Posted on 02/02/2023 9:14:50 PM PST by lasereye
When President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address on Feb. 7, he’ll blame Republicans for his failures and take credit for things he hasn’t done. That’s what he does. It’s what many Democrats are doing intensely right now — a strategy I wrote about recently — but Biden has a special sauce that allows him to get away with it more than any of his colleagues.
Unofficially launching his reelection campaign, he’ll cast the GOP as the inflation party for opposing his inflationary Inflation Reduction Act, which spent hundreds of billions of borrowed federal dollars on subsidies. Biden will boast that inflation is falling fast without giving credit where it is due, to the Federal Reserve raising its target interest rate from zero to 4.5% since March. This was necessary because Biden’s policies stoked the worst inflation in 40 years. But he will get away with his casuistry.
He’ll also boast of cutting deficits faster than any president before despite the truth of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s comment that Biden has presided over “runaway, reckless, party-line spending” that has pushed our grandchildren’s debt above $31 trillion. The deficit has fallen only because Biden’s baseline is America’s prostrate condition at the start of the lockdown when Washington hurled buckets of emergency money on the economy to revive it. This president is no deficit cutter, but again, he’ll take credit.
He'll say Republicans cause chaos at the southern border even though opportunistic migrants pretending to need asylum began flooding in in record numbers because Biden invited them and scrapped policies that kept them out, abandoning his constitutional duty to uphold the law and defend the frontier.
He’ll talk of right-wing threats to democracy even as he boasts of his efforts to bypass Congress and forgive $1.7 trillion of student debt by fiat.
The public knows he’s bad at his job — his approval ratings have skittered between 37% and 44% for the past year. So, how does he get away with hollow boasts and embarrassing fabrications?
Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman noted that people aren’t persuaded by facts and solid arguments but by people they like. I’ve always found Biden’s bursts of anger and rudeness unappealing; the New York Times noted his tendency to “snap” and have “a short fuse.”
But most people, even those who recognize his incompetence, think Biden is a folksy nice guy. This is his special sauce. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a Trump ally, called Biden “the nicest person I think I’ve ever met in politics.”
The public takes Biden’s carefully crafted image at face value — a blue-collar, Camaro-driving, ordinary Joe, who modestly commuted to Washington each day and rose to the top. People think he’s too old and know he has a bottomless ability to “f*** things up” (as former President Barack Obama put it). But they still like him. When asked about this, irrespective of whether they agree with him, Americans like him more than dislike him. Right now, he’s 10 points on the plus side.
That’s a big reason why people think Joe is just being Joe when he’s trying to fool them. Their judgment is right in this, even though it’s regrettable that their response is to shrug, or even smile.
But of course they can't do that. The press would accuse the Republican responder of being political! The GOP response will be delivered by the typical GOPe type who prides themselves on saying as little as possible. It will be something along the lines of "We will work with the administration to fight inflation". Maybe they'll call for more oil drilling - but without mentioning how Biden has blocked pipelines and new drilling permits. They may throw in something about supporting Ukraine. Who selects the people that deliver the Republican responses anyway?
Ping
So.... they don't know him.
Or anything about him.
And they are stupid.
This is the guy who has spent decades lying and smearing decent people like Curtis Dunn and has never apologized.
If you think THAT is a nice person then get off my planet you oxygen thief.
Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman noted that people aren’t persuaded by facts and solid arguments but by people they like. I’ve always found Biden’s bursts of anger and rudeness unappealing; the New York Times noted his tendency to “snap” and have “a short fuse.”Rubbish, Hugo.
But most people, even those who recognize his incompetence, think Biden is a folksy nice guy. This is his special sauce. …
Just noticed that this guy Gurdon is the EIC. Seems incompetent to me.
Where are people protesting any of this?
Nice guys don’t take showers with their 12 yr old daughters.
You could write a whole book on Biden's lies alone. His latest, actually told many times before, is saying that he had a key to the Amtrak train, and used to ride with the engineer in the locomotive. Nuts. Totally nuts. I guess he did that between his gigs driving the big rigs.
Biden is a MEAN SOB, and a pathological LIAR!! And he touches LITTLE GIRLS in inappropriate places!
Is he capable of speaking for longer than 10 minutes without a teleprompter or someone telling him what to say? Perhaps this will expose his cognitive decline?
It worked in the Mid-Terms - People didn’t care that Joe is senile was lying and that inflation was eating their paychecks - they still voted Democrat
What will Joe Wilson shout out this time?
There’s nothing in the media that aids his image. The man is a monster.
And what kind of women do you know? I know a diverse swath of them, and not one of them likes Biden out of those who care for politics.
When dealing with a narcissistic personality, one has to realize that there will be an abuser, and one who is abused.
Just as in most relationships of that type, the abused will often choose to go back to the abuser out of fear — fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of retaliation, fear of abandonment, etc.
That’s the American people right now. We’ve allowed the press to put all these fears (of Trump, etc.) into the zeitgeist, but don’t realize we’re being gaslight by the media, Biden, and most of our politicians.
As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. Mencken
Biden is a pathological liar
With all of the dumb and bad things he’s done and doing in his life it’s the only cover story he can use.
In the Criminal Hall of Fame his photo is front and center of the room.
A long time ago, when he was still just a senator and no one expected him ever to become President, I heard him on the radio talking about someone (I think maybe a recently deceased Republican politician). He sounded very kind and sincere. Sincerity is one of the best traits to have for a politician. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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