The Biden Administration

[The Cat]

C'mon Son!

 

[Virtual ghost]

US and allies begin large-scale naval drill in Black Sea

 

[The Cat]

Because of course they do.

 

[The Cat]

Bipartisan Senate Infrastructure Plan Is a Stalking Horse for Privatization - The American Prospect

 

[anticlimatic]

Biden is impossible to watch. I feel so bad for him and his family. Trump was embarrassing in his own way, but at least he was cognitively able. This is so much worse. Clearly there’s some shadowy group of handlers and special interests running the country now, and if there’s anything we know about being lead by a committee it’s that we are headed straight for the dirt. Things are so much objectively worse under this administration than the last you’d have to have cult level devotion to democrats not to feel it slapping you in the face at every turn. On the one hand it’s horrifying, but on the other it’s hilarious because I bear no responsibility for it, and don’t need to defend federal decisions anymore- so it’s also very liberating.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Biden is impossible to watch. I feel so bad for him and his family. Trump was embarrassing in his own way, but at least he was cognitively able. This is so much worse. Clearly there’s some shadowy group of handlers and special interests running the country now, and if there’s anything we know about being lead by a committee it’s that we are headed straight for the dirt. Things are so much objectively worse under this administration than the last you’d have to have cult level devotion to democrats not to feel it slapping you in the face at every turn. On the one hand it’s horrifying, but on the other it’s hilarious because I bear no responsibility for it, and don’t need to defend federal decisions anymore- so it’s also very liberating.

Sounds like we got a case of Biden Derangement Syndrome here.

 

[The Cat]

Sounds like we got a case of Biden Derangement Syndrome here.

I guess..."Old man bad"...

 

[anticlimatic]

Sounds like we got a case of Biden Derangement Syndrome here.

In your communist dreams.

Even my progressive SO, who has a lot of experience working in retirement homes, can see that he clearly has dementia.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

In your communist dreams.

Even my progressive SO, who has a lot of experience working in retirement homes, can see that he clearly has dementia.

Sure, but Trump isn't any better. But that's what you get with an empire in decline. Once we had statesmen, now we just have doddering fools.

 

[Jai]

In your communist dreams.

Even my progressive SO, who has a lot of experience working in retirement homes, can see that he clearly has dementia.

Won't lie, my communist dreams and Biden's existence have never once aligned so I'm still trying to work out exactly what you're trying to say here in a way that doesn't make you look somewhat ignorant; I'll let you know if I succeed.

 

[The Cat]

Won't lie, my communist dreams and Biden's existence have never once aligned so I'm still trying to work out exactly what you're trying to say here in a way that doesn't make you look somewhat ignorant; I'll let you know if I succeed.

Indeed. Hope you took a really deep breath, but I wouldnt hold it if it were me...

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Won't lie, my communist dreams and Biden's existence have never once aligned so I'm still trying to work out exactly what you're trying to say here in a way that doesn't make you look somewhat ignorant; I'll let you know if I succeed.

I think because he will line up to enthusiastically and unquestioningly support the Party Leader of the GOP, he assumes that everyone against the GOP must do the same for the Democrats.

He speaks of previously needing to "defend federal policy" during the past 4 years, for instance.

 

[Jai]

I think because he will line up to enthusiastically and unquestioningly support the Party Leader of the GOP, he assumes that everyone against the GOP must do the same for the Democrats.

He speaks of previously needing to "defend federal policy" during the past 4 years, for instance.

Reminds me of this

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Reminds me of this

Gee, that conversation sounds familiar.

I like her.

 

[ceecee]

I think because he will line up to enthusiastically and unquestioningly support the Party Leader of the GOP, he assumes that everyone against the GOP must do the same for the Democrats.

He speaks of previously needing to "defend federal policy" during the past 4 years, for instance.

I lol whenever a chud uses "communist" like it's a death sentence level insult.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I lol whenever a chud uses "communist" like it's a death sentence level insult.

I didn't even realize it was meant to be an insult, here. But it probably was.

 

[ceecee]

I didn't even realize it was meant to be an insult, here. But it probably was.

Oh it's not insulting to you, not to me either but it's a trigger to him. That's why he used it.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

If he were to actually debate me, by which I mean the ideas I actually hold and not the strawman he's constructed for himself where I am some kind of Biden cultist, I'd welcome it. That's not what I get; I get the standard NPC conservative dialogue tree.

I've been pretty consistent with regards to what I believe on issues (although with varying force of expression/openness, and differing internal frameworks for understanding them) for four presidential administrations, three of which you can see my thoughts about on this forum. The one outlier is a brief period in 2014 -2016 where I thought American conservatism was capable of moderating itself and learning from its mistakes, in response to which I made an actual move towards the center in my thinking (this was also the period of peak ineffectual dogmatic "woke" moralizing which didn't help). Oops, my bad.

You can find me, for instance, being quite critical of Obama during the Edward Snowden stuff, which I still regard as indefensible actions aimed at protecting and enabling fascist authoritarianism that can't be blamed on Mitch McConnell. I didn't even vote for Obama (or Clinton) during the primaries in 2008; I was a weirdo who voted for Mike Gravel (RIP) because I was skeptical of the "hope and change" and didn't see it reflected in Obama's actual positions in debates and things like that. Before him I voted for Howard Dean who was considered a crazy ultra-left-lunatic just because he disagreed with the bipartisan establishment on one thing (which he turned out to be right about... does anybody except ghouls in the political class/nat sec apparatus still think Operation Iraqi Freedom was a good idea?). The way that whole election year shook out made me really skeptical of the Democratic party as an institution and I can say without hesitation that this has not lessened over the years.

Anyone who wants to disagree with me on these terms from a right-wing perspective is welcome to do so. Acknowledge where I'm at and not where your echo chamber/propaganda outlet tells me I should be at and I'll be happy to discuss in good faith.

 

[The Cat]

If he were to actually debate me, by which I mean the ideas I actually hold and not the strawman he's constructed for himself where I am some kind of Biden cultist, I'd welcome it. That's not what I get; I get the standard NPC conservative dialogue tree.

I've been pretty consistent with regards to what I believe on issues (although with varying force of expression/openness, and differing internal frameworks for understanding them) for four presidential administrations, three of which you can see my thoughts about on this forum. The one outlier is a brief period in 2014 -2016 where I thought American conservatism was capable of moderating itself and learning from its mistakes, in response to which I made an actual move towards the center in my thinking (this was also the period of peak ineffectual dogmatic "woke" moralizing which didn't help). Oops, my bad.

You can find me, for instance, being quite critical of Obama during the Edward Snowden stuff, which I still regard as indefensible actions aimed at protecting and enabling fascist authoritarianism that can't be blamed on Mitch McConnell. I didn't even vote for Obama (or Clinton) during the primaries in 2008; I was a weirdo who voted for Mike Gravel (RIP) because I was skeptical of the "hope and change" and didn't see it reflected in Obama's actual positions in debates and things like that. Before him I voted for Howard Dean who was considered a crazy ultra-left-lunatic just because he disagreed with the bipartisan establishment on one thing (which he turned out to be right about... does anybody except ghouls in the political class/nat sec apparatus still think Operation Iraqi Freedom was a good idea?). The way that whole election year shook out made me really skeptical of the Democratic party as an institution and I can say without hesitation that this has not lessened over the years.

Anyone who wants to disagree with me on these terms from a right-wing perspective is welcome to do so. Acknowledge where I'm at and not where your echo chamber/propaganda outlet tells me I should be at and I'll be happy to discuss in good faith.