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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He never got over his first lost in the 80s.

At first, Biden was regarded as a strong candidate. In September 1987, however, reports emerged that he had plagiarized a speech by the British Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party Leader, Neil Kinnock. Allegations that Biden had engaged in plagiarism during law school and had exaggerated his academic record soon followed, and Biden withdrew from the race later that month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_1988_presidential_campaign

Biden's campaign also hurt Dukakis, because it was the same neoliberal playbook the Clinton's later used.

He saw being Obama's VP as a slap in the face, so when the oligarchs and Hillary told him he could be an empty suit president, nothing was going to stop him.

I'm honestly still shocked someone got him to drop out of 2024. I think they just legit told him "you can't run, sorry" over and over and his brain is so mush he just eventually went with it. He's a dick, but there needs to be investigations into the last three administrations and all the elder abuse that our presidents have been victim of in the last decade, because otherwise the people who orchestrated get off with it.

We desperately need to get back to actual presidents again

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That makes me so sad that possibly plagiarizing a paper in college was enough to tank a candidacy. Our society has fallen

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Uh...

He continued to plagiarize up to that point in his political career.

He lied multiple times.

When reporters fact checked them, Biden lied about being top of his class and claimed to have a crazy high IQ and called reporters dumb...

He was a proto-trump in a lot of ways.

It wasn't the plagarizing that hurt him, it's that the mask dropped and he showed he thought he belong to a higher class of people than everyone else.

Please stop thinking you know everything about major political events because you read a social media comment that mentioned it, or even just entire Wikipedia articles.

It's not as simple as a summary