#Joe biden

[memingursa]

I think the funniest thing in the aftermath of the election, is that you had right wing shitheads like Charlie Kirk say “You know if the democrats wanted to win they would have ran on Bernie’s policies like it would have been impossible to counter, kamala ran as a republican so we, the republicans, won obviously?” and you still have libs on here use Bernie Bros as a slur in 2025 and blame leftists for the loss. Liberals are so physically incapable of learning lessons that dumbass college dropout right wing grifters look like professors in comparison

[bicokun]

True, but it is also as if the Mr. Incredible took the remote from Syndrome before he could turn on the weapon and decided had a great point because there were a lot of pro-Palestinian people in that city, and the rest of the family agreed with him except for Dash so they went ahead and turned it on themselves so that Buddy could swoop in and “save the day.”

usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'

[batboyblog]

I'm sorry, Mr. President

As the last full day of Joe Biden's Presidency draws to a close I'm dealing with a great deal of sadness.

I won't rehash it all, but Joe Biden was the most progressive, the best President of my lifetime, consistently delivering big wins that as a Democrat I never expected to see pass through Congress.

But we let him down, and in letting him down, let ourselves down. Four long years of Trump we were tired, we were tired of always being plugged in, always reacting always fighting back. For millions of us we wanted a return to a politics that could take the day off.

In our tiredness and naivete we assumed that sooner or later the truth would just win out. We reassured ourselves that public perception of the economy always lagged behind reality, that low unemployment, rising real wages, and cooling inflation would all mix together and sail Joe Biden to a second term. We were at peace around the world, unemployment hadn't been lower since the 1960s, we'd passed infrastructure a thing everyone had been talking about for 15 years.

We were tired, and we in our weakness looked for someone else to do the job. Surely the news media would report reality we thought, surely someone will....

We let him down, I let him down. I worked really hard to elect Kamala Harris President, I believe from the bottom of my soul she would have been very good at it. However my efforts.... I see now I should have put the level of effort I put into working to elect Harris I should have put in every day of Biden's Presidency.

We were the final girl in a horror movie, having killed the movie monster we drop our knife only to have Michael Myers sit back up. We thought the resistance was over, silly us, it was just the lull in the action.

Every day of Biden's Presidency false narratives about him "too old" "doesn't do anything" "what about student loan debt!" "strike breaker!" "genocide Joe" or the economy "look at the price of milk!" "eggs!" "the worst economy since the great depression!" etc

and for most of 4 years our push back was weak and worse we didn't push OUR message, the truth. Only when it was too late, and we kept looking for the law to save us from Trump, surely once he was indicted, once he was convicted! once.... no because there was no effective machine to push that message to people over and over and over again. There was a machine made up of so many people, boosted by TikTok and Twitter to push the lies about Joe Biden

but the damning truth is we let ourselves down, we got weary as the nice church ladies would always warn me, don't get weary now, we did, we got tired in the work and when you get tired, when you grow weary, you lose and we lost.

I'm really sorry to President Biden, Vice-President Harris and everyone else, I didn't do everything I could, I know I did in 2024 but I should have done more in 2021, 2022 and 2023, that is clear.

It'll be hard to find the energy I know and I also know my own efforts alone mean very little, but I will try, every day of the next long hard 4 years to fight, to not let the other side ever ever EVER again have all their own way.

[elierlick]

It's uncanny. Liberals will happily hand over the reins of power thinking their successors will play by the rules. But no institution is too big to fail, even the most powerful empire in human history.

[bonesashesglass]

Just deleted TikTok. That Trump saving TikTok notification was the most overt propaganda I’ve ever seen in my entire life and no way am I sticking around after that. Moving to Rednote is the right move for everyone over there.

[disasterhimbo]

[VD: a still photo of President Biden at a podium, looking down with his hands next to his mouth. The photo is set to blues-y harmonica music. End VD.]

Final announcement from president Joe Biden

[thequeenofsastiel]

I never much liked Biden, for many reasons, but honestly the fact that he's about to no longer be president fills me with a dread so profound I can barely handle it.

[wardsutton]

For today's Boston Globe, the cartoon I'd wished I'd never have to draw:

[senator-onahole]

i think we should put this on a vr headset and force joe to watch this over and over until he dies

this is literally my favorite video

[frightnightindustries]

DID TRUMP LEGIT STEAL THE ELECTION

[revoltinglesbians]

Minutes before leaving office President Joe Biden commuted the sentence, but did not fully pardon, American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been in federal custody since 1975 for the apparent killing of two FBI agents. Biden’s official statement on the decision is no longer available on the official White House website.

[gwydionmisha]

Oh yes. They had to use mostly graphics to brief Reagan as his dementia made it impossible to understand the foreign policy briefs or follow anything complex.

*I look meaningfully into the camera, then at Trump*

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

[chronicallyonlinehistorynerd]

The wonderful thing about America that I love so deeply is that we can fight for our vision of what that "more perfect union" means. It may feel harder than ever to do so, but that's exactly why we must. If you're waking up this morning frustrated and scared for the future, know that the fight for the America you dream of is not over.

[elierlick]

A scathing - but accurate - review from 8 years ago.

[gethighdropacidneverdie]

Joe Biden shares his last tweet as president of the United States.

[amilynh]

I have said before, and will say forever (until this changes...if it ever does): Joe Biden is the MOST progressive president of my lifetime (1970-??). He got more DONE, made more changes, and QUIETLY, without fanfare that could attract attention--of voters, campaigners, OR OPPONENTS (and he let the need to keep that last from seeing/hearing it override his political need and ego for the first two)--DID THINGS. He and his administration? They got shit done. And they will let that record quietly stand.

The Americans who "could not say they were better off than they were 4 years ago"? I'm betting a lot of those people either a) had quite a bit of privilege, b) weren't looking, or c) both.

And, with this post, I just realized why today has been filled with a sense of impending fucking doom.

So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.