First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…

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    That might be the case globally. Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US. Practically everyone I know is dealing with some consequence of long COVID and we’re totally behind on vaccination because the issue was so politicized. If you look at this, what’s still going on at the border (a fucking racist wall to keep a certain ethnicity out), human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE and his climate policy it’s clear Biden doesn’t care all that much about things a leftist president should, at the very least.

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      As an actual leftist, I can say with a great deal of authority that Biden is NOT a leftist President. He’s very much capitalist, like Trump

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      Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US.

      A problem created by Trump.

      (1) we’re totally behind on vaccination because (2) the issue was so politicized

      Both problems created by Trump.

      what’s still going on at the border

      A problem created by Trump and continued by Texas’s state government.

      human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE

      There are more conservatives EVERYWHERE than there are President Bidens ANYWHERE.

      and his climate policy

      Won’t disagree here, he could do a lot more here.

      A lot of your complaints are problems created by conservatives and criminals, that Biden hasn’t been able to fix. He’s not a progressive superhero and he was never going to be. He’s a janitor, and I don’t see any productivity in getting mad at the guy holding a mop. Yeah, I would have loved Bernie or Warren too, but with the double whammy of first past the post voting and billionaire conservative power-brokers, Biden was always going to be better than the alternative.

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        He’s not trump, yeah yeah. Still doesn’t change the fact he has done a shit job as “janitor” and wasn’t anybody’s first choice except those that convienently ignore his past comments and actions as a individual (smelling little girls, defending segregation, joking about running over reporters, just vile career politician stuff all the way through) But regardless, that shouldn’t be his whole sell though, and it is. I wish I was wrong, but you really can’t deny it’s a super weak one.

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          smelling little girls

          I never got this criticism. It’s weird, but it doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s not sexually or physically abusive, it’s just an odd thing to do.

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            Also fascinating to watch so many self-proclaimed “leftists” parrot Fox News talking points. I swear I think some of these people want the fascists to win so they can get their chance to cosplay revolutionary.

            Zero acknowledgement that every revolution in history has violently decimated the working class and only replaced one power hierarchy with another. Oh, but their revolution is gonna be totally different…

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            You never got the criticism because it was not actual criticism, it was a malicious meme generated and amplified by the alt right to smear Biden.

            I’m literally going to start at the Know Your Meme page and look up the people in the Spread section:

            On February 17th, 2015, Redditor gaylord__focker uploaded a photograph of Biden whispering into the ear of Stephanie Carter

            https://old.reddit.com/user/gaylord__focker/ (troll)

            On February 18th, Redditor Bossman1086 posted a gif of the moment to /r/gifs.

            https://old.reddit.com/user/Bossman1086/?sort=controversial (libertarian)

            On November 22nd, 2017, YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson uploaded a video titled “Creepy Uncle Joe,”

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson (the entire Wikipedia intro)

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        Yeah dude’s a staunch conservative by any reasonable metric, regardless of what the democrats want everyone to think.

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          Most of his policies were too far right for even Reagan. But we are not supposed to talk about Biden’s history prior to 2019.

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            People fail to acknowledge he was Obama’s VP, too. Nobody wants to admit he’s at least partly the reason Trump gained enough traction to come into office at all in the first place.

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          Lol sorry no. It’s a result of the Overton window shifting so far right in the US that now some people think anti-labor (e.g., response to train worker strike) is somehow leftist. If you have a more complete understanding of the political spectrum you know better.