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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    20 hours ago

    I can not give you “better,” because that just means “better liars.” But everyone before Clinton was more left than anyone since Clinton.

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      20 hours ago

      so reagan and bush sr. you prefer them over biden? I certainly would not. I can see why america is so right at this point.

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        19 hours ago

        I did not say I prefer anyone, because they are all shit.

        Htf do you get, “you prefer” from “I can’t give you better?”

        USA is cooked, and this “logic” is why.

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          19 hours ago

          your reply suggested it. That the only way biden could be the best sitting president of a lifetime would require womeone being very young. So while you did not specifically say your preference you suggested others would be better.

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            19 hours ago

            your reply suggested it

            To someone who inserts their own narratives into what is actually said.

            A box of rocks would have been “better.”