Howdy folks! I am working again on some good articles. They will be out soon. For the moment, let me say how shocked I am at Biden's incompetence. I always knew the guy was a fool, but this is so far worse than could be expected.
Biden is an idiot. We knew that. I mean, think back to the Bidenisms and realize that they haven't come close to stopping. This week he praised the "selfishness" of US troops, asked us to never forget the "honor" of the Holocaust, and then fist-bumped a guy the left (and large parts of the political world) see as a murderous tyrant. I seriously wonder who is writing his speeches and advising this guy? His team is talking about gas falling "below $3 a gallon" when it's still above $5 in most places ($8 in California). Here it's $4.79. Moreover, he's taking credit for something he's been telling us is not something a president can control. How does that work? Not to mention it's still double where it was when he started his Reign of Error. He fell off his bike. He lied about being offered a spot at the Naval Academy. The man is a fool.
What fascinates me though is how utterly terrible he's been. He's makes Carter look like a genius! From his disastrous abandonment of Afghanistan to causing inflation to soar to record heights to everything in between. He's made Elon Musk a Republican with Union-requested retaliation against Tesla. He's presided over a criminal wave worse than the 1960s without a single idea to fix it. The stock market has crashed, killing people's retirements. He's let people be priced out of housing. There are genuine floods of illegals pouring through the border. He's lost all his friends, who have turned on him. Heck, he can't even handle the student loan issue without pissing EVERYONE off on each side! That takes talent. He knew the Roe v. Wade ruling was coming, but had no response to it for two weeks. This has been a master class in incompetence. The media wants to love him. They will happily lie for him. And yet, he's given them so little they can't even find good lies to tell!
Biden's approval rating is at an all-time low of 36%. 69% disapprove of his handling of the economy. 89% think the country is on the wrong track. 57% disapprove of his handling of the visit to Saudi Arabia. Over 70% of Democrats don't want him to run again. He's lost half of his own voters. Half. Think about that. Lyndon Johnson did better than that when he decided not to try for a second term after botching the Vietnam War. He lost a war and was still better respected than Biden. Jimmy lost Afghanistan, gave us gas lines and recession, and had a hostage crisis that crushed him. And yet, he was more popular.
I swear, it's so bad it almost has to be intentional... performance art. How can he get every single issue wrong and then even mishandle the softballs the media throws him? Getting snippy with a reporter asking about inflation or Saudi and responding with "ask something important" is an answer beleaguered CEOs given when they've been caught diddling their secretaries and are planning to flee to the Caymans, not presidents talking about policy.
I'm honestly floored that this administration can be so terrible. I remember enough about Carter to tell you that while nothing ultimately worked for him, he wasn't a total dipsh*t. His administration didn't do everything wrong from every single policy to every appointment to every meeting with the press. At times, Carter seemed like a normal guy if a bit snake bitten. Biden seems like a guy who needs someone in a rabbit costume to chase him away from the levers of power.
This is kind of mind-boggling.
Biden is an idiot. We knew that. I mean, think back to the Bidenisms and realize that they haven't come close to stopping. This week he praised the "selfishness" of US troops, asked us to never forget the "honor" of the Holocaust, and then fist-bumped a guy the left (and large parts of the political world) see as a murderous tyrant. I seriously wonder who is writing his speeches and advising this guy? His team is talking about gas falling "below $3 a gallon" when it's still above $5 in most places ($8 in California). Here it's $4.79. Moreover, he's taking credit for something he's been telling us is not something a president can control. How does that work? Not to mention it's still double where it was when he started his Reign of Error. He fell off his bike. He lied about being offered a spot at the Naval Academy. The man is a fool.
What fascinates me though is how utterly terrible he's been. He's makes Carter look like a genius! From his disastrous abandonment of Afghanistan to causing inflation to soar to record heights to everything in between. He's made Elon Musk a Republican with Union-requested retaliation against Tesla. He's presided over a criminal wave worse than the 1960s without a single idea to fix it. The stock market has crashed, killing people's retirements. He's let people be priced out of housing. There are genuine floods of illegals pouring through the border. He's lost all his friends, who have turned on him. Heck, he can't even handle the student loan issue without pissing EVERYONE off on each side! That takes talent. He knew the Roe v. Wade ruling was coming, but had no response to it for two weeks. This has been a master class in incompetence. The media wants to love him. They will happily lie for him. And yet, he's given them so little they can't even find good lies to tell!
Biden's approval rating is at an all-time low of 36%. 69% disapprove of his handling of the economy. 89% think the country is on the wrong track. 57% disapprove of his handling of the visit to Saudi Arabia. Over 70% of Democrats don't want him to run again. He's lost half of his own voters. Half. Think about that. Lyndon Johnson did better than that when he decided not to try for a second term after botching the Vietnam War. He lost a war and was still better respected than Biden. Jimmy lost Afghanistan, gave us gas lines and recession, and had a hostage crisis that crushed him. And yet, he was more popular.
I swear, it's so bad it almost has to be intentional... performance art. How can he get every single issue wrong and then even mishandle the softballs the media throws him? Getting snippy with a reporter asking about inflation or Saudi and responding with "ask something important" is an answer beleaguered CEOs given when they've been caught diddling their secretaries and are planning to flee to the Caymans, not presidents talking about policy.
I'm honestly floored that this administration can be so terrible. I remember enough about Carter to tell you that while nothing ultimately worked for him, he wasn't a total dipsh*t. His administration didn't do everything wrong from every single policy to every appointment to every meeting with the press. At times, Carter seemed like a normal guy if a bit snake bitten. Biden seems like a guy who needs someone in a rabbit costume to chase him away from the levers of power.
This is kind of mind-boggling.
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P.S. Biden's wife claims he wanted to do so much and just happened to get sidetracked by Russia's war, the Roe decision and mass shootings.
It's funny how those didn't happen until well after his first year was up. So what stopped him before that?
Also, don't think Russia and the mass shootings aren't because of his policies. He's claiming the consequences of his failures are what derailed him. Idiot.
Hey Andrew,
On Jimmy Carter vs Joe Biden. From my independent point of view, Jimmy Carter was and still is a decent man. He was just a weak president, who could not manage an economy or foreign affairs.
Look at what Carter has done since leaving office. He has made it his life's endeavor to eradicate the guinea worm disease from Africa (a disgusting parasite that burrows into peoples feet). This among many other examples shows a trend of behavior. Carter seems to be genuine in his quest to help other people.
Contrast that with Biden. He and his whole family are self serving scum bags. He uses the death of his own son to further his self aggrandizing agenda. In regards to Hunter and all his filthy crap, “Like father like son” as the saying goes. The Biden family really does come off as rich trailer trash (crack pipe and all)… I just don't know how else to sum them up.
To put it better:
Biden is nothing more than a career politician. He has no interest in helping others; his only interests are in sowing divisiveness to further his power. He really is a terrible man, and his terribleness flows throughout everything he does.
IMO, inflation/foreign blunders aside, Jimmy Carter is head & shoulders above Biden as president. And just as important, Carter is a far better man than Biden.
As I said in your previous article, I too am shocked how bad Biden's term has been. The economy alone is horrible. But couple that with everything else… and he isn't even half way through his term! ugh.
-Kyle.
I was just getting ready to email you to see how you were doing (TJed here) I am not shocked at all. Joe was never the smartest tool in the shed even when he was younger. The man is a crook, a liar, sexual predator, and a threat to our national security. He always made gaffes, but when he was younger, people (well Dems anyway) laughed it off as “Joe being Joe”. Now, dementia, cognitive decline, or Alzheimer’s (whatever you want to call it) makes it almost painful to watch. I have theories about who is actually calling the shots. Since Joe was the only cabinet not seen as openly radical, Joe was promised every politicians life long dream …. The White House, as long as he did not actually make policy. His job was to try and set us on a irreversible track towards one party rule. It may be Obama through his staffers who are actually calling the shots. The aim is to “completely transform America” I suppose into a socialist worker’s paradise.
Another theory is that Xi Jinping has him by the balls because of Hunter and is squeezing him. But as Obama was caught saying during the election campaign “Joe could still f*** this up.”)
He may not live to try and run. My only wish is that Ron DeSantis would be the Republican candidate. I appreciate what Donald did on SCOTUS and with the economy, but Trump is too divisive. I would not be surprised to see Hillary find a way back in to run
Kyle, I would agree. Carter just wasn't a good president, but he was a decent man. I think he also did what he believed was right, even if he misunderstood human nature and economics -- he wasn't a tool.
Biden is a turd. I've been saying that for years about him whipping out his dead wife and then his dead son at every campaign stop and every time he got into trouble. They were props for him, nothing more. And it has always frustrated me that the media not only lets him do it, but helps him do it. And his senate career was all about doing the bidding of big corporations. The man has no soul.
Now that he's president, he's decided to go hard left, needlessly so, and to cast blame at everyone and everything except himself. It's bizarrely out of touch with reality.
I think what shocks me most is that most administrations have people in them who hold the president in check when he gets stupid. Biden doesn't seem to have any adult in the room. It's weird.
Hi Jed! I'm not a conspiracy type, though I do have a conspiracy about inflation... I think the Fed is running is to make everyone's debt cheaper and to help lower wages on American workers.
But as for China, I just don't know. I'm absolutely convinced they released covid intentionally, and yet we refuse to ask obvious questions. Hollywood, the NBA, big business all worship China and happily sacrifice American consumers to Chinese sensibilities. So yeah, it's possible. But that said, the hostility seems to be really ramping up between us and China and one thing I can credit Biden with is not only no backing down, but building up to counter the threat. So I don't know.
I think ultimately, Biden wants a legacy badly and he thought he could transform the world in a broad leftist manner and get it, and he was wrong. Joe Manchin stopped him halfway through and the consequences of his policies spoiled everything.
Andrew
Andrew, it happened again. As soon as you hit publish on a list of Biden gaffes, he topped it with a doozy, offhandedly claiming he has cancer he got from the oil industry. I remember when the White House issuing clarifications on Presidents' statements was a really big deal, and almost universally seen as a serious blunder. Now it seems they come out weekly. Won't be long before they come out as bullet lists.
I have a theory as to why Biden seems to get everything wrong. Like you said, most administrations have people who hold the president in check from stupid decisions. The big insider complaint about Trump was how he brushed those people off. The reports of multi-administration staffers and advisors quitting was fairly constant for the first several months of the Trump presidency. I don’t know if I would call that brain-drain, but it was surely a drain on something. But that’s only half the theory.
The rest is that these vacancies created a peculiar sort of power-vacuum that insiders would recognize would need to be filled as soon as Trump was gone. There were a host of reasons why the Washington machine wanted to push Trump out in one term, but eagerness to grab a semi-permanent job close to the president would have been one of them. The trouble is, the new bunch is new. They’re probably still trying to figure out how to work together to steer a president, and having a completely aimless president to work with is the worst way to figure it out.
As to the unnecessary lurch left that Biden has taken, that probably owes to these novice advisors being younger and/or more ideologically driven than their predecessors. The former being a consequence of the old crew leaving, the latter, a fact of what drove them to vie for those vacant roles.
In short, what we have is presidency by committee of the sort we mock when committees fail. Committees most often fail when they are hastily slapped together, which seems to be the case with Biden’s orbit of advisors. Worse, there’s little to suggest that Biden had much of a hand in selecting his own advisors. Jill may be calling some shots, but overall, Biden’s counsel seems to be comprised of self-selected backseat drivers who didn’t even select each other.
tryanmax, That's a really good theory. There really aren't the usual big names on his team, just a bunch of young no names who don't seem very good at their job.
I wonder if the more established democrats saw the train wreck coming and decided to avoid it? That may be the case actually.
Did you see that his top 68 appointees had only 2 years of private sector experience? That tells you something.
Hey TJed,
I’m a little late to comment, however I’ve been reading a lot of Trump vs DeSantis arguments lately. Its an interesting debate to me.
On the subject of Trump being divisive… I agree. However, the Dems/media will label DeSantis as every evil under the sun… and the leftoids will parrot it verbatim.
My point is it wont matter who is running against the Dem, they will be called Hitler or some such crap.
DeSantis has a much better attitude and is easier to digest in general. Trump not so much. DeSantis is arguably a better speaker as well. Compared to loudmouth Trump, DeSantis comes off as much more calm & cool.
With that said, Trump proved himself to be genuine during the pandemic; he was adamant that states should (and did) govern themselves and refused to implement Federal mandates. Plus the SCOTUS appointments among many other positives... Trumps energy policies alone were so much better than the current Biden admins.
DeSantis has only a limited run so far in comparison to Trump…
Don't get me wrong, so far DeSantis has done good for Florida. Couple that with his much better attitude, he's an excellent candidate. But I don't know how he will handle things at an executive level. If he stays the course, he would make a great president… However I’m not clairvoyant. He may turnout to be a turncoat. I personally don't think he would pull a fast one on Republicans/Independents. But you never know.
Trump would have an incumbent advantage, and more to the point he is still very well liked by most Repubs. He has also made major inroads with independents since Biden took office. Heck he’s even grown on me, and I was never much of a fan of Trump.
Of course Trump will be hated by most Dems. However I have a hard time seeing Dems not hating “DeathSantis” (leftoids words, not mine). Honestly in my opinion it may be a wash as far as Dems liking either of them. Trump is already hated, but DeSantis literally just has to have an R beside his name for the Dems to automatically hate him.
However DeSantis will more than likely have an advantage with some Independents despite Trumps gains with them.
DeSantis is also much younger than Trump, which is another plus for him.
I suppose I typed all the above to make this point: I’ll vote for either Trump or DeSantis. They both have their pros & cons.
TLDR; DeSantis as-is comes off as a nicer version of Trump. He so far has been all of the positive's with few negatives. He just has a short track record. However I have to admit I would love to see Trump pull a Grover Cleveland style second term… Trump has proven himself to be a good executive despite his flaws.
-Kyle
I understand your point. I never had a problem with Trump’s policies. He was not a politician. Rather he is a businessman who sees a problem and fixes it. He did some good things with zero cooperation. Politics ideally requires a little more finesse. Anyway, he stirs their base like no one else. I voted for him twice, but as for their special fixation on Trump, look no farther than two political impeachments and this commitee.
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