Old man forgets that he was complicit in everything he says was wrong for the past four decades.
What did he do that makes him guilty?
He voted to increase loans and grants that made college ever more expensive for decades, and then in the aughts, sponsored the bill to make student debt non-dischargeable even in bankruptcy, effectively handcuffing generations past and future as well to the truckload of bullshit they are fed to get them into mountains of debt and then ensuring they are forever chained to it. https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/111100/documents/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD007.pdf
Decades in the US government anyone is going to have lots of awful things they did, and I’m not going to argue it’s his worst but it’s one of the most crippling to anyone trying to better themselves and has destroyed decades of millions of Americans lives.
Didn’t he also help sponsor/write the Patriot Act? He literally helped out fascists with that one if so. Hard to keep track/memory of all the corruption over there.
Theres also his role with Anita Hill and not believing women, empowering a shithead, and we’ve suffered with that SC justice now for decades.
Well it’s the internet so rather than introducing an idea attributing and condemning something they may or may have not done, we can just look it up rather than up voting with our feels.
Looks Iike he voted for the Patriot Act, didn’t write it but claims the bill that became he patriot act was based on a bill Biden wrote in 1994 and he was proud of that, which is awful.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe
Biden also voted for repealing Glass-Steagall, directly causing the worst financial crisis in most Americans lifetimes and billions more worldwide.
Obama, with notable Vice President Biden, also supported and enacted the largest bank bailout in history after said crisis, directly causing an economic spiral that continues into today because nothing was fucking fixed.
Look, I resist the accelerationist urge every day. But man is it fucking hilarious to watch capitalism collapse on itself, exactly as Marx wrote 100 years ago with no fucking internet.
The best part? All the brainwashed liberals going literally insane because the world is changing in ways they cannot comprehend.
What happens when an indoctrinated imperial core faces the real contradictions of their own ideology?
I’m no political analyst so I don’t know what he did … what I do know is what he didn’t do, namely to actually do something significant against the growing oligarchy that he is talking about.
I also know nothing and want to talk about my feeling based opinions. Let’s start a club.
Just make it a political party! A Know-Nothing Party!
Another liberal down. Bye!
He’s historically been more “traditionally conservative” and neoliberal than anywhere near progressive. Conservatism/neoliberalism has destroyed the middle class and crushed the entire working class; sowing the seeds for fascism.
Long history of support for Israel’s genocide too. Very pro military industrial complex.
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden said.
Today? No Biden, it’s been there for five decades and longer.
It’s threatened the lives of every non white male that’s been a victim of institutional racism, sexism, and discrimination and outright taken many of those lives.
True, but today they no longer try to hide what they do. They are doing everything in the open and significant part of the population is cheering them.
It is mind blowing.
Yeah, I’d say it’s closer to since at least the 1800s. Maybe longer.
John Brown called it out at his trial pre-Civil War.
For those who are unaware, he was a white abolitionist who facilitated a slave rebellion in Harper’s Ferry, WV. He was caught and ultimately executed for his “crimes”, but at his trial he basically said if he had done the same thing for the rich and powerful, he’d have been lauded as a hero, but since he did it for the poor and enslaved, he was branded a criminal.
Relevant Excerpt: “I have another objection, and that is, that it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner, and which I admit has been fairly proved, – for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case, – had I so interfered in behalf of the Rich, the Powerful, the Intelligent, the so–called Great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this Court would have deemed it an act worthy a reward, rather than a punishment.”
Full Text: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/t-05508-051.pdf
I highly recommend people read his full speech if they haven’t. Pretty powerful stuff from a man who wanted the right thing done but wasn’t going to wait around for others to do it for him.
But yeah, America has been owned by the rich and powerful since forever.
The original Luigi.
I agree. But also, why didn’t you do anything about it when you had the chance?
Remember when he was promising to increase taxes on anyone making $400,000 or more? At the first opportunity (the first debate) the media started attacking only him (BTW completely ignoring trump) until he suspended his campaign.
Harris took over, but notice that that promise disappeared.
Harris wanted to raise taxes on those making 400,000 just like biden, it didn’t disappear at all. She also talked about introducing an unrealized gains tax on those with gains worth more than 100 million. You can’t say she didn’t want to increase taxes on the rich unless you ignore her policy proposals.
While I don’t know about this particular promise, Harris’s campaign progressively dropped or watered down economic policy promises as the election got closer. I can’t find the source, but there was an article here after the election with data on this.
I do remember that. But I also remember he was president for 3 years prior to that promise, and a whole year afterwards, and he made no move to action that.
Biden wasn’t a bad president, but he wasn’t a great one either.
The problem with republicans is that they’re actively evil.
The problem with democrats is that they’re too disorganised and fractured to actually follow through on their plans.
Trump could make a political promise that all americans will be forced to eat his turds unless they pay a 1 million dollar yearly fine.
That bill would pass, because they’re united on everything, and their only goal is others suffering.
Biden could make a promise that all americans will pay an extra $1 yearly tax to fund a way to solve homelessness in major cities.
Bidens plan wouldn’t pass, because democrats would bicker how the fine details would work, meanwhile, we still have to eat trumps daily turds.
too disorganised and fractured
Disorganized is doing a lot of work there. It really comes down to the fact that they just don’t get quite enough votes to get much done. You can call the Senate seat from West Virginia “fractured”, which is technically true, but that seat was a miracle in the first place.
People keep wanting to blame “the Democrats” when the same exact thing happens to Republicans. But it doesn’t matter, because voters expect something from the Dems when they have 49-51 seats. When Republicans are in the same position, they just have to stop the Dems. They couldn’t even repeal the ACA. Did that matter? Did they get called “fractured” for not delivering on that campaign promise? What about The Wall? Isn’t that supposed to be ten feet higher by now?
Democrats have to deliver the moon. Republicans just have to prevent Democrats from getting to the moon. Somehow that makes them “more effective” in the eyes of the voters.
Perfect is the enemy of good
Remember when the establishment kept repeating he was the greatest President in history
No I literally don’t remember that.
Because he doesn’t believe it and he’s just as guilty. If the Democrats truly believed what they were saying about Trump they’d be organising their own January 6th. They didn’t so they expect things to not change that much or to come back soon. Alternatively, they are grossly incompetent and not worth supporting.
If they truly believed all this Biden should have used an “official act” to deal with the problem once and for all. The supreme court gave him a blank check and he refused to cash it.
When Republicans owned the Senate and more importantly the Supreme Court?
Why didn’t you?
Probably because he’s not in politics
Why didn’t he join politics when he had the chance and win the presidency and singlehandedly abolish democracy and captitalism and solve all of the US’s problems instantaneously!
I solely place the blame of the state of our country at the feet of u/Godort and all other Lemmy tankies who have not lifted a finger to solve our problems to their own satisfaction.
Dear god he is so unbelievably feckless. And the most astounding part is that he seems to genuinely think he did a good job all around.
He did not do a good job. The bare minimum for doing a good job is not letting fascists take over.
Letting them take over? Does authoring the Patriot Act and the crime bill leading to our present system of mass incarceration, not to mention his relationship with MBNA, qualify Biden as some kind of egalitarian in your world? The fascists have been here for a while, my son.
This is a prime example of how the Overton window has shifted so far right, the average person has a political amnesia, and how strong the US corporate dictatorships propaganda is.
Joe Biden — the lifelong neoliberal who sowed the seeds for fascism, financed by corporate Americas plutocracy — had his history rewritten and reframed as though he’s a progressive. While he may have adopted progressive policies in the last decade, he shifted with the political wind of the average voter, and didn’t hold those beliefs until they became politically advantageous.
Biden, fuck you too. Fuck the DNC.
Yeah well, 64 years ago Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex and we’ve all seen how that warning got completely ignored.
Dawg we had Washington warn about the 2 party system, we never listen
Biden has been in federal politics for over 80% of the time since Eisenhower said that.
Ironic that Biden brought that up when he called out the tech industrial complex. Americans do not learn.
Did they ask chatgpt to write that or they literally think people are stupid?
probably both.
Says the guy that pardoned his own son 🙄
I mean his son was the target of politically motivated prosecution. Biden should’ve pardoned other people in similar situations, but pardoning his son wasn’t wrong. In other words, the fact that other people deserved these pardons doesn’t invalidate its use for Hunter.
Biden legitimized Trump’s claims of politically motivated prosecutions when he pardoned his son.
I mean it was literally politically motivated so that’s that. Did you want him to martyr his innocent-ish son to not legitimize Trump’s claims? Because I personally wouldn’t expect that from anyone.
Just giving the people what they voted for. A complete lack of accountability among the leaders of the country and anyone who associates with them.
That’s nepotism, totally different thing
/s
You wouldn’t pardon your own son?
You wouldn’t download a pardon.
Stfu you would pardon your own son/daughter too.
Maybe but I wouldn’t complain about oligarchs while acting like an oligarch
You mean the oligarchy he helped set up?
The Alzheimer must be kicking in
Ukraine war was for the oligarchy. Administration justified the job creation of giving weapons, oil industry was funded with ammunition/profits to support Republicans and global warming denial, Europe subjugated to extortion and terrorism, and Blackrock has been able to buy up Ukrainian assets, especially farm land, at deep discounts, with Ukrainian loans likely to be swapped with more assets in the future.
Tech/AI oligarchy has been incorporated into “national security arms of fascism” with their competition suppressed, and Israel and low taxes for these ultra high margin tech oligarchs encouraged to fund the most pro oligarch candidate. Israel first oligarchs, which Biden/DNC pandered to, ensured the election result.
US extreme corruption of democracy for oligarchy and empire, including by Biden, as worst so far, is just firmly entrenched now that Israel supremacism is top US political devotion.
Biden campaigning in 2020: I’m going to put guardrails in place to stop all this corruption and this slouch towards fascism. I’m going to Save the Soul of America.
Biden leaving office in 2025: Why didn’t anybody do anything?!?
Biden: I am a proud zionist, and we would have to invent an Israel (to destablize middle east). Russian objections to NATO expansion don’t matter, because Russians want to be controlled by US.
And Congress had to lift the ban on arming Nazis in order to send the arms to Ukraine.
