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.
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.
As the greater evil sieg heils into the White House. Sure showed those Dems. I’m sure that the victims of genocide will be comforted that replacing the people who only pretended to care about them with people who enthusiastically support their suffering was intended to teach the pretenders a lesson. At least their future is cleansed of all pretense, and they’ll have company now.
The more I see people defending the subject, the more I think it’s low key a zionist dog whistle. They didn’t pretend to care, they actively enabled the genocide.
In any case, it’s not up to the voters to ignore every terrible thing done by the dems. If a political party alienated it’s own base willingly, the fault lies on the party. They should have done better, and now that it’s over, they should be told so.
The Republicans are never going to get better. The dems will always be the lesser evil and being just a slight bit less evil just doesn’t cut it.
This has some real “it’s not the oil companies fault, it’s the fault of the consumer for driving cars and not recycling” vibes. You really think the way forward is for us to just ignore the genocide and not for the party itself to stop pushing it?
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.
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.