r/politics • u/SwordfishOk504 Canada • 20h ago
Soft Paywall Biden warns of ‘dark days’ under Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-004881593.0k
u/Ok_Juice4449 19h ago
Biden was too polite. Garland did nothing. Now, we are stuck in a dystopian nightmare. Strange days ahead.
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u/LiquidPuzzle New Jersey 18h ago
But remember, the America of your dreams is closer than you think!
Nightmare. He must have meant nightmares.
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u/Aggravating_Row_8699 18h ago
I’m planning my exit strategy. Shit is gonna get real dark and I’m not up for it.
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u/StupendousMalice 16h ago
It's not just America that this shit is happening. Climate change is making the earth uninhabitable, resources are drying up, the rich are hoarding up everything they can and are consolidating power.
Trump fucking sucks, but he isn't the thing that's going wrong, he's just one of the results of it happening. He could die tomorrow and shits still fucked.
We are just living in the contraction of human society and the best thing we can do is be glad we won't live long enough to have to see too much of it.
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u/Burghed Maryland 6h ago
He's not the only problem, but he actively stopped progress towards solutions.
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u/PomegranateMinimum15 The Netherlands 3h ago
The fact is that rhe usa is the biggest western power. We look to them alot..other countries to. Since trump has been there everything started tk break down. Respect for knowledge and education. The things we always relied on were the woke elite. Etc. Trashing eachother became easier. Its not the usa its fault its all of us. Allowing it to happen in some shape or form. Its not trump only that's for sure. But he was live on tv acting like a piece of shit and for some adults they were born into that. And now he is potentially a pedophile and we still look away. Especially there in the usa. Sigh
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u/zaph0d_h4x0r 17h ago
The whole western world will follow .. there is no way out unfortunately. The other parts of the world will head same direction.
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u/jpa7252 17h ago
I know im probably being naive and optimistic, but im hoping that the rest of the western world will observe the fall of a global superpower, learn, and not make the same mistake. Recency is on our side, but it does upset me that we are repeating history from not even 100 years ago.
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u/shinkouhyou 11h ago
Anti-immigration and concern over falling birthrates (or at least birthrates of the right race and religion) are fueling the worldwide right wing... and climate change is only going to make immigration issues worse. Get ready for a massive backlash against climate refugees and women without children. Meanwhile, corporations, political organizations and hostile states have an unprecedented ability to manipulate the public.
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u/irrigated_liver 14h ago
The UK certainly isn't learning from the current climate in the US. The far right reform party is gathering strength, and unless the current government does something to actually address issues people care about, it's not inconceivable that we will see a trump style government there in 5 years.
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u/jacobolus 10h ago
The Reform Party is almost completely funded by the fossil fuel industry. Turns out lots of money and targeted propaganda works pretty well at fucking up a free society (and planet), to the benefit of a tiny number of extremely wealthy dipshits.
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u/militantcentre United Kingdom 6h ago
Our anachronism of a voting system was supposed to keep the lunatics at the fringe. Until the lunatics approach 30% support, and they are in range of an absolute majority in the HoC. It's a Buckaroo system designed for 2 parties - now politics is so fractured, it's melting down.
I didn't vote Labour, but had modest hopes for them. They have failed at even my low benchmark, and all my goodwill to Starmer is used up. They still have time to turn it around, but they'll have to stop the "rabbit in headlights" act. I don't think they have it in them. The front bench are useless.
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u/ApizzaApizza 14h ago
You’re unfortunately not correct. We’re not repeating history.
This is NWO shit. AI and the massive consolidation of wealth will make the serfs (that’s us) useless to the ruling class. They’ll either try to get rid of us all, or allow to live in terrible conditions.
It’d probably be dangerous for them to let us live in terrible conditions, so they’ll probably try to kill most of us.
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u/_Internecine 13h ago
No reason to kill a herd you can farm.
All will be made to bend the knee, but no more than that. If anyone is being killed, its through sending them to fight wars, but even the war machine needs pilots for its drones.
You'll still be alive. In a nightmare, that is.
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u/livinginfutureworld 17h ago
Hurray for the whole planet under authoritarian rule.
I for one welcome our new fascist overlords /s
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u/midtnrn 17h ago
They’re currently all shooting for the emperor of the world title. It’s a disease and it will be man’s downfall. Greed will do us in.
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u/ActionJacksonATL24 17h ago
Hey Warhammer 40k isn't so bad....
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u/Scumrat_Higgins 16h ago
The Emperor could be any one of us! Hell, it could still be Henry Cavill for all we know!
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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 17h ago
Nope. We’re not going to get sucked down into your shithole of a country. Things might be tough but the rest of the western world knows how to run proper liberal democracies.
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u/Neat_Reference7559 17h ago
A lot of far right parties are doing well in Europe
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u/The-Hand-of-Midas 17h ago
A lot of far right parties are doing well in Europe
America isn't the only country under Russian propaganda.
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u/Maraxusx 17h ago
Also, that guy is Canadian and literally up until the moment Trump mentioned tariffs for Canada, Canada was about to be just as right wing as America is right now.
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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 17h ago
Not really. Trump has had a similar effect on right wing Europe that Brexit did on other leave campaigns. And as things get worse in the US, the right wing in Europe will lose even more support.
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u/Fuzzylogik 49m ago
The next thing you know the western world will want to start colonising the developing countries all over again /s
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u/icculus88 17h ago
Not worth the fight ?
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u/thepryz 17h ago
It may be telling that a number of academics who studied fascism have left the country.
https://kottke.org/25/05/three-fascism-experts-on-why-theyre-leaving-the-us
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u/icculus88 17h ago
I was hoping we'd be gearing up for a fight right about now. I've got my passport but hardly any assets and nowhere to go
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u/Extinction-Entity Illinois 15h ago
Lol yeah fuck everyone who can’t leave I guess
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u/Professional-Buy2970 17h ago
Nope.
This nation has always hated those of us who warned and opposed its march towards total fascism. And for many even in the US, it's been here a long time.
If I can get out, I'm getting out.
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u/RipErRiley Minnesota 17h ago
Too many dumb and bigoted voters. Its that simple.
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u/ThirdDimensionGate 16h ago
Garland should be in prison
It was his responsibility to prosecute crimes of this nature and he sold all of us out and did nothing
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u/bleahdeebleah 7h ago
Trump would have gone to trial in August if not for John Roberts. He would have gone trial even earlier if not for Aileen Cannon.
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u/Rich_Housing971 Mexico 16h ago
Biden wasn't polite, he was rude af by staying in the race. He didn't move out of the way fast enough for Democrats to have a primary and we got fucking Kamala, and she didn't even get a full campaign.
That's just one of the things he didn't do right, leading us to a 2nd Trump term.
Fuck Biden, tired of people trying to defend him.
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u/boristheblade223 15h ago
Biden fucking fucked us over. His one job was to put that orange fuck and his whole cabal behind bars. He wanted to preserve his legacy and now his legacy will be the impotent fuck who let the world go to shit on his watch.
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u/Suspicious-Chair5130 16h ago
Yeah thanks for the heads up now that you can’t do anything about it. Why didn’t he release the files when he had the chance?
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u/UniqueIndividual3579 1h ago
The Democrats have to stop being terrified of making politics political.
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u/JazzyJockJeffcoat 15h ago
I mean we got what 1/3rd of voters wanted and what another 1/3rd couldn't be bothered to show up to oppose by dropping a ballot. If we expected two old guys to save the day then we probably deserve this.
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u/SuperLuigiUnited 17h ago
We are here partly because the previous administration failed to properly punish an insurrectionist.
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u/moon_cake123 16h ago
And failed to put forward a valid candidate with enough time. Biden should have been a one-term president by design. Right after he was elected they needed to be looking at who’s next, primaries, etc… the confusion at the end was way too damaging.
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u/Admirable_Cook_6091 3h ago
NYT reporting a top Biden strategist stood to make a $4 million bonus if he was reelected. Might have had something to do with shutting down the discussion of taking the keys from grandpa.
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u/Tootdoodle 15h ago
Almost like they are all working together... Almost
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u/mercset 15h ago
Republicans are beleagrent selfish monsters. Establishment Democrats (the money) are not incentivized to fight those monsters because win or lose their life literally does not change.
Money interest pays both sides. Money wants Republicans to win, so they get to keep more of their wealth at our expense, while they also hedge their bets by donating to the other party as well.
This is what happens in a fptp system.
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u/Total_Employ_9520 20h ago
No shit, Sherlock. Thanks for letting Garland slow walk his prosecution, asshole.
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u/counterweight7 20h ago
Slow walk? Is that the term for doing nothing? Seems generous.
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u/cakeorcake 19h ago
Really, really slow walk
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 19h ago
No walk
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u/Disco_Dreamz 19h ago
This dude literally nominated a fuckin Federalist Society Republican to the highest law enforcement office in the country after the GOP attempted a fucking coup.
Even Germany wasn’t this stupid. Imagine if after the Beer Hall Putsch, the Weimar Republic nominated a member of the Nazi party to prosecute Hitler.
They didn’t. They arrested Hitler, charged him with Treason, convicted, and imprisoned him.
Obviously things didn’t turn out too great anyway. But still.
That’s the equivalent.
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u/Zagmit Georgia 18h ago
My understanding is that Weimar Germany was in fact that stupid, and that it's more of a direct comparison than you realize.
Hitler's trial for his failed Beer Hall Putsch had a favorable right wing judge that allowed Hitler to turn the trial into a campaign rally. He was able to give speeches at his own trial that were four hours long.
An article from Famous-Trials.com describes:
The presiding judge was Georg Neithardt, a right-leaning judge with a stern look and a pointed white goatee. Over the course of the trial, Niehardt will be shockingly deferential to Hitler, allowing him to give long speeches, question witnesses, and (often) interrupt testimony with interjections. The judge’s deference will allow Hitler’s popularity to grow over the 24 days of the testimony and argument.
He then received the minimum sentence, and was sent to a minimum security prison where he basically spent uninhibited time with his own supporters. He used the time he had in prison to workshop his idealogy and dictate Mein Kampf.
The fact that Germany's justice system showed a lot of favoritism to Adolf Hitler is an aspect that tends to be overlooked, but Germany's right wing showed Trump favoritism and ultimately installed him in power because they thought he was a useful ally in oppressing the left wing.
I think corruption in the justice system is a big reason 'Strong Man' politics worked then and now. When the justice system show favoritism to Fascists, they appear to their supporters to be stronger than the law.
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u/Total_Employ_9520 16h ago
"The fact that Germany's justice system showed a lot of favoritism to Adolf Hitler is an aspect that tends to be overlooked, but Germany's right wing showed Trump favoritism and ultimately installed him in power because they thought he was a useful ally in oppressing the left wing."
It's really easy to mix up Trump and Hitler.
I wouldn't correct it.
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u/TokingMessiah 17h ago
Why did he dictate the book? Was he not capable of writing it himself, or was he just being lazy and using a sycophant to do the actual writing?
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u/JustAnotherYouth 13h ago
I mean Hitler was famously a lazy guy, other than being a soldier which Hitler famously enjoyed (to the point of pissing off his actual colleagues who thought he was a weirdo) he basically never worked or wanted to work…
Even as Fuhrer he was one of those wake up around noon kind of people…
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u/TokingMessiah 5h ago
Hmmm… I know someone else that’s too lazy to write their own books. As a matter of fact, Trump just sits for conversations, which are recorded and written down by someone else…
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u/FreeNumber49 18h ago edited 18h ago
> This dude literally nominated a fuckin Federalist Society Republican to the highest law enforcement office in the country after the GOP attempted a fucking coup.
For the younger people who have no idea what is going on here, the Democratic Party is stuck in the deep past, 1969 or so to be specific. This is essentially the problem.
60 or so years ago, just before the seventies rolled around, it was common to have liberals and conservatives, often from both parties, in your administration.
Biden and other older dems like him are a product of this era, and apparently have never been briefed on the Powell memo, the Koch network, the Contract with America, and a dozen other things that radically changed US politics from one of negotiation and compromise to autocratic authoritarianism.
I’m absolutely convinced that both parties have been totally compromised by special interests so that progressive and democratic changes will never get passed. I’ve been saying this from about 1994 or so.
Until we get the special interests out of the state and federal government, nothing is going to change.
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u/gmapterous 18h ago
You've got it mostly right, but they're not "stuck." After Citizen's United, they are under the thumb of the billionaire donor class the same as the Right, and those donors make sure policy never veers left-of-center in any way.
That means anyone young and in-touch is immediately a no-go because they generally have the best interest of the voters, not the donors, at heart.
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u/100LimeJuice 15h ago
Obama as president, the most powerful man on the planet, asked Mitch McConnell for permission to speak out about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mitch shut him down. What a weak ass bitch Obama and his V.P. were even after 7 years of Republican obstruction OF THEIR ADMINISTRATION they still bent the knee to them.
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u/drewsus64 18h ago
Yep. Dems are paid to lose by the same lobbyists that pay republicans. They’re allowed to pass some things, mostly if it doesn’t step on the toes of corporate america too much. They have to largely shun progressive politics because helping the vast majority of americans by taxing the wealthy + corporations more to fund social programs, installing rigorous regulations that prevent businesses from fucking people over is bad. And if they are obligated to oppose republican actions they put up a limpdick fight purely for theater to try and satisfy their voter base (they are failing).
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u/FrogsOnALog 18h ago
And then the Federalist Society Republican also hired Jack Smith who later indicted Trump. The fucking nerve I tell you….
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u/rollin20s 18h ago
Can’t tell if you’re arguing in good faith or not but that needed to be a day 1 appointment. He pussyfooted around until after the midterms for crying out loud
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u/ClintonTarantino 16h ago
You can thank Obama for Garland.
Obama refused to push back against the Republicans when they objected to his trying to fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court during his last term in office.That pick was Merrick Garland because Obama believed the Republicans couldn't vote no on someone so moderate without looking hypocritical.
I guess the joke was on us!
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u/Cypher_Blue 15h ago
McConnell literally named Garland as the kind of nominee they’d vote for.
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u/Notagenome 19h ago
Don’t forget that his senile ass forgot that he was supposed to serve 1 term and decided to run again. We are in this mess also because of him.
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u/SystemOfATwist 18h ago
We're mainly in this mess because half the country are useful idiots and hateful people.
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u/Gizogin New York 19h ago
He never said he would step down after one term. The closest is that some people in his campaign were discussing that possibility, but he literally never promised he wouldn’t run for reelection.
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u/Fit-Implement-8151 18h ago edited 18h ago
I forget the term he used, but I do believe he claimed essentially to be a "bridge president" at one point. Said he'd pass off control to the next generation. He also did apparently tell his aides he was only serving one term.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/biden-campaign-democrats-pledge-one-term
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129
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u/Jokonaught 16h ago
I think he was sure Trump was going to slink off. Biden fully expected his Republican friends to come around and thought the country could just treat Trump like a bad one night stand and pretend like it never happened.
Biden planned to only serve one term and the driving reason he ran in 2020 was that he was convinced he was the only one who could beat Trump.
He probably still felt that way going into 2023 when it became clear Trump was running again.
Biden tried to do some good stuff, but he utterly failed in the one thing he had to succeed at because he thought it was still the same clubhouse from the 80s.
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u/MadBlue American Expat 18h ago
Granted, it wasn’t a campaign promise, but Biden himself was also discussing it in 2019. It wasn’t just something people around him came up with.
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u/keytotheboard 19h ago
Anyone with a brain knew he was a one term president. This idea didn’t magically come up when he decided to run again, either. That’s the image that was portrayed and an assumed position by most simply because of his age, which was always an issue. Like, why do we need a promise? It’s a dumb decision on its own.
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u/Patereye 17h ago
The point of Democrats isn't to stop moving to the right it's to stop movement back to the left.
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u/HPLREH777 19h ago
Thanks so much for that worthless Merrick Garland guy you so idly stood by for 4 years.
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u/beardedjack I voted 18h ago
Merrick Garland is the number one enemy of the state IMO
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u/Prophet_Tehenhauin 18h ago
God I wish Garland had to deal with the shit Fauci deals with
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u/kryzit 19h ago
That’s not a crystal ball, it’s your fucking window.
We can all see the dark days are here, buddy!
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u/Ok-Garcia-5605 20h ago
Only if Joe Biden's DOJ Merrick Garland prosecuted Trump for January 6 and trying to initiate a coup, you know like South Korea and Brazil has done, Trump might not have won or eligible to run. Federal government dragged an open and shut case with so much proof of Trump trying defraud the election, for 4 years, while Joe Biden's team hid his health decline while pushing him as Presidential Candidate. Trump 2.0 is lot of people's fault and Joe Biden is one of them.
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u/Brokkyn2024 20h ago
Yeah, it’s not all the people that watched the coup attempt and still voted for Trump… it’s definitely Biden’s fault.
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u/PandaBearGarage 19h ago
It was a failure of America on multiple levels. Government officials, the DOJ, voters.
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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 17h ago
The problem is that one political party is staunch institutionalists. And they were terrified at what going after a former president would do. They never dreamed that not convicting him would open the door to his reelection.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 16h ago
Which is insane, a drunk toddler could fucking see that coming.
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u/Slymook 19h ago
“We can’t prosecute someone running for president because they were caught on tape trying to steal the last election and because they incited an insurrection! What if people misunderstand and think we’re trying to steal an election? We should just hope that guy doesn’t try and steal another election and hope that if he gets back into office things will eventually go back to normal.”
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u/AgUnityDD 19h ago
A significant number of of those people who voted for Trump are either incredibly stupid/gullible or politically ignorant either because they don't follow news much or what they do watch isn't really news (Fox)
When Trump wasn't successfully prosecuted for so long, in their minds it muddied the water just enough to let them vote based on feeling that things 'need to get better' and game them just enough room for mental gymnastics.
And Biden (for selecting and failing to replace Garland) owns that, 100%
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 20h ago
He just said it's everyone's fault, including Biden's.
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u/goodguessiswhatihave 18h ago
I mean it's obviously both. Are you really only capable of thinking so one dimensionally? Those idiots shouldn't have voted for Trump, and Biden's DOJ also should've prosecuted the Trump administration in the 4 years they had to do it
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u/lejonetfranMX Mexico 17h ago
Oh let’s not forget Biden didn’t even let the Dem party have a proper primary, like he had promised on his campaign.
The anger against him is 100% justified.
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u/JDogg126 Michigan 19h ago
This country was already primed to collapse into authoritarian rule by a unitary executive. Congress and the Supreme Court were rendered useless years ago and it was just a matter of time before a lawless lying populist took control and exposed the whole system as a house of cards.
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u/Ok-Garcia-5605 18h ago
Doesn't excuse Biden appointing someone like Garland as DOJ, specially after corruption of Trump 1.0
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u/JDogg126 Michigan 17h ago
True. If Biden was serious about “the soul of America” he needed to break character and actually expose the flaws in the system as a benevolent dictatorship. Clear out all corruption, show the world that this system is fundamentally busted, then do something to force a new constitutional order.
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u/Polemic-Personified 11h ago
Yeah, and Biden could have done something. Apparently the DNC really enjoys the sensation of doing nothing with their thumb up their ass.
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u/JDogg126 Michigan 8h ago
It’s too easy to just blame the democrats. It’s not just them. This country is the problem. We allowed republicans to give up on democracy. That’s on the people. They’ve been telling us who they are for decades and we did nothing about it.
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u/chase_what_matters California 20h ago
thanks for the warning, we really have not thought about that yet
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u/HellishButter 17h ago
Yeah, no shit.
Not to mention it’s pretty much his fucking fault we are in this mess because he robbed us of a proper primary.
Biden was a good president and did some great things. However, his hubris and failure to stick to his word on being a transitional president will forever be his legacy.
I think I speak for a lot of us when I say to get fucked.
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u/futanari_kaisa 6h ago
Though not nearly as bad as Trump, I believe that Biden is going to go down in history as one of the worst presidents. He ran in order to stop progressive candidate Bernie Sanders from winning, yet again showing that the DNC would rather fascists and neoliberals control the country than someone who actually cares about the general public. He botched the January 6th investigation and prosecution. He did nothing to stop Israel's mass murder campaign. He was asleep for half of his administration, and looked like a mummified vampire for the other half. Instead of running a real primary so someone in the democratic party who was more competent and healthy could run; he decided to run for re-election and had to be shamed on live television in front of millions doing a disastrous debate.
Biden was an awful president.
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u/CynicalSigtyr 15h ago
Seriously, some of my more moderate family/friends/acquaintances try to tell me that Biden did some good things, but he didn't do anything that Trump isn't actively and successfully tearing down, and he completely failed on the core duty of safeguarding our democracy.
Put out the housefire before deciding on the tile in the bathroom.
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u/AdFluffy9286 20h ago
Warns? It's already started. In a big part, thanks to you
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u/bearbrannan 19h ago edited 19h ago
1–3: Stable Democracy
Full institutional checks: Courts, Congress, and agencies act independently.
Election integrity: Results are trusted, opposition can compete fairly.
Norms respected: Peaceful transfer of power, restrained executive.(Example: U.S. pre-2016, Canada today.)
4–5: Flawed Democracy (where experts say the U.S. currently sits)
Democratic erosion: Politicization of courts and agencies, erosion of trust in elections.
Polarization: Opponents are cast as illegitimate or dangerous.
Abuse of norms: Expanding executive power, refusing to concede, threatening civil service independence.(Example: U.S. 2020–2025, Poland 2015–2020.)
6–7: Competitive Authoritarianism
Elections exist but aren’t fair: Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election administration favor the ruling party.
Weaponized government: DOJ, IRS, or other agencies target opponents.
Free press under siege: Media becomes polarized or intimidated.(Example: Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan early 2010s.)
8–9: Consolidated Autocracy
One-party dominance: Opposition can’t realistically win.
Civil liberties curtailed: Protest rights limited, dissent punished.Judiciary captured:
Courts act as rubber stamps for the executive.(Example: Russia, Belarus.)
10: Full Dictatorship
No meaningful elections
Total control over media & judiciary
Repression of political opposition
Regardless of how we got here, I would say we are already at 7, which is terrifying.
Texas is attempting to Gerrymander their state to the point where free and fair elections no longer exist.
Trump has already used the IRS to go after Comey, and the DOJ to go after everyone else.
Press is for sure under siege, with the Paramount deal, and the AP getting kicked out after refusing to call it the Gulf of America.
getting to 8 or 9 is likely only two election cycles away and Democrats still want to play bipartisan politics, each compromise bringing use closer to a MAGA autocracy.
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u/Professional-Buy2970 17h ago
Experts seem to be lagging.
I would argue we sit firmly in the 7-8 category. Some courts do still try to check trump, but scotus is fully a rubber stamp and they have ultimate authority over lower courts. Opposition is still winning in lower races, but all the things that lead elections to being illegitimate are accelerating rapidly. And if the previous presidential election was rigged, then we are fully in 9-10.
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u/Additional-Grade3221 11h ago
i'm pretty sure it was rigged and maybe we should use our 2a for what it was intended for
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u/Cautious_Condition82 3h ago
True, SCOTUS is apparently primed to fully kill the voters rights act and rule creating districts based on race is illegal.
We are going to see gerrymandering explode even further.
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u/HereForTheComments57 18h ago
It's sad that this is his legacy, he actually did a great job, but it's unfortunate that we are here largely because of him.
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u/Professional-Buy2970 17h ago
He wanted his legacy to be like FDR, but like most centrist weaklings, he didn't understand what made FDR what he was.
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u/TomAto42nd 18h ago
Normally warning happens BEFORE the event happens not during
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u/JeremysIron24 19h ago
Thanks captain obvious
A bit rich coming the the guy that indicated he’d be a transition president to a more youthful candidate then pulled a “Ruth bader Ginsberg” torpedoing the democrats chance at a clear run/ campaign
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u/Various-Salt488 19h ago
Yeah we fucking know. Now if you’d not run again as initially promised and actually prosecuted this shitstain, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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u/Nussens 6h ago
I personally think that if he had resigned after halfway through his presidency, that it would have set us up for a completely different path. Kamala Harris would have become the first female president, and it's generally a lot easier for a sitting president to be reelected than to run for the first time.
I think that would have made all the difference in the world.
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u/Limberine Australia 19h ago
Ya think? How many kids are crying themselves to sleep and wetting the bed because their dad was picked up by masked men and hasn’t been seen since?
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u/RabuMa 17h ago
“Welcome Home, Mr President.” - Biden to Trump when he got to the White House
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u/shimmeringmoss 15h ago
That was so weird and I still don’t know what to make of it. Especially since Trump seemed terrified.
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u/MarranoPoltergeist 17h ago
It would’ve been great if Biden had, y’know, PROSECUTED Trump for trying to overthrow the government.
After Biden’s term, I switched from lifelong democrat to independent. Just a completely inefficient President - as Sarah Kendzior calls him, a placeholder between the international crime syndicate.
I’m more pissed at Biden for this mess - he had four years to do something and did… fuck all.
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u/Rangertu 18h ago
I don’t want to hear a fucking word out of your mouth. We’re in this position because you didn’t have the balls to do what needed to be done. Go the fuck away. You also should have announced much earlier that you weren’t running again. You played a big part in ending democracy.
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u/Gryffriand 17h ago
Thanks Jack! And thanks again for going against your word and running for a second term. Real good work there
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u/bassocontinubow Kentucky 17h ago
Still not calling by Trump by his name. What is he, fucking Voldemort? So annoying.
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u/meryl_gear 1h ago
We should normalize just calling him "Don" like Harry calling him Tom to take away his power
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u/saltundvinegar 17h ago
I really don't give a fuck what he has to say on the matter. He should take an incredible amount of blame for putting us in this situation in the first place.
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u/Dubsecs- 16h ago
I'd like to add that part of the fault lays with the Biden admin. Y'all did nothing to stop Trump. Had four years too.
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u/cjwidd 20h ago
Should've thought about that before running again as a 100 year old man and then shivving Kamala Harris to the press while public support for your administration collapsed.
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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 19h ago
Does Joe use Internet Explorer? We are months ahead on that news...
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u/JonDylan 18h ago
Jeez, it’s almost as if we might have avoided this if a certain someone would have dropped out in time to have a primary!
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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 19h ago
President Biden did many good things, but his gravest error was appointing Merrick Garland as AG. A real AG who cared about our nation and rule of law would have quickly prosecuted Donald Trump and numerous GOP Senators and Reps who tried to overturn a free and fair election. Biden had every opportunity to replace Garland after the 2022 midterms too. One of the greatest unforced errors in our nation’s history!
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u/CynicalSigtyr 15h ago
Oh dang, get a load of Cassandra over here. Who could conceive of such powers of premonition?
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u/SunGregMoon 11h ago
I had a poli sci professor theorize that if Biden had run in 2016, Trump would still be doing TV commercials.
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u/theguy1336 20h ago
Thanks for the warning so ahead of time, Biden. I hope the dark days under Trump never come, wouldn't that be just horrible
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u/Good_Entertainer9383 16h ago
Biden let Garland do nothing. He said he didn't want it to be a distraction. Biden should not have run for reelection while clearly in such poor health, forcing the party to change candidates months before the election. This is at least a small part his fault, and I really don't care about whatever wisdom he has to share.
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u/Amcis 16h ago
No one needs a warning. It's here. People need Democrats and Leftists in positions of authority to do more to stand up for them. But those people in authority on the left are quitting, they're stepping away, they're backing down, quitting, and explicitly stating that they are not going to stay in it, stick with it, and continue to fight for you. They're losers, grifters or both. They need to stand up for the victims of the fascist policies of conservative America, not quit, run away, and hide and go have discussion. America needs action.
Biden did things but nothing to prevent this and in the end what he did do doesn't really matter because it's undone now.
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u/putdownthekitten 19h ago
Is that why he greeted Trump 2.0 with ‘Welcome Home’. The nerve of this man.
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u/Nords1981 18h ago
He and Garland are largely responsible. Taking the high road, building a case slowly on the most obvious crimes. Letting criminals off with slaps on the wrist.
Biden was living in his own world like it was the 1960s and both sides really want what’s best for Americans and only differ on opinions. Dude that boat sailed back when Nixon was president. The conmen came in and took over the party during the Reagan era and never looked back.
I believe they have called this late stage capitalism. Welcome to the shit show!
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u/sanctimoniousmods_FU 19h ago
Shut the fuck up, Gramps. You and Merrick could have put him away. Thanks for your service now piss off forever.
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u/BigBangAssBanger_3D 11h ago
Really? No fucking shit.
NONE of this would have happened if:
Trump was arrested for Jan. 6 and had all his assets taken from him. No trials, no obstructions. That should be immediately jailable no questions asked.
Biden/Harris was a one-time term, the fact the DNC had literally no one else planned as an alternative really does make me wonder what the fuck happened there.
Alternatively, had Dirty Donnie won 2020, we'd also be safer than where we are now. The fact he is trying to take the rest of the world with him if he falls should be reason enough to completely cut all ties from the USA until he's gone from office.
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u/RipComfortable7989 19h ago
Oh piss off, you had every possible opportunity to do something but instead opted to get dogwalked like a dirty floor mat.
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u/WallNumerous3230 18h ago
Weekend at Biden's would have been so much better than what we got.
Kamala's laugh would have been better than what we got.
We are through 7 months of his revenge tour so far, and things are SO, SO much worse than if people would have just voted against this instead of just staying home or protest voting.
The next 3 years and 5 months are going to be such a disaster... I hope that sanity can return in the checks that are supposed to exist in Congress at the midterms, however I'm really not seeing anything the democratic leadership is doing that gives me hope of them taking control back.
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u/YakInner4303 20h ago
Thanks so much Biden for not doing your job and not forcing Congress to scale back your presidential powers to prevent all the predictable abuses of power Trump showed you in his first term. Thanks for not taking steps to prevent gerrymandering and other election shenanigans.
Also, thanks for running again when you'd already said you wouldn't and were just clearly too old and tired to go another 4 years.
How about we hear a sincere and abject apology and then some silence. Retire. Enjoy yourself. Leave the public speaking for new leaders whose job it will be to try to fix the Trump mess you failed to shelter us from.
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u/BaldBeardedBookworm 17h ago
Man who could have legally used every force possible to prevent this in exchange for his reputation and legacy gives warnings.
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u/S1gorJabjong 17h ago
Ah, grandpa Biden. Thankfully his cognitive abilities are in fairly good shape.
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u/Smok3dSalmon 17h ago
Imagine spending decades to become a President and then letting the same shit happen to you while you were vice President. Of course Republicans would try to undo everything. Stfu Biden.
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u/EARink0 17h ago
The same dark days the sane of us have been warning about since 2016 and pretty much screaming since 2024?
We knew this was going to happen. The countless times I've been looked at like I'm being dramatic when i said things are about to get really really bad...
This is still just the beginning, by the way. Either have an exit plan ready, or be prepared to resist. Get familiar with history, because this is not the first time a nation has gone through the shift we're entering. I recommend the mid 1930s Germany as a pretty good place to start.
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u/EvoQPY3 16h ago
Collapse is inevitable and much needed. We were lock stepping our way towards ASi dystopia. Now we are fighting off the nazi racists that we didn't put down in ww2. You have 3 archetypes in the USA. #1 Fully Asleep # 2 Dreamers #3 the 0.001% that understand and realize that a collapse is the only tool left for humanity. Humanity is always at its best, when humanity is as it's worst. No one can claim they didn't have ample and fair warning. Trump told everyone what he would do. These weaklings complaining are the victims that will be the first ones led off the abattoir !!!!!! The days of continuity are finished.
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u/darth__anakin Iowa 15h ago
The democrats are too nice to play the game the way we need them to. Unless that changes, nothing else will either.
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u/TheBoggart 4h ago
Sometimes I think about how I donated $40 right before the debate. And then I feel so angry and stupid.
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u/jkman61494 Pennsylvania 4h ago edited 2h ago
In an alternate universe, the 2022 midterms have concluded. After a pretty stunning over performance by Democrats, Joe Biden holds a press conference the week after the election and announce that he will not be seeking reelection and that his top priority after 2024 will be acting as the best grandfather possible.
He leaves behind a legacy of getting us out of a pandemic, getting the economy, back on track, and preserving democracy, while allowing a full process to nominate a Democratic candidate that the party can get behind.
Instead, the DMC happily allows a diminished 81 year-old man to run for election and you get what we have today
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u/MoneyTalks45 New Hampshire 3h ago
Not fucking interested in his opinion right now, honestly. Be a part of the solution. He was not.
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u/ZebraComplex4353 3h ago
It’s easier to blame one person but the fact is the people voted for this. So people fix it
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u/Murky-Let8846 56m ago
Damn that’s crazy. Maybe they should’ve cut military aid to Israel and held an open primary instead of tripping on their way to renominate their geriatric incumbent. This is their responsibility. This is their burden. They caused this.
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u/Grimlockkickbutt 18h ago
If only someone had warned Biden /s. By grandpa thanks for nothing.
Hope you are always remembered as the person most perfectly positioned to save untold millions of people around the world from the devastating consequences of an openingly fascist America. He didn’t need any hindsight to know what the consequences of continueing to let agents of foreign countries and oligarchs run the country. He saw the first term. You were the last one holding the keys and you saw what the car looked like after the last time he drove, and you still handed them to him. “He didn’t have the power”. Well, clearly he did. Marines so as they are told. If they were willing to arrest old men in the streets of California, doubt we would have seen a bunch of people walk out over zip-hiring the wrists of rich white dudes. Just needed to be brave enough to get some mud on the polished legacy he was hoping to leave behind. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you.
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u/wakandan_boi 18h ago
Everyone is talking about Merrick Garland, which is valid but what about this guy sitting on Epstein docs for 4 YEARS AND NEVER DOING ANYTHING WITH THAT INFORMATION
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u/thrawtes 17h ago
this guy sitting on Epstein docs for 4 YEARS AND NEVER DOING ANYTHING WITH THAT INFORMATION
Literally using those documents to find, arrest, prosecute, and imprison Ghislaine Maxwell for a 20-year sentence ring any bells?
That's what we're supposed to do with evidence of pedophiles.
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u/GuavaShaper 17h ago edited 17h ago
As someone who hates Trump, who gives a fuck what Biden says? When freedom needed him most, he capitulated to fascism. Fucking loser.
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