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.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    7 hours ago

    I will never get sick of centrists thinking they are saying something moderate they think people can agree on getting ratio’d by the reality they are very, very alone in their beliefs.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      24·
      7 hours ago

      Getting ratio’d on this site by people who don’t put up candidates, organize parties or hardly even vote doesn’t mean much.

      Democrats are by far either the most popular or the second most popular party in the states in every single modern election.

      Democrats and liberals are not alone in our beliefs.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Getting ratio’d on this site by people who don’t put up candidates, organize parties or hardly even vote doesn’t mean much.

        Actually, you are fucking with a very engaged crowd that is by and large far more politically educated and engaged than you are, which is why you are getting ratio’d with pushback.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldOPEnglish
          13·
          7 hours ago

          I’ve had more pushback before plus I’ve seen what makes the leftists cheer so I’m not exactly looking for their approval just trying to get them to open their eyes a bit.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              I’ve explained this before.

              I used to be much more left than I am now.

              Spending time on this site and seeing how the leftists keep gatekeeping and infighting lead me to believe they’d never be a useful political bloc so I became a liberal so I can help defeat the republicans.

              Any sane political movement would welcome me under their tent but leftists spend most of their time telling others they aren’t good enough to be there until it’s a thousand small tents with one or two people under each one.