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    Posted by Raskolnikov on January 20, 2021, 11:43 am

    This is dreadful.

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/20/bidens-inauguration-is-a-source-of-hope-says-labours-lisa-nandy

    'Woke guy' Joe Biden is an inspiration for Labour, says Lisa Nandy

    Joe Biden won the US presidency as a “woke guy” who proudly defended trans rights and Black Lives Matter but also set the agenda on economic recovery, the shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said as Labour seeks to build new alliances with the Democrats.

    Nandy had been due to attend Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday but pulled out once England entered its third Covid lockdown. She hinted that Biden was an inspiration for how a Labour leader could win without compromising on progressive values and being drawn into culture wars.

    “Joe Biden – he’s a woke guy, he appointed an amazingly strong woman of colour who is also pro-choice as his running mate, he mentioned the trans community in his victory speech, he stood up for the Black Lives Matter protesters, he spoke out about the policing of that movement, and he’s never shied away from standing up for his values,” Nandy said.

    She keeps going in this vein and then throws in a bit of Red-baiting at the end not forgetting of course the great returning hero (who almost nobody knows or cares about in Russia) Navalany:

    Russia and the spread of disinformation are another key target for Nandy where there is a wedge between the UK and the Biden administration. The intelligence and security committee report, published six months ago, has seen none of its 15 recommendations implemented by government.

    “We’ve got great big gaping holes in our defences,” Nandy said. “The City of London still operates as a haven for dark money that sustains the regime that Dominic Raab is railing against. Yet nothing has been done – that’s heard both in Russia and in the US.”

    Nandy said she would back sanctions against key Russian figures named by dissident leader Alexei Navalny, imprisoned this week in Moscow following a poisoning attempt blamed on the Kremlin.

    “In the end, if you don’t clean up the corrupt networks and dirty money, then you continue to sustain the regime that Alexei Navalny has spent his entire life fighting against,” Nandy said.

    Woke Joe Biden?? The Crime Bill Joe Biden? The chumming around with segregationists Joe Biden?

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-says-we-should-look-at-his-record-on-race-it-doesnt-help-his-case/

    It’s a mystery, though, why Biden keeps demanding everyone to look at his “record” on race, which is terrible.

    As a freshman, Senator Biden, by his own account, formed friendly, sometimes obsequious, relationships with segregationists within the Democratic Party. It was Biden who sought out J. William Fulbright and Jim Eastland, who in turn assigned him seats on the powerful judicial and foreign-relations committees. The Delaware freshman, who had lucked into a post-Watergate seat, had absolutely no relevant experience for the latter and little for the former. Yet Biden benefited in ways that other younger Democrats, less inclined to ally themselves with racists, did not.

    Biden is on record praising George Wallace on numerous occasions. Biden is on the record flattering Strom Thurmond — his “closest friend” — on numerous occasions, as well, and in ways that would have ended the career of any Republican. Just ask Trent Lott.

    Biden might have later claimed to have “marched in the civil-rights movement” (he didn’t) and to have represented Black Panthers (he almost surely didn’t), but in reality he was one of the leading voices in the Democratic Party opposing busing reforms. Now, we can debate the usefulness of busing, but there is no debate over whether Biden said that without “orderly integration” his children would be growing up “in a racial jungle.”

    Biden also led a decades-long legislative effort to pass tough-on-crime laws that culminated in his co-writing the 1994 crime bill. Critics, mostly contemporary Democrats, argue that the law helped create a mass-incarceration regime that disproportionately affects African Americans. We can debate the effectiveness of the policy, but Biden can’t claim he didn’t brag that the bill does “everything but hang people for jaywalking.” The future vice president was calling it the “Biden Crime Law” on his 2008 presidential campaign website.

    Has there been any presidential candidate in memory who so openly took the black vote for granted? I doubt it. I’m starting to think Biden might be confusing his record with Obama’s record. Or at least, that’s what he wants voters to do. Still, the central argument for the Biden candidacy — other than that his name isn’t Trump — is that his 45-year record makes him uniquely positioned for the job. And yet, there is almost no position or view that Biden can point to that holds up over those years. That includes race.

    There is going to be so much of this "ding dong the witch is dead" shitlib fiction in the next year; it's going to be horrific.
    Admittedly that quote is from the National Review but I don't see where the facts are distorted.

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