A few months ago, I recall DU announcing to be aware of upcoming President Biden bashing.

[C Moon]

It's happening here now.
And there doesn't seem to be any stopping it.

Today I was shocked at some of the obvious posts and comments that were taking shots at President Biden in an obvious rightwing nut job effort to make him look weak—setting up a defeat in the midterms.

FaceBook is filled with it now. Twitter is filled with. And now DU is filled with it.

I guess a lot of people forgot about tfg's years. To me, it was like living in a horror Twilight Zone episode—and I will NEVER forget.
The gop is trying to make President Biden look bad, in the same way they did with President Carter.

Who of you out there, would rather have Biden or Carter than tfg or DeSantis?

Wake the fuck up! (I'm not speaking to the idiot trump supporters who are posting here temporarily—they are in a forever nightmare-dream).

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. People are attacking Joe Biden like crazy

[betsuni]

2. It's coordinated and obvious. Following a script, saying the same things.

Weeping about Daddy promising the nice things, Daddy ignoring them. He is old! Daddy bad. Being offended at being urged to vote. Then claiming no no no, it's totally constructive criticism, I swear! Like constantly accusing Democrats of being "corporate Dems" and corrupt without the slightest evidence.

[emulatorloo]

5. very very coordinated. I wonder if it is funded or just 'spontaneous.'

[betsuni]

8. I think the initial attack is a small funded group and then a lot of people pick it up

and no need for the funded group anymore. Very economical, a large gullible population. They always project. I was called a paid shill and Republican so many times for supporting Democrats on a forum to support Democrats ... Absurd.

[Mister Ed]

20. Aye. Coordinated and obvious. n/t

[notinkansas]

3. I was not a Biden supporter when he was running for the presidential nomination.

But I did vote for him in the presidential election, and i have been encouraged by the way he has handled the many! crises during his presidency. A lesser statesman would surely have faltered. Many times. If he chooses to run again, I expect that I would vote for him aqain - most certainly against any repub opponent.

[emulatorloo]

4. And Reddit is filled with it as well.

[wnylib]

9. So is NPR, every day.

[halfulglas]

6. It's also followed by all the Dems are old and set in their ways.

Well, Good Gravy! Get out there and work to vote who you want in, but don't tear down someone doing their job a hell of a lot better than TFG and for that matter any Republican I can think of. You want someone better - be a better citizen. If you make Biden look weaker you diminish all Democrats because for better or for worse, he's our standard bearer.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Every time I flipped tv to Newsy today, there was another idiot blaming Biden for inflation

Echoing Moscow Mitch is not a good look.

Biden didn't cause the inflation we are facing. Look to ExxonMobile and the other oil monsters. If every product gets moved by petroleum, record profits in the petroleum industry means artificially higher prices for everything.

Do any of the pundits notice the inflation going on elsewhere around the world?

[wnylib]

10. We need to start a campaign of

calling, e-mailing, and tweeting the media who are doing this. Attack them mercilessly for their partisan journalism and then list Biden's accomplishments that they fail to cover. Ask why they did not do the same negative coverage of Trump.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

11. I'm extreme left. And you will not hear me bash Joe Biden

This isn't something I speak up about much here, because I know I'm further to the left than a lot of people here... most people here?... everyone here? I mean, hell, I make Bernie look like a centrist. https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-7.13&soc=-7.69

I'll admit, going into 2020, Biden was not initially my guy. I started with Elizabeth Warren. Switched to Bernie when she dropped out. Switched to Biden when, well, it was obvious Biden was the nominee. Biden vs Drumpf? I'd vote for Biden 1,000,000 times out of a 1,000,000, no question. That despite the fact he was my third choice for the 2020 nomination. And, sure, leading up to November 2020, I thought "Couldn't it be Elizabeth? Couldn't it be Bernie?"

Well, Biden won, of course. And here it is, July of 2022. And right now, I have only two "regrets" when it comes to having Joe Biden as president:

1. Kyrsten Sinema throwing banana peels in front of Joe Biden.
2. Joe Manchin throwing banana peels in front of Joe Biden.

I cannot claim I agree 100% with President Biden. But guess what? I don't agree with 100% with my dad. I don't agree 100% with my best friends. I didn't agree with 100% with my late girlfriend. When it comes to the major shit, though, I fully agree with Joe Biden, and absolutely feel he is doing everything he can to fight for those things.

All my life, the two things that have mattered to me the most in a presidential candidate have been "do they have a good heart?" and "do they wholeheartedly believe in human rights and equality?" After the 4 year nightmare of having no president, that became even more important to me.

Meanwhile, going back to those two questions... Over the last 18 months, President Biden has routinely answered those questions loudly and clearly: Yes. And yes.

I figure once you put a good person with a good heart in the White House, the rest of the shit can work itself out. Budgets will work themselves out. Figuring out how to fund this or that program will figure itself out. We'll figure out how much to give to NASA or the military or whatever. But the most important thing is having a leader who makes it clear they stand with everyone, stand for everyone, that human rights and equality are for everyone, and that they have the best intentions at heart.

Joe Biden absolutely has fought for us. He has done everything one person can do to undo the damage of the last 4 years. I have no doubt that if given a House and Senate that will fight for him instead of with him, he could do so much more.

So, instead of bashing Biden, or calling him out. It's time for us to go to the polls and help him keep the House, and give him a Senate where Sinema and Manchin can no longer derail his work.

We have a good man in the White House. And one who can do fucking amazing things if everyone would just let him.

And once again, this is a member of DU's far-left saying this. I absolutely believe that, and stand with President Biden. Why? Because he's left no doubt that he stands with me.

[C Moon]

12. You're awesome.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

13. Thank you

And so are you

[LoisB]

14. Hear, hear!

[yonder]

17. +1. No doubt here either. Great post.

[Easterncedar]

18. Yes!

I feel exactly the same, but couldn’t have expressed it so well. I believe Biden is a good guy, and that it matters.

[Mister Ed]

19. Thank you, ILA, for such wisdom and eloquence. This should be an OP itself.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

31. Thank you for your kind words

Thank you everyone for your kind words. Perhaps one day soon I will make it an OP. In the meantime, though, I did want to speak up here to show that at least one member of the far-left wing of the Democratic party absolutely and without question supports our president.

[judesedit]

23. Absolutely agree. Well put.

[2naSalit]

26. This...

I don't know if I'm far left but I agree with what you are saying here. There is no rational argument for not supporting the current president and his agenda, it is the very least that can be done to avoid extinction for chrissakes.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

32. Extinction is right

The Democratic party right now is probably the only thing holding off blatant hostility and hatred from the QOP, along with trying to stop the wrecking of the planet's environment. We sure as hell know the QOP wants a nation of hate and would gladly burn the planet tomorrow to get theirs today.

Here in 2022, we have a party of life (us) and a party of death (the QOP). There's no rational reason for someone to support the latter.

[woodsprite]

30. Wish this was its own post so I could rec it! nt

[HAB911]

33. DITTTO! well said and thank you!

[Delarage]

36. Perfectly Stated!

[peggysue2]

44. x1000

The President is fighting for us. Now it's time we fight for him, do the one thing that can turn the table on McConnell and his pack of obstructionists and insurrectionists:

Vote en masse for every Dem on the ticket. Vote Dem through and through. Vote Dem to throw every Republican into the Deep Blue Sea.

Without lifejackets.

We do that, we will jumpstart the change we expected and desperately want to see.

Couldn't be more elementary.

VOTE!

[IngridsLittleAngel]

48. Absolutely

So many of the Biden Bashers seem to think that a president is a dictator (maybe because the prior occupant of the White House acted like one). They're not. They can have the most amazing and brilliant ideas in history, and not one bit of it will happen without the House and Senate.

So we fight for the president who is fighting for us by keeping the House blue, and adding more Democratic senators this fall, giving him a legislative branch that fights with him instead of for him.

Vote blue everyone.. For him... For us.

[mcar]

52. Please make this an OP

it is so well written.

[dchill]

15. The "gop is trying to make President Biden look bad..."

And some here are doing what they can to help. I don't mind saying that it takes a pretty stupid person to just go ahead and agree with anything Republicans say or do.

[Easterncedar]

16. Thanks for this

We need to stand together. The campaigns to divide us are insidious, and if we lose, what hope is there for the planet?

[PortTack]

21. Agree..we need unity and that means stop any and all posting here questioning, second guessing

Whatever one wants to call it!!

This is no different than what was done to HRC…

[2naSalit]

27. +1

[duforsure]

22. Flooding social media with lies is one of their most used tactics,

It's just another way of trying to split up Democrats.

[onetexan]

25. Spot on; relentless because MAGA idiots are trying to change narrative of 1/6's damning revelations

it's basically their usual "look over there" to distract from the horrors being revealed by the committee. Which is why we should not be distracted by their nonsense, but rather double down on our support for Biden/Harris to counter the lies the GOP is putting out.

[shrike3]

39. This. Yes. n/t

[JI7]

24. Social Media is full of it .We know a Trump Supporting Republican faked an attack on himself

trying to blame BLM , Antifa etc . If someone who was a democrat or had any association with them this would be spreading all over. Same with the news of the child sex abusing Republican . But these actual things Republicans and the right do are not spreading . Part of it is because those who are liberal usually do other things with their lives which isn't directly political unlike the Right WIng which has a large number of people whose lives are all political and they spend it all on Right wing Radio , tv, internet etc. They spend all their time on comment sections spewing their shit.

Look at videos and articles with comment areas of crimes in Blue states and you will have people blaming democrats. But you wont see that in ones involving crimes in red states .

Even we refer to the crap in florida with "florida man" taking away any political view of it.

[SunSeeker]

28. Yup. With friends like these....

[BigmanPigman]

29. They've been bashing him for 6 months.

I will not respond to any of that BS on this site.

[RandiFan1290]

34. I've seen many of the embedded trolls here blaming President Biden for inflation. nt

[inthewind21]

41. You sure

these are trolls? I' mean we've seen this movie before. Not to long ago. I've said it a hundred times already, I'll say it again. Biden gets blamed, then the bickering starts, then comes the blaming all that is wrong in the world on the MAGA's and elected republicans and anyone and everyone BUT me. The forest can't be seen for the trees! Republican elected officials are the symptom. THE US VOTER IS THE ILLNESS! We can blame all we want, doesn't change the FACT that ALL of them were elected by US VOTERS. "WE" put government in office, WE have to change it if we don't like it. AND by the bickering, denial and blaming millennial's, blaming poor voters, blaming minority voters, (insert group to blame here) that is near constant, we will get nothing but more of the same. People seem to be more interested in casting blame and worrying about gas prices than they are about the fact that the US is falling right before their eyes. And when it completely falls, all those same people will express their absolute shock and surprise. See Dobbs as a perfect example. Because hey, who could have seen it coming right.

It's been a work in progress for decades. And it was no secret, we were told exactly what the goals were. And I look around and see said plan has come to fruition. "We the people" is gone. It's now ME and those people" United we stand, divided we fall.

[CozyMystery]

35. Biden wasn't my first choice, but I voted for him ...

He's our president. I like him. He has my full support.

I don't wake up every morning, afraid to find out what he has done now, like I did before. I don't get anxious when I think about Biden.

I get pissed off when I see another headline vilifying Biden. Thank heavens I quit social media. Because if I hadn't, I'd be pissed off all the time.

Having Biden as POTUS is a calming influence on my life.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. K&R

[samnsara]

38. i finally am getting polled and yesterday i got one that was in very broken english..ok

...i will still try to get my voice heard. They also included questions about local races. Fine..keep going. Then after i said I supported my local dem senator the next few questions always started with: "would you Still vote for XXX if you knew"..then they started talking about how my candidate was 100% behind bidens 'disastrous policies...etc

I stopped them right there and asked for proof that joes policies were 'disastrous'. They said they only read the questions blah blah blah... then after the next very leading question i said ( something to the effect) I would vote for xx even if she got on her knees and gave BJs to every congressman then i hung up.

grrr they wasted my time with partisan crap...

[Talitha]

40. "the same way they did with President Carter."

They just can't seem to tolerate decent people.

[Novara]

42. I want to live in your world where people never attack a Democrat

Have you all been paying attention? The progressives have been attacking the centrist Dems since before 2016.

Did you think they were gonna quit?

[ananda]

43. It's so crazy, especially when its Republicans who need bashing.

Constantly

[BannonsLiver]

45. We have a few too cool for school types

Who are extremely sanctimonious, and, of course, usually wrong.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. Opinion: Progressives are practically doing Republicans' job for them

I agree Paul Begala's recommendations

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/opinions/progressives-mad-joe-biden-begala/index.html

So, with women's and trans rights under assault, the planet on fire and democracy under assault, some Democrats are furious with... Biden......

And yet, some in the Democratic Party are complaining about the President and his approach to governance. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tina Smith of Minnesota have called on Biden to declare a national emergency over the rollback of abortion rights and to set up abortion clinics on federal land -- despite the legal ban on federal funding for most abortions, and the reality that such a move could put doctors and women at risk of arrest when they depart federal land within a state that has outlawed abortion.....

But the reality is that Biden has, in fact, done a ton of good despite GOP obstructionism. His American Rescue Plan invested more than $13 billion in minority-serving institutions of higher education, more than $10 billion in community colleges, $2.6 billion in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and about $190 million in tribal colleges and universities.

His policies -- especially the child tax credit in his rescue package -- reduced child poverty, keeping some six million kids from falling into poverty. Young people, and all of us who know and love them, should be singing Biden's praises for what he has done, not criticizing him for what the Republicans have blocked him from doing.

I am old enough to remember when it was right-wing Republicans who were hellbent on tearing down Democratic presidents like Barack Obama and Clinton; now the progressives are practically doing the GOP's job for them.

I have a radical proposal for my progressive friends: Stop attacking Biden and start attacking Republicans. If you think Biden is too weak, don't weaken him further for goodness sakes. Strengthen him, so he can lead the way forward.

[mcar]

53. Begala gets it.

[Brainfodder]

47. Late night comedians aint helping this either.

If you watch you know.

OLD stereotypes.

[Cha]

49. They care More about themselves

than they do our Democracy.. the Selfish Burns!

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[BannonsLiver]

50. What I can't stand

Are the people who were never objective about him in the first place suddenly deciding now is the time to pile on. People who have never had a kind word to say about the man. It’s a chicken shit position, frankly.

[mcar]

51. It's really bad and totally coordinated

by factions that simply do not want actual progress.