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      Biden’s US has done the most for providing aid in Gaza by FAR, they just finished a new pier purely for a safer and more consistent vector for delivering said aid to Gazan people who desperately need it.

      but things are not that simple…

      https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/no-us-pier-aid-un-gaza-two-days-after-truck-incident-2024-05-20/

      Aid deliveries began arriving at a U.S.-built pier on Friday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave. The U.N. agreed to assist in coordinating aid distribution from the floating pier, but has remained adamant that deliveries by land are the best way to combat the crisis. The U.N. said that 10 truckloads of food aid - transported from the pier site by U.N. contractors - were received on Friday at a World Food Programme warehouse in Deir El Balah in Gaza.

      But on Saturday, only five truckloads made it to the warehouse after 11 others were cleaned out by Palestinians during the journey through an area that a U.N. official said has been hard to access with humanitarian aid. “They’ve not seen trucks for a while,” a U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters. “They just basically mounted on the trucks and helped themselves to some of the food parcels.” The U.N. did not receive any aid from the pier on Sunday or Monday. “We need to make sure that the necessary security and logistical arrangements are in place before we proceed,” said the U.N. official.

      Aid offloaded at the pier comes via a maritime corridor from Cyprus, where it is first inspected by Israel. The pier operation is estimated to cost $320 million and involve 1,000 U.S. service members. U.S. officials have said the pier would initially handle 90 trucks a day, but that number could go to 150 trucks. The U.N. has said at least 500 trucks a day are needed to enter Gaza.

      What is Biden supposed to do here?

      The U.N. agreed to assist in coordinating aid distribution from the floating pier, but has remained adamant that deliveries by land are the best way to combat the crisis.

      By land, from the other side, we have israeli zionist bastards blocking aid into Gaza:

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-aid-west-bank-settlers-united-nations/

      Right-wing Israeli protesters blocked trucks carrying food supplies that were headed into Gaza on Monday in the latest disruption to humanitarian relief for the war-torn Palestinian territory. The trucks were attacked by an Israel group called “Tsav 9” at the Tarqumiya checkpoint, a border crossing from the Israeli-occupied West Bank into Israel, west of the city of Hebron.

      “Most of them were settlers. They also live there, they are settlers in the settlements in the area,” she said. “The common theme among all of them is that they are from the right wing Zionist groups. The religious nationalist stream, as we call it.”

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    If they got somebody clever, it could help mitigate damage (e.g. pointing out Trump’s own worse record, the fact that the GoP basically plans to erase democracy if they win, how some things people wanted are constantly being blocked by the GoP)

    Sure as hell won’t help regain lost votes, though

    To do that, Biden needs to stop supporting the genocide, or if unable to, make it clear exactly why he is unable to

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      I mean it worked in 2020. Biden started the campaign with effectively a Republican slate of policy positions. Until the ratfucking on Sunday before super Tuesday, Bernie was running away with it.

      To get Bernie’s voters, Biden basically did a lift and shift of Bernie’s entire policy platform. This got him the support of Bernie’s massive grassroots movement, and is what won the election (and why we’ve seen such a progressive slate of domestic policies from Biden). At that time, Biden learned from the lesson that Hillary didn’t: You can’t shame voters into supporting you; you have to prioritize their issues.

      Biden can do the same now. Its actually pretty easy to do so. He can come out strongly and say something like “While we still support our ally Israel, this genocide is wrong, and the extermination of a people is never an acceptable answer. Never again means never again, for any community”

      And like you said, he can also just explain exactly why he is unable to do certain things. He can can just send some very strong signals.

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        Biden won in 2020 because Trump absolutely botched the national pandemic response. Now Biden is dealing with a recession on all but name, meteoric inflation, a war in Europe, and a genocide in Gaza. He obviously can’t do much for the economy, but he has the deck stacked against him and is going to need the youth and muslim votes if he hopes to win in November. All he has really done for young voters is a few waves of student loan forgiveness. Nothing he does will win over “moderate” Republicans, so he needs to rally support from young voters.

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          He’s wiped student loan debt for around 4.75 million people. Sounds like a lot but then you realize there’s 45,000,000 with student loan debt and $1,750,000,000,000 total student loan debt.

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            Sounds like a lot but then you realize there’s 45,000,000 with student loan debt and $1,750,000,000,000 total student loan debt.

            what’s your goddamn point?? Take that shit up with the fascist Rs, how are you holding that against Biden “oh it’s not actually that much” jesus christ.

            Are you seriously holding the chaotic anti-progress bullshit brought by the traitorous do-nothing Rs against Biden???

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              When will Dems stop blaming Republicans for all their shortcomings and “it’s too hard” excuses and actually fight back? Republicans get almost anything they want.

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            So why doesn’t he force Israel to allow the aid deliveries? Biden is the only person on earth that can stop the killing and all he has to do is withdraw his support from Bibi. Instead he makes hollow gestures and lets Israel undermine those gestures.

            Many people are very uncomfortable with giving any amount of support to genocide. Couple that with an already apathetic voting population who was been told “this is the most important election of yoir life” every other year for the past 8 years, they would rather just stay home. Blame leftists who want to end the genocide in Gaza all you want, but at the end of the day, the Democrats have been botching their voter outreach.

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          I believe this is referring to the famous Sunday meeting with all of the centrist candidates and former president Obama. This happened right after Bernie won the South Carolina primary.

          As a result of that meeting, buttigieg dropped out and endorsed biden (He got Secretary of Transportation)

          Klobuchar also dropped out and endorsed Biden. (She got Chairman of the Rules Committee)

          Warren, also at the meeting, stayed in the race to split the left-leaning vote.

          This backroom meeting was the turning point for the primaries. Previous to this meeting, Bernie had a solid lead. Afterwards, it was all Biden.

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        The problem with Biden saying he can’t do things is that Trump will just come out the next day and say, “this problem would be solved on day one of my presidency.”

        Would it be true? Absolutely not. Would it matter? Absolutely not.

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      Biden isn’t going to win by converting Trump voters. Anybody who still thinks Trump is the best choice for America is not going to change their mind at this point. They are lost causes.

      Biden is going to win by breaking apathy and making people realize that he is incredibly limited (by the Republican-led House) on what he can do in Israel. The genocide is popular with both leading parties. It sucks. Get over it.

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      complains campaign isn’t catering to them

      campaign works to accommodate younger demographics in multiple ways

      lItErAlLy DeSpErAtE

      Your account is full of comments saying things like

      How is abortion helping society? Can’t afford a baby? Don’t have intercourses. Masturbate, porn, tantra, condoms, pill contraceptives

      Because israel controls wikipedia. Wake up sheeples. They say it clearly.

      I did not believe in the ties Q=Trump. That guy is too much an Israel licker to being a legit adversary of the evil of this world.

      Someone tell Brandon that the golden shower tape does not exist. It got confirmed through their own investigation where its stated that it was earsay and not an actual footage.

      The only desperate moron here is YOU. I’m shocked you manage to fucking breathe let alone type out this braindead bullshit. Get help.

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    How do you do fellow kids?

    I need you to picture the meme, please. Errr… I still don’t know how to put pics in the comments. Sooo…

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    Hey, unpaid intern who is going to run Biden’s meme campaign, here’s a picture if you want to sneak a meme about our grandmas being squirters.!

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    I am a career memesmith, just like my father, and his father before him. In fact, I still have one of grandpappys hand-carved memes from when he was a young shitposter. Back in thise days, you used to have to place your memes in store front windows if you wanted anyone to see them.

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    so far they have tried AI generated blondes saying they will vote for Trump. Guess that did not work.