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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.

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fuck off with this revisionist history bullshit. Maybe if Biden had done the right thing and been a one-term president, and the DNC ran a real primary to get a candidate that could beat Trump in 2024, then he could go down in history as a good man.

Instead, we should remember him as he was: a vain, egotistical coward. He was too worried about appearances to pursue justice against Trump, too egotistical to realize he was unpopular and stood no chance against Trump, and now he pardons his entire family and flees. Rest in fucking piss Brandon. Let him be remembered as the man who watched his country fall to fascism and did nothing.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

100%

His major effort was to waggle a finger in admonishment and implore someone to do something. As though the fucking PRESIDENT OF THE USA was someone else.

Biden's legacy: the emptiest of empty suits.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Biden's Legacy: Fucked around too much in the center and now we all get to find out.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 6 days ago

Center? You mean right?

[–] trilobyte81@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Biden's legacy is releasing the judge who sold kids, and building more roads for the homeless to sleep on

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Biden's legacy: being a competent administrator put in a role that required principles and decisive leadership.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 11 points 6 days ago

Rescuing? By obscuring the cases by ordering us to stop recording them?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Knowingly armed and funded a highly, vividly publicized genocide.

Not mentioned, at all.

"United States of Amnesia", indeed.

Oh and the points they close on?

The good parts? Of his 'legacy?'

Yeah, one of them was just obliterated on day one.

Lower prescription drug prices? Poof! All gone.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago

I think we all know the real legacy of genocide joe.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 106 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Biden’s legacy: Merrick Garland’s DOJ that watched justice wither on the vine

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It's because "they" win regardless. Was any of the Democratic leaders or wealthy donors lives worse off today than yesterday? Nope. They still have their ivory towers and the cake crumbs they let fall down to show they are the lessor evil is prof of their actual laissez-faire approach to our well-being.

Biden and Garland didn't just watch. They stood by (for decades not just the last 4 years) and watched conservatism and neoliberalism take a blowtorch to Justices and democracy. But at least they watched with a BLM and pride pen on their $10,000 suits...

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 76 points 1 week ago

Biden's legacy: Rescuing America from a criminal, doing absolutely nothing about it, and being replaced by that exact same criminal

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This led many voters to doubt his capability despite his achievements, forcing him to withdraw from the 2024 race.

Nope, factually incorrect. Nancy Pelosi of all people forced him to withdraw by saying she would leak the details of how terrible his internal polling data was.

He knew he could only lose but still refused to step aside.

[–] PillowFort@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I do not read the daily mail, no.

I don't remember where I first saw it, but searching "pelosi forces biden out" on DDG returned articles from NBC, MSN, News.com.au, NY Times, among others.

[–] PillowFort@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 29 points 1 week ago

IMO his legacy is "yet another politician who merely craved power to no end and didn't know when to let go of it willingly."

He did okay with America's economy. He wasn't Donald Trump. Those are his main positives, and to be fair they're pretty decent ones. But turns out his negatives were big enough that people became interested in having Donald Trump back, which is a pretty damning indictment.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

The Pandemic is still here. All he did was literally what trump wanted to do. Pretend like its gone. No osha guidelines for clean air and co2 level requirements. No upgrades to HVACs and air purifiers in schools, grocery stores, or government buildings.

Millions of Americans getting long covid every year. Millions of Palestinians displaced and getting killed. Did nothing to get the tech oligarchs to lose power or their monopolies. Didn’t use his new presidential immunity to stop a fascist wannabe dictator from taking power. Didn’t even come out to protect americans first amendment by protecting tiktok and gave that win to Trump who is the reason it got banned in the first place. Didn’t push to legalize marijuana. Didnt do shit for universal healthcare. Fuck Biden.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The pandemic is still here?

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

1.8% of all deaths in the US today are due to COVID-19. And we're not even at a seasonal peak.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Just a day ago I would have said it was a bad thing, but ya know after being directly targeted by the government of my own country for being Trans and seeing Musk give a Nazi Salute....

I'm kind of okay with there being this death plague in the background....

I simply see no reason to continue valuing human life, that's not edge talking, that's despair.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I agree with most of your litany, but...

Didn’t even come out to protect americans first amendment by protecting tiktok

Shutting down foreign influence operations and propaganda outlets has nothing to do with the first amendment, any more than prosecuting a slander case does.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Multiple politicians have explicitly come out and said it was because they couldn't control the images of genocide coming out of Israel, and it was turning people against Israel.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago

They would’ve shutdown Facebook if that’s what they were doing. Its the only platform that has been proven to be used for foreign influence to possibly change the outcome of the US election.

Or you know, pass data protection legislation and transparent algorithm legislation

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

He did some great things for our country. We'll never get perfect.

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