I feel so bad for Biden

[helpisontheway]

He is such a good man but everything is falling apart. I think it started with the media coverage of Afghanistan. That has hurt him permanently. Then those two @ssholes in the Senate are blocking legislative achievements. Now Covid is out of control because of the people that won’t get vaccinated or mask up and he is blamed. Lack of Covid tests and he is blamed. Now the Supreme blocks his attempt to keep workers safe. All of it sucks. Then to know that the party that supports domestic terrorists will likely be in charge after midterms makes me ill. I just feel so down today. Biden is doing everything in his power to fix everything. The only thing I think Biden got really wrong is Merrill Garland as AG and that CDC director. Oh and also the way we withdrew from Afghanistan.

[XanaDUer2]

1. I'm so depressed nt

[global1]

2. Got Your Shots In In Your Last Two Sentences Of Your Post - Huh?.....nt

[lamp_shade]

11. Clearly OP's reason for posting it in the first place.

[True Dough]

3. His poll numbers are sliding

and most of what you wrote in the OP is fair. And yet I'm sure this will be "alerted" by some overbearing DUer who claims you're bashing a Democratic figure.

EDIT: It's Merrick Garland, and he's not proven to be a mistake yet...

[BlackSkimmer]

17. It's a discouraging time, to be sure.

[True Dough]

23. The good news is

We're still a ways off from mid-terms so hopefully there's a reversal of fortunes. Although it's hard to see with the ReThugs remaining as obstructionist as ever and the filibuster/Manchin/Sinema conundrum.

But I hold on to hope.

[a kennedy]

28. Ah, sorry to disagree, we in Wisconsin have the absolute worst Senator, (outside of Manchin & Sinema

ALREADY HAVING HIS RE-ELECTION ADS ON NOW!!!!!!!! 🤬 🤮 🤬 🤮 🤬

[Lovie777]

18. So are the GQP's numbers . ..

[msongs]

5. yawn nt

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Seee ya!

[LowerManhattanite]

7. Welcome to DU?

Enjoy your stay!

[Lovie777]

8. Pres Biden is an adult . . .

he can handled it. Corporate media is covering up for 1/6/2021. Stay tuned.

As to the matters above we will make it thru.

[PatSeg]

42. That is what I think as well

Biden knew none of this was going to be easy. He has been around long enough to know there will be failures, as well as successes, but you just pick yourself up and try again.

All those years in the Senate, as well as eight years as Vice President, he saw his fair share of losses. It comes with the job and meanwhile there have been plenty of wins. Looking back, it has been an incredible year and I believe history will remember this president well. Republicans? Not so much.

[msongs]

9. its merrick not merrill and did u notice the indictments today? and the withdrawal

from afghanistan was negotiated by trump, and went about as well as one could expect given the conditions

[Skittles]

31. whenever I ask Trump humpers how many soldiers died in Afghanistan while he was prez

NONE of them know it was 60

[vercetti2021]

14. Get fucked

Welcome and goodbye

[Hekate]

21. Just say "Enjoy your brief stay."

That usually works.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Merrill? Huh?

i

[secondwind]

13. We had few options regarding withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Trump cut a deal with the Taliban, he also removed 15,000 troops, leaving a scant 2,500, he also opened the jails and released 5,000 hardened criminals into the general population. There’s more, but you can see now that Biden had to move quickly.

Garland issued some subpoenas today, if I remember correctly.

[mvd]

19. I agree

We needed to get out of Afghanistan - and thanks to Trump, there was no clean way to do it. The media had their own interests in the conflict and unfairly piled on.

President Biden’s a very good man. I think for the most part, he’s doing the best he can under the circumstances.

[helpisontheway]

35. I agree. The media was awful. Nonstop bashing! 😕 And he is a very special

man. It is nice to have a truly good person in the White House that wants to do the best thing for every single person. We did not have that for four very long years.

[LenaBaby61]

30. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[brooklynite]

15. You're upset about Garland NOW?

[BlackSkimmer]

16. Lol. nt

[book_worm]

20. He hasn't got one break. The media is tearing him apart and so

is the Dem party in the form of Manchin and Sinema who have done more to bring him down than the GOP as a whole.

[Stuart G]

24. i disagree. He got a break. Joe Biden was elected President of the United States

And that ..."so called break" may save this country's future.
Joe is the perfect person with guts, experience, knowledge, and sensitivity for this time in the history of the U.S.A.
We are very lucky to have Joe as the lead man in the show..(and that last sentence, you can take to the bank)

[PortTack]

25. This!! He can handle this..we need to step up NOW and help

Be a Stacey Abrams..get mad ..then get busy and get involved!! Michelle Obama has teamed up with Stacey and says they are going to register a million ppl.

We all must do our very best ...volunteer, donate and VOTE!!

[Grasswire2]

22. I said from the get-go that his task is surely as great as Lincoln's.

And that was before the pandemic and the insurrection.

[Doodley]

26. On one side we have lies, misinformation and dirty tricks. On the other side we don't need passivity

in the messaging. This isn't the time let lies and conspiracy theories fester. If we don't have a strategy to at least try to convince people that Trump is bad for America or even that it's a good idea to wear a mask, then we are destined lose to fascism no matter what good we do or what bills we pass. It's been said a million times, but we can't keep taking a butter knife to a gunfight.

[Azathoth]

27. He's doing the right things, but he's not doing them in a smart way

He's *GOT* to get a real media/messaging/PR apparatus put together quick. Jen Psaki is not enough. He's old-school, but he's got to realize that in the 21st century, the campaign doesn't stop on election night, it just shifts into Phase 2. And the media is not your friend just because you're a decent person unlike Trump. The only serious campaign-style messaging we're getting is coming from a handful of Dems in Congress.

He's also got to get some clear-eyed realists who can make tough calls. For instance:

His advisors should have told him to pull the plug on Build Back Better months ago. Inflation was skyrocketing, covid wasn't going away, and increasing numbers of people thought the country was going hard in the wrong direction. They weren't in a mood to watch the government spend 11 months paralyzed in a web of daily brain droppings from two idiots from Arizona and West Virgina. Biden should have accepted that BBB was dead, taken those two to his office, gotten them to agree to *something*, then told Dems they had to swallow it and move on. DU and the left would have howled hysterically, but solid messaging would have meant that we could have declared a win and freed ourselves up to focus on other issues. A minor compromise victory is much easier to market than a catastrophic defeat.

Afghanistan is another example. His team should have expected the withdrawal to be a massive PR problem. There should have been weeks of aggressive messaging and talking points being hammered home over and over before it happened. And there should have been a battery of surrogates -- Executive branch, Congressional, and private sector -- who were prepped to immediately do damage control after it happened. Standing there with a confused "What's all this?" expression was the absolute worst possible image they could have conveyed when the media dogpile began. It was Bowe Bergdahl times a million.

[PortTack]

29. Good points..thing is with the BBB manchin let them believe he would eventually be onboard and

Fooled a lot of very politically savvy ppl. The sick part was not only was he never on board, he burned up a lot of time yuck yucking it up on the senate floor with colleagues from his preferred party!

President Biden has more than any President since possibly Lincoln or FDR to deal with. Despite his years of experience he let his belief that ppl are inherently good get in the way...JMHO. This is his downfall..sorry to say maybe it once would have worked. Not in today’s toxic political environment. Hopefully his advisers will push him in other directions

[Skittles]

32. the idea he did not know the Taliban would take over immediately boggles my mind

what part of: the Afghan "army" STILL wasn't trained after TWENTY YEARS did Biden not get? It was NEVER going to end well.

[PortTack]

36. The intelligence he relied on did not indicate the takeover would be that soon.

[Skittles]

37. LOL

talking to ANY SOLDIER WHO SERVED THERE was all it would take

* I heard it many times from the soldiers I sent care packages to - that army would NEVER be trained

[PortTack]

39. I never said they would be trained...never

What I said was the intelligence did not lead them to believe the Taliban would take over in a matter of hours

[Skittles]

43. well I knew it

common fucking sense - in the end some of our soldiers "training" Afghan soldiers were not even BORN when 9/11 happened

[myohmy2]

33. I feel...

...your pain...

...it's a tough time...

...let's hope we can turn it around...

...hang in there...

[bdamomma]

34. It is

very discouraging, but we are dealing with treasonous traitors and those like Manchin and Sinema are making millions and don't give a crap.

All this shit is left over from that orange blob.

[Turbineguy]

38. The Supreme Court has ruled

it's not illegal to be stupid (supporting republicans).

But they have not yet made it illegal to be smart.

[Quixote1818]

40. Once gas prices go down, inflation settles in and covid is over he will be fine. Job growth is

booming and wages have been pushed up. He needs to get some things done that will impact regular Americans in a way they notice. Reagan had similar numbers around midterms, as did Clinton and they ended up in a pretty strong position. He is still higher than Trump was 95% of the time.

[canetoad]

41. Unlike you, I don't feel bad for Joe

He is a career politician who has realised his dream; the ultimate political heights in the US.

This is what the man spent 30 or 40 years preparing. It's his third (?) attempt and I am so grateful that this good man eventually fulfilled his ambition. He worked for it. He deserves it.

I think you are selling Joe short with your misplaced sympathy and commiserations. I'd imagine that NO politician envisions a smooth and conflict free path to their policy ends. Joe knew this. He knew who preceded him and the toxic sludge he was inheriting.

If there was ever a politician for a time, it is Joe Biden for NOW. He's a guy who knows the ropes. Make yourself worthy of him.

[gulliver]

44. Misplaced sympathy is equivalent to a putdown

Biden's fine.

And none of the things you suggest he got wrong are wrong.

[Saoirse9]

45. Snap out of it

You’re acting as if we have already lost and midterms are 11 months away.

Go look in the mirror slap yourself in the face and quit doom posting.

FFS ya big baby. We haven’t yet begun to fight.

I hate defeatist posts like this.