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[–] MetalMachine 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah he can eat shit. A genocidal war criminal both at home and abroad.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago

Fuck off, Joe. Nobody wants to listen to you anymore. Thanks again for giving us Trump 2.0 you senile, vain, self-centered piece of shit.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 5 hours ago

You had the SCOTUS authorization (presidents can't do crimes if it's "party of their duties") to arrest Trump and make him go away, but instead we now live in the Fascist States of America. The GOP are domestic terrorists, but her, at least you can die sun knowing you played by the rules. Go to hell old man.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 17 points 7 hours ago

The genocide that he worked hard to not only fund but to also shield from both domestic dissent and international intervention seems to still be going strong. So Biden's work wasn't all for naught.

[–] ludicolo@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Holy fuck the ass cancer cannot take this guy from the earth quick enough.

Maybe you should have worked harder. idiot. Shit got busted overnight so that work was, as we in the biz say, a shit job. Never forget the Democrats witheld a primary because this corpse was their guy. Never forget when this corpse was lugged out of the race Kamala did diddly squat to distance herself from the corpse's policies. Hell she even adopted some of her opponent's policies (no tax on tips anyone?). Don't ever forget how bernie and aoc lied as well telling us this corpse was cognizant to make a ceasfire, when no talks lf that were happening at all. What about the new reports of the biden administration down playing the east palestine ohio train chemical crash? That happened like soon after the rail strikes got crushed by none other than the corpse himself. Remember though he was the most pro union corpse the oval office has seen!

FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING I SAID, REMEMBER THE CRUMBS HE GAVE YOU. THOSE TASTY, TASTY CRUMBS.

May he have a painful death.

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Meanwhile Obama is windsurfing with billionaires with a big shit eating grin.

People literally voted for this, its amazing.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 63 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

no you didn't, dumbass. we knew this was coming and you did nothing to prevent it.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Yep he should have had trump and all these ilk in jail, but nope.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 50 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Why didn't you aggressively pursue the criminal terrorist known as Taco when you could do something about it?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He should have had all those traitors rounded up on Day One, and held at Guantanamo for their roles on Jan 6, and as National Security threats in general.

Instead, he appointed the weakest Republican in existence as AG, who dithered and slow-walked the investigation, and gave the MAGA traitors a 2 year head start on the election.

The Democrats are as responsible and complicit in the MAGA rise to power as the Republicans themselves.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

" B-b-but we don't want the arrests to appear politically motivated. That could damage trust in our democracy "

Cowards, every one.

[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 11 hours ago

should've retired a year in

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 153 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Shut the fuck up, Biden. When the Supreme Court made a president a king, you had the chance to remove ALL of these traitors as an official presidential action and you still chose the high road.

So just enjoy your dementia in peace.

[–] schema@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

Darth Brendon entering the SC building with a shotgun as an official act to showcase how stupid that SC decision was would have been the best timeline.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 167 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

You failed to do the one thing that mattered, Biden, which was replace Garland and make sure that someone actually put Trump's ass behind bars as well as his enablers like Musk, Bannon, Miller, and so on. (Seriously, how was the stuff in Project 2025 not enough to hit people with fucking conspiracy, racketeering and sedition charges?) Instead you slow walked this shit and it's literally entirely your own fucking fault that we're in this mess. Especially your unwillingness to stick with your original promise of being a one-term President and allowing the Democrats to have an actual primary, instead once again snatching actual choice out of the hands of the people and anointing a new candidate instead. How many fucking times has that failed now, dipshit?

I got zero sympathy for this blithering bitching idiot. Go cry about your legacy more, chucklefuck. We're facing out of control fascism because you were a pussy and didn't want to "lOoK PoLiTiCaL."

[–] blah3166@piefed.social 6 points 9 hours ago

how was the stuff in Project 2025 not enough to hit people with fucking conspiracy, racketeering and sedition charges

Genuine question— Conspiracy generally involves an agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act. The "unlawful act" being key, what unlawful act is there to charge someone with conspiracy regarding the policy changes in Project 2025?

On the other hand, once the SCOTUS basically made the President king so long as they did it in the interest of the country, Biden should have just put all of them in jail, but that's beside the point.

[–] Xulai@mander.xyz 72 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, this.

But wait, there’s more…

Enabling a genocide- something all the candidates were going to do anyway- is deeply unpopular.

Supporting Israel at the expense of US citizens isn’t okay under any circumstances or leader. It is time to end this farce; the only folks who don’t listen are the ones being paid not to.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It was especially stupid because he was dealing with Netanyahu, who clearly was making decisions to make Biden look bad and enable Trump. As if Trump and Netanyahu aren't exactly the fuck alike, both total criminals looking for power to avoid paying for their criminal activities.

So, on top of enabling a fucking genocide, it was also crassly politically fucking stupid to try to be wheeling and dealing with a guy who once again clearly supported Trump and would fuck Biden over to get Trump a win. Biden is a fucking a buffoon.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And to all the Democratic voters who still support Israel, remember this: Netanyahu wanted Trump to win. He wanted this for us.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 124 points 16 hours ago (10 children)

His presidency will be remembered not for what he did, which was mostly good, but for what he did not do. His legacy will be viewed similarly to Hoover's. Both were principled men who, when faced with a serious problem, could not find it in themselves to deal with it.

[–] MetalMachine 1 points 2 hours ago

"Mostly good"

commits genocide

Yeah, not sure how you put those two together chief

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 6 points 8 hours ago

principled men

Sadly one of Biden's principles was blindly supporting Israel no matter what they do, even through an ongoing genocide.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 hours ago

James Buchanan is the analogy I make, and we're likely going to have a similar level of strife following his presidency and the country looking different after the resulting strife

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

....maybe more like Neville Chamberlain's legacy.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Dear god, Hoover was a monster and a criminal. He is known in particular for how unprincipled he was. From casually violating human rights at a national scale to targeting civil rights leaders, to blackmail and terrorism, he established the playbook that modern totalitarians like Trump continue to abuse today.

Using Hoover and Biden in the same breath, let alone calling a monster like Hoover “principled” is beyond the pale.

Edit: Ignore this rant. I was thinking J Edgar Hoover, notorious leader of the BOI/FBI, not former president Herbert Hoover who was absolutely a forgettable milquetoast president like Biden. Though Biden didn’t murder and tear-gas our own unemployed veterans, so he does have that going for him.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was so confused until I got to the edit.

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[–] Forester@pawb.social 34 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)
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[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

He was the wrong man for the job

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

cc @KierStarmer

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