Coincidences Abound (Part Two)
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Last week the internet's finest journalist, Laura K, pointed out that “Joe Biden has explained it’s a coincidence that he is attending a fundraiser hosted by an AIPAC billionaire, where donors are giving up to $250,000 each, right after he vetoed a ceasefire in Gaza.”
In case you don’t know, AIPAC stands for the American Israel Propaganda Cash Register...err, I mean the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. It's where American politicians learn the art of making foreign policy decisions that coincidentally favour the Israeli far right while conveniently pocketing campaign cash.
Another coincidence is how all these Palestinian kids, grandparents, healthcare workers, infants, fleeing refugees, UN staff, journalists and their entire families and people waiting for aid keep getting in the way of Israeli bombs, missiles and bullets.
I don’t know what the chances of death, or horrific injury, or being buried under rubble are when a small place like Gaza is carpet bombed—as homes, apartments, schools, over 120 health facilities, ambulances, markets, water and sewage facilities and electric networks are targeted on a scale exceeding the daily death toll of any other major conflict in recent times—but it’s not like there’s a pattern here, so who knows?
If you think this vastly disproportionate response is a war crime under international law and only make matters worse for Israel, then obviously you just don’t get geopolitics and must be a Hamas supporter.
Last October 7, Hamas committed barbaric acts against innocent Israeli civilians, and the way the US-backed “rules-based international order” works is the “world’s most moral army” then responded by killing an average of 250 Palestinians per day, with no end in sight.
Some people who spend too much time thinking claim you have to go to al Jazeera for reliable reporting on this dystopian-like horror show. Who are these weirdos?
Meanwhile the CNN Intravenous Propaganda Drip Drap App, is mainlining that gaffe-infested presidential race between two cognitively impaired oldsters: there’s Genocide Joe Biden, who, when not signing off on more death machines for Israel, can be found confusing Ukraine and Iraq, escalating conflicts abroad and calling Putin nasty names; and of course there’s the existential Orange Menace and Blundering Bloviator, Donald Trump, who recently bragged how he made "Israel the capital of Israel"—a feat that only a self-proclaimed stable genius and the greatest shape-shifting alien lizard ever, could accomplish.
Coincidentally, when asked separately about tensions between Taiwan and China, both candidates proposed a joint venture to build The Great Wall of USA around Taiwan, with Biden suggesting it be painted in rainbow colours for inclusivity and Trump insisting it be gold-plated and adorned with his signature.
Welcome to the befuddlement circus, a rollercoaster of confusion and absurdity, in which the winning clown gets the nuclear launch codes and a caseload of Depends!
The last coincidence goes to the US government, who believes every country should freely choose their own leaders without foreign interference, as evidenced by the case of Imran Khan who “once was” Pakistan's prime minister. I say "once was" because after he declared Pakistan's neutrality in the Ukraine War, the US State Department encouraged the Pakistani government to remove Khan and he soon found himself to be Pakistan's former prime minister, awash in a sea of legally weaselly woes.
This coincidence was uncovered by The Intercept, an award-winning news organization dedicated to “holding the powerful accountable.”
But then the Wall Street Journal, an award-winning news organization dedicated to “holding the poor and powerless accountable” claimed that The Intercept's evidence is “laughably thin.” Unfortunately, the Journal article is behind a paywall, which I think means only rich people who work on Wall Street get to read about coincidences that only look like coincidences.
Peace out.
Disclaimer: the above content contains satire, parody and facts. None of this is meant to mock "man's inhumanity to man" or in any way diminish those who suffer under such cruelty but rather to expose those individuals and structures of power causing the suffering.
Got to love it Punditman. Well said. My only quibble: Genocide joe confused Ukraine with Israel.
A big downside of having a gigantic military and intelligence capability - and industries that make big profits by lobbying for more of both - is the one in the old saying, "If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." The big cutbacks in time in the State Department mean that the people with the skills and inclination to work out diplomatic solutions - and who don't always assume that the best thing to do with a problem is drop bombs on it - are seriously underfunded.