Biden’s support of Gaza genocide big factor in Trump’s reelection

Biden’s support of Gaza genocide big factor in Trump’s reelection

During the campaign those of us in the peace community horrified by President Biden’s support of Israeli genocide in Gaza, said it would contribute to Trump’s reelection. Polling showed over half of Democratic voters joined us in that revulsion.

We pleaded with Biden and his genocide supporting Democrats, including Harris, to cease funding the genocide which could not continue without America’s $22 billion in bombs that have obliterated Gaza's 139 square miles. We were not just committed to ending the genocide. We warned it could defeat Kamala Harris’ bid to replace Biden and keep autocratic traitor Trump from returning to power.

We were right.

Post election polling by the Institute for Middle East Understanding and YouGov reveals that of the millions of Biden’s 2020 voters who voted for third party or didn’t vote, 29% the number 1 reason, cited his support of genocide. 24% cited the economy and only 11% named immigration. Harris got a staggering 6.3 million less votes that Biden in 2020, with genocide cited as the primary factor.

Genocide was widely cited by voters abandoning Harris in in 5 crucial states Biden won that Harris lost: 38% in Arizona, 32% in MI and WI, 19% in Pa and 6% in GA. Had Harris kept those 5 states she’d be inaugurated Monday instead of the wannabe authoritarian oligarch.

Harris made a mistake not breaking with Biden on genocide. By a more than three-to-one margin, Biden 2020 voters who did not vote for Harris, say they would more likely have voted for Harris had if she “pledged to break from President Biden's policy toward Gaza by promising to withhold additional weapons to Israel.” Doesn’t surprise me as I and many of my peace community colleagues were so inclined. We could not vote for genocide enabler Harris under any circumstances, but would in a heartbeat had she pivoted to peace.

There was precedent for Harris doing so. In 1968 Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was losing badly to Richard Nixon due to massive defections from anti-Vietnam War Democrats. Humphrey, like Harris was a good soldier VP supporting his boss’s self-destructive war policies. A month before the election Humphrey timidly pivoted to peace in a prime time address. It closed the double digit gap but was too little too late. Had he broken from LBJ from the get go…no Nixon and likely no 7 year prolonged bloodbath under Nixon.

Harris should have broken with Biden on genocide the day she was selected to replace the unfit incumbent. Only 4 years old when Humphrey belated tried, Harris didn’t learn from history of how to foolishly lose a presidential election.

In the billions of pixels and newsprint lamenting the return of Trump Monday, virtually nothing is offered about the genocide issue promoting Harris’ loss. The entire Democratic establishment and their sycophantic media has scrubbed ‘genocide’ from any mention whatsoever, before, during and after the heartbreaking loss.

That is horrible for the 2,300,000 Palestinians (less the hundred thousand dead) being genocided by Biden and Harris’s 2,000 lb. bombs. But it’s calamitous for future Democratic electoral success for failing to learn from history and governing from basic humanitarian decency.

Joe Biden’s foreign policy worst in my lifetime

 

 Joe Biden’s foreign policy worst in my lifetime

In my 80 years I’ve lived under 15 presidents. Followed the governance of everyone but the first, FDR, due to being 33 days old when he died.

Living my entire life in the nuclear age, foreign policy has always been my focus as nuclear war, the worst possible outcome of reckless policy, can easily occur. The second most horrible consequence of such policy is nation destroying instead of nation building.

On both counts Joe Biden gets my nod as worst foreign policy president I’ve followed.

The irony is he began by pivoting to peace in Afghanistan after 20 years, 3,800 dead Americans and $2 trillion in squandered US treasure. After 2 decades Afghanistan is much worse off than 20 years ago, but at least the Taliban kicked out the American invaders. The US War Party blasted Biden over the blasphemy of losing a war, but he did the right thing.

Alas, that was Biden’s last foray promoting peace. He’s spent the last 41 months of his tarnished presidency destroying hundreds of thousands of innocents combined in war zones Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Haiti to name six.

His signature descent into foreign policy madness was provoking a proxy war between his Ukrainian proxies with hated Russia to weaken his and America’s imagined enemy. That war, now in its 35th month, has largely destroyed Ukraine as a viable country. Over half a million dead, over 15 million fled, shattered economy, authoritarian rule by a democracy destroying thug, with no chance of prevailing is a dastardly Biden legacy. Worse, every day of this endless war puts Russia and America on the cusp of nuclear war.

As horrible as Biden’s Ukraine policy is, it pales in grotesqueness to his enabling of Israel’s ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. The genocide is an Israeli project wholly supported by Biden with UN Security Council vetoes, public support and $22 billion in genocide weapons. Israel admits they could not do it without Biden’s help while the rest of the world recoils in horror.

The most recent Biden descent into regime change involved buddying up with Islamic jihadist group HTS to overthrow the secular government of Syria. To do so Biden pretended that HTS and leader Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, who cheered on the 911 attacks, are now good guys doing America’s noble regime change work. Once again Christians and Alawites are being kidnapped, murdered, driven from their homes by Biden’s bloodthirsty new pals.

Sixty two years ago, President Kennedy’s reckless foreign policy in Cuba provoked a nuclear confrontation with Russia that nearly got us all incinerated. At 17, I lost all illusions that America was a sane, righteous nation in foreign affairs. But at least Kennedy learned the lesson that sensible diplomacy, not zero sum game brinkmanship, was the only path to saving peoplekind. He opened up a hotline to Moscow to prevent a recurrence. He bonded with Khrushchev who shared similar angst from Moscow’s version of the War Party. Had he lived the Cold War might have ended in 1963 instead of never.

Unlike JFK, Biden dumped diplomacy from America’s foreign policy toolkit. He even bragged about refusing to engage Russia’s Putin on matters that could lead to nuclear war. That is madness. His US propaganda machine, both governmental and sycophantic media, demonize anyone who dares suggest we talk to Putin. Biden phantacizes that Putin is recreating the Soviet empire.

He continues to squander tens of billions to fuel the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. The pending ceasefire, if approved, will do nothing to end Israel’s colonial Apartheid destruction of the 2,300,000 Palestinians trapped in Israel’s open air prison Gaza made uninhabitable by Biden’s 50,000 tons of bombs. Biden refused to acknowledge that one visit by a Trump envoy to Israel closed the tepid ceasefire deal Biden couldn’t achieve since proposed last spring.

Biden may leave office Monday with his head high, but tragically for Ukraine, Gaza, Syria and others, he will remain in denial and delusion of this destruction of millions in countries worldwide.

 

Illinois poised to become America’s leader in fully decriminalizing sex work

Illinois poised to become America’s leader in fully decriminalizing sex work

As a progressive libertarian, I’ve long pondered our archaic criminalization of sex work. It’s progressive for government to stay out of folks’ private lives unless alleviating an urgent societal problem.

That is why it’s encouraging Illinois will be the first state to introduce legislation fully decriminalizing sex work.

Sponsored by Representative Will Guzzardi and Senator Celina Villanueva, the legislation provides extensive relief to beleaguered, endangered sex workers kept in fear and danger by wrongheaded societal mores and laws.

If passed, it would remove criminal penalties for adults engaging in consensual sex work, remove arrest and conviction records for sex workers, encourage sex workers to report abuse without threat of arrest and establish a sex workers’ bill of rights.

The legislation would not end prosecution for sex trafficking

Fully decriminalizing sex work in Illinois will reinforce Illinois’ status as a progressive state committed to the betterment of all its 13,000,000 residents, including the disparaged and marginalized.

What if….

 What if….

CNN, MSNBC, Fox, CBS, NBC ABC gave 24/7 coverage to the genocidal desolation America has enabled in Gaza, as they have to the fiery, nature enabled desolation in Los Angeles?

Might just force the Biden Administration, and soon the Trump administration, to end participation in Israeli genocide there.

Are Blinken and Biden’s Gaza genocide denials any different than Nazi WWII genocide denials?

 

Are Blinken and Biden’s Gaza genocide denials any different than Nazi WWII genocide denials?

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the NY Times he’s not worried about history judging him as a genocide enabler.

When asked he replied, “No. It’s not (genocide), first of all. Second, as to how the world sees it, I can’t fully answer to that.”

Blinken will deny to his death his $22 billion in weapons that Israel has used to utterly destroy sustainable life for 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza’s 139 square miles is genocide. But the entire world aside from the Biden administration is correct in viewing it as genocide

It isn’t that Blinken “Can’t answer to that” (the world viewing it as genocide). He simply won’t answer to what is the most monstrous crime a national leader can commit. From Day 1 in the genocide Israel embarked upon in response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, Blinken and his boss Biden have been calling the genocide their weapons enable ‘self-defense.’

Denying genocide is what the Nazi war criminals did to a man at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials after WWII.

There will be no war crime trials for Blinken and Biden for the genocide that could not take place their tens of billions in weapons, vetoes of ceasefire resolutions in the US Security Council, public support and their endless ‘self-defense’ refrain.

In a bitter irony for humanity, it was the US which helped establish the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998 to ferret out and prosecute war criminals. But with criminal US wars devastating Afghanistan and Iraq, the US has turned on the ICC in fear of becoming ICC war crime targets. The US has abstained from membership and has blasted the ICC indicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his Gaza genocide. President Biden called the indictment “outrageous” and declared “We will always stand with Israel.”

Is that any different than denying, even condoning WWII Nazi genocide?

Blinken and Biden, barreling toward historical infamy with their blank check enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza.

 

 

NATO membership for Ukraine a non-starter

 

NATO membership for Ukraine a non-starter

Ihor Stelmach’s Sun Times letter posing 5 reasons why Ukraine membership would be advantageous for the US is bizarre in the extreme.

His first reason is preposterous. It would not facilitate the war’s end. It would inflame it to possible nuclear confrontation between Russia and the US.

The second reason is equally absurd. Displaying unwillingness to pursue NATO membership to Ukraine Putin will not embolden Putin. Just the opposite, it might create conditions for a negotiated end to the war

The third reason, claiming NATO membership will enhance Ukraine’s security, will guarantee the opposite. Its very possibility is what provoked Russia’s invasion. Even Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky begrudgingly admitted that truth.

Reason four claims that 3 years of war has “has transformed itself (Ukraine military) into a lean, mean fighting machine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces is vast in numbers, battle-hardened, skillful, well-trained and possesses unmatched experience in the realities of modern warfare.” Stelmach is apparently unaware the Ukraine military is nearly destroyed, with over 500,000 dead and 200,000 draftees fled from Ukraine’s impending loss.

Stelmach’s fifth reason concludes that inviting Ukraine into NATO will quench Russia’s imperialistic ambitions to recreate the former Soviet empire. No reasonable historian or political scientist would concur with that hyperbolic view.

US/NATO efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO, allowing US nukes on Russia’s borders, provoked a totally unnecessary war that has largely destroyed Ukraine as a viable state. Unless the US acknowledges that reality and pivots away from NATO membership for Ukraine, America’s Ukraine proxies will continue their downward spiral of death and destruction.

Biden spending last month shoveling billions to get more Ukrainians killed for nothing

 Biden spending last month shoveling billions to get more Ukrainians killed for nothing

On Monday, President Biden released another $6 billion in precious US treasure to keep his proxy war against Russia killing Ukrainians till Trump arrives January 20.

Here’s what $6 billion will provide the decimated Ukrainian army being systematically destroyed in a war provoked and prolonged by President Biden

· Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS)

· HAWK air defense munitions

· Stinger missiles

· Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions

· Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems
(HIMARS)

· 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition

· Air-to-ground munitions

· High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)

· Unmanned Aerials Systems (UAS)

· Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems

· Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles

· Small arms and ammunition and grenades

· Demolitions equipment and munitions

· Secure communications equipment

· Commercial satellite imagery services

· Medical equipment

· Clothing and individual equipment

· Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support, ancillary, services, training, and transportation

That’s the final treasure Biden can squander because House Speaker Mike Johnson nixed his last request for another $25 billion before his thankful departure January 20.

Biden’s $175 billion in 3 years of war is all for naught as Russia is pushing remaining Ukraine forces out of the Russian province of Kursk and extending their defensive perimeter around the 4 eastern Ukraine provinces captured. None of these provinces would be in Russian control had Biden not sabotaged the peace agreement Zelensky and Putin were about to complete back in March, 2022.

Biden will leave office mired in the echo chamber of US exceptionalism and world dominance. He will no doubt praise his bloody, wasteful and failed course he plunged Ukraine to follow in his Farwell Address. While he could be worse, successor Trump has ample opportunity to end Biden’s Ukraine madness. Regarding Ukraine, Joe Biden cannot leave the presidency soon enough.

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