Tuesday, January 9: Four More Years? bffr
Mark my words, that man Joe Biden doesn't have 4 more years of battery life
Yesterday, a handful of activists interrupted Joey Biden at a campaign rally by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. This interruption took place at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the same Black church where Dylann Roof murdered nine congregants back in 2015. These brave protesters were quickly shouted down with a chorus of “four more years”, as the liberals attending the rally made clear that re-electing Biden is more of a priority for them than ending a genocide that Biden has endorsed and funded.
A few hours earlier yesterday, activists in NYC managed to shut down the Holland Tunnel and three major Manhattan bridges, calling for a ceasefire and the end of Israel’s war crimes. There’s been much debate the past few weeks over whether or not these protests blocking traffic are having the desired impact of “changing minds”, but there’s no doubt they’ve been effective at keeping Gaza on people’s minds. Of course a ‘democratic’ lawmaker in NYC, councilman Robert Holden, took this opportunity to call the blocking of tunnels and bridges in protest of the genocide in Gaza “terrorism.” There you have it folks, witnessing the carnage unfold is perfectly ok. In fact, demanding four more years of the clowns who funded and endorsed it is ok. But standing in the street trying to call attention to the fact that innocent people are being slaughtered using our tax dollars, that’s actually terrorism now.
The global impact of the US standing firmly by the apartheid state of Israel is undeniable. By arming, funding, and carrying out the genocide in Gaza, the US and Israel have combined to produce more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, according to this article in The Guardian. Obviously this is having a massive impact on the global climate. The data provides the first conservative estimate of the carbon cost of the current campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Much of the suffering we’ve witnessed over the past three months has been human in nature, or the destruction of infrastructure, but the environmental cost can’t be overlooked. The analysis in the Guardian article includes carbon dioxide from aircraft missions, tanks and fuel from other military vehicles, as well as emissions generated by making and exploding bombs, artillery and rockets. The article goes on to mention that,"Almost half the total CO2 emissions were down to US cargo planes flying military supplies to Israel."
Hearing calls for a ceasefire being drowned out by liberals crying for "four more years" reminded me of a quote from Kwame Ture about liberals:
"The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself calling for law and order, the law and order of the oppressor."
Remember that true resistance is wanting to live beyond the incredibly limited imagination of the colonizer. It’s the absolute minimum that we deserve. If our protestations annoy or anger the worst humans on the planet, then that’s just gravy.
Side Items
Texas Hotel Goes Boom: An explosion at a Texas hotel down in Fort Worth yesterday blew out windows and scattered debris all over streets in the downtown area. The origin of the explosion at the Sandman Signature Hotel remains unknown, but 21 people were injured, including one who was in critical condition. Authorities suspect a gas leak, but knowing the good folks down in Texas, I’m sure they’ll blame ISIS any minute now
Hottest Year Ever: According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), this past year was ‘very likely’ the warmest year in the past 100,000 years. C3S confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year among global temperature records going all the way back to 1850. The nerds even checked their records against palaeoclimatic data records, using sources like tree rings and air bubbles in glaciers. That’s the level of climate disaster we’re approaching folks, they’re having to drill into glaciers to see if anything before recorded history has matched what we’re seeing