Biden’s presidency concludes tomorrow, but his final week has been nothing short of historic: 2,500 commutations and a ceasefire deal between Israel and Gaza mark the end of his consequential term.
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Biden failed us. In many areas. We have absolutely zero leadership that's helping average ppl like me. Enjoy those rose colored glasses tho. I love ya George and sure Joe isn't as bad as trump. But he's no hero...
No, millions of dollars in misinformation and those on the left who decided that letting trump back in was a less important concern than making an ideologival point about another country the US has no control over.
That always gets down to the 'art of the possible' given what little we tend to leave Democratic administrations to work with against all the big money and Republican obstruction and litigiousness. We couldn't afford to lose in 2016 over it and this is more that we can't afford to have lost.
I suppose back burners either warm or scorch you as well, but how do you think I feel about my own civil rights in my own country, never mind anyone else's.
No pardon for Leonard Peltier though. These people really know how to miss an iconic opportunity. Just like Kamala not letting a Palestinian legislator from Georgia speak at her inclusivity-themed convention.
Please ask President Biden to pardon Leonard Peltier.
48 years for aiding and abetting two guys who were acquitted is long enough.
He never hurt anybody.
He was obviously sentenced while Lakota.
The ceasefire was bs and why didn't he do all of that 4 years ago America could be a place the world doesn't look on in pity at by now if he had led as even a liberal instead he led as a conservative and lost
Please don't be fooled by the ceasefire deal. Biden also signed off on sending more military aide to Israel. Why if there is a ceasefire deal? He is still aiding and embedding genocide. It will forever be his stain on his legacy no matter what other good he may have done.
You're the only one that said that but Netanyahu and Hamas and everyone else around was able to use Israel as a wedge to install Trump regardless, not playing into that would have meant we had a much stronger hand to pressure him with since November.
I'll be honest. I don't know what your point is. My point is that despite the ceasefire, we are still sending, under Biden, military aide. Funding Palestinian genocide. There is no justification. None.
Bibi has no intention of stopping what he's doing (opinion) and if you think this new administration is going to openly thwart him, risking looking anti-Semitic any more than Biden's did, I want whatever you're smoking
The problem is the region can't afford for Israel to *lose* either. Pretending you can attack Biden on 'purity' while having installed even worse, particularly for Gaza was never going to allow a solution for Palestinians. Instead it may well have doomed them. There's a whole board to see.
He has less than 24 hours to remove the terrorist threat that will be "sworn in" tomorrow at noon. SCOTUS has said anything he does in an official capacity is fair. Call up Seal Team 6 and drag the Oligarchs and the Orange Turd to 5th avenue. The Irony.
No! He didn't deliver the one thing Americans needed the most, and end to christofascists aka the gop. Diaper Rash Don will rape and pillage. Biden could have ended this.
Well, deciding to try and poison Kamala's campaign over Joe not being omnipotent when Republicans are in the way don't like anyway didn't help the 'helplessness' part either. He'd have been able to apply more pressure than he did if both sides of the Israel issue weren't threatening us withTrump.
No, he is not responsible for failing to stop Netanyahu from doing what he damn well pleases with some magic wand or something. Obviously should have leaned harder on the weapons support and all but making them feel *less*'safe' from *losing* there wasn't gonna get rid of him. No good guys.
Just a shame it took him nearly 50,000 deaths, the destruction of a the whole of Gaza and 15 months of slaughter before there was an end to the insanity ensuring that Hamas has its next generation of fighters lined up.
It didn't. They've been working on cease fire and returning hostages since day 1. Many countries and leaders have all been working on it. Now is just the time all came together to accept the deal.
Have you forgotten not just the actual historic role played by Trump in outwitting Antony Blinken and Netanyahu to achieve the ceasefire but also the maimed & dead Gaza children on the Biden/Blinken watch? Murdered medics, rescuers, journos, women, civilians. Hospitals destroyed. Plausible genocide
Strange, in Canada pardons and commutations are very rare. You do the crime you do the time.
So in the U.S. law and order is like optional or something?. Maybe that explains why a compulsive liar, fraud and sexual predator could become president. Very strange system down south.
Wait til the intel dries up from five eyes and other international organizations. Who would share with a country who chose a man who stole, shared and sold secrets he was given? We will be isolated and our staunchest allies will align with China. #RIPUSA
Don't worry about a free world alliance with China, such will (despite US under Trump) NEVER happen for as long as China continues to threaten Taiwan+does NOT stop dealing with Russia, North Korea, Iran+all other members of the 'axis of evil'.
Or maybe if people hadn't installed Trump in the name of Gaza and 'family values' there'd have been no reason for Bibi to keep genociding *this* long just to make a show for Trump?
Biden’s final week reflects a focus on meaningful change, with his actions leaving a significant impact on both justice and diplomacy. These achievements underscore the lasting effects of his leadership, showing how decisive moments can shape history even in the final days of a presidency.
If President Biden does not release chapter 2, the Mar-a-Lago documents case, they will lose a diehard longtime Democratic voter and donor. You have presidential immunity release the report today or you lose Democrats.
My only disappointment about the pardons is that he didn't pardon Michael Cohen. He owned up to his wrongdoings and has laid his life on the line to right them.
I know Biden & Blinken & many of Biden's admin worked hard through many difficult discussions to reach a ceasefire, but I've been watching a lot of BBC news coverage, which has shown many interviews that attribute finally getting to this point to the imminent presidency of 💩.
He lied about immigration. He's been setting up detention centers for Trump. 26 immigrants were killed in detention under his watch. He refused to call out genocide and indeed aided it. I'm so tired of the whitewashing of his legacy already.
Yep only 50,000 civilian deaths later. The most common age of the dead immediately following Oct 7th was 0-9 years old. 18,000 children in total. Consequential isn’t the word I would use.
Why try something that's literally already failed? It'd be more productive doing things he knows that will succeed. Unlike someone like Bernie and his acolytes, Joe Biden doesn't grandstand when he can actually get things done.
Biden had multiple opportunities to broker a ceasefire deal with this deal being the EXACT same one from last May and March. Biden doesn't want a deal because israel doesn't want one. Biden 100% supports what israel wants: to ethnically cleanse Palestinian's and steal their land.
The blood is on his hands though, for the death of so many Palestinian people and the destruction of their lives. It might have been a good idea not to supply Israel with weapons.
Biden did little to stop Trump from moving back into the people's house .... he's handing the keys over quietly tomorrow while Trump laughs in his face
…cease-fire deal…Biden funded and diabolically supported the genocide of Palestine HIS ENTIRE CAREER. There is no credit to be had on the issue of the slaughter of Palestine. Are we forgetting all the vetoes of the earlier cease-fire deals? He prolonged the atrocities.
And how's that universal healthcare he fought for to implement? The ban on guns to protect children? The taxing if the ultra rich and the quest to reduce inequality? Inexistent. Two shades of the same colour, I'm afraid. The only one who speaks sense is Bernie Sanders. The rest are all the same.
Tomorrow marks the start of a very different future, one we may not wish to see, but those who chose to go down this path will also suffer the consequences of their actions, and all we shall say is;
and yet today marks the final full day that america will be considered a democracy ... and biden will hand our country over to a convicted felon on monday on a silver platter ...
It seems many have lost hope in the US, but just know there are options out there other than Dems and Rep. Start local, build new parties and groups, win one riding at a time.
Ironic - they kept their powder dry ahead of the election because they didn’t want to risk losing it. Easy in retrospect but I wish Joe had gone in with all guns blazing on Ukraine, Gaza, support for US democracy, prosecution of the criminal Trump, et al 9 months ago.
Given the tolls during the Biden-presidency of the wars in both Israel and Ukraine, I expect history to look rather unfavorably on the Biden Presidency - apart from the fact, that the Biden presidency lead to Trump being reelected...
Which is unfair bias, as historically US politics has always been a see-saw between the political parties of Whig/Republican vs Democrat - there has only been 12 Presidents that served 2 terms since Washington 1789 (plus Cleveland who served 2 separate terms) & 3 terms by Roosevelt from 1933.
Funny how the one with the most progressive policies for his time is the one who got an amount of terms that required us to amend the constitution to avoid making him president for life isn't it?
Yet it seems tainted. He had four years to bring justice on multiple fronts and his last day is silencing dissent with lies of national security. All founded on his vote in silencing Anita Hill ushering in the injustice we see.
Biden in his responsible for the Palestinian genocide Trump is responsible for forcing the Zionist to accept the cease-fire deal that is no different from the ones approved by Hamas in May 2024
Infrastructure. Biden got it done. Gaza is a tragedy, but it hurts that people don't think Biden tried for a ceasefire and Israel is the one who blocked it. I am tired of US support of Israel being unconditional. It's time we changed that approach. But Biden did not cause Gaza or Ukraine.
And all that will be eliminated from history by the new T-party’s fascist regime. This will be one of those stories we must retain and share… bc our school system will be rewriting history.
And all his accomplishments will take a backseat to trump "restoring Tik Tok to the masses," which Biden could just as easily have done. All he did was wrap it up and gift it to trump on a golden platter.
We all know that trump made the ceasefire deal happen, somehow, and the tiktok ban wasn't his idea at all, somehow, not to mention the alternative fact that his inauguration crowd will be the largest in history period, somehow.
And his legacy will not be the great service he has given the US over decades but his complicity with Israel on the slaughter of Palestinians & the destruction of Palestine, he will now rightly be known as Genocide Joe.
Let the musk trump clown show begin. My predictions. Markets will keep growing for about 14 months. Trump economic policies will gain hold again with tax breaks for the 1%. When MAGAts catch on to trumps shell game he will decide to stop showing up to work , golf a lot more, and Project 2025 Booms!
A very consequential term. Proud to have met and shook hands with this president (Delaware is a small state) and proud to have voted for him. I hope the Democrats will follow Joe Biden with another true leader. Hard shoes to fill.
You mean "between Israel and Hamas". Anyway, he supported the genocide all the while, so what's to be proud of? Furthermore, nobody on this side of the Atlantic is looking forward to the result of his failure to realise in good time that he couldn't stand again.
The thing about Trump then that’s good, is he’s going to reinstate impoundment, which is what prevented Biden from refusing to give aid to Israel. Then Trump can go over Congress, who allocates the funds, and stop any aid to any state, person or country he doesn’t agree with.
A huge part of the ‘Biden Sucks’ base was pissed Biden didn’t do impoundment of Congressional funds to Israel. So wouldn’t Trump bringing it back give them exactly what they wanted? It’s a big reason why they didn’t vote after all.
He and his collegues did a remarkable job - unfortunately many Will not see the light if this era until they experience the darkness of Trumpian management ..
A) He aided a gen*cide
B) There is no ceasefire deal as Isr*el wants all Pal*stinians dead. That's like thinking Hitler would have stopped if asked nicely.
Unfortunately Israel is probably going to violate the ceasefire almost immediately and then try to blame it on Hamas and the Pakistani people. I'm making this prediction now anybody want to put some money on this one?
Honestly- small comfort. What’s to come will overshadow his legacy for years. Sad end to what could have been a brilliant capstone on his career had he decided to be a one term president by allowing a real democratic primary. As it is, he’s still a one term president at the edge of the abyss. 🥺
Sir, he had ZERO to do with that ceasefire let’s not be disingenuous. As someone who followed the resistance telegram this entire genocide I can tell you with 100% fact those conditions have been on the table for 8 months with H’s signature.
Biden did nothing except supply Israel with bombs to commit genocide. He sat on a ceasefire deal from last May. Tens of thousands died because of his administration.
If you think that there's peace in the Middle East, you're not paying attention. And the graves of thousands of dead, mainly women and children, are at his door almost as much as at Netenyahu's.
They had ceasefires going way back but especially since Netanyahu was like 'I can kill more people and take more land and then Americans will take it out on Democrats and get me a Trump administration to actively back me doing even more.'
And if he hadn't supported the barbaric and genocidal Netenyahu government whatever they did. Not "my country right or wrong", but "their country right or wrong".
Yea? If Biden told them you are sanctioned tomorrow and no trade will occur with you, Israel would not stop? You are wrong. Israel would has folded in minutes. They are totally dependent on our benevolence.
If it was *him* being performative, then why would 'he' 'make' Netanyahu wait till after the election, never mind till Trump's inauguration where he can take credit as if he weren't far worse on Gaza all along?
Biden failed at his most important task, as evidenced by what is happening rn.
🤦♂️ They didn't do jack shit for 2 years and Garland was selected for fuck knows what reason, now we all suffer, some a LOT more than others.
Too bad he let the war go on for so long funding the slaughter of children and is leaving us to this broken democracy where trans people and minorities of all sorts will be thrown under the bus. I will remember him as failing humanity.
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His only failure imo is Gaza. That cost us our democracy.
I'd blame still Biden for his policy on Gaza. It's written all over that voters wanted him to change his policy but he didn't.
I do blame those voters too who campaigned against Kamala knowing the other guy.
48 years for aiding and abetting two guys who were acquitted is long enough.
He never hurt anybody.
He was obviously sentenced while Lakota.
He's a war criminal.
The house, controlled by republicans, never tabled a bill to reduce military shipments there
Biden didn’t push for it.
Are you dim?
So in the U.S. law and order is like optional or something?. Maybe that explains why a compulsive liar, fraud and sexual predator could become president. Very strange system down south.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/nato-air-defenses-poland-ukraine/index.html
Then he goes after the great society and new deal
I know Bibi and the other guy struck a deal before and did everything to avoid any ceasefire.
Biden could've been empathetic and stopped funding. And he didn't do that
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It's whitewashing genocide. Please don't.
He deserves a pardon.
Plans to begin the attacks again ( what hasn't been reported)
Not the way you think.
Give your head a shake.
They handed the American people over to authoritarianism through their inability to actually listen to the youth.
"We Told You So!!!"
Dems love to shoot themselves in the foot.
It was Trumps people with him and not Bidens people.
For someone who went through what you and yours went through in the 1940s your choice to wear blinders here is troubling.
People HAVE to demand more of their representatives.
#PardonRealityWinner
https://open.substack.com/pub/stacyaalexander/p/the-resistance-kit?r=29v7jo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
B) There is no ceasefire deal as Isr*el wants all Pal*stinians dead. That's like thinking Hitler would have stopped if asked nicely.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1RpndjaJJn/?mibextid=oFDknk
there's no "peace" to be found
good goin'
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I do not support their actions, but fantasies gets us nowhere.
Even though Trump was not in office and had nothing whatsoever to do with the ceasefire or hostage release.
Presidents can’t veto super majority bills
Then tell me how a supermajority was achieved ...
🤦♂️ They didn't do jack shit for 2 years and Garland was selected for fuck knows what reason, now we all suffer, some a LOT more than others.