My best friend got married on Friday. 150 people, everyone dressed beautifully and handsome. Nice suits and dresses. The grooms dad wore a let's go Brandon hat.. perfect representation of a Trump fan.. political statement at your son's wedding?
Funny meme. The headline is an example of out of context propaganda though. Biden did not say this. If you read the stories with the headline about Biden saying this, they are taking a snippet of an interview he did with the AP and implying that snippet was somehow in response to questions about his popularity.
The actual questions preceding Biden’s reply about people being “really really down” and about mental health of the nation were concerning inflation and consumer polling. For those who haven’t or don’t plan to read the AP interview here are the questions:
AP: I believe that was a Fed survey. You see this interesting shift, though, in the Census pulse surveys, which show people are clearly employed in a way they haven’t been. They are less dependent on unemployment benefits and the government for aid, and yet more of them say they’re having trouble with meeting their weekly expenses.
BIDEN: Well, two things.
AP: What’s that paradox?
BIDEN: “Well, I think the paradox is, part of it is, I think what, the failure of the last administration to act on COVID had a profound impact on the number of people who got COVID and the number of people who died. Now here’s what I’m, I think Vivek Murthy is right and most of the international and National Psychological Association, whatever it’s, people are really, really down. They’re really down. Their need for mental health in America has skyrocketed because people have seen everything upset. Everything they counted on upset. But most of it’s a consequence of, of, of what’s happening, what happened is a consequence of the, the COVID crisis.
People lost their jobs. People are out of their jobs. And then, were they going to get back to work? Schools were closed. Think of this. I think we vastly underestimate this. If you had, and instead of your child being, how old, five?”
Which you can see plainly what he said but also that he isn’t even actually saying it so much as he is saying he agrees with Vivek Murthy and is paraphrasing a general concept that the nation at large, coming out of a lengthy pandemic and the political strife of the previous administrations term into the aftermath and economic consequences of a long term global pandemic etc. are “down.” Which is sort of not really debatable- the overall National mood in the USA is that things are sorta bleh regardless of your politics- not too many people are super happy or optimistic with the state of things.
The actual questions preceding Biden’s reply about people being “really really down” and about mental health of the nation were concerning inflation and consumer polling. For those who haven’t or don’t plan to read the AP interview here are the questions:
BIDEN: Well, two things.
AP: What’s that paradox?
People lost their jobs. People are out of their jobs. And then, were they going to get back to work? Schools were closed. Think of this. I think we vastly underestimate this. If you had, and instead of your child being, how old, five?”