Biden presidency and 2024 election campaign

[David]

[Jezza]

Agree, the withdrawal of Afghanistan was a good and necessary thing. Although, I don't think it was handled well but maybe the nature of the war meant it was always going to be a mess and the country would fall into Taliban hands inevitably.

The most pressing issue domestically is rising inflation. I suspect this is what is driving the decline in Biden's approval rating.

[pietillidie]

^Yeah, inflation will worry people for some time yet (for reasons ranging from sensible caution to economic quackery). The good jobs report out today is likely what Biden's been banking on; it was always going to turn eventually with Covid adaptation despite vaxless uncertainty spreaders. That said, he needs two of those jobs reports in a row. The global recovery demand spike will keep inflation up for some time yet, but that's out of his hands. At least in the US it's not coupled with the supply chain suicide of Brexit.

[What'sinaname]

Looks like VPOTUS is a huge flop.

Now embroiled in a toxic work culture and mass exodus of staff.

[David]

[What'sinaname]

Congratulations to POTUS Joe Biden and VPOTUS Kamala Harris.

The darkness and dark ages removed may the Stars and Stripes shine brightly.

This thread aged quite badly didn't it. Expectations of a brighter future marred by a POTUS who isn't all there an a VP who doesn't know where there is.

[Jezza]

Congratulations to POTUS Joe Biden and VPOTUS Kamala Harris.

The darkness and dark ages removed may the Stars and Stripes shine brightly.

This thread aged quite badly didn't it. Expectations of a brighter future marred by a POTUS who isn't all there an a VP who doesn't know where there is.

Pretty much sums up the current state of affairs.

[doriswilgus]

Congratulations to POTUS Joe Biden and VPOTUS Kamala Harris.

The darkness and dark ages removed may the Stars and Stripes shine brightly.

This thread aged quite badly didn't it. Expectations of a brighter future marred by a POTUS who isn't all there an a VP who doesn't know where there is.

Given where America was 12 months ago when Trump and his crazies tried to burn the place down,I’d say that the country is miles better off than it was this time last year,

[What'sinaname]

The latest polls would suggests that Americans disagree, citing concerns around the Democrats handling of the economy, inflation and handling of the border.

[doriswilgus]

The latest polls would suggests that Americans disagree, citing concerns around the Democrats handling of the economy, inflation and handling of the border.

The American economy’s actually doing well.5% + growth,unemployment down to 4.2% from 6.4% this time last year.5.9 million jobs created in the first ten months of the year.It’s only inflation that is a concern,and that is largely the product of an economy that’s rapidly growing after the pandemic and supply chain issues with factories around the world.

[think positive]

Plus without trump they can be taken a little seriously again!

[pietillidie]

Yeah, their economic recovery is technically going very well, and Biden has delivered on major bills and of course withdrawn from the utter historical disaster of Afghanistan, rejoined the world on emissions, and tried to make strides on Covid in the land of the anti-science loon and Christian Taliban nutcase.

But the culture is too far gone. Giant swathes are not satisfied unless they're asserting themselves by wrecking something, and preferably shooting it. Progress is viewed as effeminate; science as a threat; social quality as a personal tax; anyone else's gain as my loss; and violence as the one unassailable right. Antisocial personality disorder writ large.

[David]

I know criticising Republicans is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I was amused by the unintentional juxtaposition offered by one prominent Trump supporter in a video I was watching the other day in which she said she supported Trump’s "America First" agenda but then seconds later said she would leave and take her business to another country if taxes were raised to a degree that she considered unfair. Total ideological incoherence.

[pietillidie]

Remember all that gleeful talk about rival power block Europe breaking apart and globalisation retreating? American projection, if ever there was. Trump veneration, gunphilia, abortion proscription, ongoing healthcare insecurity, anti-science religious quackery, and so on, would completely creep out the average person from most Western societies, if not most high-income countries. It makes you wonder if the jump in secessionist sentiment has serious underpinnings.

[What'sinaname]

President Joe Biden on Wednesday called former President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement "the most extreme political organization in American history."

What an idiot. I don't know who is the biggest idiot in the US, Biden or George Gascon