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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[–] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It seems to me that most people have been deceived to think that Trump is the problem. Meanwhile, if Trump dies tomorrow, the real problem will remain.

Trump being ELECTABLE is the problem. Super PACs are what made Trump electable. When he is gone, those "donators" will immediately do the exact same thing with someone else, and it will work.

Because when you make bribery legal, those who accept the most bribes win. They can find another celebrity to fill his role just as easily. He's not magical. He's not even clever. Who next? That Hercules dimwit? I forget his name, fuck that guy.

Unfortunately, we the people can't donate enough to keep up with billionaires and corporations and even foreign interests like Saudi Arabia and Israel; whoever wins an election is beholden to them before they ever take office.

How do we get representatives to stop taking bribes and profiteering? "You and your entire family can be millionaires" vs. "Do the right thing" isn't ever going to work.

See Citizens United, Super PACs, Heritage Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations for further details.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You mean it's been a class war this whole time? 0.o

    Rhetoric aside, it is all really quite painful to take in. The contradictions are even more in plain sight than they've ever been before. Hard to believe anyone can ignore the flames erupting on all sides. luckily there's nothing more dangerous than a cornered jackal. The soul of the masses seem to be more and more in unison and sync. Do you believe the people can organize and act? I have doubts, but also aren't we almost beyond any influence of skepticism in this era of desperation?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    The people always act, governments are mortal, too, and it's the people who kill them.

    Organizing? I don't think that's a large-scale viable option any longer, due to the Patriot Act and tech. Almost all means of communication have vulnerabilities that are easily exploited; no big group can organize and communicate without a US agent present (or even organizing, sometimes).

    I'm not saying to not organize, I just think that the action will be spontaneous and situational. Organized groups are just one more means of steady pressure (of many), but realize the limitations.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Former President Biden's biggest mistake, allowing the MAGA fucknuts to maneuver unhindered toward the current fucked-up mess.

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  • [–] 85 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You really think SCOTUS would have given Biden a fair shot? After blocking Biden's student loan forgiveness EOs but giving Trump near full immunity. It's clear they would have skewered Biden first chance. Hell, House Republicans brought in Hillary for private Epstein testimony, leaked it against the rules they'd agreed to, then proceeded to ask her about UFOs and Pizzagate. There is no symmetry to their rule making and rule breaking.

    This is the circumstance you decry Biden for not extrajudicially murdering his fascist opponents when he supposedly had the chance.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Who cares? Trump, and MAGA, would be dead, and that's the objective. What's SCOTUS going to do? Talk about it? Fuck'em.

    Like Aldo Rayne in Inglorious Basterds said, when told he'd be shot: "Shot? I don't think so. More like chewed out. I been chewed out before."

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    The point is that it wouldn't matter because the issues could be solved before the court cases matter. He was the one everyone was told would be able to fix things "because he's been in politics longer than most people have been alive, he knows all the levers to pull to get results".

    He should have been able to recognize and ignore the asymmetric shit going on just as trump does, and actually work to reset things. Instead he sat around and did fuck all that will last longer than his lifetime.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If ONLY he had been president and could've DONE something about Trump! Like arrest him for that coup attempt against... Whomever was elected.... Or ANYTHING!

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  • [–] 84 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 72 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    To some degree, we shouldn’t come back from this. We now know the corruption in the government runs deep. Go back to our politicians being possibly blackmailed by the Mossad? Would it be better if nothing happened on the surface but still no one truly believed the baby eating cabal of elites existed?

    I don’t want suffering. I wish this could have been avoided. But we cannot ignore the existential threat the elites have thrust upon us.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    IF we can, it won’t be easy and will take generations.

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  • [–] 60 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Usually when I read your replies, I'm in agreement with some of it and disagreement with some. This is the first time in recent memory I agree 100%, and will add:

    He did what he was paid to do.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago

    Joe Biden and the Democratic Party leadership are part-and-parcel to this. The downfall of Iran has been continuous American policy for over 40 years, and the party has acts as a honeypot to capture and neutralize progressive policies and politicians, and stop the Overthrow Window from moving leftward. No more opposition to war, no more economic populism, no more social safety net. All they do is run “block tackle” for neoconservatives. The uniparty could not be more obvious right now.

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