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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    24 hours ago

    He did more to stop trump than literally anyone else in the country. He even put his own ego out of the way when it became clear that he didn’t have enough support to win the election. He couldn’t have done anything more.

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        Are you suggesting that a sitting president should have had his main political opponent assassinated during an election year? Because it sounds like that’s what you’re suggesting, and if so, fuck off back to moscow cause we don’t want that shit here.

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          Nope, just speaking in terms of absolutes. Crooks, as an American citizen, took as much of a concrete action to remove the man as could be made and paid as high a price as could be paid.

          Biden may have given all he thought himself able, but that’s neither here nor there.

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      The supreme court gave him absolute immunity and didnt protect the constitution. Keep on cucking bootlicker

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              Oh, well ill remind you that Merrick garland, appointed by Biden, did absolutely jack shit despite there being sufficient evidence. The administration was a failure and the only reason we had him and others forced upon us was because of cucks like you.

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                Oh fuck off. Merrick Garland sucked, but you can hardly blame Biden for that when all he did was appoint him and then he was hands-off with the DOJ affairs as any president should be.

                How was he supposed to know ahead of time that the man Obama nominated for the Supreme Court, who was stalled indefinitely by a Republican House majority, would slow-walk the most important case in 21st century US history?

                Appointing Jack Smith as Special Counsel was the right move, but Smith didn’t have enough time to bring the case to fruition with the Supreme Court putting it on hold until after the election.

                the only reason we had him and others forced upon us was because of cucks like you.

                Oh fuck off. It was either him or trump in 2020. Lemme guess, you were one of the ones chanting “stop the steal” and storming the capital on J6?

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                    Sure, just ignore the whole part where I said:

                    How was he supposed to know ahead of time that the man Obama nominated for the Supreme Court, who was stalled indefinitely by a Republican House majority, would slow-walk the most important case in 21st century US history?

                    Unless you believe presidents can know the future, your only point is idiotic.

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                    I don’t give a shit what you are. You clearly don’t know what a cuck is, and you apparently would have rather had trump than biden in 2020, so you’re still a fucking idiot