What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Valmy]

81 year old congresswoman from Texas who had been missing for 6 months was just found living in a dementia care facility. 

There was a reason she didn't run for re-election.

[HisMajestyBOB]

81 year old congresswoman from Texas who had been missing for 6 months was just found living in a dementia care facility. 

There was a reason she didn't run for re-election.

Yeah, gotta prepare for that senate run.

[Valmy]

How's that go unknown? Did the butterfly net people come and catch her without the family knowing?

It wasn't publicly known. But it wasn't some secret either. But she didn't run for re-election and hadn't voted in the House since the summer. I think everybody figured she was in bad health.

[Valmy]

Yeah, gotta prepare for that senate run.

I would vote for her over Ted Cruz even in her current state.

[Sheilbh]

I feel like the framing of this article is extraordinary:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/biden-age.html

Edit: This on the other hand is just an extraordinary story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/schumer-biden-2024-election.html

Edit: Incidentally with this note often wonder if this was a sliding doors moment because I think Biden would have won in 2016. Always wondered quite what the deal was between Obama and the Clintons over 2016:

As days ticked by, Mr. Obama worried that Democrats were doing nothing. He told Mr. Schumer that he himself had a fragile relationship with his former vice president, who still carried a chip on his shoulder over Mr. Obama's decision to support Hillary Clinton's candidacy in 2016. Having urged him not to run back then, Mr. Obama told Mr. Schumer, he wasn't sure if he was the best messenger to tell Mr. Biden to step aside now.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Perhaps Biden shouldn't have stepped aside. Americans clearly really wanted to elect a senile old man in 2024, and were gonna vote for one one way or the other.

[Maladict]

I think Biden might actually have pulled it off, had he just not done the debates or any other public appearances in 2024.

[mongers]

I think Boden might actually have pulled it off, had he just not done the debates or any other public appearances in 2024.

Plus his range of young women clothing was cool.

[Maladict]

I think Boden might actually have pulled it off, had he just not done the debates or any other public appearances in 2024.

Plus his range of young women clothing was cool.

Well you clearly know more about that than I do 😋

[Maladict]

This pre-emptive pardon stuff is getting a bit silly.

[crazy canuck]

And a problematic precedent

[DGuller]

Surely the pardon power is unsustainable?  What if Trump, as a fuck you on the way out (if he chooses to leave), pardons everyone in the US?  At some point someone will have to make the call and not recognize some pardons as legitimate, even if the Constitution doesn't give them power.  One of the many looming constitutional crises, I fear.

[Sheilbh]

And a problematic precedent

Followed by a full, unconditional pardon of his family.

[Barrister]

I kind of understand why Biden issued the pardons but I really wish he hadn't.

[HisMajestyBOB]

The problem isn't that Biden issued the pardons. It's that he feels it is necessary because of Trump's likelihood of seeking revenge.