President Biden thread

Beerman, BSN · Jul 13, 2022

Besides the obvious, it's also interesting if not surprising that despite a 33% approval rating and not yet knowing who the Republican nominee, over 90% of Democrats would still vote for Biden.

It's amusing he's bragging about that, not realizing Democrats would vote for Mr Potatoehead if there was a D after his name.

"President Biden lashed out a reporter who asked what he would say to Democrats who don’t want him to run for a second term Tuesday — insisting that the party is behind him despite a recent survey showing nearly two-thirds of its voters want a different nominee in 2024.

“They want me to run,” Biden, 79, said during the White House Congressional Picnic. “Read the poll. Read the polls, Jack. You guys are all the same. That poll showed that 92% of Democrats, if I ran, would vote for me.”

https://nypost.com/2022/07/13/biden-snaps-at-reporter-insists-dems-want-him-for-2024-run/

toomuchbaloney · Jul 13, 2022

It's not currently safe to vote for members of the GOP... they have proven themselves to be untrustworthy liars who make excuses for lying, cheating and un-American attitudes about elections. Get back to me when liberals start dressing up in costumes with democratic political names and faces on them or adorning their vehicles and homes with fanboy banners and flags.

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jul 13, 2022

3 hours ago, Beerman said:

Creepy Joe sighting:

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/president-joe-biden-strokes-the-cheek-of-maeve-healy-chief-news-photo/1408313467

Whats creepy to some, is a comforting gesture, especially growing up in an affectionate family.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Jul 13, 2022

3 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Whats creepy to some, is a comforting gesture, especially growing up in an affectionate family.

He is several persons apart from that woman. Overly avuncular maybe but nowhere near creepy. Not like running his hands up and down her hips like DJT to IT. That was a true ewww moment similarly to close hugging the flag like he did. I wanted to scream Let that flag alone! It didn't do anything to you!:)

Beerman, BSN · Jul 14, 2022

20 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Whats creepy to some, is a comforting gesture, especially growing up in an affectionate family.

Maybe I'll comfort a coworker today by caressing her cheek like Joe did to this professional colleague.

I wonder how that'll go?

Seriously. Did you keep a strait face as you typed that?

toomuchbaloney · Jul 14, 2022

5 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Maybe I'll comfort a coworker today by caressing her cheek like Joe did to this professional colleague.

I wonder how that'll go?

Seriously. Did you keep a strait face as you typed that?

Probably not, your "concerns" about Biden have many of us chuckling a good bit of the time. It's hard to keep a straight face when reading and responding to some of the links you provide.

Beerman, BSN · Jul 14, 2022

Why does Biden act so beholden to the radical left?

"Americans are sick and tired of incivility. And they care more about inflation than abortion. The more his radical base forces Biden to focus on abortion advocacy that’s outside the mainstream, at the expense of issues Americans care about, the more likely it is that Americans will elect a pro-life Republican majority this November."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/14/biden-abortion-activism-democrats-midterms/

toomuchbaloney · Jul 14, 2022

Marc Theissen never fails to bring a partisan opinion to the pages of the WAPO. Those crazy leftists made a mistake when they stacked the court and upset settled abortion precedent...oh wait... how did the left wing extremists change abortion laws again?

allnurses Guide · Jul 15, 2022

11 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Marc Theissen never fails to bring a partisan opinion to the pages of the WAPO. Those crazy leftists made a mistake when they stacked the court and upset settled abortion precedent...oh wait... how did the left wing extremists change abortion laws again?

I'm not familiar with this person, but his opinion piece is riddled with flimsy statistics, false equivalence and the wrong belief that people are single-issue voters on abortion, which I derived from his comment about electing a "pro-life Republican majority" this November.

Seems to me a guy who makes his living prognosticating and analyzing what is front and center in the public square these days, who then points the finger at Joe Biden as the source of the incivility that Americans are so sick and tired of, is doing a laughably lousy job and needs to recalibrate his methodology.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Jul 15, 2022

11 hours ago, nursel56 said:

I'm not familiar with this person, but his opinion piece is riddled with flimsy statistics, false equivalence and the wrong belief that people are single-issue voters on abortion, which I derived from his comment about electing a "pro-life Republican majority" this November.

Seems to me a guy who makes his living prognosticating and analyzing what is front and center in the public square these days, who then points the finger at Joe Biden as the source of the incivility that Americans are so sick and tired of, is doing a laughably lousy job and needs to recalibrate his methodology.

Marc Theissen has a checkered past working for sleeazes Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. His life has been spent circulating with the worst kind of elites, sheltering him from how people really live.

toomuchbaloney · Jul 15, 2022

10 minutes ago, subee said:

Marc Theissen has a checkered past working for sleeazes Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. His life has been spent circulating with the worst kind of elites, sheltering him from how people really live.

Theissen was a fanboy of Donald Rumsfeld. He wrote about it a year or so ago... his opinions reflect that type "conservatism".

Beerman, BSN · Jul 15, 2022

12 hours ago, nursel56 said:

I'm not familiar with this person, but his opinion piece is riddled with flimsy statistics, false equivalence and the wrong belief that people are single-issue voters on abortion, which I derived from his comment about electing a "pro-life Republican majority" this November.

Seems to me a guy who makes his living prognosticating and analyzing what is front and center in the public square these days, who then points the finger at Joe Biden as the source of the incivility that Americans are so sick and tired of, is doing a laughably lousy job and needs to recalibrate his methodology.

Your point might be better made if you provided examples "flimsy statistics" and "false equivalence".

Anyway, the point I took from the column is that Biden, to his own detriment, is catering to and is afraid of upsetting the more radical supporters of the Democrat party. And, that his administration is out of touch with what is important to most Americans.

Here are two more opinion pieces that seem to agree.

"There is plenty of evidence that the Democratic Party has moved left, that it is out of sync with Americans on many of these cultural issues, and that it needs to correct course. But it needs to do so clearly, forcefully and repeatedly. Republicans are clever at weaponizing the words of a few left-wing Democrats and branding them as the face of the party."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/14/republicans-exploits-culture-wars-democrats-performance-building-abortion/

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"Unlike a Rorschach test, however, this one has a right answer, and the progressives have it wrong. Moreover, the fact that they can’t see just how badly this exchange went for their side shows what a big mistake it was to let academia and media institutions turn into left-wing monocultures."

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"Yet outside those circles, Bridges’s answers don’t really sound so convincing. In most of America, “Does a late-term fetus have value?” is a softball. And when Hawley leaped in to ask whether women are the ones who give birth — a question few Americans today would struggle with — she resorted to extended question-begging. That might be fine for a Berkeley classroom. But it just won’t do for a political debate in which the majority of voters disagree with you."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/14/berkeley-law-professors-senate-testimony-didn't-go-how-left-thinks-it-did/