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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    You are correct, but thats not what I’m arguing. So why didn’t the biden administration act? Why didn’t the DoJ do more with the mountains, hell Galaxy’s worth of incriminating evidence they had? Why not jail every single Congress person who had obstructed? Why turn a blind eye to Jan 6?

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      Wake up. They arrested jan 6 insurrectionists under Biden

      It’s Trump who pardoned them once he got back into power.

      Either way It’s just sheer false equivalency to ever say any of this had anything to do with why voters choose a pedophile and why other potential voters stepped aside and let them. These assholes need to be held accountable for their actions to facilitate this to happen. So you can’t blame Biden for that.

      Why trump remained unjailed should be a separate discussion to the sheer callousness of voters voting for a pedophile

      These are two entirely different discussions and merging then only disqualifies a deep problem that should be addressed on its own.

      This is my problem with this being merged as one problem. It overlooks way too much of what happened here.

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          None of them. Biden wasn’t in the files. And i don’t give fuck if à dem was in them arrest them too. Stop destructing the point and stop this strawperson bullshit. Almost had respect enough to think you were here for a point. Now I can see you’re an insane waste of time.