Biden is also a supporter of US genocide in Gaza. The cartoon establishes a false dichotomy -- the choice is not merely “an old guy” against a would-be monarch, it’s a pseudo-progressive corporatist who supports genocide and militarism against -- worse.
Democrats are trying to skip past Boden’s flaws by demonizing his critics as being about his age (ok, he’s a drooling old fart) (they both are) but it’s the “bernie bros” all over again. You might enjoy reading a bit about how the democrats created that meme to demonize those of is who disliked Clinton for her warmongering and incompetence. Have you noticed how the narrative being pushed is that “Biden is not too old” are you fucking kidding me? Is he the best the democrats could offer? Newsome could beat Trump.
I also rolled my eyes in total non-surprise after Biden kind of made vague noises about only running for one term but as soon as he got a whiff of sweet sweet power decided he’d rather stumble through another term. All his talk about halting fossil fuel development, voting rights, abortion… all noise he stopped making as soon as it was conveniently blameable on Sinemanchin. He’s another gerontocrat democrat triangulator. Ot’s “meh” vs “oh shit” and if it blows up in the democrats faces like Clinton did they’ll whine about ageism instead of asking why they ran someone who managed to piss off the muslim vote right before a consequential election. I do appreciate that Biden was honest about his anti-Palestinian bigotry but he could hardly waffle that off after 30+ years of pro-colonialism.
Biden is also a supporter of US genocide in Gaza. The cartoon establishes a false dichotomy -- the choice is not merely “an old guy” against a would-be monarch, it’s a pseudo-progressive corporatist who supports genocide and militarism against -- worse.
Democrats are trying to skip past Boden’s flaws by demonizing his critics as being about his age (ok, he’s a drooling old fart) (they both are) but it’s the “bernie bros” all over again. You might enjoy reading a bit about how the democrats created that meme to demonize those of is who disliked Clinton for her warmongering and incompetence. Have you noticed how the narrative being pushed is that “Biden is not too old” are you fucking kidding me? Is he the best the democrats could offer? Newsome could beat Trump.
I also rolled my eyes in total non-surprise after Biden kind of made vague noises about only running for one term but as soon as he got a whiff of sweet sweet power decided he’d rather stumble through another term. All his talk about halting fossil fuel development, voting rights, abortion… all noise he stopped making as soon as it was conveniently blameable on Sinemanchin. He’s another gerontocrat democrat triangulator. Ot’s “meh” vs “oh shit” and if it blows up in the democrats faces like Clinton did they’ll whine about ageism instead of asking why they ran someone who managed to piss off the muslim vote right before a consequential election. I do appreciate that Biden was honest about his anti-Palestinian bigotry but he could hardly waffle that off after 30+ years of pro-colonialism.
But sure, its all about his age.