How will the Omicron variant affect Biden's approval rating?

[GeneralMacArthur]

Down, obviously it's his fault.  If he puts in some temporary restrictions to try and combat it, everyone will get mad at him and say those restrictions were unnecessary.  If he doesn't, and it kills a bunch of Republicans who were too stupid to follow simple instructions, they'll blame him for all the deaths and ask why he didn't do more.  Either way he's clearly broken his campaign promise to get the virus under control, since he didn't personally go down to South Africa and prevent Omicron from happening.  But also it's time to fire Fauci because we're sick of the nanny state and it's time to let nature take its course (on people other than me and my loved ones).

[GeneralMacArthur]

It is Democrats and their enablers in the MSM who browbeat the simpleton logic that Trump was responsible for literally every single American COVID death.  I will not lose any sleep when this same logic comes to fail Biden after he bet and lost that the Trump vaccines would completely erase the virus. 

Trump did absolutely nothing to protect people and encouraged all kinds of risky behavior that allowed the virus to spread while simultaneously handicapping any effort to rescue people afflicted with the virus.  Because of that, he is to blame for tons of excess deaths.

The simpleton logic is being incapable of distinguishing between "literally all COVID deaths are someone's fault" and "if someone had the power to prevent some COVID deaths, but didn't use that power, then those excess deaths are his fault."

[GeneralMacArthur]

It is Democrats and their enablers in the MSM who browbeat the simpleton logic that Trump was responsible for literally every single American COVID death.  I will not lose any sleep when this same logic comes to fail Biden after he bet and lost that the Trump vaccines would completely erase the virus. 

Trump did absolutely nothing to protect people and encouraged all kinds of risky behavior that allowed the virus to spread while simultaneously handicapping any effort to rescue people afflicted with the virus.  Because of that, he is to blame for tons of excess deaths.

The simpleton logic is being incapable of distinguishing between "literally all COVID deaths are someone's fault" and "if someone had the power to prevent some COVID deaths, but didn't use that power, then those excess deaths are his fault."

No one takes you seriously when you call Operation Warp Speed "absolutely nothing" GenMac, lol

Trump's White House was who bought industry onboard with $11B in direct funding and liability protections to fast track the development of vaccines and advanced therapeutics.  Plans made for vaccine procurement and distribution when Trump was president are the same plans Biden now likes to take credit for, lol

Had Biden or another Democrat been president in 2020, there would have been no equivalent effort to unleash the power of American industry to outmaneuver the pandemic.  Biden proves how fundamentally broken his approach to the pandemic is with his own 13-member COVID task force - there wasn't a single representative of American industry appointed. 

Democrats have only proved able to think about the response to the pandemic as a set of constantly escalating and totalizing public health measures designed to compel our behavior and limit individual freedom, and those are the only voices for which Biden has given a seat at the table.

Why should Trump get credit for Operation Warp Speed?  He didn't do anything to help.  The funding for Operation Warp Speed was passed by Congress in the CARES Act.  Can you name one single thing Trump did to facilitate the development of vaccines?  As usual, other people in the Trump administration do the bare minimum imaginable, Trump does absolutely nothing to help or make things better, and then he demands all the credit and acts like he couldn't have done anything else.

BTW, the Biden administration is doing a much better job of vaccine research, production and distribution than Operation Warp Speed did, and I don't see you rushing to give them credit, even though Biden himself has been far more hands-on about it than Trump was.

I seriously can't believe the nerve it takes to give Trump all this credit for sitting on his lazy ass and doing nothing while COVID swept the nation.  You guys look at all these memes of Trump in Slyvester Stallone's body, or Trump riding on a tank, and think he's some superhero rushing around behind the scenes to do everything he can to help America.  The dude didn't do anything.  He spent hours every day watching TV and tweeting.  I'm so sick of this s--t.  I thought when he finally lost you guys would break out of the cult but instead you've all tripled down on convincing yourselves that he was the greatest president ever even though we're less than a year away and he already has basically zero positive legacy.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Biden can't ever declare victory against COVID because you could always have another variant crop up and start killing people again and then everyone will make MISSION ACCOMPLISHED memes and it will be a political disaster for him.

Meanwhile the entire electorate has decided that COVID just didn't exist before Biden became president, so it's all his fault.  But since the American public is complete blithering idiots, they also all seem to think that COVID is a huge deal and Biden is a failure for not taking it seriously enough, but it's not a big enough deal to be worth getting vaccinated or wearing a mask or having school closures or capacity restrictions or other safety measures, and if Biden puts in any of those restrictions, then he's taking it too seriously.

At this point I don't know what Biden is supposed to do politically.  Every bad thing that happens with COVID is his fault and a huge f---ing deal.  But he's also not allowed to do anything to prevent COVID because it's not a big deal.

Fortunately for us, we elected a good man as president, and Biden is simply doing the right thing regardless of how it affects him politically.  This is in contrast to Trump whose only concern with COVID was how it would affect him politically -- thus the constant lying and downplaying of the virus and promotion of conspiracy theories about how it was a hoax or it was all manufactured by the media and the scientists.

[GeneralMacArthur]

If it all blows over in 2 weeks, he can declare victory and might actually get an approval bump.  If this gets to the point where CDC and state health departments ask people not to celebrate Christmas with anyone outside of their household, it obviously goes way down, probably to Bush 2008 levels. 

And the worst part about that is is that it wouldn’t be his fault. Ugh.

It will be all his fault.

Joe Biden has opened up our Southern Border.  People are coming across our Southern Border are not checked or quarantined from diseases, and they are coming from all over the World, including the nations where this new variant is coming from.  This situation is entirely Biden's doing.

That being said, there is no need for hysteria.

Yes, that's how Omicron will get here.  South Africans will fly to Guatemala and join the migrant caravans to travel up to the Mexican border and sneak through.

Wasn't there a bunch of concern trolling from Republicans a few weeks ago about how Biden was being too tough on the border?  Weren't you guys all drooling over the images of a bunch of migrants huddled under a bridge on the Mexican side of the border waiting to be processed?  Wasn't Chuck Grassley tweeting about the record numbers of migrants being stopped, detained and sent back at the border?

You guys don't even know what you want.  You have no policy.  All you want is for Biden to fail so your cult leader can take back over and do random things that you'll then convince yourselves are the best things ever.

[GeneralMacArthur]

If it all blows over in 2 weeks, he can declare victory and might actually get an approval bump.  If this gets to the point where CDC and state health departments ask people not to celebrate Christmas with anyone outside of their household, it obviously goes way down, probably to Bush 2008 levels. 

And the worst part about that is is that it wouldn’t be his fault. Ugh.

It will be all his fault.

Joe Biden has opened up our Southern Border.  People are coming across our Southern Border are not checked or quarantined from diseases, and they are coming from all over the World, including the nations where this new variant is coming from.  This situation is entirely Biden's doing.

That being said, there is no need for hysteria.

Yes, that's how Omicron will get here.  South Africans will fly to Guatemala and join the migrant caravans to travel up to the Mexican border and sneak through.

Wasn't there a bunch of concern trolling from Republicans a few weeks ago about how Biden was being too tough on the border?  Weren't you guys all drooling over the images of a bunch of migrants huddled under a bridge on the Mexican side of the border waiting to be processed?  Wasn't Chuck Grassley tweeting about the record numbers of migrants being stopped, detained and sent back at the border?

You guys don't even know what you want.  You have no policy.  All you want is for Biden to fail so your cult leader can take back over and do random things that you'll then convince yourselves are the best things ever.

I don't wish for Biden to fail.  What I wanted from Biden was to (A) be normal and (B) stop the chaos.  He's either incapable of this, or he chooses not to do what he was elected to do because the Far Left of his party that seems to hold sway beyond their numbers have infiltrated his Administration in all sorts of appointed positions.

Please point to the far-left chaos happening in this country.  Even Portland has simmered down.  There are no riots.  There are barely even any protests.  Antifa is a distant memory.  All the things you were afraid were going to happen, instead the opposite happened.  Meanwhile we have a competent administration that runs so smoothly you probably can't even name 5 people in it -- no more needing to know the Deputy AG or the Assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff or whoever's job it is this week to tell the president "no."

Nobody in the far left has any power.  Rashida Tlaib is the one getting all the attention this week for stupidly proposing that we abolish all prisons, and the most the White House had to say on the matter was "no we're not going to do that."  Warren and Sanders badger Biden every single day to cancel student debt and he isn't going to.  The best y'all can come up with is going after Saule Omarova for some papers she wrote decades ago.

Meanwhile Biden's actual legislation has been decidedly middle-of-the-road and chock-full of bipartisan proposals that are especially focused on rural areas and combatting poverty.  Are these far-left ideas?  Just face it, Biden isn't the extreme leftists you guys promised us he'd be.  Instead he's the sensible, pragmatic, mature liberal I promised y'all he would be.