Biden to Republicans: "I will work with you. I understand a lot of your reluctance... "

[grumpyduck]

From HuffPost:

Asked Monday what his message was to GOP officials who have not accepted his win, the former vice president said he understood their position and suggested he wouldn’t hold it against them when he takes office next year.

“I will work with you. I understand a lot of your reluctance because of the way the president operates,” Biden said at a news conference in Delaware after a meeting with top economic and labor leaders.

IOW, "I know he's a bully and you're afraid of him."

[BusyBeingBest]

1. ...

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, I would love to know what the limit is Biden has set for MAGA. I don't see Red Don going away..

... unless he's in jail or has passed, Trump will be come a major force in the kGOP party.

A Darth Sith ... a dark force

[mr_lebowski]

3. Ya know I wish I still had more of the old 'nice' mr_lebowski left in my soul ...

That way I could appreciate his grace the way I'd like to.

Right now I find myself wishing he'd said something with the words 'traitorous' and 'sedition' featured prominently.

I've become VEEERY un-dude, esp. in the past 9 days.

[bdamomma]

4. Yeah me too

All the more reason to get that Moscow Mitch not to be the Majority Leader anymore. McConnell is a fucking snake.

I don't trust the repigs not at all. They have shown us their treacherous ways.

[Lancero]

5. You'd think he'd have had a front row seat to how well Repugs work with Democrats...

Given how they treated Obama.

No one wants to admit it, but our country has cancer. Ask any doctor just how well sitting back and expecting the cancer to go away by itself works out.

[hadEnuf]

6. I just hope Binden is walking softly with the GOP

and carrying the big stick for when they start to stab him in the back.

[Earthshine2]

7. Joe, they will take everything you offer, complain it's not enough, and then stab you in the back.

[progressoid]

8. But they aren't going to work with you! Wake up Joe.

[greenjar_01]

9. Biden's doing and saying exactly what he should

Good on him.

The adults are back.

[melman]

10. Oof

Ugh.

[Azathoth]

11. This is Obama 2.0

Remember that feeling for the first two years of the Obama Administration as we sat and watched Obama relentlessly try to kick the GOP's Lucy football?

It's going to be that all over again, with the added bonus of a (probable) McConnell-controlled Senate.

This Democratic idea that preemptive surrender is the best way to open negotiations with a hostile, irrational enemy is outright pathological.

[Sogo]

12. This.

Joe doesn't know the current GOP. Some of it is Trump, but some of their behavior is donor controlled.

[Mordred]

13. Obstruction

Biden's first 2 years will be like Obama's last 2, obstruction of legislation and appointments by McConnell.

The ensuing 2 years will likely see Dems lose the House which will result in a similarity to Obama's middle years where the only deals made are to end government shutdowns.

I hope I am wrong.

[Aristus]

14. I think Joe is "washing his hands" of the Republicans.

He can promise them, quite sincerely, that he won't seek charges against Trump and his enablers in any way, then turn the whole ball of wax over to SDNY. Any repukes have a problem with that, Joe can just say "It's a state matter. The Federal government is not getting involved."

That's the kind of thing the GOP claims to love, so they should shut up about it...

[backscatter712]

15. God dammit Biden, don't step in the bipartisanship.

Looks like we're in for another four years of Lucy & the football....

[NYC Liberal]

16. They won't even acknowledge that he won. The bare minimum.

I don't think they're going to work with him.