cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2856471

The media misleaders are getting an early start on the 2024 presidential campaign season. Despite the fact that Biden has no competition from any democrat and the party has already said there will be no debates even if a competitor appears, Biden’s weak approval ratings and poor showing in polls vis a vis Donald Trump, have them running scared. They don’t know if Trump’s indictments will prevent him from running or if republican voters will choose him regardless of his legal complications.

What are the misleaders to do under these circumstances? They have to begin the indoctrination process in earnest. This year their work is especially important in light of Biden’s role as accessory to Israel’s killing of more than 20,000 people in Gaza. The outrage felt by millions of people impacted Biden, whose approval rating is now only at 37%, an indication of peril for a sitting president.

Not to worry though. Biden has help from Black pundits like Roland Martin, who in response to Arab-Americans declaring opposition to the man who is killing their people, raised the Trump specter right on cue. “Well @shadihamid @mehdirhasan, I totally get it, but Trump has made clear his Muslim ban goes into effect on day 1 and he will deport all Palestinians and immigrants who support them. His first time will look like recess compared to a 2nd one.”

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Be prepared for more bamboozlement under the guise of journalism. Understand that Black politics will not be part of any discussion. Making it so would create a problem for people whose goal is to win office while also excluding the people whose votes they need. Media are an important part of sham democracy. No one should expect anything more than, “But Trump!” between now and November 2024.

This is genuinely all they got. The Donna Braziles, the Roland Martins, Colbert Kings, and Symone Sanderses of the world-- minstrels one and all, tap-dancing to the settlers’ tune, and trying to fiddle the rest of us along to it like the settlers aren’t murdering others the way they murder us.

And that’s how they’ll do it-- by breathlessly shrieking about the orange hobgoblin THAT THEY MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE like he’s ANY different from the rest of them. Democrats and their enablers will never ‘earn it’-- they won’t even try until it’s too late. We need to be walking away and doing for our communities what the settlers would never do for us. Separating from the settler menace, on every conceivable level until we’re fighting for the ground we intend to make ours. But never, hand in hand with those who think we’re stupid enough to uncritically ‘fall in line’ behind their Genocider-in-Chief.

No compromise, no retreat.