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Its an easy thing to say If I was president i could do better. I feel more sorry for Bush now cause he least seemed to care about people
people forget any sitting president can do and achieve whatever congress and senate help for hinder that person to
Originally Posted by doubledenim
Ned, this is America. We don't listen to anyone and we're all gonna die with our guns in hand.
Well, this has been a particularly nasty and angry election cycle -- worse than 2016, if you ask me. The lines are so ridiculously CLEARLY delineated that the Democrats are pulling out all stops. Frankly, I suspect anything Trump would have done (stricter or more lenient) would have drawn their ire.
I'm no Trump fan, but it's clear that some of this horribly negative backlash (with language that makes it sound as if Trump himself invented the virus and is responsible for the entire WORLD'S response to it) is because, even after an impeachment process, his approval ratings were really solid.
Go figure.
Frankly, I suspect if anything is the undoing of our nation, it'll be the unbridled, unfiltered, unverified crap that roams social media 24/7. I make concerted efforts to AVOID such confrontations... and I'm still bombarded with them daily.
I'm no Trump fan, but it's clear that some of this horribly negative backlash (with language that makes it sound as if Trump himself invented the virus and is responsible for the entire WORLD'S response to it) is because, even after an impeachment process, his approval ratings were really solid.
Go figure.
Frankly, I suspect if anything is the undoing of our nation, it'll be the unbridled, unfiltered, unverified crap that roams social media 24/7. I make concerted efforts to AVOID such confrontations... and I'm still bombarded with them daily.
Also, if we assume the response was slow and late here (which seems to be the case), that doesn't figure to be obviously true for another week or two at least, so not only is the jump tepid compared to what you might expect, but I think it hasn't really been tested yet by any of the expected ramifications of all those early decisions.
Originally Posted by Yoda
I think the approval rating for the President basically always goes up in times of crisis. The fact it's only going up a little is pretty telling, since it usually goes up a lot in difficult circumstances.