Robert and Heather, thank you both for your informed opinions on Biden and the Israel conflict. I am also confused regarding Biden’s confusing statements and Israels’s horrendous behavior in the war. Wars always kill a vast number of civilians, but a lot of them in this situation could be spared. I remember the slogan “The Whole World Is Watching” and that is certainly the case in this situation. This virtually assures that there never will be a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The surviving children who will soon become fighters will always hate them and certainly never forget the horror raining down on Gaza.
For displaced and oppressed Arabs everywhere this is a Goliath overwhelming David and into the future it will be their “Remember the Alamo” moment to motivate them to continue the fight. In the short term Israel can win the battle but in the long game they lose the legitimacy as a people who have the ability to show any mercy.
Professor Reich, I have to say, I was appalled when I read that the United States was blocking the UN wanting a humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas! Why would we not want that as well? I hurt for those poor men, women, and children caught in the middle of this senseless war!! Especially the children! I am very angry that our country would be the country to try and block that!! Why? The whole world is watching as we, the country of the free and the brave, are saying no to a humanitarian ceasefire!! Why?
I served in Vietnam aboard the Hospital Ship USS Sanctuary (AH-17). The conflict in GAZA reminds me of this service. In Vietnam we used the body count to demonstrate progress. Q: How do you know they're Viet Cong? A: They're Dead. Q. How do you know they're Hamas? A: they're dead. Thank you, Henry Kissinger.
I wrote to my representatives: I write to ask you to try to get the Navy to send over their hospital ships off of GAZA. No tunnels, no command and control centers, no arms supplies or rockets, no excuses. Send the Comfort and the Mercy to the Mediterranean. Stat. For them, it will be good training and an introduction to compassion in the middle of a war. It sends a different message than two aircraft carrier strike groups.
Trumps Gaffs are not Gaffs they are deliberate and calculated to help the Orange Jeasus 😡 avoid/Reduce Jail Time. This kown as the ALZHEIMER DEFNSE. The Orange Jeasus knows he will catch at Least one solid Convection for his attempted coupe ; tax evasion , corruption and corrupt practices.
Hell he is paying $900,000 dollars for a professor to Justify Trumpets history of deliberate misstating the size and value of his assets depending upon which deliberate misrepresentation benefits him the most.
The Orange Jesus is calculating and enacting a plan to “Get Out Of Jail FREE”
As part of His Long Range Plan to avoid the Consquences of his DELIBERATE Criminal Acts. His Next step will be to Use Doctors and Brain Specialists to Fool the Judges to Reduce/Nullify/ Avoid Hard Jail Time. You Can’t Pertend To Be The Savior if The Orange JESUS IS A FELON Serving time in Prison .
From the Orange Makeup 💄 on his Nose to his Flat ( draft avoiding ) Feet, 🦶 The Orange Jesus is laying the Ground Work For his Appeals certain to come in the future post conviction.
The Funds to buy the Medical Experts will come not from Trumpets 🎺 Pockets but from the Campaign Funds he Collected to Stop The Steal…
All The Orange Jesus is Concerned about is himself and His Wallet…
Professor Reich don’t join in with Megan Kelly and start the Drum Beat of Poor Alzheimer impaired Donald Trump…
Can Trumps Presidential Library be located within a Federal or State Prison or will his conviction negate that and His Secret Service Protection for the rest of his life ???
I returned from Vietnam duty to watch "All In the Family" which was not unlike culture shock. Norman Lear produced on entertainment TV, a scathing picture of American bias. It was self deprecating humor aimed at American society and was more effective than psychoanalysis. Thank you, Norman Lear, for your patriotic service to your country in wartime and in peace.
Thank you, Robert & Heather - your friendship is a delight and your klatch brings us all into the immediacy of the work that you are doing every day, tirelessly it seems. Thank you for sharing your sparkle!
Many Republicans are compromised by Russians. That is part of their change regarding Russia. Another is their general acceptance of dictators & abandonment democracy. They have become our version of the Nazis.
I am glad to see you connect Gaza and Ukraine. With all the horror expressed at children dying in Gaza, NO ONE, these days, is talking about the children in Ukraine who are also dying. All attention is turned on Gaza and the children who are there, and on the Israeli government for causing these deaths. I see NO attention to the war in Ukraine, which continues every day, during which children die, rape is used as a weapon of war, homes are destroyed, children are kidnapped and never see their parents again, ships carrying grain bound for markets are destroyed so that many thousands of people are hungry, on and on. The war in Ukraine continues with the same savagery as last year, but with little to no media attention. At the same time that huge amounts of attention, hatred, name-calling are directed to Israel, and to Jews in general, all over the world, Mr. Putin murders and destroys, children are killed and maimed, every day, and not a word appears anywhere. I hear that Mr. Putin is very friendly with leaders of the MAGA Party, who are supporting him by blocking U.S. aid to Ukraine in the U.S. Congress. Could it be that an effort is being made to block any mention of Ukraine in the papers? I also hear that Mr. Putin has connections with Hamas. So he may have influenced the attack on Israel in October. So all the children who have died in Gaza, not to mention all the adults, not to mention the rise across the world in acts of anti-Semitic hatred, could all originate with Mr. Putin and his war in Ukraine, which is now proceeding without media coverage. A world wide scheme to fool voters in every country.
Remember guys: President Biden MAY be a few years old than the ex-president, but the later is AT LEAST twenty years older in BODY.
Biden just stopped riding his bike recently, while Bunkerboy is afwaid exercise will . . . deplete his finite battery? President Biden occassionally trips, as I do at 36, or slurs because he is a reformed stutterer, also as I am. On the other hand, Ttump cannot go 5 SENTENCES without shlurring or stumbling or gaffing! [sic]
When humanity choose power over life society is reduced to various wars because the public choose strong men who play power games. When we choose power over good fair justice we all become prisoners of the ruling fascist.
Hey, Bernie Sanders showed up on Fox recently, and was a hit. Of course, Bill O'Reilly is long gone, but Sanders was a hit! Robert, you were good, and subtly gave 'em hell!
"Voters want to hear that Biden is on the side of the people rather than the powerful. Why isn’t Biden making this case? Why isn’t he advocating higher corporate taxes on companies with the highest ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay?"
Because the rich are the people paying for his time as President.
I know it was a gaffe, but many fear President's Biden age and believe it is his conceit and love of bing president that has him running for reelection rather than being the bridge president he alluded too initially. He is not doing this for us. We are in a bind. He has been a great president. The pull out of Afghanistan was poorly done, and this full throated support for Israel when they are committing genocide in response to the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas are disappointments. Other than that he has done well. We are grateful, but would prefer now that he step aside. He has lost the youth vote. We can't win without it. We don't want the trump autocracy.
Robert and Heather, thank you both for your informed opinions on Biden and the Israel conflict. I am also confused regarding Biden’s confusing statements and Israels’s horrendous behavior in the war. Wars always kill a vast number of civilians, but a lot of them in this situation could be spared. I remember the slogan “The Whole World Is Watching” and that is certainly the case in this situation. This virtually assures that there never will be a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The surviving children who will soon become fighters will always hate them and certainly never forget the horror raining down on Gaza.
For displaced and oppressed Arabs everywhere this is a Goliath overwhelming David and into the future it will be their “Remember the Alamo” moment to motivate them to continue the fight. In the short term Israel can win the battle but in the long game they lose the legitimacy as a people who have the ability to show any mercy.
Professor Reich, I have to say, I was appalled when I read that the United States was blocking the UN wanting a humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas! Why would we not want that as well? I hurt for those poor men, women, and children caught in the middle of this senseless war!! Especially the children! I am very angry that our country would be the country to try and block that!! Why? The whole world is watching as we, the country of the free and the brave, are saying no to a humanitarian ceasefire!! Why?
I served in Vietnam aboard the Hospital Ship USS Sanctuary (AH-17). The conflict in GAZA reminds me of this service. In Vietnam we used the body count to demonstrate progress. Q: How do you know they're Viet Cong? A: They're Dead. Q. How do you know they're Hamas? A: they're dead. Thank you, Henry Kissinger.
I wrote to my representatives: I write to ask you to try to get the Navy to send over their hospital ships off of GAZA. No tunnels, no command and control centers, no arms supplies or rockets, no excuses. Send the Comfort and the Mercy to the Mediterranean. Stat. For them, it will be good training and an introduction to compassion in the middle of a war. It sends a different message than two aircraft carrier strike groups.
Norman Lear should also be remembered for working and creating right up to the very end of his illustrious life; it is never too late to contribute.
Trumps Gaffs are not Gaffs they are deliberate and calculated to help the Orange Jeasus 😡 avoid/Reduce Jail Time. This kown as the ALZHEIMER DEFNSE. The Orange Jeasus knows he will catch at Least one solid Convection for his attempted coupe ; tax evasion , corruption and corrupt practices.
Hell he is paying $900,000 dollars for a professor to Justify Trumpets history of deliberate misstating the size and value of his assets depending upon which deliberate misrepresentation benefits him the most.
The Orange Jesus is calculating and enacting a plan to “Get Out Of Jail FREE”
As part of His Long Range Plan to avoid the Consquences of his DELIBERATE Criminal Acts. His Next step will be to Use Doctors and Brain Specialists to Fool the Judges to Reduce/Nullify/ Avoid Hard Jail Time. You Can’t Pertend To Be The Savior if The Orange JESUS IS A FELON Serving time in Prison .
From the Orange Makeup 💄 on his Nose to his Flat ( draft avoiding ) Feet, 🦶 The Orange Jesus is laying the Ground Work For his Appeals certain to come in the future post conviction.
The Funds to buy the Medical Experts will come not from Trumpets 🎺 Pockets but from the Campaign Funds he Collected to Stop The Steal…
All The Orange Jesus is Concerned about is himself and His Wallet…
Professor Reich don’t join in with Megan Kelly and start the Drum Beat of Poor Alzheimer impaired Donald Trump…
Can Trumps Presidential Library be located within a Federal or State Prison or will his conviction negate that and His Secret Service Protection for the rest of his life ???
Citizen J
I returned from Vietnam duty to watch "All In the Family" which was not unlike culture shock. Norman Lear produced on entertainment TV, a scathing picture of American bias. It was self deprecating humor aimed at American society and was more effective than psychoanalysis. Thank you, Norman Lear, for your patriotic service to your country in wartime and in peace.
I had NO IDEA that Norman Lear founded People For The American Way!
Another wonderful contribution for all of us.
Thank you, Robert & Heather - your friendship is a delight and your klatch brings us all into the immediacy of the work that you are doing every day, tirelessly it seems. Thank you for sharing your sparkle!
Many Republicans are compromised by Russians. That is part of their change regarding Russia. Another is their general acceptance of dictators & abandonment democracy. They have become our version of the Nazis.
I am glad to see you connect Gaza and Ukraine. With all the horror expressed at children dying in Gaza, NO ONE, these days, is talking about the children in Ukraine who are also dying. All attention is turned on Gaza and the children who are there, and on the Israeli government for causing these deaths. I see NO attention to the war in Ukraine, which continues every day, during which children die, rape is used as a weapon of war, homes are destroyed, children are kidnapped and never see their parents again, ships carrying grain bound for markets are destroyed so that many thousands of people are hungry, on and on. The war in Ukraine continues with the same savagery as last year, but with little to no media attention. At the same time that huge amounts of attention, hatred, name-calling are directed to Israel, and to Jews in general, all over the world, Mr. Putin murders and destroys, children are killed and maimed, every day, and not a word appears anywhere. I hear that Mr. Putin is very friendly with leaders of the MAGA Party, who are supporting him by blocking U.S. aid to Ukraine in the U.S. Congress. Could it be that an effort is being made to block any mention of Ukraine in the papers? I also hear that Mr. Putin has connections with Hamas. So he may have influenced the attack on Israel in October. So all the children who have died in Gaza, not to mention all the adults, not to mention the rise across the world in acts of anti-Semitic hatred, could all originate with Mr. Putin and his war in Ukraine, which is now proceeding without media coverage. A world wide scheme to fool voters in every country.
Remember guys: President Biden MAY be a few years old than the ex-president, but the later is AT LEAST twenty years older in BODY.
Biden just stopped riding his bike recently, while Bunkerboy is afwaid exercise will . . . deplete his finite battery? President Biden occassionally trips, as I do at 36, or slurs because he is a reformed stutterer, also as I am. On the other hand, Ttump cannot go 5 SENTENCES without shlurring or stumbling or gaffing! [sic]
When humanity choose power over life society is reduced to various wars because the public choose strong men who play power games. When we choose power over good fair justice we all become prisoners of the ruling fascist.
Hey, Bernie Sanders showed up on Fox recently, and was a hit. Of course, Bill O'Reilly is long gone, but Sanders was a hit! Robert, you were good, and subtly gave 'em hell!
"Voters want to hear that Biden is on the side of the people rather than the powerful. Why isn’t Biden making this case? Why isn’t he advocating higher corporate taxes on companies with the highest ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay?"
Because the rich are the people paying for his time as President.
That was fun! Robert Reich will not be stopped! (Fortunately)
I know it was a gaffe, but many fear President's Biden age and believe it is his conceit and love of bing president that has him running for reelection rather than being the bridge president he alluded too initially. He is not doing this for us. We are in a bind. He has been a great president. The pull out of Afghanistan was poorly done, and this full throated support for Israel when they are committing genocide in response to the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas are disappointments. Other than that he has done well. We are grateful, but would prefer now that he step aside. He has lost the youth vote. We can't win without it. We don't want the trump autocracy.