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...the wrong President.

Which one are we talking about? Frankly, all the ones I've had the misfortune of living through, blur together for me. It's not like any of them have had any different policies. How could they, possibly?

If any area secedes, it might be because of "The President", but it won't be due to any particular one.



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That's an error.

The state department is not the same as the president. The previous president did not have a significant degree of control over the state department or any facet of the federal bureaucracy, in all reality.


This is been a problem a hundred years plus in the making. You can't blame just one president

Maybe because these happened under different presidential administrations?

.. it's a political situation involving the executive branch?

I'm not sure what you mean by mis-direction.


With a different president, yes. Not with this one though.

It will somehow be the other side that caused it by not allowing the sitting President to push through his agenda.

This is what happens when you have a president you don't like. Everything you don't like around you becomes their fault.

Yes. This is largely the problem. Unfortunately, I don't think it would have mattered whether it was a left or right president. The side not in office would have done the opposite. Everything is a political proxy war right now.

I don't think we're presenting conflicting facts.

It's possible for a president to be terrible but ultimately better to not be removed from office.


or the previous administration ...

or the previous administration ...

I depend on many things that hinge on the right people being in power for all eternity, and so do you.

We've seen what the wrong people in power do. Mussolini, Stalin and his gulags, Pol Pot and his genocides, Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Miloševic. This isn't a statement about the current US President, but we depend on having right (enough) people in power in a lot more ways than this one policy decision.


The problems started long ago. It's all too convenient to in any way imply a presidential switch will have any effect on it.

Ah typical response of bad things happen under democrat president, so blame the last Republican.

Biden Abruptly Pulling out of an Afghanistan, was a complete utter disaster. Let’s blame someone else!


All modern administrations maybe aside from Jimmy Carter’s have had shenanigans going on. None of them are clean. So it’s clear there will be lies from everyone. Some intentional, some mistaken.

That said. I don’t see a solution to this dilemma. It has no satisfactory solution.


A lot of people have been wrong about what the current President could or would do. Ann Coulter comes to mind.

It's not really clear why other people enable the President, which is the underlying reason why you can't reassure people that he's ineffectual.


don't you mean that his policies and decisions were inadequate to fix the issues caused by his predecessor? <putsonflameretardantcoat>

Well, the last two presidents have been regarded as illegitimate and intolerable by large segments of the population. I'm not saying that's good, but we've survived it so far.

However, I share your unease, your feeling that Something Is Amiss.


Wait. Wasn’t the decision to pull out the previous president’s?
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