JimmyBigSausageIn honor of Joe Biden and his prime time speech Monday instead of Thursday.
inb4_FoundTheVeganSo PBS Frontline has this new documentary that I watched a few weeks ago, “Biden’s Decision”. As a leftist that voted against Trump, not FOR Biden I figured I could probably learn more.
But it was honestly shocking to me that the entire crux of the piece was “Get back up” and “Determination” for all the times Biden ran for president, he himself never really gave a good reason why. Biden decided he wanted to be president, and therefore he spent his whole life either running for president, not because he felt he was the most qualified or best for the country. But because he wanted to. Biden wanted to be the one in charge, but historically, he never had a base who wanted him? Dude only got to the White House when Obama balanced his ticket and then again when his best qualifcation was “Literally Not Trump”.
So while I am glad he dropped out, and somewhat happy for Biden for achieving a life goal, I guess? Still don’t see a compelling reason to be enthusiastic for the man, but eye opening that no one has ever been very enthaustic for him. Biden stepping down was the right thing to do, just not the thing he wanted to do. Not really sure that is deserving of praise. Humility isn’t exactly a noble virtue it’s the standard expectation of decent folk. At least it should be, not this running for the sake of running.
Biden's Decision (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Jo MiranGen-X here, and likely to be downvoted to hell in this thread, but I remember Biden from the 90’s. He was…not a good guy. He had what you might call MAGA energy back then. Constantly fear mongering about crime. Yes, both he and Clinton recently admitted that the “tough on crime” thing was a mistake, but that doesn’t really help the situation we find ourselves in now where a significant portion of the population is incarcerated and facing near impossible odds if they ever get out. Their families and society as a whole have paid the price for a few men’s political ambitions.
So, yeah, old man Joe ended up being a fairly decent president (after getting old as fuck, having one son die and the other become a total.loser piece of shit), but he was never “good guy Joe”.
He had what you might call MAGA energy back then. Constantly fear mongering about crime.
Here, I’ll take some of your downvotes - if being “tough on crime” gives you MAGA energy (and I agree, it does), then what energy does that mean ex-prosecutor, “top cop” Harris has?
The answer is, it doesn’t matter, she is a liberal icon - a Black girl boss (so that’s racism and sexism solved! /s), a democrat (making her the antifasciest of antifascists, don’t you know), and maintainer of the status quo (all libs really care about, they find comfort in the system and want it to continue as it is).
Sure, She’s-Not-Trump™, but that doesn’t make her (or anyone the right leaning democratic party would put up) actually good for you, it just means that those in charge get one of their own in, whoever wins.
And that is the point of the two party system. Shame people are so desperate for a feeling of belonging and community (a feature, not a bug) that they substitute that with uncritical support of team red or team blue, when in reality they should be for “team citizen”, which neither party is.