When was the last time American politics or an American politician made you cry?

I cried after the debate that led to his downfall.

( Joe Biden’s letter )

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My Fellow Americans,

Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans.

We’ve provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances. Passed the first gun safety law in 30 years. Appointed the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. And passed the most significant climate legislation in the history of the world. America has never been better positioned to lead than we are today.

I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we overcame a once in a century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We’ve protected and preserved our Democracy. And we’ve revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.

It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.

I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision. For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work.

And let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me. I believe today what I always have: that there is nothing America can’t do – when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.

Other than today, there were only 2 other times…the day JFK died & the morning I woke up the realization as to who was our 45th president.

^How could I forget that day? I also cried when Trump won the election.

Never. I wasn’t happy a bunch of times, like when Hillary lost and when Gore lost, but never to where I cried.

I remember when Trump won last time, there was a Jelly (who is no longer here as far as I know) who said her elementary school aged son cried for two weeks straight after Trump won. I didn’t say anything, because I try not to comment on other people’s parenting, but if you’re scaring your elementary school aged children with horror stories about candidates, you’re not doing them any favors.

I cried tears of joy when gay marriage was made legal.

It takes a lot to bring me to tears, but I cried for joy when Obama won his first term.

^^I’m keeping a copy of the Washington Post newspaper published that day.

JFK’s death. And I was 9 years old that day.

I may have shed some tears during some fits of laughter numerous times over the years, maybe even in the last week, and it’ll probably happen again in November.

American politics is the most entertaining and comical reality TV show of all time.

I’m not highly invested in politics nor do I understand what’s usually going on. Basically I do some research before voting and that’s about it.

But when I woke up to Trump being president I surprised myself by crying, not only for America, but for our embarrassment on the world stage.

I’m not prone to emotional outbursts especially in regards to politics, but I may have shed a tear when Israel was attacked.

@Kropotkin Indeed, it either enrages or amuses me at this point.

Nothing upset me more than Trump’s offensive comments to John McCain, the Vietnam veteran. McCain deserved nothing but respect and to hear a man like Trump disparage and try to humiliate him was almost too much to bear, as was the silence from the Republican ranks. If any one incident showed that something was going wrong with America, this was it, but no I didn’t cry. Some thoughts lie too deep for tears.

McCain was a complete scumbag. No soldier who did not resist the draft, protest the patent war of aggression after being drafted, or in any way objected to the Vietnam war has any moral leg to stand on.

McCain voluntarily signed up to fight in Vietnam, which makes him lower than vermin.

Trump might be a piece of shit, but him mocking McCain for being a loser who got caught was pretty funny, and McCain deserved absolutely not sympathy at all.

Americans would do better than glorifying stupid grunts willing to commit crimes against humanity for the state—as McCain did.

Never.

@Kropotkin You’re an idiot if you cannot understand that McCain was just an idiot himself and not a “Scumbag.” Yet, you sound so articulate so I cannot and will not accept that you are. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re just going for dramatic effect. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and many, including McCain fell for the intense propaganda at the time. That does not make him a scumbag. It makes him a victim.

@Blackwater_Park No. There were plenty of conscientious objectors at the time, and plenty who experienced the war and understood the utter immorality of it and spoke against it later.

McCain did neither. He never apologised for it, he never expressed remorse or regret. He was
a warmonger later in life. He was a scumbag. The idiots are people like him and you coming up with apologetics for immoral actions. The cognitive dissonance is all yours and those like him.

Save your patronising prattle for others please.

You have privilege of hindsight. That was not necessarily the case for those in the Vietnam era. Their parents likely fought in WWII, a very different scenario and that was their frame of reference. To be an objector early in Vietnam would have been quite a leap of intellect and political awareness.

JD Vance made me cry because I realized he’s deeply, deeply closeted and will never come out. :(

Never.

I will probably cry, when Trump destroys “Obamacare.”

A LOT of his sheep will be crying too.

When the streets of America, are littered with the corpses of people who died from treatable/curable diseases and other health problems, I would think that many people would cry.

@Demosthenes Besides his childhood, is there more evidence of that?

I might cry if Trump does drill baby drill in National Parks and pristine wilderness. Once you fuck up nature, it’s fucked up forever.

^Everyone will be upset, when the air and water, are poison.

I’m sure some will find a way, to blame it on something else.