Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Beau's midterm thoughts on Biden, making the case the progressive left will never see him perfectly but his record has been surprising after he initially wrote him off privately as George Bush Jr II. etc

WH put out a progress map of all their infrastructure spending:

In response my Congressman puts out clap like this: cover your eyes and ears, don't believe it!

The district is receiving tens of millions of dollars, including in his hometown. New bridges, replacement bridges, paving, upgrades, rework, etc.

Good on the WH for putting together this information in such powerful format.

Well they are trying to appeal to dumb cousin fúckers according to one of their previous producers.

Why would you say this, to people who have lost everything and when there still hundreds of people missing and presumed dead? It's an insult to them

Oh, and what actually happened, as reported at the time

So, no one almost died in this small fire contained to the kitchen then. Although his Corvette may have come close to being burnt, it doesn't say. That's on a par with throwing paper towels at people tbh

You're right, it might actually be worse. Making jokes about almost losing his car in a small kitchen fire when hundreds are dead and many more homeless is pretty bad.

Biden gaffes 😂, Joe Biden has a long history of not just insensitive comments but outright insulting and racist comments, something that most of the media have ignored for decades.

In 1977 he said that desegregation of schools would lead to his children "growing up in a racial jungle". No surprise there as he was an ally of southern segregationists, including Robert Byrd. He was called out on this by Kamala Harris in the 2020 debates.

In 1997 he referred to Barack Obama as "the first mainstream African American who is articulate, bright, and clean".

While US president among his multitude of "gaffes" he infamously suggested that Latinos resisted vaccination because they "feared they would be deported", suggesting that the nations' 60 million Latino US citizens were all illegals, and suggested that all African Americans think alike compared to Latinos who were diverse in their thinking (the very definition of racism).

If Joe Biden were a Republican, he would be (correctly) labelled an insensitive racist.

SO racist Obama picked him as his VP??

The recent comments are gaffes, you know this yet pretend not to.

The older stuff reflects the times, as society and mores and morals changed, Biden's views changes as societies did.

Unless you're going to argue Obama picked an insensitive racist as his VP.

If he hasnt been told he isnt running again by now, his wife isnt doing her job. Its obvious to everyone by now bar the media sanctioning the view

Sorry, Joe Biden doesn't get a pass for his racist past because of "the times", he was at the forefront of the white backlash against the Civil Rights movement in the 1970s. Not everyone was a segregationist back then, many in the south yes, but the country as whole was moving in the right direction in the 1960s and racist bigots like Biden stalled that progress. His racism extended long after the 1970s, he was one of the architects of the 1994 Crime Bill which led to mass incarceration of African Americans, young people he called "predators".

There are many reasons why Obama choose him as VP, he was perceived as the safest bet (like in 2020), but the main reason was to win over the racist white south voter. It was Biden after all who referred to those waving confederate flags as "fine people", the exact phrase used later by another white racist bigot.

Yes, Biden is gaffe prone, this is why he rarely holds press conferences or answers media questions. However, a gaffe is unintentional, using the wrong word or phrase or muddled speech. These are his exact words about Latinos versus African Americans "Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions (the articulate clean Obama?), the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things".

That's not a gaffe, that's defining a whole race of people in a negative fashion by comparing them to another race, the very definition of racism. If you think it's a gaffe, then you have to explain what the actual **** he is trying to say and misspoke.

So on the one hand, we either have to believe Obama picked a racist VP. Then this apparently known racist picked an African American VP as his running mate.

Or ... you are talking absolute nonsense with zero credibility.

Actions speak louder than words.

So yeah, your claims have zero credibility.

How is it nonsense when the comments are on record?

Ah the default defence, the other guy is worse so Biden gets a pass.

Its pathetic at this stage.

You can't keep your story straight, is he an actual racist, is he currently making racist comments, or does he have a racist past???

Meanwhile, in the real world, Obama picked him as VP. He picked Kamala Harris as his VP and she accepted.

But we're expected to believe that all this time they knew him to be a racist, that he comes out with racist comments (not gaffes) and they are just 'holding their nose' and ears too I guess?. That's what I'm calling nonsense - because it is. The 'facts' of your post in some cases aren't even facts, and certainly don't come close to the claims you make for them.

Present actions speak louder than past words, some of them nearly half a century ago (!) when politics and social terrain was very different..

The notion that Biden as a racist was picked by Obama, or has been racist in his Presidency, without merit or foundation.

What are the chances that the person who put that up will be found to be bothering children? It just seems to be the case with Trumpists that every accusation is an admission.

Also, Fúck Biden? Is that a statement or an instruction? A bit of clarity would be needed for the more braindead Trumpists, lest a couple of hundred turn up outside the White House slathered in lubricant. I'm not sure what Biden would do in that scenario (other than possibly follow up "Who's Nailing Palin?" with the sequel "Who's Ridin' Biden?").