I’ve been trying to stay out of electoral politics recently, and it’s been fairly easy since my Facebook account was disabled in the Great FB Purge of 2020. But now that the voting is over, I think it’s time to make some things clear. First off: The left hates Joe Biden.
Just to make sure you saw that:
THE LEFT HATES JOE BIDEN.
The left doesn’t hate Joe Biden because he isn’t Bernie Sanders. The left was actually kind of lukewarm about Sanders. Sanders was not what the left wanted but rather the compromise the left was willing to live with. We may have seemed overly enthusiastic because we were incredibly happy to possibly, maybe have the option of someone who was not a sack of shit. The left hates Joe Biden because he is Joe Biden — because we see plainly what he is. And if you want a list of reasons why we hate him, just ask a Democrat what’s so good about him, dissect each item on that list, and you’ll figure it out for yourself. Or you can keep reading.
The 2020 election was a real shitshow, and the primary cause was the American people themselves. If ever a nation needed to learn how to have some solidarity and stop letting con men run the government, it is the USA right now. But now that we’ve chosen which of the two sacks of shit with obvious cognitive impairment will be handed the keys to our ridiculously overpowered Presidency, we should really look at the new kind of horror that we’re heading into and figure out something resembling a strategy.
Let me suggest that this strategy include calling Joe Biden a sack of shit.
Joe Biden is a Puppet
I was trying to remember why the Democrats like Joe Biden, so I googled it, and all I found was something by a right-winger trying to figure out the same thing. And the crux of that essay was that Joe Biden is a puppet for Marxists. Wow! The fact that billionaires control our government isn’t a secret. They are not doing a conspiracy. It’s right out in the open. Two political parties, Republican and Democrat, both serving their own set of billionaires, with no regard for the material conditions of the American people. Completely obvious. But this guy thinks Joe Biden is a puppet for “Marxists”.
Yes, Joe Biden is a puppet, just not for anyone on the left. Marx would have hated Joe Biden, and he would have hated Joe Biden’s puppeteers, just like the left hates both of those things. Any noteworthy leftist — anywhere on the entire planet — hates Joe Biden.
Touching & Sniffing
Did they think people would just forget the weird sniffing, the inappropriate touching? The fact that Joe Biden is so out of touch that he couldn’t see it as a problem? The narrative appears to be that he’s so old that his behaviors were molded before these new-fangled non-touching ideas were created by overly strident youngsters (Democrats and Tucker Carlson agree on this). Yes, they explained to him that our culture had moved on to a place where consent matters, and he says he “gets it” but I think it is clear that between these inappropriate moments and the weird verbal gaffes, Biden’s presidency is going to be a constant embarrassment to the country — just like Trump’s was. Just don’t blame the left for it — we hate him.
Quiet Misogyny
Joe Biden completely failed women during the Anita Hill hearings, and though his campaign certainly marketed him as supporting the bodily autonomy of women, indications are that he personally opposes abortion based on his Roman Catholic faith. There’s no reason to think that he will fight for the right of women to control their own bodies, and we hate him for it.
Mass Incarceration
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, Joe Biden spent his time overhauling crime laws in cooperation with Republican segregationist senators. The mass incarceration nightmare that the US is today — eclipsing every other nation in the world in terms of percentage of population imprisoned — is directly attributable to Joe Biden. That program of mass incarceration is an extension of Richard Nixon’s war on drugs, which itself is an extension of Jim Crow — so it should not be a surprise that while Black people make up only 12% of the US population, they are 33% of the people in prison. No legislator who participated in this horror should have a job in politics today, but there he is, and we hate him for it.
The Assault Weapons Ban
In 1994, Biden helped ban “assault weapons” as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. This bill was part of Biden’s fear-based “get tough on crime” performance during that time. The fiction he and his fellow vultures pushed was essentially that Black gangs were going to get machine guns were it not for the Assault Weapons Ban, and the white suburbs ate it up. The result was an incoherent law that didn’t change the lethality of the weapons available to Americans. All it managed to do was get right wingers really pissed off. And now, when the very real threat of genocide is once again at our doorstep, Joe Biden wants a do-over on the assault weapon ban. What’s not to hate?
Gutting Welfare
Biden participated in the gutting of the US welfare system. It was spearheaded by Bill Clinton, a real sack of shit in his own right. We’re still seeing the consequences of those disastrous policy changes today. For example, the number of people in deep or extreme poverty has more than doubled. The left hates anyone who drives people into poverty and makes it so they can’t escape.
Banking Deregulation
Joe Biden voted to repeal Glass-Steagall and participated in the larger banking deregulation push that happened under the Clinton administration. That set us up for economic disaster and helped unscrupulous bankers get even richer. Banks are the core institution pushing capitalism along as it crushes humanity, and the left hates them.
School Desegregation
Remember how he worked with segregationist senators on mass incarceration? Well he also opposed school desegregation. It’s almost like he wasn’t really “working with” segregationists so much as he was just simply a segregationist. It’s gross, and the left hates it.
Iraq War
The Iraq War is a point in time that a lot of people like to talk about because it was truly obscene how they manufactured obvious excuses for invading Iraq (twice!) and how jackasses in the Democratic party ignored their reasonable, peaceful colleagues and supported the horrific destruction and resource grab that followed. And Biden was one of those jackasses.
Climate Change
It’s already too late to do anything but mitigate climate change — but with Joe Biden at the helm, the US won’t even bother doing that. We’re going to fly this fucking thing right into the ground.
We Can Say What We Think
The historic nature of Obama’s presidency and the swirling racism surrounding him made it very difficult to air the many, many legitimate criticisms of his administration. Thankfully, Joe has none of that. He’s just obviously a big old sack of shit. And that’s why I’m here, coming out of the gate at a full gallop, to tell you about it.
I do not care at all that he has apologized for most of the things in the above list. If someone keeps fucking up, you don’t promote the sack of shit. You certainly do not promote him to President of the United States.
The most important thing about declaring Biden to be a sack of shit is that we can build solidarity with other Americans in doing so. Many of us know he is a sack of shit — we can talk with other people (even conservatives!) and work through exactly why he is a sack of shit and then use our new shared understanding of his shittiness to move forward and start making some better decisions.
Please.