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Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Sometimes I get the vibe that this is all according to keikaku and that these past couple elections were just the ruling class realizing via Trump just how much they can actually get away with. They love Trump's policies, but they're worried Trump's persona is too off putting and perhaps they don't fully trust him, so they put Biden in the white house for a little while to install some child proofing on the levers of power before letting Trump back in to maul the working class and take all of the blame for it.
I doubt they love his policies. He fucked up so much of the empire last time. The petite bourgeois love him though
Eh... Biden did far more damage to the US' hegemony and prospects of ever maintaining dominance into the future.
Doing a genocide for 15 months while trying to ignore dissent at home.
Continuing to send an entire country into a meat grinder in Ukraine to "weaken Russia" (but more importantly keep Raytheon's stock price up).
Doing absolutely nothing domestically to actually fix the post-covid inflation. Specifically in housing (18% increase in homelessness in a year... holy...), healthcare, food prices. Many other areas as well. He didn't even try to do anything.
Keeping and expanding Trump's racist anti-immigrant policies
Tariffs on China specifically the things we need more like solar panels (again just expanding Trump's worst policies)
Speaking of solar, doing effectively nothing to restrict oil corporations from continuing to pump out CO2. Very, very little domestic investment into critical sectors like solar. (Tariffs on foreign solar panels while domestically not really ramping up production... I wonder what the result will be?)
Basically anything Trump did that was bad Biden continued it or made it worse. There were very few things he did that were good like finally ending US prescence in Afghanistan (which was a Trump policy also, but Biden did execute it so that's good)
I think it's best to not think of them as Trump/Biden administrations but rather just all a continuation of the same core ideology. They don't really disagree on anything. Even the stuff Biden claimed to disagree on he's either ignored for four years (with the media's help) or just swapped sides.
It's hard to explain exactly, but I think I also sometimes get stuck in the mode of "there are probably "smart" evil guys in there somewhere and they just aren't getting what they want enough. Instead the dumb evil guys (John Bolton, Kirby... fucking Biden himself, etc.) are getting what they want." But at a certain point I just sort of resign myself to the apparent truth that there are no more smart evil guys... all that's left are these husks like Biden. Fully incapable of accepting reality in ways that the guys in the 1960s or 70s would have. None of these current dinguses have any clue what the actual purpose and goal of the US empire even is. They drank their own koolaid. They're swimming around, lost in an ocean of their own sauce. They've forgotten this is all supposed to continue the support apparatus for the enrichment of capitalists. They started believing that their actions are actually good, not the calculated evils that people in the past seem to have understood. This is not to jerk off those demons, btw. It's just acknowledging that while evil at least they displayed an amount of competence. Now we have... like I said, John Kirby. That guy is a legitimate fucking moron. Listen to him. Listen to all them. These people are the dumbest but also most evil pieces of shit that could possibly end up with slivers of power. They're just doing a dance that sort of resembles what their predecessors did publicly without understanding why they did it. It's all rot from laziness and apathy. The delusion of "we "won" because we deserved it." Well, if they keep telling themselves that, as they are doing, the losing will only continue to accelerate.
Biden kept repeating for four years "Because we're the United States of America, damnit! We can do anything." Saying that while never doing anything positive and only ever doing negative things pretty much sums up everything
Yeah I mean doing the nordstream bombing and putting a liberal sheen on the “end” of the pandemic are truly S tier level evil president accomplishments for the Biden regime. The list just goes on and on…
Somehow people think of Trump as being worse when it comes to covid but objectively Biden’s covid response alone was worse than anything Trump did as President including his Covid response.
Trump said some bullshit and gave insufficient protection measures, Biden completely engineered the social end to any mitigation and took away what meager protections Trump had given.
Biden is, by far, the worst president of my lifetime. I hope his final days are soon and I hope they’re painful.
I dunno I think Biden has furthered the empire, but I can see where you're coming from. Making the EU so dependent on the US, crushing German industry, the war with Russia, the Syrian situation, so much more.
Say what you will about
, but at least he recognized the same material reality as you and I. Biden and his ghouls genuinely do not seem to comprehend the world they exist in. They’re fucking dumb, just absolutely stupid as shit, on top of being evil snd incredibly racist.
Yeah. I write my (perhaps) too long rants on my phone. Usually by about half of what I wrote above my hand is cramping.
I was gonna mention something like "They used to understand material analysis. They actually understood the arguments the Soviets, et al. were making. They didn't agree, but they knew it was important to do the work and understand their "enemies.""
Now days they just rely on there not being anti-capitalist propaganda pumped from anywhere. It's just a given that "USSR was bad and evil and also it was always doomed. US and western style bourgeois democracy and capitalism is the only way. Do not read further. We will just tell you it's dumb and bad and you are dumb and bad if you even entertain the idea of socialism or communism."
It's an unfortunately pretty effective strategy. Most people in the US anyway have zero, and I do mean zero, factual knowledge about the USSR. They don't know anything about China. They probably can't even explain what capitalism is or socialism in basic terms. Everything is multiple layers deep in mysticism around the economy and how things work. Not that it was ever perfect in the past. It's just... really bad now.
What did he fuck up?
Foreign policy wise he was a bit of an oaf. Or an isolationist. An isolationist oaf. Ended the forever war in Afghanistan, made it clear to Iran that nuclear disarmament was a bad idea, messed up plenty of soft power projects, pushed the EU away, fucked up the coup in Venezuela, the "trade war" with China. That's just what I can recall right now. Oh yeah the whole "shithole country" thing
That wasn’t his administration
While killing Suleimani in an Iraqi airfield
He literally started it
He literally started it
Not sure if I recall, he had the whole Muslim ban from ‘shithole countries’
He brokered the deal.
The coup was underway before him, he fucked it up.
The murder of Soleimani was also a massive misstep.
Yes he started the trade war, that was the fuck up.
The pullout of Afghanistan was finalized under Biden but it was Trump’s plan, and Biden even delayed it slightly
Even Obama had been talking a pullout in afghanistan
I categorize that more as one of Obama's broken promises (AKA lies) to the left right up there with closing gitmo
Yeah, just like with Trump, that’s my point
When Obama left office, there was no plan for leaving Afghanistan. He just gestured towards if and never did anything.
When Trump left office there was a specific date on the calendar everyone was supposed to be out by and a timeline that was in progress for leaving.
Those aren’t the same thing
Biden did nothing to prevent the child proofing coming off 100% with the presidential immunity decision
The ruling class doesn’t want to childproof itself. They just used the democrats as a release valve for the Race insurrection and riots of 2020