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.
Those that control the elections will not allow things to change. No matter how many vote against them, they will switch, produce, lose the votes to win and the people will bend over.
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Agreed - the aftermath of the 2020 election proves the point. Nothing happened to those that planned, instigated, and carried out the takeover of the US election system.
Too many people think that laws being passed will somehow prevent future election fraud by the Democrats, ignoring the many laws they altered or ignored to achieve the 2020 takeover, imaging the Democrats would not do it again.
Since the pattern of Democrat cheating began with Mayor Daley in 1960, then allowing the architects of the 2020 fraud to go unpunished - to even sit in the White House and brag about his (Ron Klein) accomplishments - conservatives imagining passing mere laws will, after 60 odd years, will change either the arc or the reaction is certain folly.
What political instincts does someone need to keep getting elected as a Democrat in Delaware? The state's population is only 1 million with only 28% registered Republicans. Delaware voted for the Republican candidate for president only 4 times since 1972, the same year Biden was first elected to the Senate.
Oh; it’s Salena Zito again.
She actually is positing that Biden had any credibility to lose?
That moment passed decades ago.
Only idiots didn’t think so.
“ Doesnt matter. Those that control the elections will not allow things to change. No matter how many vote against them, they will switch, produce, lose the votes to win and the people will bend over”
With that kind of attitude you should go kill yourself. Get out of the way, you’re dregs on society, deadwood or basically smegma. Your attitude makes me wretch.
D I T T O!
It’s just like when they tell us that his ratings have fallen. WHEN were those numbers EVER accurate or honest anyway?
Very good analysis.
Thank you.
Bidex recently said, “It’s who counts the votes that matters!”
He lost his credibility sometime back in the 1960s. He’s always been a lying, bloviating POS with nothing to show for his 48-year presence in government.
The guy poops himself and can’t remember where he is most of the time, somehow I don’t believe he setup the debacle in Atlanta himself, I don’t believe it, the radical crazies around him handle his speeches and day to day activities
Here in Virginia, GOVERNOR Youngkin would disagree.
WOW so because I can see the writing on the wall, I should just go kill myself? Seriously? What are YOU doing to change things? Are you going to not go to work and provide for your family but go do what- march on DC? Until there is an actual REVOLUTION / CIVIL WAR, nothing is going to change. The “dregs” as you call us are out working every day. The problem is that so many idiots had children and raised them to be additional idiots. If push comes to shove, I will shove but right now, I have a job and family.
See posts #46 & #53 loser. With people like you 2, we would have NEVER become a nation, let alone the planets most important society that has ever existed.
Yes, we have problems, but they are not insurmountable. This will pass. But it will take people vested in Liberty not by following pussy advice like you spew. Go find a basement to dwell.
Grow a set, loser. Or get out of the way. You think you’re the only one with a family? I have 10 great-grandkids and I don’t want them living as communists. That’s what’s coming their way with losers with defeatist attitudes spoiling everything and everyone they encounter. Time for action.
He had credibility?
So would your AG who summarily cleaned house his first day in office!
This war is winnable.
You go, Virginia!
Biden hasn’t been credible since the 1970’s.
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