Biden warns oligarchy and ultra wealthy pose a threat to democracy itself

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/15/president-biden-bids-farewell-to-five-decade-political-career/77722498007/

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  1. *USA Today is owned by the Gannett Publishing empire.

    Irony!

  4. This entire speech felt like it should’ve been said 4 months ago. It came across as a campaign speech and warned about all the dangers to come, talked about climate change and warned of the dangers. Joe Biden did almost all of the things he promised, however he failed miserably in the biggest promise he made and that was to protect democracy and that’s the only thing im ever going to judge him on.

  5. Too late. They are already here and it’s happened. We are toast

  6. Look, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that the “Senator from MBNA” spent a career helping the oligarchy and the ultra weathy become powerful enough to pose a threat to democracy itself.

    That said, if he wants his Eisenhower-esque farewell address, this is a good subject for it.

  7. Most of Trump’s administration is so wealthy that it’s cheaper to bribe Trump himself rather than any of the rest.

  9. It really doesn’t matter anymore.

    We’ve all been reduced to spectators and witnesses. The firewalls have all been breached and the safeguards have failed.

    Nobody wants to hear it, but it’s all over.

    I say burn it all down.

  10. Damn I wish Biden was in a position to do something about it

  11. Huh. If only someone could’ve appointed a person…maybe an attorney general who could’ve made sure this didn’t happen and the rule of law prevailed. But here we are. Biden did some good shit. But this speech had me saying “no shit” like 20 times. But I’m just a guy who doesn’t have the power to appoint people who can intervene. Hollow words my dude.

  12. Tell me something I don’t know? Maybe y’all should’ve ran on that?

  13. It always feels so infuriating when the people who’ve been ignoring the problem you’ve been warning them about for years suddenly stands up, turns around, and goes:

    “Hey, you! Have you heard about this problem?! Why hasn’t anyone said something about this?! Anyway, I gotta go. Good luck with that! Peace and love!”

  15. I find it infuriating how every Democratic message in the last year is “we are facing an unprecedented danger to our democracy” and yet not a single one has been willing to abandon their own self interest to do anything about it.

    Even Biden dragged it until he literally got forced out of running and left literally anyone who was going to run in his place the shortest of runways. Sitting here and talking about it now accomplishes nothing.

  16. So sick of them sounding alarms yet still handing the fascists the keys to the kingdom. You know what a real president does in the face of fascism? Locks them up, not allow his party and legacy media to rollout the red carpet for these authoritarian fucks. Grow a pair.

  17. This country is fucked

    I just wonder how awful the collapse will be 

  18. Echoes of Ike’s “military industrial complex” speech, which America also ignored at its peril.

  20. Well we gave him 4 years to do something about it but he didn’t so I guess we’re all fucked. Thanks for the warning though. I’ll get right on fixing it from my simple fucking 9-5 just trying to put food on the table for my family.

  21. Thanks Joe for the urgent warning of what could possibly come.. only a mere five days before it fucking happens

  22. I’m sure the nation will heed his warning just like we did with Eisenhower’s farewell address warning of the influence of the military-industrial complex

  23. It’s more than a threat. Democracy could very well be over.

  24. Guess you shoulda done something about it sometime in the last 4 years, or the 8 years you were VP, or the decades in the Senate, or, or…

    If he had stepped down and let an actual primary take place he would have gone down as one of the best Presidents. Instead, he’s going down as one of the worst.

  25. He’s far too late here.

    Not to mention, why wasn’t **this** the point used during the election last year? That could’ve mended party divides.

    Then again, it would have required the Democrats to lean to the left and adopt a mild form of class warfare, so we all know that’s not happening with them.

  26. America is elons bitch. So absolutely pathetic that ya’ll voted for it too.

  29. This is like a deathbed confession. Like if he confesses all his sins he’ll be absolved of them.

  30. Inaction poses a threat to democracy too bud *cough cough*

  31. Biden did some cool things and no doubt was on the side of the middle and working class more than the big corporate money grab schemes

    Sadly he didn’t accomplish his primary goal, restore faith in democratic institutions and empower people to focus on what matters most (community)

    He was too focused on classical policy wins while missing the larger pieces to the puzzle on a unifying cultural movement

    That would have included limiting executive scope of power to try and set a precedent against future bad faith actors (arguably he himself expanded this)

    Now we will enter a heightened era of expanded executive power and politicization of institutions with corporate bootlickers across the spectrum (including democrats). Sadly, corruption has become normalized in America, and we have become what we have always feared

  32. There’ll be a crazy third republican looney to probably take trump out. hopefully. Elon too. Already happened twice and they’ve only ramped up everything that already has people losing their minds since we’re watching democracy vanish.

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