“Throw someone under the bus” implies the other person going under the bus is bad for them and you’re doing it so they receive the harm instead of you. If someone says “hey, who shit in my flower bed” and you blame your dog, the dog isn’t going to suffer any consequences. I think Alito’s wife probably thinks he’s outplayed the haters, not that he’s harmed her to save himself, because nothing at all will happen to her.

It’s easy to do that when she will suffer no consequences whatsoever for it. He’s not sacrificing her to save himself, he’s using a convenient excuse whereby the member of the household who has some nominal expectation of impartiality and civic support keeps their hands clean because their spouse has apparently have zero implications for their impartiality or ethics (see Thomas, Ginni).

How is this comment relevant to anything that’s been said anywhere here? No one has crucified Biden anywhere in this comment thread.

I swear people are just running on scripts here and aren’t reading the comments to figure out if their script is applicable. First “Biden can’t do anything, it’s all Congress” when Biden wasn’t even being told to do anything and he currently IS doing something, then “what’s the alternative, don’t be critical of Biden” when again, no one has been critical of Biden.

All good things are being done in secret for some reason, but they’re happy to be very publicly bad.

He still banned the strike. They didn’t get to use their own power to demand the terms they wanted, they had to accept what the outside negotiators were willing and able to get for them.

I’m not disagreeing with the article’s premise, Biden is the most pro-labor president in a long time, but this gaslighting just makes Democrats look deceptive.

Edit: See @rockSlayer@lemmy.world’s response for a great way to respond to this. You don’t need to pretend his shit doesn’t stink, acknowledge it and then talk about the good stuff.

What exactly do you think is the difference here? They used US weapons on civilians and now won’t supply more for some time because this violation means they’re likely to be used on civilians again.

Whatever you think you’re doing here is not helpful to Biden. You’re preemptively arguing that Biden’s current pause isn’t actually something he can do and implying it will fail because the rules say only Congress can make decisions. Neither of which is true. You seem like you’re just taking guesses about how things work rather than having any concrete knowledge to back up your declarative statements about what’s possible (most arms laws are simply money-pots to be managed by the executive in consultation with our ally). The executive has incredibly broad powers to stop arms transfers based on whether they’re for “legitimate self-defense” (not defined), which is why Republicans are trying to take that ability away.

I never said this was a thing Biden alone needed to do, so I’m not sure why you’re acting like I did.

That said, there are lots of steps along the way where an administration can hold or reject transfers. We have various requirements and regulations and choices that reside in the executive well after “Congress approves X funding”. The whole reason this article even exists is because Biden put a stop to a transfer that had already been “approved” by Congress years ago. State Department approval also means a possible result is “State Department rejection”.

That was surprisingly informative for a Politico article.

Also, I feel like even if Israel stops doing genocide, withdraws from Gaza, and pays reconstruction and reparations (admittedly a fantasy of restitutive action), they should still be on big bomb timeout for a while. They’ve shown they can’t be trusted with their use.

And with one ill-conceived stunt the media is now leading with the fluff rather than the purpose of his visit and the critical issues at play.

Practically any other writer in their opinion section would have paired this title with something like “wokeness on campus is the reason a 59 year old suburban business owner wearing a MAGA hat told me he isn’t voting for Joe Biden” or “we should all put aside the rancor and rally behind our new president, whoever it is, so they can make America great again”. He is very much the exception to the NYT Opinion rule.

Jamelle Bouie, basically the only good opinion writer at the NYT in a sea of festering shit materially contributing to the problems in our society.

I hadn’t heard about this until it was linked in this article. Wow. And I’m surprised Charlemagne set it up and encouraged it. I’d always gotten the impression he was sort of a centrist shithead.

Activist Olayemi Olurin channeled a whole city’s frustration to grill the mayor on morning radio.

other Israelis worry their leaders are losing the vital war for global support.

The time to worry about that was a while back, before other western countries talked about arms restrictions and their primary supporter and supplier publicly told them no. They were riding the high of Biden sticking with them as other sentiment turned rather than recognizing they were pushing that relationship to the breaking point.

Holy fuck man, that’s not what you said! I quoted the claim I was correcting, I was very specific, then requoted it so you’d recognize your own words. Jesus the forum brain.

You literally didn’t read anything I wrote. Your chart is for a different thing than you claimed. You claimed most Americans support or don’t care, I gave you two polls, one where that exact question was asked and it was just flat out untrue (which you ignored completely), and a second one to demonstrate that even in more favorable splits it was only true if you care what Republicans think. You apparently weren’t put off by a direct poll answering the direct question you asked and figured digging into a related question in the poll that at least gave you a shot at sticking to your wrong statement was a totally important thing to do.

“Do you support the president’s actions” is different than “do you approve of Israel in the conflict” with a whole lot of partisan defaulting and nothing in your wrong statement was about the president or about aid, not to mention “not sure” being an entirely different thing than “I don’t care”. This follow up trying to pretend people who think Israel is “going to far” isn’t the same as not supporting Israel in the conflict is just pathetic. Just fucking accept you were wrong and move on with your life rather than dedicating yourself to these sad follow-ups.

This could have been a one line “oh, I guess it’s changed from when I last looked”. Or even nothing at all.

I can’t follow the ones and the others you’re intending or make sense of the point you’re trying to make.

Biden reliably brought up antisemitism whenever talking about protests. This wasn’t Biden overestimating whether the public understood that anti-Zionism is different from anti-semitism. He did it on purpose because he wanted to smear them, because the protests are effectively against his actions (even though their short-term target was their schools) and he wanted the general public to think they’re illegitimate and a valid target for administration and police crackdowns. If he wanted to draw a clean distinction between criticism of Israel and hate against Jews, he would have.

I literally quoted your words right there: “Most Americans are either in support or ambivalent towards Israel in this conflict.” Solid attempt at moving the goalposts though.

What a photo. A guy clad head to toe in black squared up with a club in front of the ruins of a protest, the only color in his uniform a big gold star and an American flag.

Why do they have flags on their uniform? Is someone going to mistake which country they’re in? Are they soldiers at war? Bringing righteous patriotism into a career that mostly attacks US citizens is a really chilling idea.

Cops don’t have any direct association with America as a whole. They’re a civilian organization employed and directed by local officials. I believe those are California Highway Patrol officers. If they absolutely have to wear a flag, they can have a bear.

If Biden wasn’t trying to imply that the protesters were doing the antisemitism, why did he bring it up every time he talked about the protesters? You don’t muddy concepts like that at that level by accident.

Well, cops have beaten the shit out of a lot of Jewish students, so there definitely have been attacks on Jewish people. Don’t think that’s what Biden was referencing though.