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> When heating your home suddenly costs four times as much you can't just use a quarter of the gas, or you'll freeze.

Maybe this is an aside to you, but would you expect heating cost to increase or decrease if you are using fossil fuels for heating, and the government has promised to end fossil fuels?

I guess we can point all fingers to Putin, but decreasing the supply of fossil fuels seems to be an implicit campaign promise of the Biden administration, and he has the most popular administration in history, so I'm not sure why people are upset with paying more for heating and gas.

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I don't think many people expected the price to rise quite as quickly as it did. Demand for heat pumps and rooftop solar currently outstrips supply by far, at least here in Germany.

> [Biden] has the most popular administration in history.

I see the data quite differently. No President since World War II ended has a lower approval rating on day 523 of their administration.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

But his low poll numbers is mainly because the media won't give him credit for the good things he did and because of republican rhetoric.

How is that different from literally any other president?

It is different because the media has not been as right wing as this before.

Why does the media's political bias always seem to be the antithesis of the party in power? To scapegoat the failures of each administration to actually use their power for the public good. I mean, the same media that was apparently run by a vast left-wing conspiracy for years is suddenly right-wing? Did they just change hats?

What accomplishment does Biden have that's going to counterbalance how pathetic his administration's response to the repeal of Roe v. Wade appears? It's become a meme among the left that the only thing the Democrats had prepared in response were fundraising letters.

I think you're being trolled. I admit that I can't be fully sure of it, but I seriously doubt GP believes that Biden has the most popular administration in history; I don't believe Biden has the most popular administration among just the last three, a sentiment that I suspect GP shares.

> I don't believe Biden has the most popular administration among just the last three, a sentiment that I suspect GP shares.

Well he is not if you take the poll numbers, but as Biden has said, the low poll numbers are mainly a side effect of the negative sentiment for his administration in the right wing media. You will need to compensate for this to get an accurate picture.

If you're trying to measure popularity ("the state or condition of being liked, admired, or supported by many people") of someone in an important job, it seems like asking many people whether they approve of the job being done is a primary measurement.

"Compensating" for perceived reasons why a President is not liked, admired, or supported seems antithetical to the goal of measuring popularity. That would seem to me more like "fudging the data" (if I'm being polite) or "making shit up" (if I'm going for clarity).

> I mean, the same media that was apparently run by a vast left-wing conspiracy for years is suddenly right-wing? Did they just change hats?

No, this was just a lie though, the media has always been right wing, they lie and say they are not, but they are.

> What accomplishment does Biden have

He ended COVID, he pulled out of Afghanistan, he restored US reputation on the global stage, he put Russia in it's place, he was busy ending fossil fuels. I dunno there are many things, you just don't hear of them because the media is trying to tank his presidency.

>He ended COVID

I'll grant that he was more competent at administrating the response than Trump, but COVID hasn't ended, the pandemic is still in progress.

>he pulled out of Afghanistan

Yes, but it was a humanitarian disaster. You can argue that he shouldn't be blamed for that, and I might agree, but it didn't make him look good even when reported on honestly.

>he restored US reputation on the global stage

Citation needed. NATO got a credibility boost from Russia's invasion, but the US wound up looking weak and indecisive. And I don't think you can restore the stain on America's reputation that was Trump so easily, or unburn that many bridges. Maybe, if Trumpists don't take power again in 2024, but at the moment being the country in which guns have more rights than women (and soon to be LGBTQ and black people) is not good optics.

>he put Russia in it's place

In what sense? Is Russia's "place" right on top of Ukraine? Did I miss the news about the American negotiated surrender and Russian retreat? I don't understand.

> I'll grant that he was more competent at administrating the response than Trump, but COVID hasn't ended, the pandemic is still in progress.

He gave US the vaccines, without which the pandemic would have been much worse.

> > he pulled out of Afghanistan

> Yes, but it was a humanitarian disaster.

No it was not, this is just further misrepresentation by the media.

> > he restored US reputation on the global stage

> Citation needed.

https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-donald-tr...

> > he put Russia in it's place

> In what sense?

He sanctioned norstream 2: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/feb/23/biden-u...

Also he said he will make Russia pay for election interference [1].

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/17/politics/joe-biden-vladim...

Are you seriously claiming that Taliban taking over Afghanistan again is not a humanitarian disaster?

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