Play Nice 46th President of the United States: Joe Biden (1) O Brave New World

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View attachment 1313105 Los Angeles crime and postal theft is out of control...the entire US West Coast is in turmoil, but the woke Governors wouldn't have a clue what to do about it? "Crazy Joe" certainly doesn't !

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You're not going to convince most normal and sane people that last year the US government was nearly overthrown by a guy wearing a viking hat and speedos!

Again, the focus on the Jan 6 enthusiasts is disingenuous, an approach raised to an art form by Trump enablers in the GOP and media.

The US government was nearly overthrown by its own outgoing POTUS, not the Capitol rabble.
 
Certainly not Biden.

Unless you believe crime only started in the last 12 months
Yep - this is a longstanding issue in California building over decades (so realistically, the local, state and federal governments over this period of time will have varying degrees of responsibility).

'Wokeness' is a catchphrase for the lazy. I have cousins in the San Fran area that have been complaining about the homeless and drug addicts as well as the mess that it brings for a number of years.
 
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Certainly not Biden.

Unless you believe crime only started in the last 12 months

It came from a record low as everyone was locked down and unable to leave the house to a still below historic average rate that can be spun as a huge acceleration by people who love the idea of American people living in constant fear of crime and violence.

In the end, property values in California continue to skyrocket at astronomical rates, so it certainly seems like the landowning class aren’t fleeing the “chaos and crisis” that is being painted.
 
It came from a record low as everyone was locked down and unable to leave the house to a still below historic average rate that can be spun as a huge acceleration by people who love the idea of American people living in constant fear of crime and violence.

In the end, property values in California continue to skyrocket at astronomical rates, so it certainly seems like the landowning class aren’t fleeing the “chaos and crisis” that is being painted.
...and who wants to be homeless in a flyover state as well.
 

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I've certainly got some issues with Biden - mainly with his entrenchment within the Democratic corporate establishment, but his tenure so far must be viewed in the context of the fairly bad hand he's been dealt.

Firstly, and obviously, he's up against an actual fascist movement that tried to overturn the legitimate results of his victory. I think he should have been stronger in his condemnation of Trump, Republicans, those who voted to decertify his election and that have downplayed the events of Jan. 6 since.

But unfortunately, I'm not actually sure what his or the Democrats condemnation would actually achieve. You cant have a democracy when one side simply won't accept results of elections unless they win and its impossible for the Democrats (or any party in a two party system) to win every election from now on. Having Sanders or any other idealist progressive would not change the course which is the US is on, which is towards authoritarianism.

Then you've got the hand which Biden has been dealt in the Senate, which, when they won the run-off seats in Georgia they thought they had a majority in the Senate with Harris breaking the tie. But in reality they had 48 Democrats and 2 quasi-Republicans in Manchin and Sinema - effectively being bribed by their donors to prevent the passage of any meaningful legislation. Once again, it could be argued that if Sanders won the candidacy, Democrats would have won more races down-ballot and they would have had a larger majority in both houses. But even then they would have to have a supermajority in the Senate to overcome the filibuster.

Basically, there are massive structural obstacles in the functioning of the Federal legislature (not to mention all the bribery and media disinformation outside Washington). Without a large majority in both houses the Democrats will always have huge problems passing meaningful reform. Biden did run on a ''bipartisanship'' platform which sounded naive at the time, and has proven to be naive in the present. As apart from a handful of Republicans, the rest of them are now captive to the Trump fascist movement, either voluntarily or by the bondage of their Trump-loving constituents.

the main reasons Biden's approval ratings are plummeting is that he's failing to deliver bold reform which is, or he should have anticipated as being, impossible to achieve in in a bipartisan way - that is, with approval of Republicans and two obstructive ''Democratic'' Senators (perhaps the level of their obstruction was less foreseeable). Again, he's already done more than a Republican President (Trump) would have done in passing the stimulus package earlier in the year. But passing long, structural reforms like whats proposed in the early versions of Build Back Better was doomed to fail. Anything other than tax cuts or last minute debt ceiling increases is always going to be met with resistance.

Now he's getting slammed on COVID because he's battling against largely anti-mask, anti-vaccine red states and governors, a new highly contagious variant and a conservative packed Supreme Court reserving his vaccine mandate (which has to be honest, become almost obsolete thanks to the new variant)

Another debacle which seems almost long forgotten now is Afghanistan, but inevitably Biden will now wear the political cost which is obviously not all his. The occupation was a absolute disaster and the withdrawal (which Trump negotiated - again, a sign of Biden's naivete) was unsurprisingly an absolute disaster. Interestingly, its the type of move which (of course) if Trump had executed he would have been celebrated by this minions for ending the ''endless wars''.

But that's the other problem, Democrats and Democratic Presidents held to a much higher standard by their supporters, the mainstream media and the left, as opposed to Republicans and the right - with their President, barely could hold a coherent thought in his diseased head for more than two seconds, tried to end to democracy and is still venerated like a God.

Republicans assuming control of potentially one or both Houses this year and taking the Presidency (legitimately or illegitimately) in 2024 seems a formality at this point, but the truth is Biden and Democrats are only partially to blame. The rabid neoliberal ideology which is like their secondary religion in the US for the last 40 years, has set them on this path way back then. The UK is definitely on the same trajectory. Australia too, although our much more robust voting system gives me much more cause for the comfort than the US.
 
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Certainly not Biden.

Unless you believe crime only started in the last 12 months
Silly old Joe is not blameless as he has let the West Coast Governors do nothing. Violent crime is up in Los Angeles. The LAPD reports a 50% increase in the number of people wounded by gun violence so far this year. (During Crazy Joe's first year) That figure doubles when it comes to theft and looting.
 
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