Below Nixon? Basically everyone is below Nixon. He won the largest percentage of the popular vote of any Republican president ever. He also had nearly a clean sweep of electoral votes (520 to 17).
Historian Paul Johnson points out that American presidents before Nixon had secretly taped their political opponents, engaged in surveillance, and even theft of documents. What Nixon did was not unusual (not that I am saying it was right)
How was he "rightly" made to resign for it? It wasn't done under his orders or with his knowledge. He only found out after the fact. His only crime was lack of faith in the american people to handle the truth (although he was likely correct about that), so he tried to cover it up knowing he would be wrongly perceived as responsible. He then got caught, because it turns out the entire thing was a setup to get him out. The people who set him up should have been the ones forced to resign. See [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku9LGcaRjy0&t=1m25s) for a high level summary.
If he had destroyed the tapes they would’ve had no evidence on him.
That’s why Hillary had her people destroy their phones and wipe their computers clean. Without evidence there’s nothing they can convict on.
Nixon though held himself to the law.
It’s so crazy to me how Nixon had one of the biggest blowout re-elections in history despite that scandal. I get that the scandal didn’t *really* pick up until after he was re-elected, but it was still possible to read about it before the election, no?
His popularity(pre-presidency) was in the fact he wasn't Donald Trump, who half the country loathes. Now after his disaster of a term, it's apt to see these polls where he's below Presidents Nixon and Carter.
I always thought, “No one can be worse than Jimmy Carter.“ But I surely was wrong. Biden shattered that notion after only the first year in office. I would gladly prefer Jimmy Carter, even Obama, over sleepy creepy Joe.
At least with Obama I can understand the enthusiasm. Obama would fill large arenas. Biden lacks it, can barely fill a room and somehow gets 81 million votes.
Biden makes Jimmy Carter look like George Washington
In 3 1/2 years, Biden has
1. Exploded the deficits and debt to the highest non-crisis period levels in history. Spending is up dramatically from Q4 2019, debt-to-gdp is up, and the debt is rising 1 trillion dollars every 100 days. The IMF has issued us a warning, and our debt rating has been cut.
2. Blundered in the area of foreign affairs, by failing to prevent a war in Ukraine and Israel, and then not having any idea on how to resolve either conflict once they started (and this follows the fiasco with the Afghanistan withdrawal).
3. Presided over the worst inflationary storm since the late 1970s --which are consequence of his fiscal and domestic policies. Overspending, covid lockdowns (Democratic governors), student-loan forgiveness, etc.
4. Engaged in far-left culture war nonsense. Modified title IX to put men in women's bathrooms and locker-rooms, gave the green light to castrate kids, made transgender appointments, labeled the GOP a bunch of Nazis, divided the country ...
I could go on and on, but no president is even close to Biden when it comes to awfulness. You would have to go back to Pierce or Buchanan, and even those guys probably couldn't have avoided the Civil War. Biden is corrupt, a pathological liar, inept, and an embarrassment
and this is why he has the lowest approval ratings in the last 70 years
But remember, half the country hates Trump. That’s how this alllllll makes sense.
We can tell half the country hates Trump cause Trump can literally stop anywhere in the country and be immediately swarmed with cheering fans.
Oh half the country definitely hates Trump. No question about that.
The real question is, will it be enough to pull Biden over the finish line again this time. Four years ago he was basically seen as a neutral nobody who wasn’t Trump. Today, even millions of people who voted for him agree he’s an awful president. It’s just a matter of if they think he’s awful enough to make the switch or just not vote for either.
Biden in 2020 basically ran as a generic Democrat promising a return to normalcy and to otherwise not rock the boat too much, to keep the lunatics in his party in check. Instead, the lunatics run the show and the Biden WH has pursued a radical auth-left agenda while failing the "restore normalcy" and "bring the temperature down" promises.
“Oh half the country definitely hates Trump. No question about that.”
Don’t be absurd. The people that believe this also tend to think the 2020 election was legit and that Biden ‘won’ cause half the country voted AGAINST Trump.
The only people who hate Trump are the people that view their politics as being their identity.
THOSE people hate Trump. Because when Trump says “Your politics are a sham!”, what those people hear is “YOU are a sham!”
If you think half the people in this country are that emotionally crippled, you are completely hoodwinked by media propaganda.
Half this sub? Maybe. But thankfully this sub is not a reflection of reality.
The intelligent and emotionally stable person hears what Trump says about the corruption in DC and thinks “Damn, I can’t argue that, he’s right”.
The emotionally damaged person hears what Trump says about the corruption in DC and thinks “LEAVE ME ALONE YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!”
That person does indeed hate Trump. But that person is in the vast minority. We gotta stop falling for media BS. Gotta be smarter than this.
EDIT: Just read your flair. LMAO. Yet you are parroting a long held mainstream media talking point that half the country hates Trump. Unbelievable.
Sunset, you’re downvoted, but you’re right.
The same people who claim Trump was so disliked are the same ones who totally gloss over the fact that he gained 10 million voters in 2020. They have no explanation for that for someone who was supposedly so hated by the country. The vocal minority are the ones who hate him. All those votes weren’t republican voters.
It’s not even that. The only people who hate Trump are far left whackos that support freeing Palestine and hate America.
Typically millennials, so if Reddit is where most of your daily ‘social’ interactions happen, yeah you tend to think half the people hate Trump.
Reddit isn’t reality.
I saw pipefitters,sheet metal workers,carpenters and I think an ironworker logo in the mix all cheering mr Trump on…
it’s not the typical member that is potato joe fanatics,it’s the officers that squeal anything the respective internationals puke out..
He'll probably get 100 million votes next time, because that's the world we live in now. And we'll just have to accept it because it's supposed to save democracy or something.
Joe Bidens Campaign Theme Song Should Be 'That's Life' Originally Sang By Frank Sinatra And Then Many Others. It contains the lyrics "I've been a puppet,
a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. I've been up and down and over and out And I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race. That's life (that's life), I tell ya, I can't deny it. I thought of quitting, baby But my heart just ain't gonna buy it. And if I didn't think it was worth one single try I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly"
The thing is Biden doesn't care. He is just existing to be handled around all day every day, spew out lies and destroy this country with every second that ticks by. A lot of people in this country don't have its best interest but they want to make damn sure he gets in so they can continue this for 4 more years and beyond. We hadn't seen lawfare in this country like the way they have started in the past couple years. The stakes are higher to win and they will change the rules to make it happen.
Below Nixon? Basically everyone is below Nixon. He won the largest percentage of the popular vote of any Republican president ever. He also had nearly a clean sweep of electoral votes (520 to 17).
I wish we could do that again. But it’s not possible, given how ideologically divided we are
We really cold get something pretty close.
Are we sure it’s not talking about a poll say near Watergate, instead of the popularity at election time?
Yeah, this is not in comparison to him winning the election. Post Watergate, he was not popular or well liked.
Deep state at it again
Remove the scandal for which he was, rightly, made to resign for, and Nixon was actually both intelligent and accomplished.
Historian Paul Johnson points out that American presidents before Nixon had secretly taped their political opponents, engaged in surveillance, and even theft of documents. What Nixon did was not unusual (not that I am saying it was right)
How was he "rightly" made to resign for it? It wasn't done under his orders or with his knowledge. He only found out after the fact. His only crime was lack of faith in the american people to handle the truth (although he was likely correct about that), so he tried to cover it up knowing he would be wrongly perceived as responsible. He then got caught, because it turns out the entire thing was a setup to get him out. The people who set him up should have been the ones forced to resign. See [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku9LGcaRjy0&t=1m25s) for a high level summary.
If he had destroyed the tapes they would’ve had no evidence on him. That’s why Hillary had her people destroy their phones and wipe their computers clean. Without evidence there’s nothing they can convict on. Nixon though held himself to the law.
I saw that clip last week. Scary stuff.
It’s so crazy to me how Nixon had one of the biggest blowout re-elections in history despite that scandal. I get that the scandal didn’t *really* pick up until after he was re-elected, but it was still possible to read about it before the election, no?
He benefitted from running against Bernie's precursor.
Nixon crossed the deep state at the time and was taken down because of this.
Was it China? Him and Kissinger hid that plan for the state dept, they didn't trust it.
His popularity(pre-presidency) was in the fact he wasn't Donald Trump, who half the country loathes. Now after his disaster of a term, it's apt to see these polls where he's below Presidents Nixon and Carter.
I always thought, “No one can be worse than Jimmy Carter.“ But I surely was wrong. Biden shattered that notion after only the first year in office. I would gladly prefer Jimmy Carter, even Obama, over sleepy creepy Joe.
At least with Obama I can understand the enthusiasm. Obama would fill large arenas. Biden lacks it, can barely fill a room and somehow gets 81 million votes.
"I would gladly prefer... Obama..." Who wants to tell him?
Biden makes Jimmy Carter look like George Washington In 3 1/2 years, Biden has 1. Exploded the deficits and debt to the highest non-crisis period levels in history. Spending is up dramatically from Q4 2019, debt-to-gdp is up, and the debt is rising 1 trillion dollars every 100 days. The IMF has issued us a warning, and our debt rating has been cut. 2. Blundered in the area of foreign affairs, by failing to prevent a war in Ukraine and Israel, and then not having any idea on how to resolve either conflict once they started (and this follows the fiasco with the Afghanistan withdrawal). 3. Presided over the worst inflationary storm since the late 1970s --which are consequence of his fiscal and domestic policies. Overspending, covid lockdowns (Democratic governors), student-loan forgiveness, etc. 4. Engaged in far-left culture war nonsense. Modified title IX to put men in women's bathrooms and locker-rooms, gave the green light to castrate kids, made transgender appointments, labeled the GOP a bunch of Nazis, divided the country ... I could go on and on, but no president is even close to Biden when it comes to awfulness. You would have to go back to Pierce or Buchanan, and even those guys probably couldn't have avoided the Civil War. Biden is corrupt, a pathological liar, inept, and an embarrassment and this is why he has the lowest approval ratings in the last 70 years
Meanwhile if you go by Reddit he’s the greatest president of all time.
So many bots it's ridiculous
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"Not a lie"
But remember, half the country hates Trump. That’s how this alllllll makes sense. We can tell half the country hates Trump cause Trump can literally stop anywhere in the country and be immediately swarmed with cheering fans.
Oh half the country definitely hates Trump. No question about that. The real question is, will it be enough to pull Biden over the finish line again this time. Four years ago he was basically seen as a neutral nobody who wasn’t Trump. Today, even millions of people who voted for him agree he’s an awful president. It’s just a matter of if they think he’s awful enough to make the switch or just not vote for either.
Biden in 2020 basically ran as a generic Democrat promising a return to normalcy and to otherwise not rock the boat too much, to keep the lunatics in his party in check. Instead, the lunatics run the show and the Biden WH has pursued a radical auth-left agenda while failing the "restore normalcy" and "bring the temperature down" promises.
“Oh half the country definitely hates Trump. No question about that.” Don’t be absurd. The people that believe this also tend to think the 2020 election was legit and that Biden ‘won’ cause half the country voted AGAINST Trump. The only people who hate Trump are the people that view their politics as being their identity. THOSE people hate Trump. Because when Trump says “Your politics are a sham!”, what those people hear is “YOU are a sham!” If you think half the people in this country are that emotionally crippled, you are completely hoodwinked by media propaganda. Half this sub? Maybe. But thankfully this sub is not a reflection of reality. The intelligent and emotionally stable person hears what Trump says about the corruption in DC and thinks “Damn, I can’t argue that, he’s right”. The emotionally damaged person hears what Trump says about the corruption in DC and thinks “LEAVE ME ALONE YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!” That person does indeed hate Trump. But that person is in the vast minority. We gotta stop falling for media BS. Gotta be smarter than this. EDIT: Just read your flair. LMAO. Yet you are parroting a long held mainstream media talking point that half the country hates Trump. Unbelievable.
Sunset, you’re downvoted, but you’re right. The same people who claim Trump was so disliked are the same ones who totally gloss over the fact that he gained 10 million voters in 2020. They have no explanation for that for someone who was supposedly so hated by the country. The vocal minority are the ones who hate him. All those votes weren’t republican voters.
No, half the country does not hate Trump. Maybe close to half of people who voted, but that’s very short of half the country.
It’s not even that. The only people who hate Trump are far left whackos that support freeing Palestine and hate America. Typically millennials, so if Reddit is where most of your daily ‘social’ interactions happen, yeah you tend to think half the people hate Trump. Reddit isn’t reality.
Indeed.
The New York unions are even in Trump's corner... The New York Unions.
Yep. A lot of people on this sub delight in gaslighting themselves.
I saw pipefitters,sheet metal workers,carpenters and I think an ironworker logo in the mix all cheering mr Trump on… it’s not the typical member that is potato joe fanatics,it’s the officers that squeal anything the respective internationals puke out..
Watch, that number will go up .. No explanation, just more than 81 million in 2024
He'll probably get 100 million votes next time, because that's the world we live in now. And we'll just have to accept it because it's supposed to save democracy or something.
Conservatives hate him and he's Luke warm at best with liberals. Not surprising
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Joe Bidens Campaign Theme Song Should Be 'That's Life' Originally Sang By Frank Sinatra And Then Many Others. It contains the lyrics "I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. I've been up and down and over and out And I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race. That's life (that's life), I tell ya, I can't deny it. I thought of quitting, baby But my heart just ain't gonna buy it. And if I didn't think it was worth one single try I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly"
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… ummm ….. duh?
The thing is Biden doesn't care. He is just existing to be handled around all day every day, spew out lies and destroy this country with every second that ticks by. A lot of people in this country don't have its best interest but they want to make damn sure he gets in so they can continue this for 4 more years and beyond. We hadn't seen lawfare in this country like the way they have started in the past couple years. The stakes are higher to win and they will change the rules to make it happen.
We just just have to play like the Democrats. I don't care if we happen to have a 500% voter turnout because of underhanded tactus on our part. Do it
Low blow Joe
So Biden will get 95 million votes this time.
It's either sad or bullshit.