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.
All Democrats have done this.
Clinton and Obama have called half this nation all sorts of names and never paid a price for it except re-election.
By 2024, Biden will not be the nominee and voters will be convinced that the GOP candidate is more evil. But their votes will probably not count anyway.
IMO, to a large degree Biden has no idea what he’s saying or doing, he gets up in the morning and asks, “what am I doing today”, his aides told him, today we are going to Atlanta to give a speech, then hand him the speech, they remind him to get emotional and pound the podium.
The speech is written by some deranged liberal staff member who actually believes in the words in the speech, Biden is so mentally gone, he does as instructed.
Ultimately he’s responsible but his mental ability is such he can’t do anything to change the narrative.
How can the ass hat lose credibility, when he never had any to begin with?
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.
Wut?
I disagree. His presidency was defined on the steps of the stairs to Air Force 1.
Thoughtful and astute analysis; I think you nailed it.
the funny part - Davis and Conner - both democrats
BiteMe isn’t responsible for anything.
The people who installed the POTATUS are the ones responsible.
A “Fundamental Transformation “ of our system is on a roll. Thanks, Obama
Biden has been around for 40 some years. During that time he had some political instincts, his mental decline has robbed him of those instincts. His handlers are young ardent lefts who are completely out f touch.
unify the country and restore a sense of calm and normalcy to politics.
For Biden to claim to restore unity an calm would be like an arsonist claiming they would be willing to put out the fire.
Wouldn’t it be more likely it was sometime in a past November??
Biden lost all credibility on November 4th at 1:00 AM
By 2024, Biden will not be the nominee and voters will be convinced that the GOP candidate is more evil. But their votes will probably not count anyway.
Past action does not predict the future.
Over time people change. America is in a crisis right now. A crisis that the Democrats created. To say by November the voters will keep Democrats in control is to ignore the polls as well as the anger Americans are feeling right now.
It also ignores the fact that many states are changing the way elections are held. Sure California and New York will do whatever they can to keep Democrats in power but most of the nation are not like California and New York.
These last few years the mask has come off the Democrat party and what has been exposed is evil, pure and simple.
I have faith in my fellow Americans, change is coming.
That’s exactly right, he’s a career politician who has been around Washington for decades, he’s survived one debacle after another, he’s political instincts had to be really good at one time or he would not have survived all this time.
Now his mental capacity is such that all those instincts are gone and everyone around him is a crazy liberal who believes all Republicans and Conservatives are evil nazis, therefore they advise Biden to treat them that way and he’s doing it.
He has no ability to reverse the situation given his mental ability.
The only person who could help him is his wife, but she’s so caught up in being the first lady she’s willing to sacrifice her husband, all of it is sad in a way but in the meantime we all get screwed.
The difference is that Clinton and Obama both followed socialists named Bush whose capitulation to Democrats laid the American economy to waste. Biden followed Trump, under whose administration the working class’s income grew more than it did since the Johnson years... COMBINED. Trump’s only, but massive, flaw was that he was a total assh0!3. So Biden won’t get credit when the wealthy resume their massive accumulation of wealth and the TV proclaims the economy is fixed because unemployment is down and the stock market is up. People will just say, “Holy s***, that guy’s a worse assh0!3, and his policies are backwards!”
They say he won.
No fraud.
81 million votes.
Most in history.
Yet they still run around claiming to be disenfranchised.
Want to set up voting drop boxes.
Their time is short, and they know it.
They are destroying the people.
Like Ayn Rand wrote.
There is no way to rule innocent men.
Not enough criminals, one makes them.
Fines for not wearing a mask.
Want to imprison you for not getting their poison.
Fines for where you park
Where you smoke
Strapped in your car.
Slow boil, do you feel the heat, time to jump out of their melting pot
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