Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Yep, and I don't know how it can be cured. It seems the dynamic is, GOP pushes the envelope of what it can get away with, Democrats undo the damage. GOP politicians are in lockstep, Democrats the proverbial 'herd of cats.'

Maybe dropping Biden for Harris and forcing the Democratic machine to get behind Harris is the best thing, that and beating CFTrump. Enough compromise and appeasement, CFTrump preys on that.

It would would raise questions about Biden's first term if he did, at what point shouldnt he have had access to the "nuclear codes" for example, then there are personal financial and legal reasons, Biden is too old for the speaker circuit ;-) , any Dem Billionaires got 1/2 a billion to "invest" in a hunter scheme? lol

Agree with what your saying there and I will add a piece to it. Not only do the Republicans push things as far as they can get away with but then when Democrats get back in while they put the brakes on things and maybe roll a few things back they never roll it all the way back and so when the cycle starts again it starts from a worse point then previously until you get to where we are today where the Republicans now are an authoritarian party and what passes for democracy in the US is on life support.

Those dictators are on the march under Biden.

I think Trump handled Kim perfectly. He developed thermonuclear weapons so he went over and said hi like he should have. Biden would have postured from American soil and made matters worse because his politics and those of his followers would never allow a meeting that "legitimised" North Korea. You probably see what he did as bad and sucking up to dictators, I see it as realpolitik and afterwards, things quietened down.

Putin invaded before and after Trump, under Democrats. This is the most obvious statement of fact but disregarded entirely and allegations that Trump would let Putin run all over Europe are just thrown out willy nilly even though it didn't happen in the four years he was president. "Oh but Trump recognised Crimea"

Israel? "But trump would have done worse because he said to get the job done faster" even though that literally means peace faster and the full quotes show that's exactly what he meant. Biden is still supplying them with arms and he threatened the ICC for investigating war crimes. "Oh but Trump moved an embassy"

Afghanistan? A disaster thanks to bad short-term planning, but blamed on Trump. Few actually disagree with Trump's policy of getting out of there, they just hate how it was done. But yeah, Trump blamed even though the generals in charge blame the White House for it.

There is simply no way in 2016 that I could lay out the mess that is geopolitics right now and you say "That all happened under a Democrat", and then list out what happened under Trump and say that it all happened under him. Practically everything shlt internationally in the last eight years has been under Biden and I find it is absolutely remarkable that you will respond to this saying it was all Trump's fault.

My biggest issue, and why I argue about American politics, is because the Democrats think they can do whatever the fuk they want and their supporters are like Yeah A OK just because Trump is in the background and can be blamed for everything. It pisses me off because I do not identify with any Republican ideals and all I see is the Democrats fuking everything up, either in the run for a presidency or when president. I think it was you who argued you would never play "two sides" by disagreeing with anything the Democrats do and that is a serious issue in American politics in my mind.

I don't believe that the US would be isolationist as a rule under a Trump government. What's being mistaken as isolationism is really just a redesign of the US's strategic global vision. One aspect of that would be no more interest in defending liberal democracy in Europe. This is not a civic that Trump is interested in promoting or protecting. That's also why he boils the NATO arrangement down to a simple monetary transaction. There's nothing else in it for him, and I suspect that were every member to meet their target of 2 percent GDP or whatever it is, Trump would simply double the figure and continue the criticism anyway.

But while MAGA might not want to protect Europe, if Trump were to suggest a redeployment of US military assets to, say, the northern provinces of Mexico in order to stop the flow of drugs and migrants, you can believe they'd be all over that. 'Gung-ho' wouldn't be the word.

That's what I just can't understand. Why is there no plan? These people are all well educated, they could foresee Biden becoming sick (or worse). I can't believe they didn't have a plan B in drawer.

The mad fucker might actually not drop out…….

'Oh no, the Dem's are to blame because they said Trump would do something, and he did it'.

Do you see how ridiculous that sounds?

Jesus personally deflected the path of the bullet, Trump isn't going anywhere…he is the chosen one

And, lest we forget, published photos of the Marine who carried the football, at an event a Mar-a-Lardo, putting that lad at some (minimal, admittedly) risk.

what’s the reason ?

Conspiracy don't you know.

While I don’t agree with all of what you’ve said, I agree with the key sentiment that using Trump as a scapegoat for the ills you’ve outlined either in America or around the world is ill informed at best.

American presidents actually have less power than people think - for me the most important thing they do is influence positively or negatively the general mood of the nation and also the world stage. Ignoring dictators is probably the worst thing you can do - speaking to them opens up channels of communication and over time more likely than not reduces the chances of threat. It also shows that you’re not afraid of them. It’s definitely something worth trying .

If Trump does get in it will be interesting to see just how he manages Putin/Ukraine - there’s going to have to be compromise on both sides if we’re to see an end to it - I don’t like that idea personally but I’m a realist - Ukraine is falling very slowly, house by house street by street. Into Russias hands- it’s slow and painful to watch but give it enough time it will happen- only so many Ukrainian soldiers left to fight- only so many requests for more military aid left to grant - it needs a strong hand to guide it to a conclusion now

Have a look at the video and get back to me.

You're assuming there that Putin would be more than happy to keep what he has stolen from Ukraine and that would be the end of his imperial ambitions. But almost everyone in the former Soviet Bloc thinks he is far from finished with the land grabs - listen to what the likes of the Baltic states, Poland, Moldova, Georgia, Kazakhstan etc have to say about Putin. He would invade all of them at 9am tomorrow morning if he thought he could get away with it.