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What Biden and the Democrats Can Appear to Do About Gaza

The Horror That Could Have Been Stopped by a Phone Call

When it comes to the genocide that the United States is helping Israel inflict on Gaza, Joe Biden is never more repugnant than when he pretends to care.

I actually prefer his one-sided regional empathy: tedious reminiscences of chats with Golda Meir and odious references to Israel’s psychopathic Prime Minister as “Bibi”. { A  term of endearment which for me has long since become the moral equivalent of musing about Reichsführer Himmler as “Heiny”. }

Yet while Biden’s casual enabling of wanton carnage has wrought a humanitarian nightmare, there is a public relations solution to Gaza so simple I’m surprised the hierarchy of the Democratic Party hasn’t stapled it atop Joe’s binder and marked it “FOR IMMEDIATE PRATTLE”.

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Jerry Long is a writer, actor, podcaster and political satirist who, with his brother Joe, has worked with Adam McKay on numerous projects. He can also be reached at jlbeggar@gmail.com