there will further >>> alienate more voters from Biden. Yet his support of the genocide >>> continues. >>> >>> He’s content to gamble that he will prevail in the end because his >>> opponent is Trump. The protesters be damned. He may be right. But >>> Biden is gambling with American democracy, all to permit Israeli Jews, >>> at least two-thirds of whom support the genocide and oppose letting >>> any humanitarian aid enter Gaza, to continue to kill Palestinian women >>> and children by the thousands, and to use their own government’s >>> failure to anticipate the Hamas attack to ratchet up their ethnic >>> cleansing of the Palestinian people from the land between the River >>> and the Sea. >>> >>> As a civil rights lawyer who has investigated and prosecuted cases in >>> the International Criminal Tribunals, I can well understand the >>> dilemma faced by those Democratic voters in Michigan, Georgia, >>> Pennsylvania, and Arizona who hesitate to vote for a genocider, even >>> one running against an insurrectionist. >>> >>> Jill Biden reportedly told her husband some time ago to “Stop it, Joe, >>> stop it now.” Good advice that he continues to ignore — at his peril, >>> and ours. >>> >>> https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/genocide-joe-is-beginning-to-stink-like-lyndon-b-johnson/ >>> >>> >> People like you who bury any commonsense deep into the ground, ostrich >> like, are very similar to the Germans who allowed Hitler to get into and >> stay in power. They are so stupid, so shallow, so ignorant of history >> that they are condemned to forever repeat the mistakes of the past. >> War is war and it can end the moment one side SURRENDERS and Hamas and a >> majority of Palestinians have proven their evil barbarianism over and >> over. If it were in my power, NONE of you fools who support them would >> EVER get employment in the West ever again. Noncitizens would be >> deported from whatever country you are currently soiling with your >> stupid naivete. > > Study your Israeli history and you'll find who the terrorists are > . > its the people who gab about it all