The Biden Presidency Vol. 3 and 4: Democracy’s Last Stand?

[snuffbox]

Is the media and internet people really running with that as a thing? The audio is right there. He's talking about being proud to have served under the first Black president, serving with the first Black woman in the White House, and nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court,

If Biden's as bad as the past week's 24/7 coverage says, there isn't really a need to stretch and make stuff up.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Curious if @Smues has any comments on this.

Outrage after Biden administration reinstates âbarbaricâ Trump-era hunting rules

Rules allow hunting practices that target bears and wolves, including pups or cubs, on federal land in Alaska

www.theguardian.com

"Sport hunters use the practices, like killing young in their dens, to eliminate predators of caribou, which are considered trophy animals. The killings are probably decimating predator populations on federal Alaskan preserves, said Jeff Ruch, Pacific director with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

The rules come after the Obama administration in 2015 had banned a range of the controversial practices. The Trump administration’s National Park Service (NPS) undid the Obama rules in its final year, and the Biden administration had proposed reinstating the Obama rules.

But it largely re-published the Trump rules, generating dismay and outrage among some environmental groups.

Among other practices, the new rules permit: the killing of wolf and coyote pups in dens; the use of artificial light or dogs to draw bears or wolves and their young out of caves; and using motorboats to kill swimming caribou.

The new rules reinstated a ban on “bear baiting” in which food is used to attract bears that are shot as they approach the bait. Ruch said the Biden administration banned the practice not out of concern for the animals, but because it caused bears to see humans as a food source, which created a safety risk."

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Biden pardoned his son, Hunter. Normally this would bug me but since most of if not all of Trump's legal woes are likely going away, I'm fine with him getting his.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

It makes him look terrible to do this. He specifically said he would not pardon Hunter. There are thousands if not 10's of thousands of people in prison who shouldn't be and he pardons his son. It's a terrible look and it makes the party look corrupt. It's going to be an albatross around the party's neck.

 

[Youth N Asia]

If he goes on a pardoning spree it won’t look near as bad. But ultimately, fuck it. Trump is going to get away with infinitely more.

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Yeah, there's no rules anymore. He has six more weeks of power. If people are gonna hate him, may as well make it memorable.

 

[geniusMoment]

Eh. It won't have any impact on Democrats moving forward the same way the sex stuff didn't hurt Clinton or all the personal Trump scandals didn't hurt Trump.

People only really care about the economy. It's issue 1, 2, 3.4, 5....... until about 100.

If Trumps economy does great Republicans will stay in power and if it blows up like Bush's did Democrats will sweep everything.

 

[909]

Biden still does not plan to pardon his son Hunter, White House says

President Biden said earlier this year he would not pardon his son or commute a potential prison sentence.

www.cbsnews.com

Anyone who still thinks Biden was a good guy or any of that shit, you are out of your fuckin mind. He should be pardoning everyone who investigated Trump among MANY OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE before he leaves office.

This fuckin guy is one of the most selfish people that ever held office in this country. He handed the Republicans the election through numerous selfish decisions and there are still people out there who will defend him. People are willing to excuse anything this guy does even though we completely lost power because he's an egomaniac. This fuckin asshole makes me sick.

For fucking three years this cocksuck was intent on running for election even though people repeatedly said they didn't want him to. 'Please sir will you step down' no I fuckin won't step down and I can't even verbally explain myself so I'm gonna throw the entire election to the Republicans. 'Please sir will you step down again cause you had a debate where you were clearly senile cause it was past your bedtime' no I will not because I just need to go to bed sooner and I need more rest 'Please sir will you step down now even though there's no time left' no I'm gonna wait another two weeks and force everyone to worship me for stepping down at the last second even though it's the most selfish thing in the history of Democratic politics and then when my VP who isn't allowed to criticize me loses I'm not gonna step in to defend any marginalized community and I'm gonna pardon my tax dodging son because I'm a corrupt old hypocritical fuck who should burn in hell (which doesn't exist and if it did that senile motherfucker would be reporting there instantly upon death) for killing children

 

[909]

It's also funny that the only times he showed his face in the last month were:

To demand money so Israel could kill more children
To laugh and make jokes with Trump at the White House
To pardon his fuckup son

Didn't say anything about the GOP railroading a trans House member from his own goddamn state. Scumbag, one of the worst. Not even Ronald Reagan enabled the Israelis to kill this many people. Biden is in a class all of his own. The dude's entire legacy will be that a bunch of bad shit happened and he just sat there like a brain dead bastard. One of the worst presidents we've ever had. Couldn't even be bothered to jail anyone from the last guy's corrupt as fuck administration. Let them get away with raping the country so that they could win another election and do it again. Mindblowing that anyone supports this guy. Sickening that people try to tell you he was a better president than Obama. Fuckin racism is what that is. You might not like Obama or care for something that happened, but you can't find one corrupt anything like this that Obama ever did. Conduct beyond reproach. Our country is going into the fucking shitter. Biden had a chance to stop us from driving this train into the abyss. Instead he cut the brakes.

 

[909]

Biden’s Unpardonable Hypocrisy

The president vowed not to pardon his son Hunter—and then did so anyway.

www.theatlantic.com

This guy is a centrist hack but because of that, sometimes you get moments of clarity like the bolded

The other charge, blatantly failing to pay millions of dollars in taxes, is routinely brought against people who are not political targets. That it’s true Hunter Biden was more likely to get caught than the average tax cheat is an indictment of the tax system. (It is also, ironically, an aspect of the system Joe Biden has set out to change by beefing up the IRS’s enforcement capacity.)

What the president fails to note in his self-pitying statement is that Hunter Biden for years engaged in legal but wildly inappropriate behavior by running a business based on selling the perception of access to his father. The only commodity Hunter had to offer oligarchs in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere was the belief, or hope, that he could put in a good word for them with his dad.

Joe Biden’s defense in these cases was that he did not actually give Hunter’s clients anything of value. There is no proof to the contrary, and extensive Republican efforts to dig up evidence that Joe shared in the profits from Hunter’s access-peddling business came up empty.

But Joe Biden’s defense of Hunter’s influence peddling by stressing its narrow legality merely serves to highlight the hypocrisy of his fatherly indulgence. The black letter of the law was a fence to protect Hunter from the consequences of his sleazy behavior. And when the law itself trapped him, he simply opened a door and walked through it—a door no average American could access.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1863412100187525621

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1863412968953630897

Historically gaping fuckin asshole.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

The amount of people online celebrating this or saying he’s right to do it because of trump (because that’s relevant for some reason?) is wild. This is why people think it isn’t about right vs left but us (normal) vs them (rich politicians). Like how can a normal liberal person who isn’t a shill say this is justifiable with a straight face? This is why y’all lost, and this is why support for dems is only going to dwindle. And the party deserves it.

 

[909]

The amount of people online celebrating this or saying he’s right to do it because of trump (because that’s relevant for some reason?) is wild. This is why people think it isn’t about right vs left but us (normal) vs them (rich politicians). Like how can a normal liberal person who isn’t a shill say this is justifiable with a straight face? This is why y’all lost, and this is why support for dems is only going to dwindle. And the party deserves it.

I think the party is gonna throw Biden under the bus especially over the course of the next two or four years, so this part won't happen. But yeah it's part of why we lost. Rank, absolute hypocrisy while telling everyone how good things are going and yet they have to face consequences for something and 'lol I don't think so'

 

[Mickey Massuco]

https://x.com/joebiden/status/1796665674535711051

 

[909]

https://x.com/joebiden/status/1796665674535711051

Whatever happened there

 

[909]

His bill sent millions of people to prison for what Hunter did but lol my dear boy they’re gonna put him in jail for smoking crack, using his dads name to make millions, and not paying taxes. Can’t have that!

In fact this fuckin asshole wasn’t even sentenced yet. He probably pardoned him cause his dear boy was too good to have to do the super soft probation he was going to be handed

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I think the party is gonna throw Biden under the bus especially over the course of the next two or four years, so this part won't happen.

the vast majority of people I see that are part of the democratic sphere are defending this, including a few politicians, so I don’t think so.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

at the moment they'll defend it but it's going to look worse and worse and if they have any brains at all they'll throw him under the bus as time goes by.

 

[909]

They will absolutely have to, the same way Trump threw GWB under the bus

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1863589063401357432

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1863562405936046474

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1863356499063353547

 

[Gary]

I do think, after all the stuff with Hunter, the election, his debate performance, etc-the two things that will define him (and the Democratic party at this time) are going to be Roe vs Wade being overturned and especially Israel. Trump and the Republicans are about to become the Genocide party, but Biden and the Dems really were that, so any attempt at criticism from them once Trump continues the genocide will be ultimately pointless.

He really may be the biggest lame duck president of my lifetime. Other presidents have been evil (hell, most people who have run at least have some evil in them), but his presidency will be defined by spite, laziness, unchecked privilege and an all around indifference to the world around him. If I can be honest, it amazed and at times annoyed me when people would defend him even before all this. The man has always been awful, there's no way his presidency would've been any different.

 

[Incandenza]

I don't know why anyone thinks establishment Dems will throw Biden under a bus. These are the same people who decried Trump's barbaric border policy, only to embrace it when Biden himself decided to continue it. These people have no moral backbone. The only relief they'll get is in the very likelihood that once Biden is out of office, we'll never see or hear from him again.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

If he goes on a pardoning spree it won’t look near as bad. But ultimately, fuck it. Trump is going to get away with infinitely more.

He should pardon the attempted Oompacidal folks.

 

[Incandenza]

I can't even be mad about the shameless Hunter pardon because it would require I had any hopes that Biden would do the right thing in...anything. "Oh noes! This will set a dangerous precedent for Trump!" Buddy, were you in a coma for the last eight years?

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5226683/biden-commutations-pardons

This is fantastic but he could have done this before or at the same time as Hunter's pardon and it would have been so much better optically for the party. It's not asking for a lot.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1867378247886852291

He couldn't even get the pardons right for fucks sake. This POS should be in prison for life.

 

[tekcop]

Classic Biden. 1 step forward, 18 steps back.

 

[Valeyard]

I feel that, to show unity and to elevate the class of the Democratic Party, he should pardon Trump. That will show everyone.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

15 years is insane for that. People have literally threatened people on camera and gotten a slap on the wrist. This is clearly a potential jail sentence meant to intimidate sick Americans.