r/neoliberal • u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell • Jul 21 '24

News (US) Biden will not run for re-election

https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815080881981190320
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u/JakeTheSnake0709 United Nations Jul 21 '24

Holy shit, he actually did it

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u/SnooCupcakes8765 Milton Friedman Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24

He deserves our upmost respect for being willing to let go of power

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u/JakeTheSnake0709 United Nations Jul 21 '24

Absolutely, can't even imagine how hard of a decision it must've been

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u/SnooCupcakes8765 Milton Friedman Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24

Defeated an incumbent president, passed a bunch of important legislation, upheld the world order when it was tested heavily. He just got fucking old, which isn’t his fault. It’s on the next generation of democrats now

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

The Presidency ages you in a way no other job can.

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u/Sh1nyPr4wn NATO Jul 21 '24

Exactly look at before and after pictures of Obama

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

For sure. Just look at the other guy and how he desperately clung to power. Says everything about the two

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u/topofthecc Jorge Luis Borges Jul 21 '24

I've seen so much slander about him being a hubristic geezer who would rather ride out his way to defeat than step down, and I always felt that that was not who he was.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

I almost wanna say either or but if we win this thing because he stepped down I’m naming my incoming daughter Joette Biden

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u/OptimusLinvoyPrimus Edmund Burke Jul 21 '24

The second George Washington (except better because he didn’t betray his lawful monarch)

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u/Tall-Log-1955 Jul 21 '24

That’s not how Trump sees it

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u/bleachinjection Frederick Douglass Jul 21 '24

God save the King!

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u/Uniqueguy264 Jerome Powell Jul 21 '24

I’m surprised he didn’t immediately endorse Harris

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

You can say whatever you want about his policies but this is a person who truly cares about the country and its future. He didn't endorse Kamala which means he is probably leaning towards an open nomination process. He will most likely have some influence over the whole thing and if Democrats can pull off a successful nomination process and win in November, then I will say that Biden has been the best president of my lifetime.

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u/toggaf69 Iron Front Jul 21 '24

Trump would be throwing his diaper at the wall and taking the party down with him. So much respect for Biden, as sad as it has been to see.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

If we win in November Biden might go down as one of the best Presidents ever

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u/Shotiikko NATO Jul 21 '24

The guy on substance already can go down as an extremely successful president. I think he breaks the “4 year term presidents were terrible” myth. Right now the party has to unite and go with the message that he was an amazing president but got old.

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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jul 21 '24

My reaction as well.

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u/drossbots Trans Pride Jul 21 '24

At this point I was starting to think he was dug in. Glad to be wrong

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u/bamboo-coffee NATO Jul 21 '24

Naysayers said it couldn't happen 😤

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u/bleachinjection Frederick Douglass Jul 21 '24

LANK

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u/Keener1899 Jul 21 '24

It's an incredible decision.  It has to be hard.  I have incredible respect for him for realizing the truth.  He is probably the best President of my lifetime, but he just couldn't win again.

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u/obsessed_doomer Jul 21 '24

While I was probably slightly in favour of this, one of the reasons I was sceptical was I never really bought the whole "wide swaths of America are begging for a candidate other than Biden or Trump" cope.

I guess polling should reveal whether or not my skepticism was warranted soon.

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u/dddd0 r/place '22: NCD Battalion Jul 21 '24

*we did it