This article is literally about one of Biden’s efforts to rein in the violence. He did try. Now go ahead and excuse Trump freeing up 2,000-pound bombs for Israel, and how that’s better for Palestine than it would be if Harris had won. Good luck.

I can’t find the will to make a leopards/faces joke about this. This is exactly what we told people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because of “gEnOcIdE jOe” bullshit.

Biden made real efforts to prevent the Israeli government from committing genocide. They failed, but they tried. Now we’ve got an absolute monster in charge who is going to outright empower the genocide.

If you voted for Trump, voted for a third party, or refused to vote… FUCK YOU. You own this.

Okay, fair.

Yes, you are absolutely engaged in them, which is understandable as you don’t want to shoulder the burden of understanding the role of people who voted like you (or didn’t vote) in Trump’s ascension.

Like I said: Trump.

Again, two-party system. Your implicit vote for Trump didn’t count quite as much as an explicit one would, but you still put your weight behind him.

It’ll make the christian evangelicals in his base happy. They want a dominant Israel so that Jesus will come back.

Anarchists. That explains it.

You voted for Trump.

You could have voted for Harris, worked hard to convince others to vote for Harris (who instead chose not to vote), and done everything else in your power to prevent Trump from coming into power. You didn’t. So you voted for Trump. That’s the reality of a two-party system.

So you voted for Trump.

They did. You just don’t know about it because it was drowned out by the constant noise from the right about how Trump could fix it, and the constant noise from (Russia masquerading as) the left about how the only acceptable solution was completely stopping all support for Israel.

Do you know how to thread this particular needle? Cut off all arms to Israel (the completely unrealistic pretend-solution supposedly from the left) and you get opportunistic invasions and an entire region plunged into war. Give Netanyahu a blank check (as Trump will do) and you get an empowered and expansionist Israel that will entirely wipe out Palestinians and take over the entire territory… which will likely also lead to broader regional conflict.

Which option do you choose? Biden tried to choose neither. He tried diplomacy to get Netanyahu to back down and respect human rights, without cutting off Israel’s defense. The fact that it didn’t work - because Netanyahu is a corrupt madman - doesn’t mean he didn’t try.

That might even be a tough sell to this SCOTUS. It’s going to be awfully hard to argue that people physically present in the United States aren’t subject to its laws.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. It means good luck getting a passport or any other federal documentation with your actual gender on it. It means drugs and medical treatments that are approved at the federal level for gender transition won’t be available anymore. It means if you live in a state that isn’t friendly to trans people, you are going to suffer.

So it means trans people are fucked. How do you not know this?!?

And it’s not like the issue with Palestine is better under Trump. We had the choice between a candidate who would at least try to put pressure on Netanyahu… and one who will happily do whatever is asked of him by extreme evangelical Christians who believe Israel needs to be dominant in the Middle East so Jesus will come back.

How the fuck does anyone conclude that the Democrat is bad in comparison to that?

My son. He’s a transman. Trump declared him legally a woman yesterday.

And it isn’t even actually ideologically pure, since the Republicans are 1000% worse on Israel and Palestine.

I’m sure your ideological purity is a great comfort to my son who has just been legally declared a woman.

Don’t worry. According to Russians ideological purists, this outcome is better for my trans son than if Kamala Harris had won.

Now if you’ll pardon me, I have to get back to working on moving my family out of this shit-hole country.

Bite me. I’m no fucking centrist. And maybe if you’d actually read my comment, you’d understand why trans issues are important enough for me to mention.

Edit: In light of this instant and predictable attack on my kids, I cordially invite anyone who is okay with Trump in office to “teach Democrats a lesson” to fuck themselves sideways with a pineapple.

If the electorate doesn’t know a party’s platform, that’s the party’s problem. It’s literally their job to scream it from the rooftops.

They did. Harris campaigned constantly, and contrary to the constant and incessant media narrative, she went into plenty of specifics.

It was all drowned out by Trump noise, and the media was 100% complicit.

And all I saw was democrats, like motherfucking Henry Cuellar, throwing the LGBTQ under the bus. Especially trans people.

Yes, Cuellar is an asshole, no argument there. But he was by no means the only Democrat on the campaign trail. Again, the media wouldn’t fucking give Democrats the time of day, because the 24-hour Trump clown show got the ratings.

We also shouldn’t dismiss the problem of sexism, some of it internalized. Back in 2008, I had the misfortune of meeting a woman who wasn’t sure who to vote for. She wanted to vote for McCain at the time, but was hesitant because she didn’t want a woman to be vice-president. (The fact that Sarah Palin was immensely unqualified didn’t matter, but the fact she had a vagina did.) That attitude is still a lot more common than people who live in largely progressive areas realize.