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Hillary Clinton interviews be like

FortuneCookie posted...

Are you one of those types who thinks Israeli citizens are culpable for what their government does?

I won't excuse any attack on Israeli civilians, but isn't the one catchphrase all of Israel's allies love is that it's the only democracy in the Middle East?

Who is TC the alt of?

Leftism is distinct from collectivism and the average online leftist would much prefer to be called an anarchist than a tankie

bluezero posted...

I guess let the fascist dictator in? Is that the point of this topic?

This topic is reporting a current event on the board Current Events and ends with my own commentary that Biden is fumbling public perception of this issue. When you see such a headline in your own browsing, do you think the reporters at WaPo and NYT and NBC are MAGAs and that's the point of their articles?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/displeasure-bidens-handling-hamas-israel-war-was-display-closed-door-w-rcna146244

WASHINGTON Just five minutes into a meeting with President Joe Biden, a Palestinian American doctor who has treated gravely injured patients in Gaza couldnt bear to stay, so he left.

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who specializes in emergency medicine, recalled getting emotional when talking about the many Palestinians he cared for, describing the scale of death in the six months since the war began.

The decision to leave was a personal one, he told NBC News in a phone interview, explaining he wanted to show the White House that it was important to recognize the pain and the mourning that my community was in.

Ahmad stressed that he wanted to let the administration feel the way that we felt this past six months and kind of get up and walk away from them.

He was one of only six Muslim American community leaders who attended a small meeting on Tuesday with Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and senior administration officials at the White House.

Many others who had been invited to attend declined, according to multiple sources familiar with the outreach, underscoring the deepening tensions between the administration and the Muslim and Arab American communities over the presidents support of Israel in its bombardment of Gaza. More than 30,000 people have died, according to health officials, since Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7 and the group is still holding more than 100 hostages captive.

Another doctor who attended was taken aback when she showed Biden prints of photos of malnourished children and women in Gaza to which Biden responded that he had seen those images before. The problem, the doctor said, was that she had printed the photos from her own iPhone.

"This speaks volumes to the dismissive nature of the administration when it comes to strong-willed action towards a permanent cease-fire or, at a bare minimum, a red line on the invasion of Rafah," Dr. Nahreen H. Ahmed told NBC News.

Before leaving the meeting early, Ahmad handed a letter to the president from an 8-year-old orphan in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza.

There is an incredible amount of urgency around this, Ahmad said, expressing deep skepticism that Israels military campaign can be done in a sophisticated or tactical way that doesnt put innocent civilians at risk.

During the 90-minute meeting, which took place behind closed doors, Biden told attendees that he will not call for a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas until all the remaining hostages are released, according to two people familiar with his comments.

Biden said, according to one of the attendees, that if Israel tries to obstruct the ability to bring aid into Gaza, the U.S. will push back and advocate for more resources to be brought into the region.

Last Thursday, the United Nations highest court ordered Israel to open more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza after reports that the Israeli government was blocking lifesaving supplies from reaching the devastated enclave. Israeli officials have repeatedly denied obstructing aid from entering Gaza, and instead blame the U.N. for acute shortages of lifesaving supplies in the strip particularly the north.

The president did not specify what the U.S. would do to ensure aid can be safely delivered, the attendee said.

Ahmad, the doctor who left the meeting, said he plans to go back to Gaza soon and is legitimately concerned that I may be killed in the process.

If that happened, he said, its hard to think it could happen from a 2,000-pound bomb that the U.S. gave to Israel.

That my government would have had a hand in that, I just hate that, he said. Thats kind of the thoughts that are crossing my mind.

Biden has a growing image problem in terms of the gap between his empathy for Israelis and his empathy for Palestinians.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/obama-bill-clinton-join-biden-raise-25-million-event-with-queen-latifah-lizzo-2024-03-28/

NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, headlined a star-studded fundraiser with former President Bill Clinton on Thursday, offering a robust defense of the White House's handling of the Gaza crisis as protesters interrupted the event.

Biden, who traveled with Obama on Air Force One to New York, took part in a discussion with Clinton moderated by "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert at the iconic Radio City Music Hall in front of thousands of guests. Organizers say the event raised more than $25 million for Biden's U.S. reelection campaign.

But the fundraiser was punctuated by several protests inside the massive auditorium, with attendees rising at several different moments to shout over the discussion, referencing Biden's backing of Israel in the Hamas war that has killed more than 30,000 people in Gaza.
"Shame on you, Joe Biden!" one yelled.

Obama and Clinton offered a presidential perspective of the Gaza crisis that stressed the political realities of being in the White House. A president needs to be able to support Israel at the same time as fighting for Palestinians to have more access to food, medical supplies and a future state, they said.

"It's a lonely seat," Obama said. One of the realities of the presidency is that the world has a lot of joy and beauty, but it also has a lot of tragedy and cruelty."

People "understandably, oftentimes, want to feel a certain purity in terms of how those decisions are made," he said. "But a president doesn't have that luxury."

When a protestor inside the theater interrupted Obama, the former president snapped back: You cant just talk and not listen...Thats what the other side does."

Before the event, the three leaders' motorcade passed hundreds of protesters demonstrating against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza, another sign that some young voters and other progressives who voted for Biden in 2020 are furious about his staunch backing of Israel in its response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

The event closed with each of the men donning aviator sunglasses, Bidens trademark.

Dark Brandon is real, Biden bellowed, referencing a meme about himself.

Do you agree with Obama that decisions in the White House cannot be made with "a certain purity", in regards to how the US arms Israel and claims that Israel meets its burden in terms of how much humanitarian aid they allow to go into Gaza?

I've seen this sentiment expressed before, and I think the idea is basically that the things that make Biden weakest as a candidate in the public conscious, like his age, are the only things Trump isn't willing to attack him about. Since Trump is so embarrassed about his own age and mental competency.

Do you agree?

This thing TC does where they dump entire pages of random tweet reply chains, sometimes even in other peoples topics, is outright pathological

https://youtu.be/kCNByQ6WopM

Context:
https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ

James Somerton stole work from queer authors for years while mangling it all and got tons of money from Patreon. This is the second or third time he has tested the water with a response video

Bump

Starks posted...

Last generation drugs.

Zepbound/Mounjaro are more effective.

Didnt know about this, interesting that theyre already being improved so quickly

Are these drugs a net positive or negative? They seem to give many people real results even after ceasing usage, but many people are skeptical of if there could be long term health problems or if its a cop out to use.