Listen now | Kelley Vlahos from the Quincy Institute joins Jeremy Scahill for a discussion on Biden's final measures, the kettle of hawks assembled by Trump, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Well, this might be the beginning of the end. If this is it, and most of us will just perish slowly, I do hope that the last ones to go are the Israeli leaders and the Israeli population supporting the genocide, the Clintons, the Obamas, Elon Musk and the other billionaires, the Trumps and trumpkins, Blinken and his press people, the other warmongers, the media mouthpieces - maybe Biden although he might not last this long, at least not with the ability to understand what he has done. All surviving in the oxygen-dwindling planet, starving and killing themselves slowly, painfully and hopelessly. Power and money will mean nothing them, and they cannot do anything without people to exploit and manipulate
Biden’s “hail Mary” efforts are so transparent. Eg, the “ceasefire” in Lebanon, as Matt Miller implicitly clarified in a recent press conference, was initiated because “70,000 Israelis have been displaced from their homes.”
This tactic is obviously calculated to appear to the American public as advocating for a real ceasefire, while simultaneously advocating for the Israeli population. Trying to have it both ways, but not.
Fundamentally, this is a devious Machiavellian ploy to support Israeli aggression while appearing to be working toward a ceasefire—a hawk in dove’s clothing.
By these false gestures, Biden is trying to repair his damaged presidential mythology so the Democratic Party can rise again from the ashes of 2024 at some future date.
Clearly, the Democratic Party power brokers are already strategizing their return—dropping the bread crumbs it will retrace back to power. Remember how Biden worked day and night for a ceasefire?
Well, this might be the beginning of the end. If this is it, and most of us will just perish slowly, I do hope that the last ones to go are the Israeli leaders and the Israeli population supporting the genocide, the Clintons, the Obamas, Elon Musk and the other billionaires, the Trumps and trumpkins, Blinken and his press people, the other warmongers, the media mouthpieces - maybe Biden although he might not last this long, at least not with the ability to understand what he has done. All surviving in the oxygen-dwindling planet, starving and killing themselves slowly, painfully and hopelessly. Power and money will mean nothing them, and they cannot do anything without people to exploit and manipulate
Biden’s “hail Mary” efforts are so transparent. Eg, the “ceasefire” in Lebanon, as Matt Miller implicitly clarified in a recent press conference, was initiated because “70,000 Israelis have been displaced from their homes.”
This tactic is obviously calculated to appear to the American public as advocating for a real ceasefire, while simultaneously advocating for the Israeli population. Trying to have it both ways, but not.
Fundamentally, this is a devious Machiavellian ploy to support Israeli aggression while appearing to be working toward a ceasefire—a hawk in dove’s clothing.
By these false gestures, Biden is trying to repair his damaged presidential mythology so the Democratic Party can rise again from the ashes of 2024 at some future date.
Clearly, the Democratic Party power brokers are already strategizing their return—dropping the bread crumbs it will retrace back to power. Remember how Biden worked day and night for a ceasefire?
But are they now too exposed for that to work?
To be continued…