Biden calls his decision to step aside from 2024 race a matter of defending democracy | CNN Politics
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President Joe Biden, speaking to the nation from the Oval Office Wednesday evening, framed his decision to step aside from the 2024 presidential race as a matter of saving democracy and passing “the torch to a new generation.”
  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    495·
    1 year ago

    He is stepping aside and letting his VP, who has very notably not supported Israel, take the lead. Can you shut your piehole for a second? You got what you wanted, “Genocide Joe” is no more.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      620·
      1 year ago

      She’s light years better than Biden.

      But she still takes AIPAC money, and spoke at their conference 7 years ago after they helped get her senate seat

      https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/362782/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-palestine-biden-netanyahu

      But we literally just saw public criticism work, why are you so quick to say we have to stop?

      We can’t just show up once every four years and vote. We need constant pressure on politicians for them to do the right thing

      Because there’s constant pressure on them to do the wrong thing, and that almost always comes with “donations”.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        153·
        1 year ago

        Stop.

        She hasn’t been afforded the chance in the current context to actually express her true stance. I expect it to be much more tepid towards Israel than Biden’s, but at the same time, we are trying to prevent a fascist takeover here, and it is a very fucking bad idea to piss off AIPAC in that context, as infuriating as that is to admit. She’s got to walk a tightrope to win back Arab-Americans that Biden foolishly pushed away, but at the same time can’t afford to have AIPAC putting all hands on deck to try to kill her campaign.

        TL;DR: foreign influence organizations both covert and overt - including, but not limited to, AIPAC - need to be cracked down on aggressively, but I really don’t see that happening until after the election at the very least. And even then, the odds are low, because they’ll all just bribe tons of politicians and offer quid pro quos lobby against any such laws. Its a huge problem and it’s proven to be infuriatingly intractable for AGES.