Fuck Joe Manchin Biden Already
July 9, 2022
Joe Biden is facing
unprecedented challenges. He had to follow the most criminal, anti-democratic,
ignorant, vengeful and most impeached president in American history. Biden had
to carry on after his predecessor attempted to overturn the 2020 election. After
the tool he helped insert into the White House had been ousted in a landslide,
Vladimir Putin went berserk and invaded Ukraine, razing the entire country and
upending the word’s economy. Biden also had to try to reverse Turmp’s deadly
response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden of course, has
had to deal with all of this while the disloyal opposition, led by Bitch BcConnell
(I’m sorry, I have a cold) and fellow traveler Joe Mansion stood in constant,
unwavering obstruction at every turn. On top of that, the Turmp-addled Extreme
Court has decided that they run the country, legislating from the besotted
bench on everything from shooting down gun control, to aborting reproductive
rights, to eviscerating environmental protection and coming soon to an
ex-democracy near you – our handing our entire election infrastructure over to
the party that believes any election they lost was illegitimate. And don’t look
now, but rumor has it (as of this moment) that Clarence Thomas hopes to rescind
the Fourteenth Amendment. According to Thomas, “I would rather see Black people
once again in chains, where they always belonged, than allow a bunch of
Democrats, liberals, Blacks, women and Jews have any say in how this country
goes about its business.”* In case you missed it, Clarence Thomas, by all
appearances, is an African American, though it would not be surprising to hear
him deny it. Certainly, his actions have done nothing to contradict that
impression.
Cleaning up after
Turmp was never going to be easy – trying to bring this country back from the
brink of fascism and irrelevance. The political equivalent of rebuilding
Hiroshima. Thanks to the juggernaut campaign of perpetual upstart Bernie
Sanders, Biden – for decades, the senator from Delaware Citibank – had
to at least appear to walk away from the pro-corporate, centrist nature of his
entire political career.
Biden has talked a
pretty good game since running for and taking office. And it is understandable
that he would go out of his way to bring a completely different persona from
the feces-flinging, rabid-dog, psycho-killer image (and reality) of Donald
Turmp. That walk-softly-and-carry-a-limp-stick, kindly grandpa façade Biden
exuded was all well and good at first, but what this country – especially those
who voted for Biden – needs now is a fighter. An energetic defender of women,
people of color and all the people without “Inc.” after their names. Biden
thinks he is still living in a political ecosystem where one can reach
agreements with the opposing party. Wake up and smell the napalm, Joe.
The Joe You Know
Biden helped usher
Clarence Thomas onto the Supreme Court, in part by protecting Uncle T from the
extremely credible allegations of Anita Hill and others who accused Thomas of
sexual misconduct.
Biden sponsored a
bankruptcy bill that successfully
erected numerous roadblocks for everyday Americans struggling with debt in
order to protect credit card companies, and doing so just before the financial
crisis of 2008. You may remember that Obama and Biden subsequently
bailed out the banks and not the people in their attempt to pull the U.S. out
of the economic disaster left behind by George WTF Bush. As if the Biden Backed Bankruptcy Bill was
not bad enough, it completely eliminated the ability to discharge generally
usurious student loan debt. It is very likely that this was the single piece of
legislation most responsible for our current student debt crisis.
That was then, this
is now…
Defenders of Social
Security on Tuesday urged the U.S. Senate to block President Joe Biden's
little-noticed nomination of Andrew
Biggs—an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow with a history of
supporting Social Security privatization—to serve on the independent and
bipartisan Social Security Advisory Board (call your senators at 202-224-3121
to put a stop to this one).
It appears that not
only was there some sort of unconfirmed backroom deal
percolating between Biden and McConnell to appoint an anti-abortion Federalist
Society denizen as a federal judge –- set to take effect just as McConnell’s
hand-picked coat-hanger aficionados aborted Roe v. Wade. Any Democrat who
thinks dealing with McConnell will end well has either been asleep for the past
20 years or just lacks the balls to kick Moscow Mitch where his may or may not
still be. Or maybe I’m just sick to death of rich, old white guys running
things.
Just like the
extremely weak gun reform shepherded through by Dems and signed into law by
Biden, which did little more than give Ratpublicans the ability to claim they
did something, Biden’s new executive order on abortion access is more window
dressing than body armor. And Biden wonders why his poll numbers are so low.
Turmp at least had the advantage of the unwavering stupidity and
Sterno-drinking-blind loyalty of his millions of fanatical followers. Biden is
getting no love from either side of the aisle while he puts us all to sleep.
Biden appears to be
moving in cowardly slow motion at a time when he needs to stomp on the
accelerator (notice I did not say ‘gas pedal’) and bring on the road rage
before he gets t-boned in the midterms.
All of this begs the
question: Is Joe Biden just ineffective and ill-equipped for this moment in
history, or just returning to his roots?
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*Possibly not a real quote…at least not one spoken aloud.
I. Mangrey reconfiguring.
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