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"This is the behavior of a crazy person.

Trump is a massive failure as president. He has allowed a genocidal monster to take over the foreign policy of the United States.

Trump has permitted Netanyahu to drag America to the threshold of war with Iran."

Source by Paul Craig Roberts, Institute for Political Economy

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Same thing we did when netanyahu was the de facto president last year: Speak truth, get ignored at best and met with hostility most of the time.

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait another month and wave some signs ?

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Witty signs no less. To show that despite the apparent severity of the state of the world, they do have a sense of humour.

They might as well ban all guns now. I was willing to go along with this weekly(?) school shooting schedule as long as that meant they would actually use the guns when the time came. But now that the time has come, all those kids seem to have died for nothing.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Biden publicly described himself as a Zionist and supported genocide while wagging his finger. Trump and his cabinet are even worse -- as expected. I mean a suggestion to evict (kill?) the residents and turn it into a resort is beyond reason.

I hope we don't get into war with Iran. Between the Republicans and Democrats that are legally bribed by aipac I think we're screwed either way.

Hopefully that 400 million dollar jet Qatar bribed Trump with gives him pause about going to war. His money making schemes are starting to conflict and he is very impulsive, so it's hard to tell what's next.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 11 points 1 month ago

You don't get it. The united snake has it's own interests in support israel

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

None of this relationship with Israel is new to the US.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

He's in the pocket of a lot of people.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The answer to the problem is certainly not the Democrats, who wholesale supported this genocide for over a year.

Both genocidal parties, and the genocidal capitalist system, must be torn down.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

The same thing we did when Israel was commiting genocide, talk about it. It's what got TikTok censored by Congress. It's what costs politicians jobs by being against genocide.

But I guess it's bad now since Trump is the one doing it. Murder is bad when red team does it, it's just the way the world works when blue team does it.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Can we raid the white house and kill trump yet? Pleaaaase?

[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We end his stolen, illegitimate presidency any way we can.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have a fantasy of a really long stockade with a lot of people just lined up in a row next to each other, and someone using a Force-wielded lightsaber just sliding down the rope of them.

And every time I try to figure out who would be in it, it gets longer. But it would for sure include every conservative in the White House, in the Senate, in the House, and I'm the Supreme Court. Just the entire lot of them, none are redeemable as leaders, as politicians, as elected, or even as low as adult humans.

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[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not like the alternative wasn't in his pocket

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago

60 years of foreign policy

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

General Strike, now!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Well we don’t do shit about any other nonsense. So, nothing?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Americans when Democrats do the thing:

Americans when Republicans do the thing:

More seriously what Americans should have done to get a president not in the pocket of mass murderer Netanyahu was get the Democrats to actually represent their constituents, but lesser evil politics prevailed and now we're here. If you want a president not in the pocket of mass murderer Netanyahu now you'll have to overthrow Trump and install one yourself.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

US system requires deep reform. Both parties controlled by oligarchs that favor israel.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fascists usually leave power when they die.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I thought Slenderman “fixed” all this a few years ago. You mean to tell me Kushner was (is) full of shit?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)


For the X-teenth time:
Eternal war, working for the same oligarchs that sponsor both wings, banks and multinationals and unconditional support for the genociders is BIPARTISAN and always was.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This doesn't change the fact that 47 is the current problem, and is the one currently talking about nuclear war. No matter how bad Biden would have been on this issue, he is currently irrelevant.

[–] piefood@feddit.online 4 points 1 month ago

Considering that Biden's open failures as a president and candidate are the primary reasons that Trump is in power, I don't think it's irrelevant at all.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The Uniparty, D and R together have only gone in one direction creating the climate and situation.
They did nothing to prevent or defuse it, on the contrary.
Warmonger and zionist Biden and all those before him paved the way and let Satanyahu know he can do anything they want.
Biden is definitely not irrelevant, if he is you could say the same from Trump since he is just another face in a never ending line of genocide enablers.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty much the other way around.

[–] martin4598@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Always has been

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Voting him in is the behaviour of a crazy nation so I'm guessing most americans want this.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why didn’t you say anything when Biden was doing the same thing?

99% of Americans will simply never see that 99% of politicians support Netanyahu and his killing of children across the Middle East.

America, the whole of it, supports genocide.

But nah, democrats will call me a tankie and say some shit about who I voted for, and never look in the mirror once.

Americans are only ever going to care after every child is dead. That’s our liberal tradition. Supporting liberation only if it isn’t in the present day.

Fuck liberals, fuck democrats and fuck America.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

We're talking about nuclear war right now.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

It's too bad that lemme.ee was shut down, but I'm glad it means your account is probably gone now.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And people ask me why I block everyone from lemm.ee...

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They make you feel bad for supporting genocide?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

you vote for him or don't vote against him.

at least that's what around 70% of Americans did in November.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And either way, you still end up with a psychopath in the pocket of Israel.

This isn’t something that can be fixed at the ballot box. Nothing short of a revolution will change the US relationship with Israel.

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[–] FireAtWill@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

Well, there is the Jewish Mafia, allegedly. They've got dirt on everyone. Epstein was a made man.