Placone Says It Perfectly

Ron Placone recently posted a farewell letter to Joe Biden. He says most everything I've been thinking perfectly, so I thought I'd post it here and let others have a read. He first writes about the good things Biden (or ByeDone ) did: appointing Lina Khan, for instance, and finally delivering a net neutrality FCC after a 3 year wait. And that's about it... Ohh yea, there's the drilling ban he just instituted, which Trump'll overturn immediately. So that's another good thing! Right? And yet it's really just another fake positive act in our country's political theater; an act which means nothing in reality, no matter which 'side' does it.

Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, 5 Dec 2024, from www.chappatte.com, for the Boston Globe.

Here's some points Placone makes which I think are spot on and which I am going to add a bit to:
Biden is coddled, and he has 'been on the wrong side of nearly everything his entire career'. Yep, he is, and yes, he has. I remember disliking him back when I lived in Philly, because he was so 'bought', even then. And that was 40 years ago!

Biden's true legacy is going to be genocide. It's going to be the decaying country and climate. It's going to be 'a long list of broken promises.' It's going to be wars, and giving us Trump a second time. Ohh and the Crime Bill. Yea, can't forget that. And giving us Kamala! Sheez. Now, maybe Biden wasn't in charge through the last 4 years, ok, we KNOW he wasn't in charge. He's senile and dementia ridden. But all that his administration has done has been in his name. He's still to blame, and the results are not any different that what would have happened if he'd been there mentally, and true to his previous actions and career.

Placone finishes his letter to Biden with this:

Many speculate (about) your health. I have no idea what’s wrong with you, but I think it’s safe to say something’s up. You’re not well. I have the same message for you that you had for my generation and the one after mine: “I have no empathy”.

Bye. Done.

Yep.

Ron Placone wrote another piece after the recent elections reflecting on where we are heading, and beyond. Once again, despite how depressing it is, I basically have to agree with him on almost all his points about the worsening of already bad domestic and foreign policies, and so on, although I'm not sure it's the American people who made it worse. Does voting even matter? Do we have any power, really, us Americans? It's all one party, isn't it? What do you think?

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