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Garland was the biggest mistake Biden made.
They’re exactly the same. Biden didn’t act to maintain the status quo; same deal with Garland. You don’t play nice with shitty people, like Trump. You need to be more ruthless. The world watched Jan. 6th happened and the people put in power did nothing to nip it in the bud. Now, we’ve got a second Trump term and it’s all because of inaction because people were scared to ruffle feathers. Those mf’ers deserved to be Randy Johnson’ed
To this point- Biden is still the president for 62 more days. Trump has shown what he plans to do with power, and what is Biden doing? The headlines from today were going to the rainforest and awarding CHIPS act money. Not rallying the resistance or doing anything to meaningfully protect us. It’s hard to imagine Biden doing it, but I could see a more energetic and youthful leader actually trying to be a speed bump for Trump. What a shame we’re here.
He authorized Ukraine to use US missiles to strike inside Russia. Waited too long, but at least he did it. UK has followed suit. So remember, just because the media likes to show the things like going to the rainforest because they have video of it, doesn't mean he's not still doing stuff.
I've read that they've been doing a lot since well before the election to protect or shore up what things they can to make it harder for Trump to do some of his dictator stuff. Some things they've worked on since he first took office. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot that Biden can do on his own that Trump can't just turn around and undo. But they're trying to make it as difficult for him as they can bureaucratically.
As far as rallying a resistance, nope, he's apparently not willing or able to do anything like that. He greeted Trump like everything was normal, which I found pretty irritating. It's up to the people. I hope we can find someone charismatic to lead a movement. Charisma seems to be the most important or maybe even the only thing that matters these days.
But he did his best, and that's all that matters at the end of the day. 🙄 God was I livid when he fucking said that.
Yeah, he went to the rrainforest so, uh, that's cool.
Definitely not a playing fiddle while Rome burns kind of thing.
Yeah, Biden was the exact wrong president for this era.
The US and indeed the world needed someone bold to take decisive and transformative action to right the ship.
Instead we got an ancient creature of the establishment rearranging the deck chairs and yelling at people to shut up about the icebergs.
I can think of a few that are bigger. But it's up there.