Why is china Joe Biden so unpopular
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 3:52 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 6:28 pm 2638 Views
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Joe Biden with an illustration of a chart showing a downward-facing arrow.
Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo News; photos: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images, Getty Images (3)
What’s happening
At this point in his term — about 910 days in — Joe Biden is the second-most-unpopular president in modern U.S. history. As of July 18, Biden’s average job-approval rating, according to the poll aggregators at FiveThirtyEight, is a paltry 39.1%; his average disapproval rating is 55.4%. That means his “net approval rating” is -16.3%, which is well “underwater,” as pollsters like to say.
Negative 16.3% is also really bad historically speaking. In fact, the only president with weaker numbers than Biden was Jimmy Carter, who hit -28.6% on day 910. At the time, just 29% of Americans approved of Carter’s performance on average, while 57.6% disapproved.
Why there’s debate
The U.S. was in much, much worse shape in 1979 — the year before Carter lost reelection to Ronald Reagan — than it is in 2023. Inflation had skyrocketed by 13.3% year-over-year; unemployment was stubbornly stuck around 6%; and the price of oil was in the process of doubling. Global shortages were so bad that Americans took to waiting in long lines — and occasionally punching each other — at their local gas stations.
In contrast, a gallon of gas today costs roughly 30% less than it did 12 months ago. At 3.6%, unemployment is on par with 50-year lows — and down by almost half since Biden took office. The U.S. economy added 4 million jobs over the past year. Inflation has cooled to 3% after peaking last summer at triple that rate. And America’s so-called misery index — a combination of unemployment and inflation — is lower now than it has been during 83% of all months since 1978. Recession fears are subsiding.
Meanwhile, as the Washington Monthly’s Bill Scher notes, illegal border crossings “have dropped by 70 percent in the last few weeks, according to the Department of Homeland Security, after Biden implemented a new border-management policy.” And “murder is down about 12 percent year-to-date in more than 90 cities that have released data for 2023, compared with data as of the same date in 2022,” according to crime data analyst Jeff Asher, writing in the Atlantic — a trend that could lead to “one of the largest annual percent changes in murder ever recorded.”
On top of that, Biden has delivered on several policy promises that poll pretty well with the public.
In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. Yet Biden’s numbers haven’t budged; since September 2022, his approval rating has remained mired around 40% while his disapproval rating has never broken out of the low to mid-50s.
The question is why. Is it something systemic — the way Americans are increasingly stuck in their own partisan media bubbles and unwilling to give presidents of the opposing party any credit? Is it the economy — the way certain indicators (such as real wages and the cost of services) have yet to fully recover even as the overall picture brightens?
Or is it Biden himself — his advanced age, his frequent gaffes, his ongoing family drama? And can the president turn things around in time for the 2024 election?
What’s next
Election season. Biden’s 2024 campaign spent a total of $1.1 million in the second quarter of this year, a “remarkably small amount that would put him behind several Democratic Senate candidates in terms of expenditures,” according to Politico. In comparison, Biden’s old boss Barack Obama spent about 11 times as much during the second quarter of 2011.
Biden, in other words, hasn’t really started selling himself to voters yet. Assuming the economy keeps improving, a national campaign — and the contrast it could create with the even-less-popular Trump, Biden’s likeliest GOP rival — might help the president become more popular over the next 16 months. In July 2011, Obama was underwater too; by Election Day 2012, his net approval rating had climbed to +5% or so.
Perspectives
Biden is unpopular because inflation pain is uniquely hard to shake
“One possibility is that, after enjoying largely stable prices for decades, Americans simply have little tolerance for inflation. Sure, their wages may have grown faster than prices since February 2020. But voters might be inclined to attribute their income gains to their own efforts, while blaming rising prices on the government’s mismanagement. They still have not adjusted psychologically to the jump in their grocery bills, and are irked each time they see the receipt and remember what things used to cost when Donald Trump was still president.” — Eric Levitz, New York magazine
Meanwhile, prices remain stubbornly high ‘where it counts’
“Although inflation has eased some, it hasn’t where it counts. Per the Wall Street Journal, prices ‘are stubbornly rising for what retail and food executives refer to as the center store,’ a euphemism for non-perishable staples from cereals to paper towels. In percentage terms, the cost of these goods is up by double digits across a variety of categories from just months or even weeks ago. And to judge by this report, many of the customers surveyed by Journal reporters went out of their way to note the tradeoffs they have had to make to stretch their dollars as far as possible. That’s an inconvenience that almost everyone feels and is liable to resent.” — Noah Rothman, National Review
Even if various indicators keep improving, it will take time for Americans to feel it
“Most Americans do not follow monthly inflation, crime, or border-crossing statistics. They experience inflation through more expensive bills, less abundant grocery purchases, and delayed big-ticket investments; crime through if-it-bleeds-it-leads local news broadcasts and major events like mass shootings; immigration through vivid images of people in migrant camps or the frequency with which they hear foreign languages spoken in their own communities. The positive statistics … need to be reflected over time in real-life experiences — and they need to persist until the moment voters decide how to vote.” — Ed Kilgore, New York magazine
Partisanship might have permanently changed how we grade presidents
“A survey question along the lines of, ‘Do you think economic conditions are good or bad?’ is answered more along the lines of, ‘Do you like the current president or not?’ In October 2020, just before President Trump lost re-election, Republicans' economic sentiment was 26 points higher than Democrats' in the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey. In February 2021, after Biden took office, Republicans rated the economy 28 points worse. A similar pattern occurred between the parties around the 2016 and 2008 elections, when partisan control shifted hands. We seem to be experiencing something similar right now.” — Neil Irwin, Axios
Americans are really ‘unhappy’ to boot
“Since 1990, the number of Americans reporting they feel ‘not too happy’ has been trending upward, particularly among those without a college education. The onset of the pandemic only exacerbated the growing national unhappiness. … Whatever the causes, it turns out that unhappiness is a very strong predictor of voting behavior. Being extremely unhappy more than doubled a person’s likelihood of voting for Trump in 2016, and the unhappiest counties were the Trumpiest.” — Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams and Harry Hanbury, Democracy Journal
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A federal court just handed Biden's Ministry of Truth a big defeat
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 3:40 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 3:40 am 1883 Views
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china joe keeps losing
In a landmark decision that should have all Americans cheering, a Louisiana federal court recently upheld their First Amendment right to speak without being censored by the government. Judge Terry Doughty said the case, Missouri v. Biden, "arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history."
Judge Doughty issued a preliminary injunction forbidding numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as many individuals within the executive branch like White House Press
Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, from communicating or meeting with: "[S]ocial-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms."
The injunction bans the feds from working with outside groups such as the Stanford Internet Observatory that induce social-media companies to suppress and delete "protected free speech." And it even prevents the government from "notifying social-media companies to Be on The Lookout (‘BOLO’) for postings containing protected free speech."
Missouri and Louisiana, alongside five individual plaintiffs, including Jim Hoft who runs The Gateway Pundit and two infectious disease epidemiologists, challenged the alleged collusion of the Biden administration with social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. They claimed the administration was suppressing dissenting voices and controlling the narrative on numerous issues including elections; the effectiveness of masks and the COVID vaccine as well as the COVID lab-leak theory; the Hunter Biden laptop story; parodies that targeted the defendants; and negative posts about the economy and President Joe Biden.
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'Mumbler in chief:' Biden's lackluster delivery in front of world leader draws scorn on social media
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 3:32 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 3:32 am 1838 Views
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Mumbler in chief," Citizen Free Press reported.
A clip of President Biden mumbling through his comments during Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the White House renewed many Twitter users’ concerns over his mental fitness.
While addressing the visiting leader, Biden gave a few words on the United States’ relationship with Israel. However, as he touted progress between the two countries, he began looking down and mumbled his words.
"We got a lot more to do, but there's progress. Last year, we can be the largest gathering of Arab Israelis in a decade together form, and we resolved the maritime boundary dispute between Israel and Lebanon, which people thought could never happen. We opened up the airspace for Israel over Saudi Arabia and Oman after I had a little visit there," Biden said.
And we brought Israelis and Palestinians together at a political level," he added before mumbling something unintelligibly, then continued, "And as I affirmed with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday, America's commitment to Israel is firm and it is ironclad. And we're committed as well to assure that that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon."
Multiple Twitter users called out his somewhat inaudible comments as a sign of Biden’s weakness.
"Mumbler in chief," Citizen Free Press reported.
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TX/ DUSTY FBI Tipped off Hunter Biden to Interview, Confirming IRS Whistleblowers
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Posted:Jul 18, 2023 2:39 pm
Last Updated:Jul 18, 2023 2:40 pm 1868 Views
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The FBI agent said because of the tipoff, the agent never interviewed Hunter Biden.
FBI officials tipped off Hunter Biden in the Bureau’s criminal probe of him and told a former FBI supervisory special agent to stand by and not approach him, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) announced Monday, confirming key portions of the IRS whistleblower allegations.
Upon sitting for a transcribed interview with the committee, the former FBI agent told the committee that FBI officials in December 2020 tipped off both Secret Service and the Biden transition team about a scheduled interview about its criminal investigation into
The night before the interview of Hunter Biden, both Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview,” Comer said in a statement. “On the day of the Hunter Biden interview, federal agents were told to stand by and could not approach Hunter Biden—they had to wait for his call.”
“As a result of the change in plans, IRS and FBI criminal investigators never got to interview Hunter Biden as part of the investigation,” he added
The FBI agent told investigators that he had never been told to wait outside to be contacted by the target of a probe, the committee posted on Twitter.
IRS whistleblowers, who are set to testify before Congress Wednesday, claim President Joe Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) politically interfered in the criminal probe into his
Among many allegations, they specifically allege the FBI’s investigation forewarned Hunter Biden of any future searches for materials that could be used as evidence. They also alleged Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf refused to allow investigators to ask about Joe Biden being “the big guy.” Wolf also allegedly cautioned the investigation team from searching Joe Biden’s guest house in Delaware for evidence against Hunter Biden because of “optics.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland flatly denied the whistleblower allegations that Biden’s DOJ interfered in the Hunter Biden criminal tax probe:
In June, Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to only two federal tax violation charges and one gun law violation charge. He will appear on July 26 before a judge, who will presumably accept the plea deal. If the judge accepts the plea deal, Hunter Biden’s lawyer claimed in an interview with MSNBC that no additional allegations of wrongdoing alleged by Republicans could ever be brought against the president’s .
Related: Joe Biden Says, “I’m Very Proud of My ” After Reports of Hunter Plea Deal
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BOBBIE:GOP rep. estimates up to $100M flowed through Biden family accounts
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Posted:Jul 18, 2023 8:26 am
Last Updated:Jul 18, 2023 8:26 am 1906 Views
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People wonder, is Joe Biden basically compromised vis-à-vis the Chinese Communist Party which runs China of course? These things begin to look real, we’re talking literally, it’s not $10 million, it’s well over 20, $30 million, some estimates as high as $100 million flowing through these accounts. We have to get to the bottom of it, but we’re getting slow-walked ourselves from the administration obviously, and their partisans and their supporters. This looks more and more sinister, every time we look at it, and just if we could release the SARS (Suspicious Activity Reporting System) which we cannot, they’re classified yet. Those suspicious activity reports will be corroborated by these whistleblowers tomorrow.
BIDEN FAMILY MAKES ‘ADMISSION OF CORRUPTION’ IN FOREIGN BUSINESS DEAL: CHINA EXPERT
There are emails about Hunter Biden being very upset because he’s having to support his whole family. Well, how is Hunter Biden supporting his whole family? He’s got shell businesses, shell corporations that he is receiving money in, playing on his father’s position, getting that money. He’s not really doing anything for it, whether it be sitting on an energy company in which he has no business, or having no idea what energy’s all about. It’s corruption. I view the family as a crime syndicate because it isn’t just the family itself, they’ve got satellites around them, helping them facilitate their transactions and so it’s pretty massive, pretty deep. Quite frankly our federal investigative agencies, the line agents were working hard on this, they were being stymied by people at the top.
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DUSTY,TX, KOFFLA AKA BOB, "Biden crimes"
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Posted:Jul 17, 2023 2:04 pm
Last Updated:Jul 17, 2023 2:05 pm 1910 Views
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Do you realize that democrats completely made up the Russian collusion hoax? That Steele was offered $1 million to show that the dossier was authentic but couldn’t do it?
That the FBI literally changed evidence to go after Trump? That they had an insurance policy to try and stop Trump becoming President? That they illegally obtained FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign? Over $100 million have been spent investigating Trump.
In comparison…..
The Biden’s OWN laptop shows evidence in the form of emails that Joe Biden gets 10% of a cut. There are 179 SAR’s that show payments to at least 9 different Biden family members. That hunter committed a felony by not being registered as a foreign agent and not paying taxes on the money he received until the Grand Jury caught him out. Which is exactly what Paul Manafort went to jail for. Hunter also has a felony for lying on a firearm application.
The bottom line is that democrats keep saying that there’s no evidence, there’s no evidence because this completely corrupted FBI (as pointed out above) won’t investigate the Biden family. So you can say why is it so unfair that people are treated differently because of their political affiliation, or you can keep saying there’s no evidence. There is plenty of evidence, just no investigations to back it up! The evidence is whistleblowers, SAR’s, emails and coverups of the laptop by the FBI to big tech. The list is endless. $61 MILLION was given to the Biden campaign by China, WHY?
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