The Joe Biden reelection campaign has taken several severe steps to curtail pro-Palestinian supporters from interrupting his speeches. The campaign has gone as far as keeping rallies small, avoiding colleges, and not informing the public of the location of events.
Throughout most of January, the President was met with chants of “genocide Joe” at least a dozen times. Pro-Palestinian protesters label the president “genocide Joe” because of his unfettered support of Tel Aviv as Israeli forces commit a brutal slaughter in Gaza.
In response to the protests, the campaign hired Doug Landry to prevent further demonstrations. Landry has worked on planning logistics for past presidential campaigns. According to NBC News, the President’s reelection team has taken “extraordinary steps” to thwart pro-Palestinian protests “by making [their events] smaller, withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, and avoiding college campuses.”
“But the downside is that means he doesn’t reach as many voters,” a Biden ally said. “The point is to reach as many voters as you can, and those small events don’t.” Many of the president’s events have become “off the record” – meaning unpublished – stops that are with private businesses or residents.
The campaign is considering “hiring a private company to vet attendees” for a major event with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama later this month. The policy has succeeded in isolating Biden from critics of his support for Israel. However, there are downsides to this regarding his prospects for winning the 2024 election.
Democratic party campaigners have also increased the ticket prices for events featuring Biden, hoping to make it prohibitively expensive to protest the president.
One Democratic staffer said the president will eventually have to address the American people. “I think at some point you’ll see him having those big rallies and big crowds, because that ultimately is how you get to a large swath of voters,” a Democratic ally of the campaign explained.
The problem for the president is his policy of unconditional support for Tel Aviv as Israeli forces commit massacres in Gaza. A January poll found that around half of Biden’s 2020 voters believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. A recent Data for Progress poll found 67 % of Americans support a ceasefire, including roughly 80% of Democrats.
Additionally, a recent survey found that 56% of Democrat voters want a candidate who does not back sending military aid to Israel. President Biden supports sending an additional $14 billion in weapons to Tel Aviv.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Keep it up people.
If Genocide Joe wants to stop people from calling him “Genocide Joe”, why does he not just take “extraordinary steps” to stop the Genocide?
American politicians are terrified of defying the Israel lobby. It can and does crush political careers — rapidly and thoroughly. If Biden (well, his “team”) were to take those extraordinary steps, the lobby would destroy his chances for reelection. And our successful politicians care much more about electoral victory than the genocide of poor Arabs far away.
Of course, enabling genocide is extremely unpopular with a significant segment of the voting population and Biden loses more of those people every week.
I think his chances of victory are not good.
It seemed to me about a year or more ago that Trump would win the election unless the establishment prevented him from doing so by illegitimate means, like imprisoning him (that’s the reason for all these prosecutions for things that pale in comparison to the war- and human rights crimes that other presidents have committed without facing any prosecution). I don’t support and would never vote for Trump nor any Democrat nor other Republican, but unless something really major happens between now and the election to change things, that still looks like how this will end up.
I think Trump has a slightly better chance of winning than Biden, despite the establishment’s all-out efforts to knock him out. (To be clear, I think Trump is a creep and a second-rate con artist. I’m not a fan.)
The crusade to cripple Trump to prevent his being elected to a second term is exactly what he says it is — a witch hunt. It’s unlikely that any of the legal cases against him (leaving aside private lawsuits) would have been brought based solely on the merits and in line with ordinary prosecutorial discretion if political opponents with great power and influence weren’t out to get him. Certainly they would not have been pursued with the crazed levels of obsession we’re seeing.
Even worse than the civil and criminal prosecutions are the campaigns to keep Trump off ballots. To declare that he is ineligible because he has engaged in insurrection, when he has never even been charged with that crime, let alone been convicted of it, is an outrage against the most basic legal principles the country is supposed to cherish. The idea that a state official or judge, in some sort of administrative procedure, could make a determination like that is bizarre and scary. There’s a very good basis for arguing that these moves are in violation of the due process provisions of the 5th and 14th Amendments.
Banana Republic “R”Us
No, I think this is different. In banana republics, there are real battles between different factions and classes on an ongoing basis. In the US, the same elite class is virtually always in charge and the differences among the subsets and their policies and interests are fairly minimal. Trump is an outlier, a rogue who doesn’t play by the rules. The establishment hates that. Unfortunately for the establishment, Trump wielded the tools the Republicans had been using for decades to fan the flames of resentment and discontent among a large class of voters to seize control of the party.
What is crazy is that all the shit they’re doing to try to keep Trump out of office is actually helping him. At what point will they realize that ignoring misbehaving children works much better than giving them attention?
The point is, as he says, that he is being persecuted. And it’s easiest to start with fascist means by making an example of one who is detested. That’s how you manufacture consent for the worst abuses.
You see this with censorship and blacklisting. But it will never end there.
He hasn’t been charged with insurrection, yet. But it could (and should) be done. He’s clearly guilty, IMHO:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383
Yet? Well, don’t hold your breath.
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives declined to include insurrection-related charges in its second impeachment of Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith didn’t bring any such charges in the criminal indictment of Trump for January 6-related actions.
I know very well what the 18 USC insurrection statute says and I assure you that Jack Smith knows too. It’s pretty likely that, if he thought he could get a conviction, he would have presented the charge to the grand jury that handed down the indictment.
In any case, the salient point is that Trump hasn’t been convicted of insurrection, so whether you or I or random judges and state officials think he’s guilty of that crime should be entirely irrelevant.
If he was actually guilty he’d have been charged. They know he’d beat the rap so they’re trying him in the MSM.
Yeah yeah and the 2020 election was rigged. And and Putin is very nice and peaceful.
We need to all need to go to capitol hill again and have another insurrection.
And im called the brainwashed here. 🤣
Yes definately, Genocide Joe is dammed if he does, and dammed if he does not. Even if he satisfies the Israeli lobby, the emerging Pro-Palestine/peace lobby will do him in. Genocide Joe may as well do the moral thing. That is stop the Genocide that is taking place at his hands, get off the political stage, and check in at the old folks home, or glue factory.
But I’m sure his rosary beads are burning his hands.
“Pro-Palestine/peace lobby” That is funny. Palestinians for peace. Since when?
Ziotroll alert
Don’t worry. I have a feeling he’ll secure enough mail in ballots to prevail
I’m gonna pretend you’re joking — because actually believing that a mail-in ballot scam has changed or ever could change the outcome of a US presidential election (except in the case of a vanishingly-unlikely set of freak circumstances) requires a deep ignorance of the way American elections work.
Never do the right thing. 50 years is not enough grifting?
I’m just citing reality,
My comment was directed at Biden. At his age, who cares? He could do the right thing. But he is a narcissistic sociopath like Trump. More than half of the people in the country want both wars to stop.
In addition to the constraints almost all US politicians feel because of the power of the lobby, Biden is a lifelong committed Zionist. It’s very unlikely that he will do anything but support Israel, unless something forces him to stop.
As you may have noticed, Biden is not an outlier on this issue. It’s very hard to find any US politicians who are willing to cross the Israel lobby. They don’t want their careers destroyed, which is what happens if you cross the lobby.
What most people in the country want wrt government policy usually only matters when there’s a political benefit to doing what they want — or pretending to. In this case, so far, the pols seem to think that benefit of doing what a majority wants is outweighed by the risks of doing what the Israel lobby doesn’t want.
$$$$$$$
It’s their motivation for getting elected in the first place.
You know what? I’d rather Biden come out of the closet and state plainly he doesn’t give a shit about genocide. At least that would be honest. In fact, he should just admit he’s driving it. I’d have an iota of respect for him admitting he is a monster.
Yeah, well, he won’t. He doesn’t think he’s a monster and, even if he did, he wouldn’t admit it and further endanger his “career.”
The lobby contributes plenty of money to campaigns, but it’s the threat of what it can do in opposition to a candidate that really gives it the power. Defy the lobby and expect to be primaried, find opponents suddenly flush with cash, face denunciation in the media and Congress as an antisemite, have large, angry crowds show up at your events, on and on and on.
Like I said, he’s old. He had 50 years. No future. He could do the right thing in spite of risks. It’s what most ethical people do.
He wouldn’t be able to make those decisions himself even if he were in possession of all his faculties. The consequences of defying the lobby would fall on all the decision-makers and key actors on his “team” and they aren’t going to risk those consequence.
There are plenty of people in the administration, and in Congress, who could make a major difference if they only spoke up without reservation or weasel words. They haven’t. They probably won’t. People don’t get to those positions in the US by living and acting ethically.
Yes. I know. But when you advance their excuses, you are helping them to avoid fault.
He already acquired angry crowds.
They’re taking steps to avoid that problem going forward. And what has happened so far is nothing like what would happen if the lobby turned against him. Not even in the same dimension.
That’s a great idea.
Putin should do the same so the world doesn’t call him ‚„Genocide Putin”.
“The campaign has gone as far as keeping rallies small.” That shouldn’t be difficult. LOL
I mean he campaigned from his basement last election.
And won.
Rigged.
Not according to 73 failed lawsuits. Grow up. Your guy lost.
Not all of the lawsuits failed. Some were withdrawn as soon as a judge agreed to proceed to discovery and presentation of evidence.
And your guy won, Nazi.
I mean sure if you think that American elections are legitimate. Personally, I haven’t thought that since the SCOTUS selected George W. Bush as president in 2000.
Control-People Campaign…!
And what has Trump had to say about all this carnage in Palestine? Oh, I forgot. This past October at the Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas, he said, “You spill a drop of our blood, and we will spill a gallon of yours.”
Also:
“let this play out.”
“do a better job of public relations, frankly, because the other side is beating them at the public relations front.”
Profound, right? But we’re to assume since he’s pissed at Bibi for congratulating Biden on his election victory that his loyalty towards Israel will wane and he will ride in to save the Palestinians.
I don’t know about that. I wouldn’t count on Trump to care about anything except his money and his ego. I understand that this is related to the latter, but Trump is as Zionist as anyone, and the Israel lobby and Zionism are very strong in this country. Trump hasn’t shown the willingness nor the ability to stand up to any major or serious pressure, and I don’t see things changing for the better in this situation with Trump as president.
Trump isn’t nearly as Zionist as he once was thanks to the faithlessness of his idiot SOB in law and the ingratitude of Nazinyahu.
I don’t see Trump as putting his renewed Administration in political jeopardy by supporting a dying regime.
I don’t think Gaza is going to make it to next November but the West Bank might and for them Trump is their last best hope.
“for them Trump is their last best hope.” In other words, they have no hope. Trump will rubber stamp any Israel annexation of any part of the West Bank. And with Trump in White House, Israel will not pass up the chance.
The only one that’s hopeless is you.
And so you and your midget boss Putin.
There is a genocide going on and he isn’t saying shit about it. That right there is enough NOT to vote for him.
I take his silence as a reconsideration of his past position on the matter.
Right. That’s what a principled man would do, remain quiet while people are slaughtered.
a principled man
You can call him a lot of things but that’s not one of them.
But he is smart enough not to draw fire away from his opponent and on to himself.
That’s not a compliment. That just adds to how unprincipled he actually is. And adds to my bewilderment as to why people won’t vote third party.
They will. You will. Many people will but many many more will vote for Trump and for the same reason you’ll vote third party.
We believe in him when he says he’ll throw all the illegals out or at least as many as possible.
As for Palestine, I remember him expressing that we should be more “evenhanded” in our treatment of Palestine and Israel. I also recall him telling the Lobby “I don’t need your money”. That sent a shockwave!
These are his own feelings before the filter of his handlers.
The give away of Jerusalem is a lot less than meets the eye. Even Ron Paul we should do it.
“As for Palestine, I remember him expressing that we should be more ‘evenhanded’ in our treatment of Palestine and Israel. I also recall him telling the Lobby ‘I don’t need your money’. That sent a shockwave!”
Apparently you don’t recall the 180 degree turn he did on both those things when Sheldon Adelson waved a check for $125 million under his nose.
Whether his efforts to out-do Obama/Biden on being anti-immigration might succeed this time around unlike last time is an open question. Personally, I think that should be moved away from the presidential level by leaving firearms, instead of just food and water, in the desert for the immigrants so they can defend themselves from gangs like Border Patrol and ICE.
I attribute his 180 to princess Ivanka and her resident court jester.
The bloom is well off that rose now thanks to the Zionist tendency to stab friends from behind. Trump must still feel the serpent tooth of those ungrateful children.
Trump’s immigration policy might have been short of the mark but incomparable to the open boarder debacle Biden created and you celebrate.
I wouldn’t worry about arming the invaders. They have plenty of weaponry thanks to Obama’s Fast and Furious program to bring parity between criminal gangs and law enforcement.
“I attribute his 180 to princess Ivanka and her resident court jester.”
I’m shocked — shocked! — at how you can always come up with an excuse for your sad sack of a preferred president.
Biden has had more immigrants abducted, and more immigrants deported — five times as many, in fact — than Trump did. Trump never even managed to catch up with Obama on those metrics.
The US has always had open borders. The US has open borders now. The US will always have open borders. Not because the US Constitution clearly and unambiguously requires it to — the regime ignores the Constitution whenever it’s inconvenient — but because it’s impossible to “secure” 95,500 miles of border and coastline no matter how much money you pour into creating an East German style police state.
If Biden deported more illegals it would be due to an exponential increase in the influx of those illegals on his watch.
The chief difference between East Germany and our own situation is they were trying to keep their citizens in while we want to keep non-citizens out.
“The chief difference between East Germany and our own situation is they were trying to keep their citizens in while we want to keep non-citizens out.”
1) “We” want no such thing.
2) The actual name of the Berlin Wall was the “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” and it was explicitly advertised as being for the purpose of keeping people out, not in.
US policy is explicitly geared toward keeping people in, including making it a crime to leave without paying a bribe and getting a permission slip (and demanding that those who leave permanently and renounce their citizenship both pay an “exit tax” and continue to pay US income taxes for 10 years). The most effective prison is one that the imprisoned don’t notice exists until and unless they try to leave it.
Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” and it was explicitly advertised
And you believe commie advertising?… Wow!
And just how many fascistischers did they schutz attempting to breach the wall from West Berlin?
Now how many Germans were shot in the back going the other way, hmmm?
“And you believe commie advertising?… Wow!”
No, that’s exactly it — I don’t believe commie advertising whether the commie in question is Walter Ulbrich or Donald Trump.
You’re actually equating the murderous acts of a totalitarian state using deadly force to imprison their people with US border restrictions and minor inconveniences of obtaining a passport for travel common to most countries in the world.
No wonder nobody takes Libertarians seriously.
Yes, Ivanka made him do one of the missile attacks on Syria too. The deep state forced the other one. The senate forced him to sell lethal weapons to Ukraine. Russiagate forced him to be tough on Russia. Someone is always forcing Trump to do something. Sanctions? Lifting rules of engagement to make killing easier? Drones? Dumping the JCPOA and assassinating the Iranian general? The Space Force? The Abraham Accords?
I vote third party because the third party candidates are better than the “R” or “D” candidates.
As for Palestine, I once again will go with what Trump actually did instead of what he said he would do.
And I could care less what Ron Paul thinks about Trump giving away Jeruselum.
They will. You will. Many people will but many many more will vote for Trump and for the same reason you’ll vote third party.
We believe in him when he says he’ll throw all the illegals out or at least as many as possible.
As for Palestine, I remember him expressing that we should be more “evenhanded” in our treatment of Palestine and Israel. I also recall him telling the Lobby “I don’t need your money”. That sent a shockwave!
These are his own feelings before the filter of his handlers.
The give away of Jerusalem is a lot less than meets the eye. Even Ron Paul we should do it.
Trump has the same security state as anyone else.
And the security state has Trump – same as anyone else.
Missing my point.
What I said about him riding in to save the Palestinians was pure sarcasm. He won’t do shit.
Yep, and yet we have people shouting “genocide Joe” constantly. I don’t think they understand that they are playing right into Trump’s hands.
Or maybe they do and know they’d be better off.
One thing for sure, Trump be better for Israel. A major area of the West Bank will be annexed by Israel under Trump.
That might be just as well. A one state solution is at hand. The march should be about equal rights for Israel’s newly acquired Palestinian population.
Well, if Russia can invade and annex at will, why can’t Israel and the rest of the world.
Kaliningrad by Germany or Poland comes to mind and Manchurian region by China.
He is enabling and bankrolling a genocide. If he were near me, I would be shouting the same thing with plenty of F-Bombs. Trump wouldn’t be on my mind.
Anything bad to say about Putin?
Nah, cause you never does. Hypocrite.
That the numbers aren’t higher is a testament to the power of Israel’s lauded Hasbara – or should I say the Israel Lobby’s. Either way RFK Jr was still talking the officially denounced “babies in ovens” Hamas-atrocity-that-wasn’t last week justifying his support of Israel’s genocide.
But then for RFK – “There’s no Genocide. It’s a war.” Guess it’s also “No Occupation. Just visiting Neighbors that Never Left.” 57 years and counting.
Where did he say this?
15.38
That’s disappointing. I will still vote for him if he is on the ballot. He’s the only viable protest vote against the two party system this election cycle. Of all the candidates he seems the most likely to change his mind when presented with new information and straight up admit they were wrong. His evolving position on the crisis at the southern border is a good example of this. I think that after his gaffe early in the campaign talking about a peer reviewed paper that presented data that Ashkenazi Jews were less susceptible to the corona virus his campaign has been getting bad guidance from some pretty nasty Zionists regarding the I/P issue.
Feel free to waste your vote in protest. Meanwhile, the short term future of the US in on the line in this election. But go ahead and protests while the rest of us decide which way the country goes.
I will vote however I see fit and I don’t really care what partisan hacks say about it. Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin. If you are voting for either of the mainline parties you are at worst an enemy of America and its people and at best a useful idiot. RFK, Jr. has his faults to be sure, but on most other issues besides Israel vs. Palestine he is leagues and bounds better than either of the two mainline buffoons.
Yes. I’d take RFK in a heartbeat over Biden or Trump. Most everyone here was excited when he announced his candidacy, including me. His views on Israel/Palestine put him behind others in my view but certainly not Biden or Trump.
The thing about RFKjr is that I suspect that he does not believe in his pro Israeli position. Why do I say that? Because he is so eloquent in all his other stands against Ukraine war, Big Pharma, the border….but when it comes to Israel he literally be-clowns himself with such a lousy narrative. Almost comical.
What do they have on him? Epstein?
I’m always puzzled when a third party or independent candidate takes a position that he or she doesn’t really seem to believe.
It SEEMS like having no chance whatsoever of winning an election SHOULD leave a candidate feeling pretty free to just be truthful.
On the other hand, I guess really wanting to get Message X out could mean satisfying big donors when it comes to a Messay Y that the candidate considers less important.
An Arab killed his dad. Naturally he’s bitter, kooky conspiracy theory notwithstanding.
I think it has to do with that incident where he was at a private fundraiser and he cited an academic paper about how covid was more deadly for certain ethnicities than others and mentioned Ashkenazi Jews as one of the groups that was less susceptible. The Audio and/or video was leaked and there as a media generated firestorm that followed. The only way Kennedy could avert his campaign being “swift-boated” before it even started was to go all in on Israel. I suspect this is the case along with (as noted by Thomas below) the need for a pro Israel stance to get some of the big donors. So I would hope as you seem to that a President Kennedy’s position would look a lot different than candidate Kennedy’s looks.
Read Scott Horton’s history as he charts RFK’s fall from principled humanitarian and ”truth” candidate through his rapid transformation into utterly transparent, bullet-point spouting Lobby sycophant followed by the inevitable campaign implosion as experienced senior staffers walk away. https://www.ocregister.com/2024/01/10/rfk-jr-s-unconditional-support-for-israel-is-costing-his-campaign-for-president/
I agree, be-clown’s a good descriptor. Such a devastating disappointment, decades fighting big pharma & med-gov’t corruption, antiwar & the MIC, comes outta the gate promising to take on the CIA, what a dream come true, makes sense the Lobby would target him. Odd he first agrees to debate Max, then refuses. Sure looks like he buckled to the Israel Lobby, maybe the clown act is a coded message, lol. But you know Horton, he’s got all the details immaculately linked. https://www.ocregister.com/2024/01/10/rfk-jr-s-unconditional-support-for-israel-is-costing-his-campaign-for-president/
Why not just hire some thugs to beat the protesters up? At least that would be more in character with this president.
Yes, shades of Mayor Daley.
And Bloomberg.
We have cops for that.
So far the NYPD have remained neutral but I see a change coming.
The movement is growing by the day but unfortunately some in the ranks are blatant opportunists from the BLM and Antifa rent a mobs that will provoke the police to the kind of violence not seen since Obama’s day.
Liberal fascism is afoot and that foot is wearing a jackboot!
Get out of your basement, Igor.
Or don’t. The FSB is still snatching bodies for the war.
Other than the bad optics of Biden greeted by antiwar protestors, there are other drawbacks to this scenario. He has a bad unpredictable temper, could start shouting insults at them and blurt stuff out the military doesn’t want the public to hear. And the other more obvious, he gets confused and tongue tied when faced with the unscripted event.
“unpredictable temper, could start shouting insults at them and blurt stuff out the military doesn’t want the public to hear” You just describe Trump perfectly.
Yes. They both suck.
Your butt hurt is noted.
Enjoy your 5.00$ eggs, 5.00$ gas ect ect while Gaza burns and we ship another 100 Billion to Ukraine.
But remember, that most of that money stays right here in the good old USA providing jobs to Americans and bribes to Congress..
Biden is hiding from his constituents. He’s as cowardly as the IOF, who shoot women and children waiting for food drops. The irony is, the protesters likely voted for Biden in a kneejerk attempt to get rid of Trump. Now they have their devil and he’s complicit in the most heinous crime of this century.
Yes, Russiagate and TDS are very powerful and have worked pretty well so far, unfortunately. Not that Trump is any good either, but he’s not as much of a war-monger as these other jerks, and that’s the main reason that the establishment hates him. These TDSers would elect Hitler if they thought it would prevent Trump from winning.
Actually, Hitler would be a better choice than Genocide Joe. He is not as evil.
Genocide Joe can run, but he can’t hide. We see him in disgusting detail every single day.
He can’t campaign while running and dodging away from voters. Even his campaign from his basement was more engaged than that. Then he was sharing with us the Covid experience.
“But the downside is that means he doesn’t reach as many voters,”
The upside is the voters don’t reach him.
“genocide Joe” Trump’s not so secret weapon. Why do people think that Trump will be better for the Palestinians ?
And why do you think people chanting “genocide Joe” think Trump will be better for the Palestinians? One doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the other.
He’ll be worse, is my guess.
Well, at east their priorities are in the right place …
Who would be stupid enough to support a puppet even if he made an open announcement anyways?
Oh, so Biden is PURPOSELY keeping rallies small …..no more big mega rallies with tens of thousands of excited supporters ? Damn !
Physicians have advised that Biden and his supporters can’t take the cardio stress of a political rally.
Reduced for public health reasons };-)>
Biden is afraid to campaign in universities…! He would be booed and interrupted…!