# Can I be the only person stunned at just how badly President Joe Biden is doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851 "2021-08-31T19:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 36
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/715 "2021-12-25T20:54:45Z")
You mean the violence that right-wing perps committed at the left-wing protests, right? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/716 "2021-12-25T21:23:09Z")
Are you really comparing angry women who peacefully protested putting Brat Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court to the wild riot of 1/6? Really? There’s a long history of nonviolent disobedience in this country. It generally occurs when people feel that there is no other recourse to shine a light on injustice. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/717 "2021-12-25T21:28:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > "… Now, we realize the great weakness of the United States is that any child can grow up to be the President.” Even someone who, while meeting the legal requirements for the job, is basically still a child (and I ain’t talkin’ about the subject of the OP). ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/718 "2021-12-26T00:02:48Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > How conveniently you forget the summer of love with it’s billion dollar price tag in looting and arson and a multitude of deaths, assaults, and rapes. It’s a neat trick how civil unrest while Trump was President is blamed on Democrats. Because - when a democrat is president - he is expected to take responsibility for what happens on his watch. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/719 "2021-12-26T02:05:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > How conveniently you forget the summer of love with it’s billion dollar price tag in looting and arson and a multitude of deaths, assaults, and rapes You mean this? What happened 54 years ago? > **[Summer of Love](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love)** > > The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. More broadly, the Summer of Love encompassed the hippie music, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war, and free-love scene throughout the West Coast of the United States, and as far away as New York City. > Hippies, sometimes called flower children, were an ecle... I couldn’t find anything about a billion dollars worth of looting, arson, and deaths. There was lots of drugs and sex though. Mad that you didn’t get to participate? I really try to empathize with you, to try to understand your point of view, but then you bring shit like this into the discussion that has nothing to do with current events. You bear long, undying grudges and remain convinced that our society is static, only one side is responsible for all of society’s ills, and all who disagree with you are unified out of spite. You sad, pathetic little cephalopod. Why should anybody care about your opinions? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/720 "2021-12-26T03:27:00Z")
I don’t remember reading about any rapes. Is this just KKK Miscegenation Rhetoric? Because that’s pretty low to try use in an argument. Next time, just post a link to “Birth of A Nation” and let your hood colors fly… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/721 "2021-12-26T03:33:40Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > I don’t remember reading about any rapes. - It’s just the usual right-wing projection. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/722 "2021-12-26T03:50:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s just the usual right-wing projection. You know, normally I’d say… “Yeah just another cheap shot” but that is just so Fucking Racist that it is completely beyond the pale. Does this Fucker intend to start hanging black men for marrying white women? For sleeping with white women? For looking at white women? Does the ghost of Emmett Till have to rise up out of his grave and haunt his Ignorant Racist ass??? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/723 "2021-12-26T04:15:41Z")
Probably. 'Pus is thicker than something that is really thick. Racist pigfucker doesn’t even begin to cover it. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/724 "2021-12-26T11:38:58Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > You mean this? What happened 54 years ago? I’m pretty sure he is euphemistically referring to the civil unrest that occurred last summer in the wake of the George Floyd protests. (Yes, I realize that the “summer of love” refers to the late 60’s, but I don’t think that’s what he meant.) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/725 "2021-12-26T13:55:32Z")
Well, darn. Waste of a rant. Should I apologize to him? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/726 "2021-12-26T18:02:00Z")
Try ignore. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/727 "2021-12-26T18:50:47Z")
You just went full retard. What in the hell are you talking about you goof? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/728 "2021-12-26T19:09:24Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You just went full retard. What in the hell are you talking about you goof? > [@octopus](#): > > and rapes. BLM protestors ( dog whistle- Black) raping counter protestors ( dog whistle- White ). You are a disgusting full-blown racist… and if you don’t like being called on your ignorant sub-human KKK spouting BS, you can just Blow Me, you Son of a Bitch! Actually, in order to be as Much of a Son of a Bitch as you are, your entire family going back 10 generations would have had to fuck and abuse dogs and farm animals on a regular basis to the point where it dripped from both ends of your mother, your father, all of your aunts and uncles, all of your grandparents… to the point where your family was abhorrent to the entire nation’s farming community. Your entire family line is a disrespect to the rightful definition of the phrase “animal husbandry” and we all regret when your line gave up Show Business and moved here from Tijuana, Mexico… ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/729 "2021-12-26T19:14:54Z")
> **[Opinion | Goodbye, Summer of Love](https://www.wsj.com/articles/goodbye-summer-of-love-11607898398)** > > Jenny Durkan, Seattle’s mayor, says she won’t run for re-election. > **[25 arrested during overnight protests after Seattle police dismantle ‘CHOP’](https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/protests/seattle-police-capitol-hill-chop-chaz/281-6253a20a-127b-4cd7-93dd-43f3f008afd0)** > > Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order for protesters to vacate the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" (CHOP) zone. I know, I know, the scary events of that one day in January has overshadowed months and months of news and videos of politically motivated unrest and violence. But that isn’t it since even during those events the rioting and criminality were ignored or excused because it was politically/ideologically inconvenient. But, for anyone paying honest attention to the news, the events that occurred during the summer of love aren’t some mysterious event that occurred in the 60s. That’s just bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/730 "2021-12-26T19:20:48Z")
Goddamn, you really are mentally deficient. And what’s up with the kink shaming and the racist slam on Mexico? And what’s up with the random CapiTalizaTions? I know Covid induced supply chain problems coupled with counterproductive so-called stimulus has led to random shortages but it’s a real shame your medicine is stuck off the coast of Cali. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/731 "2021-12-26T19:58:20Z")
Your personal donkey yelps “Hee-Haw” at your golf-club jokes. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/732 "2021-12-26T21:01:42Z")
I don’t see how an unpopular Mayor deciding to not run for re-election matters. Durkan hasn’t seemed to be doing well even outside of the BLM protests and the police reaction. And only won in 2017 with 56%. More telling I think is Sawant avoiding recall. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/733 "2021-12-26T23:45:30Z")
It’s a cite for those people supposedly unfamiliar with Summer of Love happening in CHAZ/CHOP during the much celebrated riots and protests. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/734 "2021-12-27T01:18:49Z")
And of course it did not take place everywhere; in fact, just as the many examples here and in other threads where liberals are critical of Biden, it shows that your mantra of many in the center and the left in the SDMB as being “a hive mind” was and remains just poppycock. BTW that WSJ cite is just the usual idiocy, it jumps from one error of allowing protesters to take a city section into blaming her for the rise in the murder rate. It is a very illogical and dumb argument. > **[Nashville, nationwide crime up: GOP blames Democrats, but it's more...](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/11/republicans-blame-democrats-defund-police-national-crime-increase-2020-fact-check/7641800002/)** > > Republicans blame Democrats and the "defund the police" movement for the spike in violent crime nationwide, but details tell a different story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851.md?page=37)