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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    Dude sat on the Trump/Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing about it because it would have hurt the donor class and Israel.

    Trump won on a (false) pledge to release the files.

    Who deserves the blame for this situation in your mind?

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        You’re correct but apparently this thread is only for hyperbole. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

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      Dude sat on the Trump/Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing

      This just in: investigations take longer in real life than on TV. Investigations of people with lots of lawyers take even more time and - stay with me - strategy.

      Just because you didn’t see something happening, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. That’s like Object Permanence.

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        Fucker tried to overthrow the government. If you can’t convict someone for that and prevent him from running again in 4 years that’s a serious failure to your duties as president. If the court system can’t handle it then maybe he should have used his presidential immunity the fucking supreme court ruled to get rid of the threat.

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        You’re telling me 4 years was too short a time to build a case against an insurrectionist pedophile who was referenced more than any other individual in the files?

        And your chastising me for object permanence? L O fucking L

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          Or the case put together by Mueller during Trump’s presidency! Where the only impediment to going to trial was that Trump was currently president.

          These people will talk about slow and steady justice until the statute of limitations expires and then praise the prosecution for being cautious. If this was the best our justice system could do, we don’t have one.