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Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.

The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.

With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s reported rueful reflections are revealed in a Washington Post profile that contains the clearest signs yet that he thinks he erred in withdrawing his candidacy in July after a woeful debate performance against his rival for the White House, Trump, the previous month.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This ghoul was propped up in 2020 with the full force of the party and then won thanks to covid, but he thinks he's some hero. Democrats lost in 2024 in large part thanks to him. Fuck you biden, you racist, genocidal, and power-hungry piece of shit.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Benedict Arnold" developed a clear connotation over time. The same needs to become true for "Merrick Garland". History will remember him as a coward beyond measure and a key to enabling trump's final push to end American democracy.

Fuck Merrick Garland, without exception.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He spent so much time trying to make a good legacy that he forgot to actually do the right thing in the moment.

Garland knew he’d be accused of bias and selective prosecution, so Garland took slow and deliberate steps to make an ironclad case… only to be accused of bias anyway, and doing it so slowly that the charges expired.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

He probably had a better chance than Harris. Might not have won either way, but sadly I suspect the odds were better with him.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Man this dude is off his rocker.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

A fool to the end. A Zionist, genociding, hubristic fool until the end.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

then he's still dreaming but sadly would have been the better alternative to what's coming

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s a colossal fucking failure.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, hey. Rude of you to call the guy who was supposed to save us from another 4 years of Trump but then delivered it anyways a failure. All he did was tread water for 4 years and then hang on to power way too long, simultaneously tanking his own campaign, and making it much more difficult for someone to follow him.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

just like he beat Medicare?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is he saying this now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because he regrets the choice he made.

So, I get that. But the thing is he should be man enough to accept he made a choice and now accept the consequences.

Smart people count the cost of a decision before making it. That way they can hold their head high on one thing at least. As it stands Biden can't even do that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

He’s a stubborn idiot. He genuinely thought he’d be able to pull off a miracle and dig himself out of the hole he was in with the underwater electoral polls and falling favorability rating. When his internal polls said he was losing to Trump with a possible 400-138 split, he ignored it and said he would be able to comeback like he always does. Pelosi tried to force him to see reality and he went along with her plan angrily, and now he’s angry he didn’t ignore her and fight her on it.

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