# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/995 "2022-09-02T02:42:32Z")
I mean, it seems to done what it was designed to do: it got Biden to start showing some backbone, and frustrates the hell out of the trolls who attack him. It’s really not any different than the Republicans reclaiming the term “deplorables.” We reclaimed “Let’s Go Brandon,” and are actually using it for something. And he’s not an _evil_ dictator. He just does all the leftist things that the right thinks are evil. The whole joke is that we on the left would like it if Biden were the socialist boogeyman the right portrays him as. Honestly, the fact that the right finds it “cringe” means it’s working. Because what they think about Biden is very much cringe. It’s nice to have finally moved Democratic rhetoric to the 21st century, rather than ceding that ground to Trumpists and the alt-right. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/996 "2022-09-02T03:04:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Explain? It means that ‘The Saucer Section’ has disconnected and that the ship is being commanded at ‘The Battle Bridge’. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/997 "2022-09-02T03:16:24Z")
Ah. 👍🏽 Long time Trekker here. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/998 "2022-09-02T03:51:37Z")
You can say that about anything Trump related. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/999 "2022-09-02T06:28:22Z")
I listened to Biden’s speech. I had a weird sense of deja vu. See, a few days ago I got a call from a local pollster who had me answer a bunch of questions (it took about a half hour, no exaggeration). The language she used matched almost everything in Biden’s speech. It was almost like someone was checking to see if people care about specific talking points ahead of time. (Maybe it was coincidence.) But it felt like someone took Mad Libs and stitched the poll answers together into a Presidential Address. The only reason why I think it was a coincidence is that it was only a few days ago. If someone really was polling for talking points ahead of the speech, you’d think they’d need more time. But it was still weird. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1000 "2022-09-02T06:43:47Z")
They may have had several versions of the same basic outline and were focused on which approach/wording polled best. But that’s just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1001 "2022-09-02T07:03:20Z")
People are saying he is implying almost half the country are terrorists, and the logical conclusion is, will they all be …put away? Help me out here. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1002 "2022-09-02T07:58:42Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > People are saying he is implying almost half the country are terrorists, and the logical conclusion is, will they all be …put away? He was referencing a small minority of extremists, he was even careful to clarify that most Republicans are not the MAGA sort that rejects democracy and the Constitution. The ones to be put away, presumably, are those that break the law in efforts to be “patriots” as they attack this country. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1003 "2022-09-02T15:26:49Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He was referencing a small minority of extremists, he was even careful to clarify that most Republicans are not the MAGA sort that rejects democracy and the Constitution. He has to do that for political reasons, but we will see if it is actually true come the November elections. I highly doubt that the politicians who voted to condone the attempted violent coup will be rejected by the voters in their district. Even with an unprecedented seismic shift in attitudes, the most that would be possible is 80% of Republicans will still vote for extremists in November. (If people who refuse to condemn a coup attempt aren’t extremists, then _who is_?) And the small batch of _new_ candidates that didn’t have a chance to support treason yet are even _more_ extreme than the ones they replaced, so it’s not as if voters in other districts will have a chance to vote for newly moderate Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1004 "2022-09-02T15:34:37Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > People are saying he is implying almost half the country are terrorists, and the logical conclusion is, will they all be …put away? Help me out here. Joe Biden is following their lead. Have you not been paying attention? I mean, this was the banner at CPAC just _last month_: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52329505778_611f35e733_b.jpg "20220902\_103311") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52329505778/) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1005 "2022-09-02T15:53:07Z")
In case anyone is wondering, yes it’s real. > **[Did a CPAC Banner Say, 'We Are All Domestic Terrorists'?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/)** > > Another banner at the same conservative conference warned, "You're Next: The Rise of the Democrat Gulag." The point they were trying to make is that the Democrats were falsely calling all Republicans “domestic terrorists”. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1006 "2022-09-02T15:53:45Z")
Thank you. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1007 "2022-09-02T16:46:46Z")
I love the term “people are saying “ because what it actually means is “Fox news talking heads are saying “ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1008 "2022-09-02T16:51:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > In case anyone is wondering, yes it’s real. > > [Did a CPAC Banner Say, 'We Are All Domestic Terrorists'? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/) > > The point they were trying to make is that the Democrats were falsely calling all Republicans “domestic terrorists”. They misspelled “stochastic.” Granted, it’s a hard word. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1009 "2022-09-02T17:08:52Z")
After the Break: Why The Left is attacking a popular lip balm and saying that having one on you means you are a terrorist. We report, you decide. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1010 "2022-09-02T17:30:58Z")
I actually thought that was real and was going to ask which brand. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1011 "2022-09-02T17:32:27Z")
The one with the swastika in the logo and Hitler’s beaming face (featuring glossy lips) would be a good guess ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1012 "2022-09-02T17:56:01Z")
Ahem, ‘Stowed ChapStick terrorism’. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1013 "2022-09-02T18:05:41Z")
I’m a fan of the “Dark Brandon” meme, not because it’s good but because it’s stupid in the exact right way to combat the stupidity of “Let’s Go Brandon.” The only way to respond to a stupid meme against you is with a stupid meme for you. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1014 "2022-09-02T19:46:00Z")
This. And because sometimes I enjoy stupid humor. [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=49) [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=51)