Summary
President Joe Biden leaves office with a legacy of leading the U.S. out of the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, clean energy, and rallying global support for Ukraine.
However, since live television’s rise more than half a century ago, the skills needed to run for president have diverged from those required to govern.
This led many voters to doubt his capability despite his achievements, forcing him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Meanwhile, voters have been less critical of Donald Trump’s age, overlooking unpopular policies like tariffs that hurt farmers and manufacturing.
Many Republicans and independent voters accepted Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election being stolen and justified the January 6 Capitol attack, enabling his return to office.
Biden mostly ignored covid like a dipshit. We needed and still need real leadership on it and he completely failed on that front.
He did some great things. Covid response isn’t on the list.
Biden’s legacy: Merrick Garland’s DOJ that watched justice wither on the vine
This led many voters to doubt his capability despite his achievements, forcing him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Nope, factually incorrect. Nancy Pelosi of all people forced him to withdraw by saying she would leak the details of how terrible his internal polling data was.
He knew he could only lose but still refused to step aside.
IMO his legacy is “yet another politician who merely craved power to no end and didn’t know when to let go of it willingly.”
He did okay with America’s economy. He wasn’t Donald Trump. Those are his main positives, and to be fair they’re pretty decent ones. But turns out his negatives were big enough that people became interested in having Donald Trump back, which is a pretty damning indictment.
No good deed goes unpunished. Was he perfect? Of course not.
We aren’t supposed to point out that voters can often be stupid (insert Otto in A Fish Called Wanda screaming “don’t call me stupid”!!!), but…look, they had a tantrum over things like egg prices and a situation in Israel that is not likely to get any better under the convicted felon, and many stayed home, voted some useless “protest” vote, or outright voted for the orange dickhead, in order to “teach them a lesson”, or somesuch…
I’m sure that will be cold comfort.
The fact that the “situation in Israel” was apparently something to be ignored by both parties doesn’t make ignoring it okay.
Hand waving away genocide just tells the democrats they can keep prioritizing everything except what voters actually want. They are to blame for this fiasco and no one else.
It is literally their job during elections to get votes. Instead, thinking they had a home run, they offered the status quo with a side of dead children to appease their sponsors. What a joke.
It was never about egg prices.
I think for some percentage of donvict’s marks it was. They are gonna be disappointed, I’ll bet.
He did some great things for our country. We’ll never get perfect.
“Rescuing America from COVID”? I remember Trump white house getting us vaccines through operation warp speed, Biden taking office, declaring the pandemic over for no real reason aside from the economy, adopting a let 'er rip strategy, and then doing absolutely nothing about COVID for 4 more years. Biden accomplished many things, getting us out of the pandemic wasn’t one of them.
I remember Trump ending the pandemic preparedness operation that Bush and Obama had running in China, putting his son in law in charge of the response and letting him shut down the response team because it was hitting blue states harder at the time, stealing PPE from Blue states to give to his buddy to resell and ranting against masks because they fucked up his bronzer. Don’t try to sugar coat what Trump did just because he put a fancy name on research that was already happening anyway.
since live television’s rise more than half a century ago, the skills needed to run for president have diverged from those required to govern.
This has been all too true and a big reason candidates seem to keep getting worse, but it’s been dialed up a notch by streaming media. I’d go further: since streaming’s rise a decade or so ago, the skills needed to run for president have diverged from any ethical humanity
The meme history says otherwise.
Biden’s Legacy?
Blood on hands (ultra zionist), selfish (youth? he forgot), last 1 year shows he wasn’t fit for the job (the debate disaster, overall stiffness), didn’t fix (or started to fix) homelessness, healthcare (still isn’t universal), house shortage (rather landlords greed), Police brutality, public transportation, no tax rise for the rich and corpos, low DOT standards for SUVs, had clown Blinken in the Government, son’s pardon.deleted by creator
This is a bury-your-head-in-the-sand level of denial.
His legacy is genocide.
Nothing else… if you engage in genocide that’s the only legacy you get.
Everything else gets overshadowed and forgotten.
Once Corporate America told Biden to stop caring about Covid. He just left people to suffer on their own and people to show up to work sick.
In what way did he “rescue us from COVID”? The US policy was to just let 'er rip.
fr, it’s still ravaging the country and people are still dying from it. What rescue?!
Biden Legacy? … all everyone is going to remember is that the US had an octogenarian for a president that often acted confused on stage.
No they won’t. Less people remember George Bush for taking like a child and not knowing how to spell potato than they do for his actions in the Middle East. 6 years from now people will be reflecting more on Biden’s actions and policies than his mannerisms. I only say 6, because I’m sure he’ll be a focal point of this next election cycle.
Potato was Dan Quayle.
I think the potato thing was Dan Quayle? Anyway, it makes your point all the more, honestly. :)
next election cycle.
Someone’s an optimist.
