# 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:** 52
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1035 "2022-09-03T19:45:04Z")
“We call them libtards and now they call THEMSELVES that. It’s not fair!” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1036 "2022-09-03T22:20:02Z")
Conservatives: what would a “unifying” message be and say? I’ve always wondered that. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1037 "2022-09-03T22:32:40Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Conservatives: what would a “unifying” message be and say? I’ve always wondered that. - “Do what I want and shut up.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1038 "2022-09-04T01:19:36Z")
“My gigayacht is, yeah, bigger than yours.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1039 "2022-09-04T01:28:37Z")
Republicans: “How dare Biden call us semi-fascist! The president can’t just go around insulting the American people!” Meanwhile; > ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1040 "2022-09-05T07:43:15Z")
“It’s only a Gulag if it comes from the Gulag Region of Siberia. Otherwise it’s just Sparkling Corrective Labour…” ---
**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:** [September 5, 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/949851/1041 "2022-09-05T07:58:22Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > “It’s only a Gulag if it comes from the Gulag Region of Siberia. Otherwise it’s just Sparkling Corrective Labour…”- I miss our Wearer Of The Sparkly Jackboots. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1042 "2022-09-05T14:18:26Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > He’s an evil dictator that also happens to be a old demented coot that can no longer tie his own shoes. This is the cognitive dissonance of the Right that makes me shake my head in wonder. Biden is simultaneously a sad old man with dementia, and the evil leader of a political party that was able to engineer a stolen nationwide election, coordinating false victories in several key states, during the most closely watched election in American history. And also has full control of the actions of the DOJ and FBI. SNL could just update the political references and do a beat-by-beat remake of this old skit, now with Biden: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b5wfPlgKFh8/maxresdefault.jpg "President Reagan, Mastermind - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1043 "2022-09-05T16:02:37Z")
“Prisoners with jobs!” ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1044 "2022-09-05T16:20:15Z")
“Dark Brandon” is a funny meme (precisely because it’s just as dumb as “Let’s go Brandon”, as well as openly stealing from it). But it doesn’t matter – the only people who have even heard of it are online political junkies, and Sam’s silly ideas that it’s divisive or whatever is ridiculous. No one cares about Dark Brandon, just like no one cares about Let’s go Brandon. Silly memes don’t matter, except to amuse us. ---
**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 5, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1045 "2022-09-05T16:55:35Z")
Yes, it’s funny, because the Let’s Go Brandon crowd think they’re oh-so-clever, but they’re not. Dark Brandon is intentionally stupid, and that’s why it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1046 "2022-09-05T18:13:30Z")
I put it in the same category as “Thanks Obama”. Destroy a stupid right wing meme by making a parody of it that is more popular and widespread than the original. ---
**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 5, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1047 "2022-09-05T18:24:56Z")
👍 👍 ---
**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 5, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1048 "2022-09-05T18:33:12Z")
Biden should wear a tan suit. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1049 "2022-09-06T10:33:13Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Yes, it’s funny, because the Let’s Go Brandon crowd think they’re oh-so-clever, but they’re not. Dark Brandon is intentionally stupid, and that’s why it’s funny. The Republicans are embedded so deeply in the “Never Say Anything Bad About Our Guy” mentality, that they simply can’t conceive of the idea that the opposition can tell a joke about the President without really believing the joke. So they think the “Dark Brandon” memes are just as serious as all the times they encoded “Fuck Joe Biden” by saying “Let’s go Brandon!” It’s simply beyond them to realize that we’re laughing at both memes, while actually still holding Biden to some actual standards. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1050 "2022-09-06T12:34:09Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Biden should wear a tan suit. If he wants to poke fun at Trump: [https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/8601/3105/products/GUCCLY-Orange\_Open\_Suit\_695x695.jpg?v=1638998662](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/8601/3105/products/GUCCLY-Orange_Open_Suit_695x695.jpg?v=1638998662) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1051 "2022-09-08T06:31:36Z")
It would be a bunch of older wealthy Christian white men supported by a bunch of younger Christian white women who look like Stepford Wives, saying “We are all Americans” in unison. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1052 "2022-09-09T20:06:46Z")
Is posting nothing but a political cartoon frowned upon? [![](https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/13455fa/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F9a%2Fb1%2F3d2324dc470c974b8670d9325de5%2F3-darkow-missourian.jpg) ](https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/13455fa/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F9a%2Fb1%2F3d2324dc470c974b8670d9325de5%2F3-darkow-missourian.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1053 "2022-09-09T21:40:40Z")
The cartoonist should have also pictured the MAGAt with the spades and axes that created the chasm between them. ---
**Author:** ![ralfy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ralfy/32/600_2.png) [@ralfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralfy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1054 "2022-11-11T03:14:39Z")
The ideas of neoconservatism and neoliberalism have been known and employed since Reagan’s term. The first is linked to the military industrial complex and the second can be seen in IMF-WB structural adjustment policies, among others. See Johnson’s _Blowback_ and works by Todaro, Chomsky, and others for details, as well as documentaries by Curtis and Pilger. The only ones who think these are false claims are those who have been living under a rock for decades. [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=51) [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=53)