# 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:** 53
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1055 "2022-11-11T04:40:18Z")
Nevermind ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1056 "2022-11-11T10:13:14Z")
A reminder of what you were accused of doing back before everyone managed to forget you existed: > [@Gyrate](#): > > Just to recap: you’ve made multiple false claims, you’ve falsely attributed views to others they didn’t express, you’ve misrepresented your own citations, and when called on it you just move on to new nonsense…but it’s everyone else’s fault for being so mean to you. Still haven’t changed, I see. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1057 "2023-10-06T22:48:32Z")
No idea wherelse to post this (if it has been already?) Is this the first time, then, that Biden is apparently sucking at the job? > **[Biden to build more US border wall using Trump-era funds](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-build-new-barriers-roads-texas-border-area-2023-10-05/)** > > President Joe Biden's administration said on Thursday it will add sections to a border wall to stave off record migrant crossings from Mexico, carrying forward a signature policy of former President Donald Trump. > [@](#): > > One of Biden’s first actions after taking office in January 2021 was to [issue a proclamation](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/) pledging that “no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall” as well as a review of all resources that had already been committed. The administration said Thursday’s action did not deviate from Biden’s proclamation because money that was allocated during Trump’s term in 2019 had to be spent now. “…had to be spent now”? It was legally binding, or something? Huh? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1058 "2023-10-07T00:14:08Z")
I was equally befuddled by this. I’d love to hear a good explanation that does not equate to “Biden is off his fucking rocker.” “Hey, you know that stupidest of stupid ideas Trump had, we’re going with that!” ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1059 "2023-10-07T00:33:51Z")
The Biden admin is apparently A-OK with ignoring environmental laws in order to make this happen. What the fuck, peoples? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1060 "2023-10-07T00:51:36Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > . I’d love to hear a good explanation that does not equate to “Biden is off his fucking rocker.” Did you read the article? > [@](#): > > Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement that there was “no new Administration policy with respect to border walls. From day one, this Administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer.” > > Mayorkas said the construction project was appropriated during the prior administration and the law requires the government to use the funds, with an announcement made earlier in the year. “We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money but it has not done so and we are compelled to follow the law,” he said. The story isn’t “Biden builds border wall”, it’s “federal government spends Congressionally allocated funds in accordance with law”, but the nihilist line-go-up bros in the C-suite are dead-set on making Trump president again because he’s good for ratings. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1061 "2023-10-07T00:55:10Z")
The answer is that the strategy of bussing people from border states to ‘sanctuary cities’ is working, and the Democrats in Washington are getting an earful from Democratic mayors in the big cities that proclaimed they wanted immigrants and now are having to actually take them in. As it turns out, virtue signalling is a lot easier than actual virtue. The minute illegal immigration started to blow back on the Biden administration from their own party, they turned into Trump overnight. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1062 "2023-10-07T01:00:45Z")
David Brooks, former trumper, endorses Biden for President. (Gift link) > **[Opinion | Can We Talk About Joe Biden?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/opinion/joe-biden-trump-election.html?unlocked_article_code=vGv6q_a3ALaUK9k7YYqlEfliAwdzsjRJtvUKU8TcEqXWLcUnhPS016gzRo6UtT41mB4EXT2Oo-zn1oKfEZ3Rce5IT8AQDTVEVMZrFScNdojHtbVHfmNWLzfqxnoBkiTfIvXBt4Lcg_ECM4mcOzSPAKan5oCyk0mltfRT7h1ggq3b55bVEhyjkeSfnQTtNBYW0bWa2GRG3XLQJrBrctl-6o2KA8_pDdip7pn3WMet26Yk4rVOzOX8X37gMAXXu-ddczeISs4g0q2UgfobYhiby15r0B_a-N5pwIZOX_dDZTxTOtvL3UYgh5oVszJoc9DZ7Fqq2sS59U1wFqNRL5fdrejU&smid=url-share)** > > As worried as many of us are about the president’s chances, he is our best shot at beating Trump. > … > The more I covered Biden, the more I came to feel affection and respect for him. Then, as now, he could be a tough boss, occasionally angry and hard on his staff. But throughout his life, Biden has usually been on the side of the underdog. I’ve rarely met a politician so rooted in the unpretentious middle-class ethos of the neighborhood he grew up in. He has a seemingly instinctive ability to bond with those who are hurting. > > … > > He has his faults — the tendency to talk too much, the chip on his shoulder about those who think they are smarter than he is, the gaffes, that [episode of plagiarism](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html) and the moments of confusion — but I’ve always thought: Give me a leader who identifies with those who feel looked down upon. Give me a leader whose moral compass generally sends him in the right direction. > > But I’ve also come to fear and loathe Donald Trump. I cannot fathom what damage that increasingly deranged man might do to this country if given a second term. And the fact is that as the polls and the mood of the electorate stand today, Trump has a decent chance of beating Biden in November of next year and regaining power in 2025. > > … > > As I’ve thought about Biden’s chances in 2024, I find myself deeply conscious of all the disadvantages that he and the Democrats have as they try to retain power, and preparing for what that could bring. But I also find myself arriving foursquare at the conclusion that rejecting the president now would be, in the first place, a mistake. He offers the most plausible route toward winning the working- and middle-class groups the Democrats need, the most plausible route toward building a broad-based majority party. > > … ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1063 "2023-10-07T01:02:44Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The answer is that the strategy of bussing people from border states to ‘sanctuary cities’ is working, and the Democrats in Washington are getting an earful from Democratic mayors in the big cities that proclaimed they wanted immigrants and now are having to actually take them in. > > As it turns out, virtue signalling is a lot easier than actual virtue. The minute illegal immigration started to blow back on the Biden administration from their own party, they turned into Trump overnight. ![](https://media.tenor.com/aJnDayTWai0AAAAC/amazing-every-word.gif) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1064 "2023-10-07T01:05:48Z")
And he posted it right after the post explaining why the wall portion has to be built. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1065 "2023-10-07T01:17:27Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The answer is that the strategy of bussing people from border states to ‘sanctuary cities’ is working, and the Democrats in Washington are getting an earful from Democratic mayors in the big cities that proclaimed they wanted immigrants and now are having to actually take them in. Perhaps an enema would help you avoid posting such nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1066 "2023-10-07T01:23:03Z")
What of him would be left to post at all? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1067 "2023-10-07T01:39:42Z")
Great. 100% mea culpa in posting that, in the first place. 🫤 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1068 "2023-10-07T02:04:02Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > As it turns out, virtue signalling is a lot easier than actual virtue. Which is why conservatives always choose the former. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1069 "2023-10-07T06:18:47Z")
“I don’t _want_ to build more border wall, but I simply _have to_” is really fucking pathetic. Buy it if it suits you. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1070 "2023-10-07T06:28:28Z")
Lie about it if it suits you. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1071 "2023-10-07T06:45:42Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “I don’t _want_ to build more border wall, but I simply _have to_” is really fucking pathetic. I mean, I suppose he could just ask Congress to change that law and they’d get right on it, right? Or I suppose he could just defy that law, because it’s not like they’re looking for any possible pretense for an impeachment or anything. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1072 "2023-10-07T07:19:28Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I was equally befuddled by this. I’d love to hear a good explanation that does not equate to “Biden is off his fucking rocker.” > > “Hey, you know that stupidest of stupid ideas Trump had, we’re going with that!” ⁢ Beau of he Fifth Column calls it malicious compliance. And he points out the big difference: the wall is portable. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/535OYEAZMmQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Let's talk about Biden, surprises, and Beaustradamus....") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535OYEAZMmQ) Also, he explains how he predicted this would happen. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1073 "2023-10-07T09:22:45Z")
Gad damn dude. Not only did you not read the article, you also did read the post explaining the article. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/1074 "2023-10-07T11:41:08Z")
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