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No neoliberal will ever acknowledge or admit they are as much to blame for fascism as the rest of the right.
They will continue sowing the seeds for fascism until they are consumed by it.
No he wouldn’t
Let’s see…
He barely won in 2020.
He fucked around in Gaza.
Fucked around with civil rights, voting rights,
Failed to do anything to actually stop trump.
Was polling significantly worse than he was in 2020z
It took him most of his four years in office to even realize that people were struggling financially despite all the good numbers.
Meanwhile, trump was running around shoring up his support for 4 years.
If Biden actually thinks he could have won he’s a dumbfuck that needed to retire.
I also think it'd be dumb for Biden to have stayed in the race but in retrospect he's the most progressive president we've had in my lifetime (I was born during Reagan's administration).
The response to the genocide in Gaza, in particular, was a huge political misstep - in terms of party popularity it seems to have been more costly than the Iraq War.
Biden did a lot of other shit especially investments in tech and manufacturing that are already paying huge dividends. It's actually astonishing he managed to get a high precision TSMC plant in AZ due to the existential threat that may cause to Taiwan and greenlighting plant reconstruction through the NRC may be a godsend if we're able to start fighting climate change again in 2028 (America may still be dumb as shit though).
It'll take some time to really measure how these investments will fully mature but as much as I hate him for not rejecting genocide he has otherwise been the least shit president I've ever lived under.
Both poverty and homelessness skyrocketed under the 'most progressive president since FDR™'
You're not wrong - though that's been happening pretty much across the globe. Late stage capitalism is a bitch and the squeeze is hitting everyone.
I want to clarify that I don't think Biden was a fantastic president or anything - he was just better than I'd initially expected and the least worse in recent history (if you ignore his response to the genocide in Gaza)
He was great for the country and corporations. He was shit for the people. He forgot who actually votes until all he could do was try to gaslight us about a split recovery.
He woulda lost for sure. He'll be bitter in his old age, but that's fine. He was on the wrong side of many issues throughout history, so I don't feel the least bit bad for him.
I'm not so sure. He's white and male.
And very old.
No
Wouldn't "JOVER" make more sense?
It’s an existing meme, I believe originally from right wing dumbf*ks but nicely fitting for this occasion. He had 4 years to make something out of it, he didn’t do bad at all but this is a bit of a silly statement.
Can every American politician over the retirement age please kindly fuck off?
Best I can do is the youngest senate president pro tempore in over 50 years. She's 74. That's Patty Murray by the by, she's who would become president if they make Musk speaker of the house and they botch the handoff. It wouldn't happen but it's funny to think that America could get it's first Woman president by a few men's incompetence.
[ x ] Doubt.
Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.
Biden was behind by 5 points when he dropped out and was slipping by the day. He had zero chance of defeating Trump. Regardless of the reality of the situation or what you think of his policies, the general public wanted someone to blame, and they decided that person was Biden. Doesn't matter what he did or didn't do. People decided Biden was the scapegoat, and nothing was going to change that.
The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.
This is 100% correct. Biden gave Garland the AG slot as a make-good over the fact that his Supreme Court nomination got railroaded. I'm also sure that the thought process, even though it could never be spoken, was that Garland would aggressively pursue Trump as revenge for his SC nod getting snubbed. Instead, we got an AG who intentionally sat on his hands for four years and slow-walked prosecutions that a first-year intern should have been able to handle.
Biden made two mistakes in this regard. First, he allowed himself to be paralyzed by optics and fear that Trump would frame any action as political persecution and interference, as if Trump wasn't going to do that anyway. His second mistake was not replacing Garland as AG sooner. Optics my ass, if you know the AG is sitting on a case with overwhelming evidence and is not prosecuting that case, replace the fucking AG.
Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket led to a surge of enthusiasm and improved poll numbers but ultimately ended in a decisive electoral college and popular vote defeat.
But at the end of the day, she could not overcome the greatest sin of all -- trying to run for President while being a black woman.
She didn't lose because shes a black woman, she lost because she was running the same campaign the old white man did.
She was dumber than a senile old man is why she lost. The dems needed fresh talent. They painted themselves in a corner this time.
Age caught up with Biden.
He did a massive amount of good for all the disaffected angry voters out there, far more good than any president of the last 40 years. Inflation was bad, but not as bad as elsewhere, and we didn't go into a recession when everyone predicted we would. His programs were most targeted at the working class, whose wages rose more than under any other recent President. All the lip service pols give about helping the middle class, none of them have done it except ol' Joe. Most other Dem pols have a strong neo-liberal streak, but Biden is an old-school union Dem.
So many GOP pols taking credit in their districts for programs funded by Biden policies, but which they voted against. So many angry voters who are so much better off because of Biden policies voted for the guy that's going to rip it all up. Truth doesn't matter, propaganda wins, "throw the bums out, I'm cranky" is as far as most voters get in their thinking, and it's going to destroy the country.
when did age catch up with Biden?
he was supporting segregation policies way back when and has always supported nonprogressive policies and based his thinking on Catholicism
wtf did he do that deserves any kind of praise?
being vice to Obama and having Harris as a vice and supporting outdated nonmodern religious right leaning policies does not make him a savior to anyone
wtf did he do that deserves any kind of praise?
Inflation reduction act, chips, a pretty decent student loan forgiveness program (best he could do with SCOTUS), pardoning federal marijuana convictions come to mind...
food/housing costs/insurance rates/taxes are still astronomically high but hey sure that Biden and the billionaires that own our government got reduced inflation
yes he helped someone open up a chip factory
barely anyone got student loan forgiveness
he did nothing for cannabis convictions or the movement since he started being a politician over half a century ago and instead helped incarcerate a shit ton of people but then again, he would have had less people voting for him if he had not helped lock up so many people
fuck Biden for helping to sell our potential to the highest bidder
You asked what he did, and I told you. There will always be problems. The fact that we're recovering from a historic pandemic and other countries are feeling the same things (often worse) should tell you there isn't a magic lever the president can pull to reduce costs over 4 years (2 considering the house flipped halfway through)
A corporate give away, a distraction, and a pardon he knew hardly anyone would qualify for while Marijuana remains federally illegal.
Wages of the absolute lowest went up. The mode of 35-40 thousand a year remained right there, while inflation tripled grocery prices.
His programs were not aimed at the working class. Just his gaslighting.
the only way biden could ever dream to defeat trump is with some extrajudicial violence. and that is very obviously never happening.
Buddy, you barely fuckin beat him when all the COVID deaths he caused were still fresh in the American minds. Biden won 2020 because he was "anyone else," but his dementia-addled mind has convinced himself that he's a heroic champion of the people who beat back fascism with his incredible intellect. All of the statistical evidence the public has access to predicted a catastrophic Biden loss, but I guess the lesson the DNC has learned from 2024 is that they should give up on objective reality as well.
Old senile man who's own campaign never showed internal polling he would beat Trump says what?
Jesus tapdancing christ, Biden, you absolute wilted cabbage.
Highly doubtful.
Shut up you dumb old twat. Get the fuck out of the way.
Sad to see his brain health not improving without the stress of election season.
Is it me, or is he going more senile with every new day?
Let the old man have his comforting delusions.
Pardon my French, but Fuck you, joe. This isn’t helpful.
I'm not sure he'd win but Kamala didn't have a chance.
Brother he had less of a chance than Kamala, if anything he should have dropped sooner
This is one of the issues I have with criticism of Harris.
The woman had no control over the situation. She couldn't exactly force Biden to drop out. There was no time for a primary. The woman was handed chicken shit and was expected to turn in into chicken salad with barely 3 months to go. The fact that she even made it competitive with 3 months to go, Biden's numbers in the toilet, and her own popularity numbers in the sewer is itself a miracle.
The woman was given cement shoes, told to sprint, and everybody shits all over her for only being able to jog.
Kamala continued the Biden course and had many of Bidens campaign staffers because they deemed switching them risky with the time left.
This likely contributed to her campaign being Joe Biden in everything but name.
There was plenty of time for a primary. He said in 2020 that he would be a 1 term president, and then went back on that. If he had stuck to being a one term president, then we would have had a primary in 2024. That wouldn't have guaranteed that the DNC could hand us the worst possible candidate for the election though.
Kamela absolutely could have reminded him at the end of 2023 that he said he was too old in 2020 and only wanted one term. That would have let her run a primary, and probably get primaried.
Neither you nor I know what kind of conversations were going on privately behind the scenes. For all any of us know, these conversations could have been going on for months with Biden just being stubborn.
Kamala could have reminded him. She also could have jumped up and down yelling "Hi, I'm a squid." for all that it mattered. Kamala had exactly zero control over any of this. She could not force Biden to drop. Now, you could obviously make a case that it's Biden's fault for not dropping out sooner when it was obvious he wasn't going to win. But none of that is Kamala's fault or anyone else's. Nobody could force Biden to drop out. At the very least, put the blame where it belongs.
Biden was at -5 when he dropped out and was slipping by the day. Kamala at least made it neck and neck.
If Biden had stayed in, Trump would have won in a landslide that would have seen Regan/Mondale look competitive.
Kamala had a lot of enthusiasm behind her when she took over the campaign. Then she squandered all of it by hiring the same hacks who lost to Trump in 2016. If she hadn't sidelined Walz, or ignored the Uncommitted movement, or ran on the kind of left-wing economic message that won in 2020, she might have had a chance.
Biden, however, had no chance. Even if he had reversed course on Gaza and adopted left-wing economic populism, he was doomed from the moment he walked on that debate stage. Everyone was worried that he was old and senile, and it turns out they were right. Nothing was going to make the American people vote for him after that became public.
Yeah, don't let rich donors run your party. Their cold feet cost us the country. My worry from the beginning of that whole episode was that they underestimated the number of voters who just would not vote for a black woman, period. They would rather get raped by an old white man than helped by a black woman.
This all would have been discovered if they did a proper primary. Instead rich donors at the top of the Democratic organization decided that they knew what was best, and that they didn't need the voters.