Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US?

• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why doesn’t biden commit some “official acts”

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  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He could. Totally legal thanks to the SCROTUS. But Dems are cowards by nature. They never would. Which is why this outcome was inevitable. If not now, later. We might actually end up being lucky it was Trump and not someone truly competent, but I doubt it.

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    • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think Biden still believes that things can swing back in the midterms or next presidential election. I don’t think he realizes that this might have been the last election that was possible to win.

      If he does something drastic, he’d probably hand even more popular support to the Republicans in general and to Trump in particular who would play victims as much as they could.

      If he does nothing, it might be the end of democracy, not just in the US but in most of the world. But he will have “accepted defeat gracefully” and considering he won’t live to see the worst of it, I imagine that’s all that matters.

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • it wasn’t close

  • police would shoot us

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  • humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    wasn’t close.

    Stolen votes. Russia hacked voting machines to help him

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