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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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[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Then why didnt he do more to prevent it?

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

He wanted to have his genocide and give Israel everything he could, and as soon as he was gone Bibi shit on him and said he did very little. Fuck Biden.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wonder how Kamala feels about throwing the election rather than making a stand against genocide.

/we pretty much know what's in the DNC's report about their failed campaign

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Then why didnt he do ~~more~~ anything to prevent it?

ftfy.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Why hasn’t anyone in your country done anything to prevent it?

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[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Supreme Court gave him immunity and he didn’t save democracy with it crazy work

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No. You need to read that SCOTUS decision. The Supreme Court retained the authority to decide which actions are official acts due immunity and which are not. Therefore, had Biden attempted to use that immunity in the way you suggest, this biased SCOTUS would simply have ruled his actions unofficial and therefore not immune from prosecution.

[-] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I did in fact read it. I did in fact read the dissenting opinions. I did in fact listen to the case as it was being presented including all the theoreticals posed.

Biden could have him killed or pushed out of a c130 somewhere over the pacific and then scotus would step in after the fact. It was literally one of the dissenting opinion points about just how far this could be abused before it’s reigned in.

T hasn’t even begun to test the limits to the powers he was given, and Biden just like so many other things, fecklessly dismissed.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Which is why he should've started running the Project 2025 playbook and either forced the Republicans to pass laws against his acts or had SCOTUS invalidate them. Now that Trump is in office he could create a Medicare-for-all solution called Trumpcare and the GOP loyalists would be gobbling his knob like it was the only way to get Raptured.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

If the establishment democrats will get the fuck out of the way and stop letting corporations run the country, then yes, we can come back from this. Listen to progressives like AOC and Mamdani, stop blocking them.

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Fuck you Joe, you slow walked us into this by not prosecuting Trump in the name of "bipartisanship!" If you had done your job we might not be in this mess. Democrats are weak and feckless.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

And supporting genocide and AIPAC

Yup, anyone who doesn't know what AIPAC is doesn't understand this has been building up for decades.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 week ago
[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Not without violence we can't, and liberals aren't willing to do that

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

He should shut the fuck up. That fucking hump is responsible for this.

When he took over, he immediately launched a Covid Vaccine program and an Economic Stimulus program that were both far more successful than predicted. For that, he could have landed in the top 10-15 of presidents.

But he had to do a decent job for the rest of his presidency, which mainly included dealing with MAGA as the National Security Threat they are. He had just seen Trump launch an Insurrection. That would have been enough for him to step off the podium after being sworn in, and say "Round them ALL up, and ship them to Guantanamo for interrogation. We'll sort them out there."

If he'd done that, we would have found out about the False Electors Plot, AND his Stolen Classified Documents Operation. That's THREE separate cases of sedition and treason, and more than enough for him to get the noose.

Rounding them up would have suppressed the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and allowed the Dems to better control the messaging going into the 2024 election.

Instead, Biden basically checked out of the job after announcing his Covid and Stimulus programs, and stupidly appointed the most feckless Republican to be his AG, perhaps the STUPIDEST Democratic Presidential decision in modern history, who dithered and slow-walked Trump's treason cases as long as he could, giving him a two year head start to run out the clock, which he did, successfully.

In addition, he ignored the many warnings, many coming from the mouths of the criminals themselves, that they intended to rig the election and steal the presidency, and Biden allowed them to do it in front of the entire world, without any interference at all. And when they did, he went along with the ridiculous concept that Trump won the election "fair & square."

The American voters fired MAGA decisively, and expected the new Democratic administration to clean up the mess. Instead of getting justice for America, they tried to make friends with feral animals, and got eaten alive. For his weakness and cowardice, allowing MAGA to rise again, Biden's legacy is in the toilet, and will he will be buried in the bottom 10 of all presidents.

Biden betrayed us, and he's lucky that he won't be joining the MAGAs against the wall with the rest of them. He deserves the firing squad as much as any of them.

[-] paperazzi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm Canadian and you got me all fired up with your comment. I agree wholeheartedly.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

couldn't have said it better myself

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[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

...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.

Yeah cuz those are the important things to be concerned with.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"We tried nothing, and that didn't work. I think we might be screwed here." - Old school Corporate Democrats.

Yeah, we can come back from this, one way or another. The fact that he can't figure out a way, is why he was a terrible president.

One way was to fire MAGA, and elect an experienced Democrat to be president and get justice for America. Which we did. And then he went on to do literally NOTHING to stop them from rising again.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I guess he forgot his FIFTY YEARS in politics and has NOW decided things have gone too far.

No, Joe, we can't come back from 50 years of people like you and worse, you HACK

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

From what, Joe? From your inability to put Donald behind bars? From your inability to condemn genocide? From your crime bill?

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