Summary
President Joe Biden leaves office with a legacy of leading the U.S. out of the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, clean energy, and rallying global support for Ukraine.
However, since live television’s rise more than half a century ago, the skills needed to run for president have diverged from those required to govern.
This led many voters to doubt his capability despite his achievements, forcing him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Meanwhile, voters have been less critical of Donald Trump’s age, overlooking unpopular policies like tariffs that hurt farmers and manufacturing.
Many Republicans and independent voters accepted Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election being stolen and justified the January 6 Capitol attack, enabling his return to office.
No good deed goes unpunished. Was he perfect? Of course not.
We aren’t supposed to point out that voters can often be stupid (insert Otto in A Fish Called Wanda screaming “don’t call me stupid”!!!), but…look, they had a tantrum over things like egg prices and a situation in Israel that is not likely to get any better under the convicted felon, and many stayed home, voted some useless “protest” vote, or outright voted for the orange dickhead, in order to “teach them a lesson”, or somesuch…
I’m sure that will be cold comfort.
You misspelled genocide as situation.
You know, the one that Steve Witkoff forced Israel to at least temporarily end with a single phone call, something Biden could have done at any time.
This is the same peace deal Hamas agreed to since February.
Biden’s so called “bear hug” strategy was just a way for him to justify a genocide he wanted.
They didn’t want to teach anyone a lesson, that was just a fig leaf. They wanted Trump to come in, persecute people and break things. The electoral mood was ugly, mean and bloodthirsty.
The fact that the “situation in Israel” was apparently something to be ignored by both parties doesn’t make ignoring it okay.
Hand waving away genocide just tells the democrats they can keep prioritizing everything except what voters actually want. They are to blame for this fiasco and no one else.
It is literally their job during elections to get votes. Instead, thinking they had a home run, they offered the status quo with a side of dead children to appease their sponsors. What a joke.
They didn’t handwave it away, they funded it loudly and proudly
And Trump will double down on it.
It was never about egg prices.
I think for some percentage of donvict’s marks it was. They are gonna be disappointed, I’ll bet.
I actually expect them to make some superficial law about some of these, like decreeing that eggs can’t be priced more than $4 a dozen or something. They’ll do nothing about the hard problems underlying high consumer prices, but they’ll grift out a fake “win.”
Not a priority, lots of democracy to dismantle, but maybe a few months before midterms?
Too much effort. He’ll just lie.