Biden helped engineer the growth of our for profit private prison BUSINESS in the 90s. He was a good neoliberal who joined hands with Reagan Republicans and furthered the regressive capitalist "trickle down" agenda we all suffer into today. He's a bad man who has done bad things to vulnerable Americans.
He's leaps and bounds better than the only alternative Americans were presented, which is why I voted
for Bidenagainst Trump.No politician worship here. No "we need a strong man" demagoguery here. Good luck walking right-wingers through that rational breakdown though.
Can’t wait for him to be the only alternative again next year! 😭
Bo Burnham captures that sadness best:
Hopefully he has decency to meet Mr. Reaper before that.
Make liberals realise that ambitious policies are the main factor in electability and the lesser evil is still evil.
Challenge rating: impossible
Based as fuck. I wish we had rcv so I could vote for Cornel West in good faith
That's the exact reason we don't have RCV.
Bernie, Biden, Trump... what really maters is who the president nominates and who he surrounds himself with. Very rarely will things make it to the president's desk where it is up to his judgement whether to sign it or not. Elections are more about evaluating who the candidate surrounds himself, not his policy ideas.
And just to be clear, Trump surrounded himself with nepotism, grifters, and yes-men. I just wonder who Bernie would have surrounded himself with if he got the chance.
Yeah, but just think of the growth he's had!
30 years before that he was fighting bussing during school integration...
Another 30 years and he might actually be progressive
Let's be real and fair about it this, Obama changed Biden for the better, something about their partnership drove Biden further Left on many issues, and Bernie Sanders teaming up with him also seemed to force a major shift in Biden's platform. Biden could have stayed that guy who was a fervant drug warrior from a bygone era but he's shifted for the better on "drug war" and "war on crime" and he seems to really be willing to take on the fight against the racists that we're in currently.
Trump on the other hand wasn't willing to do anything but make shit worse, including ending democracy so that he could be dictator.
I have plenty of grudges against Biden, being one of the deciding factors that led to Clarence Thomas being placed on the supreme Court is absolutely one of them, but you gotta give the old man credit where it's due, he's not who he was at all, and not many elderly change that late in life, and we shouldn't shit on people who show a clear ability to grow and become better, because that's one thing Biden has going for him that Trump absolutely does not have.
“He was a good neoliberal”
Don’t speak further, I’m too hard as it is.
There is only one this Maga needs to understand.
Hunter is the presidential kid. There hasn't been any talk of pardons from his dad, government, or otherwise.
Trumps team has at large all asked for pardons. From charities fraud to pedophilisim.
You'd think just the two facts here would be enough to strike a chord. The president isn't pardoning his own kid. Trump is rallying to pardon those who willingly and with great effort actively attempt to destroy the idea of government in America.
The difference is that Hunter is Really Guilty™ while everyone around Trump and everyone they work with are all a victim of a Democrat Witch Hunt!™©®
Logic won't ever work because they all have gigantic asses to pull shit out of to "defend" their stance.
Do illegal shit. Face consequences.
It's simple.
It's not even that. His crimes were super minor. The literal misdemeanor tax shit would never be criminally prosecuted if he were a regular person.
And the other crime was owning a gun while being a drug user. Who fucking cares? The country is full of people who both own guns and use drugs. First time I've ever heard of actual legal consequences for that. Anyone else and the conservatives would be fighting for his gun rights.
Drugs, hookers, and influence peddling. GOP staples.
To be honest, it's the potential influence peddling that concerns me - it mostly seems like "my daddy is Biden - money please" that didn't go far, but if there's something to that, he should definitely face consequences.
I'm out of the loop on these American shenanigans. Why would Hunter Biden be going to prison?
Mainly tax fraud and lying on a firearm application saying he wasn't on drugs when he was.
I thought these things earned you the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
My sister is the only conservative in our family. Her husband's family are all conservative. My mom loves to push their buttons about Trump, I'm less willing to engage because I'm not going to change their minds, so why bother?
I was at my sister's house while her MIL was there, and our mom was not there. I guess my sister and her MIL were feeling cheeky, so they started talking politics at me and asked if I believed in Hunter Biden's laptop.
Yep, I believe he had a laptop.
Did I believe the photos were real?
Yep, that dude's a moron and overall pretty crappy person. If he did something illegal, arrest him, prosecute him, fire him into the sun for all I care.
I have too much sense to follow that up with "... just like Trump and his kids", and thankfully my niece came around to chat and the politics conversation ended.
The kind of bullet i love to dodge: political discussions with my family
Honestly I think if someone asked me stuff like that I'd just play https://youtu.be/kORYg4zTcoY?si=_8aaLVCJq_Z8ee7f.
I had the group liquidated you little shit!
Are we talking about the Biden administration being investigated over censorship and restriction of information during 2020 and COVID?
Are we talking about the Biden administration being investigated over censorship and restriction of information during 2020 and COVID?
Biden's first day as President was January 20, 2021.
Define censorship
Is this a joke or do you think that Biden was the president in 2020?
Let me guess, any time you're asked for proof of that you say "do your own research" or "the media censors it" or some other copium shit?
