re: Families of US troops in shock as they deploy to Gaza coast to build emergency pier

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IF Biden is actually the Dem candidate, he will lose because he's an exposed, anti-American, crooked, lying, brain dead idiot.
He's a terrible candidate, which is why he won't be the Dem candidate in '24.

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I'm saying it won't be because he's senile/old/a bad speaker/a bad person. He might be those things, but that's not why he'll lose.

I also don't think he's really anymore anti-American, crooked, etc. than the average high profile Democrat.

But I do think he's legitimately stuck between a rock (the American people and normal sentiments) and a hard place (the increasingly radical factions that are bludgeoning what's left of the center left into submission). He's having to toe and impossible line.

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Troops in Gaza

Troops get attacked by "Hamas".....aka Mossad

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And Biden gets his wet dream of a war to help support his re-election bid. I think it will backfire as many voters will hold those deaths against him for sending US troops there in the first place.

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Ultimately if Biden loses it's probably not because he's that bad of a candidate

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Ummm, I 10000000% disagree.

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The same thing Reagan did after Iranian proxies killed 241 Marines in Beirut:

We invade Grenada.

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I don't think those two were related.

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We have children here in middle school who can barely read. Let's fix our problems with those tax dollars.

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Let's face it, Biden and his administration couldn’t care less about the American people.

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We have children here in middle school who can barely read. Let's fix our problems with those tax dollars.

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I agree with the sentiment, but this isn't a problem government can fix.

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I don't think those two were related.

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Yes, they were.

Reagan needed imagery on TV of Marines hitting the beaches to replace the images of Marines returning home in flag draped coffins. Think about it, the press was already on the beach to get the video as the Marines were landing. It was obviously staged.

Reagan was all about imagery and appearances. I remember reading a paper on Reagan's use of imagery during his presidency, it was fascinating. One common approach was to have the images presented to be in direct opposition to the message in the voice over. Polls showed that people remembered the images, but forgot the narrative. One famous example was when he proposed to cut spending for Medicare, but the commercial talking about it showed an elderly care hospital ribbon cutting ceremony. People remembered the image of a hospital opening, but didn't remember the narrative about the cuts.

It's all about the imagery, and Reagan knew it.

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Yes, in fact we spend several decades financing and rebuilding both countries.

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AFTER ww2, not "in" ww2

You could spend double....triple and the kids in Baltimore who are not reading.....will still not be reading.

Hamas brought this onto themselves.

Once they are exterminated things can develop into something more normal.