# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/755 "2022-01-20T21:52:59Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It gets trickier when the government is also an employer, though. The government can’t pass a law making it illegal to promote Holocaust denial, but the public school can fire someone for teaching it to their history students. Absolutely. I wonder if any of these new laws will lead to challenges in the courts. I can hope. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/756 "2022-01-20T21:55:39Z")
Can we demand a better class of troll around here? I mean I think we deserve better than a lazy drive-by post with a link to Piers Fucking Morgan. At least show some effort. This sort of pro forma trolling is simply insulting. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/757 "2022-01-20T21:55:52Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > Another blistering Piers Morgan piece to mark Biden’s disastrous first year. Piers Morgan is “blistering” only in the sense of being a human pustule. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/758 "2022-01-20T22:57:54Z")
Piers Morgan says bad thing about Biden? i am shocked, _shocked!_ (retires to fainting couch) Morgan has less credibility than a guy in the bus station yelling about peacocks eating his face, while wearing urine soaked pants. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/759 "2022-01-20T23:02:41Z")
So you’ve met him? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/760 "2022-01-21T08:33:30Z")
Refresh my memory: Has @CHealy7 done any thinking (in the absolute loosest definition of the word) for himself, or is he just parroting standard RW talking points? I see he popped up again and linked to a Piers Morgan article, but that doesn’t require any actual cognitive ability. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/761 "2022-01-21T14:53:14Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Piers Morgan says bad thing about Biden? i am shocked, _shocked!_ (retires to fainting couch) These guys all read the Bart Simpson version of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. **Grampa Simpson:** Have you ever read “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”? **Bart Simpson:** I glanced at it. Boy cries wolf, has a few laughs… I forget how it ends. When you never do anything but bad-mouth a person, eventually “This person bad-mouthed Biden!” stops being news and becomes background noise. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/762 "2022-01-21T15:12:45Z")
Morgan is pretty much a professional troll (I was about to say “at this point” but I’m not sure there was ever a time that he wasn’t). The best I can say for him is that he’s not Katie Hopkins, but that’s like saying “He may be a puddle of rancid shit, but at least he’s not a _cholera-infested_ puddle of rancid shit”. On occasion he makes a valid point, in the “stopped clock/blind squirrel” sort of way, but it’s best to look elsewhere if one actually wants constructive viewpoints. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/763 "2022-01-21T15:12:59Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Morgan has less credibility than a guy in the bus station yelling about peacocks eating his face, while wearing urine soaked pants. That’s because he never thought the peacocks would eat HIS face. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/764 "2022-01-21T16:08:40Z")
> You were going to fix the economy, remember? > > You’ve failed. [Inflation is raging over 7%](https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/americans-say-biden-not-focused-enough-on-inflation-economy/), fuel and energy bills are soaring, and consumer prices are spiking on everything from food to cars and furniture. Gee, I wonder why Morgan didn’t mention a single economic indicator other than inflation. I don’t think Biden has done a particularly good job but that editorial is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read in a mainstream newspaper. You should be ashamed for linking to it… whoever you are. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/765 "2022-01-21T16:29:06Z")
The rate of inflation, and particularly with regard to food, fuel and energy, are widespread global issues that owe more to the emergence from the pandemic and supply chain issues than anything Biden has or hasn’t done. But to the intellectually bankrupt and the credulous who believe them, “Biden is bad, therefore everything bad is Biden’s fault.” Meanwhile, the American economy is actually flourishing and unemployment has fallen far faster than predicted, to the point where there is a rather well-publicized labor shortage. Infrastructure work that the last administration had promised for four years and never delivered is finally underway. The vaccine distribution program that had to be built from scratch went well, despite strong right-wing opposition. Millions more have gotten or regained health insurance, and work on forgiveness of student loans and alleviation of child poverty has begun. Biden’s done a decent job - could have been a lot better and there have been notable mistakes and issues, but it’s been reasonably solid overall and he’s slowly getting better. And he’s done it in the face of an opposing party that would willingly destroy the country and allow millions to die purely to spite him. ---
**Author:** ![CHealy7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/766 "2022-01-21T21:20:10Z")
Michael Moore is of course watching, and I have felt for some time that he will launch a primary challenge to Biden in 2024. The next campaign may be his last realistic shot, and he must surely see that Biden is finished as a politician and the next election will just be too late. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/767 "2022-01-21T21:25:20Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > Michael Moore is of course watching, and I have felt for some time that he will launch a primary challenge to Biden in 2024. The next campaign may be his last realistic shot, and he must surely see that Biden is finished as a politician and the next election will just be too late. - Which right-wing fuckup are you parroting? There’s no way you thought this up yourself. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/768 "2022-01-21T21:32:40Z")
I wonder more what drugs **CHealy7** is using. Whatever they are, they are potent and twisted. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/769 "2022-01-21T21:32:52Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > Michael Moore is of course watching, and I have felt for some time that he will launch a primary challenge to Biden in 2024. I bet you a bajillion dollars that Michael Moore does not “launch a primary challenge to Biden in 2024”. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/770 "2022-01-21T21:42:43Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I bet you a bajillion dollars that Michael Moore does not “launch a primary challenge to Biden in 2024”. Well, Soros can’t because he wasn’t born in the US. Does the right wing have any other bogey men besides Moore and Soros? Is Chelsea Clinton old enough yet? ---
**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:** [January 21, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/771 "2022-01-21T21:43:45Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Is Chelsea Clinton old enough yet? She’s 41! ::Pearls clutched. Glass shatters. A woman shrieks in the distance:: ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/772 "2022-01-21T21:46:35Z")
And not recommended. Even the brown acid is preferable. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/773 "2022-01-21T21:54:54Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > She’s 41! > > ::Pearls clutched. Glass shatters. A woman shrieks in the distance:: I admit I laughed…I’m not proud… ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/774 "2022-01-21T22:01:05Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > She’s 41! And only for the next month or so. [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=37) [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=39)