Well, there it is.

@AOC praises Biden as a "good faith partner" and says, "I am fighting for HIS agenda with the #BuildBackBetter act."

This is effectively an endorsement of the corporate Dem establishment.

Here is Biden's full agenda:

◼️Kids in cages
◼️Migrants whipped
◼️Racist policing
◼️Huge military budget
◼️More oil drilling
◼️No minimum wage hike
◼️No filibuster reform
◼️No court expansion
◼️No medicare for all
◼️No green new deal
◼️No abolishing ICE
◼️No student debt help
(FYI, I updated this thread to include the full AOC quote.)

Biden and Pelosi represent everything wrong with the Democratic Party. They've spent decades lulling people with bullshit incrementalism while giving cover to the GOP to move far right.

Why embrace and endorse them???
And yes, I've been critical of Bernie too for praising Biden.

Biden and Pelosi are masters at co-opting and absorbing opposition. Their job is to maintain the status quo for the billionaire class, and there is NO good reason for progressives to give them cover for it.

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More from @peterdaou

22 Sep
NO MORAL COMPASS

"President Biden has deployed some of the most aggressive approaches to immigration put in place by former President Donald J. Trump."

nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/…
HEINOUS:

"The Biden administration has kept in place a Trump-era policy that allows them to expel some immigrants and asylum-seekers at the border without the opportunity to request protection."

buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
Read 4 tweets
21 Sep
Another day under Dem Party rule.

◼️Black asylum-seekers being whipped.

◼️Migrant children locked in cages.

◼️2,000+ people dying of COVID daily.

◼️Oil drilling rampant as the earth burns.

◼️US still droning babies to death.

◼️Billionaires getting richer by the minute.
Meanwhile...

◼️No minimum wage hike

◼️No filibuster reform

◼️No court expansion

◼️No medicare for all

◼️No green new deal

◼️No student debt help

◼️No consequences for Trump's thugs
And who's to blame?

Is it Biden's fault? Schumer's fault? Pelosi's fault?

NO, NO, NO!!!!

The President and Speaker and Majority Leader are powerless.

Let's blame the Senate Parliamentarian! And Joe Manchin! And Kyrsten Sinema! And Donald Trump!

Yes, THEY have the power.
Read 4 tweets
31 Jul
THEY DID IT!

✔️NO eviction moratorium
✔️NO minimum wage hike
✔️NO filibuster reform
✔️NO court expansion
✔️NO medicare for all
✔️NO green new deal
✔️NO closing child cages
✔️NO end to oil drilling
✔️NO student debt help
✔️NO pandemic plan
✔️NO consequences for Trump officials Image
BAIT & SWITCH

Biden/Pelosi have advanced the GOP agenda more effectively than Trump or McConnell.

◼️ Protesters brutalized
◼️ Miller's border policy embraced
◼️ Military budget growing
◼️ ICE budget growing

And Biden defends the filibuster, which hinders voting rights reform. Image
"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." - George W. Bush

I spent years inside the Democratic establishment and I finally accepted the brutal truth: When Biden and Pelosi call for a stronger Republican Party, they mean it. Image
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29 Jul
Boy did the Dems screw Covid up. Image
They pushed a "return to normal" from day one, even more than Trump. And you could see it was another "Mission Accomplished" fiasco from a thousand miles away...

How can you slam anti-vaxxers for their nonchalance, while also pretending the virus would be gone by July 4th?

Read 4 tweets
27 Jul
🚨BREAKING:

Biden affirms he will continue the GOP policy of reopening no matter the #COVID death toll.

"We are not going back to [shutdowns]."
Democrats decided they wanted the political "win" of appearing to vanquish the virus.

So rather than pay Americans a monthly stipend to stay distanced and starve the virus of contact, Biden pushed reopening even more than Trump.
Biden and Dem leaders played right into GOP hands by predicting #COVID19 was going away by July 4th.

How can you criticize anti-vaxxers when you're telling them things are returning to normal?

Was anything more obvious than another surge????

Read 4 tweets
20 Jul
Biden and his media boosters spent months trying to convince America we were about to put #COVID behind us. July 4th was going to be a magical day when everything started returning to "normal."

It was bullshit and many of us called it out at the time. Now look where we are...
Back in March, I warned about the danger of #COVID19 triumphalism.

It was clear as day that the virus wasn't done with us. But capitalism needed its fodder, so the workers had to go back to work.
To those saying it's not Biden's fault, it's rightwingers refusing to get vaccinated...then why play into their talking point that the virus is nothing and we should just open things up?

The "it's over" propaganda was pushed by Dems to make Biden look like a hero. It backfired.
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