Biden sees highest approval rating since November

Man, is it something about kblin that makes people think everything is a conspiracy? These comments are something else, It's such a benign post lol

Keep posting, jeffw, someone has to keep news feeds going one way or another. I appreciate it at least!

I don't know what it is about kbin, but it seems to attract really shitty people
- People are joining federated Reddit alternatives because of the sorry state Reddit is in, so most users here are ex-Redditors (myself included, but I quit Reddit a long time before Lemmy launched). Anyone familiar with Reddit knows that the userbase is politically diverse, and that there are plenty of unhinged shitheads.
  Lemmy's core developers are openly Communist, and run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. I may not be on the same page politically with them but I'm not dropping my support for the platform over it. If anything, I like the idea of Communism as a philosophy for running an Internet community moreso than I would for governing a nation. Though there are plenty of people who consider Communist ideas of any kind to be a dealbreaker and join Kbin and Mbin instances as a result.
  Anti-communists do tend to trend towards reactionary politics, so you end up seeing that kind of thing a lot more from non-Lemmy instances. Similarly to how conservative-leaning users choose Pleroma et al over Mastodon, since antifascism is a core philosophy of Mastodon's mission (being a German nonprofit and all).
  Though the far-left users on Lemmy do also tend to adopt a reactionary anti-Biden stance, but definitely not for the same reasons.
- That hasn’t been my experience /shrug
I’d also like to thank @jeffw@lemmy.world for posting news from a really well rounded combination of sources. I’d also like to plug !ImproveTheNews@fedinews.net, the articles are a synthesis of other articles from various biased sources, with the slant of each source described and a brief summation of the narrative they are pushing. It’s a really interesting and informative way to do non-biased news imo.
- Thanks! Idk how well rounded my sources are though lol, I mostly pull from stuff I’d describe as centrist to moderately left
- Jeez what a fuckin Jeffw shill/s lol

53% disapprove, 43% approve

Doesn't seem like cause to celebrate...

I don't care if people like Biden. They just need to vote for him over the alternative.
Besides, a lot of the country has already decided they're going to hate him regardless.
- I don't like Biden. I disapprove of his job performance. And I will desperately support his candidacy for president. He must win.
- Oh I hated him since the 1990s when he wrote the crime bill. Hated him in 2020, and hated Hillary in 2016. I still voted for both of them. Voted for Gore in 2000, despite not liking him. I actually liked Obama in 2008, not so much in 2012
  I would absolutely shoot Trump, and his entire family tree in the head, if I thought for a second that I could get away with it. That scam artist wouldn't have gotten my vote in 2004 when he thought about running as a Democrat, he sure as fuck isn't getting my vote now that he's gone mask off Republican.
- I don’t care if people like Biden. They just need to vote for him
  That's simply not how elections work. If people hate you, and they hate the other guy, they just stay home.
  That's how Gore lost in 2000 (plus a touch of GOP vote rigging and Brooks Brothers Rioting). He just parroted all the conservative lines about balanced budgets and business growth. Half the country simply slept through November rather than vote for him or Bush. Even a big chunk of disaffected Republicans joining the Green/Libertarian vote couldn't save Gore from his own mealy mouthed centrism.
  Biden is Clinton/Gore Centrism on fucking steroids. He's going to tank his own base of support while Trump wipes MAGA shitheads up into an even bigger lather than the last time he was on the ballot.
- Telling people who they should vote for is very democratic of you
- The dipshit who has orchestrated WWIII in 3 years is more of a liability than orange reality TV man who thinks he is Hitler.
  One is actually doing the thing.
  The other thinks he can, but cant.
I should note that Obama had a sub-50 approval rating in 2012 when he beat Mitt Romney. But Romney also wasn't pulling in record-breaking primary vote totals or seeing huge groundswells of MAGA-tier support.
Biden coasted to victory in 2020 thanks to a pandemic everybody hated and four years of Trump fresh in their minds. I don't think he has those advantages anymore.
- Biden coasted to victory in 2020
  What?
  Are you talking about popular vote? That sadly doesn't matter.
  Biden won a handful of states by razor thin margins, which got him the presidency. And it took his campaign spending a literal billion dollars to accomplish that
  https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/2020-election-trump-biden-closest-states/index.html
  And he's less popular now... Not just nationwide, but in state polling for those states.
  We don't live in a direct democracy, so you have to look kinda close to see what's happening.
- To be fair, the only state he broke primary vote total records in this year was New Hampshire (pop. 1.4m).
  He's breaking his own records from 2016, but the conditions of the 2016 primary and the 2024 primary are pretty different, given that there was never any real competition against him this year, mostly just a clown show.

Keep posting, you doing good!

Is the record correct yet?

I saw somebody accuse jeffw of being an Israeli shill the other day, but I just don't see it. His post history just seems like a pretty normal human rights activist to me.

Man: takes a shit

Another man: about to shit

Man: apologies for the smell

Other man: I don't smell anything

"Man receives highest shit approval rating"

Holy shit that website is cancer. Cant read shit without popups and ads

It's all the propagandists with their anti-Trump rhetoric.

I won't be voting for Biden this year, that's for sure.

Same, but only because I am not in the USA. I hope they don elect Trump because that will fuck everything up even more. The world had 4 years of a Trump USA and it was magnitudes worse than Biden's USA.
It's amazing to me how quickly a perfectly rational, considerate, and pleasant person on LW turns into a rabid drooling freakout "REEEE" savage as soon as someone says they're not voting for Biden. I'm not voting for Biden or Trump, but going with a third party candidate as Biden's not pushing enough on things I feel passionately for (socialized medicine, workweek reform, stronger labor union reforms, etc).
"OH SO YOU FUCKING LIKE GENOCIDE AND FASCISM HUH!?"
No, I simply do not like Biden. It's not "with us or against us", fucking psychopaths.
- 'LW'?

Horse. Shit.

I rarely delete posts? It’s possible mods deleted whatever post you’re referencing, but they usually do that because it’s an accidental repost that I didn’t catch (I check before posting). There was one other deletion on this community lately that was for content but it wasn’t Israel related.
One time recently I deleted a post after agreeing with a commenter who informed me about an author’s history/bias. But that wasn’t about Israel either. Really not sure what you’d be referring to
- Cool, so this post will stay.
  Would be really cool if you didn't delete what you post.
pro genocide propaganda
Yeah, sure
- Mindless "Must vote for him because TrUmP" = Pro Genocide Propaganda.
And you have a long history of being a one note troll. You'd think you would take the hint that you have nothing of value to say when 90% of your comments are downvoted.
- Thanks for the heads up. One more for the block list.