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This week: Biden loses most of the country, Biden loses most of other countries too, inflation and small-town Texas barbecue, the South is less iniquitous than the North, the agony of Kharkiv, defending children as a conservative approach, the conformism quadrants, attacking a British garden party with Noah’s Ark, and more. Let’s go —
1) “One and a half years since President Joe Biden took office, Americans give President Biden a negative 31 - 60 percent job approval rating, the lowest score of his presidency.”
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3852
2) “The higher the gas prices go, the more electable Mastriano is. Honestly, I feel this is Mastriano’s campaign to lose.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/19/mastriano-pennsylvania-governor-race-00046423
3) “Restaurants have been hit hard by inflation—the price of food, particularly meat, has risen more than the over-all consumer-price index—and barbecue restaurants are among the hardest hit of all.”
4) “At the end of the day, families are having a hard time making ends meet, and that’s affecting their overall well-being. We see the connection between well-being and loneliness, well-being and housing, well-being and food security. When you layer that on top of the fact that fewer people are likely to recommend military service, it paints a very clear picture of concern related to the future of the all-volunteer force.”
5) “So much for rebuilding U.S.-Saudi cooperation, which was Mr. Biden’s goal. This trip was worse than a missed opportunity. It damaged U.S. security interests in the Middle East by highlighting to the world that neither Saudi Arabia nor other Gulf states trust the U.S. enough to make any sacrifices to renew badly frayed relations.”
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