Biden proves that corporate Dems are incapable of learning
Even an inbred domesticated pet can learn simple tricks, but corporate Democrats...Let's just say that they are further down the evolutionary ladder.
Joe Biden proved that today.
"Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made," he said. "This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House. This time they have an ally. They're a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society."
At least he didn't say "deplorables."
Why do establishment Dems think that insulting a third of the electorate is a good idea?
And why are establishment Dems incapable of learning from 2016? Why do they think Biden is the "solution"?
Amid discussion of resistance to Trump, he surprised me with talk of 2020, when he’ll turn 78. “I’ll run,” the vice president deadpanned, “if I can walk.” Three days later, he informed the Washington press corps that he wasn’t joking.Biden isn’t likely to run, but keeping the door ajar gives him a bigger voice in Democratic Party debates. The one that worries him most is over repositioning to win back Trump voters. He has little patience with Democrats who want to move either left or right. “ ‘We gotta move to the center,’ ‘We gotta move to those white guys,’ ‘We gotta move to those working-class people’ or ‘We gotta double down on the social agenda.’ ” It’s a false choice, he said: “They are totally compatible. I have never said anything to the A.C.L.U. that I wouldn’t say to the Chamber of Commerce.”
A 75-year old insider that dropped out of the race in 2008, after capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus, and who "occupies the sensible center of the Democratic Party."
That just screams excitement, does it not? /s
And yet the establishment continues to try to force Joe Biden down our throats, but their recent effort is more laughable than most.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 7 percentage points in a head-to-head match-up, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.A plurality of registered voters, 44 percent, said they’d choose Biden in the 2020 presidential election, while 37 percent of voters said they would vote for Trump.
The percentage of Democrats who would choose Biden — 80 percent — was slightly higher than the 78 percent of Republicans who would vote for the president‘s reelection. The former vice president, who ran for the White House in 1988 and 2008, has been floated as a 2020 contender, and Biden himself has said he’s not ruling out a third try.
OK. You following this so far?
Creepy Joe is the overwhelming favorite, especially amoung Democrats, right?
No. In fact, they are counting on you to not read the very next paragraph, which destroys the entire narrative.
Biden holds a less-than-commanding position within his own party: Among Democrats, an unnamed generic Democrat runs 9 points better than Biden in a match-up with Trump. "Notably, 89 percent of Democrats say they would vote for a generic Democrat over Trump, but only 80 percent of Democrats say they prefer Biden over Trump,” said Morning Consult Managing Director Tyler Sinclair.
In other words, Democrats would prefer almost ANY other Democrat over Biden.
It turns out that Biden was the only Democratic choice given in this poll, which makes it a push-poll.
Because Biden and whoever his supporters may be right now have apparently missed the memo, let's break this situation down.
First, American voters on each side of the traditional partisan aisle are shouting loudly and clearly that they're tired of establishment politicians.
...And now along comes Biden, with his decades in Congress and eight years as vice president portraying himself as a possible great hope?Please
Let's take a moment to remember who Joe really is.
He voted for the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, enabling commercial banks to do business across state lines, and the Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act of 1999, overturning Glass-Steagall, which separated commercial and investment banks....
Biden also demonstrated his fealty to finance in 2005 when he, like Hillary Clinton, backed the innocuously named Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, heavily pushed by MBNA, which weakened bankruptcy protections for consumers.
....Biden voted “yea” on the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 referred to as “welfare reform”.
...As Matt Ferner and Nick Wing of Huffington Post reported back in September of 2015, he co-sponsored the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 which expanded civil asset forfeitures in which law enforcement seize property suspected of being involved in a crime, without Due Process. Ferner and Wing continue on to explain that “Biden authored portions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which created a 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.”
...Biden was for the 1994 crime bill which, among other things, allocated $10 billion for the construction of new prisons and incentivised states to pass “truth-in-sentencing” laws.
And, of course, Biden voted for the Patriot Act and the Iraq War.
I've enjoyed watching the progressive grassroots give the establishment fits the past couple years, but it needs to win a LOT more battles in the next couple years, because the Democratic Party establishment lacks the slightest clue.
Only a full-scale overthrow of the neoliberals, like what happened with Corbyn in the UK Labour Party, will be enough. The leaders in the Democratic Party are hopeless.
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The fact that they still trot Biden out as a Dem spokesman
speaks volumes about the depth of the Democratic Party establishment. They have NO competent bench warmers. They’re running on fumes.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
They Are Bucking for an Article V Convention.
Only a few more states to lose and the corporate sponsors can ghost write the New™ Constitution.
Not joking. If Q goes bust, that's our immediate future. They'll fix this broken political system...
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Not sure the pols think the system is broken
and trump could be our last prez
whatever the case D's simply aren't/
wont be needed for much longer
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/17/cyrus-sanai-federal-court-employees-...
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
We should be glad, gjohnsit!
I hope they do run Biden and he falls flat on his face. This will hasten the demise of the Democratic Party and make room in the political spectrum for a truly progressive Party.
Regarding retreads, I see that Bill Daley has thrown his hat into the ring for
Boss of All BossesMayor of Chicago. Another retread but possibly a baby step up from the odious Rahm Emanuel.I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Biden's 3rd run for President by my count
Maybe it's 4 times. The 1st time didn't go so well after he was accused of plagiarizing from Neil Kinnock. The second time didn't go so well either until Obama made him the VP candidate. I remember watching a 60 minutes program on him years ago, I think in the late 70's when I was a kid, and he related how convinced he was that he would be President some day. Not my favorite at all, but I would vote for him over Trump in a second.
Beware the bullshit factories.
ahh.....
The ole lessor of two evils vote.
I would chose neither.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Go lesser evilism
I'll vote for Dick Cheney over Adolph Hitler.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Again?
Lessor of two evils?
Astounding.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I think it's the lesser evil not the lessor evil
Landlords are lessors and they can be pretty f**king evil. Just look at Trump and Jared and his dad.
Beware the bullshit factories.
If Hitler shaved his face
could you tell the difference?
I couldn't vote for Biden
He's a good example of everything that is wrong with the Dems.
I'd vote 3rd party in a heartbeat.
At least Biden knows what he's doing
Beware the bullshit factories.
'Biden understands shit
AFAIK Biden is a warmonger extraordinaire, and a committed neoliberal to boot.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Biden for bidet!
Good post gj. Biden is Mr. Establishement, the epitome of what is wrong with the Dem party. Like Clinton, Bush, Trump, Obama, a master at pretending he is there for you. But not really. He's there for corporate America. You are right they haven't learned a thing. Look at the Hillary Atlantic piece (have barf bag handy). They are self-righteous at a level the precludes objective reflection or introspection. They are a psychopathic mix of ego, greed, power and war monger. They are meeting Einstein's definition of insanity very well, doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I guess a thousand seat loss is no cause for concern. Its those low-info dregs, and Russia, and Jill Stein, and promises of ponies. Same people running the ship into the same ground. The same 30% of blind followers will always follow their leaders, no matter what, be it Trumpsters or DemBots. The independents can decide the election, if they decide to.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Jo Biden & Anita Hill--Forever Linked Together
Joe Biden did not handle the attacks on Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings very well and he looks even weaker when viewed through the lens of the #MeToo era. Biden cannot change history, no matter what he says today.
It seems to me that . . .
letting women willing to give similar testimony, well within the power of the chair, would have given her a significant burst of support. But his "Republican friends" might not have rushed over to compliment him on how nonpartisan he'd been.
Heck of a job, Joe.
I watched those ‘hearings’. I wanted
to reach through the television and slap that bastid up one side and down the other. Him and his smarmy ass talking down to her like she was the reason for the hearings. She didn’t file a complaint, she wasn’t suing anyone. It started because of an FBI check into Clarence’s background:
Even when she could provide a defense against the panel’s unspoken but loudly transmitted misogyny (which she should NOT have had to do), she already been cut off at the pass by happy hands Unca Joe Biden. He left her there to hang there at the mercy of those other assholes, particularly that SOB Arlen Spector.
Everyone, especially women who believe the hype about this horrible old loser, should watch those hearings. Because no woman who says she supports equal treatment and a safe world for women could possibly support this guy. Just stop and think about it. IF someone else was leading that panel, and IF Anita Hill had been treated like a witness not a defendant, and IF there had been at least one or two women on that panel, would women still get half the bad rap we do? Those hearings REINFORCED every negative stereotype that women have had to put up with since we dropped out of the trees.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Can’t wipe out student debt through bankruptcy? Thank Joe Biden.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=joe+biden+bankruptcy+bill
Dealbreakers for me? Joe Biden’s many favors to the banks. And his role in getting Clarence Thomas onto the Supreme Court.