War pigs gotta war pig.
Putin's only demand was that Ukraine (Russian for "Borderland," which it is) not join NATO.
Posted on 11/08/2024 11:28:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
If there were any lingering doubts about whether Democrats did the right thing by pushing Joe Biden off the ticket in July, any remaining thought that maybe the president — even in a somewhat diminished state — was right to think that he could have beaten Donald Trump, then the exit polls from this week’s election should have put them to rest.
Because however history remembers Biden (and I think it will be kinder), it’s clear that a solid majority of Americans have determined his presidency to be a decisive failure. In Pennsylvania and Georgia, states Biden narrowly won in 2020, just over 40 percent of voters this week approved of his job performance. Nationally, that number was a tick lower, and roughly consistent with just about every poll over the past two years.
More than two-thirds of voters said the economy was in bad shape, but I don’t think that alone tells the story of Biden’s repudiation. The real reason, I think, goes deeper than any one policy or economic indicator.
Biden’s term started out promisingly enough. I thought he misread his mandate and pursued a more expansive agenda than a lot of voters endorsed, but however one judged the substance of his presidency, you couldn’t argue with his legislative success. Biden signed into law about $2.5 trillion in short-term aid and longer-term investments in education, energy and infrastructure. His administration bungled the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, but he rallied Europe capably in its defense of Ukraine.
Biden performed well enough to stave off his party’s losses in the 2022 midterm elections, which emboldened him to run again. But by then, his approval ratings had already been dropping for months. Consumers were reeling from inflation — the result, at least...
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Harris: "I don't think I would do anything different."
Ya beat me to it
I think Biden (or rather the puppet masters controlling that senile stooge) knew better than to think of the stolen 2020 election as some kind of “mandate.” They/he didn’t try to impose a nationwide muzzle mandate, like he promised during the campaign. Or climate lockdowns, which many on the left were pushing for.
The ornery side of me was hoping he/they would attempt one or both of those things. I would have joined with millions of others burning a muzzle on the side of the road and daring him to do something about it.
I actually did seriously consider getting a covid immunization, until that punk said he was getting “impatient” with people not getting vaccinated. So I did my part to make that election stealing rat bastard as impatient as possible...
What he didn’t do would be a shorter list... Maybe 1 or 2 things.
Obviously, he did the right thing regarding Ukraine. But Ukraine paid off the Bidens. I do not really fault Ukraine for doing that, it was in their national interest to do that.
War pigs gotta war pig.
Putin's only demand was that Ukraine (Russian for "Borderland," which it is) not join NATO.
I’m sort of glad to see a journalist state that Biden was pushed off the ticket. I read comments from progressives elsewhere pretending that it was his choice.
“I read comments from progressives elsewhere pretending that it was his choice.”
All that jive about country over party and another George Washington.
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