Atrocious Biden/Harris Record From The Memory Hole

We live in the United States of Amnesia; and the political establishment and media have been taking advantage of this for decades to rig elections and the economy in their own favor. However, they're taking it to a bizarre extreme with the Biden/Harris ticket trying to portray them as progressives, then shaming anyone that points out their record.

The propaganda coming from the mainstream media has been getting steadily worse for years, if not decades; and, as anyone that understands the fundamentals of propaganda it's increasingly clear that mainstream media is almost all propaganda with little or no educational material. One of the most basic fundamentals of propaganda is that "a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth," or at least it seems to, especially if it's not challenged. The mainstream media repeats the same basic ideas over and over again rarely challenging them, but when they do challenge them it's only briefly, often with appeals to emotion to reinforce their propaganda then quickly forgotten.

Another important fundamental of propaganda is recognizing where the majority of the public gets their news that they use to make important decisions, and in most cases, it's almost certainly TV, with a minority that's more likely to get their news from news papers or on the internet, some of those that recognize how bad traditional media is rely more on alternative media. Unfortunately the majority of the public probably doesn't pay that much attention to the media at all, so even if they do recognize that mainstream media is biased, they may not check with alternative media outlets.

Since five corporations control over 95% of the media they have the opportunity to provide obsession coverage for the candidates they support giving them name recognition, which progressive candidates that actually support many issues favored by the majority of the public can't get. This year a majority of the public almost certainly never even heard of Howie Hawkins, who supports many policies favored by the public; the same thing happened in 2012 and 2016, with slightly more people hearing about Jill Stein, but they were given the impression that she didn't have a chance, partly because she was rarely even mentioned in the polls.

The way democracy is supposed to work is the public has an opportunity to hear about all the issues and candidates so they can choose the one that best represents them, and agrees with them on the issues. The way our system works is candidates supporting corporate interests get obsession coverage and put out contradictory claims about their positions on the issues, saying one thing in front of one audience and a different thing in front of another audience, guaranteeing that, if elected they will have to break promises to at least one segment of the public, often the majority. The false claims are often repeated over and over again while the truth is only reported in a lower profile.

This was made incredibly obvious with several Memes, either for Bernie Sanders, or with him out of the race, Howie Hawkins, which show the vast majority of the public support about twenty policies, many of which have already passed in other countries with higher quality of life, supported by both Bernie Sanders and Howie Hawkins, yet opposed by virtually all establishment candidates, including Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Several of these Memes are backed up with sources showing the polls like Polls With Citations: Americans Want Bernie’s New Deal For All 07/26/2019 which is almost identical to the one below and I checked them for another one in Bernie Sanders Has informed Grassroots Support; Others Have Media Propaganda!



Both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton oppose almost all of these policies overwhelmingly favored by the public; with the only exceptions being protecting the right to abortion, in some polls supporting the right to same sex marriage, although both opposed this in the past, and if they added support for some reasonable gun control, that would be three. This is less than 20% of the leading issues people are concerned about; and, except for legalizing marijuana almost all, if not all the other issues involve rigging the economy in favor of their campaign contributors! We would have to go back at least thirty or forty years to find any major nominees that supported the policies favored by the public, although some nominees may have done a better job pretending to support them during the campaign, especially Barack Obama, but once in office he showed that he never supported these policies nearly as much as he pretended, and by 2012 it was clear that he broke his promises to the public so he could keep promises to campaign contributors.

How can we possibly nominate two candidates every four years that oppose the vast majority of policies overwhelmingly favored by the public?

For the most part they keep discussion of issues to a minimum, spending far more time covering polls or other shallow things, and when they do the coverage of issues on television, where most people get their news is incredibly bad. And of course, as I already said they give an enormous amount of obsession coverage to the candidates they favor, without checking facts hoping that we won't either.

If that isn't enough, which included both the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries, they cheat! I went into this much more in Epidemic 2020 Election Fraud Again and another article from 2016 Some of these voter suppression tactics were even reported on mainstream media; however, they didn't compile all the stories reporting a handful at the local level, and often spinning it to downplay the importance; and, of course, quickly forgetting about these problems after the primaries are over. But the best reporting came from alternative media outlets which did a far better job covering the subject. There's little or no doubt that our election process is a tragedy and a farce.

I'm certainly no fan of Donald Trump, but at least the traditional media is covering a lot of his flaws which are serious, so I don't worry about putting more emphasis on that; but most people may not know that Joe Biden is just as bad, sometimes worse, despite rhetoric that often sounds better. The vast majority of the public may not be able to tell where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stand on many issues, because most of their record is only reported briefly and forgotten while deceptive propaganda is repeated over and over again. Fortunately there are a few good sources compiling the data on the internet one of them points out 25 Reasons Joe Biden Isn’t Necessarily ‘Better Than Trump’ 03/08/2020 and includes sources for most if not all of them; and Debbie Pinard has reposted a list of Joe Biden's history or positions as well as 18 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Kamala Harris’s Record; these don't have sources; however, I've checked them all and provided a long list of sources below. I also did a review of Joe Biden's record earlier in the campaign, at a time when I thought there was little or no chance that he could get the nomination, becasue his record was so bad, and his campaign wasn't much better, and reported on it including his racist background in Joe Biden Really Was Taken Off The Trash Heap.

The closer you look at both of their record the worse they look! There's no doubt they're both catering overwhelmingly to Wall Street with the intention of rigging the economy as bad as Donald Trump and worse than Barack Obama, although Obama was pretty bad, he did a better job pretending to serve the interests of the working class, at times. Joe Biden supported the Iraqi war and many others as well as sales of arms around the world despite a long history of many of the weapons our country have sold being turned against us, including arming Saddam Hussein, the mujaheddin, which became Al Qaeda and the Taliban, Noriega, both sides of the Syrian war and more tyrants that I can list here.

Even on the issues that he now agrees with the majority of the public on, listed above, he opposed them in the past, including voting to allow states to overturn Roe v. Wade. He rigged the economy in favor of banks, credit card companies and deprived students of any opportunity to seek protection from bankruptcy, even though they're the victims of predatory lending and price gouging from colleges. He vowed to veto Medicare for all, even during the pandemic despite the fact that it works much better in many other countries, and almost 70% of the public and 88% of the Democrats that allegedly nominated him, assuming you ignore cheating on his behalf, support it. He has nothing but contempt for voters who question him, on several occasions yelling at them telling them to vote for Trump. If he had to earn votes there's no way he would be doing this, and with this kind of behavior it only adds to the evidence that the primary was rigged.

Perhaps one of the worst thing he did was support various crime bills and the Patriot Act, which he often took the lead in writing as well that led to massive incarceration and rapidly eroded many of our rights. He calls on tough on crime policies but only when those committing crimes are working class people, not his own relatives or campaign donors. Kamala Harris is as bad, if not worse on her get tough on crime policies. she often looked the other way while police framed suspects and prosecutors withheld evidence that could exonerate many innocent people to advance her career, or worse helped them do it. In one of the worst cases, San Francisco was stuck with a $13.1 million legal bill, yet she didn't investigate either the police or the prosecutors that were responsible for it, nor does she prosecute police for killing people, even in the most extreme cases. The same goes for white collar crime, including Steve Mnuchin, who donated to her campaign while he was involved in epidemic levels of fraud in the foreclosure crisis, and she didn't prosecute or even investigate him. There's little or no chance that he could have been approved in Trump's cabinet if she had held him accountable for his epidemic levels of fraud.

Both Biden and Harris, as well as Trump and many other establishment politicians clearly think laws are only for the working class, not their political allies.

Joe Biden has claimed that he wants to reform many of the outrageous policies that created mass incarceration and contributed to the big problem with police shooting and killing over a thousand people every year, far more, even on a per capita basis, than any other wealthy country in the world; however his recent ads denouncing violent protests, on both sides, although he puts more emphasis on Trump supporters, without acknowledging the fact that most of them have been peaceful, and in many cases the vast majority of the violence came from police, nor is he trying to hold any police accountable for the shootings or violent clamp down on peaceful protesters. Instead he wants to give them more money without credible offers to address social problems before they escalate and lead to confrontations with police.

Good research is far better than Memes of course; but this one gets right to the point and the basic idea is based on good research, some of which I've covered in past articles.

It's almost out of the question that this election is hardly going to change anything and that Biden is far more like Trump than his own constituents, and even if you think that he's the lesser evil, which I'm not so sure of; a vote for him is a vote to support the oligarchy and make it appear as if this election has some legitimacy. It may be virtually out of the question that Howie Hawkins will win, but even if so, a vote for him shows that you're not falling for the same exact scam every four years.

Voting Green alone isn't going to solve all these problems or end the rigging of elections and the economy; however, it can be a part of bigger solutions. For many things have been getting bad for years, of not decades; although people living in suburbs often don't know how bad it is for others, even if many of them are have their own problems. We've been having an increase in massive protests for decades, including the uprising in Wisconsin, followed by a couple years of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is still going on, even if it's not at it's peak and many other protests, including Black Lives Matter, which gets the most attention. These protest have had far more impact, at least at the local level, then voting.

That won't be enough either unless many more people join in, which might happen if things crash even worse. The question is how bad does it have to get before the Sheeple wake up and stop falling for scams from the oligarchs? Alternative media, protests and other efforts have to be part of the solution but we can't allow the oligarchs to control all powerful institutions indoctrinating us to accept a slow but steady decline, which could rapidly escalate, almost without warning to a total collapse.

Another reason not to vote for Biden may be that he isn't really the lesser evil at all, despite Trump's rhetoric and outrageous things he's done. Trump recently expanded a drilling moratorium off the coast of Florida and surrounding states, created a moratorium on evictions until the end of the year, which will be difficult to end in the winter, although there are problems with it, especially for small landlords; and even called out the military for fighting wars to increase profits for weapons manufacturers. He's being demonized for this by the mainstream media and he's also guilty of this himself; however many antiwar activists have known for decades that this is exactly what they've been doing as I pointed out recently in Arming The Enemy For Permanent War! and an older article that shows that Democrats are just as bad, Obama, Kerry arm sales maintain permanent state of war!

San Francisco Is Paying For Jamal Trulove’s Wrongful Conviction. Will Kamala Harris? 07/02/2019

After Being Framed For Murder, ‘Last Black Man In San Francisco’s Jamal Trulove Speaks On George Floyd, Producing Docu On Integrated ’72 USC Trojans Football Team, & Docu-Series On His Own Six-Year Prison Ordeal 06/01/2020

The following is a long list of additional sources, including those for each of the claims made by Debbie Pinard and her sources, which all proved to be accurate:

Joe Biden Is Falling into Donald Trump’s Law-And-Order Trap 09/04/2020

Julian Assange like a hi-tech terrorist, says Joe Biden 12/19/2010

Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed 09/08/2020 "I'm not saying the military's in love with me -- the soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy," Trump told reporters at a White House news conference.

Trump to expand oil drilling moratorium for Florida 09/08/2020

Trump administration announces nationwide eviction moratorium through end of the year 09/01/2020

The Trump Administration Just Barred Most Evictions—And Created New Problems For Both Landlords and Tenants 09/02/2020

Biden launches massive “law and order” ad campaign 09/03/2020

Joe Biden’s Long Career as a Deficit Hawk Will Come Back to Bite Him 01/21/2020

Joe Biden let police groups write his crime bill. Now, his agenda has changed. 06/08/2020

What Martin Luther King Jr. Really Thought About Riots 09/06/2020

25 Reasons Joe Biden Isn’t Necessarily ‘Better Than Trump’ 03/08/2020

Debbie Pinard: Joe Biden wrote the 1994 Crime Bill and still defends it. He wrote the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act, later became the Patriot Act. (Close to three dozen more reasons to oppose Joe Biden) So there you have the facts about Joe Biden.~ Bibi Bowmen 08/25/2020

Fact-checking Biden's claim the '94 crime bill didn't cause mass incarceration 05/15/2019

Biden defends crime bill amid criticism from Democratic foes and Trump 06/06/2019

The Many Occasions Joe Biden Took Credit For Writing The Patriot Act 09/10/2015

In Which Joe Biden Brags About Having Written The Patriot Act 07/22/2020

2006 Clip of Joe Biden's Opposition to Gay Marriage Surfaces 07/29/2020

He voted for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Behind Joe Biden’s Evolution on L.G.B.T.Q. Rights 06/21/2020 In 1996 he voted against gay marriage. Joseph R. Biden Jr. voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, blocking federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

Joe Biden’s Legislative Record Anything but Progressive 05/01/2019 Well that act you just referred to, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, was the repeal of Glass-Steagall and just to remind people, Glass-Steagall was a Depression era, a New Deal era, really piece of legislation that separated investment banks from commercial banks. It meant what it really meant was that banks couldn’t gamble with your money, your money and mine. So that, you know, all money in the bank is protected by the insured thanks to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. And Glass-Steagall meant that they couldn’t then go off and take our money and sort of make bets with it, which had been going on in the run up, to the Great Crash. (In 1999 he repealed Glass Steagall Act.)

HR 3162 - USA Patriot Act of 2001 - Voting Record In 2001 he voted for the Patriot Act. passed 98 to 1 with Russell D. 'Russ' Feingold the only one voting against it.

Joe Biden championed the Iraq war. Will that come back to haunt him now? 02/17/2020

Biden’s Record on Iraq War 09/10/2019 Twice in the last five weeks, Joe Biden has claimed that despite voting to authorize military force against Iraq in 2002, he opposed the Iraq war from “the moment” it began. That’s not accurate, and Biden now says he misspoke. (Joe Biden lied repeatedly about changing his mind early; there are numerous video-clips of him continuing to defend his decision years later long after it was known there were no weapons of mass destruction and they knew it ahead of time.)

How Biden helped create the student debt problem he now promises to fix 12/02/2019 The former vice-president and 2020 presidential hopeful backed a 2005 bill that stripped students of bankruptcy protections and left millions in financial stress

He supported raising the retirement age.

Joe Biden’s Role in the Student Debt Crisis Dates to the 1970s 01/07/2020

Biden advocated for social security cuts for forty years and tried to cut it FOUR times, 1985, 1994, 2007, and during the Obama years; supported cutting medicare, medicaid and veterans benefits, FOUR times, you can access videos of him bragging about it.

Joe Biden advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years 08/17/2020

Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years 01/13/2020

Joe Biden on Social Security: 6 Things You Should Know 05/31/2019 Raising the full retirement age has been on the table before (again, he's a centrist)

He supported the Kline-Miller Pension Act, a bill that cuts union pensions.

Critics lament Joe Biden's support for a bill leading to Teamsters pension cuts, after he hosted his campaign kickoff at Pittsburgh Teamster hall 04/30/2019 The Kline-Miller Pension Act allows multi-employer pension plans at risk of failure to reduce pensioner benefits to as little as $13,000 a year.

He has a rating of D- by Greenpeace due to his support of fracking, oil and gas extraction and the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Bernie Soars and Biden Stumbles in New Greenpeace Ranking of 2020 Candidates’ Climate Platforms 05/30/2019

He held fundraisers with union busting lawyer, Steven Cozen.

Attorneys From Union-Busting Law Firms Are Supporting Biden 01/31/2020 At least five of Biden’s bundlers — individuals who have raised at least $25,000 — are connected to union-busting firms.

He took $200,000 speaker fee to help elect Republican candidate, Fred Upton.

Of Course Joe Biden Supported a Republican in a $200K Speech 01/23/2019 Biden is a different kind of Democrat: the kind who lavishly praises Republicans who are fighting for reelection.

He voted for the telecommunications Act of 1996, deregulation of media industry; this enabled media corporations to consolidate into only six oligarchs controlling over 95% of the media. In order for honest candidates to be viable they must get name recognition first; by simply refusing to cover candidates not catering to Wall Street these six oligarchs ensure they never get name recognition, effectively rigging most elections so only those they support are viable.

S. 652 (104th): Telecommunications Act of 1996

Democracy in Peril: Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act 02/11/2016

Speak Out for Media Democracy Why isn’t the FCC doing its job? 03/09/2003

He voted to repeal Glass Steagall, leading to financial crisis.

Joe Biden Serves Wall Street, Not Main Street 02/23/2020 Supported the elimination of protections that limited Wall Street speculation. Biden helped to eliminate protections against financial industry speculation thereby creating conditions that exacerbated the Great Recession of 2008. In 1999, Biden voted for the Financial Services Modernization Act, which repealed the Depression-era Glass-Steagall law barring banks from owning securities and insurance businesses. One of Biden’s largest contributors MBNA lobbied for the repeal of Glass Steagall and he delivered. Glass-Steagall created a wall between commercial banks and investment banks. Workers and small businesses use commercial banks to deposit their money in federally guaranteed checking and savings accounts. Glass Steagall prevented banks from transferring these federally guaranteed deposits to their investment banking operations that focused on high risk and speculative investments.

He voted against expanding a child care tax credit.

In 1981, Joe Biden Took A Lonely Stand Against Expanding A Child Care Tax Credit 07/26/20219

He voted in favor of a 700 mile long border wall with Mexico.

Here’s a Video of Joe Biden Sounding a Lot Like Trump 05/10/2019 “Folks, I voted for a fence . . . Some of you won’t like it, I voted for 700 miles of fence.”

He voted for NAFTA.

Democrats itching to take down Biden over free-trade past 05/02/2019

Biden’s Nafta Vote Is a Liability in the Rust Belt 05/14/2019

He voted to let states overturn Roe v. Wade.

When Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade 03/31/2019

He supports the Hyde Amendment, flipping for the sake of the campaign.

Joe Biden supports Hyde Amendment, splits from 2020 Dems on abortion measure 06/05/2019

Joe Biden Denounces Hyde Amendment, Reversing His Position 06/06/2019

He worked to undermine the ACA coverage of contraception,

Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act’s Coverage of Contraception 06/05/2019

He pushed for the job killing China Trade bill.

Will Biden's Trade Policy Record Come Back to Haunt Him in Midwest? 03/06/2020 "I helped lead the opposition to these agreements, Joe Biden supported those agreements," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "And that is a fundamental difference about our approach toward the trade union movement and towards the needs of working people." .... "In terms of the coming general election we don't have to predict what [President Donald] Trump will be saying about Joe Biden, because he is already making those attacks. Trump—who won Michigan, who won Wisconsin, who won Pennsylvania—made one of his major campaign tenets his opposition to NAFTA and PNTR [Permanent Normal Trade Relations ] with China," said Sanders.

He backed the TPP. While in the Senate or White House he supported this; once running for president in 2020 he reversed himself, initially hedging but after seeing strong opposition opposed it, at least for the duration of the campaign.

Joe Biden Won’t Say If He Backs the Trade Deal He Helped Sell 06/26/2019

If he runs, Biden would be only Dem backing Asia trade deal 10/07/2015

He opposes cannabis legalization.

The Marijuana Superweapon Biden Refuses to Use 07/06/2020 Legalizing marijuana is extremely popular. So why won’t Joe Biden embrace the idea?

Biden’s opposition to marijuana legalization is at odds with most Americans’ views 05/18/2020 A majority of Americans, especially Democrats, support legalization. Biden doesn’t.

He supported extending Bush tax breaks for the 1%. The 2013 Biden-McConnell “Fiscal Cliff” Deal Shows Why the Next President Needs a New Approach to Taxes 01/15/2020

Wikipedia: Bush tax cuts Administration officials like Vice President Joe Biden then worked to convince wary Democratic members of Congress to accept the plan, notwithstanding a continuation of lower rates for the highest-income taxpayers.[52]

He promoted the war on drugs.

The Untold Story: Joe Biden Pushed Ronald Reagan to Ramp Up Incarceration — Not the Other Way Around 09/17/2019

How Joe Biden’s Policies Made the Opioid Crisis Harder to Treat 05/23/2019

Joe Biden’s Drug War Record Is So Much Worse Than You Think 02/26/2019

He plagiarized part of his “climate plan” from fossil groups. Biden has an incredibly long record of repeatedly plagiarizing on many occasions.

Accused of Plagiarism, Biden Campaign Admits Lifting 'Carbon Capture' Section of Climate Plan From Fossil Fuel-Backed Group 06/05/2019

Plagiarism charge hits Biden climate change plan 06/04/2019

Joe Biden's Plagiarism Problem 07/23/2020

Joe Biden's lengthy history of fabrication, plagiarism and racial controversy 08/21/2020

"Nothing will fundamentally change,” were Biden's words to his rich donors if he is elected. 6/19.

Vowing Not to 'Demonize' the Rich, Biden Tells Billionaires 'Nothing Would Fundamentally Change' If He Was Elected 06/19/2019

Joe Biden’s controversial comments about segregationists and wealthy donors, explained 06/19/2019

Joe Biden Just Made a Big Promise to His Wall Street Donors 07/23/2020

Voted with Clinton to end welfare.

A Racist Narrative’: Biden Warned of Welfare Moms Driving Luxury Cars 08/29/2019

Opposed measures to allow consumers to sue for price fixing.

Joe Biden, Neoliberal 08/07/2018 In 1979, after receiving donations from Coca-Cola, Biden cosponsored and voted for legislation that let the soft-drink industry get around antitrust laws. The same year, he voted against a measure before the Judiciary Committee to expand consumers’ rights to sue over price-fixing — one of only two Democrats to do so. As the Wall Street Journal reported, one of the companies lobbying against the bill, DuPont, was based in Biden’s home state.

Bill Backing Antitrust Suits Gains 05/09/1979 Senator Biden said later that he had voted for the bill last year only so that the committee could report it. “I never was committed to the bill,” he said.

Opposes universal health care/Med4All.

Joe Biden Says He Would Veto a Medicare-for-All Bill as President 03/10/2020

The coronavirus crisis hasn't changed Joe Biden's mind on 'Medicare for All' 03/30/2020 "Single payer will not solve that at all," he said Monday. Bernie Sanders begs to differ.

Biden Defends Undying Allegiance to For-Profit Healthcare During Interview With Dying Medicare for All Advocate Ady Barkan 07/10/2020

Biden suggests he would veto ‘Medicare for All’ over its price tag 03/10/2020

He didn't just compromise with segregationists, he fought for their cause in schools. Joe is a racist to the core, always has been.

Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say. 06/25/2019

Letters from Joe Biden reveal how he sought support of segregationists in fight against busing 06/28/2020

He repeatedly lied about marching in the civil rights movement.

2 truths and 31 lies Joe Biden has told about his work in the Civil Rights Movement 01/29/2020

That Time Joe Biden Knowingly Lied About Marching in the Civil Rights Movement 06/04/2019

Ahead of South Carolina Vote, Joe Biden Faces Questions Over Claims of Civil Rights Activism 02/14/2020

Joe Biden Has Reportedly Lied For Decades About Marching In The Civil Rights Movement 06/04/2019

He repeatedly lied about being arrested in apartheid South Africa.

Biden Adds a Claim to His Biography: An Arrest in South Africa 02/21/2020

Joe Biden drops claim he was arrested seeing Mandela 02/26/2020

He won't commit to reducing the prison population.

Joe Biden Won’t Commit To Reducing The Prison Population By A Percentage Target 06/04/2020

‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration 06/25/2019 He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.

He’s a paid hack for the credit card industry.

Biden’s Record Serving Credit Card Companies 03/02/2020

How Biden Helped Strip Bankruptcy Protection From Millions Just Before a Recession 10/23/2019

Biden's Cozy Relations With Bank Industry 08/25/2008

'Middle-class Joe' cozied up to credit card companies and made filing for bankruptcy harder 04/18/2019

MBNA paid Hunter as Joe Biden backed bill 12/16/2019

He flip flops on his long held support for the death penalty now that he's running for president.

Former death penalty proponent Biden flip-flops as federal cases advance 07/29/2019

Biden appears to be softening his stance on the death penalty 06/20/2019

So there you have the facts about Joe Biden.~ Bibi Bowmen

Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents, Book Claims 08/01/2014

Lawsuit filed after Secret Service admits to destroying records over Biden altercation with Secret Service Agent 09/04/2020

Judicial Watch Files Suit after Secret Service Admits to Destroying Records Related to Alleged Biden Altercation with Secret Service Agent 09/03/2020

Flashback: Former Joe Biden Secret Service Agent: We Had to Protect Women From Him, ‘Weinstein Level Stuff’ 03/29/2020

Visual representation of Corporate Democrats vs. the Left. 09/04/2020

Biden and Trump Unveil Dueling Law-and-Order Ads as Both Eye Swing States 09/02/2020 Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday and his campaign has unveiled a new television ad condemning the rioters and looters that have vexed some American cities as he races to cut off President Trump’s efforts to define the Democrats as the party of lawlessness. (No solutions for police shootings.)

Joe Biden’s Budget-Cutting Dogma Is a Threat to Public Health 03/16/2020

How Joe Biden will use federal funding to support public schools 06/26/2020

Trump exploits Biden’s charter school silence 09/06/2020

Fact-check: Does Joe Biden want to end school choice? 07/20/2020

Your fact-checking cheat sheet on Kamala Harris 08/13/2020

Debbie Pinard: 18 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Kamala Harris’s Record copied from Corey Seigworth 08/24/2020

18 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Kamala Harris’s Record

1)Kamala Harris blasts then take money from Epstein’s law firm for the 2020 campaign.

Kamala Harris Blasts, Then Takes Money From Jeffrey Epstein’s Law Firm 07/15/2019

2) Despite “over a thousand violations of foreclosure laws by Mnuchin’s bank, “Refused to prosecute OneWest and CEO Steve Mnuchin for criminal conduct. Mnuchin donated $2,000 to her senate campaign – the ONLY campaign to which he donated.

Kamala Harris Fails to Explain Why She Didn’t Prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s Bank 01/15/2017

Harris Was Only 2016 Senate Democratic Candidate to Get Cash From Mnuchin 02/14/2017

3) Firm proponent of civil asset forfeiture even before charges are filed.

Luis Alejo, Kamala Harris back asset seizure before criminal charges 02/23/2015

Cops and Robbers, All Rolled Into One 07/24/2017

4) In 2010 judge declared that Harris had violated defendants' rights by hiding damaging information on a police lab technician, and Judge said that she was “was indifferent to demands that it account for its failings”

Judge rips Harris' office for hiding problems 05/21/2016

5) In 2015 blocked gender reassignment surgery for a transgender prison inmate.

Inmate who won order for sex reassignment surgery recommended for parole 05/21/2015

6) As DA pushed for a statewide law to charge parents with misdemeanors of children play truant, affecting low-income communities.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris Promotes Bills to Reduce Truancy 03/11/2014

7) Resisted efforts to have her office investigate police killings.

Kamala Harris takes measured approach to probing SF cop shootings 06/01/2016

Black men killed by police – what did Kamala Harris do about it? 08/06/2019 At the same time, Harris, the state’s first black attorney general, steered clear of the legislative brawls over bills on policing, including what became a groundbreaking law to curb racial profiling. Harris also rejected pleas by civil rights activists to investigate deadly police shootings of young black men in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Kamala Harris should take bolder action on police shootings, civil rights advocates say 01/18/2016

8)Opposed efforts to reform three strikes policy disproportionately affecting black men. NY Times

Arguing Three Strikes 05/21/2010 But on three strikes, Cooley will run to Harris’s left. (She didn’t support his 2006 proposal, though she is one of the prosecutors who, on a case-by-case basis, refrains from seeking a life sentence for some nonviolent three-strikers.) It’s a reminder of how far the prosecution of Gregory Taylor, the homeless man who broke into the church, has taken Cooley from the expected comfort zone of a prosecutor.

9) Worked to keep an innocent man in jail, even after serving a decade in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

Kamala Harris’s controversial record on criminal justice, explained 08/12/2020 Or consider Harris’s handling of appeals for release by innocent people in prison. In one case, her office argued against Daniel Larsen, who was proven innocent by the Innocence Project, because, Harris’s office claimed, he filed his petition for release far too late after a legal deadline. The court disagreed, allowing Larsen’s release in 2013

EXCLUSIVE: 'Kamala ruined my life, a lot of lives.' Wrongfully convicted man who spent nearly 20 years in prison - including the notorious Pelican Bay - after then DA Harris sent his case back to trial says she's an 'opportunist' 08/19/2020

10) Defended a prosecuting attorney who inserted a false confession into an interrogation transcript.

Prosecutors protect themselves first: Column 03/08/2015 When the trial judge found out, charges against the defendant were dismissed. Incredibly, the State of California, via Attorney General Kamala Harris, decided to appeal the case. The state's key argument: That putting a fake confession in the transcript wasn't "outrageous" because it didn't involve physical brutality, like chaining someone to a radiator and beating him with a hose.

11) Went after “Backpage,” an online classified website used by sex workers, putting them in harm's way, and challenging the first amendment free speech rights.

Backpage CEO's arrest hurts free speech and sex workers' rights, advocates say 10/07/2016

California judge rejects pimping charges against website heads, citing free speech 12/10/2016

12) Fought a Supreme Court ruling, fighting to oppose release of nonviolent offenders.

Federal judges order California to expand prison releases 11/14/2014 Most of those prisoners now work as groundskeepers, janitors and in prison kitchens, with wages that range from 8 cents to 37 cents per hour. Lawyers for Attorney General Kamala Harris had argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.

How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up 07/30/2020 The state submitted a proposal that involved relocating inmates to fire camps to fight wildfires, and preventing out-of-state prisoners from being returned. But upon review, the three-judge panel found that that still left California’s prisons some 4,170 prisoners over the hard limit. ...... in late 2014, lawyers from her office claimed that nonviolent offenders needed to stay incarcerated, lest they lose bodies for fire camps in the wildfire-plagued state, as Jackie Kucinich of the Daily Beast reported.

Kamala Harris office sought to keep inmates locked up so that California could use them for cheap labor 02/11/2019 “Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation — a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,” lawyers from Harris’s office wrote in a filing. .... The judges rejected the argument. (These inmates are being trained to fight fires, yet on their release they're not allowed to become real firefighters with full pay because of their felony convictions. There's little or no concern about justice or rehabilitation, just using them for cheap labor and advancing her political career.)

13) When the Supreme Court decided that “California's overcrowded prisons represented cruel and unusual punishment”, Attorney General Harris fought a ruling ordering California to release some of its prisoners, refused to release non violent offenders referring to Governor Gerry Brown as her client.

Kamala Harris: No Friend to Criminal Justice Reform 01/12/2018

14) As California AG she defended State Death Penalty Laws; She “urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court decision invalidating the state's death penalty.”

Kamala Harris defends California's death penalty 12/01/2014

15) Opposed police body cameras

How Kamala Harris’ record on police body cameras fits into the 2020 debate on criminal justice 04/12/2019

Debate fact check: Kamala Harris’s body camera comments didn’t tell full story of her record 06/28/2019

During Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, California Sen. Kamala Harris got into a heated exchange about race with former Vice President Joe Biden.

When confronting Biden about his record, she spoke about actions she took as California’s attorney general, saying, “I was very proud to put in place a requirement that all my special agents would wear body cameras and keep those cameras on.”

It’s true the California Department of Justice became the first statewide law enforcement agency in the country mandating officers wear body cameras, but that requirement only applied to people working for Harris. It did not extend to all local police officers across the state.

In 2015, Harris told The Sacramento Bee she didn’t support statewide standards regulating the use of officer-worn body cameras. She wanted local agencies to set their own regulations.

“I as a general matter believe that we should invest in the ability of law enforcement leaders in specific regions and with their departments to use ... discretion to figure out what technology they are going to adopt based on needs that they have and resources that they have,” Harris said after an event with fellow law enforcement officials.

Since her election to the U.S. Senate, Harris has sponsored legislation that would create a pilot program for border patrol officers to wear body cameras.

Her campaign did not immediately respond when reached for comment. Complete article

16) Defended a murder conviction even though her office presented false testimony.

Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ 01/17/2019 The senator was often on the wrong side of history when she served as California’s attorney general.

17) Kamala Harris supported the 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE.

Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE 02/11/2019

18)Refused to back marijuana legalization while jailing black men for it.

Kamala Harris Stays Mum On Pot While GOP Challenger Backs Legalization 08/05/2014

Tulsi Gabbard Takes Kamala Harris To Task On Marijuana Prosecution Record 07/31/2019 “There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana,” Gabbard said.

Kamala Harris Talks 2020 Presidential Run, Legalizing Marijuana, Criminal Justice Reform + More 02/11/2019 Kamala Harris admitted to smoking marijuana on The Breakfast Club; as Tulsi pointed out she put over 1,500 people in jail for doing the same thing, yet she faced no accountability, either for smoking it, assuming you think it should be illegal, or for putting all those people in jail, assuming you think it's relatively harmless and should be legal.

A play-by-play of Kamala Harris admitting she smoked weed 02/13/2019 Shorter version of just the part of the interview where she admits smoking weed in college, laughing about it claiming she listened to musicians that weren't famous until after she was out of college. This clip also mentions several other politicians who admitted to doing drugs, yet were not prosecuted, and some of them supported prosecution of others that did the same thing they did.

Kamala Harris Packed California Prisons With Pot Peddlers 02/14/2019 At least 1,560 people were sent to state prisons for marijuana-related offenses between 2011 and 2016

Kamala Harris Dodges Question About Marijuana Criticism From Tulsi Gabbard 08/01/2019

Joe Biden gets into a heated arms control debate with the auto worker in Detroit 03/10/2020 “You work for me, man,” the worker says to Biden when the tone clears again. “I don’t work for you,” said Biden. “Give me a break, man. Don’t be such a horse …”

Biden “your a damn liar” “I don’t work for you!” 07/11/2020 Closed caption phrases it slightly different, but the point is the same.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Limits of Representation 08/26/2020

Fact check: Did Kamala Harris block evidence that would have freed inmates? 07/31/2020

Kamala Harris: Drug Warrior, Vice Cop, Draconian Prosecutor 09/0/2020

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Kamala Harris a Drug Warrior and Dirty Prosecutor. She's Right. 07/31/2019 Harris says she's proud of her record, "but I am deeply concerned about this record," said Gabbard. "There are too many examples to cite, but…she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way." ......

Gabbard told Harris that the people who "suffered under [her] reign" were owed an apology. "The bottom line is, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not. And worse yet, in the case of those who are on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. There's no excuse for that." (Kamala Harris acted with self-righteous indignation at these claims, but did not refute them, since they were backed up by evidence.)

Man behind bars 2 years after judge orders release 08/21/2012

Reason.com: Kamala Harris Reason is funded by the Koch Brothers, or the surviving one, and they have a conservative bias; however, they make some very good points about Harris which can be confirmed elsewhere.

Fact check: Did Kamala Harris block evidence that would have freed inmates? 07/31/2020

During Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went after California Sen. Kamala Harris over her record as the state’s attorney general and San Francisco’s district attorney.

Biden alluded to a crime lab scandal that involved her district attorney’s office and resulted in more than 1,000 drug cases being dismissed. Gabbard claimed Harris “blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.”

Biden’s claim that 1,000 drug cases had to be dismissed when Harris was D.A. is accurate, although Harris has denied knowing about the problems with the crime lab that triggered those dismissals until the issue became public. Gabbard is correct that Harris did not pursue all evidence in the case she referenced, but the innocence of the inmate in question has yet to be determined.

Longtime San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi criticized Harris’s handling of the crime lab situation back in 2010 and during a January interview with The Sacramento Bee.

The San Francisco drug lab was shut down after a lead technician, who testified on behalf of prosecutors on drug cases, was found to have systematically mishandled the drug samples seized from suspects, even consuming some herself.

While the San Francisco Police Department was responsible for running the lab, not Harris’s district attorney office, a court ruled in 2010 that the district attorney’s office violated defendants’ constitutional rights by not disclosing what it knew about the tainted drug evidence.

The San Francisco drug lab was shut down after a lead technician, who testified on behalf of prosecutors on drug cases, was found to have systematically mishandled the drug samples seized from suspects, even consuming some herself.

While the San Francisco Police Department was responsible for running the lab, not Harris’s district attorney office, a court ruled in 2010 that the district attorney’s office violated defendants’ constitutional rights by not disclosing what it knew about the tainted drug evidence.

Judge Anne-Christine Masullo wrote in her decision that prosecutors “at the highest levels of the district attorney’s office knew that Madden was not a dependable witness at trial and that there were serious concerns regarding the crime lab.”

And the Wall Street Journal reported in June that Harris ignored staff recommendations back in 2005 urging her office to establish a defendants rights policy, known as the Brady doctrine, that would have mandated her staff to disclose such information to defendants.

Harris has denied being aware of the drug lab issues at the time and also noted that her office implemented a Brady policy after the drug lab scandal came to her attention. Her office dismissed an estimated 1,000 cases as a result.

In February, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered new DNA testing in the 1983 murder case of Kevin Cooper. Cooper came within hours of execution in 2004 after being charged with the murders of an adult couple and two children. Harris opposed the testing when she was the state’s attorney general.

She has since said she supports DNA testing and encouraged Newsom to approve Cooper’s request. She did not offer specifics on why she did not approve the testing during her tenure.

In response to a request for comment, Harris’s campaign pointed to a past statement where the senator called a New York Times columnist last year, telling him, “I feel awful about this.”

The testing is not yet complete. Whether Gabbard’s claim that the testing “would” have exonerated him remains an open question.

Harris defended her criminal justice record Wednesday night. “As elected attorney general of California I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model of the work that needs to be done, and I am proud of that work.” Complete article