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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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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 month ago (15 children)
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only if those that did this are held accountable. Otherwise no we can't.

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[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The world is quite pissed. Your "allies" aren't though. How does it feel to be in league with the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea or Russia?

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Okay, but what if we like fuckin Mussolini'd him?

I'll bring the bats and blindfolds!

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I think thats Wishful Thinking. Who is going to fix it? the courts? the DNC? the judiciary? Congress? Some people we need to eventually elect through a rigged system and get a majority with that overthrows the "left-leaning" party? You'd have to fix every single part of government simultaneously, with a left party with no interest in doing so, thats top-to-bottom bribed by the government of Israel who wanted the right to win. And a rightwing party thats openly violent and fascist. I'd argue that history shows us that whats always next is a rise of a violent autocrat followed by a lot of carnage before they are violently put down, or the failed state conquered or puppeted by a foreign power. Or we can split power into a triumverate to slightly delay the inevitable.

This situation has played out time and time again. When Jefferson said the tree of liberty has to be watered by the blood of tyrants this is what he meant. Humans repeatedly forget our history and do exactly this same thing.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We have to scare them into compliance and that’s not going to be easy with kegsbreth trying to get AI mass surveillance and autonomous policing of the population plus aren’t they bringing in around 5k “white” South Africans a month I guarantee you they will be putting them in ice for their little state sponsored domestic terrorism on the polls campaign. Plus they are building 55 billion dollars worth of concentration camps possibly with incinerators compliments of core civic. DHS posted that they want to remove 100 million people and Miller has openly stated he thinks the US should only have 100 million people who all look like him…I don’t know where he’s going to find 100 million nasfaratus though

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[–] Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 6 points 1 month ago

The answer is no.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From CNN or the summary in the post?

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The longer it takes the less likely it will

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