My mistake. Sometimes I don't read too good
But just to be clear, you think going Paris climate accords and and paying off separated immigrant families and tweeting nice things offsets the disasters of the mandates, the woke appointees, the targeting of parents from the FBI, the insane inflation, the disastrous Afghan withdrawal, and dozens of other disasters?
Gonna have to take some of this point by point.
There’s roughly half of the country that agree in at least small part with the mandates. I’m not personally one of them, though I am neutral on it.
The woke appointees are not something that I think are a negative. As I mentioned several months ago, Trump also “virtue signaled” with his appointees, just with different virtues. I don’t believe that his cabinet members are any less qualified than previous cabinet members. Even if as an example he specifically chose to appoint a Transgender cabinet member, it’s not like he just threw anybody into the post. Levine was the Health Secretary of PA prior to her appointment as Deputy Health Secretary, which is a perfectly acceptable resume for the job. Just because someone is diverse or holds a specific view that aligns politically with Biden, it doesn’t mean they are unqualified for the role.
The targeting of parents from the FBI is a bit of an oversimplification right now. If more evidence comes out that shows the FBI was actively tracking parents just for protesting or disagreeing with the school board, I’ll agree with it being a big issue. It really wouldn’t be unique for the FBI to do such a thing, but I’d agree it shouldn’t happen. If they were targeting people who made threats of violence against school board members, it’s a bit of a different story. From what I’ve read, the jury is still out on that. I’ll never doubt law enforcement’s ability to do ****ty things, so I’m willing to accept it’s possible there was some overreach, though.
Insane inflation is certainly a problem, but it’s unclear how much Biden’s policies are impacting it. From a supply side perspective, it’d be unfair to pin this primarily on Biden, as supply has plummeted in many industries that have both domestic and international causes. Believe it or not, COVID restrictions are not unique to the United States, and blaming Biden for global supply chain issues with seeds planted in April of 2020 might not be correct. There are possibly some steps Biden could take to help, but these have their own unintended consequences.
The Afghan withdrawal was pretty bad. I don’t think it was the earth shattering tragedy it was made out to be, but I’ve been vocal in my distaste for how it was executed.
As for your facetious positives, I think the family separation policy and its implementation have been disgusting and have no major concerns with compensating them in theory. However, this proposal was not being discussed out of some sort of moral obligation, but rather in response to pending court actions. Viewed through this lens, it was more of an attempt at a pragmatic solution to mitigate potential costs.
I don’t care what President Biden tweets. I didn’t even *really* care what Trump tweeted aside from it being an embarrassment, but it’s not a return to civility that puts food on the table.