Biden's final approval ratings among Democrats were in the low to mid-70s depending on the poll

Democrats have a much harder time with own-party approval though so being in a statistical dead heat with late-term Biden for own-party approval and significantly worse with independents is a catastrophically bad place to be

AP-NORC had Biden at 39% approval overall with a breakdown of 72% Dem / 32% Ind / 8% Rep in his last poll. Trump's at 36% overall with 74% / 24% / 4% in this one (the OP had a sub-question, not overall job approval), so he matches Biden with his own party and is significantly worse everywhere else

He's lower among Republicans than Biden was among Democrats at the end of his term, which is something I honestly didn't think was possible

I'm not serious!

Ryan O'Hearn

I hate Delaware

To be clear how kangaroo this court was, my wife read the Delaware statute and the alderman asked her, "I've never heard that. Are you sure that isn't Maryland law?"

My wife is an attorney and got the alderman in Rehoboth angry for contesting a ticket that she absolutely should not have been levied under the plain text of state law. The alderman asked the cop for his interpretation of the law and then agreed with him, reprimanded my wife, and found her guilty.

The point of the alderman's court is just to generate revenue for the town from college kids (in Newark) and tourists (in the beach towns). Do not bother trying to fight a ticket in any of these jurisdictions, the cop and alderman will, as a team, mock you and find you guilty.

The Altima has reached their parking lot 2 minutes ahead of time and will spend the next two hours trying to back into a space

I see this two-step being done but if the crux of your argument is that Trump is a tyrant who can and will do whatever he wishes with no regard for the law, then the shutdown would never have accomplished anything of value anyways

Yeah I feel like people are missing that SNAP, WIC, and school meals would've dried up on December 1. With Thanksgiving that maybe gives the Dems one more week before they're facing down nutrition assistance apocalypse, but it seemed extremely unlikely a week makes a difference

With contingency funding that ran out at the end of this month

It isn't only SNAP either. In December you'd have had the formula market going bananas because of WIC funding drying up, school cafeterias closing, and childcare costs skyrocketing. The federal government isn't just a political football!

I've seen people ostensibly on the left saying SNAP funding didn't matter because there were charity drives for food. 😢

People are also acting like the court movement around SNAP would've kept it going indefinitely, but it was just for November. SNAP funding would've dried up at the end of the month, along with WIC, school meals, and CACFP to boot. Then Medicaid would've followed in January. There was a clock

What I learned last night is that a critical mass of Bluesky posters thought the shutdown was some kind of magic undo button for the election

Yeah I don't necessarily think we're at that point but I agree with you that Congress passing a law that says "listen to the Constitution!" is goofy. Either the Constitution holds or it doesn't, but it's not language in appropriations bills that's going to force the issue