Biden is no joke, will vote for him again [Official Commemoration Thread]

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one of the better Biden post mortems that I've seen

The Sad Tale of Moderate Joe Biden
He blew it.

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-sad-tale-of-moderate-joe-biden

 

lol. best President EVAH

 

The NY Times has woken up and is starting to investigate

How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
President Biden’s closest family members and advisers recognized his physical frailty to a greater degree than they have publicly acknowledged and worked together to manage his decline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/biden-age.html?smid=url-share

excerpt:

The president’s acknowledgment has put a new spotlight on his family and inner circle, all of whom dismissed concerns from voters and Mr. Biden’s own party that he was too old for the job. And yet they recognized his physical frailty to a greater degree than they have publicly acknowledged. Then they cooperated, according to interviews with more than two dozen aides, allies, lawmakers and donors, to manage his decline.
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pretty honest assessment

Biden's Legacy: He Didn't Build That
After four years, the president leaves behind a long, expensive record of non-accomplishment.

https://reason.com/2025/01/16/bidens-legacy-he-didnt-build-that/

excerpt:

Over the last four years, President Biden supported the investment of billions of dollars of taxpayer money in infrastructure—and, in particular, high-tech green energy infrastructure such as high-speed rail, rural broadband, and electric vehicle charging stations.

And what happened was: He didn’t build that.

The money was authorized, but the projects didn’t come to completion. As Politico reported last month in an overview of Biden’s signature green energy infrastructure projects, “a $42 billion expansion of broadband internet service has yet to connect a single household. Bureaucratic haggling, equipment shortages and logistical challenges mean a $7.5 billion effort to install electric vehicle chargers from coast to coast has so far yielded just 47 stations in 15 states.” According to Politico, Congress authorized more than $1 trillion in spending for Biden’s major climate, clean energy, and infrastructure programs, but more than half of it “has yet to be obligated or is not yet available for agencies to spend.” Many of the big projects that received either subsidies or tax breaks under Biden are still essentially imaginary, and some may not happen at all, depending on what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress choose to pursue.

Even projects that Biden himself is personally invested in haven’t paid off: Biden has long subscribed to a romantic fantasy of passenger rail, and his administration sent more than $3 billion to further fund California’s long-delayed high-speed rail system. The rail project was supposed to connect Los Angeles with San Francisco, but it’s currently years behind schedule and $100 billion over budget—and is now struggling to complete a much shorter, much less useful line between Merced and Bakersville, which are not exactly global economic hubs. There is currently no completion date, or really any actionable plan at all, to actually connect L.A. and San Francisco. Biden threw billions at a worthless project, and America got nothing for it.

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The contrast with the private sector is revealing. The most notable train project in the United States during Biden’s tenure wasn’t California’s doomed high-speed rail, or some Amtrak upgrade that justified the billions this administration sent their way, but the Brightline in Florida. For sheer wow factor, the biggest engineering project of the Biden tenure was almost certainly SpaceX’s reusable rocket catch. Yes, SpaceX has significant business with the government, but it’s fundamentally a private enterprise, operating with private goals and direction. America can still build big things. But Biden’s top-down, bureaucratic approach has failed to do so.

Libertarians and small-government types might respond that it's good that Biden didn't get much done, and that government has no business involved in any of these projects. But even if some of the funding eventually gets clawed back, Biden presided over an enormously expensive amount of nothing.

And what the myriad project failures show is that Biden failed on his own terms. At times, he has seemed to recognize that his presidency has borne little fruit, and not just in private griping reported by the press. In his farewell address to the nation this week, he promised that the best was yet to come, if only Americans have patience: "It will take time to feel the full impact of all we've done together," he said. "But the seeds are planted, and they'll grow, and they'll bloom for decades to come."

Biden, in other words, wants to take credit for anything good that happens after he leaves office. Given the unimpressive track record of Biden's policies so far, it's worth being skeptical about whether there will be much of a bloom. But even supposing that all those supposed seeds eventually bear fruit, that still means that Biden himself didn't finish the job. Somebody else will have made that happen.
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Biden ends term in ‘dark’ mood, still stewing over being replaced on Dem ticket: report

https://nypost.com/2025/01/20/us-ne...ing-over-being-replaced-on-dem-ticket-report/

excerpt:

President Biden still hasn’t gotten over being pushed out of the 2024 presidential race and spent his final hours in the White House mired in a foul mood, according to a report.

Biden has been in a “dark space,” having grown “embittered” by the series of circumstances that led to him being replaced as the party nominee by Vice President Kamala Harris, said CNN senior White House correspondent MJ Lee on Monday, according to Mediaite.

“All of our reporting, talking to sources in recent days and weeks, really suggests that the president is in a bit of a dark space when it comes to just his headspace in these very final days,” Lee told CNN’s Jake Tapper as inauguration ceremonies for President Trump were getting under way in Washington.
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Scott Jennings Illuminates His Colleagues: Trump IS Biden’s Legacy
Will the Democrats ever succeed in bringing Trump down? Or will they end up dumbfounded, resembling Wile E. Coyote as he once again slams into a wall, his flattened body sticking there for a moment, before sliding to the ground?

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/scott-jennings-illuminates-his-colleagues-trump-is-bidens-legacy/

excerpt:

In the waning hours of President Joe Biden’s presidency, CNN’s lone conservative voice, Scott Jennings, joined his colleagues in a spirited debate over Biden’s legacy. Jennings argued that much of Biden’s legacy “is going to be bookended by the fact that he and [former President Barack] Obama gave us [President-elect] Trump the first time and that he gave us Trump 2.0, stronger than ever.”

In short, Trump IS Biden’s legacy.
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