W.J. Astore
The Exceptional Nation Promises More Bullets, Bombs, Guns, and Missiles
In an address to the nation from the Oval Office last night, President Biden promised more trigger treats* for Ukraine and Israel: at least $60 billion for Ukraine and at least $10 billion for Israel in an “aid” package that may reach $100 billion.
Biden repeated several tired cliches about America. That we’re the essential nation, the indispensable one, and also the arsenal of democracy. But maybe what we’re really truly “essential” for is guns and more guns, war and more war?
Biden assured us that sending scores of billions in weaponry was good for America: that those artillery shells and so on that shred Russian and Palestinian bodies are made right here in the USA. They’re job-creators, not body-manglers! Rejoice as America adds more jobs by providing more guns and ammo to Ukraine and Israel.
Biden, like so many in the Pentagon and the U.S. military, resorted to business-speak, explaining that this massive package of “aid” was an “investment” in national security that will pay Americans “dividends” down the road. Actually, all this weaponry will be bought the real American Way, with deficit spending, and the “dividends” will most certainly be more death and destruction and possibly even World War III.
Biden apparently sees only one course for both Ukraine and Israel: total military victory over their opponents. There was no mention of diplomacy, of ceasefires, of negotiation, of compromise. The only way out is through a massive number of dead, full stop.
Biden, who has a bad habit of pointing at the camera, and therefore America, for emphasis, did implore us not to give into hate in its various forms, including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Yet it’s not easy to square an anti-hate message with $100 billion in mostly military aid so that Israel and Ukraine can squash and kill all the evildoers in their midst.
Biden, in sum, had a very grim message for America, and therefore for the world, one that embraced war and more killing as “essential” and “indispensable” because that’s the only course one can take when confronted by “pure, unadulterated evil.” And, anyway, war creates good-paying jobs in America. Trigger treats for all!
*I took the idea of “trigger treats” from a local gun shop that is displaying a sign for Halloween that reads “No tricks just trigger treats.”
Bracing Views 
I didn’t waste my time watching the warmonger, killer Sleepy Joe, but I agree with your summary.
How many more dead children is he and his warmongering mafia willing to accept? Will he shed any tears for the dead and injured Palestinians?
He must have slept through catechism class when they were teaching the commandments “love your enemy” and though shall not kill.
I, for one am not voting for him to be re-elected.
Peace ☮️
Thank you
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Interesting picture, Bill. Looks to me most definitely like Biden has had a bunch of plastic surgery done to his face. Botox, too, a bunch.
John Kerry—another mainstream heavy-hitter(now there’s one for you—is there, can there ever be, such a thing as a mainstream heavy hitter?)—he’s got a similar look to his face, and he’s openly acknowledged use of Botox—Kerry is a completely expressionless horse-face from all that he’s used over the years. I always said that John Kerry’s problems all stemmed from his excessive use of Botox, that it had gone from his face to his brain. Would it be kind to Joe Biden to suggest that that, and not other medical conditions, or just old age, are the source of his numerous public physical and mental errors?
If Biden were in ‘the industry’ , as Hollywood calls itself, there’d be plenty of research done by reporters for a story about his plastic surgeries. Every celebrity faces that additional ordeal when they go through plastic surgery, which, from all I’ve seen who’ve had it done, aint no fun to be subjected to. The fact that nobody in the newsmedia has guts enough to ask around and report on this matter is a good (very bad in fact, actually) reveal about who they are, and how good a job they do.
Best–
Dan ________________________________
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Right you are, Dan. Biden has the look of plastic surgery/Botox; there’s something unnatural to the look, something typically seen in Hollywood celebrities of a certain age. I guess you might say the phoniness of his face, the artifice of it, reflects the phoniness of his policies and the artifice of his (broken) promises.
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