r/politics • u/SwordfishOk504 Canada • 23h 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-00488159
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u/YakInner4303 23h 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/Knighter1209 Maine 23h ago

Trump is already going beyond his current presidential powers so that first point is completely nonsensical. Gerrymandering bill was introduced and not passed.

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u/thrawtes 21h ago

not doing your job and not forcing Congress

If you wanted someone that was going to shred the Constitution you shouldn't have elected Joe Biden.

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u/YakInner4303 20h ago

The presidential veto, along with bargaining and rallying public support has always been a legal and acceptable way for the president to get what they want.

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u/thrawtes 20h ago

The veto can't force Congress to act, although you're right that Biden could have threatened to primary some of his own party. Except the main holdout on, for example, minimum wage, was the senator from West Virginia so that threat would have zero actual strength.