Biden Drops Out, Netanyahu Seeks Wider War in Middle East [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian & Walter discuss Biden dropping out of the presidential race, what effects it will have on U.S. politics, Netanyahu speaking to Congress, the danger of regional war now that Israel has bombed Yemen, the Democrats trying to remove an independent candidate who is rightfully on the ballot in Georgia, and more.
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https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186
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| 1:14.3 | The big news, of course, is that Biden has dropped out after many, many weeks of insisting that he was the guy, he was the one and only person who could defeat Donald Trump, |
| 1:22.2 | his small group of grifter advisors, all of whom make tremendous amounts of money, including from advertising |
| 1:29.7 | revenue, many of them who are connected to media companies who get tens of millions, |
| 1:35.1 | hundreds of millions of dollars in TV, ad revenue. They've all been staying, hang in there, Joe, |
| 1:41.3 | because actually they don't care. They want the money. They're grifters. |
| 1:45.8 | His son, Hunter, thought he should stay in. Well, that's not a big surprise. Hunter has been |
| 1:52.5 | convicted and is under the possible other prosecutions. Anyway, it's a grifter group. |
| 1:57.9 | They stayed in, even though it was quite clear that Biden could not defeat |
| 2:04.0 | Donald Trump. He called that June debate. It was Biden's initiative to have the June debate in Atlanta |
| 2:10.5 | because he was already losing. And they were hoping that he would have some command performance, |
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