Summary
President Joe Biden leaves office with a legacy of leading the U.S. out of the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, clean energy, and rallying global support for Ukraine.
However, since live television’s rise more than half a century ago, the skills needed to run for president have diverged from those required to govern.
This led many voters to doubt his capability despite his achievements, forcing him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Meanwhile, voters have been less critical of Donald Trump’s age, overlooking unpopular policies like tariffs that hurt farmers and manufacturing.
Many Republicans and independent voters accepted Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election being stolen and justified the January 6 Capitol attack, enabling his return to office.
Knowingly armed and funded a highly, vividly publicized genocide.
Not mentioned, at all.
“United States of Amnesia”, indeed.
Oh and the points they close on?
The good parts? Of his ‘legacy?’
Yeah, one of them was just obliterated on day one.
Lower prescription drug prices? Poof! All gone.
Fuck off with this revisionist history bullshit. Maybe if Biden had done the right thing and been a one-term president, and the DNC ran a real primary to get a candidate that could beat Trump in 2024, then he could go down in history as a good man.
Instead, we should remember him as he was: a vain, egotistical coward. He was too worried about appearances to pursue justice against Trump, too egotistical to realize he was unpopular and stood no chance against Trump, and now he pardons his entire family and flees. Rest in fucking piss Brandon. Let him be remembered as the man who watched his country fall to fascism and did nothing.
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His major effort was to waggle a finger in admonishment and implore someone to do something. As though the fucking PRESIDENT OF THE USA was someone else.
Biden’s legacy: the emptiest of empty suits.
Biden’s Legacy: Fucked around too much in the center and now we all get to find out.
Center? You mean right?
Biden’s legacy: Rescuing America from a criminal, doing absolutely nothing about it, and being replaced by that exact same criminal
Rescuing? By obscuring the cases by ordering us to stop recording them?
Biden’s legacy is releasing the judge who sold kids, and building more roads for the homeless to sleep on
Biden’s legacy: Merrick Garland’s DOJ that watched justice wither on the vine
It’s because “they” win regardless. Was any of the Democratic leaders or wealthy donors lives worse off today than yesterday? Nope. They still have their ivory towers and the cake crumbs they let fall down to show they are the lessor evil is prof of their actual laissez-faire approach to our well-being.
Biden and Garland didn’t just watch. They stood by (for decades not just the last 4 years) and watched conservatism and neoliberalism take a blowtorch to Justices and democracy. But at least they watched with a BLM and pride pen on their $10,000 suits…
There is no justice in the US. They just wanted to rub it in our faces.
Biden’s legacy: being a competent administrator put in a role that required principles and decisive leadership.
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The Pandemic is still here. All he did was literally what trump wanted to do. Pretend like its gone. No osha guidelines for clean air and co2 level requirements. No upgrades to HVACs and air purifiers in schools, grocery stores, or government buildings.
Millions of Americans getting long covid every year. Millions of Palestinians displaced and getting killed. Did nothing to get the tech oligarchs to lose power or their monopolies. Didn’t use his new presidential immunity to stop a fascist wannabe dictator from taking power. Didn’t even come out to protect americans first amendment by protecting tiktok and gave that win to Trump who is the reason it got banned in the first place. Didn’t push to legalize marijuana. Didnt do shit for universal healthcare. Fuck Biden.
Didn’t do shit for student loans despite using that as a carrot for both the general and midterms, then claimed he was doing so much when all he was doing was acting in accordance with policies passed by previous administrations.
Didn’t tell the truth about his cognitive condition until well after the primaries, meaning Americans didn’t have a choice in the primary and Kamala’s candidacy was hamstrung from the start. Therefore we got Trump 2.0. I’d bet money she could have won the general if she wasn’t a nominee by default (I’d’ve voted for someone else in the primary, but I think she could have won it).
No chance Kamala would have won on her own. She wasted a $1.5 BILLION war chest because she’s categorically a political loser for POTUS.
The winning option would have been an ACTUAL primary, where voters picked an ACTUAL candidate they wanted.
I completely agree that was the only winning option. I also believe the DNC would have thumbed the scale in Kamala’s favor and she probably would have won the primary despite better options. If the DNC cared about winning the general they’d stop interfering with elections. But while that would have royally pissed off a lot of us on the left, a lot of us still would have begrudgingly voted against Trump.
Had Kamala at least gone through a primary first and then carried any semblance of momentum into the general rather than unexpectedly starting cold, she might have eked out a victory.
The pandemic is still here?
Yes…
Prove it
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
1.8% of all deaths in the US today are due to COVID-19. And we’re not even at a seasonal peak.
Just a day ago I would have said it was a bad thing, but ya know after being directly targeted by the government of my own country for being Trans and seeing Musk give a Nazi Salute…
I’m kind of okay with there being this death plague in the background…
I simply see no reason to continue valuing human life, that’s not edge talking, that’s despair.
I agree with most of your litany, but…
Didn’t even come out to protect americans first amendment by protecting tiktok
Shutting down foreign influence operations and propaganda outlets has nothing to do with the first amendment, any more than prosecuting a slander case does.
Multiple politicians have explicitly come out and said it was because they couldn’t control the images of genocide coming out of Israel, and it was turning people against Israel.
They would’ve shutdown Facebook if that’s what they were doing. Its the only platform that has been proven to be used for foreign influence to possibly change the outcome of the US election.
Or you know, pass data protection legislation and transparent algorithm legislation
This led many voters to doubt his capability despite his achievements, forcing him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Nope, factually incorrect. Nancy Pelosi of all people forced him to withdraw by saying she would leak the details of how terrible his internal polling data was.
He knew he could only lose but still refused to step aside.
IMO his legacy is “yet another politician who merely craved power to no end and didn’t know when to let go of it willingly.”
He did okay with America’s economy. He wasn’t Donald Trump. Those are his main positives, and to be fair they’re pretty decent ones. But turns out his negatives were big enough that people became interested in having Donald Trump back, which is a pretty damning indictment.
Is this the article you’re talking about? Is it credible? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13748441/Nancy-Pelosi-forced-Biden-quit-brutal-phone-call-ultimatum.html
I do not read the daily mail, no.
I don’t remember where I first saw it, but searching “pelosi forces biden out” on DDG returned articles from NBC, MSN, News.com.au, NY Times, among others.
Thanks!
Funding the Palestinian genocide.
Yes, it was wrong of the US to send weapons, but Netanyahu would have gone ahead with the genocide regardless of what the US did.
Complacency is not as bad as direct support. The blood is as much on his hands. Tax payers participated indirectly without their consent.
No he wouldn’t have.
Israel is a client state that is completely dependant on the US for weapons and money.
That is why every war they’ve ever fought was forcibly ended by US presidents.
Most recently with single phone calls as seen in the Reagan administration, the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration.
Your take is ahistorical nonsense that can only come from either complete ignorance of recent history or a bad faith attempt to justify Biden’s desire to commit genocide.
EDIT: we don’t just give them weapons. Slightly over a third of ALL U. S. Foreign aid spending has gone to Israel.
Man with limited bullets tries to rob bank.
Man with unlimited bullets robs bank and kills everyone.
You can see the difference right?
Trump is Biden’s legacy. He is a miserable failure of historic proportion.
He did some great things for our country. We’ll never get perfect.
Vaccines watching you give their credit to an old segregationist fuck
Biden mostly ignored covid like a dipshit. We needed and still need real leadership on it and he completely failed on that front.
He did some great things. Covid response isn’t on the list.
