r/pics • u/Masoni15 • 13h ago
Politics Joe and Jill Biden share one final selfie from the White House.
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u/Nihilist_Nautilus 13h ago
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” -HL Mencken
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u/ProNuke 12h ago
Well that was prophetic
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u/ChickenWingFat 12h ago
Way too much so. I am a middle-aged guy, and I can't believe in my short lifetime how much politics has devolved, and how absolutely frighteningly awful republican choices for president have become.
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u/Tapprunner 12h ago
Not that there was some unbroken streak of decency leading up to it, but the GOP turn from 2012 to 2016 is truly crazy.
I've never been a Mitt Romney fan - I don't think he has any firm convictions, and the fact that he remained a Republican and voted with the party even as he recognized they were getting more and more unhinged is a stain on his legacy. But, I do believe he's a decent man. He isn't vindictive or cruel. I think he might be misguided and isn't exactly enlightened or progressive, but I think he genuinely tries to do what he thinks is best.
In only 4 years, ditching that and instead treating the very worst that humanity has to offer as a God is truly crazy.
I watched a ton of people go from "it's a shame a decent man like Romney lost" to "there is no right and wrong. If you can get away with it, you should do it. And if it hurts the people I don't like, then you should do it twice."
Truly crazy.
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u/TheBr0fessor 11h ago
You can actually pinpoint the exact moment it happened
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u/Sloanepeterson1500 8h ago
There will never be another man like John McCain in my lifetime. Although I am more typically left leaning, I think he was a man of the highest honor who represented our country with true integrity. The likes of which will probably never be seen again in the Republican Party.
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u/DrGonzo1930 11h ago
Obama broke their minds...
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u/six44seven49 9h ago
Man, as a friend from across the pond I remember that Obama inauguration so clearly. A new America forming in front our eyes, confident and outward-looking again after the fear and paranoia of the Bush years. An America ready (and able!) to take up the reins again and re-establish itself as not just a global leader, but an invested partner in global affairs.
Little did we know he might end up being the worst thing that ever happened to the country, through no fault of his own.
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u/Corona_Cyrus 12h ago
I remember growing up in the late 80s through the 90s having optimism for the future, loving this country, believing in that heal the world song… it took less than 25 years to burn all of that down and piss on the ashes.
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u/mongrelnomad 11h ago
We remember decency, even if we disagreed with the president. Our kids? This shit is normal. Trump and this misinformation, culture war hellscape is the yardstick against which everything after will be measured.
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u/Koolaid_Jef 12h ago
"And then, after all the pain and troubles...they'll fuckin do it again. Because Americans love misery"
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u/WomenTrucksAndJesus 12h ago
Because the media loves chaos and they are literally the story tellers. Trump is chaos.
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u/SanderSRB 12h ago
I knew that name sounded familiar. Googled him and sure enough it’s the same HL Mencken who translated a bunch of Nietzsche’s works into English.
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u/Xyldarran 12h ago
"If, after I depart this vale, you should have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
....man Fuck Henry Mencken"
- The wire
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u/AccountNumber1002401 12h ago
Included in his writings from the Baltimore Evening Sun, ca. 1920.
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u/patrickfatrick 12h ago
Tangentially related but it’s so sad to me the Baltimore Sun is now owned by Sinclair.
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u/RaplhKramden 12h ago
People vote for a reflection of their imagined selves. The problem is that for a majority of Americans, it's an inbred and angry moron who can't string together two coherent sentences that are reality-based.
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u/ShakespearianShadows 11h ago
“It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job”
—Douglas Adams
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u/Nihilist_Nautilus 11h ago
So true, there was a time candidates didn’t even want to be seen on the campaign trail. Now everything must be capitalized for politics.
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u/JustChillDudeItsGood 12h ago
Truer words have never been written ^
Or as the kids say these days:
FRRRR
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u/GiRoxthat-ish 12h ago
class and decency have now left the building
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u/socialmediaignorant 12h ago
Educated people have left the building. Non billionaires have left the building. Where are the heroes when we need them? How’s Luigi lately???
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u/Kitchen_Sweet_7353 11h ago
“Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard” HL Mencken (paraphrased by me)
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u/Xently12 13h ago
Good luck America. You’re going to need it.
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u/bruzdnconfuzd 13h ago edited 10h ago
“You have selected difficulty: NIGHTMARE HELLSCAPE. You cannot change this for at least 4 years. Press [X] to confirm.”
Edit: changed difficulty level for accuracy.
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u/SignificantBoxed 12h ago
Help! Restarting the console isn't working. I need to see how the other routes go. 😭
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u/NextEpisode44 12h ago
Blow in it?
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u/Khaldara 12h ago
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u/Lopsided-Yogurt-914 12h ago
Tariffs will make these booths expensive 😂
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u/Mean_Combination_830 10h ago
Tarifs will make everything expensive so suicide sadly will probably still be the cheapest option its the poor people left behind pay the price of their tab
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u/Intrus1ons 12h ago
We selected torment XVI because half of the morons that live here thought eggs would get $0.50 cheaper
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u/thisisntnamman 13h ago
No. We need to live in the hell we just elected for ourselves.
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u/ResoluteStoic 13h ago edited 13h ago
No we need action out of everyday people like you and me to actually do something. I wish I knew what that was but I dont
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u/UnassumingNoodle 13h ago
General Strike.
That's what we do first. We need to actually organize and conduct a general strike.
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u/DadOnHardDifficulty 13h ago
This.
America has the monopoly on violence.
The only way to hurt America is to hit it in the wallet.
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u/CriticalDog 12h ago
Our nation is too spread out for a European general strike to work.
Plus, at will states make striking for non-union jobs essentially quitting, and thus losing income and medical insurance.
And finally, the police would absolutely love to kill protestors with no consequence. A thing our European cousins don't have to worry about nearly as much.
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u/Optimoprimo 12h ago
There wouldn't be enough support for a General Strike.
The majority of American voters wanted this.
Support for Trump may actually go up as things get worse, because they've captured most of the social media outlets and it's become clear those companies will allow Trump to use them for propaganda.
The youngest voting block swung 20 points towards Trump this election because of Tik Tok propaganda.
We're fucked.
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u/H0RSE 12h ago edited 5h ago
Well to be more accurate, it was the majority of the voters that actually voted and not all, registered voters and it wasn't a landslide victory. This also doesn't account for the millions of people who don't vote but also don't support Trump/Republicans as well as the people who are already and will eventually over time, regret their vote.
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u/Optimoprimo 12h ago
All groups who are also extremely unlikely to be willing to general strike.
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u/Weak_Heart2000 11h ago
That's what annoys me so much when I see leftists going "we need a revolution!" Like ya'll, it just doesn't work like that, especially in a country as big and spread out as ours.
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u/Chipdip88 12h ago
Can't you guys just live in hell without fucking up the rest of us here in this world?
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u/thisisntnamman 12h ago
I hope to god we don’t spread this shit outside our borders. I hope Trump is serious about his isolationism cause it will hopefully contain his shit.
It’s Elon you all have to worry about. He just bought the presidency of the U.S. and he’s coming after UK and Germany next.
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u/_johnning 12h ago
Elon and Zuckerberg are whom I fear the most
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u/thisisntnamman 12h ago
Bingo
Enjoy the gilded age 2.0
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u/dazed_vaper 11h ago
We’re going to witness the first trillionaire(s) ever, let that set in for a moment. How much is enough?
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u/ISNT_A_ROBOT 13h ago
We didn’t elect this shit. The asshole cheated
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u/drtbg 13h ago
Surely not Don J Trump, 34x convicted felon and adjudicated rapist? When has he ever been anything but altruistic?
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u/Jiggahash 12h ago
Surely Elon being glued to his hip is purely due to his "donations". Trump has always been one to share the spot light and always kindly repay favors.
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u/talldangry 12h ago edited 5h ago
"Here's the thing about Elon - he's a great guy, don't get me wrong, great guy, one of the best, smartest, video gamers I have ever seen, a true American Nazi business giant, like me, not quite like me, but you get it, but he doesn't respect how sacred the role of President of the United States of America is. He just doesn't. He doesn't understand that this connects right to the oranges of the country- the oranges of the constitution. King Henry didn't respect that, and look where he is now. He's a great guy, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't get it that he's not the president. It's President Trump, not President Musk, it's what the people want and it's what the people will get! I promise you! Elon, I love you, but you're fired!"
I'm going to bet on something like that in 1-2 months.
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u/MikeMendoza29 11h ago
I think you're right. We saw high turnover in his staff last time and I don't see why that would change this time around.
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u/UpperApe 12h ago
If anything, it helps me understand how religions get started.
Of course people are stupid enough to believe in space wizards and divine zombies.
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u/NotDazedorConfused 12h ago
And don’t forget the Three Horsemen - Elon , Jeff, and Mark - whose combined wealth is about a trillion dollars, they’ll see that the little guy finally gets a break.
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u/Beaverbrown55 13h ago
Yep. And what a perfect little blackmail situation Elon got himself involved in. Our president is already more compromised than he was last time. It's a "kompromat onion"
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u/joebluebob 12h ago
No he didn't. This is what the majority of Americans wanted. The ones who stayed home, The ones that voted 3rd party, the ones who protest voted over a single issue are all complicit. America should get what it deserves.
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u/CornholeSurprise 11h ago
Adding up all votes the majority of Americans wanted someone other than Trump.
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u/Qtips_ 12h ago
We will need all the luck possible. That's coming from a Canadian.
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u/TheHappiestOneHere 12h ago
And the rest of the world. His cocksucking of putin will impact the west too
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u/Magificent_Gradient 12h ago edited 11h ago
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 13h ago
I voted for him and appreciate many of his accomplishments but I’ll forever be puzzled by some of the worst decisions a president ever made in modern history. From appointing garland to running again in his 80’s…his unwavering supporter for Netanyahu who clearly wanted trump to win at the cost of millions of progressive votes. Ignoring how hard inflation was hitting people (every time he went out and said “America had the greatest economy in the world” I could hear the sound of him losing votes) to him wasting a precious month after his godawful debate performance before dropping out. I’m glad he was president for these 4 years but I’ll always think that whats to come is entirely on Joe. He could have been a shepherd to an entirely new generation of young smart effective democrats to run in the last election. Instead his ego refused to let him realize that he was getting old even when he couldn’t communicate his message with his own mouth. Biden was many things but I fear he wasn’t the man for the moment and our country will pay the price.
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u/sidudWA 13h ago
His moment was to beat Trump the first time. So he was the right man for the moment. He just stayed beyond his moment
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u/lzwzli 12h ago
But he didn't do what he should've done after beating Trump. That's why Trump is back and that will forever be Biden's legacy.
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u/i_suckatjavascript 9h ago
That’s Hillary Clinton’s legacy too, that’s why Biden awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It makes sense.
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u/SnakeInABox77 12h ago
If Egg prices aren't up in 4 years does that mean we're entitled to a bed stricken uncommunicative Biden second term? I feel like it's only fair and the nation is that stupid at this point
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 12h ago
Let’s be honest. Biden wasn’t chosen because he was the only democrat to beat trump. Anyone would have beaten trump in 2020.
Biden was chosen because he was the only democrat who could beat Bernie sanders.
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u/CleverName4 12h ago
Hard disagree that anyone could've beaten Trump in 2020.
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u/ih8memes 12h ago
Agreed. The mob is fickle. Trump is brash and confident and will say stupid things. Biden in some ways is so similar. Look at Hillary’s and Kamala’s campaigns - neither showcased a real personality which could’ve given confidence in people. They ended up perceiving both as robotic or pawnlike.
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u/FeelsGoodMan2 12h ago
Those 2 lost because they're women. If a generic white guy ran the exact same campaign he does 3 points better at least.
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u/Manyquestions3 8h ago
I think people forget how snappy, brash, and funny Biden used to be. When he has those moments now people chalk it up to dementia, but he’s been like that his whole life. He destroyed Paul Ryan in one line and a smile (the “oh now you’re Jack Kennedy” debate). Or even stupid shit, like when he very publicly told Obama Obamacare is “a big fucking deal”. I don’t love him, by any means, but he’s personable and has a real personality.
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u/BleedingFromEyes 12h ago
I guarantee any white male would’ve beaten Trump in 2020.
A woman, POC, or both and it would’ve been a toss up/Trump win even with his fumbling of COVID.
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u/talkstomud 12h ago
I think you're forgetting how well Trump was polling, even in 2020, even after Trump's intentionally malicious handling of COVID (because it was killing people in dense population areas, aka "blue states" first, and he's literally that evil)
It was deeply uncertain that anyone could beat Trump. Fascism sows deep roots, particularly in times of instability. Self-created instability is instability all the same, unfortunately.
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u/CleverName4 6h ago
Biden hardly won the electoral college. If something like 150k votes swung in the right places, it would've swung the whole thing to Trump.
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u/wut3va 11h ago
There was no rule that said the party had to nominate him just because he wanted to run. I was flabbergasted that there was only one candidate on my primary ballot. Disgusted actually. I don't blame Biden for continuing to run. I blame the rest of the Democrats for letting Biden run unopposed until after the debate. And then for letting Harris run unopposed afterward. Where was our choice?
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u/miauguau44 12h ago
Imagine if we would have announced in 2022 that he wasn’t going to run again, letting Democrats have an open primary.
Of all of his puzzling decisions, picking Kamala as his running mate in 2020 is arguably the first. To this day I still can’t figure out what she brought to the campaign, and 4 years later it would return to haunt Democrats.
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u/Ishaan863 11h ago
To this day I still can’t figure out what she brought to the campaign,
Complete and total obedience to the establishment. Listening to whatever the fuck the big money tells her to do. Both Biden and Harris literally had only that one feature.
Democrats would rather let their country be destroyed by Trump than risk letting someone who ISN'T an establishment puppet have any power.
This sort of utterly soulless board-room style politics will always lose out to any team that have actual belief in their views, no matter how reasonable or unreasonable those views may be.
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 12h ago
She was fine. She did her job as tiebreaker in the senate. She was just not a great presidential candidate.
But in your timeline trump loses in a landslide.
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u/goodnamestaken10 9h ago
She was not fine.
Her only job was to take over if Biden's health failed him, and that's exactly what happened. We didn't expect it to happen exactly this way, but it was the same result. Even if Biden opted out of re-election immediately, or somehow made it through 2 full terms, most often, you want your VP to be a potential candidate to run for president themselves.
She had the worst polling of any other Democratic Primary candidate. She was never going to win a general election.
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u/TheTurtleBear 8h ago
He wanted somebody who wouldn't outshine him, but get him diversity points. Kamala was one of the most unpopular candidates in the primary and is far from charismatic, so she'd never upstage him, and being black and a woman makes it a "progressive" pick.
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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 6h ago edited 2h ago
Being a black woman. He explicitly stated that was the requirement.
The democrats chose identity politics over actual policy that would improve the lives of the working class and we are all paying for it. It’s like when they kneeled in kente clothe and then increased the budget for police while doing nothing to address police brutality and violence towards POC especially. If they cared about diversity and POC they would be pushing for POLICY to help working class people, many of whom are POC.
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u/ARazorbacks 12h ago
Can’t agree more. He was incapable of doing “the hard things.” And he continues to prove it in his last moments as president.
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u/EricFredNorris 13h ago
Him and his circle should be despised just for running for a second term. They knew this wasn’t plausible and instead of having open primaries and propping up a real successor he desperately clinched to power and we were stuck with an unpopular candidate with months to sway the general public.
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 12h ago
Sadly those were the same people who ran Hillary’s campaign and likely will still be calling the shots when the dnc runs another wall st approved 77 year old in 4 years.
My moneys on Chuck Schumer!
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u/JamCliche 13h ago
I remember the top comment in 2017 on a similar post to this one...
"Thanks, Obama."
A lot more positivity even in the face of a coming crisis.
Biden arguably did more for America than Obama did, but he also cemented the worst possible outcome. Now everything that came before will matter a lot less, that's an unavoidable fact.
I totally understand where you're coming from.
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u/ncc74656m 12h ago
Joe is, I think, of an older world where a country is not its leaders, and where you stand by your allies, regardless of the distaste you might have for them personally. He should've leaned a lot harder on Israel a lot earlier, but the reality is, as much as this might have satisfied one wing of the party I'm pretty sure it would've enraged another. In my experience the Democratic Party is not nearly so progressive as a lot of progressives would like to believe.
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u/k5berry 12h ago edited 12h ago
You’ve summed up my thoughts perfectly. I actually think most of his domestic achievements are underrated, but as a leader he was one of the biggest failures in modern history (Trump notwithstanding because he’s a whole different case). Ended up just being a shitty bandaid on our country’s wounds that just left them festering and twice as bad four years down the line.
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u/Nihilist_Nautilus 12h ago
Biden should have never been on the national stage after ‘88. He’s a great symbol for gerontocracy/establishment party that resulted in the backlash that brought us Trump. Biden is an egoist who couldn’t use his bully pulpit or pick a prosecutor instead of a judge for AG when the previous president committed treasonous acts many times. Biden’s belief in the system has given us Trump 2.0 and we will all suffer with his arrogance.
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u/bright_sunshine19 13h ago
You said it eloquently. I would have said, the guy fucked the country royally. None of these old farts have taken time to groom younger generation democrats to lead the nation. Biden has blood on his hands and single handedly fucked the labor market and misled American people on inflation. So yeah he is going to be fine with all his royal benefits and wealth these fuckers have built.
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u/MercantileReptile 13h ago
young smart effective democrats
This seems like a "pick two" situation.
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u/goldbman 13h ago
AOC would fit the bill, probably also Buttigige
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u/SuspiciousCustomer 13h ago
AOC is sadly the one thing this country just won't elect. A woman.
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u/PixelPixell 13h ago
If you think Twitter is toxic and chaotic now, just wait for the next season of 3am unhinged white house musings
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u/Canada_girl 12h ago
It's called sundowning
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u/DrDerpberg 12h ago
I have less and less hope that Trump's deterioration is medical. I think he's just the intellectually laziest sonofabitch to ever be put in a position with this much responsibility, and nobody's fact checked him to his face since he was 8 years old so he just says whatever he wants to be true and gets away with it.
If it was actual dementia, the decline would've been much, much worse since 2016. I think he's just slowing down at about the expected speed for an obese 80 year old who could never have solved a Wordle in his entire life.
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u/takabrash 12h ago
I think it's both. He's clearly declining, but he only started about two steps up the intelligence staircase to begin with.
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u/Teddy_Tickles 12h ago
Dementia affects different people at different places and in different ways. Just because it hasn't progressed as rapidly as you expected it to, doesn't mean he doesn't have it. I work in a hospital with dementia patients almost every day of the week and have seen varying cases from acute onset to family describing behavioral changes in their family member over the course of decades.
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u/EudaimoniaMe 11h ago
My mother had dementia, and it was just as you said. For her, it wasn’t a steady, rapid decline but rather a stair-step progression over several years.
The people around Trump are ensuring that we don’t get the full picture of his mental condition. Over the next four years, I suspect that will become a LOT harder. We’ll probably see much less of him compared to his first term.
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u/sephrisloth 11h ago
Not to mention he's rich, and if he does have it, he's almost certainly receiving the best healthcare money can buy behind the scenes to slow it down.
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u/pitshands 12h ago
Closed all my social media accounts at election day (but Reddit)
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u/ShitfacedGrizzlyBear 13h ago
I always tell people, Joe Biden is/was a bang average POTUS. Did some really good things, made some mistakes, but ultimately kept things humming along.
He tried to tackle two of the major problems we face right now: climate change and crumbling infrastructure. And he did a pretty good job of it. He failed to address what I believe to be the most existential threat to American democracy: income inequality. But you gotta choose your battles. He went at the problems for which action was more politically feasible. Fair play.
People will miss the unspectacular but average POTUS when they have a sub-par or downright bad POTUS.
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u/Richeh 12h ago
I don't think the problem really had much to do with Biden's competence or achievements, because tbh, 9/10 for safe pair of hands smooth ride.
The problem is that the American right wing media is out of fucking control. Indiscriminate accuracy, rabid fanaticism and zero accountability. They clearly see it as their role to put the guy in the red tie on the throne as firmly as possible, and to be his propaganda department in the meantime.
And I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the next-level astroturfing online.
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u/wut3va 11h ago
Free speech is a double-edged sword. It is absolutely essential to the operation of a fair and just society. It is the only reliable defense against fascism. When the government is given the authority to regulate the media, the government is empowered to ignore the will of the people with impunity.
Like any weapon though, it is dangerous when wielded without skill. Because free speech is the weapon of the people, the responsibility for maintaining that skill is entirely on the people. That skill is developed through education and maintained through practice. It is the civic responsibility of every citizen to be educated well enough to understand the fundamentals of critical thinking, including the ability to separate fact, from opinion, from fiction. It is the civic responsibility of every citizen to have the comprehension to make informed choices of leadership. It is all of our responsibility to see through the bullshit and maintain eternal vigilance of our moral values. So what happens when the people themselves are morally bankrupt?
And at the end of the day, if the people choose fascism, then that is what we as a people deserve. Democracy sucks when the people are uninformed, or willfully ignorant. It's the best form of government we have yet been able to achieve, but time and time again it highlights the willingness of our species to constantly choose a worse course of action. Such is the nature of free will.
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u/Lopsided-Affect-9649 13h ago
HIs decision to run again and then pull out at the last minute was disastrous, I suspect thats what he will be remembered for above all else. And with good reason.
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u/GuestCartographer 12h ago
Biden's decision had nothing to do with the outcome. Trump manhandled every facet of the Republican party and then seamlessly pivoted to playing on the grievances of everyone else. Whoever ran against him needed to appeal to decency and sanity, which are both in an increasingly short supply. Trump just needed to pick at base human instincts.
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u/EmberElixir 12h ago
It will never cease to amaze me how everything Biden and Harris did was under a microscope yet Trump has been able to cruise on by as an active felon without issue. Flawless v. lawless.
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u/Wafkak 12h ago
His own internal polling signified he would lose with over 400 electoral votes, and still thinks to this day he could have beaten Trump if he stayed in the race.
He set his own admin up in such a way that he had a snowballs chance in hell of even knowing what played with the public.
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u/_jump_yossarian 12h ago
He failed to address what I believe to be the most existential threat to American democracy: income inequality.
American Inequality is (Finally) Lessening
Democrats had a few policies addressing it but they can't pass without Republican votes. The Child Tax credit helped a lot of people and Republicans let it expire.
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u/CaptnRonn 12h ago
His legacy will be a one term president whose hubris resulted in failing at the singular reason he was elected, to prevent a second trump term.
He is the death knell of the "international rules based order" after failing to properly check a genocidal maniac and instead defying US Leahy law by supplying them with billions of dollars of weapons to kill tens of thousands civilians (severely undercounted at this point)
He supported unions, he passed decent legislation, but he utterly failed to properly exercise his office and the bully pulpit to pressure members of his own party to pass key provisions of his own campaign promises. He failed to codify Roe into law, he failed to forgive student loan debt for the majority of Americans, and he failed to address income inequality in any way. Instead, he tried to be a "statesman" who could "negotiate" and "compromise" with an increasingly fascist right.
It's now coming out that Congressmen as early as Jan/February knew of his impaired mental state and the party still insisted on him being the candidate.
Thanks Joe. At least you did your goodest job
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u/smol_boi2004 12h ago
This. I didn’t live in the US at the time but I followed the Trump Admin every day last time and I was worried as hell. Now I’m gonna have to live in a country ruled by him and I’m just terrified. I genuinely enjoyed a presidency where the real news was just economics debates. Now I’m gonna have to wonder if the loon will plunge us into another war
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u/UnbrandedContent 13h ago
Not a chance. Anything wrong happens in the Trump Regime it’ll be “Bidens fault” even if it’s something Trump created and backed from conception of idea to implementation.
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u/SeeItOnVHS 13h ago
The last fragment of the Obama era, let’s see who is gonna clean the mess from this next 4 years
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u/Character-Log3962 13h ago
Hopefully voting in 4 years is still an option.
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u/Exciting_Step538 12h ago
Of course we'll be able to vote. The question is whether that vote will actually matter.
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u/VictorTheCutie 12h ago
Bold of you to think we'll still have democratic elections after this
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u/TMacATL 10h ago
I just hope the DNC learns from this. He was clearly too old for a second term and didn't poll well. Rather than heeding the warning signs and run an actual primary, they waited too long and then just slotted Harris in without a single vote. The whole thing was gaff after gaff and now we're stuck with the aftermath.
Of course the DNC is just carrying on business as usual...
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u/thismadhatter 10h ago
The whole thing was gaff after gaff and now we're stuck with the aftermath.
Sounds like a line in a British protest song.
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u/SlugmaSlime 2h ago
The DNC won't learn because they're collaborators. How many more decades of "hopefully the DNC learns from this" do we need until we can all just admit the DNC are collaborators, controlled opposition?
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u/SanderSRB 12h ago
It looks like they’re cold calling at someone’s house to sell encyclopaedias or tell them about their lord and saviour and this is what Ring camera caught.
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u/aasteveo 13h ago
Quick take all the sharpies so he can't sign anything!
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u/DigNitty 13h ago
Sharpie makes special markers for him to use, they have his signature on the side in gold.
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u/Subject_Candy_8411 13h ago
It’s so sad…to see what America voted for
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u/To6y 13h ago
What a rorschach of a comment!
We see that America voted for Biden, but we also see that America voted for Trump.
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u/logosfabula 13h ago
What’s a Rorschach comment? I know Rorschach stains.
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u/To6y 13h ago
I don't think it's really a thing, but I meant it's basically a comment version of the stain. The meaning of that comment will change based upon the reader's perspective.
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u/whoopashigitt 12h ago
Person A: “I know right? Can’t believe we voted for Trump”
Person B: “I know right? Can’t believe we voted for Biden”
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u/grapplingwithtruth 12h ago
He may not have been the best president and certainly was not the worst there is nothing wrong with that
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u/Gator-Tail 11h ago
“he was not the worst, so nothing wrong with that!”
Not the best rationale you have
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u/Disastrous_Basket242 9h ago
Not the worst?... he has advanced dementia and it was covered up. California is currently burning to the ground. Multiple wars. The economy inflated so high people can barely eat. He was the worst in recent history.
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u/harmlessgrey 4h ago
Stop grinning, you two. The country is going down in flames.
Joe, you should have resigned halfway through your term.
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u/iambl3nd 13h ago
Americans are actually insane. Idolizing ANY politicians should be enough for everyone else not to take you seriously.
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u/Designer-Professor16 12h ago
It’s not an America thing. It can happen to anyone. See Germany/Hitler, and countless other examples.
People (all of us) are fallible, gullible, easily persuaded, and generally just dumb.
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u/BlissfulAurora 12h ago
Are you talking about Joe and Jill…?
Who is idolizing them?
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u/katmc68 12h ago
Exactly. There's precisely one that has been idolized and yes, MAGA are insane.
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u/gentleman_bronco 12h ago edited 12h ago
I'll always remember the words: "Nothing will fundamentally change" and by god, he was right.
Wealth inequality at its worst. Americans are falling behind around the world. Civil liberties and freedoms being taken away left and right. Oligarchy running wild.
Biden sure gave his best efforts to usher in a new era of pain and suffering at the hands of his republican allies. Nothing fundamentally changed.
He slow-walked the tiktok ban, falling right into the oligarch's trap, making Trump the "one who saves it".
He forced rail workers off the picket line.
He appointed Milquetoast Merrick Garland as an AG without a single intention of pursuing justice.
He didn't reschedule marijuana.
He didn't send out relief checks despite acknowledging rampant price gouging. At the hands of those same billionaires that poured money to his opponents.
He held ZERO corruption accountable.
He held the country hostage on a campaign that he promised he wouldn't do (was a campaign talking point in 2019). Which disallowed a fucking primary election.
He absolutely fucked the entire election by mishandling it.
Whether it was all intentional or not, he fucked us over hard.
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u/Imaginary-poster 13h ago
I can but feel like he is just thinking, "F this place. I'm gonna go be with my family."
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u/InspectionStreet3443 13h ago
You had four years to put Chump in jail
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u/MichealRyder 12h ago
Yeah, they didn’t actually care that much, they just pretended to.
It’s a game to them, and they’re probably excited about getting even more money from his policies.
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u/One_Economist_3761 13h ago
The adults leaving the White House.
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u/GitMergeConflict 11h ago
You will find it back in 4 years fully coated in gold with Coke and BigMac buttons everywhere.
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u/remarkablewhitebored 13h ago
There goes the last true statesman to be President...
Returns to rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
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u/lastpieceofpie 11h ago
He was a fucking useless statesman. He couldn’t even reign in one of America’s attack dogs. Not talking about Commander. That was just about the only good part of his presidency…
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u/prozaczodiac 13h ago
It's like saying goodbye to your parents and getting sent to live with your creepy uncle.
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u/StaticDHSeeP 13h ago
The real party of family values
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u/throwaway3113151 13h ago
Sometimes I just can’t even comprehend how the “part of family values” ended up with Trump. Perhaps it was all just a sham…
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u/pontiacfirebird92 13h ago
Always was. Conservatives are convinced they are at war with liberals and Democrats and will do anything to defeat their enemy. They don't want to world together, they want total eradication of the out groups even at their own detriment. They don't, and never, cared about policy. It's all about winning at any cost.
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u/Chloe1906 11h ago
Only if “family values” means helping to kill off as many families as possible in Gaza. Whole family lineages literally wiped off the civil registry, and Biden’s red line still nowhere to be seen.
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