{"id":261972,"date":"2024-05-13T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261972"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:49:28","slug":"genocide-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/genocide-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7 May 2024 <\/em>– Has Lie\u2019n Joe Biden ever done a special nationally televised presidential address on the fascist Christian white nationalist menace stalking the land?<\/p>\n

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Did he do one to denounce and counter the forced motherhood\u00a0Dobbs v Jackson<\/em>\u00a0decision?!<\/p>\n

Did he go on television to talk to the nation about its insane mass shooting and violence epidemics?<\/p>\n

How about one on the climate catastrophe (just the biggest issue of our or any time), which has gotten worse under his administration (during which the US has set new records for the burning of fossil fuels)?<\/p>\n

How about one on the growing risk of nuclear war, which he has significantly escalated with his relentless provocation of Russia and China? Hello?<\/p>\n

Of course not. Nope.<\/p>\n

And yet this very morning the sorry-ass arch-imperialist warmonger Genocide Joe Biden did a nationally televised address in which he falsely painted the wonderful wave of US campus protests against US-backed genocide in Gaza as a \u201cviolent,\u201d \u201cantisemitic,\u201d and \u201cchaos\u201d-causing threat to Jewish and other students, to the educational process, and to the \u201crule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

What a lying sack of shit this longtime blood-soaked imperialist is.<\/p>\n

*\u201dThreatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest,\u201d Biden said. What a disingenuous asshole! The anti-genocide protesters are doing no such thing. The attacks, violence, and intimidation are coming from Zionist thugs (who went after anti-genocide protesters with bear spray and baseball bats at UCLA last night), campus police, and militarized city, county, and state police.<\/p>\n

* \u201cPeople have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked,\u201d Biden said. Wow. Talk about Orwellian reality-inversion! The anti-genocide protesters are not attacking or threatening to attack people trying to walk across campuses. The only people assaulting folks on campuses are Zionist thugs and the gendarmes being called in by university and college presidents and trustees. And nothing could be more educational than joining an on-campus teach-in or discussion of Israel\u2019s long and ongoing US-sponsored war on the Palestinian people, 40,000 of whom have been murdered with largely US-\/Biden-supplied arms over the last seven months.<\/p>\n

* \u201cThere should be no place on any campus for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students.\u201d Good one, Genocide Joe! The anti-genocide protests are NOT antisemitic. They are SO NOT ANTISEMITIC that many of the leading campus activists are Jewish students who say things like \u201cOne Holocaust does not justify another.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Biden is so concerned about \u201cthe rule of law,\u201d why is the open Hitler-channeling January 6 putschist Donald \u201cTake Down the Metal Detectors\u201d Trump not behind bars? Why did Joe and his pathetic attorney general Merrick Garland wait so absurdly long to prosecute this open Hitlerian threat to previously normative bourgeois democracy, civility, and rule of law?<\/p>\n

And now Biden, who says that the US would \u201chave to invent the [occupation and apartheid] state of Israel if didn\u2019t already exist [to serve US imperial strategic interests],\u201d is showing that he values backing the murder of Palestinian women and children more than he values keeping Donald \u201cPoisoning Our Blood\u201d Trump from having a second stint in the world\u2019s most dangerous office. His sick support of Israel\u2019s war crimes will cost him dearly with much of his party\u2019s base next fall.<\/p>\n

The \u201crule of law\u201d? Is that what the Judeo-fascist state of Israel upholds when it buries innocent Palestinian children in rubble, murders aid workers, and bombs hospitals in Gaza \u2014 all this and more terrible to contemplate with US funding and arms and the political and diplomatic backing of the Biden White House?<\/p>\n

Hello?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent,\u201d Genocide Joe said. \u201cThe American people are heard.\u201d That\u2019s yet more bullshit from Lie\u2019n Biden. The USA has a long and ongoing history precisely of \u201csilencing people and squashing dissent\u201d \u2014 a history that is on cold display on numerous US campuses right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American people are heard?\u201d By policymakers and a ruling class that behaves in direct violation of majority US opinion on one issue after another after another after another (there\u2019s a huge empirical literature on this) , including (by the way) the current US-Israel war on Gaza: most Americans want an immediate and permanent cease fire.<\/p>\n

Biden ended his address by telling a reporter that the student protests would have no impact on his policy in Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n

The protests are \u201cheard,\u201d but their basic human call for a ceasefire is rejected despite the fact that it mirrors majority US and world opinion.<\/p>\n

Excuse me if I don\u2019t bow down and kiss Biden\u2019s ass for saying he\u2019s not ready to call out the National Guard to squash opposition to the US-Israeli Crucifixion of Gaza! He is channeling the same neo-McCarthyite false accusations that the Republi-fascists are making against the wonderful and courageous student protesters.<\/p>\n

F\u2019 this guy.<\/p>\n

Watch Lie\u2019n Biden\u2019s address\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0if you can stomach it.<\/p>\n

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Paul Street\u2019s latest book is <\/em>This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America<\/a> (London: Routledge, 2022).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Go to Original – counterpunch.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7 May 2024 – This morning the sorry-ass arch-imperialist warmonger Genocide Joe Biden did a nationally televised address painting the US campus protests against US-backed genocide in Gaza as a \u201cviolent,\u201d \u201cantisemitic,\u201d and \u201cchaos\u201d-causing threat to the educational process and to the \u201crule of law.\u201d F\u2019 this guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2197,609,1199,87,865,88,715,2571,427,1378,2159,3294,70],"class_list":["post-261972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-biden","tag-demonstrations","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-massacre","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-palestine","tag-protests","tag-rogue-states","tag-students-anti-genocide-gaza","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261975,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261972\/revisions\/261975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}