Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

I asked for an explanation, not more dribble!?

According to Nate Silver's website, Biden is firmly in negative territory. A ten-point turnaround in about 2 months and things don't get any easier, with covid cases rising heading into the fall, an economy stuttering, inflation is a growing concern, massive and I mean MASSIVE foreign policy issues at hand.

Can he turn it around?

To give context, the only presidents doing worse than Biden were Ford, Clinton, and Trump. Only Clinton managed to turn things around, the rest was dumped out of office. And I think we all know, Biden is no Clinton.

** As an aside, I find it fascinating that Clinton was so unpopular so early on, given overall his presidency was seen as a huge success in the main. Need to read more into the whys.

The fallout from Afghanistan will rubble on and on and on. This is not over.

Already there are very disturbing reports on a violent crackdown on women and their rights by the Taliban with I suspect a lot worse to come. ISIS are operating there now. If a re-branded Al-Qeada emerges there in the future that is also a problem. All of that rightly or wrongly will be blamed on Biden and the Dems. They have ceded the moral authority on International human rights.

I don't think Biden is not going to suffer whatever happens with Covid. Clearly he did an outstanding job when he came into office, despite his predecessor doing nothing to help. What we have now is that a massive amount of Americans simply refuse to get behind the country and have put individual freedoms ahead of the country they purport to love. If the economy continues to stall, as the latest job numbers point to, then I think we will quickly see a widening divide between those that follow the rules, mask up and got the vaccination, and those that refuse.

Those that did help won't hold Biden responsible to the refusal of the others to help out the country. Everyone has suffered, and people will start to get more and more annoyed at those they see and prolonging the suffering.

What the anti-maskers, anti-vaccine crowd have completely failed to explain is what is the alternative? And who is going to pay for the continued shutdowns and failure of the economy to rebound. Sure, they claim that everything should just reopen, but we all know the disaster that would bring.

I'm pretty sure it won't be an issue in a years time but there will be some who will feel the need to keep bringing it up rather than admit they were wrong, this needs to be the narrative rather than giving opinions as to how better tackle the pandemic, or what will happen with the supreme court and Texas.

This seems like a big assumption at the start. People keep saying that there are moderate conservatives but they seem to be pretty well drowned out by the time we reach higher office. Someone is voting for these people in primaries even if people feel they have little option but to avoid dems in the actual election. The democrats show a much broader spectrum of view points in the senate/higher office. It also depends on what you call a moderate conservative given for most of the world Biden would fall under that label despite being called the extreme ticket ever by his opponent. It is very difficult to see a middle ground when the entire spectrum is massively shifted for a single country.

I am sure there are moderate republicans but at this point they are either being drowned out or have moved to the middle ground democrats.

Republicans - Biden is not doing enough to stop covid

Republicans now - Biden is doing too much about covid

Pretty good 24 hours for Biden. Republicans were demanding he get better on vaccines and they are becoming a requirement. Spicer and Conway gone into "alternative" employment. Suit filed against Texas for their bounty hunter abortion laws. Well technically Garland but he is a Biden appointment.

I fail to see the issue with the vaccine mandate. While I am sure that some will leave if Fox news who presumably have a pretty right leaning worker base can manage it and keep going then I don't see why there would be an issue elsewhere.

Sorry, this has nothing to do with extreme left or right. This is people deliberately putting themselves in front of any notion of society of helping others.

It is about people that believe their opinion is worth as much as experts knowledge, it is about people that couldn't care less about anybody but themselves.

Biden has got his house in order, the only thing he needs to do now is actively hold those that fail to get behind the country to account. More and more companies are putting not vaccinated employees on unpaid leave. If you can't contribute to society, then remove yourself from it.

What is the line Trump supporters like to use? If you don't like the US move somewhere else. Biden has asked that everyone be responsible, if they don't like it they should move to somewhere else that doesn't require vaccines.