Saturday, July 9, 2022

Biden, His Time?

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.

Take that thing out of reverse and floor it, gramps

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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