Well, these are actually still early days - and, truth in advertising, I speak here as a Republican who was not a Trump fan and did not vote for him in 2016, but did not support Mr. Biden. However, so far, Mr. Biden's presidency has been, at best, underwhelming.
Indeed, so far, Mr. Biden has, in terms of style, not been unlike Mr. Trump. Albeit where Mr. Trump was bombastic, Mr. Biden has been peevish. Verbal gaffes. Partisan divides. No identifiable policy agenda. If anything, Mr. Biden has been more prolific with the Executive Orders than Mr. Trump ever was - with even the New York Times telling Mr. Biden to slow things down.
In any case, Mr. Biden has attempted to portray himself as a more unifying force than Mr. Trump. However, to date, it has not proved to be the case. The most unifying moment being when President Biden received ten moderate Republican Senators at the White House. They all came out speaking of compromise on a COVID bill.
Then - a mere 48 hours later - the President came out with a statement saying that the Republicans were free to sign on to the COVID bill and maybe there would be a agreement on a few secondary points. Translation - "Let's compromise. Do it my way." This being repeated, albeit with a bit more tact, in the recent negotiations on an infrastructure bill. Albeit that as Mr. Biden's own party is not unified on the question, he will end up compromising in some sense.
Not impressive. Throw in Mr. Biden's Trump-like penchant for name calling. See also his calling the decision by the Governors of Texas and Mississippi to end their state's COVID mask requirements. Neglecting that 14 states never had any such requirements, Mr. Biden chose to call the Governor's "Neanderthal thinking." This in the best tradition - or worst, according to taste - of Trump-like vitriol.
Suffice to say, at least in terms of style, if the American public had grown weary of Mr. Trump's lack of diplomacy, it would appear that all they got was more of the same, perhaps more quietly articulated. Though again, to repeat, more peevish than bombastic. See also Mr. Biden's annoyed response when a reporter had the effrontery to ask him if he should not upgrade his goals for COVID vaccine injections.
As to the aforementioned Executive Orders, it was probably not a good idea to sign the first one on inauguration day eliminating the Keystone pipeline. Whatever the merits of the policy - and they are debatable - wiping out 4000 high paying union jobs your first day on the job is not exactly good PR. Even Mr. Trump at his most obtuse was not that tone deaf.
To this must be added the rising problems on the southern border. Mr. Biden's goal seems to have been to wipe out any of Mr. Trump's policies just because they were Mr. Trump's policies and not because of any substantive policy differences. The result has been policy for its own sake without any defining rationale or purpose.
Hence now, in the case of immigration, a rising problem that need not have been. With a surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the border - an eye popping 64% increase over last year. When questioned on this, the President's new Secretary of Homeland Security tragicomically announced that the rising tide of immigrants were welcome to come - just please not yet. It is babblingly incoherent to say no more.
Finally add in Mr. Biden's foreign policy. At worst, he does not appear to have one. At best, he seems to believe - as the former President he most resembles seemed to believe - that if you be nice to people they will forego their national interests and be nice to you. Mr. Biden does not seem to understand that the international arena - NOTE: "arena" and not "community - is the realm of Machiavelli and not Mother Teresa. Such thinking got Mr. Carter the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It remains to be seen what it will buy Mr. Biden.
Put it all together and it has not been an auspicious start. Mr. Biden is a bland figure of no discernible views or philosophy. The directionless and haphazard nature of his first months in office amplifying the point. It is to be hoped - without much real optimism - that there is better to come.
Just like any President, I hope the best for him and wish him success and health in his life. I don’t care too much for politics. I’m sure President Biden is an extraordinary person to get to know personally.
All most of us see and know of him is what social media or news outlets put out.
The same thing with President Trump.
We don’t know these people… REALLY know them, especially not personally.
All we know of them are the memes, lies, half truths, and other non sense spread by the media and society around us.
It’s a shame really. It’s how the world works now…..
I think that he is the stupidest person in the universe and that he needs to go back to kindergarten! He cheated in the election, which makes him a criminal, and he doesn't even know how to run a country. He's destroyed our world, our lives, our families. I have a feeling that he PLANNED COVID-19 to get trump to get the virus and get him sick. Then he would start the terrible America Demolition and it worked. I would rather live anywhere but America right now because of what Biden has done and I am a born and raised American girl! TRUMP 2020! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! And if that won't happen, TRUMP 2024 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Yo that is what's up!!! I voted for Trump in the 2016 election, but that was to vote against Hilary, but the second term I voted for him because I liked him. Now our country is in chaos with Biden as our new president and with Kamala Harris and the squad it's a way to force dark days onto us American citizens.
My dad and mom voted Trump 2016 because they wanted to vote republican and they voted him in 2020 because they liked him. my dad said the best presidents are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
- Joe is obviously not in control of the executive branch of government. He rarely addresses the nation directly, and instead relies almost entirely on the media and other prominent party members to speak for him. When he does come out in public, it's an unmitigated trainwreck that requires extensive editing and outside explanation to pass off. - One of the biggest examples of this is how almost all international affairs are being dumped in the lap of the Vice President. It's normal for *some* of this to go the VP, but Kamala is doing pretty much all of it at this point. She's also terrible at it, but that's another story entirely. - It's also worth mentioning that his administration is not doing what he campaigned on, but instead more closely resembles the Harris and Sanders campaigns. The entire reason he was the frontrunner in the Democratic primary was because he was sold as the more moderate/less radical option. Not surprisingly, the party hive mind was always going to do the same thing regardless of who won, but it would be remiss to not point this out. - Two major positive legacies of the previous administration, namely a very firm diplomatic yet non-interventionist foreign policy, and giving the axe to underperforming appointees have been very brazenly abandoned for the more traditional cronyism and spoils system, and a very unpopular but very blatant attempt to reignite conflicts overseas, especially in Israel and the Arabian peninsula. Despite overwhelming examples of corruption and dishonesty by figures like Dr Fauci, John Kerry, and the ATF director to name a few, the administration has made it crystal clear that they have no intention of relieving any of them of duty "under any circumstances."
Now there's a lot of other, smaller things I could ram into this but the biggest, most relevant elephant in the room is the spending. To date, Joe's administration has made over 18 Trillion Dollars worth of funding proposals. This is by far the most massive increase in spending that the country has ever seen, and in each of these, no more than about 10% of the money is actually directed at the titular cause of their respective bills, while the rest is basically throwing taxpayer money (that we don't have and has never existed anywhere close to this value) at corrupt ulterior motives and pork projects aimed at lining pockets and massive expansion of federal government, particularly into high density housing, healthcare, and mass transit. If even a fraction of this crap gets passed (and probably at least half of it likely will), inflation is going to go through the roof. In many areas, it has already begun to directly affect food and freight costs and getting worse. If nothing else was a factor, or if this was happening under the other party's watch, this alone would still merit an automatic C- AT BEST. In fact the more I think about it, Joe (and by extension his puppetmasters) may actually deserve an F.
He makes for a good meat puppet, doing everything the shadowy scum of the WEF and/or China wants and taking all the heat and flack for it, when everyone knows he barely knows what year it is or his own name. The best thing of all is, you can't even assassinate or impeach him (not that I'm wishing that on him); it would only make him look like a martyr and give his masters even more power. Even Kamala doesn't have any real power once she becomes President and Sleepy Joe is finally put out to pasture. The Democrats, as evil as they are, really did come up with the perfect plan to fuck over America and sell us out to China while becoming slightly, minorly richer.
I don't blame them, nor do I blame Sleepy Joe. I blame America for not rioting in the tens of thousands and destroying Washington DC days after the election the way they did Portland and the West Coast when some random criminal got killed by a negligent cop. I love my country, but man, it's SO fucking hard to see rich pieces of shit destroy it like this, while most Americans can't get off their fat asses to do something about it, aside from a few boomers who stole a podium from Congress. Those are the only heroes left in America? Man, I don't even regret leaving my country anymore. If they can't fight for themselves, I'm sure as hell not going to fight on their behalf.
Let the elitists destroy America while Joe takes the blame for another year or so before he kicks the bucket. It's too late to save anyone, now. And no, Trump is never getting re-elected. They'd sooner shoot everyone in the streets, Communist style, than let that happen.
@Goatmeal 1. Nobody, not even Democrats, vote for Joe Biden. He had armed military on Inauguration Day. 2. Democrats literally tried that same shit for 4 years with Trump and would have, if they had any kind of manpower to do so. 3. Yeah, dumbass. It's literally in the FUCKIN' Constitution to overthrow corrupt governments if they happen. If you ever read it.
@Goatmeal "I would take a literal [orangutan] over the previous occupant of the White House."
That's exactly why I can't respect stupid motherfuckers who say shit like this. It's painful how absolutely stupid people are. I don't care if you don't think Trump was suitable for president. But when you support someone objectively worse just because he has a D next to his name is "should be forcefully sterilized" level of dumbassery. Especially if they're over the age of 24. I don't even fucking care how bad that sounds.
I had hopes for him, especially his promises to unite us but then the first things he did was break that promise and go down the path of dividing us more.
I watched as he and other Democrats gave up the chance to move to closer unity to pass bills by themselves and then he himself doing things that he flat out said, he is doing this to live up to his promises. Even if doing that means no chance for unity or working with the other side.
Once all that was done and it was too late, he then suddenly wants to work with the other side... too late for that. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion, could see what would happen.
I will say personality he is an idiot, when he signed the EO requiring people out west here to wear masks while on federal land... right. Only a complete 100% idiot would think masks to fight covid would be required in the mountains (forest service land) or the desert areas of BLM land... I had a freaking ranger chase me down to threaten me over NOT wearing a mask while I was hiking alone, miles from anyone.
What kind of idiot issues that kind of EO, is he too dumb to say masks required except when you can keep decent distance. Had a relative go to Yellowstone and they had to wear masks under their snowmobile helmets when outside far away from anyone.
At the same time he is doing a lot of the same things as Trump and the media is silent on it. If it was bad when Trump did it why is it okay for him to do it?
he has 80% the same policies as trump but 100% of the wrong rhetoric
his party is too concerned with being nice and not doing what's good for us in the long run.
for example his immigration policies are the same as trumps buuuuut he says EVERYONE IS WELCOME and so we get floods of migrants. this hurts the migrants as he still crams them into detention facilities but also lowers wages for the working class by increasing competition into the job market
He has put this country back 4 years in just 4 months. I am seeing it every day in the price of things and how businesses are wary of hiring because the future is uncertain. More restrictions are starting to show up in our lives and the media/big tech monopoly is running rough shod over our right to free speech.
So far he’s been great! His leadership has nearly defeated Covid in less than 6 months. The economy is improving and people are getting back to work. He has been a calm influence on the country and now wants to invest wisely in infrastructure. He is showing with his years of experience how to lead.
Yeah he’s great alright. How do you explain the border and his job losses in the energy sector. How do you explain the underwhelming economic recovery? He had nothing to do with vaccine development or vaccine deployment
The border has been the same for over 20 years. Energy sector is in transition towards more sustainable solutions and less reliant on fossil fuels. The economy is very hot, not underwhelming.
He has led the deployment efforts, set milestones and is hitting every one. Because of his leadership the US numbers are way down with infections and deaths
Who was it that really got the vaccine made? His idea of infrastructure is the family leave act. His years are showing alright, showing he is mentally impaired.
The border was not the same and you know it. Trump didn’t allow them in and they were ordered to be held in Mexico at Mexico’s expense remember. You don’t shut down jobs while trying to create new technology dumb ass. You keep people employed no matter what. He has cost thousands of jobs in my state. He’s had nothing to do with Covid. It was all Trump
'male'* 2nd recently asked questions 3 years ago, concidering the fact that I was not visiting this site for the last 3 years it was quite some time ago
Fauci and medical professionals created the vaccine. But Biden made it a priority to get many people vaxed. Racist Trump Supporters refuse to get the vaccine and that’s killing victims
They support a woman’s right to choose. I don’t know about you but I don’t want the government telling me what to do with my body. They aren’t pro abortion
Not hardly. He got rid of Biden’s crime bill and increased funding to black colleges more than Obama/Biden ever did. He did more prison reform. He increased jobs and wages for minorities than any in history. Keeping illegals out of our country is not racist. Now let’s look at Biden. He stood with segregationists over segregation of schools, he created the crime bill that sent more minorities to prison than anyone, he said you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me, he tells minorities they have to have is help to be able to make it just like slave owners told their slaves, he’s in the party that fought against freeing slaves
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He's doing fine ; considering the plate of shit the previous imbecile left him to deal with.
The problem is with Murica as a nation and society is regressing in this day and age. You have Anti-vax, armed fuckwits, with two brain cells ; sharing the same platform as scientists and academics. Such a society rarely lasts long.
The only burning issue left to him by the previous administration was COVID and the last administration even had 3 versions of a vaccine ready when he took office for him to deal with that. The rest of this shit show was brought on by his own policies.
it's nice that we have a president that actually does his job, and not running off to play golf and tweet at the TV. Overall, Biden is doing pretty good, but he should stomp all over those Republicans in Congress, instead of trying to kiss up to them. They hate him no matter what he does anyway.
@hailiegirl12 - Trump jumped all over Obama about taking too many vacations and playing golf too much, but when Trump was president, he took at least TWICE as many vacations and playing golf. Can you spell HYPOCRITE?
It’s painful to watch him make a speech without making a face palm. He seemed really sharp in the debates with Trump, but I have a strong feeling he had a mini stroke in between then, and now, and that the government is trying to hide it. But, seriously, he can’t get some super memory drug/ mental clarity cocktail only available to celebrities? I mean even Hitler was on early versions of Crystal Meth, as an upper such as Pervitin, and various downers.
A senile old fuck that will push America back of a couple decades. And still a senile old fuck that is basically keeping on going with Trump's agenda all the while having insulted him for 4 whole years including 2 attempts at impeachment.
@Goatmeal I don't know, I don't care. I didn't like the orange in chief either, and I'm talking as a non-american who's interested on how bad you stars-n'striped fuckers are able to send a centuries old country tits up. But seriously, hiring a good for nothing that showed his inadequacy along 47 years of nothingburgers as the head of the States kind of shows how stupid you all got, as a people.
@Goatmeal One thing I'm sure of. None of the latest two administrations you Americaz got is a democracy. Primarily because the American government is NOT a democracy, and you, an americaz, not knowing is pathetic enough to begin with, and because in the first case the biggest contributors where ahead in the game, in the seconds it's a social battle for which minority should be at the helm instead of the white people, who are unironically the majority of the americaz people. Biggest problem about americaz politics is that none of you fucks know fuck all about politics, nor what model your own government is.
You're right that the US is far from a perfect democracy, and there is way too much money in American politics, along with gerrymandering, the Electoral College, voting restrictions, etc.
But that is different from literally trying to override an election and install your preferred leader by force, disregarding the will of the majority.
Your president has cognitive difficulties. He has a nuclear button, is the commander of the most powerful military in the world, is for some strange reason, friendly with a fascist regime and his policies will have global consequences.
I think he’s got some mild cognitive impairment going on and is definitely pandering to the far left on policy but at least he’s not a rolling dumpster fire. The bar was set so low by the last administration, it would have been difficult to not be at least a minor improvement. My hope is that he can provide some stability until a better candidate comes along.
@jerdanro I’m more worried about his domestic policies and the overall cost and scope. As for foreign relations, I think he’ll normalize relations with our allies and he’ll not be a shill for Russia. He doesn’t seem to have a coherent plan for China though.
I would take a literal orangutang over the previous occupant of the White House. Biden seems not bad, although his support for Israel as it slaughtered Palestinian civilians was disgusting and morally wrong. Also, he looks fragile. Think we'll probably get President Kamala soon, and I'm slightly less comfortable with that, but we'll see.
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All i can say is im glad i didn't vote for him.. He is weak, Can barely make it through a press conference.. And so far has done more harm than good to the middle, and lower class of people. One thing specifically, He canceled an executive order from Trump that forced insulin manufacturers to keep the product at a reasonable price.. The following month, the prices of insulin jumped something like 800%.. Fuck him.
The facts are that Biden is a ho-hum president, and he won simply by not being Trump and most don't mind that. People can actually wake up in the morning without that guy's jackhammer of a twitter.
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