Joe Biden is awful. Here's why

Joe Biden...

- lied about marching in the civil rights movement

- lied about being arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela

- said "our culture is not imported from some African nation."

- said "poor kids are just as bright as white kids"

- said he "doesn't want his kids to grow up in a racial jungle"

- gave a eulogy at the funeral of segregationist, Strom Thurmond

- said "you ain't black" if you're black and you don't vote for him

- supported the racist war on drugs; he authored the 1994 crime bill which disproportionately targeted black people for mass incarceration

- is corrupt and in bed with Wall Street and billionaires

- has a super PAC that is organized by healthcare lobbyists, weapons makers, finance

- supports cuts to social security

- opposes public healthcare for all, despite it being a less costly option than his proposal, and says he would veto it even if it was passed in the Senate

- supports profiteering pharmaceutical companies

- played a central role in the student debt crisis

- has "no empathy" for the financial struggles of young people

- supported the bankruptcy bill, which made sure that student loans could not qualify for bankruptcy; it decimated bankruptcy protection for millions, all for the benefit of banks

- voted to repeal Glass-Steagall, which helped lead to the 2008 crash

- supports obscene, ecocidal militarism

- enthusiastically backed the Iraq War, which killed 1million+ people

- said "I actually like [psychotic Iraq War architect] Dick Cheney"

- gave a medal to Iraq war criminal, George W Bush

- groveled to Saudi Arabia, and was part of an administration that sold them $115billion of weapons and helped them wage a genocidal war on Yemen

- has consistently supported NATO expansion, needlessly provoking Russia and helping push us towards today's new Cold War

- supported neo-Nazis in Ukraine

- supports far-right coups in Latin America

- called persecuted journalist and publisher of war crimes, Julian Assange, a 'high tech terrorist'

- uses foreign 'aid' as a tool of imperialism

- thinks Kim Jong Un is the leader of South Korea

- is pro-fracking

- has been given a D- for his climate change record from Greenpeace (they give him a B+ for his future plans, but based on his record, who would trust him?)

- supports unethical free trade agreements like NAFTA, that devastated US manufacturing, (and the environment), resulting in job losses, lower wages etc. And he called NAFTA a 'success', even after it had done all of that

- voted to let states overturn Roe v. Wade

- inappropriately touches women and children, and has been accused of sexual assault/rape.

- said "I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body."

- said "I do not view abortion as a choice and a right."

- said "I'm conservative on most issues"

- supported a ban on HIV+ immigrants

- supported limits on welfare for migrants and proposed deploying troops against them

- helped deport 2.5 million people

- railed against ‘Illegals,’ and called for 700-mile border fence

- pushed Ronald Reagan to ramp up incarceration

- put kids in cages

- supports the Patriot Act and thinks it hasn't gone far enough

- pressured other countries not to give asylum to whistleblower, Ed Snowden

- is one of the most Israel-friendly politicians of his generation, because he sees it as an important base to keep US battleships, (i.e. it is an important base from which to maintain US domination of resources in the region). Said "Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region."

- supported 1996 anti-gay marriage law

- agreed with Sarah Palin in 2007, in opposing gay marriage

- is a dreadful public speaker and is showing signs of cognitive decline.

- plagiarizers speeches

- lied about his academic credentials

- was VP during Obama's awful presidency

- keeps forgetting Obama's name

- has a long history of appeasing the right

- welcomes support from racist billionaires who think Muslims should be spied on

- has a corrupt family

- reacts aggressively to criticism

- helped election of a Republican in a midwest battleground

- said it was safe for people to go and vote for him, during the Covid pandemic

- called for raves to be banned and their promoters to be arrested 

Watch this.


Since becoming the nominee, he has:

- hired Larry Summers

- said he supports the unelected US puppet, Juan Guaidó, in Venezuela

- tweeted imperialist nonsense at Cuba, and said that he supports the continuation of sanctions

- denounced BDS, saying it "lets Palestinians off the hook for their choices". No Palestinian ever chose to live under military occupation. This is anti-Palestinian racism.

- declined to call for an unqualified lifting of Iran sanctions

- said he will continue US policy in Syria, which involved sending $billions of weapons to al Qaeda-aligned groups

- been more of a supporter of the neo-fascist takeover of Venezuela than Trump

- picked a bunch oh hawks for his foreign policy team

- compared Trump to socialist leaders?!?!

- said Trump is the first racist president(?!)

- shown more signs of mental decline

- ordered removal of Israel occupation reference from election campaign

- dropped calls for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks