Biden's Problematic Record

[Louisa Bannon]

I dislike Joe Biden. I provide this list of concerns over his abysmal record so that others can obtain an historical context of who he is and why many people actively distrust him and are not likely to vote for him, myself included. I see him as a terrible candidate for president and I can't imagine any circumstance that would cause me to vote for him.

Biden has a long, long, long record of engaging in endless fuckery with which I strongly disagree. I consider this record worse than his opponent's record in terms of the harm it has caused to individuals in terms of their personal finances, personal liberties, and even their very lives when it comes to his support of certain wars. I don't particularly care for his opponent and won't be voting for him either, but he's also had far less time to screw over average Americans as much as Joe Biden has done for literally decades.

• Biden suggests he would veto ‘Medicare for All’ over its price tag
  https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/bide...on-health.html

• The coronavirus crisis hasn't changed Joe Biden's mind on 'Medicare for All'
  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...icare-n1172361

• Joe Biden Lied About His Record On Social Security
  https://theintercept.com/2020/01/25/...cial-security/

• Biden Balanced Budget (stating how he tried to kill Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Veteran's Benefits multiple times)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

• How Biden helped create the student debt problem he now promises to fix
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-2005-act-2020)

• How Biden Helped Strip Bankruptcy Protection From Millions Just Before a Recession
  https://www.gq.com/story/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill

• House of Cards: How Joe Biden helped build a financial system that’s great for Delaware banks and terrible for the rest of us
  https://www.motherjones.com/politics...tcy-president/

• MBNA Paid Biden's Son As Biden Backed Bill
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mbna-pa...n-backed-bill/

• Buttigieg Criticizes Biden Over Ukraine Dealings as Vice President
  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...nt_142055.html

• Biden Very Recently Defends the 1994 Crime Bill
  https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/bi...94-crime-bill/

• Biden, lone top 2020 Democrat to oppose federal marijuana legalization, cites 'gateway drug' concern
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...on/4226908002/

• Biden in 1989 attacking Bush for being too soft on drugs - Calling for thugs to be locked away for a long time for drug offenses
  https://youtu.be/pvrIJf2aKT0

• ‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration**
  Subtitle: He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/u...rime-laws.html

• Joe Biden championed the Iraq war. Will that come back to haunt him now?
  https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-role-iraq-war

• Joe Biden on Abortion and the Hyde Amendment: Abortion is one example of a larger problem for Mr. Biden: his inability to escape parts of a nearly 50-year record
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/u...amendment.html

• How Joe Biden’s Policies Made the Opioid Crisis Harder to treat
  https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...-crisis-226933

• In 1996, Biden voted in favor of the defense of marriage act, he did not begin supporting gay rights until 2012
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politi...s_of_Joe_Biden

• 2 truths and 31 lies Joe Biden has told about his work in the Civil Rights movement
  https://shaunking.substack.com/p/2-t...-joe-biden-has

• Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say.
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...their-n1021626

• Joe Biden worried in 1977 that certain de-segregation policies would cause his children to grow up 'in a racial jungle
  https://www.businessinsider.com/bide...-jungle-2019-7

• Joe Biden praises notorious segregationist Strom Thurmond
  https://youtu.be/WAV9fg30xyE

• Joe Biden Refuses To Disavow SC State Senator After Racist Comments
  https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-r...s-he-i-1486351

• Black lawmakers call Biden surrogate's comments racist, demand former VP disavow
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...ments-n1131531

• Biden's Lie About Nelson Mandela and the Dog That Didn't Bark
  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...rk_142526.html

• How Joe Biden Became the Democrats’ Anti-Busing Crusader
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/u...en-busing.html

• Timeline: A history of the Joe Biden-Anita Hill controversy
  https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ll-controversy

• Biden Insists He Didn't Treat Anita Hill 'Badly,' When Pressed For Apology On TV
  https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/71749...-apology-on-tv

• Here are all the times Joe Biden has been accused of acting inappropriately toward women and girls
  https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-...-pretty-girl-7

• This is Joe Biden's 4th time running for President and his first time having any momentum during a race
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electo...tial_elections

• Joe Biden plagiarised in college
  https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/u...alevolent.html

• Joe Biden dropped out of the 1988 race because he plagiarised speeches
  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-plagiarism/

• Joe Biden again got caught plagiarising for his Climate Change plan in 2019
  https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...e-plan-1504950

• Joe Biden's false claim about drunken driver killing his wife draws renewed scrutiny
  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...driver-draws-/

• As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...3c0_story.html

• That Time Joe Biden Lied About His Academic Credentials
  https://www.motherjones.com/politics...c-credentials/

• Made the false claim, "I was always labeled as one of the most liberal members of the United States Congress."
  https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...al-senate-he-/

I've checked that all links work and they do. Apologies for paywalls (there are ways around that).
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[Lanrefni]

And all of that is absolutely nothing compared to what Trump has done just in the last 6 months,so please take your blatant concern trolling elsewhere.

[Fahrenheit]

I’m not looking for a soul mate, I’m just trying to take a bus to a part of town closer to where I want to go.

Biden>Trump.

[s_bushido]

Now just imagine the sort complete scumfuck the other guy has to be to make people willing to pinch their nose and swallow this one.

[Paranoid Android]

I’m not looking for a soul mate, I’m just trying to take a bus to a part of town closer to where I want to go.

Biden>Trump.

Pretty good tag.

This is on Trumpkins. You voted that piece of crap in and almost anyone is better than him.

[Louisa Bannon]

Look outside. Your cities are burning, 40 million+ unemployed. By November you are looking at what, 130k deaths from corona, 150k? And you are honestly suggesting to actively contribute that this horrorshow gets a 4 year extension? Do you not see how insane you sound?

Which is why I support a national health service / Medicare for All - whatever you want to call it. Biden is opposed, it's the first two links. If you keep voting Democratic and they never really push for a national health service, what do you call that?

Isn't insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

[Twdft]

At this point the laziest stoner on mmo-c would be a better president.

[Draco-Onis]

Isn't insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

You mean like electing your god king Trump for another 4 years of the reality TV shit show?

[Louisa Bannon]

And what will you get with Trump?

Dude, I'm not going to vote for Trump. With those 40 million out of work and many losing their health insurance we need a national health service right the fuck now. You want to challenge me, but why not challenge your supposed chosen candidate on that issue? Why give him a pass?

Could some of you try to think analytically and critically for 2 seconds consecutively, please?

[JohnBrown1917]

Look outside. Your cities are burning, 40 million+ unemployed. By November you are looking at what, 130k deaths from corona, 150k? And you are honestly suggesting to actively contribute that this horrorshow gets a 4 year extension? Do you not see how insane you sound?

This would go on no matter who is in charge.

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Dude, I'm not going to vote for Trump. With those 40 million out of work and many losing their health insurance we need a national health service right the fuck now. You want to challenge me, but why not challenge your supposed chosen candidate on that issue? Why give him a pass?

Could some of you try to think analytically and critically for 2 seconds consecutively, please?

You're not allowed to criticize Biden on these forums without people bringing up Trump.

[Acidbaron]

Don't understand the need to declare that you won't vote for someone.

I guess pointing out that this is a rather binary choice and not voting aids trump would go completely over the head of these so called "left" supporters?
Quite the dedication to get such a thread up or is it desperation? Or maybe even distraction of reducing WHO funding during a pandemic?

Or maybe as European i struggle with the American need to turn the voting process into a clash of personalities over policies.
Strange how people can over focus so much on one side and be almost completely blind to the other, also how one can prefer a possible bad choice over and constant bad choice.

It's like advocating that drinking too much water might kill you while drying up in the middle of the desert, rather absurd way of defending your believes but i guess that's all these people have, questionable world view and dubious morales.

[Evielution93]

Look, Biden is a trash fire, and anyone who pretends he isn't sketchy as fuck is ignoring the stuff that blatantly needs to look closer. Unfortunately, if the choice is him or trump [which, unless Bernie makes an amazing comeback it seems to be] then a vote that isn't for Biden is a vote for trump. And this is too important to let go to trump. At the very least, someone with a D next to their name to ensure that the Supreme Court in america doesn't skew hard right for the foreseeable future has to come in.

In the choice of the lesser of two evils, if you don't choose, you are choosing the greater, and right now barring a miracle, if you don't choose Biden, you're choosing the replacement of Ginsburg to be another Brett Kavanaugh. Don't give America another Brett. Please.

[Acidbaron]

This would go on no matter who is in charge.

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You're not allowed to criticize Biden on these forums without people bringing up Trump.

When you make it about the election and voting, you are in fact making it about both per intend. Claiming otherwise is simply being obtuse.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

You had me voting for Biden as soon as I noticed it wasn't Trump..

My favorite part of these posts. They post it to toss shade but they remind me.. oh.. Biden isn't Trump? SOLD.

[JohnBrown1917]

When you make it about the election and voting, you are in fact making it about both per intend. Claiming otherwise is simply being obtuse.

And what exactly does that change about how horrible Biden is? And you can infact vote 3rd party in the US, as crazy as that sounds.


Not supporting Biden does not mean you support Trump.

[Felya]

You're not allowed to criticize Biden on these forums without people bringing up Trump.

What the fuck does this even mean? Who is stopping you from criticizing Biden?

[daytonbrown]

This election pretty much has the two worst candidates the US has ever had. Trump is....well, Trump, and Biden is at the edge of senility and it's probably 50/50 he survives four years, and no way he survives eight.

This election everyone is basically voting for their party as opposed to their candidate. If you vote democrat, there's a good chance the VP will be the president in the not too distant future so let's hope he picks a good running mate.

[JohnBrown1917]

What the fuck does this even mean? Who is stopping you from criticizing Biden?

Nobody? But it seems none of you can defend him without bringing up Trump.

[Felya]

And what exactly does that change about how horrible Biden is? And you can infact vote 3rd party in the US, as crazy as that sounds.

It changes the same exact thing, as people replying that Trump is so bad, that they are voting Biden. What exactly does comparing him to Trump, change in bitching about Biden?

Not supporting Biden does not mean you support Trump.

What about not voting Biden?

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Nobody? But it seems none of you can defend him without bringing up Trump.

So? Freedom of speech, no one is stopping you from criticizing Biden. Why are you so afraid of people making the comparison?

[JohnBrown1917]

This thread is not just about this.

Yes, it is about Biden. Sorry that your favorite racist is a terrible human being. Don't you have a KKK meeting to attend?
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