To think how on earth can Biden be President

Why doesn't his wife just tell him that's it all done, let's go home and relax. Strange behaviour from Jill. She must see what everyone else sees.

Regardless of his 'achievements' as President, he is an old man who needs to step away. It can't be enjoyable for him or for his family to watch his decline. He is in no way fit enough for another term in office. For those Democrats who believe he's done a great job do they really expect him to do another term? The poor man is doing what we all do - declining in his old age. It's going to get worse and I'm angry that the man has been put in this position with his every move watched and his gaffes played over and over again. Just let the man retire and play golf for the rest of his days.

He's the leader of the free world, for goodness sake!

He really isn't and the worrying thing is...who is ACTUALLY making the decisions?

Typo - Ukraine not Russia!

Don't be fooled, though. Just because he is a Democrat does not mean he is any way progressive. I cannot believe that the Democrats cannot put forward a more competent candidate. He's the leader of the free world, for goodness sake!

Yes pissing away women's rights on his first day was quite something.

Enjoying the fact that all the naysayers ran away, when they couldn't crib from the Daily Mail or TikTok for talking points. :)

How wrong you are, but thanks for playing.

TRUMP "brokered" the Iraq withdrawal. Biden was bound by that. He pulled us out of a "forever" war, with an amazingly low rate of casualties.

"Putin invaded RUSSIA"? Do check your notes, comrade.

YANBU
It's not actually his age. He's too doddery.
He also makes dangerous decisions. Pulling troops out of Iraq set equality for women back. Putin invaded Russia as he saw B as a weak link, imo.

Biden - without the Senate - has been the most progressive President since FDR.

Do keep up.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/

In the SECOND Biden "lame duck" term, expect many MORE progressive actions. :)

Does any president achieve anything these days ?

I mean look at Obama, surely becoming the US's first black president was a major achievement, but other than that relatively little. Something to do with medicare IIRC.

What happens normally is they have the House and Senate aligned until the mid terms then they lose one or the other (I think Biden barely has the Senate and has lost the House, happy to be corrected on that one). Once they lose one or the other they become pretty much a lame duck. So normally they have 2 years after getting elected to do something.

Perchance, did any of y'all watch SOTU?

It's a pity Barack Obama can't stand again or Kamala Harris become president & Biden step down to Vice President

Corden doesn't bear thinking about 😂

but the other option is Trump - both options are awful,

But we had the same thing - Boris or Corden. At least both were sentient.

OK I'll give it a lash. Biden pushed through a Covid reconstruction fund of over a trillion dollars. The biggest government spending on public works since FDR's New Deal. Twice as large as that agreed by the EU. GDP growth is good. Unemployment is very low.

Of course the USA is a very unequal society and his foreign policy verges on the criminal. But in this respect there's not much to choose between the pair. He doesn't look 'papabile '. Maybe he is too old. There again Reagan was off his head for most of his 2nd term. W rarely worked past lunch time. And so on. I shall take the sage advice of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Don't Panic.

Gone on, make me laugh again. Please can you list some of his major achievements. Since he took office.

Gosh, you are an unpleasant individual, aren't you. Why don't you just push off back to whatever hole you crawled out of.

Well, not MY twat, but congratulations that yours can type!

Oh Frannie, "Probably not, he's now got a record of MAJOR achievements they can factor in" - you made me laugh and laugh. Glad that you have such a sense of humour. Have you located your twat yet?

"Y'all" is... Yankee? Bless your heart. I thought y'all used "Yank"... assuming you're real. Anyway, just another indicator of how little you know about the US.

I understand why y'all have concerns - we have a long history of saving your asses - but perhaps leave it to the voters who have consistently rejected Trump and Christo-fascists since 2016?

Maybe a trip to the Wonka Experience would take your mind off things?

Pondering how your fellow Great Britains could fall for such obvious AI fucking nonsense might give you an opportunity to reflect on the gullibility of your own countrymen, and what makes the news.

Feel free to extrapolate. :)

No one wants to be the one who challenges a sitting president from their own party and loses

This is perfectly true, but if they end up with Trump as a result perhaps they'll wish they had

And yes it would be hard for Biden to give up, but maybe not as hard as trying to maintain a campaign when he's clearly not capable of keeping it together

Thank you. Yes, I suppose it’s Biden’s decision to stand again that is the real issue. But, as you say, giving up another chance at the White House must be the most unlikely choice for a lifetime politician.

Because that basically doesn’t happen in the US. There’s no tradition of things like motions of no confidence or snap elections, at least not when it comes to presidential elections. No one wants to be the one who challenges a sitting president from their own party and loses.

Of course, it’s questionable whether these traditions are suitable for an era when they’ve suddenly started electing people with childhood memories of World War II. I think Biden should have spared everyone the dilemma by making a one term pledge. But it’s hard to give up the most powerful job on earth when you’ve spent your whole life pursuing it. And the advisers on position to sway him would all lose their jobs if they succeeded.

This is all true. The question, though, is why the Democrats aren’t pushing him aside for a less obviously infirm candidate.

Assuming you’re for real - the folksy Yankee act is getting a bit unconvincing, and tiresome - the poll I read was in Newsweek.

“Complicit”? Did you really mean that? It doesn’t make a lot of sense.

My concern is that the world’s most powerful nation is led by a competent person. I think you know how the rest of the world is looking on and worrying.

85% of the vote on this thread agrees with the OP that “how on earth can Biden be President”. MN is a left-leaning, liberal forum. Trump supporters will be thin on the ground. And I’m certainly not one.

I’m not a Russian teenager either. Suggesting that people who question Biden’s mental acuity are Putin shills is not a good look.