politics

He’s angry because he lost his election. I’m angry because I fear we lost our country.

Maximum age limits should be enacted

This is the most incredibly selfish thing I could possibly imagine. An old man moping about his inability to cling to power for another minute. As the next generations look on, begging for someone to act.

He paints Trump as a villain (rightfully so) but is so pathetic that he is unable to rise to any heroism. At least go out swinging.

Don't know what I expected. But it is a slap in the fucking face to hear this.

"Forced out." welcome to a primary, Biden. Functional parties have them.

Somehow he's not near the top of my list of people to feel sorry for.

Biden has been absolutely consistent about is this belief that he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have defeated Donald Trump again

And this is one reason why. He was dead weight that held back Harris (or someone more capable that might have emerged if there had been a competitive primary).

And I'll never stop feeling angry that he didn't decide to step down after one term. The difference is that I'm going to live long enough to see the consequences of that decision.

Why don't you save the country instead of being a moody bitch? It's entirely possible to do the wrong things for all the right reasons, and still be correct

He's just pissy he didn't get his own chance to fucking lose. Because in his heart, Biden also thinks the problem with Kamala is that she was a black woman. He sees no problem with his policies, his stance on Israel, his willingness to play nice and coy with Republicans, or his impending death. He seriously thinks that only he could "save" America, and that he could have won. All this, despite all the constituents of his party cheering when he stepped down and flooded his replacement with donations and praise.

I'll say it again, rest in piss Brandon. People will compare you to Chamberlain or Brüning, and it will be a disservice to both those men. Your ego caused you to utterly fail your country, and we will remember you as a failure.

I hope by the time the next election comes around, assuming we will ever have another election, that we endorse a new party and completely abandon the democratic party in favor of something like a labor party. Maybe, just maybe, we have seen the Democrats vs. Republicans for the last time.

This country had different parties before, we can have different parties again.

Biden has absolutely nobody to blame for him getting ousted but himself.

Dems told him he should not run for a second term, and he ignored them and did it anyway.

Then, he proves all his critics right by absolutely imploding during the debate.

What did he expect?

Time to fade away into obscurity. Thanks for letting your ego get in the way of what was best for America.

It’s not about you Joe. Get the fuck over yourself.

He should have announced he was going to be a 1 term president a year prior and gave a chance to find a better Democrat candidate. He's senile and hardly able to run the country. No one over 70 should be president. No one over 70 should be in any office or judicial position. Our country shouldn't be ran by the nearly dead. Even 8f some of them like Sanders are great.

He fumbled his chance by historical margins when everybody was already scrutinizing his capabilities. There was no recovering from the debate. His legacy will be refusing to accept reality and bringing about an era that my generation may never recover from.

You still woulda lost, Joe. Dumb American voters wanted someone to blame for groceries costing more, and that blame went to you.

Fuck this guy. Shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Now, to a large extent because of his decisions, we all have to suffer through the rule of the dumbest, most bigoted and greedy assholes ever.

And one thing, importantly, that President Biden has been absolutely consistent about is this belief that he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have defeated Donald Trump again. Now, all of this adds up to, I would say, a mood of sadness and sort of this sense of tragedy here at the White House,” concluded Lee. “Those around him believing and actually hoping that when history judges President Biden years from now, that it will be a little bit more forgiving than how the president is being widely judged, at least today, Jake. ”

Emphasis mine. The level of hubris is genuinely jaw-dropping.

Would you have felt more or less angry keeping your promise not to run again Joe? Sounds like a you problem.

I love Joe Biden, always have. It seems that he lost a great deal of cognitive function over the last 8 years, and this fact was hidden from everyone outside of his circle, could have been his decision, but again loss of cognition means it also could not have been. The fact that Merritt Garland was sandbagged by Republicans which ended his nomination for Supreme Court Justice at the end of Obamas term, made him an excellent nominee for Attorney General and head of The Department of Justice, but the way he was slow rolling the prosecutions for Trump, when they should have been layups, and the way Garland couldn't adjust and overcome the Trump lawyer onslaught of tactics to delay, doomed Bidens chances at a second term, and American democracy itself. Joe as President was responsible to oversee Garland, and they both dropped the ball in bringing Trump to justice, but the buck stops with Joe. If there's anything at all to be angry about, it's Joe should have protected us from Trump returning, and he failed spectacularly, and now it's all over.

To be fair though im in a rather dark mood myself.

He should be feeling angry he's going to be remembered for helping Israel commit genocide, refusing to step aside and let the younger generation lead, and enabling fascism, but his hubris won't allow for that.

But not angry enough to do anything helpful.

If he's bitter, just imagine how the rest of us feel, watching him disappoint us as we expected he would but hoped he wouldn't.

What does this say about Biden's faith in Harris? I always kind of doubted that he actually wanted Harris, and suspected Harris was kind of foisted upon him. If he really believed in her as a person and/or politician, why would he be sitting here pouting and saying that he should've run instead? The whole camaraderie between them always felt kinda shallow and forced, and this really sends that feeling for me.

"Being forced out" is a funny way to spell "losing the election".

You shouldn't have run for a second term, old man!