CNN Confused by Biden's Unpopularity

[jonny5]

Turn off the faux.

Turn off the internet.

 

[LouC]

What Zakaria isn't telling you is that Biden is irrelevant. His puppet masters are the ones doing everything. Biden is just dancing on their strings.

 

[LouC]

Since when is Fareed Zakaria the entirety of CNN?

 

[Dans La Lune]

Biden promised his voters one thing, and his donors another thing.

Zakaria is literally the most out of touch person I've ever witnessed on TV, because unlike people like Nate Silver (who intentionally cherry picks data to write a false narrative), he seems genuinely confused. When Zakaria is not giving air time to Bill Gates or Tony Blair or some other neocon or neoliberal hack, he's writing op-eds pondering the mysteries of the universe. Like why his close circle of friends are happy with the status quo, and everyone else isn't.

 

[LouC]

For the record, Fareed finds Biden's approval rating "puzzling" but Fareed is by no means "confused" by why Biden's ratings are so low.

 

[Helix]

Turn off the internet.

I think I'll skip that, thanks.

 

[dex4974]

Come on man. He's old and boring. How clueless can you be? We need more fiery young people.

 

[jonny5]

I think I'll skip that, thanks.

Give it a try.

 

[jonny5]

Come on man. He's old and boring. How clueless can you be? We need more fiery young people.

Which is what the Dems kept saying, no more old established rich white men. But who did they elect?

 

[Dans La Lune]

For the record, Fareed finds Biden's approval rating "puzzling" but Fareed is by no means "confused" by why Biden's ratings are so low.

Zakaria's show of a lecture on why his circle of friends are always right, and why everyone else is wrong. I noticed he hasn't had Bill Gates on recently. Why come? *snickers*

 

[LouC]

I think I'll skip that, thanks.

I thought it kind of odd a person on the internet suggesting another person to turn off the internet, I mean, if you had done that how could you ever have seen that sage advice?

 

[LouC]

Zakaria's show of a lecture on why his circle of friends are always right, and why everyone else is wrong. I noticed he hasn't had Bill Gates on recently. Why come? *snickers*

Um, that seems a rather jumbled line of thinking, sorry, it makes no sense.

 

[Bodi]

What Zakaria isn't telling you is that Biden is irrelevant. His puppet masters are the ones doing everything. Biden is just dancing on their strings.

Biden will be like Fillmore someday.... people will say, "who"?

 

[LouC]

Biden will be like Fillmore someday.... people will say, "who"?

If only the same could one day be said about the disastrous term of the orange shit gibbon aka donny trump!

History books of the future, if they tell it honestly, will footnote the orange one's term as "How not to president!"

 

[Bodi]

If only the same could one day be said about the disastrous term of the orange shit gibbon aka donny trump!

History books of the future, if they tell it honestly, will footnote the orange one's term as "How not to president!"

This site already has Trump listed at #2

https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/slideshows/the-10-worst-presidents?slide=11

 

[jonny5]

I thought it kind of odd a person on the internet suggesting another person to turn off the internet, I mean, if you had done that how could you ever have seen that sage advice?

Think about what you just said.

 

[TheParser]

But people are waking up.

I hope so.

The coming Congressional elections will tell.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

I'll tell you this much.

I'm 45 years old and can remember when nobody stood up to the left. They basically got whatever they wanted, when they wanted.

You must have been in a coma as a child during the Reagan years then. I am assuming you slept through the 90s, and then again you must have been in a coma during the Bush years...

 

[jonny5]

I hope so.

The coming Congressional elections will tell.

Itll just be new boss, same stuff. Has literally ANYTHING gone in the right direction in the last 40 years for those of us who value liberty? More laws, more taxes, more socialism. GOP sometimes slows its down a little, but libs get what they want in the end. The only recent change recently has been states finally resisting. Marijuana is about the only win I can think of, and I dont use it.

 

[bubbabgone]

I'll tell you this much.

I'm 45 years old and can remember when nobody stood up to the left. They basically got whatever they wanted, when they wanted.

I've seen alot change.

The democrat party has become a corporate public relations firm, selling American policy to their corporate globalist billionaire donors and corporate elite.

It sort of peaked under Obama, held steady with Bush, who was on their side anyway and now Joe Biden.

Donald Trump did one thing for Americans in my opinion, he tore the mask off the democrat party. Everyone got to see who they are.

I know it seems bad. But people are waking up. The hard shill leftists here are full of rage and hatred. They don't care what the party is doing, they just hate the other side. But there's fewer of them now.
And it's getting difficult to rationalize supporting the policies of the democrat party.

I wish I could be as sanguine as you appear to be but things won't really change for the better as long as all those who worked their way to the top of media, education, entertainment, science, military, justice, & political leadership positions have been purged.
They didn't get there by accident and they won't leave just because people have awakened to what they've been doing while they've been there.
"Transform", remember? Their kind of transformation tends to be tough to undo.

 

[RealityNow]

People and Expectations .... could benefit from "Learning what the role of a President is"

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Presidents, don't create Legislation, they sign into Law, Legislation that passes from Congress to the President's Desk.

Why do people continue to have delusions that Presidents are some Magician with a Magic Wand ??? People claim they don't want a dictator, they don't want an Authoritarian, and they don't want a Tyrant... Yet, People keep Expecting Presidents to fulfill their expectation as if he/she is a Dictator, Authoritarian, and/or Tyrant.

We got rid of Trump because he tried to acts as if the role of President gave him the right to lead by "Decree". Now, people, still don't get it, that's not the Role or Responsibility of any President in a Representative Democracy.

All these continual talk of popularity, is basically saying we have people who are "foolish enough to have unreal expectations" and don't understand the civics of what a President is.

IF Biden took actions by Decree and claim things as Law by Decree... they'd start bitching and moaning and claiming its Un-constitutional, but they want to still expect things as if he can preside by "Decree". which is Unconstitutional.

President can issue Executive Orders... but they prefer to let Congress do its Jobs and Legislate.

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Executive order​

In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government.[1] The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use their discretion to determine how to enforce the law or to otherwise manage the resources and staff of the executive branch. The ability to make such orders is also based on expressed or implied Acts of Congress that delegate to the president some degree of discretionary power (delegated legislation).[2]
Like both legislative statutes and the regulations promulgated by government agencies, executive orders are subject to judicial review and may be overturned if the orders lack support by statute or the Constitution. Some policy initiatives require approval by the legislative branch, but executive orders have significant influence over the internal affairs of government, deciding how and to what degree legislation will be enforced, dealing with emergencies, waging wars, and in general fine-tuning policy choices in the implementation of broad statutes. As the head of state and head of government of the United States, as well as commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, only the President of the United States can issue an executive order.
Presidential executive orders, once issued, remain in force until they are canceled, revoked, adjudicated unlawful, or expire on their terms. At any time, the president may revoke, modify or make exceptions from any executive order, whether the order was made by the current president or a predecessor.
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It's Beneficial For People To Take Time and Read > THE CONSTITUTION

 

[coyote505]

Yes, the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan, rising prices etc. all have helped to move Biden’s approval rating down. I’ll concentrate on independents. They gave Biden an average of 53% approval from the start of his presidency through July. Then their approval of him dropped to 47% in August, 43% in September, 37% in October, down to 34% in November and today has climbed up to 37%.

Remember independents voted for Biden 54-41 over Trump. They wanted Trump gone. Their vote was mostly against Trump, not necessarily for Biden. Anyone would have done as long as that candidate’s last name wasn’t Trump. For Biden’s first 7 months, just not being Trump was enough for most independents. Independents also thought they were getting a moderate democrat as president. Not one who would kowtow to the progressives. When Biden and company began pushing their progressive agenda, that’s when Biden’s approval began to fall. This wasn’t what most independents voted for.

Remember that although independents voted for Biden, they also voted for Republican candidates down ballot. Ticket splitters voting against Trump, but for Republicans for other elected offices down ballot enabling the GOP to pick up 13 house seats, 2 state legislatures and a governorship last November 2020 while Trump was losing by 7 million plus votes.

These independents wanted Biden to bring some sanity back in the White House and return this country to normalcy. Not to try to enact a ton of new major legislation. Biden and company approval are dropping among independents mainly because the president they elected isn’t the president they voted for. The Democrats have taken winning the presidency as a mandate for their agenda, policies. It wasn’t, it was a mandate to be rid of Trump and to be rid of Trump only among independents. The Democrats took a whipping for all other offices on the ballot. Perhaps they should have taken the 2020 election as a whole and not just one office out of many. 2020 was a split decision, a split election. It certainly wasn’t an election that endorsed progressive ideals. Not if one looks at the whole ballot and not just one office.

One reason CNN and other mass media are so baffled by the views of Americans is that they are not part of the American Heartland. Except for PBS in the DC suburbs, all mass broadcasters (ABC, NBC, CBS and even FOX) are located in Manhattan. They are Not Mainstream Media. They are Manhattan Media. Viewing them in hopes of understanding America is as useless as reading Paris Match, since NYC aspires not to be a great American city so much as the "Paris of North America". The cable and print media are similarly NYC-centric.

 

[Warden314]

Hello Everyone,

I am an independent with progressive regulatory leanings while favoring less government spending. I found everyones posts useful for understanding how they view the situation. My viewpoint for your consideration is as follows:
1.) Many independents I know where simply apathetic in their support of Biden and never supported Trump in 2020 even if they had previously in 2016.
2.) The country has entered an era where the majority of supporting populist ideology and rhetoric
3.) Biden is not a populist, rather he's about as token a mainstream democratic politician as you can get. People think that Hillary Clinton lost as a rejection of her personally. I believe it was a rejection of the archetype and status quo she represented. In that regard I view Obama and Trump to have had very similar electoral messages from a macro perspective. Both promised radical change and a tipping of the status quo though effectively governed under the heal of their respective legislative and judicial counterparts. Where as Biden spoke about change and has not push back at all when he hits opposition. Biden fits the definition of a first term lame duck president despite having the House and Senate. He doesn't NEED republicans but chooses to engage in bipartisan legislation rather than forcing his own party into line.
4.) So, obviously, as a corporate centrist he is going to lose middle class independents and the more progressive elements of his own party. Given the Republican parties polarization it is also obvious that they will stand in opposition.

This analysis should be obvious to anyone who can walk a mental mile in the both camps shoes. However, I have noticed that many mainstream media conglomerates are unable to do this. I don't know if they are actually incapable due to their bias or the simple fact that if they reported what I outlined above they would be no longer supporting the status quo and face retaliatory actions. The first that comes to mind is loss of access as politicians gravitate to networks that don't ask any hard questions. Either way whether the claim is feigned or truly born out by real confusion it just goes to show how out of touch the Washington class is with the electorate.

P.S.

I would like to state my support for RealityNow's assertion that the course of the country is in large part charted by its legislative bodies and not the executive branch as a matter of policy.

 

[Perotista]

P.S.

I would like to state my support for RealityNow's assertion that the course of the country is in large part charted by its legislative bodies and not the executive branch as a matter of policy.

While I agree with most of what you said. It’s the last sentence that gives me pause. Yes, Biden has just gone along with the progressive wing of his party with no real initiatives of his own. Trump, outside of his tax cuts, didn’t have a legislative agenda. Both are/were pretty much along for the ride.



But prior to those two, the president set the agenda, not congress. The members of the president’s party in congress has tried to give the president everything he wants or wanted. That includes more power to the executive branch at the expense of congress. It’s almost like members of congress who are of the same party as the president are more members of the administration than of the institution of congress. Congress has ceded many of its constitutional powers to the president, different government agencies and departments over time. If congress won’t go along with what a president wants, he bypasses them with an executive order. Over the last 20-30 years executive orders have become a means in which a president can legislative on his own. Executive Orders have become law unto themselves with the same lawful authority as passed legislation.

 

[uptower]

The bottom line is when things aren't going well the president wears it. He inherited a shitty mess and has not fixed everything so yeah, he took a hit in the ratings.