Second to the sheer billionaire wealth inequality, he and his inner circle of enablers fucked us all. Dumbass would’ve been praised eternally if he got us out of covid and committed to being a 1 term president as he stated. Then he REALLY should’ve withdrawn like in a week following that June debate. But no, he dragged it out and really fucked the party over, including Harris.
1 term president as he stated
No, he never said he would only run one term. Anonymous people said that they thought he would, and when journalists immediately asked the Biden campaign they denied it. For some reason people take as gospel what anonymous people thought someone else would do.
Nope. In 2024, Biden himself confirmed it:
“When I originally ran, you may remember, Ed, I said I was gonna be a transitional candidate, and I thought that I’d be able to move from this, just pass it on to someone else,” Biden said. “But I didn’t anticipate things getting so, so, so divided.”
Biden had referred to himself as a “bridge” during the 2020 campaign.
“Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else,” Biden said at the time. “There’s an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country.”
How do you get a one term promise out of any of that? Whether he runs one term or two terms he would still be handing things off to younger politicians. It’s almost tautological considering how old he was.
"I don’t have plans on one term,” Biden told reporters between campaign stops in Nevada. "I’m not even there yet.”
Almost completely agree with you. Harris had a good amount of fucking herself though.
We dems have a long and storied history of fucking ourselves.
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It’s sadly such an uphill battle these days – especially in the post-CU era – that requires once-in-a-generation candidates like Obama or Bernie to overcome the fucking cliff of an uneven playing-field. That Americans didn’t see Trump for the existential threat he is, or that Harris was better in every conceivable way to me proves this
I think a lot of Americans did see Trump as an existential threat and that’s why they voted for him. He was the “blow everything up” candidate, Harris was the “everything continues as it is” candidate.
This is literally the most charitable thing I can say about a subset of Trump voters. They actually did have a point there. A lot of people voted for Obama because he was the change candidate and this time around Trump was the change candidate. Almost entirely bad changes, of course, but some people were so desperate for change that they figured it was worth rolling the dice.
Just a subset of Trump voters, mind. Most of them were probably just awful people who saw a fellow awful person on the candidate and went “me like.” But if a subset had decided not to vote for him we wouldn’t be here now so they were significant.
That would be a reasonable argument a decade ago, before we knew exactly what he’s about.
Voting Trump in 2016 is something bad that a person does.
Voting Trump in 2024 is something that a bad person does.
In one respect I can see why they’d think this from a point of ignorance, but also, that disgusts me so much. Accelerationists are always so willing to volunteer others for the chlorine shock treatment without their consent. Just look at the deaths wrought by Musk’s DOGE alone that dwarfs Gaza and Ukraine, combined. Elections are so consequential.
Yup. The “you can’t make an omelette without killing a whole bunch of people” mindset.
The annoying part is that it’s not entirely wrong, IMO. At this point I think the best hope America has is for those Trump voters to feel the pain of the situation they have brought upon themselves, and for the Democrats to be pushed far enough to finally shake off the DNC establishment. America needs another Roosevelt at this point and there’s no way someone like that would have got on the ballot or been elected under the past few decades’ conditions.
Sure would have been nice if everyone had just been smart about all this and we hadn’t got here to begin with, but we go to the ballot box with the electorate we have rather than the one we hope for.
Agreed. Now that Scrotus has removed all constraints on spending I expect this to come to a head very soon.
I’m incredibly disappointed that people were taken in by Trump a 3rd time. Since we’ve gotten this bad I imagine that the horror is going to have to visit these Trump voters personally, each and every one. Then and only then will they understand.
The trouble is that by the time they get it it’s going to be very bad here.
Fuck that geriatric piece of shit, his do-nothing presidency is why trump was able to get a second term.
And obviously dude didn’t write any of this book himself, his handlers wrote the book just like they ran the country while he was in office.
Get back into your sarcophagus and don’t come out again. Thanks.
