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Bernie Sanders on Biden on Capitol Hill: “You heard him last night, he was not incoherent. Apparently this morning he was not incoherent. But you might want to rephrase [the question] and say a president who has maybe done more for the working class in the last four years than any president in modern history.
Audio clip of the exchange: https://xcancel.com/JulianAndreone/status/1811122984167317609
When the right is in trouble, the left comes out and protect.
When Biden is in trouble, the progressives come out in droves to protect.
Sanders, AOC and Omar have all re-iterated their endorsement of Biden
Social democracy is truly the moderate (left) wing of fascism.
- You heard him last night, he was not incoherent. Apparently this morning he was not incoherent.
  Good news everyone, the literal President of the United States was not incoherent last night nor, apparently, this morning. As you can see, there's nothing to worry about.
  
  I wonder how many gallons of the Hitlerian drug cocktail they pumped into his living corpse for his Goebbels speech
- And this from his fund raising email sent out a few days ago. It’s gross. The vaguest vague reference to genocide, or not even, maybe just a bad debate and a vibe. People Are Demoralized.
  Yes. These are extremely difficult and painful times. People are demoralized.
  The presidential debate last Thursday was a disaster. Trump lied, lied, and lied. Biden did very poorly in defending his record, or exposing Trump for the fraud that he is. Further, he did not bring forth a strong agenda for this second term.
  …
  Yes, I, like I suspect many of you, have had my significant disagreements with the Biden Administration. But I do know that time and time again he has been willing to support and sign progressive legislation... but only if we were able to get it to his desk.
  So our job this November is clear: first, we must defeat Donald Trump, the worst president in modern American history.
  
  Donald Trump, the worst president in modern American history
  GEORGE W. BUSH WAS PRESIDENT 16 YEARS AGO
  
  Apparently Reagan doesn't count as modern either.
  
  Reagan I understand. Regardless of how damaging his policies were, his public perception was mostly positive by the end of his presidency.
  Bush was the opposite. I think he holds the record for all-time lowest approval rating, and was so unpopular that the Democrats ended up with the presidency and a near-supermajority in the house and senate following his second term. People were just as mad at Bush then as they are about Trump now, I remember it so clearly. They protested and wrote articles and burned effigies because his administration knowingly led the country into a senseless war. "Serious people" talked about prosecuting him for war crimes. And that's to say nothing of how brazenly illegitimate it was that he was elected in the first place.
  Calling Trump the worst president in modern history is good for brevity, but it just doesn't make sense. You have to toss an entire decade into the memory hole to make that statement. I get that they've been working hard to rehabilitate Bush in the past few years, but it wasn't that long ago. There should be enough people still mad about that stuff that there would be some pushback, but I guess all of those people have decided that it's more important to drag Joe Biden's corpse into a second term.
  I don't know if they were quoting someone, but @Satanic_Mills@hexbear.net posted in a thread not too long ago "The curse of the socialist is to remember things" and I think this is exactly what they were talking about.
  
  Bernie Sander's doesn't view Iraqis as people
- Bernie stocks continue to fall. Rating: sell sell sell.
- Sounds like Bernie's brain isn't working right these days either.
- This is why there's no revolution.
- I wish I could say it pains me to say this, Bernie, but
- done more for the working class in the last four years than any president in modern history
  Does anyone have an analysis of what that actually means that isn't just a link to PPB?
  
  He went to a picket line once and the media jacked off about him being the first acting president to do that. He forced the railroad unions to take a mediocre deal where libs try to twist their brains into pretzels to justify it being good. He gave out tax subsidies for companies that use union labor to on-shore jobs that don't exist.
  Hard to say but I think it technically checks out compared to all president's going back to probably Carter.
  
  Does anyone have an analysis of what that actually means
  
  that isn't just a link to PPB?

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