How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests
How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests
The president's team has deployed tactics such as hosting smaller events and withholding their precise locations from the media and the public to minimize disruptions.
What kind of aide would try to hide useful feedback from the president? DC fuck nuggets
With all these doddering, half (or outright) senile politicians you aren't electing them, you're electing their handlers and controllers--the political nursemaids who help them onto the stage so they can muster the strength to walk across it in front of the camera without falling over, who bring them their applesauce when they're done, and feed them their policy along with it.
Screaming protestors are not "useful feedback." I'm sure they're well aware of the issue and have determined where the votes and money are most advantageous.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s team is increasingly taking extraordinary steps to minimize disruptions from pro-Palestinian protests at his events by making them smaller, withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, avoiding college campuses and, in at least one instance, considering hiring a private company to vet attendees.
The efforts have resulted in zero disruptions at events the White House or the campaign have organized for Biden in the five weeks since he was interrupted a dozen times during an abortion rights speech in Virginia.
They saw his Virginia speech as an inflection point that prompted them to rethink the sizes, audiences and locations of events for him and other top White House officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Biden campaign is organizing a number of “larger-scale events over the coming weeks,” after the State of the Union address, according to a source familiar with the planning, “reaching voters where they are, including on college campuses.”
Last week, though, Biden chose to announce a $1.2 billion student loan forgiveness program in front of a few dozen people at a small public library in the Los Angeles area, not at one of the at least five large college campuses within a 10-mile radius.
A Democratic strategist who was struck by the staging at Biden’s student loan forgiveness event noted that while the precautions for potential protesters are understandable, such measures pose a long-term political challenge for the party if its presidential nominee is unable to hold big rallies on university campuses.
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The irony of downvoting an article trying to warn about the dangers of hiding Bidens issues...
I deal with the irony daily here.
President Joe Biden’s team is increasingly taking extraordinary steps to minimize disruptions from pro-Palestinian protests at his events by making them smaller, withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, avoiding college campuses and, in at least one instance, considering hiring a private company to vet attendees.
First of all, this if for his campaign. Not Whitehouse briefings. At least the Dems at least treat the two differently.
Secondly, this is for disruptions to the campaign events, which you would expect it's the campaign job to control the narrative if events. It's one thing to say he's not listening, it's another to suggest they are ignoring it.
You guys do know Biden officially sent his top aides to Michigan to meet the American Muslim community, only to rejected a meeting by them? Look, I am all for not killing innocent, but if some are going to behave "it's my way or no deal" without even considering any discussion, that's just extremism talking.
If you don't know, US support to Israel is ridiculous over weighted. Part post WW2 reimagined world order, part middle east power projection, and part protecting religious holy land. For the past 20 years, I was always surprised how taboo it was to dare criticize Israel in US politics and media. There is a lot of inertia and vague "obligation" to support the survivors of Holocaust, no questions asked. Because the Jewish people survived the Nazi, and we fight Nazi. Simple, morally simple.
Ironically, the Nazi of today are at the fronts of Ukraine and they are in the US, but we ignore acknowledging the world has changed, and instead focus on "antisemitism" debate which I think is a bit out of fashion. Dare I say, the Israel government is walking down the extreme right, nationalism path. Acting in ways their people's history were so vehemently against.
And that's the crux of it. Muslim community are ignoring or saying you don't get credit for something happened a century ago, so today, Israel acting the bully when they can do so much better. While US and the West have ingrained and championed the saving of Jewish (from Nazi) was the right thing, why wouldn't we keep saving. And we all know how hard it is to change a long held belief.
Full disclosure, what I see as acceptable end game is US finally start winding down military support to Israel, even if we're are still publicly supporting them. Neither side likes that.
tl;dr - op news is about maintaining order at campaign events, headline is click-baity
tl;dr2 - sidetracked, the issue is about Israeli and Palestinine, which have their own perspective not easily changed.