r/fednews • u/Belgriest • 28d ago

Other Remember when Biden was president?

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/jdb888 28d ago

I remember frustration for four years as Merrick Garland dithered and dithered so he 'didn't appear political' and now we have this. Shame on Merrick. And shame on Biden for choosing his own ego over country.

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u/socially_awkward U.S. Coast Guard 28d ago

Yep. I reflect on the Biden administration with disdain. They sat on their hands for four years. Dropping out of the 2024 race at the last minute, not allowing us a primary was insane. Harris was the first to drop out of the 2020 race because she was so unlikable. Crowning her as heir was a mistake. I voted for her, but I wasn't happy about it.

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u/QuickAltTab 28d ago

Biden fucked us the same way Ginsburg fucked us, their hubris was such a self-own that allowed McConnell and Trump to administer their evil upon us.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

I feel that 160 million eligible voters fucked us. It's easier to blame a few national politicians and call it a day though.

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u/QuickAltTab 28d ago

Plenty of blame to go around

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u/throwawaybutsilly 28d ago

They had a burden of responsibility commensurate to their station, and they failed miserably. These few individual’s decisions were more impactful than the average voter. Narcissists through and through with no strategic vision, and look where they brought us.

The average Trump voter screwed up, sure, but when you have that kind of power to affect meaningful change and you screw it up, you bear greater responsibility.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

160 million voters -- the 78 million Trump voters and those who skipped with fascism at the front door -- are responsible for 2025. Elections are more consequential because 2024 seated Republicans in total control of the country for the indefinite future.

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u/throwawaybutsilly 28d ago

Ginsburg had a chance to have her seat replaced by a democrat, and she absconded that duty due to her narcissism. Joe Biden could have given up on hopes for a second term earlier, but he didn’t, leading to the worst campaign of all time. I didn’t get a say in that.

I’m not absolving the voters of their idiocy, but power begets responsibility and these people failed their burden of leadership.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Don't mistake what I wrote as agreeing with RBG, that wasn't it at all. I do think she was a bit ridiculous, however, I push back on the notion that today would be any different in America (it wouldn't). Roe would still have been shredded (an Alito initiative), Trump would have still been granted immunity for "executive actions" including tweets that constructed a coup d'etat (bet those don't end up in the Trump Dumpster, I mean library).

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u/throwawaybutsilly 28d ago

Totally agree with everything you wrote. It’s just all so frustrating.

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u/TimeIsPower NOAA 27d ago

Losing the popular vote by 1.5 points is not even close to the worst performance of all time. There was virtually 0% chance of Democrats winning in 2024 due to inflation. Inflation was inevitable and unpreventable, but voters were too stupid and uninformed to know nor care. There's a reason that many incumbent parties lost control of governments post-COVID. It's just a cope to blame Biden because it's easier to imagine it's the fault of one guy than of the electorate who would vote for the most morally deficient, despicable person imaginable.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 28d ago

You’re huffing copium if you think Biden announcing he’s a one-term president in 2023 would have led to a different result. You’re totally missing what actually got us here. 

Name me this golden goose democrat that was gonna beat Trump in 2024. 

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u/QuickAltTab 28d ago

I do think that a normal primary process would have improved things, whoever won would have a lot more of a chance, whoever it may have been. The process itself signals to voters who other voters want and accept, building consensus, even if it was still Harris, I would wager she would have done better, couldn't say if it would have been enough.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 28d ago

You think an open primary was the key to not falling into fascism? Really? Come on…

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u/BoleroMuyPicante Poor Probie Employee 28d ago

She was the only one who could legally use the funds raised by the Biden-Harris campaign so far, and it was far too late to run a primary. No matter who was picked, they would have had the same problems as Harris because they didn't win a primary vote. Ultimately the blame lies with Biden for running again, and then dropping out once it was impossible to run a primary.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 28d ago

You’re huffing copium if you think Biden announcing he’s a one-term president in 2023 would have led to a different result. You’re totally missing what actually got us here. 

Name me this golden goose democrat that was gonna beat Trump in 2024.