The Official Gosh Darned Biden Thread

[Belacqua]

Thank you for showing us who you really are, seax.

I don't like all the "fuck you" rhetoric, but that kind of talk is considered acceptable on this forum. If we take that out, though, so far what he's been saying about politics is true. 

They might as well be rigging the machines, because there is no effective difference between letting TV addled lemmings decide political outcomes & simply letting corporate America make up the vote counts.

There's no question that the propaganda is effective. Fox tells one set of lies and MSNBC tells another set of lies, and a shockingly large number of people believe it. So if we tone down the rhetoric here he's essentially correct. The Princeton study found that the US doesn't have a democracy that's responsive to what people want. It's true that corporations decide.

Biden bombing Syria? The government surveillance system that far outdoes anything they had even in prisons a hundred years ago? Assange thrown in prison for exposing the crimes of the Bush administration? 

This is all true. Biden is continuing the illegal bombing of Syria, surveillance is uncontrolled, Assange is in prison for telling the truth. 

Deregulation which was no only upheld, but advanced by the Democrat Bill Clinton. [...] Then made even worse under the Republican George Bush. [...] Then the Democrat Obama bailed out the banks so they wouldn't have to face any consequences for their reckless lending, even as countless Americans lost their homes. Sure, some of the most reckless banks still haven't regained their market share from 2008, but the bank bosses made off with severance packages bigger than anything the average American could ever dream of.

This is all true.

Then the Republican(?) Trump did almost nothing for four years & the entire world was treated to the hysterical screeching of every news anchor & hysterical childless woman of how evil he was for saying some things, except the one time when he murdered a few people in Syria & we were told that was very 'presidential,' or that one time he murdered a foreign statesman & we were treated to endless, utterly enraging gloating from the American media.

I wouldn't put a question mark after Republican, because I think Trump enacted a pretty normal Republican program. But if we tone down the rhetoric it's true. The media saved their greatest praise for Trump when he attacked Syria. 

Now the Democrat Joe Biden is in office, & you're going to get another four years of favours for bankers, rapidly increasing corporate control of the US government, your tax dollars paying for the murder of women & children on the other side of the world, billions of dollars for Israel to pay for her illegal settlements, growing income inequality, declining infrastructure, cultural degradation and the neverending growth of the security state at the expense of your civil liberties. Or, in more concise terms, the same thing you got under Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama & Donald Trump.

I'm concerned about the phrase "cultural degradation." If this refers to white power or whatever, then it's bad. But if it means the dumbing down and gutting of American cultural life it's true. 

But this time, you're going to cheer for it because the corporate salesman on your TV screen tells you that Biden is a nice man that cares about you and has a heart, plus he wears a blue tie instead of a red one. National direction? Values? Purpose? Meaning? Culture? Justice? Freedom? Beauty?

I agree that Biden is pretty bad, and no different from a normal Republican. 

Again, if "Values" and "National direction" refer to some kind of racial purity or something, then of course I don't agree. But if we're referring to things like "valuing life over profit" or "working to improve the lives of the majority," then I'd agree. 

Maybe it's true that Seax is some kind of white supremacist evil Nazi. But so far what he's said is reasonable.