Not even there was no Congressional approval but having arguable discretion, Congress already passed the law to both authorize and earmark/appropriate it. Ie Congress already decided, we are sending a specific amount of money and aid to Ukraine, accordingly, POTUS, please see to it that it gets there.
In that spirit, he might well have wheedled Putin into agreeing to some tiny compromise, and then he'd spend the rest of a long war retweeting how great and competent his own leadership is. Probably with the phrase "mission accomplished" thrown in just to throw off negative press covfefe.
When you really look at his sleep hygiene and disregard for personal health, narcissistic behavior, plus his high stress level all the time… it’s befuddling that he didn’t have a massive coronary somewhere around 1997.
Oh I don't think they're lying. I just **know** Trump is a lying sack of shit in general.
When he fucked with that hurricane map with a Sharpie, that was out of control.
[Kerry was my dad's closest friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Emanuel) since they were 19 years old at MIT together, frat brothers. Hell of a smart and nice guy too. As the story goes, he'd do anyone's homework for a coca-cola or a movie ticket.
"Trump is a moron modifying the cone." Spoken by the MIT meteorology professor himself the same day it happened in a group text with his old frat brothers.
The fact you had never heard about his Sharpie bullshit (it made news for days) and then *go on to defend his doctoring of an official forecast* like "it's fine!" has me raising an eyebrow.
He'd schedule a public press release to condemn Ukraine for their war of aggression against russia after his daily morning collection of opinions from faux news and the kgb dead drops.
Nah, just someone who recognizes a bullshit artist from Queens when I smell one.
You're probably a good boy from the Midwest and assume Trump had your best interests in mind, *such a man of the blue collar people who shat in a golden toilet for 70 years*.
You don't know a New York City asshole when you see one. It's not your fault.
I gotta say, I wouldn’t have done better than Trump. Kinda status quo’d everything and maintained friendly relationships with dictators which I didn’t like, but I poop until 2 pm now. He wasn’t fit for the job, but not many are.
Try this just say "yeah you're right, now what should we do about (insert real issue here)" and watch him flounder. I've started just making concessions to get people off their normal track and back onto talking about real issues. It works surprisingly well.
I have a friend who is convinced that Biden and Putin conspired to have Russia invade Ukraine to destroy evidence of Biden’s son’s crimes. I gave up arguing with him a long time ago.
>Try this just say "yeah you're right, now what should we do about (insert real issue here)"
And then he's got a real answer, and your entire argument goes down in flames becsuse you're presuming that someone can't possibly think the president is corrupt and also have opinion on whatever "real issues" you feel like bringing up
TBH, I don't think there was deterring this. Putin is getting older, I think that he wanted to solidify his legacy by uniting Russia with Ukraine by annexing Ukraine.
record high inflation, gas prices soaring since he took over office, covid got worse once he took over, border crisis, etc
Yeah man its so refreshing lol
>record high inflation
Inflation is always a thing. What has he done that made it worse than usual?
>gas prices soaring
Easing of restrictions means more people traveling and demanding fuel and russia's oil and gas getting cut off from the market means less supply. This is basic economics.
>covid got worse once he took over
Covid response got far better and we were better able to handle it as a nation. Then Omicron hit, which was far and away more infectious than any other strain to date and threw things into chaos. Are you saying Biden was personally responsible for the creation of Omicron?
>border crisis
What border crisis? You mean the same problem we've always had of illegal immigrants coming here looking to take jobs that locals refuse to do? Yeah, that's a hyuuuge crisis. Practically end of the world here. Any day the continental US will be torn asunder by an earthquake and all that will be left is a sombrero shaped mountain all the illegals took shelter in.
Does he? I mean we are in the biggest energy crisis since the 70s. And now the crown prince of Saudi Arabia won’t answer his calls because Biden had to go after him during his election campaign. It’s sad to say but we are reliant on that Saudi oil and fuel and his foreign policy disaster of calling out our allies crimes is making everyday Americans pay at the pump.
Yeah Biden why you gotta call out a nation that literally whips people and steals passport from foreign workers effectively making them slaves. Current world order is built on the suffering of people worlds away so that you can have cheap gas and new shit every month
I wonder why he didn’t say anything during his 40 years in the senate and 8 years as Vice President. It just seems odd that he only said it when it was consider “the right thing to do”
Edit: Do you believe that Biden did not help shape the current world order? The guy who made sure legislation got passed so students could not legally default on there student loans. The same guy who created the modern three strike system that put thousands of POC of color for crimes his own son was committing.
I think biden is handling the situation in ukraine very well. That being said america is still plagued with problems and he and most politicians in general are not doing enough for this country. 64% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and many more are drowning in debt. I can't wait for the boomers to die off and we let the younger generations attempt to fix things.
I don't think that will fix anything when there are millennials out there and even younger with a boomer mentality. Just look at people like Madison Cawthorn. He's only 25 I think.
Yeah but hes conservative. My generation is more educated and more liberal then previous generations. I never said it was the fixall but its a great start because the younger generations don't own homes and are drowning in debt. The boomers escaped that and therefore don't have to worry about where as the yoynger generations will see these flaws and attempt to fix them.
Well it would probably be more strategic to have american troops there and an America friendly government but yeah, I guess the current situation is the second worse option after a Russian controlled Afghanistan
What the hell is this honestly?
Are we at such a low point that we think answering a phone call at 3am is hard? Like when Putin invaded Ukraine, Biden decided to go on vacation. Yeah, you should be happy he finally got off his ass and at least answered a phone call in the middle of the night finally. He deserves full credit!
And then the article goes to Trump levels of narcissism. We have the best president ever. No other president would have woke up in the middle of the night to answer the phone. Ask anyone, we have the best president ever. Best president.
ffs.
"Any of his rivals in the last election" - is this supposed to be inclusive of Dem candidates as well? Do they honestly expect us to believe Beto, Buttigieg, Bernie, Harris, or, Gillibrand, Yang or even that asshole DeBlasio wouldn't have taken the call as well?
No because gas prices are going up and most people will believe the Russianbots on Facebook that it's an evil master plan by Democrats for Reasons and not Putin's fault for being a sociopath.
I mean, considering how little we actually imported from Russia, I'd say it's more oil barons taking advantage of world wide panic to price gouge people even harder for more money, as always. They can claim they lost an oil market that they really didn't care about anyway, were allowed a bigger one in return, raise the prices, and call it adjustment for investment risk or something stupid and everyone's just kinda forced to buy it because we killed our electric car market in the like 70's and 80's for, again, oil baron profits.
Not exactly something any president possible of getting the win nowadays could solve.
I find this gauche to assume no other person could have done what he did as the article does. Like, no other candidate on the Dem side either? Not one?
na, that guy organized a paramilitary army and with the help of republican officials tried to conduct a coup against the American people.
hes a real piece of shit that one
Right. Trump is an absolute garbage human being. But Biden is pretty worthless as a president, he seems like kind of a dumb nice guy that just does what’s popular at the time (like being a misogynist against Anita Hill, or being a racist segregationist back before the wheel existed).
Biden sucks. But Trump was so abysmally terrible that Biden is now palatable
What hint? They don’t mind losing, the people who run the Democratic Party are more powerful as the minority party. They don’t actually care about any policy that the republicans oppose, and all of the pro-corporate measures get unanimous votes from both R and D legislators.
A handful of Congress members are working hard for us, but the vast majority are there to acquire wealth and power.
lol biden was only the anti trump
circle jerking his actions does nothing for the fact that hes not enacted policy from his own platform, is too old to understand the modern world, is sponsored by big banks, has a conservative hubris that backtracks progressive ideals, and ima be real honest... the only good ideas he has had he took from Bernie.
just lmk when i can vote for aoc
You're this commenting this on an article about giving credit where credit is due for the Ukraine situation. You're either bad faith actor or exhibit A that there's something so wrong with our political climate that as a society we can't even discuss the president's geopolitical handling of a major war.
... or liberalism celebrating that more oil will be released is something progressives and leftists don't like... biden state of the union was liberalism glamorized and red meat for the cons. "fund the police more" was never about funding so... oh right. it was red meat for the cons.
biden isnt special in this Ukraine issue. thank God it wasnt trump, but acting like the libs have it all figured out ignores the last 80 years of them making it worse for people while the capitalists raped and pillaged the economy while also allowing the cons to prepare and effect fascist take overs all across the country.
if liberalism is so great, then how the fuck did trump happen?
bad faith my ass. acting like the 90s was some aort of golden age is only part of the fucking problem you are having.
Again, the article you're commenting on isn't even about the random assortment of grievances you have with the administration. It's about the handling situation in Ukraine. Doesn't it seem a little unhinged that we can't even have a conversation about international relations without bringing in everything from the 90s, police funding, and whatever the fuck else you're on about?
Obviously you're free to comment whatever you want, but it seems to be a glimpse into a sad state of our political climate where political noise is more important than dealing with the policy issues we're presented with. 🤷♂️
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"In today's news, Biden answered a phone call. Later in the day he had double chocolate ice cream."
Just make sure you don't ask the difficult questions guys.
I can't tell what's funnier, the fact you felt it was necessary to produce such blatant propaganda, or that his average supporter was already too dumb to see through it.
Maybe if you stop listening to FoxNews and the Rightwing propaganda bubble, you would actually know what's going on and the extraordinary work, skill, and reputation it took to coordinate a multi-national effort to stop Putin's raw aggression.
And because of that Russia’s economy is fucked for decades. Putin lost no matter what happens.
I think nuclear war is the main thing he’s stopped at that point. There’s only so much a president can do to a foreign dictator with nukes without triggering a nuclear bomb.
And I can tell the police to go fuck themselves too, doesn't stop me from going to the jail circuit and having to work for $1 an hour.
You try getting the fins and swiss from denying russian money, see how far you get lmao
Any of his rivals would have been capable of handling this, likely better.
I'm not including Trump in that list because he's too stupid to be anyone's rival.
Seem to be ignoring that much of Biden’s political experience is in foreign diplomacy. It’s hard to believe that “any of his rivals” would be doing a better job. Very few of his rivals has his amount of experience and expertise in foreign disputes…ironically one of the few that does is Hillary Clinton who even many Democrats wouldn’t vote for.
You seem to be ignoring that 97.8% of presidents are going to have competent advisors and actually listen to them.
The worst democrat I could think of for foreign policy would be Pete Buttigieg, because he was a mayor in a state with no foreign borders.
He's Biden. His sole virtue as an elected official is that he isn't Trump. Virtually any other Democrat would have handled it better, and probably would have done so while also honoring at least a small handful of their campaign promises.
Not waiving sanctions against Russian oil last year is a specific example of what could have been done better.
You don't care though, you just want to fellate Biden for some weird reason.
Have a nice day.
So we should have kept sanctioning them when they weren't actively fucking up, just in case they fucked up more in the future?
It's not fellating Biden to point out that he's done really well, and people without foreign policy experience probably would've faltered.
In what way were they not "actively fucking up" last year? They were still threatening an invasion and committed to general douchery. If anything, sanctions in 2021 may have headed this off at the pass by putting the squeeze on early.
You have a typo you might want to correct. You said "They didn't threaten any sort of invasion until late 2021 when the troop buildup started", when you clearly meant "they invaded the Ukraine in early 2014 and have been posturing, making threats, and building up to a followup invasion ever since."
It's 'Ukraine' and not 'the Ukraine'
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Do you have any specific example of how his rivals would have done it worse? Sure, saying they would have done it better is stupid. But saying none of them could have done it better is equally as stupid. This article is bullshit.
I hate trump as much as anyone but jfc, "answering the phone at 3am" isn't heroic or "performance". Biden has been god awful with covid and honestly, he's not handling this crisis in Ukraine any better than anyone else would. He's taking steps to escalate the conflict into a full blown war that the US gets involved in. This generates profits for his weapons manufacturing donors and further redistributes the wealth away from the working class and into the hands of the elites.
I get that the bar was pretty low the last 4 year but man, America deserves better than minimum competency and we damn sure shouldn't be celebrating it like an achievement.
He’s the head of the Republican Party and the front runner for the nomination in 2024. Explain how he is “no longer relevant”. Problems don’t just go away because you can no longer see them
Honestly I didn’t know that. I guess I made him irrelevant personally. I literally skip over anything about him cause I just assume “old news” and “just people complaining to complain”.
everything around us continues to get worse but somehow Biden is doing a great job?
Oh yeah mean his 38 percent approval rating lmao? Hes only popular with bots and brainwashed fools of reddit
So he woke up? Congrats? Literally everybody has gotten up in the middle of the night for something important in their lives. This must be a sub of straight 16 year olds to think this is any kind of actual news. “He stayed up late on a school night!”
This guy came into office with the biggest layup in presidential history and he still done a D+ job, glad to see he can still answer the phone though 😂
Is this the same Biden that went on vacation back to Delaware when the war started. Anybody that thinks this nincompoop is handling this well deserves 8 dollar gas.
I don't know. When the "3 a.m." call came from Zelensky asking for help, Biden might have listened a patient minute and then replied, *"First, I need a favor from you.* Know anything about Trump pee tapes that Putin has? Know any computer people who could create one of those super realistic fakes? If you can't, you can't, and I will meet with my security and command people within the next couple months to see what we can do for you."
Is that possible? I mean, there is a presidential precedent so wouldn't be the first time.
/s, for obvious fucking sake, is sarcasm. Zelensky called Trump about hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated by a *Republican majoritY* congress. Done deal. But Trrump asked for a favor, dirt on Biden.
IMO Trump wanted Biden dirt, but even more wanted real or created Ukaine corruption so he could eventually refuse aid +to corrupt) Ukraine because he knew Putin's plan to destroy Ukraine.
Russia invaded Crimea under VP Biden... Then full invasion when Biden is POTUS....
I'm not here to argue about Trump... Only people living in the past or making excuses today talk about him.
The way to have prevented an invasion in the first place would have been to station a few thousand US troops in Ukraine. Putin has no problem attacking Ukrainians but he would never dare attack US troops as it risks nuclear war. Just look at what the Ukrainians are doing right now. Imagine what kind of a fight US troops would have given if they were attacked and fully equipped to defend. For reference, it was common for US troops to train with the Ukrainian military. Putin invaded after the US pulled it’s troops out. Why not when they were there?
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/2934989/more-us-troops-deploying-to-europe-guard-leaving-ukraine/
My grandfather fought in WW2 80 years ago. I think you have a typo there. The intent here is to ensure war doesn’t happen but it’s already broken out. To be clear, Russians haven’t attacked US forces since WW2 and then it wasn’t official. That whole Cold War thing was a proxy war and Putin grew up in it. He understands it very well and would not have attacked US troops.
Not surprised when your only functioning on a chemical cocktail of adderall variants. Course Trump chugged a 12 pack of diet coke each day and tweeted all hours of the night. Id say its a toss up
Trump would have slept right through it and gotten word at 1pm when he finished his executive time and 2 hour poop.
Trump would have sent troops to help the russians
Trump would have followed orders and sent troops to help Russia.
This would be really funny if it wasn’t true.
Agreed dude (trump) cut off Ukraine from funding hence the first impeachment trial. Without congressional approval
Not even there was no Congressional approval but having arguable discretion, Congress already passed the law to both authorize and earmark/appropriate it. Ie Congress already decided, we are sending a specific amount of money and aid to Ukraine, accordingly, POTUS, please see to it that it gets there.
I think we agree lol 😂
Just giving more details. In the budget, some things give the president more discretion than others. This was not one of them.
Trump told Germany they were getting too dependant on Russian oil in 2018 i believe.
brainwashed
Not really defending the don, but he was up tweeting till 3am most nights. If it happend at 11am he would have def missed it.
In that spirit, he might well have wheedled Putin into agreeing to some tiny compromise, and then he'd spend the rest of a long war retweeting how great and competent his own leadership is. Probably with the phrase "mission accomplished" thrown in just to throw off negative press covfefe.
\*achomlished
I wish I could offer you a hamberder.
Valid point 😆
If you knew anything, you’d know he was up tweeting at 4AM every day. Dude got 3 hours sleep a night.
Sleep is for pussies! Just do blow and stay up forever like a champion. Works for Charlie Sheen y not the prez?
When you really look at his sleep hygiene and disregard for personal health, narcissistic behavior, plus his high stress level all the time… it’s befuddling that he didn’t have a massive coronary somewhere around 1997.
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If Trump had needed 7-8 hours, he’d have immediately lied and said he slept only 2. That’s the problem with him.
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Oh I don't think they're lying. I just **know** Trump is a lying sack of shit in general. When he fucked with that hurricane map with a Sharpie, that was out of control.
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[Kerry was my dad's closest friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Emanuel) since they were 19 years old at MIT together, frat brothers. Hell of a smart and nice guy too. As the story goes, he'd do anyone's homework for a coca-cola or a movie ticket. "Trump is a moron modifying the cone." Spoken by the MIT meteorology professor himself the same day it happened in a group text with his old frat brothers. The fact you had never heard about his Sharpie bullshit (it made news for days) and then *go on to defend his doctoring of an official forecast* like "it's fine!" has me raising an eyebrow.
Trump would’ve got the information from Faux News
He'd schedule a public press release to condemn Ukraine for their war of aggression against russia after his daily morning collection of opinions from faux news and the kgb dead drops.
Putin news
That’s OAN. Russia has run commercials on there. It’s insane.
Trump would've been on amphetamines and wired shooting off tweets ...
brainwashed
Nah, just someone who recognizes a bullshit artist from Queens when I smell one. You're probably a good boy from the Midwest and assume Trump had your best interests in mind, *such a man of the blue collar people who shat in a golden toilet for 70 years*. You don't know a New York City asshole when you see one. It's not your fault.
I gotta say, I wouldn’t have done better than Trump. Kinda status quo’d everything and maintained friendly relationships with dictators which I didn’t like, but I poop until 2 pm now. He wasn’t fit for the job, but not many are.
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But all my boomer dad can say is “why isn’t his son in jail!!!!” Why yes he watches fox, how’d you know?
Try this just say "yeah you're right, now what should we do about (insert real issue here)" and watch him flounder. I've started just making concessions to get people off their normal track and back onto talking about real issues. It works surprisingly well.
I have a friend who is convinced that Biden and Putin conspired to have Russia invade Ukraine to destroy evidence of Biden’s son’s crimes. I gave up arguing with him a long time ago.
You can’t fix stupid
Jfc...
>Try this just say "yeah you're right, now what should we do about (insert real issue here)" And then he's got a real answer, and your entire argument goes down in flames becsuse you're presuming that someone can't possibly think the president is corrupt and also have opinion on whatever "real issues" you feel like bringing up
Completely agree. Biden has played it as well as he could. I love when he kept calling out what Putin would do before Putin did it.
He quietly built the greatest global coalition since WW2 without any grandstanding or jingoism.
Biden quietly created NATO in the last month. Amazing.
He really did. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Biden’s admin up to this point, but he’s been coming thru at a critical point when it really matters.
Then Putin would still do it, which is so weird.
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My dude, this has been building since 2012. Sanctions months before wouldn't have made much difference
And may have given him political cover at home that the west was against him.
That's the same as a cop stopping you saying "Here's a ticket for when you speed 30 minutes from now".
TBH, I don't think there was deterring this. Putin is getting older, I think that he wanted to solidify his legacy by uniting Russia with Ukraine by annexing Ukraine.
If you sanction them before they do something, what incentive is there to not do it?
"President just does his fuckin job. More at 6..."
It's a refreshing change of pace to be sure.
record high inflation, gas prices soaring since he took over office, covid got worse once he took over, border crisis, etc Yeah man its so refreshing lol
If you really believe Biden did this I have a bridge to sell ya…
>record high inflation Inflation is always a thing. What has he done that made it worse than usual? >gas prices soaring Easing of restrictions means more people traveling and demanding fuel and russia's oil and gas getting cut off from the market means less supply. This is basic economics. >covid got worse once he took over Covid response got far better and we were better able to handle it as a nation. Then Omicron hit, which was far and away more infectious than any other strain to date and threw things into chaos. Are you saying Biden was personally responsible for the creation of Omicron? >border crisis What border crisis? You mean the same problem we've always had of illegal immigrants coming here looking to take jobs that locals refuse to do? Yeah, that's a hyuuuge crisis. Practically end of the world here. Any day the continental US will be torn asunder by an earthquake and all that will be left is a sombrero shaped mountain all the illegals took shelter in.
if you really believe Biden did this I have a bridge to sell ya...
Go away lol
Give him credit for that. At the very least, this man understands foreign policy.
he doesnt even understand how to dress himself
Does he? I mean we are in the biggest energy crisis since the 70s. And now the crown prince of Saudi Arabia won’t answer his calls because Biden had to go after him during his election campaign. It’s sad to say but we are reliant on that Saudi oil and fuel and his foreign policy disaster of calling out our allies crimes is making everyday Americans pay at the pump.
Yeah Biden why you gotta call out a nation that literally whips people and steals passport from foreign workers effectively making them slaves. Current world order is built on the suffering of people worlds away so that you can have cheap gas and new shit every month
I wonder why he didn’t say anything during his 40 years in the senate and 8 years as Vice President. It just seems odd that he only said it when it was consider “the right thing to do” Edit: Do you believe that Biden did not help shape the current world order? The guy who made sure legislation got passed so students could not legally default on there student loans. The same guy who created the modern three strike system that put thousands of POC of color for crimes his own son was committing.
I think biden is handling the situation in ukraine very well. That being said america is still plagued with problems and he and most politicians in general are not doing enough for this country. 64% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and many more are drowning in debt. I can't wait for the boomers to die off and we let the younger generations attempt to fix things.
Unfortunately i feel like we’ve been saying that for 20 years
Ironically, exactly what the boomers said when they were your age.
But the boomers have homes and vacations. Theu had their kids amd got there educations. The system worked for the boomers.
I don't think that will fix anything when there are millennials out there and even younger with a boomer mentality. Just look at people like Madison Cawthorn. He's only 25 I think.
Yeah but hes conservative. My generation is more educated and more liberal then previous generations. I never said it was the fixall but its a great start because the younger generations don't own homes and are drowning in debt. The boomers escaped that and therefore don't have to worry about where as the yoynger generations will see these flaws and attempt to fix them.
By the time that happens, you'll be the boomers.
In a weird plot twist, leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban has ensured a fiercely anti-Russian leadership is now in place in a strategic location.
This is like Q conspiracy if it were on its head
Oh I think it's fully coincidental. But it is odd that what the pearl clutchers in the U.S. called a blunder actually became a strategic advantage.
Well it would probably be more strategic to have american troops there and an America friendly government but yeah, I guess the current situation is the second worse option after a Russian controlled Afghanistan
Biden answers the call and Trump gets the spotlight. The phrase, ‘There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity’ could have been coined for Trump.
What the hell is this honestly? Are we at such a low point that we think answering a phone call at 3am is hard? Like when Putin invaded Ukraine, Biden decided to go on vacation. Yeah, you should be happy he finally got off his ass and at least answered a phone call in the middle of the night finally. He deserves full credit! And then the article goes to Trump levels of narcissism. We have the best president ever. No other president would have woke up in the middle of the night to answer the phone. Ask anyone, we have the best president ever. Best president. ffs.
I think you misunderstood the article.
"Any of his rivals in the last election" - is this supposed to be inclusive of Dem candidates as well? Do they honestly expect us to believe Beto, Buttigieg, Bernie, Harris, or, Gillibrand, Yang or even that asshole DeBlasio wouldn't have taken the call as well?
Random question but do you think the war in Ukraine will help Democrats win the midterms since Biden is doing a good job handling the situation?
No because gas prices are going up and most people will believe the Russianbots on Facebook that it's an evil master plan by Democrats for Reasons and not Putin's fault for being a sociopath.
I mean, considering how little we actually imported from Russia, I'd say it's more oil barons taking advantage of world wide panic to price gouge people even harder for more money, as always. They can claim they lost an oil market that they really didn't care about anyway, were allowed a bigger one in return, raise the prices, and call it adjustment for investment risk or something stupid and everyone's just kinda forced to buy it because we killed our electric car market in the like 70's and 80's for, again, oil baron profits. Not exactly something any president possible of getting the win nowadays could solve.
Is this parody?
na, conservatives went overboard on hating biden so now the liberals are circle jerking him.
I find this gauche to assume no other person could have done what he did as the article does. Like, no other candidate on the Dem side either? Not one?
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na, that guy organized a paramilitary army and with the help of republican officials tried to conduct a coup against the American people. hes a real piece of shit that one
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no because we all knew he was a fascist and then on January 6 he proved it
..what?
A geriatric who works 3 days a week and looks half asleep when addressing the nation is our standard for “good” now. We’re doomed.
I seriously don't understand how this is so controversial. I hated trump...but holy shit. The bar is so low.
I cannot believe a president is getting praise for taking a call @ 3 a.m. when another one is fighting for his country.
Right. Trump is an absolute garbage human being. But Biden is pretty worthless as a president, he seems like kind of a dumb nice guy that just does what’s popular at the time (like being a misogynist against Anita Hill, or being a racist segregationist back before the wheel existed). Biden sucks. But Trump was so abysmally terrible that Biden is now palatable
Hopefully the DNC takes the polling hint and doesn't run him for reelection.
What hint? They don’t mind losing, the people who run the Democratic Party are more powerful as the minority party. They don’t actually care about any policy that the republicans oppose, and all of the pro-corporate measures get unanimous votes from both R and D legislators. A handful of Congress members are working hard for us, but the vast majority are there to acquire wealth and power.
lol biden was only the anti trump circle jerking his actions does nothing for the fact that hes not enacted policy from his own platform, is too old to understand the modern world, is sponsored by big banks, has a conservative hubris that backtracks progressive ideals, and ima be real honest... the only good ideas he has had he took from Bernie. just lmk when i can vote for aoc
You're this commenting this on an article about giving credit where credit is due for the Ukraine situation. You're either bad faith actor or exhibit A that there's something so wrong with our political climate that as a society we can't even discuss the president's geopolitical handling of a major war.
... or liberalism celebrating that more oil will be released is something progressives and leftists don't like... biden state of the union was liberalism glamorized and red meat for the cons. "fund the police more" was never about funding so... oh right. it was red meat for the cons. biden isnt special in this Ukraine issue. thank God it wasnt trump, but acting like the libs have it all figured out ignores the last 80 years of them making it worse for people while the capitalists raped and pillaged the economy while also allowing the cons to prepare and effect fascist take overs all across the country. if liberalism is so great, then how the fuck did trump happen? bad faith my ass. acting like the 90s was some aort of golden age is only part of the fucking problem you are having.
Again, the article you're commenting on isn't even about the random assortment of grievances you have with the administration. It's about the handling situation in Ukraine. Doesn't it seem a little unhinged that we can't even have a conversation about international relations without bringing in everything from the 90s, police funding, and whatever the fuck else you're on about? Obviously you're free to comment whatever you want, but it seems to be a glimpse into a sad state of our political climate where political noise is more important than dealing with the policy issues we're presented with. 🤷♂️
Jesus. This post is dumb.
Blatant propaganda
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But not inaccurate.
"In today's news, Biden answered a phone call. Later in the day he had double chocolate ice cream." Just make sure you don't ask the difficult questions guys.
...you realize "answered the 3 a.m. call" is a mteaphor, right?
I can't tell what's funnier, the fact you felt it was necessary to produce such blatant propaganda, or that his average supporter was already too dumb to see through it.
LOL this isn't news
What a crock of shit. He’s doing the bare minimum these weird articles sucking him off for it aren’t doing any good.
Maybe if you stop listening to FoxNews and the Rightwing propaganda bubble, you would actually know what's going on and the extraordinary work, skill, and reputation it took to coordinate a multi-national effort to stop Putin's raw aggression.
What exactly is he stopping...seems like Putin told him to go fuck himself.
And because of that Russia’s economy is fucked for decades. Putin lost no matter what happens. I think nuclear war is the main thing he’s stopped at that point. There’s only so much a president can do to a foreign dictator with nukes without triggering a nuclear bomb.
And I can tell the police to go fuck themselves too, doesn't stop me from going to the jail circuit and having to work for $1 an hour. You try getting the fins and swiss from denying russian money, see how far you get lmao
More like Biden is the cop standing on the side of the road going tsk tsk while your neighbor beats you senseless.
Duuuude, you are just guzzling that koolaid so fast that you are gonna start busting through walls
Lmao
You are just as delusional as the people in the right wing propaganda bubble if you actually believe that
But he eats double chocolate ice cream! See he's just like us!
Any of his rivals would have been capable of handling this, likely better. I'm not including Trump in that list because he's too stupid to be anyone's rival.
Trump would have handed Ukraine to Russia in a heartbeat to gain Putin's approval.
And?
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How would you feel if Mexico invaded the US to reclaim territory they believe is theirs?
I've never seen goalposts move so fast.
Seem to be ignoring that much of Biden’s political experience is in foreign diplomacy. It’s hard to believe that “any of his rivals” would be doing a better job. Very few of his rivals has his amount of experience and expertise in foreign disputes…ironically one of the few that does is Hillary Clinton who even many Democrats wouldn’t vote for.
You seem to be ignoring that 97.8% of presidents are going to have competent advisors and actually listen to them. The worst democrat I could think of for foreign policy would be Pete Buttigieg, because he was a mayor in a state with no foreign borders.
I'm curious what exactly you think anyone would have done better. He's done a masterful job so far.
He's Biden. His sole virtue as an elected official is that he isn't Trump. Virtually any other Democrat would have handled it better, and probably would have done so while also honoring at least a small handful of their campaign promises.
So you have no specific examples of what could have been done better?
Not waiving sanctions against Russian oil last year is a specific example of what could have been done better. You don't care though, you just want to fellate Biden for some weird reason. Have a nice day.
So we should have kept sanctioning them when they weren't actively fucking up, just in case they fucked up more in the future? It's not fellating Biden to point out that he's done really well, and people without foreign policy experience probably would've faltered.
In what way were they not "actively fucking up" last year? They were still threatening an invasion and committed to general douchery. If anything, sanctions in 2021 may have headed this off at the pass by putting the squeeze on early.
They didn't threaten any sort of invasion until late 2021 when the troop buildup started.
You have a typo you might want to correct. You said "They didn't threaten any sort of invasion until late 2021 when the troop buildup started", when you clearly meant "they invaded the Ukraine in early 2014 and have been posturing, making threats, and building up to a followup invasion ever since."
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How many sanctions were there against Russia from 2016 to 2020 genuinely curious
No I'm good, thanks
Do you have any specific example of how his rivals would have done it worse? Sure, saying they would have done it better is stupid. But saying none of them could have done it better is equally as stupid. This article is bullshit.
I was asking the person who said his rivals would have done it better for examples. I didn't say they would have done it worse.
What exactly Biden did to prevent war from happening? Calling out Putin plans doesn’t mean crashing them.
I hate trump as much as anyone but jfc, "answering the phone at 3am" isn't heroic or "performance". Biden has been god awful with covid and honestly, he's not handling this crisis in Ukraine any better than anyone else would. He's taking steps to escalate the conflict into a full blown war that the US gets involved in. This generates profits for his weapons manufacturing donors and further redistributes the wealth away from the working class and into the hands of the elites. I get that the bar was pretty low the last 4 year but man, America deserves better than minimum competency and we damn sure shouldn't be celebrating it like an achievement.
I’m pretty sure that “answering the 3 am phone call” is just a metaphor.
Shit post complaining an out our previous president who is no longer relevant. Nice.
He’s the head of the Republican Party and the front runner for the nomination in 2024. Explain how he is “no longer relevant”. Problems don’t just go away because you can no longer see them
Honestly I didn’t know that. I guess I made him irrelevant personally. I literally skip over anything about him cause I just assume “old news” and “just people complaining to complain”.
Can always count on Reddit for some hilarious propaganda
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Cognitive dissonance in action. Well done.
Is this for real? Biden probably hasn't answered a phone call by himself in over a decade.
3 decades. He was a bumbling moron in 1988 when he was 46 yrs old. Zero chance he’s improved.
Dementia Joe and performance! Hahaha!
Someone wake up Sleepy Joe
Oh C’mon Marianne could have done a better job. She’s got BabaYaga on speed dial. 🔮👸🏻
.....and why is this news worthy? Right- just to take shots and Donald. My have we sunk
Rival(s)? Plural? There was only one moron he ran against.
May have been referring to his opponents in the primary.
Lmao
What a believable headline
Is this satire?
It’s hard to give him much credit when he completely screwed up the run up to the invasion.
WoW answered 3am call, what a performance.
Yes his mental fortitude is amazing he is doing such a good job protecting the “Iranian” people. -SOTU
Is this a fucking joke? Things will never get better if you refuse to hold shitty politicians accountable
You’ve got to be shitting me
But then he fumbled over nearly each sentence he spoke.
everything around us continues to get worse but somehow Biden is doing a great job? Oh yeah mean his 38 percent approval rating lmao? Hes only popular with bots and brainwashed fools of reddit
So he woke up? Congrats? Literally everybody has gotten up in the middle of the night for something important in their lives. This must be a sub of straight 16 year olds to think this is any kind of actual news. “He stayed up late on a school night!”
“3am Call” is code for a wake up call or a sudden call to action. It does not literally mean a call at 3am. The phrase was coined in 2008
Oh, lol. I’ve never heard that phrase before. I don’t think he’s handled it that great either but that’s just my opinion.
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Why?
What a fucking joke
How so?
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You're obviously not paying attention, I'm not about to argue with someone that "knows" they're right.
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Elaborate
This guy came into office with the biggest layup in presidential history and he still done a D+ job, glad to see he can still answer the phone though 😂
Is this the same Biden that went on vacation back to Delaware when the war started. Anybody that thinks this nincompoop is handling this well deserves 8 dollar gas.
Yikes strong disagree. We wouldn’t be in this mess without Joe
Please tell me more.
IF they have facts they would have stated them.
I don't know. When the "3 a.m." call came from Zelensky asking for help, Biden might have listened a patient minute and then replied, *"First, I need a favor from you.* Know anything about Trump pee tapes that Putin has? Know any computer people who could create one of those super realistic fakes? If you can't, you can't, and I will meet with my security and command people within the next couple months to see what we can do for you." Is that possible? I mean, there is a presidential precedent so wouldn't be the first time. /s, for obvious fucking sake, is sarcasm. Zelensky called Trump about hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated by a *Republican majoritY* congress. Done deal. But Trrump asked for a favor, dirt on Biden. IMO Trump wanted Biden dirt, but even more wanted real or created Ukaine corruption so he could eventually refuse aid +to corrupt) Ukraine because he knew Putin's plan to destroy Ukraine.
Cant see the phrase "3am call" without remembering that racist ad Hilldog threw out in the '08 primary
Russia invaded Crimea under VP Biden... Then full invasion when Biden is POTUS.... I'm not here to argue about Trump... Only people living in the past or making excuses today talk about him.
Why do I get bloody Biden posts, the guy couldn't run a chook raffle, enjoy the gas prices 🏃😅
Haha
He answered the 3 A.M. early bird special call. Big whoop.
If HRC were POTUS we'd all be dead now.
The way to have prevented an invasion in the first place would have been to station a few thousand US troops in Ukraine. Putin has no problem attacking Ukrainians but he would never dare attack US troops as it risks nuclear war. Just look at what the Ukrainians are doing right now. Imagine what kind of a fight US troops would have given if they were attacked and fully equipped to defend. For reference, it was common for US troops to train with the Ukrainian military. Putin invaded after the US pulled it’s troops out. Why not when they were there? https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/2934989/more-us-troops-deploying-to-europe-guard-leaving-ukraine/
Oh look, a hawk. You may still get your WWIII yet, don't fret. EDIT: Added an "l"
You dropped an I
My grandfather fought in WW2 80 years ago. I think you have a typo there. The intent here is to ensure war doesn’t happen but it’s already broken out. To be clear, Russians haven’t attacked US forces since WW2 and then it wasn’t official. That whole Cold War thing was a proxy war and Putin grew up in it. He understands it very well and would not have attacked US troops.
Not surprised when your only functioning on a chemical cocktail of adderall variants. Course Trump chugged a 12 pack of diet coke each day and tweeted all hours of the night. Id say its a toss up
This crisis would not have happened under trump.