The problem is that “support genocide” is being used overly broadly.

The stated policy of the Biden/Harris administration is that Israel has a right to defend itself.

Surprise! They do. Every sovereign nation has that right.

As a result of that stated policy, Biden and Harris both support providing weapons and funding for the continual defense of Israel.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/g-s1-19232/kamala-harris-israel-gaza-dnc

So follow me here:

1. Israel has a right to defend itself.
2. The US will support that defense.

Where it breaks down is Bibi and Likud taking that defensive support and directing it into the Genocide.

That’s on THEM. The United States is making a good faith effort to provide support for the defense of Israel. Israel is intentionally misapplying that support.

Trump’s stated policy is that Israel needs to kill everyone quicker.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-israel-pr-hugh-hewitt-21faee332d95fec99652c112fbdcd35d

“They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”

Only one of these two policies is pro-genocide, Trumps.

Biden/Harris is pro-defense which is illegitimately being used for genocide, not at all the same as being pro-genocide.

No, it’s not. “In so many words” does not have a direct meaning.

Well that’s the whole point, Putin’s goal is to destabilize the West, that’s why he backed Trump and Stein in 2016 and 2020, it’s why he backed Brexit in 2016.

Now, for the DNC and Bulwark, there’s a more strongly worded article on democrats.org which is straight from the DNC, unfortunately the DNC doesn’t meet our credibility guidelines for posts. LOL.

https://democrats.org/news/icymi-jill-stein-to-campaign-today-with-alleged-russian-assets/

"Engaging with foreign assets is a pattern for Stein. Previously, the Senate Intelligence Committee investigated links between Stein’s 2016 campaign and Russia’s efforts to interfere in the election, while an indictment brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency had used social media to promote her candidacy. In 2015, Stein attended a gala in support of Russian propaganda television network, RT, where she sat at the head table alongside Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn. Stein has repeatedly parroted Kremlin views and posted a campaign video from Moscow’s Red Square with language “ripped from Putin’s talking points.”

Despite her ties to the Kremlin and Putin, the GOP has still embraced Jill Stein as a spoiler candidate. Donald Trump praised Jill Stein, saying he likes her “very much.”  Additionally, the GOP has been helping Stein with ballot access in an attempt to prop up her spoiler candidacy. "

“Yes we did condemn…” is not the same as “Yes, Putin is a war criminal.”

The passive accusations run all through it.

“So, what we said about Putin was that his invasion of Ukraine is criminal. It’s a criminal and murderous war,”

“Well, by implication, by implication,” Stein said.

“In so many words, yes he is,” Stein said. “If you want to pull him back, if you are a world leader, you don’t begin your conversation by calling someone a war criminal.”

Not directly though, that’s why she got roasted. It was a lot of dissembly.

Here’s the problem, legally, private citizens can’t engage in diplomatic actions like this:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/953

“Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

You would think anyone who just announced their candidacy 6 months before this dinner would know that…

But then you’d also think anyone running for President would also know how many Congressmen there are…

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/12/jill-stein-schooled-on-in-brutal-breakfast-club-interview/

“I saved vaping in 2019 and I’ll save vaping again!”

Uh, if you saved it in 2019, why do you have to save it again? Were you just not effective in 2019?

“Hey, Vladimir? I need to actually call you a war criminal now, yeah, I almost got found out. Thanks! I knew you’d understand!”

In this instance, “useful idiot” has a very specific meaning:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useful idiot

: a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda

It is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party’s influence. This it does through contacts with legal Communist Parties abroad, with groups sympathetic to Soviet goals, with do-gooders of the type that Lenin once described as “useful idiots” … .

Re: the Lenin thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

“A useful idiot or useful fool is a pejorative description of a person, suggesting that the person thinks they are fighting for a cause without fully comprehending the consequences of their actions, and who does not realize they are being cynically manipulated by the cause’s leaders or by other political players.[1][2] The term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation.[1] A number of authors attribute this phrase to Vladimir Lenin, but this attribution is not supported by any evidence. Similar terms exist in other languages.”

Probably doesn’t help that Stein refuses to call Putin a war criminal.

https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-vladimir-putin-war-criminal-1954965

"Hasan later asked Stein why she had labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal, but not Putin.

“Well, as John F. Kennedy said, we must not negotiate out of fear and we must not fear to negotiate,” she replied. “So, if you want to be an effective world leader, you don’t start by name-calling and hurling epithets.”

“So, how will President Stein negotiate with Israel then if you’ve called Netanyahu a war criminal?” Hasan asked in response.

“Well, because he very clearly is a war criminal,” Stein said, prompting Hasan to ask: “So Putin clearly isn’t a war criminal?”

“Well, we don’t have a decision—put it this way—by the International Criminal Court,” Stein said.

The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin, alleging that he is responsible for war crimes. No such warrant has been issued for Netanyahu, whose war on Gaza has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians. However, the chief prosecutor of the ICC has applied for an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister.

“There’s an arrest warrant for Putin and there isn’t an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, so why is Putin not a war criminal, but Netanyahu is?” Hasan asked.

“Yeah. Well, let me say this. We are sponsoring that war. We are sponsoring Netanyahu,” Stein responded. “He is our dog in this fight. That is why we have a responsibility to pull him back.”"

Worth bringing the image up because it’s from 2015… 6 months after she announced she was running.

She wasn’t even the worst at the table, that “honor” goes to convicted felon Mike Flynn:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Flynn

More on Flynn and his connecting Trump to Russia here:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/

p.s. Trump’s “National Security Advisor”.

P.S. can I just say how bad does it have to be that a Right-Center news source agrees and promotes the DNC?

He never thought the leopards would eat HIS face…

As a DA she got caught suppressing evidence that would have exonerated innocent people. It should have barred her from being the VP pick to begin with.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html

As a convicted felon, Trump can’t have a gun. ;)

Real Americans will have a lot to do with that.

You’d think, right? Well NOW he does, I bet…