President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Sad!

 

You owe John Forsythe an apology. Maybe Aaron Spelling, too.

(But yeah ... that was funny.)

 

Opinion | Arab American Fury Toward Biden

Awad said he doesn’t like Trump and doesn’t welcome a second Trump term, but he’s prepared to accept that outcome for the sake of punishing Biden. “I’m going to live under Trump, because I survived under Trump, because he’s my enemy,” he says. “I cannot live under someone who pretends to be my friend.”

He believes that proving a point about the power of the Muslim vote is worth it. “Is it going to be painful? Four more years under Trump?” he asks. “I say yes, and we are bracing for it,” adding, “At least what I have accomplished is, I told every politician, ‘Don’t take us out of the equation, because you will miss.’”

Walid said that in a lesser-of-two-evils debate, Trump was, in some ways, the lesser. As he put it, “As bad as Mr. Trump’s rhetoric was, and him putting a travel ban on five Muslim countries, he wasn’t overseeing and actively arming a genocide.” It’s a view that echoes the sentiment expressed in the headline of an October opinion essay for Al Jazeera by Haidar Eid, an associate professor at Al Aqsa University in Gaza: “In dehumanizing the Palestinians, Biden had surpassed Trump.”

But what about the many Americans who might be horrified at the suggestion that they might just have to live through another Trump administration? No important change is going to be painless, Awad said, before invoking the name of Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty senior airman who died after setting himself on fire on Sunday in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington while yelling, “Free Palestine!”

 

They’re morons. They whine about not getting everything and end up with Trump. Yeah, they’re better off, aren’t they?

 

Alma is 24 hours late beating off to Michigan primary returns. What can you even count on in this world anymore?

 

I have a different take based on Merrick's performance to date. Foot-dragging on him was perhaps a blessing in disguise. He likely would have been Obama's John Paul Stevens.

 

I'd be ok if its Cornyn or Thune taking over for Mitch. Which probably means there is no chance in hell

 

Little Johnny has a happy home and two mommies
But MAGA freaks call 'em sinners, groomers and commies
Little Johnny wants books about families like his, but those are all banned
Thrown out of the library on the criminal's command
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose

Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
Then you really might know what it's like

 

Two things about that article. The author spoke to activists, not regular Arab-American voters. CAIR is to that community as the ADL (which doesn't care for Biden either) is to the Jewish one. Each is an advocacy organization which speaks often in high heat. The chapter in Michigan has also spoken out in opposition to LGBTQ rights and abortion. And if Biden wins re-election, he won't listen to them ever again. If Biden loses, this organization will be a pariah to both parties. When Trump starts Muslim bans and lets Bibi ethnic cleanse Gaza and the West Bank, CAIR will go to Democrats and hear "tough shit, guys."

 

It'll be interesting to (maybe) get current on which property he still owns outright; which he's already mortgaged; and those to which he simply leases the name.

Likewise, which bank will throw him the lifeline.