
Originally Posted by
BCR
Man, I just disagree with this and don’t see any upside for him politically. His latest polls certainly don’t reflect any benefit. I don’t hear people feeling better about Biden.
People don’t put things in context. Gas prices and food prices high, they’re pissed and don’t care why?
His approval has never been lower. He gets all the blame for the economy and inflation. I see no upside as far as re-election. I also disagree with poor diplomacy in regards to our old friends. That seems back on better footing and more unified by a long way as far as western allies. That’s just circumstance, not because he’s done some visibly great job.
If you mean with Russia and China, then yeah, but I think diplomacy on that front would have been a lesson in futility. He wasn’t going to openly felate then like Trump, but it wouldn’t have mattered if he did.
Your post just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s written like he’s benefitted politically from this. He hasn’t, it’s been the inverse.
I’m not even making any argument he’s doing well, just disagree that he wants this or benefits politically. If you want to say it furthers some neocon vision that he really never appeared to have for the first 70 years, and he’s sitting on a boatload of Raytheon stock, ok, but he isn’t laying this shit on anyone successfully. He’s actually getting more blame for it than he likely deserves on a few fronts.
I’ve stayed away from this topic largely because I’m not for being heavily involved. The Ukrainians are almost as corrupt as the Russians, and both seemed to mostly excel at cyber crime and rolling westerners for mail order brides and little else.
I mean I enjoy Putin and the Russian army looking feckless and rolling around on bald tires and struggling way too hard with a 15th seed level country, but in general, I just don’t care all that much. I just find your reads off with this thing and almost solely focused on market conditions. Yeah, shit isn’t good, but he’s getting all the blame for it and he hasn’t successfully deflected any of it. Maybe a younger smarter guy could have spun it, but that he’s not.
How ya doing BCR?
Of course, Biden ratings are trash.
I guess I meant to say pre-invasion and at the time of the sanctions … making Putin the fall guy for our tough sledding domestically was pretty basic strategy at the time. The polling results must really be a shock to Biden.
Now is the economic situation solely Biden’s fault? Of course not. Insane monetary expansion is gonna come at a cost no matter who’s in office. One way to stem inflation is raising rates and that does nobody any good. We will deflate and it’ll hurt.
You know another great way to sop up too many dollars that flooded us during Trump and Covid? Taxation. Yup. Check that box too.
Biden doesn’t have the charisma or political chops to sell his nonsense about the economy. Neither did Jimmy Carter. (Lord in heaven forgive me for lumping Carter and Biden together. Carter is a good man).
Biden the neocon we will have to put off til later.
Russia linking (pegging) the Ruble to gold and then by extension oil is fascinating to me. Economists will someday call that the Biden effect or something.