Netanyahu and Biden Speak
A Grim Day in Washington, DC, and Across the World
I was wrong about Congress and its subservience to Bibi Netanyahu. I had set the over/under at 50 for the number of ovations he would receive, and 25 as the number of standing ovations. Apparently, he received 58 standing ovations in his address to Congress yesterday. Though not every member of Congress joined the orgy.
With respect to what Netanyahu said, Caitlin Johnstone covers it well. I’m less interested in what he said than what the orgy of applause says about America. Stormy applause for a foreign leader engaged in a genocide in Gaza: you can draw your own conclusions here. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the power of AIPAC and similar Zionist lobbies.
At 8:00PM EST, my wife and I tuned in to President Biden’s first speech since his surprise withdrawal by tweet from the 2024 campaign. I sure wish politicians could speak simply, clearly, and sincerely. How about a short speech like this?
My fellow Americans, thank you for your confidence in me, thank you for allowing me to serve for more than fifty years, and thank you for your patience as I recovered from COVID. After much reflection, I’ve decided I’m simply too old, too compromised, to be president after my current term ends in January 2025. In my stead, I heartily endorse my vice president and running mate, Kamala Harris. I have complete confidence in her. With that said, I want to thank everyone watching, here and around the world, for the best wishes you’ve shared with me. I will continue to work tirelessly for peace and for the betterment of the human condition everywhere, not forgetting the health of our environment as well. Thank you all again, and good night.
A person can dream, right?
Instead, Biden plodded through a speech that lasted about fifteen minutes but which seemed much longer. I was a bit surprised at how long it took him to mention Kamala Harris by name. There were the usual blessings extended to America and the troops, and the usual rhetoric that nothing is impossible to America and Americans, though I’m not sure of that. High-speed rail seems impossible, to cite one example.
All in all, the Congressional orgy for Bibi together with Biden’s sad withdrawal speech made for a very grim day in Washington, D.C. and indeed across the globe. For what happens here in America doesn’t stay here. It ripples to places like Gaza, Russia, China, powerfully and unpredictably.
As I said, yesterday was grim, and the prospect of a Trump/Harris race makes the future even grimmer for meaningful change toward a less militaristic and more peaceful world.
Fifty-eight standing ovations by an AIPAC-purchased Congress for a confirmed genocidal criminal monster? As he mocked U.S. citizens who have protested his country's genocide in Gaza, he received sustained cheers. Many Democrats did not participate, but on the Republican side - only Thomas Massie refused to attend.
Why is it that the Democrats who continually claim they can do nothing in legislation to benefit US citizens because of the Senate Parliamentarian were able to engineer a whispered coup that ousted a sitting President (no matter his condition), appoint his dunderheaded VP as the new savior of democracy all within about 48 hours?
Why is it that neither party has or will confront the debt that will crush the US economy and bring the empire to a cliff that over which it will plunge?
How is it that the MSM has now taken the near-assassination of a former US President off the "front page" and replaced it with Kamala Hysteria, which can be assumed will be wall to wall coverage for the next three months?
Someone please tell me why the Hell it matters who is elected President in November?
I don't say this lightly, but what crossed my mind was that those standing with ovations could have been good Germans applauding the ongoing extermination of those that the man they were applauding had called animals and worse. But in this case those who stood KNEW far more exactly what their government continues to enable and still their hearts and souls are cold, cold, cold.