this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
907 points (99.3% liked)

Political Memes

11020 readers
3237 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

No AI generated content.Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Maybe there's been some update I don't know about, but I also haven't heard about Joe Biden being in the Epstein files, either.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Almost as if character is like a real thing. Like respecting yourself means you also respect others. Say what you will about Joe, but never got any scumbag vibes from that guy. Haven't really heard too many surprises from the names that I've seen in these files so far.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah he's more into drone striking kids than doing anything else with with them

[–] Ourst 11 points 5 days ago

He’s more “fuck them kids” than “fuck them kids”

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What kids did Biden drone strike

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I care less about drone strikes against direct military targets and the like than I do about funding Israel's ongoing genocide that has killed far, far more innocent people than any "whoopsie that was a schoobus" incidents.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

He personally? Probably none. On his order?

After Joe Biden took office, he halted counterterrorism drone strikes without White House approval

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's... A good thing? The full quote from the article is:

In October 2017, Trump abolished the Obama-era approval system in favor of a looser, decentralized approach, which gave the military and CIA officials the discretion to decide to launch drone strikes against targets without White House approval.[25] This policy reduced accountability for drone strikes.[26] After Joe Biden took office, he halted counterterrorism drone strikes without White House approval and initiated a broad review of U.S. policy on drone use.[25]

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's better than what it used to be under Trump, but not better than what it used to be under Obama. It does just mean that Biden had to approve every drone strike, so technically any kid that died during his presidency to US drones is on him.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So surely you have examples of kids being killed by drone strikes under Biden?

One? Just one kid?

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Again, here is an article from 2021 talking about 7 dead children, but you'll also have to consider that usually those things remain hidden unless somebody leaks it, because... Well, the government doesn't want to look like the bad guys.

"Calling it a "tragic mistake," the U.S. Department of Defense admitted Friday that it had killed 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-admits-drone-strike-kabul-afghanistan-killed-10-civilians-children-202430704.html

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you know that "halted" means "stopped"?

And you specifically mentioned kids... Still waiting on that one

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Can you read? He halted strikes without approval from the White House, which means that all drone strikes had to be approved by the White House, which is the house this Biden guy was working from.

When it comes to the children, a quick search revealed one article from 2021 talking about 7 dead children, but you'll also have to consider that usually those things remain hidden unless somebody leaks it, because... Well, the government doesn't want to look like the bad guys.

"Calling it a "tragic mistake," the U.S. Department of Defense admitted Friday that it had killed 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-admits-drone-strike-kabul-afghanistan-killed-10-civilians-children-202430704.html

Both are worth noting. Any president is going to make some decisions with ugly consequences that will be criticized. If you are a creep on a personal level, imagine how bad you can be with some dissociation. Trump and pals rape children personally and personally spew out lies on a daily basis.

[–] TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unrestricted drone warfare is more an Obama critisicm than Biden. The only creepy Biden thing I remember was him sniffing women's hair.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Obama and Biden both had to approve drone strikes. It was the first Trump administration that got rid of that requirement.

Not saying that this makes Obama or Biden better, but it seems like Trump was even worse.

[–] TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah not saying Biden didn't partake in drone warfare, but the civilian casualties from drone attacks were significantly reduced during his term as president. He only executed around a tenth as many drone attacks as done on Obama's term. So it is not something that makes sense to criticise him specifically on, especially when there are definitely other things to criticise him on.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

I'd agree on that.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"reduced" fuck off apologist.

[–] TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

No apologies here, if you want something to criticise Biden on that caused significant death focus on something like the shit job he did pulling the troops out of Afghanistan. Or his lack of action, like not expanding the supreme court which could have prevented a lot of the authoritarian bullshit the US is doing now. Your comment makes you sound like a US voter who didn't vote for Kamala against Trump because "Kamala bad too", and that kind of thinking is also another reason we are in the mess we are in now.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if his name is somewhere in there off the cuff, but I'm honestly surprised MAGA isn't screaming about him like they do about Clinton. I can only imagine that if he was in there for good it would've been the first thing Trump released.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

There is no doubt in my mind Biden isn't anywhere in there. For that exact reason. Trump would not be able to stop himself.