Biden: I believe "grim season of division" will give way to unity

[True Dough]

Where does Joe Biden get this sense of optimism?

He served front and center through eight years of the Obama presidency and the Republicans did nothing but obstruct the entire time.

If Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz weren't all re-elected, maybe there would be hope that Biden could achieve some sort of detente, at the very least. But with those malicious turds among the ranks, I can't imagine the Republicans ever being open to compromise.

Anyone else see the possibility?

[temporary311]

1. Sure, there's a chance.

Like the Dumb and Dumber "so you're telling me there's a chance" kind of chance.

[Voltaire2]

2. Meanwhile the republicans are rat fucking

the new administration everyday.

[JI7]

3. Do you want him to say the opposite ?

[CrispyQ]

5. I want him to take the rose colored glasses off & put some of the onus on the GOP.

How about something more like, "We have deep divisions in this country & I hope the republicans in congress will work with their democratic colleagues and my administration to show the American people that their elected representatives work for everybody."

After eight years of McConnell's obstructionism during Obama's terms, & the hate & vitriol from the right the past four years, I'm surprised to hear Biden say this.

[JI7]

6. He is trying to appeal to regular people in his public statements

[LizBeth]

11. He has won and can quit trying to win them. Roll up sleeves and

Address the reality to find solutions. I like solutions...

[JI7]

13. He is trying to get public opinion on his side so when issues come up

people go after Republicans .

[LizBeth]

28. Your guess is as good as mine. I feel we are going to see a lot of 2008, moving on.

[Voltaire2]

16. which 'regular people'?

[maxsolomon]

18. the low-information flibberdigibbets who voted for Trump, then Biden.

the low-information flibberdigibbets who voted for Trump twice, and don't want to be told they're racists or fascists, or have to think much at all.

the low-information flibberdigibbets who couldn't be bothered to vote, and want to hear anodyne platitudes.

there are millions and millions of these "folks" who we need in 2022, 2024, 2026, etc. they need to be coddled and mollified.

this is just the way it works and always has. Biden knows it.

[JI7]

22. Some of them voted for Biden also

[LizBeth]

9. I want facts.

[JI7]

14. Many people don't care for all the details

[LizBeth]

29. Have you been listening to the Democrats for the last four years? Listen to the conversations in the

primary? Or any of the many many GOTV campaign for 2020?

I really do not know what to make out of your comment.

[JI7]

30. It's not Democrats that are the problem.

[LizBeth]

32. Reading the subthreads here, I am calling out the gaslighting, even if benevolent because four years

of being told we are not seeing what we are seeing was enough.

[JI7]

33. What's the gaslighting ?

[LizBeth]

34. Glass is overflowing optimism with last four years and today of Republicans not to mention 8 years

with the Obama administration. Clear evidence and Republican's OWN WORDS that they will do everything to obstruct. Instead of pretending there are possibilities, and ignoring laws, procedures and rules being broken, I would rather actually fuckin address reality so solutions can be found.

[meadowlander]

24. Yes. Mitch McConnell needs to be called out on his bullshit.

The odds of him suddenly succumbing to Joe's charm and deciding to play ball are 0 and saying otherwise just makes Biden look out of touch with reality.

[JI7]

31. It's not about McConnell but the people that vote for him

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. very wishful thinking, extremely unlikely

[maxsolomon]

19. I think Biden is well aware.

Still a smart thing to SAY.

[Yeehah]

7. The traitorous republicans will do everything they can to make Biden fail,

regardless of the best interest of the American people. The republican party has become an anti-USA, fascist organization and it's time for people like Joe Biden to say it and act like it.

[Phoenix61]

8. I want him to play nice until the second after

the runoff election in Georgia has been certified. Anyone who’s ever dealt with a wasp nest knows the best time to spray is when they have quietly settled in for the night. Any other time just pisses off the ones you didn’t kill leaving them free to nail you. He’s played politics for a long time. Eyes on the prize, the Senate.

[zipplewrath]

10. I do wonder

It's early and I'm willing to give him some time to try things his way. It could be his way of trying to corner them. With such a closely divided senate, he doesn't have to gain the cooperation of many GOP senators in order to corner McConnell.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

12. I believes the fairies of County Clare will be riding golden unicorns

to my humble home tomorrow morning, and will finally deliver the pot of gold a Leprechaun has owed to me since last year.

It could happen.

[True Dough]

15. Pigs gonna fly too!

Hell freezing over and all that jazz.

[Brainfodder]

17. Once Death Count Donnie and all his conspirators get life sentences in general population, yes then!

[BannonsLiver]

20. I read this 2 ways

1. Biden genuinely believes he can get them to work with him and compromise on some things, like it once was in the senate.

Or

2. He wishes that were true, knows it’s not, and is preaching unity while knowing he’s going to do some things likely via E.O. that some people may not like but are for the greater good, and he wants to be on record as being the first to offer an olive branch before he takes those steps.

[Initech]

21. Seriously I hope after Rush Limbaugh dies, we have a reawakening period.

As in it causes people to wake up and realize that the GOP is full of shit and that they've been had this whole time. But that's a pipe dream of mine.

[greenjar_01]

23. It costs Biden nothing to say this, and gains him quite a bit

There's literally no downside.

[octoberlib]

25. It won't, lol

but I appreciate the sentiment and I could always be wrong. It's just that Fox and other rw sites make money off of keeping their base riled up.

[Yavin4]

26. The President deserves our benefit of the doubt.

If he thinks that he can unify the country, then he should indeed give it a try.

[Autumn]

27. Not a snowballs chance in hell. We saw what they did with Obama and the last three years with the

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House Democrats. They will be even worse now.