The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

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    1 day ago

    We have to scare them into compliance and that’s not going to be easy with kegsbreth trying to get AI mass surveillance and autonomous policing of the population plus aren’t they bringing in around 5k “white” South Africans a month I guarantee you they will be putting them in ice for their little state sponsored domestic terrorism on the polls campaign. Plus they are building 55 billion dollars worth of concentration camps possibly with incinerators compliments of core civic. DHS posted that they want to remove 100 million people and Miller has openly stated he thinks the US should only have 100 million people who all look like him…I don’t know where he’s going to find 100 million nasfaratus though

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      3 hours ago

      I’m glad you’re facing the horror, sober to our situation, but

      We have to scare them into compliance

      No.

      Opposaming, reaffirming their poison practice, becoming them, is not a wise way.

      Better bringing them to their better senses [capable of creative, critical, considerate cognition (the fore-brain stuff)], than to keep them locked in their limbic social-dominance mode.

      Also, the situation’s even worse than you depict. The Georgia Guidestones said no more than 500,000,000 people on earth… and they do not mean to send 95% of us into space… they plan to give themselves far greater headroom (… I have heard some even plan to reduce the human population down all the way to 30,000), by committing anthrocide. … And for their fraudulent spurious circular reasoning too. No cull necessary. Release the emancipatory technologies and we can increase the carrying capacity of Earth to over 300,000,000,000,000 (yes, 300 trillion). Not saying we should. Just saying, with proper resource management, we have so much headroom. And much overlap in technologies that allow construction of vast forest arcologyscapes as also avail all space to us.

      As I’m typing this, I’m listening to a podcast that’s touching on the Glyphosate issue, reminding me of the broader overarching “Codex Alimentarius” issue… the plan to own all life on earth, by a protection racket offer we cannot refuse. Reminding me it’s not just the barrel of anthrocide we’re staring down, but of ecocide and omnicide too.

      Scary stuff. I can see how that may drive some to limbic reflex, to what they’re familiar with from experience, to reach for the only tool in the toolbox, the terrorism hammer, “scare them into compliance”. But that leaves us recreating the problem a new, having not learned our way out of that opposaming feedback loop trap. There are other ways. “Educate yourself so you may educate others” and “We are psychenauts and we are not afraid” spring to mind. :)