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.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      22·
      11 hours ago

      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.

      • AshMan85@lemmy.world
        0·
        10 hours ago

        Wow, I guess ignorance is bliss. Well I give a shit that you’re a corporate centrist cuck and is part of the reason we have Trump. Good job champ, but atleast you didnt stoop to trumps level right? You are the same person that will be thank Trump while liv8ng with a boot on their neck lol

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          11·
          9 hours ago

          Not even close. Literally my entire position is based on the fundamental premise of opposition to trump. You’re the one who seems more deadset on tearing apart his opponents than you are on actually focusing your ire on him.

          Is cuck the only insult you know?

          • AshMan85@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 hours ago

            That is so funny, you are still calling Biden trump’s opponent. Further proving my point you are his cuck. Why dont you join us in the present and stop living in the past. Oh, and why would I call you anything but a cuck when that is clearly what you are and im not tearing anything doing. This will be biden’s legacy so suck a dick lol