US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Celebrate Nite]

What is Worse...Reddit Cringe that is Sincere..or Reddit Cringe that is astroturfed?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Biden offered to get Zelenskyy out of Ukraine so he can form a government in exile (and/or so Biden can shut him out of peace negotiations while he lets Putin do whatever he wants), and Zelenskyy's response was "I don't need a ride, I need ammunition".
I say we give him all the ammo and assorted military toys he wants. We obviously can't provide ground troops because a) the country is exhausted by war, and b) that'll escalate things in a very bad way, but if we can use the military industrial complex to frustrate Putin and further make him a pariah at risk of getting Beria'd by his fellow oligarchs, that'd be great.

Nah, let Russia have the discount pirogi stand, we need the ammo and toys when China tries to take Taiwan and triggers the Japs along with Vietnam and the other gooks.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1497929705416130561

https://archive.is/wip/M2Bkn

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[Blacklight]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1497929705416130561

https://archive.md/wip/M2Bkn

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Aren't they always on alert though?

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Aren't they always on alert though?

I would say in stand-by status and not necessarily in a state of alert.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Its gonna get worse, his polling dropped out. New floor isn't yet determined but it -might- be in the 20s.

Every day this war goes on it just gets worse, people blame him for it and feel he is trying to get -us- into a war. They don't really care about Ukraine specifically, but they blame Biden for this and care about us going to war.

And for all we know they’re still massaging his numbers as they are wont to do.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Aren't they always on alert though?

It's the difference between "watching for threats on radar" and "putting planes in the air in case shit hits the fan".

 

[murdered meat bag]

It's funny how nothings changed in 23 years. republican dumb, science good.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Joe's such a fuck up that he can't even use a war crisis he's been waiting for so much to prop up his underworldly ratings lol

 

[Ruin]

Joe's such a fuck up that he can't even use a war crisis he's been waiting for so much to prop up his underworldly ratings lol

It's hilarious that the left has so throughly demonized patriotism and nationalism that now when they desperately need to appeal to it they can't.

What a massive and totally avoidable self own.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Regarding polls: I've always wondered, how is this data collected? Is there a way you can sign up to get polled? I've never met a single person that got a call or email from Gallup or Trafalgar or any of the big ones. Never gotten anything from Baris's group either. On Gallup's FAQ, they give a fancy non-answer to the question "How can I get polled?"

Has anyone here ever gotten anything?

 

[Oats12345]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1497929705416130561

https://archive.md/wip/M2Bkn

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Does Ukraine have nukes?

 

[Francis York Morgan]

"Bottom five" is being extremely generous. Could you find even one other president who was worse?

Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce are like some kind of unholy trinity of awful that for years I wondered if a modern US President could ever hope to surpass them. Biden is trying his damnedest by bungling every situation that comes before him and furthering the public's general resentment of the federal government. I generally try and reserve judgment for a President's performance for several years after their last term because it can be difficult to grasp some of the long-term ramifications of their policies in the moment (or their scandals, as most of the details regarding the Teapot Dome scandal came out after Harding's death and it's only now beginning to come out that Obama had a hand in spying on the Trump campaign), but if Biden (or his puppeteers like Jill) somehow fuck things up so hard they actually get thrown out of office or cause a second civil war then he'll get to that bottom ranking as deserved.

 

[Potatoherder]

Regarding polls: I've always wondered, how is this data collected? Is there a way you can sign up to get polled? I've never met a single person that got a call or email from Gallup or Trafalgar or any of the big ones. Never gotten anything from Baris's group either. On Gallup's FAQ, they give a fancy non-answer to the question "How can I get polled?"

Has anyone here ever gotten anything?

Baris has said it's a case of if you ask to be on a poll they don't want you. From what i have taken away he does a lot of cold calling based on voter files.

 

[Forest Portal Triumph 747]

Regarding polls: I've always wondered, how is this data collected? Is there a way you can sign up to get polled? I've never met a single person that got a call or email from Gallup or Trafalgar or any of the big ones. Never gotten anything from Baris's group either. On Gallup's FAQ, they give a fancy non-answer to the question "How can I get polled?"

Has anyone here ever gotten anything?

Phone polls are mainly done randomly, I think there are various "voter files" containing information like Party Registration and phone numbers in different states. I've been contacted multiple times in 2020-2021 for political campaigns (e.g. an Eric Adams campaign person who I could tell was an overweight black woman, phone called me out of the blue to ask if I was going to submit my mail-in ballot that I requested as I was a registered Democrat who had requested a ballot for the general election in Nov 2021; some chubby white hipster girl door knocked at my apartment to ask me to vote for Costa Constantinides in the Democrat primary for Queens Borough President).

Note that I only registered Dem to vote for the 'least bad' Democrat in the primaries in New York. However I recently changed my party registration to Republican because even voting for the 'least bad' Dem feels dirty and I wanted to at least be a statistic in the "Dem to Repub registration" shifts that can be publicly recorded, and to vote in the 2022 primaries for MAGA Repubs rather than RINOS, and to vote in the 2024 primary for Trump.

I've only been called once for a political poll, and I sadly don't recall the pollster. This was back in 2018, I got asked various questions like "Do you Strongly Approve, Somewhat Approve, Somewhat Disapprove, or Strongly Disapprove of President Trump's job performance."

If you want to be polled via phone, I recommend answering every random phone call from an unrecognized number that calls you up. It's possible I missed out on being polled a few times because I sometimes refuse to pick up a call from an unrecognized number.

Now, you can sign up for Civiqs to be regularly polled online via email (not phone; also keep in mind that this pollster isn't as treated seriously but that may be because they have the most dismal approval numbers for Pedojoe....despite being associated with the Daily Kos ).

Civiqs

civiqs.com

I recommend every KF user do so

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Does Ukraine have nukes?

130 UR-100N intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with six warheads each, 46 RT-23 Molodets ICBMs with ten warheads apiece, as well as 33 heavy bombers, totaling approximately 1,700 warheads remained on Ukrainian territory. Formally, these weapons were controlled by the Commonwealth of Independent States.

 

[Dream_Cooter]

By the way, guess how his supporters are reacting to the realization that over 60% feel Trump would've kept this from happening instead of Biden (it's really interesting seeing the lengths they are going to).
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RepubliQan is new and super fancy. I think I prefer it to RepubliKKKan because it sounds like the name the Chinese clone of some high end electronic device.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

According to this Civiqs poll (since it's been brought up) the demographic that disapproves of Biden the MOST is...18-34. 58%.

Civiqs

civiqs.com

If you want to be polled via phone, I recommend answering every random phone call from an unrecognized number that calls you up. It's possible I missed out on being polled a few times because I sometimes refuse to pick up a call from an unrecognized number.

I actually already do this, because the spam calls will now hijack existing (therefore realistic) cell phone numbers to call from. I get called infrequently so I can never tell if it's from a legitimate person whose contact I just don't have or not. Sometimes my phone will register it as spam, sometimes not.

Baris has said it's a case of if you ask to be on a poll they don't want you. From what i have taken away he does a lot of cold calling based on voter files.

I also assume the "big guys" don't like calling people from or in my state, because we all tend to lean the same way, and they won't get the answers they want.

 

[JabbasAnalFissure]

Apparently there are going to be talks between Ukraine and Russia. Do you think they are going to convince anyone that Biden was the mastermind behind deescalating this thing?

 

[jje100010001]

Interesting article worth a read- when Biden came into power, the Obama foreign policy team who had first devised Euromaiden returned to Biden's State Department, and restarted their schemes that Trump had pushed to the wayside from 2016-2020.

We are now seeing their deadly results, all as a result of the Democrat's piped piper dance with Ukraine from 2013-2022.

Summarized: "Elections have consequences."

That Ukraine has allowed itself to be used as a pawn against a powerful neighbor is in part the fault of Kyiv’s reckless and corrupt political class. But Ukraine is not a superpower that owes allies and client-states judicious leadership—that’s the role of the United States. And in that role, the United States has failed Ukraine. More broadly, the use of Ukraine as a goad against enemies domestic and foreign has recklessly damaged the failing yet necessary European security architecture that America spent 75 years building and maintaining.

Why can’t the American security establishment shoulder responsibility for its role in the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine? Because to discuss American responsibility openly would mean exposing the national security establishment’s role in two separate, destructive coups: the first, in 2014, targeting the government of Ukraine, and the second, starting two years later, the government of the United States.

This is a game that Biden and key figures in his administration have been playing for a long time, beginning with the 2013-14 Obama administration-backed coup that toppled a Russia-friendly government in Kyiv. This was the so-called Maidan Revolution, a sequel of sorts to the George W. Bush-backed Orange Revolution of 2004-05. Much of that same Obama foreign policy team—Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and others—is now back in the White House and State Department working in senior posts for a president who personally ran Obama’s Ukraine policy.

By tying itself to an American administration that had shown itself to be reckless and dangerous, the Ukrainians made a geopolitical blunder that statesmen will study for years to come: A buffer state had staked its future on a distant power that had simply seen it as an instrument to annoy its powerful neighbor with no attachment to any larger strategic concept that it was willing to support. Russia then lopped off half of the Donbas region on its border and subjected Ukraine to a grinding, eight-year-long war, intended in large part to underline Russian capacity and Ukrainian and American impotence.

Ukraine then made a bad situation even worse. When the same people who had left them prey to Putin asked them to take sides in an American domestic political conflict, the Ukrainians enthusiastically signed on—instead of running hard in the opposite direction.

In order to cover up for what the Bidens and perhaps other senior Obama officials had done in Ukraine, a Democratic Congress impeached Trump for trying to figure out what American policymakers had been doing in Ukraine over the past decade. As for the Ukrainians, they again put themselves in the middle of it, when they should have stayed home.

The end result was that the Ukrainians had helped weaken an American president who, unlike Obama, gave them arms to defend themselves against the Russians. More seriously, they reinforced Putin’s view that, especially in partnership with the Democrats, Ukraine did not understand its true place in the world as a buffer state—and would continue to allow themselves to be used as an instrument by policymakers whose combination of narcissism and fecklessness made them particularly prone to dangerous miscalculations. The 2020 election victory of Joe Biden, a man whose family had been paid by the Ukrainians to protect them, can have done little to quiet Putin’s sense that Ukraine needed to be put in its place before it was used yet again as a weapon against him.

Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble

By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come

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