the reason #Biden continues to fund and arm #Netanyahu 's genocide in #Gaza and Bombing / Occupation of #Lebanon is because he's a corporate puppet and companies like #Raytheon#Google and #Amazon are making a fuck ton of money making arms and services for Israel to commit genocide. Along with him being a racist islamohobe of course, but the structure of the US corporate state incentivizes genocide because it's extremely profitable.
#Biden’s appearance Thurs indicates how deeply the federal govt wants to get their messaging in front of the deluge of #misinformation that started spreading in the wake of #Hurricane#Helene & proliferates after Hurricane #Milton this week. It’s the 3rd time #POTUS has addressed the country about the storm in roughly 24hrs—each time, making sure to directly denounce the spreading of #lies while calling out one of the most prominent promoters of storm-related #disinformation, #Trump, by name.
Asked by reporters after his remarks at the White House whether he had spoken w/ #Trump, #Biden responded indignantly: “Are you kidding me?”
He then looked at the camera w/a message directly for his predecessor: “Mr. President Trump — former President Trump — get a life, man. Help these people.”
President Joe Biden said Thurs that the federal government is rushing to help those affected by #Hurricane Milton — & had a stark message for his predecessor, who has been spreading #lies about the federal response.
“Those who engage in such #lies are undermining confidence in the rescue & recovery work that’s ongoing,” #Biden said. “These lies are also harmful to those who most need help. Lives are on the line, people are in desperate situations — have the decency to tell them the truth.”
And asked again as he left the room whether he planned to speak w/ #Trump, #Biden responded simply: “No.”
“the attacks have caused ecocide by damaging agricultural lands, #water resources, ecosystems, and #biodiversity.
The term ecocide, used as an abbreviation for ecological destruction, is defined … as ‘the destruction and devastation of the #environment at any cost’ ….
…Acc/to Woodward, one of #Trump’s #NationalSecurity advisers, Keith Kellogg, secretly met w/ #Netanyahu [!!] during a trip to #Israel earlier this year. Upon his return, Kellogg publicly circulated a memo effectively blaming #Biden for the #Hamas-led attack on Israel… At the time, Biden advisers were pushing Israel’s leaders to agree to a #ceasefire deal…to head off an invasion of #Rafah, in… #Gaza Strip. [outrageous a fmr president would actively undermine the US during diplomatic negotiations]
The book is Woodward’s 4th since #Trump’s upset victory in 2016. It focuses principally on the twin wars consuming #Biden’s #NationalSecurity team — #Russia’s all-out #war in #Ukraine, which began in Feb 2022, & #Israel’s campaign against #Hamas & other #Iran-backed proxies since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, 2023. The book also examines the long shadow cast by Trump over the foreign conflicts of the past 4 yrs, & over the bitter #USpol environment in which they have unfolded.
…Woodward, who has chronicled the successes & failures of US presidents for 50 yrs, concludes that #TrumpIsUnfit for office while President Joe #Biden & his team, mistakes notwithstanding, exhibited “steady & purposeful leadership.” Vice President #KamalaHarris, the Democratic presidential nominee, makes several appearances in the narrative, w/ Woodward presenting her as a shrewd & loyal No. 2 to Biden but not an influential voice in his admin’s foreign policy.
“‘That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad fucking guy!’ Biden declared privately about the Israeli prime minister to one of his associates in the spring of 2024 as Israel’s war in Gaza intensified”
"Another unsurprising development from the former President. The difference between the statements from Biden and Harris versus Trump could not be more clear."
We heard this tired old refrain from #Biden-#Harris during the entirety of 2024 while the Zionist entity turned the #Gaza strip into a moonscape where famine and disease bloomed and blighted: humanitarian aid is on the way.
We are the United States of America, the mightiest and richest country under the sun, and these MAGAts think we can't fund more than one disaster recovery effort at a time?
Shame on them; they make our country look weak and impotent. Where's their patriotism? Where's their pride?
One of the more far-fetched rumors is that #Helene was an engineered storm to allow corporations to mine regional lithium deposits. Others accuse the #Biden admin of using federal #DisasterFunds to help #migrants in the country illegally, or suggest ofcls are deliberately abandoning bodies in the cleanup.
#Republican#Congress member Marjorie Taylor Greene posted Thurs night: "Yes they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie & say it can't be done."🙄 #VoteBlue#HarrisWalz2024
The memo highlighted a claim by #Trump during a rally this week that #Biden & #Harris had used federal emergency funds "on people that should not be in our country."
"This is FALSE," the memo said. "No disaster relief funding at all was used to support #migrants housing & services. None. At. All."
In response to a request for comment for this article, the #Trump camp repeated the #lies that #FEMA funds had been spent on housing migrants in the country illegally.