The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Joe Biden’s approval rating at 36 percent—the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term.
Biden’s low popularity is no mystery.
He inherited energy independence, affordable gas prices, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a low crime rate, and a largely closed border with legal-only immigration.
And then Biden destroyed that inheritance.
He has begged illiberal foreign governments to pump oil he refuses to drill domestically.
He spiked inflation at the highest rate in over 40 years.
Home interest rates have skyrocketed from less than 3 percent to 7 percent.
He nearly doubled the price of gasoline.
His hare-brained retreat from Afghanistan marked the greatest humiliation of the American military in the last half-century.
Kabul is now selling billions of dollars’ worth of abandoned American equipment to terrorists and anti-American regimes.
After that fiasco, Biden foolhardily played down a possible “minor” Russia invasion of Ukraine. He implored Russia to exempt some American institutions from its cyber-attack target list.
No wonder an empowered Putin went into Ukraine.
Biden’s family is corrupt from top to bottom.
Its influence peddling schemes increasingly are targets of congressional investigations. Biden himself is explicitly mentioned by his son Hunter as the recipient of a 10 percent commission on monies the family syndicate leveraged from foreign interests.
Biden promised “unity.” Instead, he habitually smears half the country as “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” extremists.
Biden is cognitively challenged and often incoherent. And he is now losing support in the polls from African Americans, once his most loyal constituency.
In response, Biden does what he always had done for some 40 years: mouth wild racist demagoguery.
This graduation season, Biden deliberately chose Howard University to scare its black graduates into believing the greatest threat to their aspirations is “white supremacy”—but that he, Joe Biden, has been their protector in fighting it.
Note the existential threats Biden deliberately omits.
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding over a border Biden deliberately destroyed. Millions of incoming poor will vie for limited federal and state support with Americans who are in need.
Since Biden was elected, there have been nearly 7 million illegal entries.
Some 100,000 Americans now die each year from Mexican-produced fentanyl and other opioids shipped across a wide-open border.
Biden did not mention that nearly 10,000 African Americans are murdered each year, over 90 percent of them killed by other African Americans.
Biden first should heal his own racism before he fabricates it in others.
He fueled his early Senate career with homages to southern Democratic segregationists such as Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Biden even bragged that Eastland “never called me ‘boy.’” Biden gave eulogies for former Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond and former Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd.
Of school busing, a younger Senator Joe Biden thundered, “My children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle.”
Biden in 2008 patronized Barack Obama in racist terms as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
In 2012, Biden condescended to a group of accomplished black professionals that the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, would “put y’all back in chains.”
As a presidential candidate in 2020, he dismissed two black journalists, respectively with the putdowns “you ain’t black” and “junkie.”
His fabricated “Corn Pop” he-man autobiographical tales are utterly racist.
As president he has referred to two prominent people of color as “boy.” He still uses the term “Negro” to refer to blacks.
Biden never cites data to support his wild accusations that white supremacy poses the nation’s greatest threat.
The 2020 riots, the lengthiest in our history, left up to 40 people dead, destroyed $2 billion in property, led to 14,000 arrests, spanned 120 days of mass looting, and arson, and saw mobs torching police precincts, federal courthouses, and an historic church.
That violence was engineered by radicals in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
In the January 6 Captiol protests, the only person confirmed to have been killed at that event was an unarmed military veteran and Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt. She was lethally shot by a Capitol police officer for the misdemeanor of attempting to enter through a broken window.
If “white supremacy” was our “greatest” terrorist threat, surely crime statistics would reveal such an existential peril.
Yet federal hate- and interracial-crime data show that so-called whites are considerably unrepresented demographically in such racially motivated violence.
Far from galvanizing the public, Biden’s monotonous racial demagoguery is turning it off.
The military suffers a vast drop in enlistments that began once Biden’s Pentagon brass, without evidence, likewise began demagoguing about supposed “white rage” in the ranks.
Only 37 percent of independents in a recent poll now support Biden. Some 70 percent of the public in other polls opposes a second Biden run.
So on spec, a panicked Biden now turns to what he has done for decades—inflammatory racial demagoguery.
This comment section is hurting AG. You have lost your community of bright thinkers and lively opponents.
The new comment section is awful; used to look forward not only to the articles, but the interesting comments.
Please change or else I will be canceling my membership.
Marsha----a couple of thoughts regarding your comment-----
I have expressed more than once that AG did a poor job of rolling out the “subscribe to comment” format. You can check my comments in this current format to verify. That said, there are a few features in this system that make it superior to Disqus. For one, you can privately Direct Message a commenter and carry on a private side discussion. More than that, once a person is “leveled up” from Level Zero to Level One this feature can be used for group private chats. To me, that can be a game changer. Think of the possibilities. That is something very unique and worthwhile.
Another thing I like is that you can publish your own article in the Town Square. You can write about anything you want on any issue. In Disqus, one had to go off topic which could sometimes bring negative feedback.
As for AG’s reason for making the change----the only answer is that it was financial. Ad revenues have been declining lately across all internet formats, not just AG. So how were they going to be able to maintain their stable of premier writers? Like other blogging sites (and those who once could make a decent living on a format like YouTube) they went to a subscription model. It sucks, but what are the alternatives?
For myself, because I value AG, I subscribed at the mid-range level (12 bucks per month). It was my way of showing them support. But my loyalty is not unlimited. I will happily give them a year to work out all of the bugs and (hopefully) give them time to re-grow. If they are successful, then all is good. If not, then we will all lose. Note----I did the same thing at PJ Media–one year. After the end of that subscription term I did not re-new. I did not feel they were giving value for the money.
So, while you’re here, do some exploring. Check out some of the commenting features you didn’t have before. Invite some of your friends (from Disqus) to give it a shot. After all, maintaining a robust commenting community is just as much on us as it is on the folks at AG.
And, they have paid attention to many of our complaints. At the moment they are working on making the comment section visible on the main site. Folks will be able to view comments but will not be able to comment themselves unless they are a paid subscriber. However, there are technical hurdles to surpass before they will be able to fix the issue.
Anyway, glad to see you here and here’s hoping you’ll stick around for a while.
edited----one of the areas AG dropped the ball was describing (or even telling us the name) of this commenting format. It wasn’t until I was leveled up from Zero to One that I received an email from Discourse that explained the concepts of levels and features. So, I’m going to drop you a couple of links that might help----
I hope this helps.
Chuckle. Black support for Lyin’ Joe is down something like forty per cent. His rhetoric is failing except for the core of True Believers that would vote Democrat all the way to the gas chamber.
I say, let him keep talking. The more he talks, the more people will realize he is a total sham.
Hey Everett ! I am pretty much of the same sentiment with regards to the new comment format , being that really the only thing I don’t like about it is that virtually nobody is using it compared to before when it was Disqus . I think you are correct , this new Discourse format actually has more to offer us , although I really haven’t spent as much time as you learning about all of its features, what I do know is it seems fine to me . Lets just hope that membership picks up is all , otherwise that 144.00 dollars is going to be hard to justify come time to re anti up in a year .