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The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 60 points 7 hours ago

Yes it's definitely Biden's fault that Americans gave the republicans the house, senate and presidency.

[-] prole 9 points 3 hours ago

He's not blameless

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 hours ago

His arrogant hubris and the DNC not forcing him out gave us Trump, again.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago

So. like. the too-long-didn't-care is treating responsibility for things like it's zero sum game is stupid. Absolutely... incomprehensibly stupid.

Biden is absolutely repsonsible for having not done everything in his power as POTUS to put trump in jail.

and lets not forget... for the first half of Biden's presidency, he had both the house and the senate- not by supermajority levels, no. but they had control and they pissed it away with compromise.

And if you're going to give Biden credit for the Build Back Better bill and the other one... which I'm sure you do... then Biden can also take credit for that. (especially the decision to not pack the courts, or break the filibuster.)

[-] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 65 points 7 hours ago

Dude sat on the Trump/Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing about it because it would have hurt the donor class and Israel.

Trump won on a (false) pledge to release the files.

Who deserves the blame for this situation in your mind?

[-] prole 9 points 3 hours ago
[-] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

You're correct but apparently this thread is only for hyperbole. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Actually, I do blame him for overestimating his health, and thinking he had enough in the tank for another run. He clearly did not.

Would Harris have still been the nominee had there been an actual primary? Maybe, maybe not. But whoever won that would have been a better candidate.

I was extremely pissed off after watching that debate. The man I saw that night simply didn't have it anymore, and it was more than just jetlag or a cold. There was nobody close to Biden who could have sat down with him before the election and told him directly that he didn't have it anymore?

We talk about how Trump surrounds himself with yes-men and sycophants. I think Biden didn't do much better.

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago

His health was plain as day before he was elected, but liberals kept insisting it was only a stutter. They buried their heads in the sand so they could be the oppressors of the working class again.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 1 points 39 minutes ago

Although somehow, Trump being just as mentally incompetent, wasn't an issue. He may be a couple years younger but he is in no objectively measured way more competent. The GOP could run a sewer rat and leftists would still complain that the human Democrat was more of a problem. No, Biden, there isn't a way back. America is hooped.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

He still speaks better than Trump. He is more cognitively in tact and shows better judgement as well. Always has.

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[-] SnotFlickerman 40 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I guess letting Trump run out the clock on justice was the voters fault too, then, eh? Even when Biden was literally handed a way to prevent Trump from running on a silver platter by the Supreme Court that basically ruled that anything a President does is part of Presidential Duties. He and the entire apparatus around him including twerps like Merrick Garland has so many fucking options to stop this. The courts, the department of justice, the President, all of them had taken an oath to protect democracy and that oath doesn't disappear because the voters are stupid. They all bend over like grass under a push-me-pull-you lawnmower going "oh for fucks sake" and deciding that fighting corruption was too hard and too risky for themselves personally. People whined about judges getting death threats and that's why they were hesitant to play hardball... Are you fucking kidding me? Like they thought that would protect them or anyone else? Now fascism is boldly kicking the fucking doors in and those people and their families are in more danger than they were back then, except now the whole country is in just as much danger. They bent over because their pussy asses thought they could and should save themselves instead of fight fascism and asshats are all like "it's the voters fault!" when Trump legally shouldn't have been allowed to run for the Presidency at all for a litany of reasons and nobody with any real power did anything to stop it! Sure, it's our fault, not a system that allowed it to happen, fuck me, give me a break! The people in charge abdicated their responsibility to justice and then said it's the voters fault, get the fuck out of here.

Stop rewriting history. In a country where laws actually meant something and mattered he would have been in prison for 34 felonies and not allowed to run due to being an insurrectionist and guilty of treason for stealing and selling state secrets. How the living fuck is that the voters fault? The system failed the voters before the voters failed the system.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 9 points 6 hours ago

If the voters and non-voters hadn't voted him back in the wheels of justice would probably kept turning slowly as they do.

Do you want to establish the precedence of a president demanding the DOJ arrest their opposition?

Because I'm not sure that's a great idea.

[-] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 2 points 26 minutes ago

You are so fucking ignorant if you think the wheels of justice were slowly turning.

[-] Scirocco@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Merrick Fucking Garland was a poor choice in the first place, a sop to 'the other side' and he performed exactly as expected.

Bernie Sanders would have won against Trump all three races, if we just had to have an old white guy.

Biden was earnest, but he did not, and does not have the balls required in these modern times

Can we come back from this?

What a joke. Biden himself had the opportunity and the authority to start that process, and his entire administration farted around for three full years.

[-] SnotFlickerman 23 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Well, it sure seems to have worked without taking so long that the assholes who already broke the laws came back into power like in South Korea and Brazil. Those systems didn't go "whoopsies we ran out of time, I guess they can take power again!"

A system that allows this to happen and places the blame on the voters instead of fighting for a better world is a system that was always going to end up this way.

A system that can just have the clock run out on justice is always going to be gamed like this, stop lying to yourself.

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