Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

April 07, 2026 - 13:37 UTC

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So many people had the opportunity to step up and do something to stop this and they all just shirked their duty and now we are here because not one of them bothered to do the right thing.
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Biden’s “welcome home” message to Trump haunts me every day
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That grin. Like your Dad, whom you just realized is delighted to feed you to wolves
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Donald Trump never had a better friend than Joe Biden
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Besides Epstein, of course.
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Quite literally
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i dunno... not re-electing trump was america's job. we took a collective cyanide pill. all the info we needed was available in the open.
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Two different things
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He was never going to. He was there to serve Israel and keep Trump's seat warm.
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The GOP is a clear and present danger to the United States and must be liquidated.
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Treason has a penalty that needs to be paid
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Merrick Garland’s job
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Genuinely a Buchanan-level failure
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This is why I’m so scared about 2032. Like, I think 2028 is a gimme for whichever opposition party rises in the next couple years, but I’m scared that it’ll be another Biden who won’t effectively root out this corruption and then we’ll just because with Trump 3 (maybe literally)
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at this rate i don't know if we should even count our "free and fair" 2026 chickens, let alone 2028
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Can't really be understated how horrible it was that Biden won. Just the worst person for the moment in every tangible way and the logical endpoint of liberalism
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Yeah. And why did he even want to be president? JUST to Want it. Purely to satisfy his own ego. He felt he ~Deserved~ it. Just a rich white man who felt he was *OWED* Something by the world. "Logical Endpoint of Liberalism" is right.
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Just complete failure to rise to every moment for 4 straight years
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I'll never forget when in 2017 he went on his book tour, talking about how he would have run for 2016 and won, but didn't, because he was too busy exploiting his son's death via writing a book about how great of a dad he was.

That's something I could never unsee, that ego, and selfishness, ungh.
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it would have been better had trump defeated Biden and we were in year 6 of the dictatorship
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The congress failed as well. There was plenty of time with a majority of Democrats in both house where they could have just passed a resolution that Jan 6 was a 14th amendment disqualifying insurrection
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Hi, I don't remember you from those early days of Jan 2021 when some of us were going sleepless trying to assemble evidence?

Prosecuting and purging the Republican party was ALL of our jobs. Not just complaining that others didn't save us. We had to save ourselves.
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Are you suggesting it was the responsibility of individual citizens to somehow inject themselves into a DOJ prosecution?
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Do you think having the president of the United States actively undermining the attempt helped or hurt
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So you're also bad at your job.
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That’s wild, we didn’t prosecute J6ers because enough murder muffins weren’t gathering evidence?
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While you are here chiding folks on the internet in 2026 like the real effective activists do. How impressive you are
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100% it is true that prosecuting Jan 6 was key to saving America. But anyone who thought Biden was a hapless idiot should have been on the front lines trying to compensate for him and get the job done.
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James Buchanan-ass president
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I think President Biden prioritized the economy, and it seems like he felt that he should be hands off the case to avoid the appearance of an ideological persecution
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Obama didn't prosecute any torturers nor anyone responsible for the massive corruption depicted in The Big Short
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Presidents don't prosecute.
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So we had to let Trump get away with January 6, then.
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Exactly why he’s the most disappointing president of my lifetime.
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Guys, do not blame a liberal party for defending liberalism and the impunity of those working for capitalists. Both liberal parties are backed by the same people. You need to join a #CommunistParty if you want sanity in this world. Real liberalism is a permanent war machine!
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He failed to do so twice. The first failure was when he wa VP, and he and Obama failed to prosecute the Bush admin for the illegal war of aggression in Iraq. Same for the Brits with Tony Blair.
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Agreed. He even kept many of Trump’s picks within the Executive Branch.
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"No uh but you see they couldn't because blahedy blahedy blah blah and..."

Always excuses, never any action. That's our "opposition" party, everyone. That's the thanks we got for turning out in record numbers for him, sitting on his ass for 4 years as he awaited for DT to just waltz right back in.
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“Welcome home, Donald.”
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It's terrible but also really wild that so many law professors will smugly respond with "you don't understand the culture of the DoJ. It was just too hard to do."

But buddy, he ran to be president. He chose to the be the one expected to do the hardest things. That Biden failed to do so is on him.
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particularly after watching Trump waltz in and fire every Dem in the DoJ on day 1, then proceed to fire everyone else there who wouldnt go along with the Republican plan.
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the fact that anyone can still be a strict institutionalist after a decade of Trump demonstrating that you can just Do Stuff and no one will stop you... it's insane, man

them norms are GONE and they ain't coming back
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Bro there is nothing more that I hate than when Democrat defenders go into their little "oh but what can they do, they're just smol beans 🥺" act.

The literal job description is about them figuring out how to do what needs to be done, otherwise why the fuck else are we voting for them?
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President Cornpop wasn’t made for that sort of work. He was a wheeler and dealer.
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“When they go low”, can we remove them from power, hold them accountable, and prevent them from accessing levers of power again?

The “we go high/keep looking forward” shtick didn’t work, as was pointed out by plenty that didn’t have access to levers of power held by those going for said high road.
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Literally everyone who's job it wast to prevent this, failed.
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Bro didn't even get rid of Louis DeJoy.
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I said at the time that historians are gonna look back on Biden as the James Buchanan of the 21st century because the defining feature of his presidency was failing to address the country’s most pressing crisis before it spiraled out of control and a bunch of libs got super mad at me.
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Von Bidenburg.
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Bugs the shit out of me that so many went so hard for him in 2020 when there was a clown car of full better options (and also Mariné Williamson).
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Exactly

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I’ll be that person and say actually it was Obama’s job in 2008. But you’re not wrong.
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And nobody ever better give me that: ‘Biden should not have ordered Garland to act faster’ BS. You think John never advised Bobby to do anything?
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He was clear he wouldn’t touch trump when he was running too.
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Rest assured, Merrick Garland is just 6 or 7 weeks away from a final decision & will then pull the trigger in an inauguration gift for Joe.
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I don’t know what he would have done differently if he WANTED Trump to be president. He made every decision he could have to lead to this moment.
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It's the same error that Gerald Ford made when he pardoned Nixon, who was later found out to have been an actual traitor.
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George Herbert Walker Bush and Iran-Contra
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That error led to this one, I think. Ford kicked off a presumption of presidential immunity, even for actual, irrefutable, capital-C Crimes.
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Biden: “We need a strong Republican Party.”
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His second job was to build up a Dem bench for 2024 and, you know, not even try to run for reelection.
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He was never going to do that his friends and colleagues.
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Sure seems like some things should have “fundamentally changed.”
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It's pretty clear that Democrats have not learned *any* lessons from this. They honestly believe we can return to the Status Quo Ante of bipartisan cooperation and respect for laws and norms.
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They can go against the wall too.
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This will also be someone else's one job in the (hopefully near) future
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His second job was to be the one-term president that he said he was going to be and step aside to allow the Democrats to have a proper primary and election in 2024.

He failed to do that as well.
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Correct. The weakness, timidity, and lack of foresight means we wasted 4 years. While one needs to primarily blame MAGA voters and politicians, Democrats had the chance to snuff out evil and whiffed.
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Did he fail or not give a shit and continue to be a tool for the capitalist class like every president?
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he told trump “welcome home” 🫠
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Yep.
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Biden's job was to serve the 1%
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Ridiculous that you would say it was his “one job.”

Yes he needed to throw away the playbook and prosecute the criminals.

But also existential and more immediate were Covid and the inevitable recession - which he (to no fanfare at all) averted!

He was 2 for 3. Plus passed good laws + KBJ.
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Ah, so he was simply too busy to do anything about the treasonous insurrectionist that tried to pull a coup on him, got it.

"My schedule is packed enough as it is, you guys, I'll get to it when I get to it!"
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But, you see, it was really really important to Biden that he try to get Republicans to like him.
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hE sAvEd OuR nOrMs!!
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Biden also empowered Israel in exactly the same way, letting them get away with absolutely anything they wanted. He really was the exact worst person for the moment in 2020
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there's a reason many of us were depressed after Super Tuesday 2020, we knew Bernie was our only chance out of this mess
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I said it then and people got mad at me. Being a leftist always means being correct too early and having none of the power to act on that knowledge anyway
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Democrats let the Bush/Cheney administration get away with lying to Congress so they could invade Iraq, warrantless wiretapping on U.S. Citizens, Rendition and Torture, and war profiteering. If Democrats would have held the Bush/Cheney administration accountable, we wouldn't be here today!
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It was Obama's job first. Failure after failure
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Inherently Biden was a good man who believed in following laws and treating people with respect even if you disagree and he was up against people who don’t believe in anything but getting their way and will use any means legal illegal moral or immoral.
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Biden is an asshole, he’s always been an asshole and by the time he was president he was a senile old asshole. You don’t have to hand it to him. Fuck him.
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Biden’s job would have been a lot easier if we had Merrick Garland on SCOTUS. Mitch McConnell‘s delay resulted in the immunity ruling (among others), preventing Trump being prosecuted.
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As I said, it's normal for people to act in increasingly broken ways when forced to interact with an increasingly obviously broken system.
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That man's duty was to be a seat warmer for him. Nothing more. The Democratic party is just Republicans in disguise.
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I don’t think this SCOTUS was ever going to let that happen, especially after the failed second impeachment.
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He was the absolute worst man for the moment. He was just one big walking institutional norm. What we needed was a swiftly swinging scimitar.
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the dems primaried the only member of their caucus with the correct response to j6. Cori Bush's bill to expel all the republicans at the rally should have been pushed hard. Instead she had Aipac dump millions against her to be removed.
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A lot of our problems flow from our "left" party being funded by the right wing.
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One could argue you are wrong and the task is too vast/big, but then you have to look at Project 2025 and just how well that has been executed to know if there is a will, there was absolutely a way.
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I stay pissed at Joe fucking Biden
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@juliusgoat.bsky.social I think the democrats believe that their role in government is to let the republicans do whatever they want so that the people will see how bad they are and take action.
It hasn’t worked out very well
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Yeah, in 2021 I would have been inclined to think “well *maybe* they know what they’re doing” but this isn’t a hypothetical anymore. They screwed the pooch and lost the republic.
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