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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          Oh, well ill remind you that Merrick garland, appointed by Biden, did absolutely jack shit despite there being sufficient evidence. The administration was a failure and the only reason we had him and others forced upon us was because of cucks like you.

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            Oh fuck off. Merrick Garland sucked, but you can hardly blame Biden for that when all he did was appoint him and then he was hands-off with the DOJ affairs as any president should be.

            How was he supposed to know ahead of time that the man Obama nominated for the Supreme Court, who was stalled indefinitely by a Republican House majority, would slow-walk the most important case in 21st century US history?

            Appointing Jack Smith as Special Counsel was the right move, but Smith didn’t have enough time to bring the case to fruition with the Supreme Court putting it on hold until after the election.

            the only reason we had him and others forced upon us was because of cucks like you.

            Oh fuck off. It was either him or trump in 2020. Lemme guess, you were one of the ones chanting “stop the steal” and storming the capital on J6?

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                Sure, just ignore the whole part where I said:

                How was he supposed to know ahead of time that the man Obama nominated for the Supreme Court, who was stalled indefinitely by a Republican House majority, would slow-walk the most important case in 21st century US history?

                Unless you believe presidents can know the future, your only point is idiotic.

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                  Wow, I guess ignorance is bliss. Well I give a shit that you’re a corporate centrist cuck and is part of the reason we have Trump. Good job champ, but atleast you didnt stoop to trumps level right? You are the same person that will be thank Trump while liv8ng with a boot on their neck lol

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                    Not even close. Literally my entire position is based on the fundamental premise of opposition to trump. You’re the one who seems more deadset on tearing apart his opponents than you are on actually focusing your ire on him.

                    Is cuck the only insult you know?

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                I don’t give a shit what you are. You clearly don’t know what a cuck is, and you apparently would have rather had trump than biden in 2020, so you’re still a fucking idiot