You Can't Just Blog and Not Listen

The Biden event at Radio City Music Hall was one of those opportunities to be disappointed by Obama. Imagine saying "You can't just talk and not listen." FFS, he ought to know better - but I guess it's just been far too long since his community organizing days.

They are the ones with all the power. Everybody IS listening to them - we have no choice. The things they say have the force of the system behind it. And it's just fucking mind blowing that a Black man who grew up in the 70s and 80s in the US wouldn't have this burned into their souls.

This it the thing that these assholes do not understand. We have listened to them. We hear them loud and clear. We just think they are wrong - factually wrong, morally wrong, and just plain common sense wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. Yes, it is a visceral and intense level of disagreement with them - but it is not one that shuts out their voices.

We know what they are saying. I mean - we are all forced to condemn Hamas and chant "October 7th" a fucking million times before being allowed to speak - we know their points. And we agree with these too! We DO condemn Hamas and we DO recognize the horrific atrocities that were committed on October 7th. But that does not justify what is happening in Gaza right now. It absolutely doesn't. And moreover - these fucking smug sanctimonious fucking genocidal assholes know this. They will not contest this argument - because they know they are wrong on it. So they just fucking ignore it. And then they trot out Obama to tell us we're not listening to them. Just so fucking wrong.

I guess it's a small step of progress - while these monsters still deny that what is happening in Gaza is genocide, at least they have acknowledged that it is a catastrophe. But they are still ignoring the argument that October 7th does not justify genocide - and the do this by treating the two as unrelated. It's possibly an even more offensive argument than before when they just pretended that Gazans weren't dying in the thousands. They now agree that they are dying in the thousands - but this is just some mysterious thing with no cause - something that just manifests out of nowhere - please don't think about it at all.

There was another bit that came out from these glorious presidents - perhaps the next wave of genocide apologia. Biden said something about this being about the very existence of Israel. What a fuckin load of bullshit. No seriously - anyone looking at the Gaza right now that thinks that it is Israel that is in danger - they are fucking racist ass genocidal psychos. That they think this appeal makes even a lick of sense just proves the worst of it. These assholes do not believe that Palestinian lives are worth protecting.