Lefty fact-checker confirms Biden lied about Charlottesville

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(06-25-2024, 02:39 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: We can beat a dead horse over the unemployment issue. Counting part-time jobs and immigrant jobs is not putting Americans to work with good full-time jobs. The unemployment rate can and is adjusted to fit the narrative. Also, using strategic oil reserves to bring down oil prices is dumb. Our country's reserves are the lowest they've been in 40yrs. 

Breaking foreign policy? How, by recognizing Jerulalem as the capital of Isriel? By putting tariffs on China? Withdrawing for a ridiculous Iran nuclear agreement? Withdraw from UN Human Right Council? Or was it because he met with leaders of communist countries? 

I'm still not seeing "worst president ever" here. Especially when his opponent incited an attack on the Capitol with a lie he is still using to manipulate millions.

If counting part-time jobs and immigrant jobs is not putting Americans to work with good full-time jobs under Biden, then it wasn't under Trump, either.

And yes, breaking foreign policy--frightening our NATO allies with threats of withdrawal, praising dictators, undermining the Afghan government by treating the Taliban as the real representatives of A-stan, trashing the Iran deal has brought Iran's nuclear program has zero break out time, pulling out of the TPP has allowed China to fill an important economic/power vacuum on the Pacific Rim. So STUPIDLY unnecessary. 

Every president has to meet with "leaders of Communist countries." The issue is whether such meetings are in the national interest, producing an advantage for the US, not for our adversaries. Two Kim summits benefited Kim tremendously not us. (He travelled to 6 countries after that, making a big appearance at the Asian games in Indonesia. Out of the box.)   

Recognizing Jerusalem, moving our embassy there, and endorsing Israel's illegal annexation of the Golan heights--all those signal US disrespect for international law and US unwillingness to take the Palestinian problem seriously. The current Gaza war is one effect of our rewarding Israel for postponing or ignoring Oslo.

How well you think Trump did depends on your knowledge of foreign policy, past and present, and upon foreign policy goals.  Anti-Globalists think it a good thing to break past policies and withdraw from treaties and let dictators invade wherever they want. People who think the Post-WWII liberal international order ought to be preserved think US leadership is critical to preserving this order, and that means, among other things, distinguishing the friends of that order from its enemies.