{"id":76528,"date":"2022-01-26T02:46:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T08:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76528"},"modified":"2022-01-26T02:50:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T08:50:21","slug":"76528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76528","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is not \u201cfacing a cascade of crises.\u201d He created all of them. Biden IS the crisis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6uLKQsI0Bd\">https:\/\/t.co\/6uLKQsI0Bd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\/status\/1483806107038588930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re a demoncrap and still losing the WaPost&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2022\/01\/25\/washington-post-details-joe-bidens-descent-into-the-political-gutter55?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1\">Joe Bye-Done: WaPo&#8217;s Article About Biden&#8217;s Struggles Sure Does Drive a Dagger Into His Presidency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s presidency is one year old\u2014and it\u2019s a total nightmare. The nation is still divided. Omicron is sweeping the nation. Inflation is through the roof. The grocery store has bare shelves. The supply chain crisis is ongoing. The border crisis is out of control. The Afghanistan withdrawal was a nightmare. We might see another embassy evacuation in Ukraine. The jobs reports are trash. It\u2019s not going well. The only person who thinks all is well is\u2026Joe Biden. That doesn\u2019t account for much since he\u2019s dementia-ridden. He\u2019s old. He\u2019s slow. He\u2019s stupid. Three things the president of the United States cannot be in this world. The scent of weakness is present for all to see, which is why Russia and China are flexing big league right now. As Russia prepares for a possible invasion of Ukraine, China is probably smiling looking at the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s become clear is that one year into his presidency, Biden can\u2019t do the job. That\u2019s what jumps out in this Washington Post piece about Biden\u2019s \u201cslide\u201d in the polls. The other thing that comes to mind is this question: how did this get published? It\u2019s quite a searing piece, with even members of his own party slamming his performance. Even swing voters polled by Democratic pollsters see a bad word association brewing when it comes to Joe Biden, ones that are election killers. It\u2019s why many Democrats probably cringed when Joe declared he was going to be active on the 2022 campaign trail for the midterms. Biden\u2019s approvals are circling the drain, with numbers ranging from the 30s and 40s. He\u2019s a cancer to his party, with its more centrist members probably hoping he just forgets where they are on the district map. Congressional Democratic leaders told their members to gamble on Build Back Better, with moderates voting for the lefty action items only to have Joe Manchin torpedo the bill. Now, their names are attached to this Bolshevik package. For progressives, Biden promised he could sway Manchin. That failed miserably. It was a disastrous push toward the end of the holiday season that pretty much captured the Biden administration as one of being incompetent and being outright blind to the political realities at hand. You can\u2019t go hard left with a 50-50 Senate and a four-seat majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Biden losing middle America, he\u2019s rapidly becoming irrelevant. No one is afraid of the bully pulpit of the White House when the president is weak sauce. No one. It\u2019s even worse since you know Biden will choose to be that type of president on battles he cannot win, making him look even weaker and more aloof (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-decline-first-year\/2022\/01\/18\/19ecd8c0-7557-11ec-8ec6-9d61f7afbe17_story.html\">WaPo<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In post-election briefings with Democrats after McAuliffe lost, campaign aides argued that the crises the Biden administration faced in August undercut the president and his party\u2019s message of competence and a return to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden presented himself as an antidote to his predecessor, offering the promise of what his own campaign ads called \u201cstrong, steady, stable leadership\u201d after four years of bedlam under President Donald Trump. But the tumult surrounding the administration\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan offered an early glimpse of the cascade of crises that have badly eroded Biden\u2019s image of restoring calm.<\/p>\n<p>Biden on Thursday marks the first full year of his presidency facing intraparty Democratic disarray, stalled legislation, supply chain issues, worrying inflation, rising tensions with Russia and another highly transmissible coronavirus variant called omicron \u2014 all of which have led to an approval ratings average stuck in the low 40s.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u2026the administration has also repeatedly underestimated the magnitude of the nation\u2019s challenges, including failing to anticipate the delta and omicron coronavirus variants, and has struggled to unite the liberal base and the more moderate wing of the Democratic Party. The president and his team have also stumbled in offering a clear and reassuring message, unable to convince many Americans that they understand their travails or that better days are ahead.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) said: \u201cIf I were giving them a grade \u2014 and I was a political science professor for a long time \u2014 I\u2019d have to give them an incomplete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decline in Biden\u2019s poll numbers, which already were dropping, accelerated dramatically over the summer. By early September, more Americans disapproved than approved of the way Biden was handling his job for the first time in his presidency, according to a Washington Post average of polls since May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Post-ABC polls showed a 10-point drop in approval of Biden\u2019s handling of the pandemic from late June to early September. The September Post-ABC poll also found that 60 percent disapproved of his handling of the situation in Afghanistan, and by November, Biden\u2019s overall job ratings had dipped further amid rising disapproval of his handling of the economy and the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld.\u201d \u201cIncoherent.\u201d \u201cLazy.\u201d \u201cSleepy Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These were among the first descriptions that came to mind for 10 suburban women swing voters who gathered late last year for a virtual focus group conducted by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake on behalf of several liberal organizations. The results were reviewed by The Post on the condition of anonymity to protect the identity of the participants and the groups.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to elaborate, the women in the focus group said it seemed as if \u201che\u2019s trying,\u201d but that Biden shuffles and frequently seems to lose his train of thought. Biden is \u201cwishy-washy\u201d in standing up to his own party, one woman said, explaining that she thought the president seemed more like an actor in a \u201csupporting role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t convey being strong to me,\u201d she said. \u201cHe seems weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others offered suggestions: \u201cIf he needs a nap beforehand, take that, because we need him to be there for us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It cannot be all doom-and-gloom; this is The Washington Post. Buried deep in the lengthy piece is the hope from the Democratic operative class that Slow Joe can turn it around in time for 2024 if he\u2019s healthy\u2014which he won\u2019t be. By then, the oatmeal that has occupied his cranial cavity will be past its expiration date. In the immediate, it seems everyone knows the game is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Democratic strategist said the Biden team can turn his presidency around \u2014 but probably not in time to stave off defeat in the November midterms,\u201d noted the Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re in a tough spot,\u201d this person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share a candid opinion. \u201cCan they recover? For the 2024 reelection \u2014 yes. For 2022 \u2014 probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Biden can\u2019t run, and it\u2019s looking like that might not be outside the realm of possibility, who else is there? Kamala is done\u2014shot. That\u2019s a candidate who will surely lose 45 states in 2024. Mayor Pete? He\u2019s been on what seems to be the longest paternity leave in American history as the supply chain crisis strangles grocery chains.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mess, much like Joe. The fish rots from the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden is not \u201cfacing a cascade of crises.\u201d He created all of them. Biden IS the crisis. https:\/\/t.co\/6uLKQsI0Bd &mdash; Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) January 19, 2022 When you&#8217;re a demoncrap and still losing the WaPost&#8230;.. Joe Bye-Done: WaPo&#8217;s Article About Biden&#8217;s Struggles Sure Does Drive a Dagger Into His Presidency Joe Biden\u2019s presidency is one year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,50,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-goobermint","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76531,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76528\/revisions\/76531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}