What is your opinion of Joe Biden as a president?

[Anonymous]

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7 mo

I like how gag picked another set of answers. Just lol.

[WhiteSteve]

He’s whatever. Certainly not as bad as advertised, haha, that’s a lot of Trump damage control, because MAGA can’t afford to have anyone look better than Trump after anointing him the greatest POTUS of all time…. just lmfao.

He takes a lot of blame for things that aren’t his fault or not completely in his control. Gas is expensive everywhere. The problem is that Americans think America is the only country in the world where stuff happens, so they remain ignorant, often willfully ignorant, of what the circumstances are elsewhere, except if it makes America look good by comparison, then everyone’s an expert on international living conditions😂 When gas was $4 per gallon here, it was like the equivalent of $8 per gallon in the UK, for example, if you translate from liters and the British pound.

You have to view the entire presidency through the filter of the Republican spin on him, which is very deliberately and disingenuously done. I regret that I have to talk about Trump at every turn when the question isn’t about him, but it’s unfortunately unavoidable, as the primary narratives about Biden are generated from MAGA-World.

The cons to me are that he’s for sure an old DC establishment guy. If your angle for Trump was the “drain the swamp” thing, that’s not totally wrong, you’re on the right track, but you’re on the wrong train. Trump ran on that because he knew people wanted to hear that. The power and respect of being POTUS is what Trump wanted. If you found someone who was GENUINE in that pursuit, that would be awesome, but holy shit, Trump ain’t it, stay awake, guys. But I’m all for getting money out of politics. You shouldn’t get rich from being a politician, during or after your term (s) in office. That’s a systematic issue, you have to kick lobbying the fuck out of DC in it’s entirety. Get people in there who just want to legislate for the sake of good legislation, that’s it. Is Biden that guy? I can’t say, but I suppose I wouldn’t bet on it. The idea with Trump is that he’s already allegedly rich and would be above bribery since he’s not a career politician…. but the only people possibly shadier than career politicians are career businessmen, in my opinion anyway, so that’s definitely not the character pond you want to be fishing from.

Elephant in the room: Biden is old as fuck. I don’t think he’s senile…. but the dude ain’t crisp, either. I find something unsettling about someone who won’t be here in ten years making moves that affect people who will be here for many decades in the future. That’s a non-partisan issue to me. One thing I observe as I live longer and longer is that, with all due respect to supposed experience and wisdom, the older generations get SO MUCH shit wrong, and resist adaptation, mine included, despite being the ones to correct some of the bullshit that came before us. You constantly have to drag these people kicking and screaming into the future. I’m just not sure senior citizens have the clear foresight of things to come, social attitude-wise, to be the right people for the job. Case to case, I suppose, but even in my mid-40s, it’s hard to get riled up for a septuagenarian in the race. Gotta stop wheeling out should-be retirees for the job on both sides.

The usual knocks I hear about him is more just FoxNews spin zone shit. “It was sunny here yesterday when I was wearing my red shorts…. today I wore blue shorts, and now it’s pouring rain (true, conveniently appropriate analogy😂)…. it was definitely the blue shorts that did this, it never would’ve happened if I had just worn my red shorts!” Apply this kind of “what if?” vague ties to gas prices, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to China, to inflation, to the Afghanistan withdrawal. With all respect to the 13 servicemen and servicewomen who died…. there’s no mandatory draft. You signed up for the job of Marine or soldier or whatever, and I’m sure you don’t make it out of your first day of boot camp/basic training without some drill instructor spit-shouting in your face that you can and very well may get your head blown off on the job if you aren’t careful, or even if you are. Not for nothing, we shouldn’t have even been over there, and Louis C. K. puts it as well as anyone….

I’ve known some military dudes, and they practically beat off over pics they have of enemy corpses, often pretty disfigured, so the idea that we’re “the good guys” is certainly debatable, not that ISIS are wearing a white hat either, but maybe it’s possible no one’s the good guy? Did we ever consider that? Don’t feel like we did…

Anyway, I don’t say that for intentional disrespect, it’s sad when anyone is killed, but we’re kind of falling victim to the cop movie trope of “NOOOOOO!!! And he only had one more week til retirement!” I’m just saying we look at them favorably because they come from where we do, but if they had on a different uniform but the same job, you’d be celebrating their deaths, and as humans, that’s fucking weird. Really, really, fucking weird, and we should collectively address it. But the point of all this is Biden was just at the helm when it happened to happen. Trump planned to withdraw too, and it could’ve gone the exact same way. OF COURSE Trump and his supporters will say it would’ve been a flawless success, and OF COURSE the BMW salesman is going to tell you his car is better than the Mercedes salesman’s car across the street. One might be better, they might be the same, but the point is that you’re not being spoken to honestly. Again, stay awake, guys.

Hunter seems like a disaster but all I hear are accusations and alleged evidence, but years later…. nothing. So it’s kind of like “show us the real goods if you have them, or else shut the fuck up with the stunts and get back to legislating like you’re paid to do.” And I keep coming back to: he’s not a politician. If he got money off his dad’s name…that’s lame, but that’d be like the billionth time that’s happened in this country, not necessarily a vice president’s family member, but anyone with money and/or political influence.

For good stuff…. CHIPS Act was great, the infrastructure bill seems pretty good (and Republican opponents, and even a few Dems, are out here taking credit for the upgrades in their districts and states, cutting ribbons and shit…these folks are too much😂), I read his whole Green New Deal thing, I thought it was ovation-worthy, but of course they’d never let him pass anything good and get that level of credit, lmao. Ditto for the student loan forgiveness. I guess others feel differently, but the type of thing that would make me feel patriotic and dare I even say nationalistic, is if I lived in a country where the government looked after us and tried to help us out when we’re in need, and didn’t have some selfish “not out of MY tax dollars” attitude. THEN, that’s when I’d feel proud about the place I live and my participation in its society, not some “me first, fuck everyone else” mentality so many Americans unfortunately have.

Biden is largely uninspiring. He’s a placeholder. I’m a registered independent, but as it stands today in 2023, I couldn’t vote Republican and look myself in the mirror afterwards. The social attitudes and Evangelical Christian impositions will forever drive me away as long as they exist. I guess we’re riding with Joey B, known warm glass of milk, lmao, but the alternative is just my idea of dystopian.

[strateguy632]

as if his policy didn't CAUSE inflation.

[WhiteSteve]

@strateguy632 Well, I mean, I feel like that’s one of those things that’s overstated. I don’t feel like a President has more than minor influence on the overall state of the economy. Economic reports keep coming out, experts keep predicting doom and gloom, and then they’re like “what the…the numbers are…the numbers are actually pretty good?” The economy is so much more than inflation rates and gas prices. And to be clear, the positive numbers aren’t necessarily to Biden’s credit, either. I’m just saying the economy kind of goes how it goes, independent of who the president is, and they get undue portions of blame or praise, as the case may be.

[exitseven]

Worse president in world history. He is not only mentally compromised but he might be the most corrupt politician ever. He makes Nixon look like a saint. He has lurched from one disaster from the next. It seems everything he gets involved in gets worse. The US is a laughing stock. Everyone makes fun of him. "Let's go Brandon" was the slogan of the year. I wonder if he goes to the nursing home or to prison.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Snakeyes7]

I dunno about world history but he is definitely one if the worst in US history.

[Реrverted_Сreeр]

Joe Biden is a transgender woman who was born as a biological male. The evidence is clear in his facial features, voice, and overall demeanor. He is a puppet of the Illuminati, who are secretly promoting the transgender agenda to control the masses. The fact that he is in power proves that the government is run by a secret society of transgender individuals who are hell-bent on destroying traditional values and promoting their twisted ideologies. Joe Biden's presidency is a testament to the power of the Illuminati and their sinister plan to trannify the world.

[Anonymous]

awful corrupt human being! does everything wrong because he's old and won't face any of the consequences because well, he's 80 and won't have to live in this world that he fucked up much longer. just awful president. everything that's right, he does the opposite.

[loveslongnails]

Done more in 2 years than Trump ever did. The Inflation Reduction Act alone is a marvelous piece of legislation, as in the PACT Act, and the Infrastructure bill.

Hypocrites like some of the other commentors who are known Trumptard cultists spew their bullshit while ignoring that their guy is a traitor. Their guy is on tape acknowledging his part in an insurrection, the ONLY President in history to attempt to block the LEGAL transition of power. He's the ONLY President in history to knowingly partake in sending fake electors to defraud the US Government. He's the ONLY President in history to be impeached twice. Trump is a criminal of the highest degree. He always HAS been, has always been a con man. It's the one thing he's good at.

If he's mentally compromised, what does that say about Trump? He has the speech pattern of a child, the attention span of a mosquito. The orange one praised the Continental Army for taking over the AIRPORTS! The airports, people, in the 1770's. I wonder if he meant LaGuardia or JFK? . LOL He didn't even know Frederick Douglas was dead!

He's a very, very sick man, and his current followers are even worse. His former insiders are NOW telling the truth about him and his lies, and finally realizing he can't save them and they're not going down with him, even though they deserve to.

Oh, and when your TAXES go up this year, 2024 and 2025, you can thank Trump for that as well, since it was embedded in the tax laws passed by the Republicans in 2017. It won't affect the top 3% though, because their tax breaks are permanent until new laws revoke them. No doubt, the RepubliCANT'S will blame it on Biden.

[Anonymous]

Honestly. It really surprised me when Biden got the nomination. Because I didn't really feel he was a choice, rather just a lack of choices. I mean look how many times he ran for president. Why? Because you didn't have beer keg legged Hillary, the great white hop Obama, or that insane Bernie. It's almost like the democrats said we're out of options and said "we'll take this guy because he's been the perpetual brides made. And he was Obama's vice so Obama saw something in him.😆😆😆 So we'll get behind this guy.

[Roxxy99]

He’s too old for the job and he’s an establishment fixture who won’t push against special interests too hard. That said, he will step down if he’s defeated and honor the process. Until the other side agrees to the same, he’s unfortunately a better option.

[strateguy632]

change the subject of the question to attack , dnc is so pathetic :)

[jennifer_bloom]

He is a man and not a God and people need to stop blaming this guy for not answering their prayers. The amount of deaths he has prevented might be in the billions range since he pioneered the vaccine which saved the global economies and if Trump had won 2020, America would be a third world country just like Somalia or Costa Rica.

[lightbulb27]

rarely agree with what he says or does

only recently did he do and say things I agree with.

he's old, his communications are weak and often bad. you wouldn't tolerate him running any company you owned.

he needs to retire.

[BCA6010]

Every time I think he has hit rock bottom, he keeps drilling deeper.

[SexyBrunetteNY]

The man is a CROOK and an embarrassment to us on a world stage.

[inhua]

he knows your skin color based on whether you voted for him or not

[Anonymous]

I'm not from America. I'm curious how is he still in office when he very forgetful at times. He called our PM a completely different name

[A_Bell]

He has proven we don't need and shouldn't want a President.

[genericname85]

probably the worst president of all times. like this man belongs in a retirement home. trump was bad but man this guy really fucked america up.

[Anonymous]

Old and Demented and being maneuvered by the left.

[FunkyMonkee]

I have a MUCH higher opinion of a pile of fresh dog shit!!

[FunkyMonkee]

I'd like him a lot better if he'd stop breathing and wasting our precious air until he had something worth while to say!

[gorydetails]

The worst president since carter and nixon. Possibly the worst ever.

[Anonymous]

He is the worst piece of crap to ever darken the door of the White House. If you offered to replace him with a pile of manure that would be an insult to the manure.

[DarkLegacy]

He is a gibbering idiot, he is a contender for the worse President ever along with Trump.

[msc545]

Not great but far better than a mentally ill criminal.

[Snakeyes7]

One of if not the worst we have ever had and that is a very high bar.

[QuietRunner]

poor. He still hasn't reversed President Trump's only bad choice of not ratifying TPP.

[Stacey55666]

He's a disaster.