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
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    8 hours ago

    Brazil and South Korea were able to handle these situations without this pissing around “wE hAvE tO fOlLoW tHe pRoCeSs” because their processes actually fucking worked

    Brazil and South Korea followed due process and rule of law as written in their constitutions.

    The problem with the US is that due process and rule of law weren’t followed faithfully, which is in no small part due to the 6/3 conservative Scotus throwing their sycophantic fuckery into the mix.

    You can criticize the actual issue, which is that the US’s legal system favors the rich and that the Scotus is corrupt. But if you want to focus on the fact that Biden didn’t break the law in order to save us from the law being broken, you’re gonna lose me.

    You made various points that I don’t disagree with, but since you decided to pepper them with insults based on a misrepresentation of what I’m saying, I’m not going to bother engaging with them in any level of detail.

    I will say however that Jack Smith did all he could in the time that he had. Major investigations don’t come together overnight, especially if you want to press charges that have a chance of sticking in court. The Supreme Court punted the decision on whether to allow prosecution to proceed. Don’t blame Jack Smith for doing all that anyone could have done, in a system that was already rigged against him.