Biden Isn't Your Goddamn Dartboard

 

🚨 BREAKING President Biden convened a call this afternoon with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, President Macron of France, Chancellor Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, and Prime Minister Sunak of the United Kingdom regarding the ongoing conflict between Israel… pic.twitter.com/4NRHaYDkJE

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) October 22, 2023

This week, I unfollowed a lot of people on social media for unloading on President Biden for shit that wasn't exactly his call. The US has been in Israel's corner since Biden was in short pants. He had to go to Israel and embrace Netanyahu--not man to man, but as one world leader to another under a brutal circumstance, because he's trying to hold back a more brutal and fucked up outcome. 

Young people are taking to the streets calling for a ceasefire worldwide and in Israel, a major demonstration for Netanyahu to resign just now (and also earlier this year, and last year, and jn 2021...) tells the tale: maybe there is some reasoning behind a military operation to rout out all of Hamas for Netanyahu, but it will not be a successful mission at saving Israeli lives. It's like a trap, Hezbollah and other players are looking for the go sign. They want the US sucked in, too.

How do I know? How the hell does anyone know? Reading the tealeaves. The Hamas attacks were calculated to invite an extreme response. Netanyahu and IDF intelligence got caught sleeping on a two year old plot, when his "brand" was always that the harsh treatment of Palestinians that made negotiations impossible were to "keep people safe." 

Safety is a lie. 

Palestinians under the onslaught of Israeli wrath aren't safe. But someone is negotiating for them to receive aid and forestalling a bloody ground war, someone is publicly saying Israel needs to observe the laws of war--

Biden. As with Trunp's dumb Afghanistan withdrawal deal that never included the then-Afghan government, or the inevitable full-scale invasion of Ukraine after dicking around the edges since 2014, Biden has had to pull miracles out of butt-mud and has been spinning shit into satin whenever possible.

And some activists are saying they aren't that into him because he isn't serving TikTok videos about outrage. Why isn't he saying what the activists want him to say exactly how they want him to say it? 

Because diplomacy is diplomatic and his mouth is always on the clock? That he needs to prepare the soil to plant fucking clues? Because the Israeli government intelligence saw beheaded, tortured and burnt families and are deeply understandably fucked up over it?  

You know who wants to paint this man as incompetent and not pulling his weight? Yeah, Republicans, and also people with no use for democracy, peace, reason, or the goddamn American way. Russia. Iran. The Green Party. You know,

So RNC and Benny Johnson on Twitter alike noticed Biden came home to Delaware where he does go to church of a weekend--after a week where he once against visited an active war zone and on a day when he did more on the phone than his predecessor in office could do face to face. Ever.

I'm pissed he isn't getting that recognition because people seem to want more from him than anyone could responsibly do. And of course Republicans are just going to be Republicans, I guess.  But this man is working for a resolution that can be lived with and no, he isn't responsible for the deaths. On either side And I am deeply aggravated at the political priors of anyone what wants to lay them at his feet. 

Figure out who really deserves your ire. Biden isn't it.