WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel’s offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November’s election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president’s policy on the war.
The White House optimism on the issue, which is shared by many in the Biden campaign, runs contrary to dire warnings from some Democratic strategists and youth organizers who warn misjudging the situation could cost Biden votes in a tight race with Republican rival Donald Trump.
Jesus tapdancing christ his advisors are so high on their own farts if they really believe that.
College kids have crappy turnout. This is very well documented.
So you won’t be blaming them if Trump wins? If they’re insignificant enough to ignore, they’re too insignificant to blame.
I’ll absolutely be blaming them if the margin is close enough to make a difference. Because that is how it works. The votes are needed until they aren’t needed and we won’t know what’s needed until someone is elected.
You shouldn’t need this explained to you.
I will say however, that like previous election years- all of you anti-[whoever is the democratic candidate] folk will predictably disappear the moment the election is called.
I wonder why that is….
No, I would blame Biden for being a complete fucking ass about the whole Palestinian Genocide.
There’s a right side and a wrong side here. To be incredibly blunt: the fact that Jewish people endured the Holocaust does not give Israel carte blanche to perpetrate their own genocide. And that puts aside the fact that Israel is NOT, in fact, synonymous with Jewish people. There are a hell of a lot of Jews (including Israeli civilians) who vehemently object to what’s happening.
This is what “blue no matter who” gets us.
Politicians who don’t care what we want because they’re entitled to our votes as long as they’re not as bad as Republicans.
Right now Schumer and Biden are trying to pass a “border bill” that would make some of the things we gave Trump shit for legal. Like, Biden really wanted to codify that any sitting president can “shit down the border” and prevent any asylum seekers from entering.
A child could see that if that passes, republicans will always say it needs done in office. Millions of people will be hurt by it, but it gives moderate Dems another knife to Dem voters throats:
Vote for me, or republicans will do that thing I just passed a law to let them do!
And there’s no guarantee the Dem won’t do it anyways.
It’s really like watching a real life Brewster’s millions, Biden keeps doing shit that’s going to cost him the election, but apparently even listening to someone 40 years younger or even slightly to the left isn’t something Biden can handle.
He only compromised with Republicans, and then gives them everything they want.
If protests don’t work to change Biden’s mind, what will?
What other options do voters have?
No… this is what a rigged primary system gets us.
Voting for Republicans at this point - or voting third party - is voting for fascism. There is precisely zero chance that Trump will handle the Gaza Genocide better than Biden will. If Trump wins, I would expect him to order a few B-52 squadrons to carpet bomb Gaza “to help Israel”, and then he’d also probably do the same to the West Bank just because he thinks it’d make him look like a big boy.