The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘Can we come back from this?’ | CNN Politics
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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.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.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 hours ago

    It seems to me that most people have been deceived to think that Trump is the problem. Meanwhile, if Trump dies tomorrow, the real problem will remain.

    Trump being ELECTABLE is the problem. Super PACs are what made Trump electable. When he is gone, those “donators” will immediately do the exact same thing with someone else, and it will work.

    Because when you make bribery legal, those who accept the most bribes win. They can find another celebrity to fill his role just as easily. He’s not magical. He’s not even clever. Who next? That Hercules dimwit? I forget his name, fuck that guy.

    Unfortunately, we the people can’t donate enough to keep up with billionaires and corporations and even foreign interests like Saudi Arabia and Israel; whoever wins an election is beholden to them before they ever take office.

    How do we get representatives to stop taking bribes and profiteering? “You and your entire family can be millionaires” vs. “Do the right thing” isn’t ever going to work.

    See Citizens United, Super PACs, Heritage Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations for further details.