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’ll be voting for the next democrat whether they are a liberal or progressive.

    Accelerationism is never the answer it costs way too many lives.

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      How that’s incrementalism working out for you? You’ve gone from the party of someone building houses for the needy to someone denying a genocide and telling protesters to shut up. We told the DNC what it would take to earn our vote and their solution was ‘Im speaking’

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      They haven’t chosen the next democrat yet. Now is the time to be screaming that no one wants another corporate democrat, but we sure would love someone to come in and clean house and support working people.

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        Bruh you are literally arguing with like, THE ratchet.

        SatansMaggotyCumFart is a fascist and pro-genocide. All that matters to them is that they mantain ideological control of the party.

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      And I respect your opinion, but I’m sick of the status quo of liberals capitulating and giving the elites and Zionists everything they want. I’m sick of this lie I’ve been living my entire life.