The number of people who are seemingly ignorant of any of the actual politics of Joseph is alarming. Democratic aligned politics has devolved to the same level of Republican politics in the sense of metrics and language. "Economy good" is an absolutely wild way to summarize Joe's politics and the impact on politics that he had. He was a conservative man. From his earliest days as a politician, he was conservative. He played a not insignificant role in creating the modern political landscape. Including in essentially running interference for Clarence Thomas during his initial candidacy for the Supreme Court (Thomas had dozens of credible allegations of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct). Biden was notoriously pro colonialism throughout the entirety of his political career, including active support of Israel and its colonization of Palestine going back to the 70s. He spent decades campaigning on anti-crime discourse that prioritized higher budgets for police to spend targeting minority communities, a fact he was absolutely aware of.
The political legacy of this man is not "Economy good". It is a lifelong career against workers rights, minority rights and pushing conservative agendas within the democratic party against leftist ones. His term as president did not see any degree of preparation for the rise of fascism. He played a significant role in the failures of the democratic party during the election campaign. Refusing to step aside, proving his own incompetence over and over again, refusing to push a progressive platform, refusing to denounce colonialism and genocide, and ultimately playing into many of the same political talking points of American fascists. Joe Biden is a stain on American history. He spent his last 4 years of political relevancy fighting against workers rights and protecting international genocidal institutions. All the while he made an absolute mockery of the institutions of political power in the united states and helped truly ring the funeral bell of American trust in federal institutions.
Let his failure be a galvanizing lesson about all the failures of American liberalism. Leftism is the only true political opposition to fascism. This election was not lost because democrats went woke. It was lost because they refused to change. It was lost because of their own blatant hypocrisy and refusal to campaign on working class politics and humanitarianism. Liberal conservatism handed the reigns to fascism.
Joe Biden has been among our better Republican presidents.
He spent decades campaigning on anti-crime discourse that prioritized higher budgets for police to spend targeting minority communities, a fact he was absolutely aware of.
this was during the 90s crime wave? Right?
Let his failure be a galvanizing lesson about all the failures of American liberalism. Leftism is the only true political opposition to fascism.
i have yet to see a single lefty produce a functional model of government. Liberals base their entire ideology off of a functional governmental model. You have an uphill battle in this regard.
this was during the 90s crime wave? Right?
No, he campaigned on crime at least as far back as 1972. Throughout the entirety of his political career actually, including through his presidency. He is a conservative nationalist. In the same vein is casually racist and indeed sexist.
You said this in another comment,
and a lot of it is also 20 years old
To which I say that is not an excuse. People were anti-racist back then too, and people had been calling out police violence against people of color since the 19th century and the white supremacist origins of the modern american militarized police. Also we're talking moreso 60 years of continual support for these institutions, not merely 20 years ago.
i have yet to see a single lefty produce a functional model of government. Liberals base their entire ideology off of a functional governmental model. You have an uphill battle in this regard.
Yes, and liberalism has historically resisted fascist takeovers so well.
Neoliberalism prioritizes the mass hoarding of wealth of the capitalist ruling class above everything else. Neoliberalism has been the dominant ideology of western electoral democracy since the time of Ronald Reagan. This is especially true of America and Great Britain. Neoliberalism does not create a functional government. It creates continuously worsening economic inequalities and devotes all its resources to preventing workers from achieving class consciousness and resisting their increasing oppression from the ruling class. Fascists are political allies with neoliberals. They have the same aims in preventing the spread of workers rights and maintaining class hierarchies.
But the mere fact that you have phrased it as a "functional model of government" is absolutely indicative of your own ignorance as to what workers rights even are and what leftism is. There are many extent leftist nations today. Social Democracy is a leftist ideology, and I find it pretty unlikely that you view the Social Democracies of Scandinavia in a negative light.
He also voted against a constitutional amendment promoted by Indiana Senator Birch Bayh (D) that would have brought an end to the electoral college -The thing that allowed Trump to win his first administration.
When were those days, exactly? I've studies a hell of a lot of history, and I can really only point to two moments:
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The American Civil War, but we were both the good guys and the bad guys there, so doesn't really count.
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WW2. We fought against fascism. We were squarely on the side of the good guys.
I've never been alive when America was the good guys, and neither has the vast majority of anyone else.
As a history nerd that has gone down many rabbit holes a lot of the worlds problems of the last 200 years and beyond are because of countries like USA, England. Russia, Spain etc.For example Central America and even some of South America that was colonized by Spain which stole a vast amount of natural resources such as gold and silver. Later down the line some of these countries especially in central America though they were never colonized by USA USA had a lot of influence on them and even was the one controlling their civil wars like they were playing video games. As soon as communism was not a threat America pulled out of those countries and left them in a shitty place. Another example is the MS 13 terrorist gang organization which originally was founded in Los Angeles, These gang members were than arrested in United States and then deported back to Central America without giving those governments a heads up of who exactly they where sending back and by not doing that this gang turned into one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world
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It might have been nice if Ol Biden had actually given a shit about the coup attempt and pushed to have the people at the top of the food chain tried for it. We might have avoided this whole situation if Trump had been tried while he was still persona non grata. Instead, his admin chose to treat it like any other criminal enterprise instead of the existential threat it was. Now we are all paying for it and I doubt the country will survive.
Biden was too old or naive to recognize that the era of civility in politics was over. At the very least, SCOTUS ruling that presidents are essentially kings should've kicked him in the ass. I guess thx for the economy Joe, but it wasn't nearly enough.
the era of civility in politics was over
I’m not sure that’s the case, though of course the demented rapist in office is a hell of an argument for it. I just think he’s the worst possible combination of huckster, narcissist, dementia sufferer, and russian intelligence. So far, yes, yes.
Rational discussion still exists, and it can be about politics - just not with any of these pithed clowns in power.
To be fair, a large majority of Americans didn't acknowledge the threat until very recently. In general, politicians do not go for bold moves unless they feel they have a large support from the population.
These people are co-workers and collaborators. They're not putting each other in jail.
They be brainwashed by the education system.
I was taught that if a bully bullies you, you're supposed to not fight back, and only talk to the adults who will give them a stern warning.
The adult version is going to the police/courts and reporting someone for harassement.
The politician version is just apointing someone in the "middle" of your party and the opponent party's political views (Merrick Garland) and then don't do much investigation because it would seem like "persecuting political opponents", or breaks "norms and traditions"
Like motherfucker, if a bully hit me, I'll beat his/her ass (arrest trump). If I ran a school club, I'm gonna ban them (14th amendment disqualification). If was doing group projects, I'm fucking kicking them out, or I'll leave and just do it myself (secession).
Fuck the BS school admin "just ignore the bully"
Fuck that, beat the bully. If everyone just beat up the school bully on sight, they wouldn't be bullying any longer.
So, so, so very right on, dude. This is the situation, and that is the answer.
Yeah, agreed, but I think he’s at fault for not wanting to appear to use the justice system to attack political rivals. The fact that Garland was a slack@$% mf or that Aileen Canon is a cunt non-pariel isn’t his fault, but it sure added to the turd circus we got dropped on us.
And of course hindsight is 20/20.
Joe Biden was a perfect example of how delegating authority to the right technocrats, and then standing back and staying out of the way is the best form of executive leadership. I legitimately have no idea why he gets so much hate even from his own party.
He has the same problem I have at work. When everything is going well, no one really knows. The servers keep running and everyone is happy with IT, but after a while, people start to question what it is we are doing.
I voted for him and was honestly expecting worse.
legitimately biden admin has been the most productive admin in the US government since like, FDR maybe. There are probably a few others, but most have been rather boring.
Do explain how passing the same bills as w bush makes Biden as productive as FDR who revolutionized how Americans get compensated and interact with capital.
If that quiet old man hadn't decided to try to cling to power despite no longer being fit to hold the office, we might not even be in this predicament.
You're missing a little genocide factor and a shitloads of unkept promises here
I'm not sure it would have helped. 2 Democrats haven't been elected into office back to back since before the Civil War.
judging by the results from the election, yeah no. Nothing would've changed it.
Libs are willing to support genocide as long as their personal privilege is maintained. That's a big part of how liberalism supports fascism. Trump is just a continuation of Biden.
Tanky talk
Yeah, leftists would never support genocide in order to protect their own power structure. Except for that one time.... Or that other time... And also...
But i'm sure you'd never see leftist college students TODAY running around LARPing as murderous ethno-nationalists.
But man, those liberals... Crazy, right?!
i'm neither for or against it, personally i'm ambivalent, because i'm not middle eastern, jewish, nor do i live in the middle east, nor anywhere near it. It's literally a waste of brain power to think about it.
Of course, arguing that i think killing people is good, is fucking stupid, obviously that's bad. But there are reasons people are being killed, and i'm not delegating that problem to myself, considering i have literally no relation. You would have to find a genuinely insane person to agree with that fact, so there's no point in even entertaining it on a factual basis.
Would it be nice if israel stopped bombing palestine? Yeah, would it be nice if the US stopped arming them? Yeah, does that ultimately make a difference in regards to the conflict? No. I don't think anything you did today, even if you managed a complete ceasefire on good terms, would make a good faith effort to stop this conflict. It's a brutal conflict, there is no easy to solve it.
Reverse ethnic cleansing of israel is not really a good solution either, for several reasons. Notably morals. Likewise yeeting palestine off the map isn't productive either.
Ultimately though, both of the parties are willing to fight, and one of them just keeps losing, over and over. At some point they did this to themselves, and i'm not sure where that point is. (granted, israel has committed numerous war crimes throughout this conflict, i'm not absolving them of that one either, don't worry) neither party is particularly intelligent here.
Same old song in every country. Trying to talk actual economics with someone who votes for the right shows how little they care about facts and how much their decisions are based on feelings and what they're told by the people they consider their superiors.
Which is why you should never talk to any of them. It's like playing chess with a pigeon.
It's time to post the two Santas again.
First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.
This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
Confirmed, Drump crossed the streams lmao
Is the enemy both strong and weak in fascism? Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak".
You ever notice how the Nazis talked about the Jews being at the same times in control of the entire world economy and various plots and organizations while at the same time stating that they were an inferior race that needed to be stamped out because they were too incompetent to self-govern?
Be careful saying this around here, you'll be labeled a lib, crucified, and stalked by tankies.
Democrats main motive while in power is also to make money for themselves, in a less stupid and obnoxious way than Trump.
This meme is liberal propaganda, how the Democrats booming economy helped the average american ?
Spoiler it has not, but weapons manufacturers getting those billions of public spending to support Israël. And I'm sure the friendly and nice people that are Democrats do have so shares in them.
What a clown show they just have nothing to do and they'll end up getting elected and doing the same thing. That is if the whole countries has not turned to civil war before the next election of course.
And don't forget being called a Nazi genocide apologist lmao
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Bring it.
Based. Tankies can blow me.
Just because Trump is terrible it doesn't make Biden any better. We're talking about a genocide enabler here. Ffs.
Followed by another genocide enabler. Your math sucks.
Not at all. I'm simply pointing out Biden sucks.
Oh no! This candid human moment between two men is surely proof of liberal embrace of fascism! How could I have been so wrong as to not see it when it's so simple and the proof is in this photo!
I miss it, but I still want change. Not "machete" change like we're getting, but "scalpel" change.
However true this is, the fascists simply do not care about truth.
Thank you for posting this. Helps us build block lists of the cunts.
Boom!
