Biden Says “Six to Eight Months” Before the GOP Turnaround.
By: Lauren Elizabeth
Tags: Joe Biden, Democrats, Republican Party, Government, Politics

Biden Says “Six to Eight Months” Before the GOP Turnaround.

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After infamously telling a room full of his high dollar Wall Street donors that nothing would fundamentally change under his leadership, the Republican party unsurprisingly is more than willing to help President-Elect Joe Biden fulfill his promise. As the Electoral college prepared to solidify Biden’s victory over Donald Trump, Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Epstein wrote in a thread on Twitter:

“Biden says that 7 Senate Republicans, “mostly senior,” have called him tonight. He spoke to “one of the most senior members” who expressed a willingness to work on China and infrastructure. It’s going to take 6–8 months but GOP will work w him, “you’re going to be surprised.” Biden recounted a call he had tonight w “one of the most senior members” of Senate GOP. “Joe, we’ve always been able to work together and there’s a lot we can work on” was the msg from this lawmaker, who said he’s willing to work w Biden on China, covid, health & infrastructure. “I predict to you, and I may eat these words, I predict you as Donald Trump’s shadow fades away, you’re going to see an awful lot of change,” Biden said as he reflected tonight on outreach from Senate Republicans. “I know I’ve been criticized heavily for saying from the beginning, we’ve got to unify the country,” Biden said. “I think you’re going to be surprised. It’s going to take six to eight months to get it under way but I think you’re going to be surprised.” “I’ve never once misled any of my Republican colleagues. Not one single time. And they know they can trust Kamala as well. And we can figure out where we can cooperate. Where we can’t, we have our arguments,” Biden said tonight on a video call with grassroots supporters.”

“It’s going to take six to eight months to get it under way but I think you’re going to be surprised.”

Putting aside that Trump’s shadow is certainly not fading away, having the soon-to-be President of the United States touting the fact that it will be six to eight months before Republicans even pretend to be willing to work with him as though that’s something to be proud of is absolutely surreal.

I genuinely do not know how anyone could take in this information, and see the United States as nothing more than a failed state. Our lawmakers across party lines are so fundamentally unconcerned with the wellbeing or the best interests of the citizens they have been entrusted to represent, that one might even argue these past nine months have been a genocide against the working class and elderly. Nine months of a brutal, sadistic, sociopathic and unnecessary destruction of any last shred of stability for millions of people, and the loss of over 300,000 lives. But Joe Biden has the nerve to brag that in six to eight months, Republicans will finally come to the table to force the inevitable austerity measures Biden’s administration will readily embrace?

Like so many others who have come before him, the President-Elect is proving that riots and unrest are the only language our political leadership will listen to. Are we supposed to watch all of this unfold and be happy, or optimistic about what the future holds under Joe Biden’s leadership? Am I supposed to be excited at the prospect of watching Biden’s administration doing absolutely nothing to alleviate the suffering and unnecessary stress, trauma, and instability millions of people have had to endure, and then being told to sit down, be quiet, and shut up because midterms are on the way?

He hasn’t even taken office, and it feels as though Biden is doing everything he possibly can to show the American people not to expect anything.

As angry as all of this makes me, it’s par for the course in a nation where our politicians are bought and sold to the highest bidder, functionally designed to be so insulated and separated from the real-world affects and consequences of their failures. At some point, one has to ask how much longer we can carry on like this? How much longer can we operate as a failed state masquerading behind the inconceivable wealth of the elite, stolen from the people whose labor created it. Biden might be proud that Americans have 6–8 months of complete and total gridlock before the inevitable austerity measures come along with Republicans on board, but I’ll be interested to see how long they can continue to get away with playing with fire.