There was some attempt to convince the nation that Biden had improved their lives.
"Airlines in the United States are now required to give passengers cash refunds if their flight is significantly delayed or canceled, even if that person does not explicitly ask for a refund." — CNN
In case it hasn't been said enough: This is another thing that we can thank the Biden Administration + Secretary Pete Buttigieg for.
— Celeste Pewter (@celestepewter.bsky.social) October 28, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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But Democrats chickened out on a lot of stuff.
A guy who's not getting the attention he deserves for failing hard in this environment is Buttigieg. Went along with trans bashing and hasn't mentioned Mamdani once. For the guy who dreams of being the first openly LGBTQ+ president, and who tried playing a progressive in 2020... I think he's done.
— Lucas Kuhn (@lucaskuhn.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
After another year of Trump:
Katelyn Burns, Dec 1, 2025:
Democrats can't and haven't push back en masse against these attacks because all of them are deathly afraid of getting hit with another Trump style "Kamala is for they/them" ad.
We all need to take a step back and see the larger picture here. Continuing to be squeamish about trans people is what is letting Trump and the other Republicans get away with all of this. They are trying to drive trans people out of society using roving hordes of online abusers, and destroying every institution standing in their way.
Stand up for us now, or watch everything you love get torched one by one until you live in the ashes.
After a further six months:
We're Talking About Revolutionary Shit, Here, Muckrake Podcast, June 19, 2026 (40:41–42:50):
Nick Hauselman: "Obama spent...the first half of his first year, maybe the first year, having to travel around the world apologizing for Bush. Right? Trying to convince everybody out there that we are a functioning government and we're going to return to the things that we aspire to in the Constitution. How long is that going to take the next president to do after Trump steps down (when he does, if he does)? It could take the entire four years to figure out, to earn any kind of trust back from the rest of the world."
Jared Yates Sexton: "Yeah, and we're very lucky we've got an example of a president who followed Donald Trump and wasn't able to do anything about it or really change things. That idea at this point, Nick, that's like you asking me how are we going to get in my car and drive to the moon. 'Cause there's no repairing this. There's no rolling it back. It's like in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. You're not going to get those miles off the car. You just have to have a giant change that shows everybody that we're serious about that and then on top of it, after a giant change, you still have to earn trust. You still have to show that things actually did change. We're talking about revolutionary shit, here. ... The reason why there's no putting this thing back in the box is we've tried for a while to put this thing back in the box. The lineage of the presidency goes: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Donald Trump. Like, at some point or another, there's no winding that back. There's not a world meeting tour that's going to fix this."
Nick Hauselman: "I think what you're saying is: The rest of the world is on to us."
Jared Yates Sexton: "They're on to us!"
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