#re-elect biden

[tomorrowusa]

Having a president who isn’t exciting is underrated. The president is the chief executive of the United States; essentially that’s like a federal CEO. A dull Tim Cook has done far more for Apple than an exciting Elon Musk has done for Twitter.

Gerald Ford, though younger, was probably the closest GOP equivalent of Joe Biden. Like Biden, he spent decades on Capitol Hill before becoming VP and then president. Ford was the last truly moderate Republican president. Except for his pardon of Richard Nixon, his record doesn’t look terrible.

Ford appointed one of the best SCOTUS justices of the late 20th century – John Paul Stevens.

The inflation rate the year he took office (1974) was 11.03%. In 1976, Ford’s last full year in office, it was down to 5.75%.

Under Ford, the US negotiated and signed the Helsinki Accords which recognized the integrity of international boundaries in Europe. This treaty was the basis for peace between countries* in Europe for 47 years – until it was violated by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Like Ford, Biden restored calm and decorum to the presidency after succeeding an impeached wacko president. 

Joe Biden may personally be even less flashy than Gerald Ford. But he has brought the country back into scientific normalcy on climate change and has put the federal government firmly on the side of LGBTQ rights and reproductive freedom. And even before Russia’s illegal invasion, he placed the United States on the side of supporting the independence and freedom of pro-democracy Ukraine.

Dull but competent trumps exciting but catastrophic.

This is from a piece by Dylan Matthews published at Vox in March prior to Biden’s announcement.

Joe Biden is pretty good at being president. He should run again.

Biden deserves a lot of credit for that state of affairs — more than the credit or blame that presidents usually deserve for the state of the economy.

Learning from the overly tepid fiscal stimulus enacted by the Obama administration in response to the 2007-2009 recession, at the start of his term Biden ushered through a massive $1.9 trillion package, the American Rescue Plan, that kept progress on jobs and wages from stalling out as Trump-era measures faded.

The package overshot significantly; he made the opposite mistake that Obama made in 2009. But his was the better direction in which to err: the inflation that resulted, while painful, was less painful than the many years of excess unemployment and depressed demand that resulted after 2009. In the meantime, the measure plunged child poverty to a record low by expanding the child tax credit.

Much has been made of the ways in which moderate Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) frustrated Biden’s grander ambitions. It’s certainly true that Sinema blocked his plans to tax high earners more heavily, and Manchin kept the child tax credit improvements from being made permanent.

But looking at what actually did pass during Biden’s first two years, one gets a different picture. Biden signed the largest investment in R&D and deployment of clean energy in US history into law; the head of the International Energy Agency termed it the world’s most important climate action since the Paris accords.

Separately, Biden signed into law hundreds of billions in new science funding, passed on a bipartisan basis as part of an effort to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing. After the Trump administration’s famous failure to pass an infrastructure bill, Biden did it.

Looking abroad, the administration’s handling of the Ukraine war has been outstanding. Choosing to release intelligence showing Russia’s invasion plans in the weeks leading up to the attack was a masterstroke, denying Russian President Vladimir Putin any ability to claim that Ukraine provoked him. Biden has kept his G7 counterparts aligned in imposing sanctions on Russia, denying it oil revenue, and supplying weapons to Ukraine.

The result is a war that is already vastly more costly than Putin bargained for, without US or NATO troops being dragged into the conflict, and backdoor progress on something US presidents had been fruitlessly pursuing for years: increased European military spending.

[ ... ]

Taking the good with the bad, Biden looks like a fairly successful president, overseeing an unusually good economy without US troops in danger. That’s not normally someone you want stepping aside.

As for age, I don’t care if Biden is 80 or 180. His mind is working fine and he has successfully coped with a stutter since childhood. Having thrived despite a disability is a sign of strength rather than weakness.

There have been a number of leaders who have done just fine in old age.

Konrad Adenauer became chancellor of (then) West Germany at age 73 and remained in that position until age 87. Adenauer was one of the founders of the EU. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad stepped down as prime minister of Malaysia in 2003 at age 78; BUT he later came out of retirement and served again as prime minister from 2018 to 2020 when he left office at age 94. Queen Elizabeth II was carrying out her constitutional duties to the very end. Just two days before her death at age 96 she met with Liz Truss to formally appoint her as prime minister.

People in their 80s and 90s may be a bit slower, but that makes them less impulsive too. Does being a sprightly 45 years old automatically make Ron DeSantis somebody we’d trust with his finger on the nuclear button?

________________________________ * The Balkan Wars of the 1990s were primarily internal.

#joe biden #biden administration #re-elect biden #unexciting is a virtue #lgbtq rights #reproductive freedom #gerald ford #konrad adenauer #mahathir mohamad #elizabeth ii #ageism #election 2024 #steve greenberg

[everything-anything3345]

Hot Trump Supporter who can't stand this Biden asshole of an incompetent Presidency. And how do I know that she's for Trump and against Biden. Because her posts on Facebook are very pro Trump and very anti Biden. That's how. Make America Great Again. She's definitely MAGA and so am I. Those holding the opposite view can block my account or ignore the occasional political post etc ,since I do them sporadically. You want to see the hot chicks, then either tolerate the occasional Conservative politics , or support it or ignore it. Or block it. See. You got 4 choices right there .

You can follow her on Facebook.

#hot as fuck #trump supporters #anti biden #enormous breasts #hot bikini #awesome ass #sexy as all get out #hot bikini ass #maga movement #re-elect Donald Trump as the next President #Throw Biden out of the white house #from facebook

[hello-there-world]

I don't normally make posts like this. I'm aware. But I'm sick of people saying that it's a good idea to either not vote or vote third party in our current political climate.

As a note before we start: to anyone asking about this "so you care about your own life more than the lives of Palestinian people?" Self preservation, or caring about your own life over the lives of others, is hardwired into the human brain. Everyone does it. So yes. Because it's instinctual and I am not so stupid as to think that I can simply remove it. (If you take this out of context I will be very upset. I am explaining human instinct here.)

So, why is it a bad idea to not vote at all? Simple. You're not really "showing [candidate] you think they need to change". You're removing yourself from the pool, and therefore basically useless. It's not quite a vote for the guy you hate and who is worse, but it might as well be because you're removing any opposition to them.

And why is it a bad idea to vote third party? There is no way we can get a third party candidate elected in our current political climate. It's just not going to happen. So once again, might as well be voting for the guy you hate.

Do you want to know some actual voting-related protest strategies you can do? Blank-ballot voting on the primaries only. And only the primaries. DO NOT DO THIS DURING THE ACTUAL ELECTION. It says you don't want any of them and should be taken into consideration and maybe they'll change. Maybe isn't great, but that's what all protest strategies are going off of anyways, so this isn't much different.

Why am I making this post? Honestly, I'm scared. I can very vividly remember the first Trump presidency, and the thing I remember the best is the nigh-constant threat of "oh shit, any moment he could go off the deep end and we'd have nuclear war". The doomsday clock was the closest to midnight it had been in my lifetime.

I know he'll be worse if he's re-elected.

Maybe this isn't self-preservation. Maybe it's very reasonable fear for the whole of humanity. Cause if the worst happens, that's what's going to be affected. All of us.

Just, please, vote. If not for others, then for yourself. If not for yourself, then for everyone.

I really don't want to know if Trump would be willing to do nuclear war... he's seemed very willing to do so before.

#vote blue no matter who #hi i fear for the entire world if trump gets re-elected #not trying to convince you biden is great #just trying to convince you that nuclear war and such is a possibility if trump is re-elected and it's much less of one if biden is. #i guess that's what i'm really worried about.

[heftbyjapanesebreakfast]

when i think about the people who are still trying to push for voting for biden i get sooooo fucking angry it like makes my blood boil. fuck everyone who votes for any politician who isn't calling for a ceasefire. fuck anyone who votes for a politician supporting genocide. the system is soooo fucked any way u slice it but we still have a tiny bit of power to not allow these people in office again

#dems need to wake the fuck up and make sure a different persons gets the nomination #bc people are not going to fuckjng re elect biden #m #like biden wasn't getting a second term before this but he sure as fuckjng hell isn't now #but also i wish people had already known he was a staunch zionist.... and he always has been #one of the reasons i didn't vote for him in 2020 #and im proud of that! im proud i didn't help this genocidal maniac win the presidency

[sidewalk-scrawls]

I swear to fucking god if Biden runs for re-election in 2024 (likely) and Trump is the Republican candidate (slightly less likely, but he’s about to announce his run), I’m going to flip absolute shit

Anyway we live in hell, time is a circle, etc

#anyone remember when biden said he wasn't planning for re-election? #anyone remember that????? #(also if biden runs against trump again i'm not convinced he'll win this time) #(or that if biden wins it'll matter) #anyway i hate it here! #talking tag

[reptilia2003]

buying concert tickets

#if joe biden did two things—legalized weed and trustbusted ticketmaster—he would win re-election in a landslide

[soon-palestine]

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

#palestine #gaza #free palestine

[stuckinapril]

it broke today that biden airdropped aid to gaza. other than the fact that this is an obvious pr move ahead of his re-election campaign, i think it's important to stress how ineffective this method is compared to just allowing humanitarian aid to come through. airdrops carry far less aid than truck convoys, for one, and require an airdrop zone with a lot of idealistic conditions that don't often coincide. this is a major reason why you hear a lot of airdrops being conducted at beaches--and why a lot of them have been blown to the sea. and what's even more dangerous about that is that a lot of these palestinians are malnourished, starving, in a delirious state of mind. many of them are so utterly hungry that they'd be willing to swim through just to get their hands on a sodden meal. but apparently this is the best thing the us, which literally funds israel's ongoing genocide, can do for palestinians at the moment.

#palestine #israel #gaza

[garthnadermemestash]

Joe Biden, if you sign that bill you might as well resign and let Cheeto Mussolini take over right now.

#joe biden #joe Biden TikTok #tiktok #tiktok ban #joe Biden re-election #biden 2024 #mistaken con man #mst memes #mystery sovcit theater memes #garth nader memes #tumblr memes #dankest memes #pathetic3 #political memes

[mercoglianotrueblog]

They want war and we must stop them

#elites want #WWIII.It's not their kids they're sending to #Kiev

#German govt lies,what other "secret materials" may cease to be such?

a re-elected #Biden'll send troops to UA,#DeepState refuse peace in #EU that re-establish links with #RU as in #energy

https://salvatoremercogliano.blogspot.com/2024/03/they-want-war-and-we-must-stop-them.html?spref=tw

#elites #war #kids #german govt #lies #joe biden #troops #re elected #deep state #no peace #eu #energy

[dickgirlsdaily]

Fundamentally, if the democrats lose the presidency in 2024, it will not be because of "voter apathy" or "the idealistic left" or Cornell West or whatever third party candidate the liberals end up blaming. It will be because the democrats have failed to meet the lowest standards of many Americans.

You can talk about strategic voting until you're blue in the face, but fundamentally, people need reasons to vote for a candidate. There are people in this country watching as their family members get slaughtered by American arms, sent to Israel by Joe Biden. The people watching their families get murdered in Palestine have no reason to support Joe Biden. How can you ask them to?

"Sorry your family got bombed, but I need you to vote for the man who is directly responsible, or *real* people are going to suffer too."

It was at this point While I was drafting this post that I heard he just started bombing Yemen. It's like he's doing everything in his power to sink his own fucking campaign, are you shitting me? This isn't a matter of "stupid commies not being realistic enough", he's not just working for the status quo; just about every action he has taken since October 7th has been an escalation of conflict in the Middle East and made it worse for everyone living there. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

You can scold people for voting wrong as much as you want, but fundamentally the way that democrats can win elections is by pursuing good policy. If the only argument you can come up with in favor of Joe Biden is that he won't do 1 or 2 of the terrible things that Trump wants to do, then that will simply not appeal to the people who are most intensely affected by Biden's failures (not to mention people who have moral objections to genocide, even when it doesn't affect them). You can scream and cry all you want, people are not going to just overlook his role in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza just because he is the Less Bad Genocider.

If a republican wins the presidency in November, you can blame the hundreds of thousands of voters/nonvoters who should've agreed with you and put aside every moral concern they ever had about the Biden administration... or you can blame the one fucking guy whose massive foreign policy failures are going to tank his re-election campaign.

#us politics #uspol #2024 elections #palestine #biden #yemen #jesus christ are you fucking kidding with attacking Yemen?

[tomorrowusa]

Joe Biden is the only person who has ever beaten Donald Trump in a national election. A second defeat for Trump will permanently tank his political career.

Of course the fight against fascism at home and abroad is an unending one. Hopefully that’s one thing most of us have discovered over the past eight years.

But a second win for us in a row next year will give us more breathing space as it demoralizes far right extremists and allows younger progressives to become more experienced in the art of good governance.

#biden-harris 2024 #re-elect biden #democrats #vote democratic #the fight against fascism #election 2024 #register and vote #clay bennett

[maxknightley]

the most fun part of biden losing his re-election bid is gonna be the dems taking a deep breath, thinking about it for a moment, and going "we gotta get more racist" A SECOND TIME

[lazyspeedy]

fuck the court man

#so oct 1st meant that ppl already paying their debts have to go back now #im still on the post recent grad grace period #but stilll #biden better hurry up and do something quick if he wants to win the re election next yr or what not #^^

[xtruss]

Demented Joe Biden’s Re-election Bid Is In Trouble! The Democ(Rats’) Bet Looks Increasingly Risky

— United States | Lexington | August 31, 2023

The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination is under indictment for 91 felonies in four criminal cases, and he probably is, as one of his primary opponents remarked during the recent Republican debate, the most disliked politician in America. Democrats have reason to be smug at the prospect of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee—unless they take a hard look at the vulnerabilities of their own standard-bearer.

Fewer than one in four Americans (24%) want President Joe Biden to run again, according to a poll published on August 17th by the Associated Press. Even 55% of Democrats do not think he should run. Although his approval rating has ticked up, he remains one of the most unpopular presidents in modern history.

Mr Biden’s problems are obscured by the drama around Donald Trump’s arrests and the Republican nominating contest. But that is also becoming a problem for the current president: he needs to capture the country’s attention if he hopes to recapture its imagination. Only Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump himself—both one-term presidents, at least so far—had net-negative ratings worse than Mr Biden’s at this point in their presidencies, according to an analysis of aggregated polls by the political publication FiveThirtyEight. In late August, its summary of public polls showed that 42% of Americans approved of the job Mr Biden was doing, whereas 53% disapproved.

His standing is even worse on the matter Americans care about most, his handling of the economy. The same Associated Press poll found that just 36% approve of his economic stewardship. It is hard to know which half of “Bidenomics” inspires them less.

On issues such as crime, corruption in government and immigration, surveys suggest Mr Biden’s Republican opponent will have plenty of unhappiness to work with. Even in solidly blue New York, an influx of asylum-seekers—some bused from Republican border states—is souring Democrats on the president. Fewer than half of New Yorkers would vote for Mr Biden in a contest with Mr Trump, according to a recent Siena College poll. Mr Biden still led Mr Trump, 47% to 34% (with lots of abstentions). But that is a lousy margin for a Democrat in New York, far less than the 25-point minimum lead Mr Biden held in 2020.

To the president’s partisans, all this is unfair. They rightly note the economy is vibrant. Unemployment, at 3.5%, is near a 50-year low, inflation has come down and real wages have been rising, at least for the poor. Homicide rates are falling in American cities. Although Republicans predicted chaos at the southern border after Mr Biden ended covid-era restrictions in May, a new border regime imposed by Mr Biden appears to be keeping such crossings below levels recorded before then. Mr Biden has adeptly led the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and amassed a formidable record of bipartisan legislation.

But the president seems stuck with impressions formed in his first two years in office. His approval rating has never recovered since it crashed during America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago. That same summer of 2021 he dismissed inflation as “temporary”. For months into 2022, he pursued progressives’ fondest and costliest policy goals before settling for the still-ambitious Inflation Reduction Act. “It made him look like he was pursuing liberal goals and was ineffective at doing it,” says Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster. “And it made moderates feel like they’d been sold a bill of goods.” Mr Biden’s position has continued to deteriorate with the working-class voters, of whatever race, whom he will need in such battleground states as Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

The collapse of Hunter Biden’s plea agreement with prosecutors this summer means that publicity about his sordid traffic in the family name will continue to cloud Mr Biden’s own image of decency, and of his efforts to restore integrity to government. Student-loan repayments, suspended for more than three years because of the pandemic, are due to resume on October 1st. A national carworkers’ strike is looming.

Democrats will rally to Mr Biden, and he has time to woo others. Yet every day that goes by his party’s biggest gamble, on his continued good health and acuity, also grows riskier. In 2020 voters embraced the idea that his age and experience made him a steady hand. Now they seem primed to see the slightest gaffe or stumble as confirmation that he is becoming unsteady. According to an ap poll at the end of August, 77% of Americans think Mr Biden is too old to serve effectively. His vice-president, Kamala Harris, has an even lower approval rating than he does.

Joe Versus The Volcano

Mr Biden has been trying to improve voters’ views of “Bidenomics” and of him. So far, a big push that began in June has had little obvious benefit. In late August his campaign began a four-month, $25m advertising blitz of seven battleground states. The first advertisement touts America’s pandemic recovery and a resurgence of manufacturing. “America is back!” Mr Biden declares, as though to pre-empt any claim it might need to be made great again.

Beyond trying to persuade Americans they have it pretty good, Mr Biden will count on the fight over abortion rights and, most of all, on Mr Trump’s greater unpopularity to motivate dispirited Democrats and win over the dwindling cadre of swing voters in the dwindling number of swing states.

“Don’t compare me to the Almighty,” Mr Biden likes to say. “Compare me to the alternative.” Well, Mr Biden will probably lose if Republicans prove sane enough to supply an alternative such as Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, and the candidate who called out Mr Trump’s unpopularity. But he could well lose anyway. Democrat or not, anyone committed to the success of the American experiment should be hoping for a Republican nominee not named Trump. ■

— This Article appeared in the United States section of the Print Edition under the headline "Unpopularity Contest"

#United States 🇺🇸 #Elections 2024 #Demented Joe Biden #Re-election Bid #Troublesome #Democ(Rats) #Risks #Joe Vs Vocano #Unpopularity Contest #Donald J. Trump #Republi(Cunts)

[thesituation]

joe biden wins re-election by revealing he has the joestar birthmark

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