Biden screwing his own voters has moved much faster than I’d anticipated, but then this is what happens when you’re not really the one in control and Identity Politics rules your party.

Famous American journalist H L Mencken once wrote that:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Personally I prefer the lesser known quip from New York City Mayor Ed Koch after his Democrat primary loss to David Dinkins in 1989, when he was asked if he might run again and he said he wouldn’t because:

“The people have spoken…and they must be punished.”

Let the good and hard punishment commence! First up are the feminists, upset over Biden’s Executive Order about transgenders in schools and universities:

Filed under DUUUUHHHHH.

Or how about this ignorance of the Leftist desire for control:

Also filed under DUUUUHHHHH.

To be fair there are any number of Right-Wing Statist fanatics who love lockdowns as well, usually because with their tuxedos they fit in perfectly well with the Democrat ruling class and via their political, bureaucratic, and Big Tech work-from-home jobs, have missed no paychecks in any lockdown.

How about the fears of war involving the USA, which has been mercifully absent for four years now?

Well sweetie, the answer is yes, yes you did vote for that but you were just too stupid and spun up on OrangeManBad hatred that you couldn’t think when you marked the absentee ballot paper.

Then there’s the whole fracking thing. Biden flip-flopped on the issue with regard to the swing state of Pennsylvania, aided by the usual “factcheckers”, but to be fair Biden said the ban would only apply to federal lands, and it seems New Mexico missed the debate with Joe Biden’s comments on fracking and that half of their state’s production happens on federal land.

On two occasions in the primary, Biden pledged to end fracking. So, his executive action is precisely what he said he would do.

Also filed under DUUUUHHHHH.

The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uinta and Ouray Reservation in Utah also claim this ban is a direct attack on Native American sovereignty and self-determination. They have asked the Department of the Interior to withdraw or amend the temporary halt. Nominating the first Native American woman to head the agency is not enough to stave off criticism but that’s Identity Politics thinking again. Admittedly I don’t know what proportion of the Utes voted for Biden, but they sure sound like they’re surprised.

And speaking of oil there’s the whole Keystone pipeline project that Biden has cancelled, which makes this past comment from a member of the ruling class particularly fun:

So yes, Trump has been bad for the Western Alliance nations. He has fundamentally weakened the Alliances. Biden will get them working again.

Oh really?

it’s very frustrating that one of the first acts of the new President was, I think, to disrespect America’s closest friend and ally, Canada...It is a insult directed at the United States most important ally and trading partner on day one of a new administration
– Alberta Premier Jason Kenny

Canadian PM Trudeau is trying to downplay this but he’s also facing angry union workers on his side of the border, plus other Premiers who are as angry about this as Kenny.

Then there’s the US unions, starting with the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA)

Another union, the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters, also endorsed Joe Biden in August of 2020. The same union condemned the new administration for the loss of jobs and the likelihood of rising energy costs, which they correctly note hurts working- and middle-class families.

Filed under…. Jesus Christ! Democrats have never been shy about their disdain for the Keystone XL pipeline. Yet, the unions that were set to make billions off the construction of the project endorsed Biden anyway. If you were to ask their leadership why they made that endorsement, they probably couldn’t even tell you. They are a union and unions just endorse Democrats (at least the vast majority of the time). It apparently never crossed their minds to prioritize their own employment and families, but here we are. You have to wonder how long such unions can even exist when their members have no jobs. Biden’s pick as Transport Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, effectively shrugged his shoulders about such workers; hey, why not learn to code.

Of course there are also the unintended victims of a Biden Presidency, which are the Lefties now with a giant hole in the head that Trump still fills:

Four words: First World Problems Pal.

But some are appreciating the return to the Presidency of Basic, Middling, White Patriarchy:

Biden had made gently racist comments about his opponent, noting the ‘storybook’ qualities of ‘the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.’ With this paternalistic appraisal, and its lightly resentful affirmative-action framing of Obama’s success, Biden had projected attitudes so familiarly American that they perhaps sealed his deal as Obama’s running mate…

“When I say that Joe Biden is basic, by which I mean 100 percent medium grade, I don’t intend it as an insult.”

God, I love it when passive-aggressive hate is directed at me.

But aside from that it’s pretty much accurate about Biden. I don’t think he has any principles at all other than don’t make waves and take the easy path to preserve his electability. The problem now is that while Biden has increasingly been a fossil in a Democrat Party radically moving left (excluding unions in Amazon and taxes on the likes of Google and Wall Street), he’s now just a figurehead, he’s not in charge. And the people who are actually calling the shots are leftist radicals who have already begun to do serious damage to the economy, the environment, national security, and international relations. All the things they said they needed to evict Trump to save.