Darrell Castle talks about how polls and other measures of popular acceptability and obvious ineptitude just keep getting worse for Joe Biden and the Democrats.

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THE ROARING 20’S

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 22nd day of July in the year of our Lord 2022. I am going to be talking about how polls and other measures of popular acceptability and obvious ineptitude just keep getting worse for Joe Biden and the Democrats as the approval numbers for President Biden threaten the 20’s thus the title of this report.

I am sure you’ve heard the expression just when you think it can’t get any worse it does. CNN has traditionally been kinder to President Biden than any other Network, even through its polling, but now that seems to have changed. The New York Times is the gate keeper for what the American Media is permitted to say about Democrat politicians and in a recent article and follow up piece the Times opened the flood gates of criticism of the President.

The Times article said he’s too old, he shuffles, his aides prop him up, etc. you know the story. This article was a directive that it is open season on Joe Biden and there has been numerous criticism from the Democrat Party’s mouthpieces since then. We can’t win with him and so we have to let him go and therefore you are permitted to openly critique him is what the article was saying if one reads between the lines. Even the first lady appears to have been given the word and she did an interview where she said he had so many good things in mind, but the current problems got in the way. Stories of his wife and other staffers giving him pills to get through public appearances, etc. have appeared as well.

The scary thing for the Democrats and I argue for the country is that the country seems to be dividing along class lines and the traditional lines of party support have reversed. Those who used to be assumed loyal Democrats are apparently tired of being taken for granted and are turning to the Republicans in droves. Let’s look at the most recent CNN survey. It shows President Biden with the lowest approval rating at this point in a presidency, in the survey’s history. It is a rating that is edging ever closer to the roaring 20’s.

President Biden has his problems as did President Carter with the Iran hostage issue and double-digit inflation left over from the Vietnam War and the Great Society Programs, but Biden has sunk lower in the CNN poll than Carter. President Carter’s approval rate at this point was 42% according to CNN but President Biden is at 38% and keep in mind that this poll is from the very generous and friendly polling services of CNN.

President Biden has no Mueller investigation and no Iran hostage situation to grease the skids to the bottom, so he has had to rely on his own efforts to get there. Just on a brief inventory, he has taken a booming economy and turned in two successive quarters of negative growth meeting the classic definition of recession. Spending and giveaway stimulus in response to COVID and other federal boondoggles helped inflation to explode, and it is now calculated at 9.1% and no relief is in sight. His disastrous retreat from Afghanistan leaving behind almost $100 billion of high-tech weapons for the Taliban and causing the deaths of 13 Americans while abandoning many others.

He promised to turn Saudi Arabia into a pariah during his campaign, but there he was fist bumping the crown prince. Personally, I would never have promised to turn any nation into a pariah. That kind of rhetoric can do nothing useful except perhaps energize some of your base, and if elected, you just might need something that country is selling like Oil. I almost forgot to mention that he inherited a country which was completely energy independent. America was a net exporter of energy and did not have to go to ideological enemies with its hat in its hand.