'One of the great tragedies of American politics': Biden ends 5 decades in public life
Biden leaves behind a complicated legacy of legislative wins and economic gains, along with a trail of fractured relationships and grievances within his own party.
It's not like this is the story of a great man who through no fault of his own ends up with a tarnished reputation. He was never all that good and his tarnished reputation is a direct result of his own choices and actions.
many of us hated him way back to when Obama picked him as a VP choice. Terrible, terrible idea.
Like I can't even think of the great positive accomplishment that would be tarnished by the end of his presidency. As a comparison, Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually did some important and positive things before her selfishness destroyed her legacy. What was Biden's greatest hit? Maybe being slightly less anti-gay than the conservative wing of the Democratic party during Obama's term? Nothing during his presidency seems to rise to the level of a historic accomplishment. His legislative career was mostly bad.
Wasn’t his entire appeal to be the white middle class appealing conservative type who would ensure the more ”progressive” Obama didn’t get out of hand.
At least Obama ignored him when something important needed to be done.
Tragedy because it's ending? Or tragedy because it's JUST NOW ending?
"“The Joe Biden story is one of the great tragedies of American politics. I really mean that. He should be having a glorious, well deserved, highly acclaimed retirement. And he’s not,” veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville said"
Its a bigger tragedy that James Carville still gets quoted in the last 20 years. He should be selling used cars in New Jersey.
Yeah, no. Biden was a Reagan Democrat, opposed to school integration and especially busing, when he came in. He was one of the main authors of the Patriot Act. He's long pushed the lie that Social Security has an irreparable funding crisis (try lifting the cap, genius), he's never been worth a shit at resisting intrusive spying by tech companies, and his foreign policy might as well be refried Kissinger war crimes. And his appointees? Garland, worse than useless. Blinken, an empty suit. He couldn't be bothered to remove that saboteur DeJoy from the Post Office. At least the FCC Commissioner was all right.
But I'd still prefer a blithering mediocrity to the cancer that is Trump.
yep. Biden has been a drag on the party for decades. Heres some light reading for the curious.
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/biden-debt-ceiling-harry-reid-mitch-mcconnell/
https://jacobin.com/2020/02/joe-biden-history-republicans-tax-cuts-barack-obama-yesterdays-man
Carville himself is likely massively responsible for the Dems rat fucking Bernie and putting us into the evil demented clown timeline.
Go find the videos of him being an absolutely out of touch entitled asshole when the topic of Dem staffers being freaked out and quitting over the Palestinian genocide comes up.
I hope he has a fucking stroke.
Yeah, Biden pushed through a lot of harmful legislation in his career.
Yup he was big on killing the advanced us nuclear power program during the clinton admin. Just because the republicans were pro nuclear. That did more damage to our carbon footprint than any good that came from the IRA.
The great tragedy was that he did it for 5 decades instead of retiring long, long ago.
I mean, he's tons better than the dipshit getting ready to replace him, but that doesn't put him anywhere near 'good'.
Let's not lower our standards just because of the orange contrast.
What standards? If you can’t get over the concept and f an ideal president, you’re going to be very disappointed the rest of your life. You should absolutely advocate your preferences and cast your best vote. However the reality is that all too often you need to vote against the worst candidate or compromise on the least bad.
Biden may not have been my ideal candidate either but it was an easy choice to vote for him over the other guy and I do believe he did better than most here give home credit for
Tragedy? He wanted to be president all his life and he got there.
He funded a genocide. I think that was tragic.
Kinda seems like he got everything he ever wanted.
Best part about his presidency was him getting out of the way and letting Bernie and Warren do pro labor and consumer things.
This is another reason why this ancient fossils shouldn't be allowed to wait this long to retire. If he had retired from office about a decade ago ... people would have remembered him for a lot better things. The fact he stuck around this long will mean that everyone just remembers this fossil that drove the bus off a cliff and everyone wondered why they ever let him take the wheel.
"Mommy, daddy, what were the 2020s like?"
Where are all the centrists who insist that Biden is the most progressive president who ever drew breath?
I'm not a centrist but he's absolutely been the most progressive president in my lifetime in terms of policy.
are you 8 years old ? otherwise a shameless genocider who sold american working class to corpos is likely the worst scammer to be in white house after trump
Here. He ran as a centrist, acted as a centrist, and pursued the most progressive policies of any president in my life, except maybe Carter
"Pursued" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
The Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest thing Biden got done. Centrists expect everyone to act like it's the New Deal and the Great Society rolled into one. That ain't holding water. We saw what we lost with BBB.
here.
Where are all the progressive centrists? I gotta see that
Look for them in the Contradiction in Terms section.
There aren't any. But there is no shortage of centrists who want progressives to be happy with what makes centrists happy. They'll outright lie and say that Biden is progressive.
I can't believe he'd throw away his legacy of decades of destroying black people's lives 😔
Off to the great ice cream cone in the sky.
Maybe you'll get to have a few licks before you realize you're surrounded in heaven by the Palestinian children you could have saved, before plummeting to hell.
