~70% of Americans don't trust Biden to deal with the Russian Ukrainian war.
:DaBiden:
So, obviously Biden's bipartisanship and right-wing pandering is a huge failure, so they'll do the logical thing and start appealing to the left now, right?
:data-laughing: haha who am I kidding?
Biden increased ICE funding.
Trump decreased ICE funding.
Can't explain that.
Trump cut tons of federal government program budgets including ICE.
On his way out he tried to cut local police funding .
Biden is such an obvious fall-guy at this point.
You trying to tell me that he just organically decided to end our venture into Afghanistan, preside over collective-denial regarding COVID, and take the heat for inflation from a war that was necessary for the US to hold onto its euro-vassals?
This guy is going to go down in history as a terrible president but that's the entire point - Biden is going to do all the humiliating yet necessary laundry of empire and then some ghoul is going to "oust" him and return us to glory.
You trying to tell me that he just organically decided to end our venture into Afghanistan, preside over collective-denial regarding COVID, and take the heat for inflation from a war that was necessary for the US to hold onto its euro-vassals?
I think Democrats would have gleefully shifted this onto Trump given half a chance. But you can't do a media blackout on a guy if you're just going to say his name every time more shit hits the fan.
This guy is going to go down in history as a terrible president but that’s the entire point
He's going down like Ford after Nixon. Just some guy who happened to follow The Worst President Ever and maybe did some things we don't really talk about and then left office due to poor health. Oh, and did we mention how sweet and wonderful his wife was? Anyway, he's dead now so his term in office isn't important.
History is littered with Presidents like Biden.
I thought Trumpwashing was a thing, but I guess it’s Bidenwashing now.
I don’t think that glory is ever coming back. Every President from now on is going to be a corrupt hated disgrace
~70% of Americans don’t trust Biden to deal with the Russian Ukrainian war.
I suspect they don't trust him, because he hadn't started a nuclear war yet.
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They want Biden to escalate and they're pissed off that he hasn't.
Only nixon can visit chinaOnly trump can visit russiaOnly clinton can visit russia
yeah americans are insane and want a no fly zone and us to basically go to war
No one's done the quote yet?
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"
Americans thinking US is headed in the wrong direction during inflation means they think Biden gave poor people too much money and nObOdY wAnTs To WoRk. Trump got elected because Obama was That Bad. Biden got elected because Trump was That Bad. It's going to be fascinating to see what happens next.
The US is like a train, it never changes direction. You may slow it down, but you can not bring it to a halt, unstoppable it rushes towards the void.
How come it took people so long to notice?
For, like, 40 years between the end of WW2 and the Reagan Era, things were getting better.
And then for the next 40, things were so good that "getting worse" was a marginal thing that mostly affected younger browner people we don't care about.
Only now that we're headed squarely towards imperial collapse are people with some modicum of wealth and privilege feeling a pinch. And even then, the discussion is mostly around how to life-raft privileged people to safety. All the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires think this includes them.
40 years between the end of WW2 and the Reagan Era
Korean War 50 - 53
MKUltra 55 - 73
Vietnam 55 - 75
Malcolm X 1965
Martin Luther King Jr. 1968
Three Mile Island 1979
Ok, but now do infant mortality, life expectancy, and income inequality.
I don't want to argue with you. The populace getting to enjoy some of the empire's scraps doesn't exactly change the direction if you look at it from the outside, but pre Reagan there was some hope, I'd agree with that
The populace getting to enjoy some of the empire’s scraps doesn’t exactly change the direction
The quality of life enjoyed by people emerging from the Great Depression improved radically with electrification, modern industrialization, modern medicine, etc. Like, this isn't something you can debate in any practical sense. It wasn't unique to the United States, either. This was a boom enjoyed across the industrial world, from Soviet Russia to the Royalist UK.
If you're asking "Why did people put up with this?" its because their material conditions were steadily improving for a solid two generations, peaking with some of the highest quality of life enjoyed by anyone at any prior point in history. The subsequent peak and slide-off of these gains, combined with material stresses driven by climate change, racial/gender integration, and a new era of global war, is what is driving rejection of the current day regimes in the western world.
Why do you include 3 Mile Island on that one? Literally no one died
I was just typing what came to my mind fastest and it kinda was a nuclear disaster during that time
Call me some kind of conspiracy theorist but I highly doubt MKUltra ended in the 70's
What chunk of that 70% thinks Biden is being too hawkish, and what chunk thinks Biden is being too chicken?
~70% of Americans don’t trust Biden to deal with the Russian Ukrainian war.
I really hope that doesn't mean they want some asshole who'll start a no-fly zone.
They just want a President to tell them that We're Winning in a way they can comfortably consume.
The next President will star in a Sitcom about punching a guy cosplaying as Vladimir Putin in the balls in front of a live studio audience. And the show will be filmed live in the White House. Elections will be held on Netflix. It'll be great.
yea there's no reasonable policy decision that would shift people's opinion on in, because bloodthirsty americans want more military intervention until we actually do it and we realize after the fact that it's a fuckin idiotic idea. the only thing the president can do is better utilize the corporate media to manager perceptions of it.
Ironically, it has been Biden and his admin pushing forward the pro-Ukraine hysteria, which now voters are mad he’s not acting on. He is a victim of his own propaganda. If the media had downplayed this like Yemen siege or Afghanistan War year 18 then voters would be indifferent to Biden’s handling of this - and the media gets its cues from state department, cia, White House and pentagon
This was supposed to help us in the midterms Jack! :biden-fall:
60% of these people probably dislike that Biden hasn’t nuked Russia yet. :amerikkka:
democracy is when most people think the country headed in the wrong direction
