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The Moment Joe Biden Finally Lost His Credibility
Townhall.com ^ | January 18, 2022 | Salena Zito

Posted on 01/18/2022 3:12:33 AM PST by Kaslin

If resident Joe Biden's disorderly and lethal Afghanistan withdrawal was the moment that fractured voters' regard for him, then his vicious Atlanta speech last week may be the moment that defines his presidency.

Speaking Tuesday at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Biden uttered venomous, brutal accusations lacking factual basis. His shouting-in-the-wind delivery was inexplicable, and his decision to lash out at members of his own party -- Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema -- appears to have only strengthened their resolve not to give in to his demands.

Biden called those who disagree with his political views on legislation "domestic enemies." He compared them to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and former Alabama Democratic Party Committeeman and ardent, violent segregationist Bull Connor. In American politics, that is about as divisive as one can get -- at least he didn't mention Hitler.

Biden bears no resemblance today to the man who ran for president, pledging over and over again to unify the country and restore a sense of calm and normalcy to politics. From the day he was sworn in to office and signed executive orders putting thousands out of work in the energy industry, he ceased to be that guy from Scranton that people thought he was.

He has not been that guy since he invited, through ill-considered policy changes, untold numbers of illegal immigrants across our borders. He has not been that guy since he miserably failed the troops and the nation's image during his catastrophic tail-between-his-legs retreat from Afghanistan.

Biden, despite having no mandate and only the barest legislative majority for his party, has turned divide-and-conquer politics into the solution for everything, including the pandemic.

You don't warn a nation that a winter of "severe illness and death" is coming for the unvaccinated because your aim is to bring people together; those words are intended as a threat and a slight, just like his resurrection of George Wallace in last week's speech to score cheap political points.

The scope of Biden's fall from grace -- from glib middle-class Pennsylvanian to venomous, lying politico who will say anything to please left-wing activists -- has been staggering.

This has not gone unnoticed by voters. Last week's Quinnipiac poll showed that a plurality of voters (49%) now believe Biden is doing more to divide the country than to unite it.

Biden's approval rating among adults was at an abysmal 33% points; independents gave him 24%; Hispanics a bit more at 28%. His approval rating within his own party has fallen 12 points since November.

The media tried to write off his fall as temporary last August, when a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the public disapproving of his incompetent performance in Afghanistan by a 2-1 ratio. At the time, this event marked the first time in his presidency his approval rating was net negative.

But in the time since, Biden has only kept losing support.

This moment and the associated loss of credibility that Biden is suffering will have lingering effects in the American psyche. They might not remember all of the words, but they will remember Biden's vicious, nasty, bad-faith accusations, his flagrant falsehoods and his petulant tone.

As with Afghanistan, the media and the people who surround Biden will dismiss the public reaction, and Biden will be worse off for it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; afghanistan; bloggers; california; election2022; election2024; fakenews; georgia; joebiden; kamalaharris; nancypelosi; neanderthaljoe; salenazito; voting; whatcredibility; zito
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To: Mark17
How can the ass hat lose credibility, when he never had any to begin with?

Exactly right, and why did it take 4 posts on this thread to make this exact right statement?

21 posted on 01/18/2022 4:07:28 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: shoff

he sure did, ans so did those that voted for him.


22 posted on 01/18/2022 4:08:17 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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To: srmanuel

He has no idea, because he’s an idiot.


23 posted on 01/18/2022 4:09:10 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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To: VRW Conspirator

You mean when he stumbled, as he tried to run up the stairs because he wanted to show off? Only an idiot would do that, and that is what he is.


24 posted on 01/18/2022 4:13:00 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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To: just me

They can say what they want. He did not win. The election was given to him through fraud.


25 posted on 01/18/2022 4:17:26 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“Progressives have chosen an ideology of total warfare,” Ian Tuttle writes in National Review. “They aren’t satisfied with compromise. They aren’t satisfied with surrender. They aren’t satisfied until they are roaming the conquered countryside shooting survivors.”


26 posted on 01/18/2022 4:17:58 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: Kaslin

He lost credibility back in the late 70’s.


27 posted on 01/18/2022 4:25:42 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

he sure did


28 posted on 01/18/2022 4:27:18 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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To: srmanuel
Biden has no idea what he’s saying or doing, he gets up and asks, “what am I doing today”, his aides brief him, then hand him the speech, reminding him to get emotional and pound the podium.

Be careful........that's what HE WANTS us all to think.

He's an actor....been one his entire life......pulls out an act for every occasion.

His Atlanta Act was a lulu......he wrote the script.... venting his dislike and annoyance for Americans.

It made him feel soooooo good about himself.......AND he escaped responsibility.......a-g-a-i-n.

29 posted on 01/18/2022 4:29:10 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Kaslin

The first time he plagiarized?


30 posted on 01/18/2022 4:32:12 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Kaslin

We all saw what a nasty, vicious man he was on the campaign trail, and this is why they kept him locked in his basement. Every time he was confronted with a voter who didn’t kiss his rear end, he insulted them and brandished his teeth like a dog.

This guy has wanted to be the next JFK for 50 years. The aviator glasses and big capped teeth. Anyone in his way is garbage. Half the country is garbage to him, to be walked over. We all know it.


31 posted on 01/18/2022 4:36:39 AM PST by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: All

His CALCULATED Atlanta speech unveiled Biden’s displeasure at having created a “perfect government” for US horrible, ungrateful people.

Biden’s unhinged act made one startling declaration after another.

He reviled Americans who disagree with him about how he has “perfectly” ensured the integrity of the American electoral process.

The “Perfect Biden”’ has no use for us.....people he viciously demeaned as modern-day
Confederates, racist traitors, closeted supporters of slave-holding president Jefferson Davis.


32 posted on 01/18/2022 4:39:29 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: usconservative

👍😀


33 posted on 01/18/2022 4:39:54 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: Kaslin

Joe Biden once had credibility? Who knew!


34 posted on 01/18/2022 4:47:06 AM PST by Avalon Memories (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...)
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To: srmanuel

I would say he survived being in Washington all that time through the debacles because he just wasn’t important enough to target. He has quite a nasty little history that a real press would have shredded him for. Thus, I think it’s a mix of for a time, being too unimportant to target, and then later, under orders to protect at all costs...


36 posted on 01/18/2022 4:54:40 AM PST by ferret_airlift
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To: Kaslin
Biden bears no resemblance today to the man who ran for president, pledging over and over again to unify the country and restore a sense of calm and normalcy to politics.

Because Biden was NEVER THAT MAN!

Biden didn't pledge anything! His enemedia-created persona was reportedly a moderate, uniter with great hopes and dreams for America.

Anyone with two or more functioning brain cells knew that was a lie - PERIOD! Those who believed the enemedia's narratives about Biden are the same ones who today demand we all get COVID shots (that still have not worked after THREE SHOTS)!! These are the same people who have demanded we all wear masks, and now that the CDC says the cloth masks were basically useless, they say, "Well it is still a good thing to do."

There is absolutely NO ACTUAL BRAIN FUNCTION involved in their actions, their responses, or their voting!!
37 posted on 01/18/2022 4:54:46 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: Mark17

Ha! I see why it took four posts: you’re a class of 1998 member (as am I) and everyone before you who posted is a noob!!! ROFL!


38 posted on 01/18/2022 4:54:58 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“...the constant attacks on President Trump that created the dis-unity and chaos in our nation...”

Which was 100% due to democrat treachery.


39 posted on 01/18/2022 4:55:22 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kaslin
Obama vented his concerns about Biden and said “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up”
40 posted on 01/18/2022 5:01:44 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Media Control is an anagram of Delta Omicron.)
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