This is the United States of America. When we’ve acted together, we have never, never, never been unable to overcome whatever the problem was. If you agree with me, go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight. Joe Biden, presidential debate 31 July
Unlike the African-American with notable exception, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. Joe Biden, TV interview
We choose truth over facts. Joe Biden, Iowa 8th August
We have to come together. That’s what I’m running. I’m running as a proud Democrat for the Senate. Joe Biden, rally 12 October Ohio, cited ibid.
We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by go-you know-you know the thing. Joe Biden, rally 2 March Texas, cited ibid.
We start off with two words – Made in America. Joe Biden
When the stock market crashed, Franklin D Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’ Joe Biden, interview Kate Couric 22 September 2008.
You ever been to a caucus? [audience member nods] No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier. Joe Biden, New Hampshire 2020, cited Anna North
America is in turmoil. A country dangerously torn. Joe Biden has been elected president. But Donald Trump and his supporters won’t concede. There’s so much suspicion and fear. How can Joe Biden unite America? Panorama: Can Biden Unite America? BBC 2020
The chaos and protests in the big city is coming to their streets if Biden wins: it’s what the Trump campaign has been telling them for months. ibid.
Joe Biden is openly sexist … Eight women so far have accused Biden of inappropriate sexual advances, touching and harassment … This guy is a sexual predator. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Abby Martin on Biden: The Sexist the Media Ignores, Youtube 20.14, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden is being celebrated as a return to sanity on the world stage who will restore peaceful cooperation between allies of democracy. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Biden’s Scary Foreign Policy Picks: A Blast from War Crimes Past, Youtube 2020
He’s chosen all the major positions for his war cabinet … starting with Anthony Blinken for Secretary of State … Blinken has paid his dues to the war industry. ibid.
After being in office for barely a month Biden has authorised his first military strike. In one foul swoop he managed to attack three counties at once: Syria, Iraq and Iran. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Biden’s First Act of War Hits 3 Countries, Youtube 2021
The imperial hubris of the United States is grotesque and shameful bombing any country it wants with total impunity, killing anyone anywhere with zero consequences, lashing out abroad while leaving its people to rot in the streets at home, and then having the sheer audacity to claim moral authority to do it all over again. ibid.
Joe Biden announces — via a video, not in person so we can see him live — that he will run for reelection in 2024. Immediately we read that Forty-Six is playing his cards close to his chest, letting his record speak for itself — a daring proposition — and has no plans to begin campaigning in earnest, not even in those states we commonly refer to as ‘swing’.
No, Joe will remain sequestered in the White House, behind those walls and porticoes and ridiculous sunglasses, a man of the people taking care of America’s business.
Get ready, readers. We are in for 19 months of relentless, insultingly transparent spin, propaganda, and lies of omission, by way of which a senile, patently incompetent man will be offered to us as the president for another four years.
Never mind that Biden is the crafty strategist who chooses to limit his public appearances to a minimum out of polished political nous. Biden’s minders, and without them I wonder if he would have lasted this long in office, will keep this guy as tightly under wraps as they can get away with.
You won’t see much of Biden during the coming campaign season. He will make the minimum of public appearances, and they will be brief. He will not answer many questions — mine, yours, or any journalist’s. And those he does answer will be carefully vetted replies written on index cards, as is already the practice. Already we are advised the Democratic National Committee will hold no primary debates. Patrick Lawrence, article ‘The USA’s Soviet-Style President, Consortium News 16 May 2023
Biden is worse than Trump. Trump inherited the system; Biden was its architect. Chris Hedges
Inauguration Day: There was huge security issues that day. Fears after January 6th and a lot of steps and precautions were being taken. Year One: A Political Odyssey, press secretary, HBO 2022
He brought back the people he knew best.’ ibid. Dan Sanger
He’s in the position of being in adversarial relationships from the start with the two other major nuclear superpowers in the world. ibid. Sanger
Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history. ibid. Trump
The US and Taliban sign agreement meant to end America’s longest running war: The US has agreed to pull all of its troops form Afghanistan within 14 months. ibid. article Riley Beggin