Biden fucking up already

Well if Joe is crowing about gas prices coming down then he needs to take ownership of everything...

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President Biden's approval rating among Americans has dropped to 31%, hitting a new all-time low of his presidency, according to a new poll.

The Quinnipac University survey released Wednesday also revealed the president's support among Hispanics stands at just 19%, while 71% of Americans said they do not want Biden to seek re-election in 2024. Among Democrats, only 40% said that they would like to see him run again, while 54% do not want Biden to be the Democratic nominee.

Only 28% said they approve of Biden's handling of the economy, while 66% disapprove of his job thus far.

The poll found that most Americans' biggest concern right now is inflation, as costs continue to rise and inflation last month reached a 40-year high of 9.1%.
 
gwb-trading said:
Joe Biden Goes 'Dark Brandon,’ Comes Out Fighting
The president has been on a run of major policy achievements and seems to be enjoying it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-dark-brandon_n_63090edee4b07744a2f6f619
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gwb-trading said:
'MAGA forces' determined to 'take country backwards,' Biden says in speech from Philadelphia
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/01/biden-speech-challenges-maga/7962661001/

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said "MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards" in a prime-time address to the nation Thursday, urging Americans to "stand up" to defend democracy and "choose a better path forward."

Biden warned that "equality and democracy are under assault," singling out former President Donald Trump by name and his supporters who have denied the results of the 2020 presidential election. He called it his "duty to level with you to tell the truth" as he accused Trump's followers of stoking political violence.

"Too much in our country is not normal," Biden said in a 24-minute speech from outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."

Although the White House claimed the speech wasn't about the midterm elections less than 70 days away, the president was speaking in a crucial battleground state that could decide control of the Senate. Protesters with bullhorns interrupted the president during part of his remarks, which had clear political overtones.

"For a long time, we've reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it is not," Biden said. "We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it. Each and every one of us." He said Trump and his supporters see their failure to overturn the 2020 election as "preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections."

Trump has signaled he plans to run for president in 2024.

Biden has embraced a more aggressive tone as the campaign kicks into high gear, accusing Republicans aligned with Trump of "semi-fascism." He's singled out "MAGA Republicans," referring to the Make America Great Again movement spawned by his predecessor, to argue the party has become increasingly "extreme." He sought Thursday to differentiate the far right from "mainstream Republicans," who he said he respects.

"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards – backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love," Biden said.

He said they "embrace anger, they thrive on chaos, they live not in light of truth, but in the shadow of lies," but added "together we can choose a different path."

Philadelphia, known as the birthplace of American democracy, was a calculated site for the speech. It's also where Biden launched his 2020 presidential campaign. The president Thursday reintroduced the central argument of his 2020 run by framing the stakes as "the continued battle for the soul of the nation."

Biden condemned rising threats against election workers and FBI agents amid the bureau's investigation into classified documents Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago home. He also called out Republicans who have warned about riots on the streets, an apparent swipe at Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who predicted such a scenario if Trump is prosecuted.

"This is inflammatory. It's dangerous. It's against the rule of law," Biden said.

Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pushed back at the premise of Biden's speech, arguing Biden "does not understand the soul of America." He said the "tens of millions of hard-working, law-abiding citizens that he vilifies" simply want a say in their child's education, gas they can afford, inflation to halt and feel safe to go on their streets.

"They want a stronger, safer, more prosperous America," McCarthy said in an interview Thursday on Fox News. "And all he does is vilify them to distract from the disasters and no plan he has to save America from where we are today."

Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, called Biden "the divider-in-chief" who "epitomizes the current state of the Democrat Party: one of divisiveness, disgust, and hostility towards half the country."

A few hundred spectators watched Biden speak from seats outside Independence Hall. Although the speech had a prime-time slot, network television stations didn't air it over previously scheduled programing.

At one point, Biden responded to the protesters who kept interrupting him: "They're entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy. Good manners is nothing they've ever suffered from."

A poll from NBC News last week found that 21% of voters said "threats to democracy" were the top issue facing the country, above the economy, immigration and climate change.

Democrats, who once seemed on track for a potentially disastrous midterm election, have found new reason for optimism following special-election congressional victories in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Biden has seen approval ratings that floundered the past year finally start to improve after a series of legislative wins and lowering gas prices.

Biden said "our task is to make our nation free and fair, justice, strong, noble and whole" as he concluded his remarks on an optimistic note.

"I have no doubt – none – that this is who we will be and that we'll come together as a nation that will secure our democracy."
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and the crabwalk begins..... C'mon man

“Do you consider all Trump supporters to be a threat to this country?” a reporter asked Biden at the end of his only scheduled public remarks of the day.

“Come on, look, guys, you keep trying to make that case. I don’t consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country,” Biden said.

“I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it is used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which they can count votes, that is a threat to democracy.”

Biden added, “When people voted for Donald Trump and support him now, they weren’t voting for attacking the Capitol, they weren’t voting for overruling an election, they were voting for a philosophy he put forward.

“So I am not talking about anything other than that it is inappropriate and it is not only happening here, but other parts of the world — the failure to recognize and condemn violence whenever it is used for political purposes, failure to condemn any attempt to manipulate election outcomes, failure to acknowledge when an election has been won or lost.”
 
Cuddles said:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/biden-mohammed-bin-salman-jamal-khashoggi/index.html
Biden doesn't penalize crown prince despite promise to punish senior Saudi leaders

(CNN)Despite promising to punish senior Saudi leaders while on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden declined to apply sanctions to the one the US intelligence community determined is responsible for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The choice not to punish Prince Mohammed directly puts into sharp relief the type of decision-making that becomes more complicated for a president versus a candidate, and demonstrates the difficulty in breaking with a troublesome ally in a volatile region.

On Friday, Biden's administration released an unclassified intelligence report on Khashoggi's death, an action his predecessor refused to take as he downplayed US intelligence. The report from the director of national intelligence says the crown prince, known as MBS, directly approved the killing of Khashoggi. But while Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced visa restrictions that affected 76 Saudis involved in harassing activists and journalists, he didn't announce measures that touch the prince. And while a sanctions list from the Treasury Department named a former deputy intelligence chief and the Saudi Royal Guard's rapid intervention force, the crown prince wasn't mentioned.

Two administration officials said sanctioning MBS was never really an option, operating under the belief it would have been "too complicated" and could have jeopardized US military interests in Saudi Arabia. As a result, the administration did not even request the State Department to work up options for how to target MBS with sanctions, one State Department official said.

In November 2019, Biden promised to punish senior Saudi leaders in a way former President Donald Trump wouldn't.

"Yes," he said when directly asked if he would. "And I said it at the time. Khashoggi was, in fact, murdered and dismembered, and I believe on the order of the crown prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them, we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are."

"There's very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia," he said. "They have to be held accountable."

The Biden administration's definition of accountability is now coming into sharper view. The President has ended US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen and ordered an end to some weapons sales to the kingdom, while top aides say he wants to "recalibrate" the relationship.

Administration officials acknowledge it will be tricky. In an exclusive interview with NPR set to air Friday afternoon, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines conceded the report could complicate US-Saudi relations going forward.

"I am sure it is not going to make things easier," she said. "But I think it's also fair to say that it is not unexpected."

A senior administration official, in explaining the decision to forgo punishment for the crown prince in light of the report, said the information released Friday was not new and had been known to the US government for more than a year.

Responding to the report, the Saudi foreign ministry said it "completely rejects the negative, false and unacceptable assessment in the report pertaining to the Kingdom's leadership."

The relationship with Riyadh itself appears too valuable for the Biden administration to abandon altogether by punishing the man who is widely viewed as running the kingdom. State Department officials said that the Biden administration made a point not to upend any working-level discussions between the two countries because the security relationship is so important.

In many ways that calculation is the same one the Trump administration made in deciding to stop short of punishing MBS.

Officials in both the Trump and Biden administrations have acknowledged privately that Saudi Arabia is a critical partner on counterterrorism actions and as a regional counterweight to Iran, making any attempt at distance nearly impossible.

"It's hard to imagine any issue in the region where Saudi partnership and support doesn't play a significant role," Dennis Ross, a former special Middle East coordinator, told CNN.

Gerald Feierstein, a former principal deputy assistant decretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs now with the Middle East Institute, said the administration is balancing its response against its other priorities, such as ending the conflict in Yemen, lowering tensions in the Gulf region and counter-terrorism efforts are also factors, and all require a stable US-Saudi bilateral relationship.

Most crucially, "with US-Iran negotiations likely to restart later this year, Biden will need Saudi acquiescence, if not enthusiasm, to sell an eventual deal in the region," said Ayham Kamel, the Practice Head, Middle East and North Africa at the Eurasia Group.

Another factor that analysts point to: the crown prince does serve to further some US goals, among them his attempt to modernize and overhaul the Saudi economy.

"While the crown prince comes with serious baggage, his reforms are productive channels of modernizing the kingdom, limiting the influence of the Wahhabi clerical establishment, promoting a greater degree of religious tolerance and empowering the youth," Kamel said.

"We have a stake in seeing him succeed in making his modernization drive a success, we have a stake in their transition from fossil fuels," Ross said.
Kamel said that "the Biden team is not looking to deepen direct US political influence in Saudi Arabia and impact the debate over succession in the house of al Saud," and that the Saudis are willing to listen -- to a degree.

"The Saudi leadership has firmly decided to adopt a constructive position over the short term to limit tensions with the US," Kamel said, pointing to the release of human rights activists as "an olive branch."

And while Saudi officials understand that Biden is under pressure in Washington to act, "they are not convinced that Riyadh lacks leverage," Kamel said, referencing their security relationships they have developed with countries such as France and Russia and their ability to leverage ties with China to counter the US
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Cuddles said:
Fucking Joe, gets handed a "win" w/Roe fiasco then steps on his dick by fist bumping/meeting killer he himself identified as such and gave a pass to:
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Yeah, how's that working out Joe?

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