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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 27 points 12 hours ago

Well you didn't work hard at all on prosecuting traitors even after the supreme court handed you a golden ticket to do official acts so this mess is your fault bud. Take comfort that you won't have to live long with the consequences of your failures just like the rest of the geriatrics in your party that won't get the fuck out of the way.

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Didn't uphold the 14th ammendment. That would have solved it all.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago

Is he actually this stupid? He can't actually be this stupid, can he?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago

Genocide geriatric Joe didn’t prevent a fascist accelerationist takeover of the US.

[–] AntOnARant@programming.dev 12 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Why all the hate for Biden? It’s trump and the republicans that have created this situation, isn’t it?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, because we had clear expectations for Biden when he was elected.

Close the inhumane border camps.

Deal with Covid.

Prosecute trump and his collaborators litany of crimes.

In the end, he went 0/3 on those. His legacy is one of shirked responsibility.

[–] Ruxias@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't "nothing will fundamentally change" what he said to the donors at a private event? Mission accomplished I guess....

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

No idea, I don't really give a fuck about a small quote without context said behind closed doors. I care about what issues were facing the nation, and what was done to solve them.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 44 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Biden had so many chances to change the path we are on today. And he squandered every single one of them.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago

This. At the very least, he could have expanded the SC to 13 and named a bunch of new judges. But nah.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

He's an old fart that does things by the book and does them well with mostly good intentions from an outside perspective. He worked within those confines and got shit done in an adversarial environment. He didn't anticipate the fuck-the-book approach that is now allowing trump to flagrantly ignore the constitution.

Had he known he may have reoriented his strategies. But that's hindsight right? Also fuck him for preventing an actual primary and forcing Kamala on the ticket - that was a known bad approach even without hindsight.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Trump did it the first time. Why would any person with common sense not believe he would do that again?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 12 hours ago

He didn’t anticipate the fuck-the-book approach that is now allowing trump to flagrantly ignore the constitution

Trump was perfectly transparent about his intentions. If Biden didn't anticipate this he's incompetent and deserves every ounce of hate coming his way.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

He ignored plenty of "by the book" ways to avoid our current situation. And he didn't anticipate the approach that Trump had used for the 4 years prior to his presidency? That just proves he's a terrible president.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You had the SCOTUS authorization (presidents can't do crimes if it's "party of their duties") to arrest Trump and make him go away, but instead we now live in the Fascist States of America. The GOP are domestic terrorists, but her, at least you can die sun knowing you played by the rules. Go to hell old man.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Exactly this. He is the reason why the us is in the shape that it is today, and is the reason why it will continue to regress in the next foreseeable future.

when he's sad, he thinks about all the babies in Gaza he murdered, then he feels better

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Yes, the 6-3 conservative SCROTUS totally would have supported Biden having Trump arrested. Only Republicans can do whatever they want.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

The Chad move was to arrest the SCOTUS as soon as the ruling came down.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So move faster than they can stop him. Trump has shown how effective disappearing people without due process can be. The Supreme Court can't resurrect the dead as far as I'm aware.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They said "arrested," not "killed." I agree that an assassination would have been a good way for Biden to sacrifice himself for his country.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Other events can follow an arrest.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not like they could stop him…

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

"We determined Biden is not immune from prosecution for this act." Congress would impeach and easily pass it since Democrats don't worship him, Harris becomes president, Trump is convicted and no punishment happens, Trump is elected president.

Now, if he did something permanent like have him assassinated, that would have made the world a better place and could not have been reversed.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 19 points 22 hours ago

Yeah he can eat shit. A genocidal war criminal both at home and abroad.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck off, Joe. Nobody wants to listen to you anymore. Thanks again for giving us Trump 2.0 you senile, vain, self-centered piece of shit.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

Joe clung to impotent “power” long enough to give Harris just 107 days to overthrow the most famous person in the world Donald Trump. Did not go well.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (9 children)

no you didn't, dumbass. we knew this was coming and you did nothing to prevent it.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 28 points 1 day ago

The genocide that he worked hard to not only fund but to also shield from both domestic dissent and international intervention seems to still be going strong. So Biden's work wasn't all for naught.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why didn't you aggressively pursue the criminal terrorist known as Taco when you could do something about it?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He should have had all those traitors rounded up on Day One, and held at Guantanamo for their roles on Jan 6, and as National Security threats in general.

Instead, he appointed the weakest Republican in existence as AG, who dithered and slow-walked the investigation, and gave the MAGA traitors a 2 year head start on the election.

The Democrats are as responsible and complicit in the MAGA rise to power as the Republicans themselves.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Well, I don't think they are as responsible ( I think that gets too close to DARVO stuff - the Republicans keep setting out to break government, destroy everything good that has been done and hand a lot of money to the already uber-wealthy and the Democrats do a terrible job at stopping them - it's almost like an abused partner in a very toxic household being blamed for the offender), but they certainly look like a bunch of Neville Chamberlains.

They were certainly not the leadership we needed in 2021 when it came to dealing with these criminals and these terrorists that have taken root in our country.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 211 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

You failed to do the one thing that mattered, Biden, which was replace Garland and make sure that someone actually put Trump's ass behind bars as well as his enablers like Musk, Bannon, Miller, and so on. (Seriously, how was the stuff in Project 2025 not enough to hit people with fucking conspiracy, racketeering and sedition charges?) Instead you slow walked this shit and it's literally entirely your own fucking fault that we're in this mess. Especially your unwillingness to stick with your original promise of being a one-term President and allowing the Democrats to have an actual primary, instead once again snatching actual choice out of the hands of the people and anointing a new candidate instead. How many fucking times has that failed now, dipshit?

I got zero sympathy for this blithering bitching idiot. Go cry about your legacy more, chucklefuck. We're facing out of control fascism because you were a pussy and didn't want to "lOoK PoLiTiCaL."

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 176 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shut the fuck up, Biden. When the Supreme Court made a president a king, you had the chance to remove ALL of these traitors as an official presidential action and you still chose the high road.

So just enjoy your dementia in peace.

he chose the roads his donnors told him to

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[–] ludicolo@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Holy fuck the ass cancer cannot take this guy from the earth quick enough.

Maybe you should have worked harder. idiot. Shit got busted overnight so that work was, as we in the biz say, a shit job. Never forget the Democrats witheld a primary because this corpse was their guy. Never forget when this corpse was lugged out of the race Kamala did diddly squat to distance herself from the corpse's policies. Hell she even adopted some of her opponent's policies (no tax on tips anyone?). Don't ever forget how bernie and aoc lied as well telling us this corpse was cognizant to make a ceasfire, when no talks lf that were happening at all. What about the new reports of the biden administration down playing the east palestine ohio train chemical crash? That happened like soon after the rail strikes got crushed by none other than the corpse himself. Remember though he was the most pro union corpse the oval office has seen!

FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING I SAID, REMEMBER THE CRUMBS HE GAVE YOU. THOSE TASTY, TASTY CRUMBS.

May he have a painful death.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 13 hours ago

He worked really hard to thread the needle between capitol and some actually progressive policies

Which, in the effort to avoid making enemies, just basically pissed off everyone, because it took a nibble of the profits for the tiniest wins possible

But I'm sure it was a lot of work

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago (20 children)

His presidency will be remembered not for what he did, which was mostly good, but for what he did not do. His legacy will be viewed similarly to Hoover's. Both were principled men who, when faced with a serious problem, could not find it in themselves to deal with it.

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[–] vala@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago
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