"Joe Biden's fault"

Guys, this comic is a jab at conservatives, and is poking fun at how they're going to respond to getting screwed by Trump. The comic is positing that conservatives will just blame Democrats (usually their leader specifically), as they've done since time immemorial. These exact types of comics have been around since Reagan, they're all the same comic. The last big one was the "thanks Obama" meme, where Obama is blamed for every stupid little thing.

This isn't a comic about leftists blaming Biden. It's about the bull headedness and obtuse nature of conservatives.

This comic would have been perfect if the guy's hat just had MAGA on it, easier to get the message across
- The message is 100% clear to Americans already.
- Willing to bet it's a registered trademark
Guys, this comic is a jab at conservatives

Centrists think that conservatives and leftists are the same people.

Biden is not responsible for what Trump is doing. He is responsible for letting it happen. He failed to fight maga during the 4 years he had all the powers to do it.

To be accurate, it is not a fault, it is a failure. His responsibility is on this failure, not anything else.

Damn… I’m going to keep “not a fault, it’s a failure” in my back pocket. I’ve never heard it put that way when discussing a screw up that wasn’t really someone’s fault (in this case Biden, but could be Dems or even situations not politics related)

I feel being critical without blaming unfairly is a huge part of my personality, and so this type of convo actually comes up kinda frequently in my life, since so many people struggle to see gray areas between right and wrong, at fault and not at fault.

But what you said is a perfect way to better ensure that the meaning doesn’t get lost to blaming, after which the conversation is usually a lost cause.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. Biden didn't open the door for Trump, but he did stand aside. Bernie would have shredded Trump ... but you know, apparently primaries are the devil.
the powers trump is using now is not actual presidential powers and I would not see it used by their guys or ours. congress is the one who could have stopped this. mainly back when trump was in office and going through with the impeachment.
Is Biden also to blame for Trump's first 4 years? It's the people's fault! It's your damn fault too! The world is still waiting for riots and precautions of election manipulation etc. But nothing comes from you. Just peaceful protests while trump pisses in your faces.
- No hut the DNC definitely is for sabotaging sanders and his supporters to ensure the neo liberal class dictatorship could continue and prevent any platform movement to the left that might vaguely resemble a new FDR presidency
- I'm not a US citizen, so no, I'm not to blame. And if you ask me I'm happy for the downfall of the USA. But I'm sad for the victims that will happen because of fascism. And I'm sad that liberals would still rather blame leftists than admit their own failures.
There is something there, but I don't know about Biden being the main focus. It feels like a little mini civil war where after the US Civil War for a very brief moment we had African American politicians, leaders, businesses, and equality seemed at least possible. Then you have the KKK and white supremacy pop up and it's all gone. We had a brief run with what felt like some equality or equitable society, and then a big white supremacist movement came up and they are moving hell and earth to drag us back to the 1770s
Are police also "responsible" for "letting crime happen"? I don't understand the reasoning here.
- See how long you last as police chief if you choose to not suppress crime.
  
  So yeah, police are explicitly responsible for minimising crime, that’s literally their job.
  
  I admit there’s some nuance there since police aren’t expected to actually prevent all crime. In this metaphor I guess the question is whether Trump is a bog standard criminal that maybe gets around the police but is kept mostly in check, or if he’s a special level of super-criminal that police chief Biden should have his career judged against.
- How would you consider a policeman watching a crime happen and do absolutely nothing about it?
"n'y thing"? What the fuck?

When someone robs your house, you blame the robbers. When the police refuse to do anything about it and you get robbed again by the same person 4 years later, you blame the police.

I blame the robbers for robbing my house and the police for not doing their jobs. I don't blame the police for robbing my house.
- Yeah that's the point

Nice, but the orange asshole is not fat enough.

Battered spouses rarely leave their spouse.

Now we need a version with the guy wearing a "don't vote" cap and saying "this is all the Dems fault".

The Democrats not once but twice lost to him. Who do you suggest we blame if not the candidates that lost?
- I blame Republican voter suppression and supporting a candidate that tried and failed at insurrection.
- The voters, genuinely. Because they misunderstood what the vote meant. It wasn't about electing a democrating candidate, it was about keeping Trump out of office*. Note that this is not limited to non-voters, but includes every american.
  
  *: This is not what a vote for the president is meant to be about. But hey, desperate times, desperate measures, that kinda stuff.
- As someone from a place with compulsory voting and would vote regardless. You, I would vote any prick that stayed home and didn't vote. Especially when rates are less than half the voting population.
- The non-voters obviously. How is that so difficult for you to understand?
- The protest non-voters voted for Trump.

US politics in a nutshell: Good Cop, Bad Cop (The Simpsons).

There’s a lot of “trust the process “ going on from that side atm

Man, how much of a wuss would you have to be to get beat up by Donald Trump?

Not a wuss just “conservative”…

Just “conservative” enough for this…
looks like it happened
- He must be a pretty big wuss.

I knew that Don Orange likes top.

He clearly bottoms for dictators, though
- He's at his bottomest bottom when daddy vladdy is around.

Conservatives are happy with what Trump's doing.

They are, until it happens to effect them directly.

"He was supposed to get rid of all the slackers and cut off people abusing the system, not fire my entire department!"

"He was supposed to put in tariffs to make China pay more, not to make the price of our goods go up!"

Classic leopards eating peoples faces party behaviour.
- You're expecting more disastrous consequences than they are. Time will tell, but I think they'll find the tariff costs worth it for added manufacturing investment.
A lot of them aren't. And when more of them are negatively affected then they won't be either
- But they will still vote Republican because nothing the Republicans have done over the last 45 years to ruin their lives has swayed them yet.
- I mean that's true with any large group, yeah? Doesn't change the fact that he's doing what they voted for him to do.
A lot of them are beyond help. Brains too melted. But there are some people who might not have turned out to vote, due to apathy, or getting hung up on specific issues they were unhappy with Biden about, who are now realizing their mistake. I wish these people had been paying attention, and voted more proactively rather than reactively. Everything he's doing now was warned about.
- But there are some people who might not have turned out to vote, due to apathy, or getting hung up on specific issues they were unhappy with Biden about, who are now realizing their mistake.
  
  And if democrats had pursued them with a tenth of the fervor with which they pursued republicans who were never going to vote for them, we wouldn't have trump now.
I mean they're happy because right now it's just "owning the libs". When their social security checks don't show up or their Medicaid gets denied I like to think they'll learn. But the Republicans are already trying to line that up to be "corruption and immigrants". I also like to think that the Republicans will lose some of their propaganda power the longer they are in office. You can only hit the "blame DEI" button so many times before it doesn't work anymore.

The Democrats are a cesspool themselves, but at least they don't flaunt screwing you over.

Tell that to the kids who visited Pelosi at her office

Daddy would never hurt us!

Then later that night, in fact nearly every night...
"this is not happening this is not happening thisisnothappening MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB LITTLELAMB LITTLELAMB...!"

You expect me to believe trump can throw a punch?

Yeah it should have been trump hitting the guy with a golf club

Strawman. Leftists don't claim Biden single-handedly ushered in fascism. Leftists underline how little Biden did to ensure a winning campaign, as well as how little he did to defend against Trump.

Biden enabled Trump by not stacking courts, not prosecuting trump hard enough, or choosing policy positions based on what would beat trump.

I don't think the victim here is a leftist. Trucker hat, rolled up sleeves; he's a working class conservative who's getting hammered by Trumps policies. He is still blaming Biden against all evidence.
If incompetency was prosecutable, every single ranking member of Biden's DOJ would be eligible for indictment.

From Tulsi Gabbard to Devin Nunes to Jared Kushner to Steven Miller, then number of Trump '16 era crooks who didn't get prosecuted when Biden had the chance could fill an entire Presidential cabinet.

Biden enabled Trump by not stacking courts, not prosecuting trump hard enough, or choosing policy positions based on what would beat trump.

I'm reminded of those 2-pt font "This is what Biden has done, you stupid leftists!" infographics that included dozens of citations of investigations and probes and FBI raids and committees and executive orders and threats to indict which amounted to... nothing! Biden's DOJ couldn't even be bothered to pursue a full prosecution. He left that to Alvin Bragg and a New York County Court.

If Dems wanted a prosecutor who was tough on crime at the top of the ticket, maybe they should have coronated him instead of Harris.
This isn't about leftists. The guy is dressed like a farmer, who majority voted for Trump. Trump turned around and immediately cut subsidies that small business farmers rely on, so many are now struggling. The comic is saying that they will still blame Biden despite being screwed by Trump. This could also be viewed as shorthand for any trump voter.

In reality, we've seen many farmers now communicate that they regret voting for trump. Alittle too little too late, it seems. They aren't as dumb as the comic artist paints them in that sense, just unempathetic.
- Honestly, I'd kind of like to read some serious analysis on Trump on agricultural policy. I've pointed out that farmers are politically-important in red states, but many of Trump's policies look pretty bad for farmers to me.
  
  Tariffs don't benefit them -- the US is globally competitive agriculturally. The people who want tariffs are in labor-intensive manufacturing. Tariffs just bring up the prices farmers pay, and counter-tariffs hurt them by keeping them from competing in foreign markets. Trump did have some relief funds sent farmers impacted by Chinese tariffs in his first term to mitigate the hit they took, but I'm pretty sure that they'd rather not have their business mucked up.
  
  Trump may not actually do as much on illegal immigration as he tries to promote in his image, but he sure doesn't help, and US agriculture depends heavily on labor from illegal immigrants.
  
  Trump going after SNAP, subsidized food for the poor, doesn't help. My understanding was that for a long time, farmers benefited primarily from federal crop insurance subsidies, but that due to a decline in influence, they basically teamed up with advocates for the poor to get food stamp subsidies in place, and that's now the primary form of federal farm subsidy.
  
  When I look at the NFU --- the big farming industry association --- website, it doesn't sound very happy with Trump:
  
  https://nfu.org/2025/03/04/american-farmers-and-ranchers-bear-the-brunt-of-tariffs/
  
  WASHINGTON – National Farmers Union President Rob Larew commented today on the President’s decision to implement tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
  
  “The tariffs announced today, along with retaliatory measures from China and Canada, will have serious consequences for American agriculture. Our farmers are the backbone of this country, and they need strong, fair trade policies that ensure they can compete on a level playing field—not be caught in the middle of international disputes.
  
  “We are already facing significant economic uncertainty, and these actions only add to the strain. Trade policies must come with real, tangible protections for the farmers directly affected. We’ve heard there’s a strategy in place—now we need to see it. Promises alone won’t pay the bills or keep farms afloat.
  
  “Without a clear plan, family farmers will once again be left to bear the burden of decisions beyond their control, and eventually, so will consumers. We urge the administration to work with our trading partners to prevent further harm to rural communities.”
  
  In the US political system, strongly-red or strongly-blue areas aren't as politically important, so you don't really need to worry about pissing them off -- they're gonna tend to vote for or against you regardless. That's especially true for the President, and true for a lesser degree for legislators.
  
  But if I'm a legislator for an area, I do care about the industries in my area, and seeing the party that mostly represents rural areas producing a lot of what looks like disadvantageous-to-farmers policy going through kind of surprises me.
  
  This is one of the big things that I don't really feel like I have a handle on regarding Trump administration policy.
  
  EDIT: And I also see websites commenting on Trump policy not being good for farmers, so it's not just me making some kind of huge error in assessing this.
  
  EDIT2: One issue for some farmers has been the EPA taking issue with farm runoff -- fertilizer causing algae blooms, like in the Great Lakes. If Trump weakens regulation on that, that might be popular with farmers. Farm runoff is a very big political issue in the Netherlands, and I know that that caused enormous political waves in the past few years.
  
  kagis
  
  Ah. Okay, apparently yes:
  
  https://apnews.com/article/2386f9f4af34d81ae32629dead464af3
  
  Trump rollback could leave waterways vulnerable to pollution
  
  Since his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump has targeted environmental and public health regulations that he says imposed unnecessary burdens on business. Speaking to farmers in Texas on Sunday, Trump repeated his frequent charge that an Obama-era attempt in 2015 to more clearly define what water bodies qualify for federal pollution protection was “one of the most ridiculous regulations of all.""
  
  Thursday’s changes to the clean water rule have long been sought by builders, oil and gas developers, farmers and others.
  
  So I guess that might be one selling point he has for farmers.
Yet people still decided who to vote for & who not to vote against. People still hold responsibility for their vote or failure to vote: they knew who Trump was. They'd seen his shit before.

Also, why do you think the guy in the trucker hat is a leftist?

Inaction is also an action that may determine whose fault it is.

....yeah. It is his fault. Because Donald Trump should be in a dark cell deep under ground. I wholly blame Merick Garland and Joe Biden for the current situation.

Wholly? As in you think Trump is completely innocent?
- No, not all, but I think they're responsible for allowing a criminal and domestic terrorist to be able to retake the office they abused already. They're wholly responsible for that failure. Trump is guilty of his part, which is why he should be the one in prison. So I guess what I meant is I blame them almost as equally as I do Trump, not wholly.

There is simply no comedic value in this comic strip.

its an art form, its call a comic strip but it dont need to be humorous. think about the unexpected masterpiece loss
It's funny because it's true.

I mean, over half a century of neolibs gutting the small semblance of social democracy we had did this. And Biden was certainly one of those people. It'd just be more accurate to say Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush again, Regan...

Now did you mean for all those words to come out of your mouth in that order, or are you just as surprised and confused as the rest of us?
- Oh I must have been confused. I forgot that history doesn't exist. Everything started with whatever was last on TV. Donald Trump is just randomly the president for no reason. There must not be any reason he has the power to do the things he's doing. Nope. It's a mystery. Carry on.

It's not entirely wrong, Trump would probably not be caving his face in if Biden at respected his limitations.

well he did not prevent this from happening in a number of preventable ways.

Well, why didn't Batman just kill the Joker? He's had plenty of opportunities...
- Batman can't kill The Joker because, if he does, the writers can't bring The Joker back in the next issue for Batman to defeat again.
  
  Presumably, Biden couldn't prosecute Trump for the same reasons. Dems ran the same Pied Piper Strategy that worked so well in 2016, secure in their ability to defeat someone as easy and vulnerable as The Donald.
  
  Gotta give the people what they want. And what they want is another election with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.
- I agree. he gave him plenty of opportunities but IMHO what we consider justice doesn't seem to apply to the ultra violent, rich or eccentric.
  
  the end game successes of capitalism are not compatible with democracy.
- Because he's motherfucking fictional. Donald Trump is a real life comic book villain, and he's also not even 1/100th as smart as the Joker.
- fuckkk it just like in my comics!!!!!!