Biden Warns About 'Dark Days' Under Trump Administration: 'Get Ready, Folks, This Is Just Starting'

[B.See]

And President Biden is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

Biden Warns About ‘Dark Days’ Under Trump Administration: ‘Get Ready, Folks, This Is Just Starting’ - Upolitics

At the National Bar Association’s annual convention, Former President Joe Biden warned of impending “dark days” under President Donald Trump‘s leadership. His warning stems from concerns surrounding recent attacks on civil rights, and how the executive branch now “seems to be doing its best to dismantle the Constitution.”

“You can’t sugarcoat it. These are the dark days,” Biden said to a crowd of over 1,000 people. “We are, in my view, at such a moment in American history, reflected in every cruel executive outreach, every rollback of basic freedoms, every erosion of long-standing, established precedent.”

[underpants]

1. 7 months in. 41 to go.

We are concern, we are hope despite the times
- REM

[quakerboy]

6. 41 looks like an illusory goal

41 months like the last 7, and there will be absolutely no chance of a free election taking place in the USA. Election results will be as pre-determined as those in Russia, Belarus, or Venezuala.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Maybe (n.t.)

[B.See]

13. allow me, if you will, to share a link

for those who might miss the reference.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/r-e-m-share-we-are-hope-despite-the-times-compilation-to-mark-national-voter-registration-day-3794616

[RockRaven]

2. Oh, man, if only someone could have been in a position to prevent all this...

Some, like, office or something for like four years or so.

[orangecrush]

4. Yup

[stage left]

5. Like a strong,

smart, and compassionate woman, for instance? One whose first name begins with K? That someone?

[RockRaven]

17. How about an older man with a stutter who knows a lot about malarkey?

[BeyondGeography]

7. C'mon now...he put Merrick Garland on the case

[Exp]

8. Yep. nt

[orangecrush]

9. Yup

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. I'm thinking eight and a half (n.t.)

[Hornedfrog2000]

14. Its unfucking real

Makes me sick. I mean, he could have stopped all of this.

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. I know, right? Someone who could prosecute wrongdoing and corruption. . . .

[Callie1979]

27. Yes, he should've kept his original plan to be a 1 termer & we'd had a primary

A REAL primary. And TIME to run a real campaign. And defeated this traitorous bastard.
And yes, on more than one occasion in '20 he said it was likely he'd be a "transitional" president. I didnt agree with him running again & when I said so everyone came for me. Well THAT worked out great didnt it

[Sewa]

43. So true

😏💀

[samsingh]

28. If someone could have released records and

Brought in a candidate that had time to establish themselves after a convention we would not have had trump

[slightlv]

35. Nope... I don't think even that would have done the trick.

I'm convinced the election and vote rigging was in the bag LONG before the election even happened. Until we find a way to do elections safely and securely, we'll always be a risk of a russian style election; but right now, we're on track to surpass even putin i machiavelli maneuvers!

[samsingh]

45. i've spoken to a lot of people - it's anecdotal evidence i understand

but many of them, who have Democratic values, voted for trump for the reasons i mentioned earlier, but essentially:

- President Biden did a lot of good things, but we hardly ever heard about them
- President Biden promised to be a transitional 1 term President. He changed his mind and then did a very bad first debate. The people i've spoken to keep asking why that happened and why it was hidden from the voters
- Did not feel ready to vote for a woman, and in any case only had a 100 days to get to know the candidate
- if trump did so many things wrong, why was he not charged sooner (good question for garland)
- if the Democrats want to win why are they not giving a message for the majority of voters to get behind


Republicans are masters of empty talk and messaging. They turn strengths into weaknesses. They made liberal a bad word. Now the same with woke. They turned John Kerry, a war hero, into a coward compared to the true coward George Bush who snuck his way out of serving. They make a 5 time bankrupt businessman appear as brilliant with money. These are the messages out there and we have not responded to these. So, yes, i believe there is foreign interference and we are not fighting back against it effectively.

President Biden won the election during a time when trump had all the power. We lost an election when we had the power. If there was foreign interference, we had the tools to fight it, highlight it, bring attention to it.

[themaguffin]

47. yeah, seriously.

[spanone]

3. K&R

[SouthBayDem]

10. "U Politics" appears to be a content farm or blog

reusing others’ work without attribution.

Politico reported on JRB’s speech three weeks ago; https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-00488159

[B.See]

16. Thanks for reference. As I've said

some time ago, I use news aggregators (online and app) that gathers news items from various sources. And there are a number of stand alone sites, like Yahoo, MSN, etc. that do the same, and run the same story.

Bottom line being, many stories are carried/shared by many sources.

So while upolitics may have failed (as you say) to correctly attribute the original source, the report is (imo) still valid.

Furthermore, if multiple sources run the story, the better the chance for those who missed it, first go round (as I did) to see it.

EDIT:

Uhh, I just read that Politico article you linked, and though it's reporting the same event, it's NOT the same article.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Gee, thanks for the warning...I guess.

[Karasu]

19. Yeah, I was going to say...this might have been appropriate back on January 19th, but we've all been living this shit

for 8 fucking months now. Everyone with a functioning brain knows the country can't take another year of this, let alone any more than that.

Don't get me wrong, I like you, Joe...but I really have no idea what you're trying to accomplish by making a statement like this at this point in time.

[B.See]

20. I haven't any problem with his

adding his voice to the growing alarm of MANY upon seeing the ever increasing and all out assault upon not only democracy, but civil LIBERTIES itself.

Seems there's outcry against those who haven't stepped forward and spoken up, then criticism for those who do. I don't get it.

Seems to me the more voices of protest and warning, especially from notable and highly regarded figures, the BETTER.

[Karasu]

24. You make a good point. If him speaking up does indeed convince more people to realize the gravity of the situation, it's

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worthwhile. That's a big if, though. If the last 8 months haven't done it, I'm skeptical that this will.

I know President Biden's intentions are good, though.

[Doug Skullery]

21. Biden failed

I liked Biden as president. I voted for him twice, and until Trump's re-election, I considered him the best president of my lifetime. Granted, that was a pretty low bar because we have so many terrible presidents over the last sixty years.

Nonetheless, I have to consider his presidency an abject failure because he did not succeed in saving our democracy from this authoritarian nightmare we are living through now.

Besides the Merrick Garland fuck-up, his debate performance stands out as the key moment when he failed to convey the existential threat to our democracy that Trump represented. Biden should not have been polite, nor wasted time talking about golf or trivial policy issues. He probably shouldn't have even agreed to debate an obvious fascist demagogue hell-bent on destroying everything sacred and precious in our country.

[Deuxcents]

22. So..it's all Biden's fault?! I cannot and do not agree. At all.

[B.See]

25. Nor do I. Granted,

Garland was the wrong man for what was needed in response to an armed insurrection and attempted coup. But I'm not as inclined to feel Biden failed America, but rather perhaps, America failed Biden.

My take on him is that he did the best he could for US, for America, in spite of the opposition, the derision, and obstruction.

I believe he would've liked to hang up the hat, but was convinced he'd be the only one capable of stopping Trump/MAGA. That he ran for US.

Just like I believe he stepped down for the exact same reason. It wasn't his fault that age took its toll. The debate? Well,

I once wrote a piece (elsewhere) in which I suggested that Democrats could do with some of MAGA's fanaticism. Because Trump could tell his DEVOTEES to eat ***** and they'd all line up from TwiddleDusk to TwiddleDawn to get an extra helping. That's how THEY roll.

No way THEY'D balk at Trump dropping the ball (and they've had plenty of opportunity I think). Not a chance. They just DOUBLE DOWN.

High time we start doubling down too.

[Irish_Dem]

26. You apparently have never lived in a democracy.

In a a democracy the power belongs to WE THE PEOPLE.

They are 100% to blame for our predicament.

No one person is to blame at all.

[dwayneb]

29. We really don't live in a representative democracy

Yes I realize that this is a right-wing talking point.

But with the emergence of MAGA it becomes clearer every day that the system of government that the founders delivered to us always had within it the seeds of tyranny.

It comes down to four features that are designed to take away your right to just and fair representation.

Gerrymandering to tilt the House to over-represent a tyrannical minority
Two senators per state in the Senate, to over-represent a tyrannical minority
The electoral college, designed from day 1 to over-represent a tyrannical minority
A President that has enormous power to go around any checks and balances that might be in place

I no longer believe we have the ability to overcome these fundamental weaknesses and that we are doomed to fail as a free nation. Not sure I know where things will go next, but in the next 41 months I full expect the Fascist Right to cement their power for the long term.

[Boomerproud]

31. KnR your last paragraph.

nt

[thought crime]

39. In federalist No.22 Alexander Hamilton condemned two Senators per state.

"The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation. Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Deleware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina. Its operation contradicts the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail."

Today, the effect of the two-senator problem is to amplify the representation of the rural population (e.g. Wyoming vs California) to an absurd degree. Gerrymandering could be fixed instantly by assigning representatives proportionately. And the electoral college is an obvious evil that no one can defend, but they do.

We've been overwhelmed by the flaws used to game the system. The system is broken but its own fundamental flaws prevent a fix.

[johnp3907]

41. What a load of crap.

[moondust]

23. I've never seen so much

abuse of power every day by the White House and/or DOJ and/or FBI and/or GQP Congress and/or SCROTUS and/or state governments (Texas), etc.

Fifty years ago I actually assumed the GQP would clean up their act after the embarrassment of Watergate and Nixon's resignation. Then came the Raygun/"Trickle Down"/"Greed is Good" gang which was marked by numerous scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any president of the United States. And Raygun winning a 49-state landslide in 1984 was a dark omen of things to come.

Like Joe says, the current gang is just getting started.

[Autumn]

30. No. It's been going on a while now. Jan 6th should have been the start of Trumps end.

But it wasn't.

[Hotler]

32. Joe, when will you or others say the words domestic enemy?

So many have taken an oath to defend yet are afraid to say the words before a microphone or the press.

[Firestorm49]

33. How polite.

[Joinfortmill]

34. More Biden Bashing.

[thought crime]

37. I'm sure Biden can take a little heat.

The Democratic Party isn't a sham run by con men, like the Republicans. Hopefully, some constructive criticism is good for us; that's why we don't usually fall for "the Big Lie" type lies. We don't usually form cults of personality. And hopefully, we don't repeat the same mistakes over and over.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

38. If not President Biden

some other Dem, or someone appointed by a Dem.

Every. Single. Day.

[Magoo48]

36. Thanks Joe, but everyone can identify the problem; what we are short on is organization and solutions.

[Evolve Dammit]

40. As he warned for the last few years if Voldemort were to return to power. Civil War II

[Oopsie Daisy]

42. But... The "Uncommitted" and "leave it blank" politicians...

... Have yet to apologize or admit their grave and selfish error.

[B.See]

44. Frankly speaking, I believe if they had

the self awareness, the insight, the consciousness, the wherewithal to do that, they probably wouldn't have been "undecideds" and "leave it blanks" in the FIRST place.

I mean, it isn't as if it were a mystery as to who and WHAT Trump/MAGA stood for, and what they planned on DOING.

[Oopsie Daisy]

46. The betrayal! They have shown their true colors.

Maybe the voters will see what I also see.