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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    I see a lot of BoTh SiDeS sAmE doom posting but I’m pretty sure Biden didnt cause trump to be a pedophile.

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      Anyone with half a brain could see the project 2025 was coming. There was enough to declare an emergency and to have everyone put on trial for conspiracy to overthrow the government. You guys just want to act like falling over and playing dead is the only thing the “opposition” party can do.

      You want to bring up some bullshit about how the laws prevented them from moving quickly or something? Throw those interfering in the investigation in jail and nullify their congressional voting rights.

      But no, you’re right, both sides are totally different, I’m just the crazy one for thinking we could have something better.

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        Biden still didn’t cause anyone to decide a pedophile is the only option.

        You can’t change my mind on this.

        Ever.

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          You are correct, but thats not what I’m arguing. So why didn’t the biden administration act? Why didn’t the DoJ do more with the mountains, hell Galaxy’s worth of incriminating evidence they had? Why not jail every single Congress person who had obstructed? Why turn a blind eye to Jan 6?

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            Wake up. They arrested jan 6 insurrectionists under Biden

            It’s Trump who pardoned them once he got back into power.

            Either way It’s just sheer false equivalency to ever say any of this had anything to do with why voters choose a pedophile and why other potential voters stepped aside and let them. These assholes need to be held accountable for their actions to facilitate this to happen. So you can’t blame Biden for that.

            Why trump remained unjailed should be a separate discussion to the sheer callousness of voters voting for a pedophile

            These are two entirely different discussions and merging then only disqualifies a deep problem that should be addressed on its own.

            This is my problem with this being merged as one problem. It overlooks way too much of what happened here.

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                None of them. Biden wasn’t in the files. And i don’t give fuck if à dem was in them arrest them too. Stop destructing the point and stop this strawperson bullshit. Almost had respect enough to think you were here for a point. Now I can see you’re an insane waste of time.

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          I don’t think he made people decide a pedophiles is the only option. I think he and the rest of the establishment democrats failed to give the people who didn’t want the pedophile something to vote for. Yes, people had plenty of reasons to vote against trump, but they didn’t have many reasons to vote for Biden or Harris. The reality is that giving people a reason to vote for you is what actually gets them out to the polls

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            Not voting someone isn’t a reason to vote for à fucking pedo. Never a good enough reason to vote à pedo. This is a shit argument by shit people for shit people.