"Genocide Joe": Biden Heckled During Campaign Trip For Supporting Israel President Joe Biden was called a "loser" and told to "go home". This was his first economy-focused campaign event of 2024.
US President Joe Biden was heckled by protesters during his visit to Pennsylvania on Friday over his support for Israel in fight against Hamas in Gaza.
Polls have also shown Biden's support slipping among Black and ethnic minority voters, who helped drive his 2020 election win against Trump.
Analysts say Biden's best hope now is a simple but quite specific number: that wages continue to rise faster than prices as they have done since April of last year, allowing consumers to feel that their wallets are fuller.
Still rather vote for him than the wanna be dictator. It's shitty, and who knows maybe the Dems will primary someone decent.
But if the choice is "generally shitty typical politician who isn't actively telling us how he's going to destroy our country" vs "I'm going to destroy our country and prosecute my enemies illegally and rip out long term federal employees and replace them with folks loyal to me who will let me be a dictator, and btw I'm saying this out loud all the time"......
It's still not a hard choice to vote for a fucking wet paper bag over trump , even a wet paper bag who is not doing the best job and is supporting questionable international policies.
Please remember they're not the same type of bad. One is run of the mill politician bad, one is literally telling us how he plans on ripping our country's founding principles to shreds.
it was a lie. that day never came because there's only one reliable mechanism to do it and it's the one we're told decade after decade we aren't allowed to use, vote for someone else
if trump wins it will be 100% because the democrats chose to run a shitty candidate that didn't encourage turnout among less engaged voters. and before you yell at me biden fans, those less engaged voters aren't in this thread, or indeed any politics thread. they're the ones who barely ever show up to vote in the first place. two shitty candidates = they don't care enough to register or wait hours in line, and you gotta go out and get their votes to win. it's just politics
I'm just worried that we'll have a repeat of voter apathy because the Dems present a really not great candidate again and folks don't show up and allow the dangerous nut jobs elect in their wannabe dictator.
That said, I 100% agree that folks should be pushing and demanding better from our elected officials so keep voicing and pushing your concerns!
Honestly? Because most of the country isn't ready for a true progressive candidate. Run someone middle of the road and the conservatives (or moderate leaning right) who aren't stupid will possibly go across the party line and vote for them, they run someone too progressive and those folks either don't show up at all or vote trump because it's "better than the crazy commie".
I really disagree with the idea of 2 extreme candidates from either side anyways. Ranked choice is what we need.
Genocide is usually a line people don't want to cross or co-sign. If he doesn't want that tag line attached him, he could course correct and do better before he ends up handing victory to Trump.
I'm concerned about 2024. So many voters were asked to hold our nose and vote for conservative Joe Biden, but he's made it harder and harder to do.
He started off on the wrong foot by opening more concentration camps and sending his VP on an embarrassing gaslighting mission to Latin America, and it has just continued to get worse since then.
My expectations were already abysmally low to begin with, but even I didn't have "openly supporting a genocidal state" on my bingo card.
I think I still need to vote for him because of Republicans, but my God it will be hard to live with myself after I do.
No, no, you'll be able to smugly hold your moral superiority over the others in the concentration camps after enough folks stay home because of all the baseless BS being spewed.
Which is a pretty damn good predictor that he's going to lose. Nobody wins an election by everyone sighing and saying "fuck guess we gotta vote for them," just look at Hillary. DNC is once again shrugging their shoulders and saying "we've tried nothing and are all out of ideas," so guess it's on the U.S. people to save democracy. They've got a real...great track record.
I think I still need to vote for him because of Republicans, but my God it will be hard to live with myself after I do.
Don't be hard on yourself for making the correct decision.
If someone tells you that you have swallow stale lima beans or horse shit and you pick the stale lima beans in hopes that you never have to do it again... well it sucks but those were the choices. If 4 years later you have to do the same thing again... well you do it, because eating stale lima beans is always going to be better than eating horse shit, and you're going to have to eat one of them.
You don't have to feel like the lima beans are your choice, your preference, or your fault or responsibility. They were one of two choices available, and you made the right one.
imagine if the republicans ran like democrats. would you switch to voting for a supposedly pro-choice pro-gay moderate republican? no? why are we told to expect the opposite, especially from a more propagandized group of voters?
And yet it feels like they really do have us over the fire, and the best they can do is call us Russian trolls and tell us to cope. That's the best they have to offer.
Meanwhile, I have friends and loved ones being detained, deported, or worse -- and they call me privileged if I complain about it.
I've literally been accused of de facto voting for Trump even when I disclose that I voted for genocide Joe. It's cultlike and weird.
Unfortunately America is a two-party system, it's baked into how the voting works. Occasionally the identity of which two parties are the two parties changes, but not very often.
However, that doesn't mean that there are only two possible candidates for presidency. The time when it's "safe" to vote for a third-party candidate is during the primary elections. Incumbents like Biden still have a huge advantage in those situations but even so it's a time when protest votes can be cast without harming the end result.