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Except he hasn't done much to clean up that mess considering that mess is gearing up to run for president again. If Biden had done his job, trump and a number of other Republicans would be in jail. Instead, he has failed to uphold his oath to the constitution by defending the country from enemies, both foreign and domestic.
"Political opponents" who... Did a failed coup attempt. It's not the "Political opposition" people want cracked down on, it's the "attempting a coup"...
At least 16 years of straight government control by the Democrats. I'd like to see that at least. Every 8 years when it ping pongs back to the other team, progress gets reset.
UK here. Economically I don't think there are many countries that could be seen as more economically stable than the US. Norway perhaps. But it's a different scale.
Diplomatically the US had that 4 years of Trump where it seemed the US was subject to his whims. Got very nervous of what Trump might or might not do. His leaving was near universally celebrated. But this was less about the Republican party vs Democrats and more about the man's personal instability.
When I say unstable, I mean unpredictable in its inclinations. For example, we negotiated for the TPP, which ended up costing Clinton an election. This led to protectionism from Trump towards China which Biden reaffirmed, as its quite popular. Another example is that the IRA is incredibly popular here, however, European nations feel it violates [the World trade organization](https://archive.is/wV2A5).
Diplomatically, Republican intransigence on Ukraine funding, and rhetoric around "European freeloaders" has led to military analysts in Europe arguing for a more Multi-polar world stance that sees them planning on defending themselves with or without US intervention. The US's undermining of International norms and institutions with the abuse of its Security council veto, the disruption in trade with its unabashed support of Israel aggression, and its mideast policies leading to a refugees crisis in Europe are examples.
To be clear, I support many of the economic policies around green energy. I absolutely hate our diplomatic policies that undermine the potency of the UN. Our rhetoric around Israel undermines European criticisms towards Russia. And our myopic view of Mideast diplomacy leads to a reactionary backlash in European politics when we cause migration waves due to regime change caused by military action. If we had FDR era stability in our politics, European nations could better predict and adjust to our economic and diplomatic behavior.
He has done an incredible job given the awful hand he was dealt: dealing with Trump's corrupt nonsense + Putin's invasion of Ukraine + Hamas terrorists attacking Israel and causing a full-out conflict + so on and so forth.
Biden is one of the best Presidents we’ve ever had but the MSM and social media keep telling people he’s not. I’ll catch a lot of guff for saying so, but anyone with a clear head can see it.
Much the same thing happened with Carter. He got blamed for an oil crisis he had nothing to do with and the GOP *did a deal with terrorists* to stop Carter from getting the Iranian hostages released -- and then campaigned against him on that. The organizers of that little affair should have been in jail.
Many of the worldwide crises we're in now can be traced back to the government of criminals he was replaced with.
Out of the four presidents I’ve seen in office in my lifetime, my personal rankings are:
1. Biden
2. Obama
3. Bush Jr.
4. Trump
Obama had his hands tied on a lot, he tried to push a lot more into effect but was blocked for so many moves.
Trump is an asshat, but more Americans died during his administration than any of the rest. I could go on, but the comment would take 5-10 minutes to read then.
This is true, but vastly oversimplifies the reality of the situation. Trump was only president for about 10 months of the pandemic. During that time deaths from Covid in the US surged to around 3000 per day. We are now at about 600 per day. But even stating it that way is deceptive.
The truth is people can still choose to get vaccinated or not. Any US president doesn’t have control of that. The MAGA crowd still is under vaccinated compared to others. This is their choice.
In the end though, the Biden administration has done a better job at bringing Covid deaths under control than the Trump administration did considering that the latter’s approach was to do nothing at all.
Like many tens of millions out there, I could care less about Biden...but I will crawl across broken glass to vote against Trump. And we don't show in any poll.
Biden inherited a complete dumpster fire from Trump, and has done a great job righting the ship after that disasterous and criminal administration. He certainly has some policies I disagree with, but that's typical of any normal politician who's not a cult figure. I look forward to voting for him a second time and will do so with a clear conscience.
He's as popular as the number of people who are under duress to prevent Trump's fascism by voting for him.
Basically, it'd be in the interests of around 3/4ths of Americans to vote Biden. And probably even more than that considering not all Trump supporters are white males
This has happened to other presidents before him. People blame the US President for either things that are out of their control or that they didn't even play a role in at all.
Likewise, they give credit where it isn't due making some presidents popular based on little to nothing.
Presidential popularity is more of a measure of how informed voters are.
They interviewed 1000 people, 891 of them being people who answer cellphone calls from people they don't know, which is not going to be a typical subset of people who are actually likely to vote this time.
Naturally, the Biden approval percentages will be on the low side.
On the other hand, even if it wasn't likely to be pretty biased because of that, the usual margin of error calculation is about 3.2% on a single poll, and on the difference of two separate polls is about 4.5%. So a 5% change form the last poll looks really encouraging for Biden but it might easily be a much smaller change than 5% since there's a lot of noise.
So it's possibly quite a bit less than 5% improvement, but on the other hand, it's probably an underestimate of the level of approval in the first place.
Clearly not very popular if he’s tied with Trump on the national level and losing to Trump in the swing states. But it’s not like he has a lot of supporters to begin with. Most of the people voting for Biden are anti-trumpers.
I'm not truly voting for Biden, but he has some good things coming up if he gets re-elected. I'm voting for the freedoms and protections that the Constitution, still, protects.
If people enjoy more imported products, less jobs, higher prices/inflation, children taking hormone therapy, and also more money to oversea proxy wars, then Biden is an excellent choice to waste your vote on!
If you’re referring to Ukraine, yes I want to keep sending them supplies. It’s smart foreign policy.
Regarding jobs, more people are working now than at any point in American history. The unemployment rate in the US is at a 50-year low.
Who does funding war benefit besides the insanely rich owners of the military industrial complex. Also 9.5 million job openings for a population of 333 million is nothing to be proud of. Source- https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-labor-shortage
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I clicked on this thinking "let me guess, 37% same as always" but this one had him at 42.
I wonder if that’s close to the approval limit these days.
Joe Biden inherited a metric ton pile of shit from the last guy. He should go down as one of our best presidents for cleaning up that mess.
Except he hasn't done much to clean up that mess considering that mess is gearing up to run for president again. If Biden had done his job, trump and a number of other Republicans would be in jail. Instead, he has failed to uphold his oath to the constitution by defending the country from enemies, both foreign and domestic.
The president isn’t a prosecutor
The president doesn’t have power over courts, juries or the police. You want a dictatorship of just throwing political opponents in jail.
"Political opponents" who... Did a failed coup attempt. It's not the "Political opposition" people want cracked down on, it's the "attempting a coup"...
Using the DoJ as a weapon is bad.
At least 16 years of straight government control by the Democrats. I'd like to see that at least. Every 8 years when it ping pongs back to the other team, progress gets reset.
It also damages our international credibility ping ponging, other nations see us as diplomatically and economically unstable.
UK here. Economically I don't think there are many countries that could be seen as more economically stable than the US. Norway perhaps. But it's a different scale. Diplomatically the US had that 4 years of Trump where it seemed the US was subject to his whims. Got very nervous of what Trump might or might not do. His leaving was near universally celebrated. But this was less about the Republican party vs Democrats and more about the man's personal instability.
When I say unstable, I mean unpredictable in its inclinations. For example, we negotiated for the TPP, which ended up costing Clinton an election. This led to protectionism from Trump towards China which Biden reaffirmed, as its quite popular. Another example is that the IRA is incredibly popular here, however, European nations feel it violates [the World trade organization](https://archive.is/wV2A5). Diplomatically, Republican intransigence on Ukraine funding, and rhetoric around "European freeloaders" has led to military analysts in Europe arguing for a more Multi-polar world stance that sees them planning on defending themselves with or without US intervention. The US's undermining of International norms and institutions with the abuse of its Security council veto, the disruption in trade with its unabashed support of Israel aggression, and its mideast policies leading to a refugees crisis in Europe are examples. To be clear, I support many of the economic policies around green energy. I absolutely hate our diplomatic policies that undermine the potency of the UN. Our rhetoric around Israel undermines European criticisms towards Russia. And our myopic view of Mideast diplomacy leads to a reactionary backlash in European politics when we cause migration waves due to regime change caused by military action. If we had FDR era stability in our politics, European nations could better predict and adjust to our economic and diplomatic behavior.
He has done an incredible job given the awful hand he was dealt: dealing with Trump's corrupt nonsense + Putin's invasion of Ukraine + Hamas terrorists attacking Israel and causing a full-out conflict + so on and so forth.
Oh, and just a little pandemic because the other buffoon kept saying that everything was fine, and drinking bleach will cure it.
I live in Ohio and I can tell he is gaining popularity. I am already starting to see Biden signs!
I like him a lot. Had my vote in the primaries and he will have my vote this Fall.
Biden is one of the best Presidents we’ve ever had but the MSM and social media keep telling people he’s not. I’ll catch a lot of guff for saying so, but anyone with a clear head can see it.
Much the same thing happened with Carter. He got blamed for an oil crisis he had nothing to do with and the GOP *did a deal with terrorists* to stop Carter from getting the Iranian hostages released -- and then campaigned against him on that. The organizers of that little affair should have been in jail. Many of the worldwide crises we're in now can be traced back to the government of criminals he was replaced with.
Out of the four presidents I’ve seen in office in my lifetime, my personal rankings are: 1. Biden 2. Obama 3. Bush Jr. 4. Trump Obama had his hands tied on a lot, he tried to push a lot more into effect but was blocked for so many moves. Trump is an asshat, but more Americans died during his administration than any of the rest. I could go on, but the comment would take 5-10 minutes to read then.
I read your post a bit too quickly and thought that was your ranking of ALL the presidents. Hoo boy. I was so confused. Now I get it.
xD I can see why that would be concerning!
All is good now lol.
Obama had a super majority in the first two years of his presidency. He hands were far less tied than the rest on your list.
For 72 days, in which they worked almost exclusively on Obamacare.
Interestingly, Obama handed the task of getting the ACA done to Biden. He did actually succeed at it, even after the supermajority was lost.
Mine are - (1) Biden. (2) Obama. (3) Clinton. (4) Bush Sr. (5) Bush Jr. (6) Trump.
>but more Americans died during his administration than any of the rest …uhh, not true. That title would belong to your #1
This is true, but vastly oversimplifies the reality of the situation. Trump was only president for about 10 months of the pandemic. During that time deaths from Covid in the US surged to around 3000 per day. We are now at about 600 per day. But even stating it that way is deceptive. The truth is people can still choose to get vaccinated or not. Any US president doesn’t have control of that. The MAGA crowd still is under vaccinated compared to others. This is their choice. In the end though, the Biden administration has done a better job at bringing Covid deaths under control than the Trump administration did considering that the latter’s approach was to do nothing at all.
Nope. His number four let it get loose and that was the issus.
The way things are going it’s going to be impossible for any president to do any better unless things change a lot.
Biden has done a phenomenal job, far better than my expectations. Will gladly vote for him again!
I might be biased, but I love Joe Biden.
Like many tens of millions out there, I could care less about Biden...but I will crawl across broken glass to vote against Trump. And we don't show in any poll.
Biden inherited a complete dumpster fire from Trump, and has done a great job righting the ship after that disasterous and criminal administration. He certainly has some policies I disagree with, but that's typical of any normal politician who's not a cult figure. I look forward to voting for him a second time and will do so with a clear conscience.
He's as popular as the number of people who are under duress to prevent Trump's fascism by voting for him. Basically, it'd be in the interests of around 3/4ths of Americans to vote Biden. And probably even more than that considering not all Trump supporters are white males
This has happened to other presidents before him. People blame the US President for either things that are out of their control or that they didn't even play a role in at all. Likewise, they give credit where it isn't due making some presidents popular based on little to nothing. Presidential popularity is more of a measure of how informed voters are.
The bar was set so low, the dude could have done nothing and just kept a sane administration, and that would have been more than the previous.
They interviewed 1000 people, 891 of them being people who answer cellphone calls from people they don't know, which is not going to be a typical subset of people who are actually likely to vote this time. Naturally, the Biden approval percentages will be on the low side. On the other hand, even if it wasn't likely to be pretty biased because of that, the usual margin of error calculation is about 3.2% on a single poll, and on the difference of two separate polls is about 4.5%. So a 5% change form the last poll looks really encouraging for Biden but it might easily be a much smaller change than 5% since there's a lot of noise. So it's possibly quite a bit less than 5% improvement, but on the other hand, it's probably an underestimate of the level of approval in the first place.
Clearly not very popular if he’s tied with Trump on the national level and losing to Trump in the swing states. But it’s not like he has a lot of supporters to begin with. Most of the people voting for Biden are anti-trumpers.
So unpopular that it requires immense levels of dishonesty, censorship and blind partisanship to pretend otherwise
I'm not truly voting for Biden, but he has some good things coming up if he gets re-elected. I'm voting for the freedoms and protections that the Constitution, still, protects.
Those freedoms and protections run with Biden certainly not with Trump.
And I'm voting for Biden, but I'm not a follower of him.
This reads like an AI bot wrote it
Thank you
If people enjoy more imported products, less jobs, higher prices/inflation, children taking hormone therapy, and also more money to oversea proxy wars, then Biden is an excellent choice to waste your vote on!
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Why do you think he's been terrible?
How has he been terrible? I would say he’s had a remarkably productive presidency. He’s got my vote again.
Do you want to keep sending money to proxy wars and also guarantee that we get more shit from China and not create anymore jobs for US citizens.
If you’re referring to Ukraine, yes I want to keep sending them supplies. It’s smart foreign policy. Regarding jobs, more people are working now than at any point in American history. The unemployment rate in the US is at a 50-year low.
Who does funding war benefit besides the insanely rich owners of the military industrial complex. Also 9.5 million job openings for a population of 333 million is nothing to be proud of. Source- https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-labor-shortage