we must protect our boy Joe

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Something obnoxious about Biden crashing for actually ending a war (an overwhelmingly popular decision!) so the natsec ghouls at CNN and MSNBC decided to blast him a new one.

    Biden kept his numbers up despite giving up on the $15 min wage and a host of other things but he crashes for accomplishing America’s once-a-decade good foreign policy decision.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      as soon as I heard how mad they were on NPR I knew the consent machine was going brr

    • Saleriy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Wasn't it the same with Trump and how much he got flak for making an actual reasonable decision (forgot what it was)?

        • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah he definitely got flak there, although tbf those ended up turning into nothing.

          • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Literally just a big PR show to kinda-sorta defuse a situation that was brought on almost entirely by Trump tweeting. Absolute joke. It did piss off a lot of hawks and other natsec freaks, though.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            sometimes nothing is better than something

      • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        i fucking wish

        prevailing opinion is still 'back to normal' or the same with an asterisk :what-the-hell:

      • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I don't think so. Biden's approval rating on the pandemic is still pretty high and his approval rating started plummeting once the Afghanistan news broke. I strongly believe this is due to Afghanistan, not the pandemic.

        Look at the recent drop on 538 here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?ex_cid=rrpromo

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          3 years ago

          It'll return to something close to the overall trend. Might take a while though.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        have you listened to American news recently?