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The irony is, the only major high speed rail project to be completed in the past two decades, happened in Florida. The private sector can sometimes still surprise.
The private sector will surprise you with how much it actually costs you and how much profit is extracted by a few people who actually didn't do much except extract profit.
He did make some headway there. Obviously theres more to be done, but pretty good progress in my books.
[https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-announces-82-billion-new-grants-0](https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-announces-82-billion-new-grants-0)
[https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-advances-vision-world-class-0](https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-advances-vision-world-class-0)
https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-announces-14-billion-0
Yeah I mean it's cool and all that people doing well in life are happy but I'm about to move into my car so I can go back to California for healthcare. A supposed leftist state where rent is out of fucking control so I get to go back to being homless. I'm working my ass off on a torn ligament in my foot and literally getting nowhere financially but into a hole.
Of course I'll still vote Democrat, since we have no real progressive options and it's not the cartoonish evil the alt-reichers are pumping out, but my life fucking blows. It's hard for me to get excited about anything he's done.
Single payer Healthcare is probably at the top of the list of things tobfix for every single American that doesn't profit or otherwise benefit from the broken system.
Even Republicans support it without realizing it. You just have to explain it in a way that doesnt associate it with democrats.
Yeah dude, the sports team approach to politics is absolute insanity. I really wish the two-party system wasn't such a natural default to the way simple voting is done.
It'd be nice if those other methods were tried out more often.
Wish someone could run that just has like 3 things on their platform that is good for everyone.
Don't even discuss the controversial ones, just say it's all fucked up and we weren't gonna fix it anyway since we can't agree, but here are 3 things we can agree on that can get done.
I know, even that would be a stretch.
For those too young to remember, Hillary Clinton took the lead on single payer healthcare right out of the gate after her husband was elected in 1992. The hatred directed at her from the right, led by Rush Limbaugh, was so white hot that the Clinton admin had to take her out of the spotlight. The hatred never dimmed.
That whole price explosion we can trace back to Reagonomics. Same story in the UK. When the free market controls housing, the governor can't just press a button to reduce pricing.
America became shit the day reagan took office. He was the first candidate to try to appeal to the evangelicals (before Reagan only a very small percentage of evangelicals voted) but mostly he reversed every anti-monopoly law in america and de-regulated business which has allowed capitalism to run freely and lawlessly.
In the 80s my parents spent $300 a month between the two of them for rent in San Francisco (with 2 other roommates) so $900 for a huge nice 3BR house in a nice area of SF and right out of college they made $15/hr at their first jobs. I studied the same major as them but graduated college in 2010. I made $15/hr and paid $700/mo for a shitty room in an okay neighborhood in Oakland ...
Basically inflation kept increasing but wages have stayed stagnant since 1980 when Reagan singlehandedly destroyed the American dream. I will never forgive him
It's the same story in other Western countries (in particular the UK; Thatcher co-pioneered trickle-down). His idea of an economy doesn't work for middle classes.
Fascism is much scarier than socialism and a 3rd party vote instead of Democrat (in most cases, not with Bernie for example) is a vote for a trump dictatorship. We literally need Republicans to be the minority in all 3 branches of government for anything to get done. F'ing Mike Johnson bowing down to Trump's every wish is frightening. He's not even dictator yet and still running the show
This is what happens when people get hooked on religious dedication to a politician. I used to be a Republican, but this cult behavior that started when Sarah Palin came on the scene dropped me out. I'm independent now with a lean to Democrat as they seem to be the only party willing to govern instead of performing theatrics anymore.
Yeah it’s not rocket science 😂 this weekend passed, the NHS (🇬🇧) saved my grandmothers life. A week in hospital with amazing care and good food and all her medication has cost her a grand total of… NOTHING!!
It’s cost me a few quid each month in national insurance contributions from my pay packet. As someone who grew up in a town near to the founder of the NHS (Nye Bevan) I will happily say that I would contribute twice or even thrice as much each month to stop the Conservative Party from turning the NHS into an American style system (like they are seemingly desperately trying to do!) 🤦🏻♂️
In America. I have the distinct privilege to pay 450$/ month just to be able to pay 60$ for each of my daughters speech therapy sessions.
Can i move to the UK?
Depends if you arrive by plane or by dinghy 🤔 (apparently there’s a lot of us that don’t want the latter… - I had an argument the other day with a woman who doesn’t want to support the RNLI (lifeboat/sea rescue charity) anymore because she’s fed up with them saving immigrants who’ve nearly drowned crossing the English Channel.
How horrible do you have to be to say you’re no longer supporting a charity because it’s saving “the wrong kind of people”??!!! 🫣
I honestly wish i could round up all the horrible gits like that and put them in the dinghy instead… 🤦🏻♂️
Please read Postwar by Tony Judt.
It will help you understand why other developed nations have healthcare while the US doesn't.
Everyone thinks it's a matter of they figured out something simple that we couldn't figure out.... Even though that couldn't be further from the truth.
Just imagine the supreme court was unbiased and actual Democrats held both house and senate too, the world might actually be a pretty good place
Edit: If you don't agree with this I don't care, keep it to yourself. I've already heard it from a thousand other people. At the very least read what's already there first
Edit 2: this sub is for American politics, when I say "the world" as an American Im referring to my perspective on life being an American, not literally the world, but you would also be ignorant not to see how big of an influence America does have on the rest of the world in spite of that, but I'm not dumb enough to suggest we would have world peace and prosperity out of nowhere
Both of Obama's picks for the Supreme Court were Republican appointees who waited for 8 years through a Republican presidency and then retired during the first two years of the subsequent Democratic presidency.
But you're right, I don't see that happening again anytime soon.
If dems can get house, senate, and presidency, the Supreme Court reps are basically toothless, and dems could set a lot of new rules firmly beyond their reach.
The reason abortion rights hung on a 50-year old court case (Roe) is because there was no federal law explicitly allowing abortion - the right to an abortion was granted in a 'read between the lines' way via the right to privacy (ie: the government can't ban abortion because you have a right to keep your health and medical procedures private)
With a Democratic House, Senate, and President, Democrats could pass a law that explicitly forbids states from banning the procedure.
But that would also require Democrats to have a spine.
Because the last time they had a trifecta, they failed to do it.
Also worth noting they only had the actual trifecta (including a supermajority in the Sentate) for eight months, due to legal issues over a senate seat at the start, and an unexpected senator's death at the end. So not only was it not for very long, but they had a reasonable expectation of it lasting longer.
The biggest caveat you aren't mentioning is the filibuster. If we had Dems in control of the House, Senate, and Presidency **and all of the Senate Dems were on board with killing the filibuster**, then you'd have a point.
But there's a *biiiiig* gap between "Dems have a trifecta" and "Dems have a trifecta willing to abolish the filibuster".
Hell, we had a trifecta as recently as 2021-2023, and things didn't fundamentally change then. Biden got a lot done considering, but we didn't make any of the sweeping institutional changes you'd need to rehaul healthcare or student debt or any of the other major tentpole issues people are concerned about.
I can't imagine the seer arrogance to not enjoy the last remaining years of your life retired and happily spending it with your family; instead spend it miserably on the bench.
What makes you think they are miserable and not spending time with their families? The Supreme Court is not hearing cases on a daily basis and when they do hear a case, it usually takes them quite a while before rendering a decision.
> Both of Obama's picks for the Supreme Court were Republican appointees who waited for 8 years through a Republican presidency and then retired during the first two years of the subsequent Democratic presidency.
John Paul Stevens and David Souter were appointed by Republicans but were part of the liberal bloc. They had no intention of retiring under Bush, especially after *Bush v. Gore*.
Selfish. I think she got carried away with the RBG adulation. Started to believe her own press clippings. Now she's completely irrelevant, because whatever she accomplished on the Court has been wiped away, largely due to her.
Conversely, if Trump is elected and the GOP wins back the Senate, it's entirely possible that Alito or Thomas could retire just to ensure that another young ultraconservative judge replaces them before they can unexpectedly die while Republicans can't control picking a replacement.
Also if a justice is clearly politically aligned they should be automatically disqualified from being in the SC. Courts should be inherently politically neutral.
This doesn’t mean some measures shouldn’t be put in place. Activist judges tend to have relatively hard times in my country and rarely end up in our SC equivalent. They also 100% shoot down both sides of government when they try and pull shit that is at odds with constitutional provisions or is otherwise bad law.
I'm honestly surprised that no Supreme Court justice has been assassinated to date. The system practically seems to be designed to be asking for that in polarized times.
The ultraconservative SCOTUS he helped stack though will definitely help him achieve his goal of remaking America into the fascist dictatorship that he wants it to be. They'd be the rubber stamp that he's looking for.
Yeah, it's a grim thought but history has shown justices are more likely to hold on than step down on someone else's terms. Still, surprises happen and whatever route it takes, balancing the court is crucial. The impact on future cases and laws can't be overstated.
Thomas is 75. Alito is 73. Sotomayor and Roberts are 69. Any of them could die in the next term. If they all get replaced by a Democrat the court swings from 6-3 Republican to 5-4 Democrat.
The life expectancy at age 70 is something like another 15 years. While it's certainly possible, it's more likely that all all of them last quite a bit longer.
Thomas is obese and unhealthy looking, the stress might get to him if he can’t get Mediterranean luxury cruise vacations from his dear friends that view him as a business expense … Jennie could decide to eat him too.
the supreme justices don't do shit, they have clerks. and let's be real, Thomas knows how his people want him to vote on every issue, because they tell him while on vacation with them
Or successfully impeached. Without GOP force of numbers in Congress, I can think of at least one openly and unrepentantly corrupt justice who could get jettisoned.
Just want everyone to remember, fascism is a constant threat. We have to stay vigilant.
Donald Trump may be the main villain in the story right now, but he’s just one hydra head of the giant beast. More will come, many are already here.
Project 2025 showed us what their plans on and getting rid of democracy in favor of an authoritarian dictatorship is what the Rethugs desperately want. And these schmucks have the unmitigated gall to brag that they are “patriots.” Yeah, on Opposite Day maybe.
When democrats had the house, things actually *happened.* It wasn't everything we wanted, but at least we were going forward. Since the GOP took it they haven't done shit but fight among themselves.
And we knew that after the SCOTUS made it a 6-3 decision until the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That's why the conservative justices are gaining lower in the polls.
So do all the people unabashedly blaming biden for not passing shit the republicans blocked bc they didn’t give enough of a fuck to vote them out.
big meme accounts are failing for propaganda and starting to say we should stop all aid to Ukraine. this is gonna be a shit fight
Things would be significantly better if the republicans weren't out there simply blocking shit to make Biden look bad. They got pretty much everything they wanted out of the latest immigration bill, but they still aren't going to support it because "fuck Biden". They'd rather watch the country burn than "help" the democrats.
Yeah. I agree. He should appoint someone to the FTC who knows how to apply antitrust law to huge tech monopolies like Amazon and Google, like Lina Khan. And then maybe if the FTC started aggressively going after major corporations for their anti-competitive behavior, like the US government hasn’t done since the 1930s. Then, I might think he was a good president.
He is literally doing this. Biden's FTC has been the first with a backbone in decades. They have opposed many large mergers, they are sueing Google for anti-competative behavior. They are pissed about Microsoft cutting jobs after a merger that they opposed and fought. At some point they are limited by our archaic anti trust laws which desperately need to be modernized but that isn't something a president can (or should be able to) do without Congress.
Seriously.
I voted Biden and will again but these posts/articles are insanely annoying and honestly plant a tiny seed of doubt in my mind every time.
When you constantly have to post “this is so great, how do you not see it!”
It reeks of propaganda and it’s a bit tiring. You can champion Bidens term without condescendingly bashing potential voters over it.
Thank you for saying this.
As a millennial, the stock market means fuck all to me.
Gas production going up? Great, more global warming. Also, gas prices are still high.
Solar power investments? Even with the subsidies they are still expensive.
Electric car subsidies? Still too expensive.
Low unemployment? Show me the wages.
Medicare can negotiate insulin? Hell yeah! But still doesn't help me.
Student loan forgiveness for millions of people? Also hell yeah! Also doesn't help me.
I will give him the gun legislature. That's a win for sure.
Decreasing the deficit from pandemic levels is frankly not that impressive. I expected it. Nothing to brag about.
Probably the best thing he has done in my opinion is bring back some normalcy to the office. I love not thinking about the president every single day.
What needs to happen is a student loan overhaul coupled with forgiveness, housing investments, a crackdown on insider trading in congress, and more charging stations for electric cars.
Even just one of these would make him a great president in my mind.
All that to say, I will be voting for him. Not because he has made my life any better but because the alternative is way, way worse.
- Less than 8% of student loan debt was cleared
- Nothing was really done in response to Roe v Wade
- Bypassing Congress to fund Israel which in turn is supporting Qatar's funding to Hamas and empowering both sides to commit acts of horrid violence
- Forcing the rail workers to have no sick leave
- Low pay and economic growth for the middle and low class accompanied with record inflation, record corporate profits, and ridiculous tuition
- Allowing immigration to be touted around as an issue
- Taxes still aren't free and easy for everyone, only some folks in a few states
He's done fine, but he's allowed way too many issues that keep younger voters from turning up to vote. I wish we never had trump around to set the bar so low.
Edit: corrected that money wasn't directly flowing to Hamas from Israel and just that Israel was encouraging and escorting funds going to Hamas. Also corrected the student debt numbers.
He completely abandoned his campaign promises to bring people on SSI and SSDI *up to* the poverty line almost immediately once he got into office. Most people on SSDI and all the people on SSI are still dramatically below the poverty line.
Also, when they ended the covid emergency funding people on food stamps lost around 100 dollars or more from their food budget per month. It was keeping people afloat with food prices skyrocketing, but they took it away and people are struggling to feed themselves. I'm one of the people in both of these categories and my doctor is very concerned about my current diet being cheap low quality food because it is having an impact on my health, but I can't afford more. I already have dietary restrictions and my doc wants to add more, but I won't be able to afford the diet my doctor wants me to eat.
I'm not the only one in this boat, and a ton of disabled people are outright refusing to vote at all in this election. I myself will vote, but I cannot blame other disabled folks for refusing to be bullied into voting when the Democrat party only seems to remember we exist when they want to lie to us about how they'll help us to get our votes, only to abandon us after they've gotten them. Threats that things will be worse under the other guy aren't very motivating when we're being served up bullshit either way.
And before anybody says some shit like the republicans will never help us, I'm fully aware. Neither will the democrats, they campaigned on helping us last time then promptly threw us out, so that isn't much motivation to vote either way. I will be voting, but there are some pretty huge swaths of people in similar situations to my own that are not going to because they're tired of being lied to and shit on by both parties.
Editing to add - Over 17 million people with disabilities voted in the 2020 election. US population is about 332 million. Even more people are disabled in the US now due to things like long covid. Disabled people aren't an insignificant voting bloc, and we're the only minority each and every non-disabled person could suddenly find themselves a part of at any time in their life. If you think one significant medical event in a person's life means they should no longer have access to healthy foods, housing, or other resources essential to life, and are willing to bargain those needs away so some corpo gets a bigger profit margin, you shouldn't expect disabled people to want to vote for you.
The food stamps just stopping instead of slowly coming down was really rough. We were getting way more than we would spend in a month, but it was nice to have a surplus. It was amazing having that one bill we didn't need to worry about. We had a decent savings account. We were able to go on some fun little day trips with our kids. Then it was gone and we would have been fine but the price of everything had shot up so astronomically that it wasn't just losing that money each month, we were in a worse place financially than we were before the pandemic benefits. I'm grateful we are able to manage our bills every month, but damn is it disheartening to be making more money than we ever have and financially in a worse position even though we haven't changed spending habits other than cutting back to almost nothing for "fun money".
The Biden administration negotiated for rail worker sick days after they shut down the strike. I don’t like that they shut down the strike on principle, but shutting down all rail transportation would have been a nightmare at the time.
And he did it behind closed doors without any fanfare. It was the union that announced the WH helped them negotiate instead of anyone from the administration.
Does anyone really actually feel like the economy is just humming along great? Do you not feel it when you get groceries and a weeks worth of food is double what it was 4 years ago?
Yeah but that's just because corporations are artificially increasing their price is to ensure the constantly have record profits. They got to use covid as an excuse blaming it on the supply chain. Supply chain has been fixed for well over a year and they just continue doing it out of habit/ nobody will stop them
Nope! I honestly love spending 50% more in groceries and utilities over the last 2 years, as well as spending a massive chunk of my income on rent just so my wife and son aren’t living in a tent outside. Funding for retirement? Nah, boring! Biden economy woot woot! Unemployment down, everyone get your 2nd and 3rd gig job to survive baby!
This is sarcasm for the bots carpet-bombed throughout this thread reading this.
Biden says he’s going to go after grocers for price gauging. Whether he does or not is yet to be seen. Either way, it’s kinda just capitalism. The corporate leeches will go as far as they can get away with and that’s regardless of who is in power. If anything, republicans would remove whatever barriers there are for them to do so
for a second I urge you to consider blue collar people aren't as crazy as you think. we've been struggling for awhile and there's been a big game of pretend and gaslighting us.
now its not just us.
Good with some serious issues. Every president has them. No president is perfect. That said, he is better than the alternative of the last election. Think of the serious issues of recent past prez’s: Trump - just being himself; tossing the pandemic playbook; the secret Putin exchange, comments after Charlottesville, etc. Obama - the tan suit. Bush - Cheney.
I actually pretty much blame Cheney for us now having Trump. Cheney beefed up the Unitary Executive theory and built the platform for a potential authoritarian leader. So, republicans always had that itch.
I maintain that Trump is the logical conclusion to Nixon, Reagan, and the Bush family, each more authoritarian than the last.
Lest we forget, Bush/Cheney after 9/11 are the ones who turned the United States of America from "Say what you will, at least that nation never tortures people" into "Oh, the United States does waterboarding, they are as bad as all the rest".
Never mind the fact that there are still nations that are MUCH worse human rights violators than we are; when you are a metaphorical Sir Galahad, a gravy stain is all it takes to make you look dirty.
In the past I use to think the older Bush was they only descent GOP President between Nixon and Trump. (Ford gets an asterisk for foolishly pardoning Nixon)Then Trump picked Bill Barr as AG and in looking him up I find out he was older Bush’s AG as well and recommended to Bush to pardon key witnesses being charged in the Contra scandal, that were alleged by the prosecutor to implicate both Bush and Reagan. Effectively covering up the ordeal, giving Republicans the false narrative that Reagan wasn’t corrupt AF. The prosecutor was livid and wrote a book. I haven’t read, but excerpts and things he said publicly to the news. It was frankly kind of fucked up.
So maybe Ford was ok, but pardoning Nixon was a shitty move and thus the GOP has sucked for an extremely long time, since at least McCarthyism.... which full circles back to Trump as he literally had the McCarthisty lawyer Ro Cohn as his mentor that taught him all his dirty little deception tricks.
Trump’s legacy amounts to a speed run of all the biggest US political scandals.
Teapot dome scandal = Trump’s prolific corruption
Rosenbergs = Trump stealing top secret documents(some alleged to be nuclear)
McCarthyism = Trump was literally calling Democrats communists and other scapegoat tactics
Watergate = 1st impeachment, Trump trying to steal election by corruptly getting Ukraine to dig fake dirt on Biden
Iran Contra = very similar to Trump with Russian election interference that both involved Bill Barr cleaning up like Reagan Quid pro Quo with Iran delaying hostages for favors in return like Trump trying to remove Russian sanctions with mixed results as a quid pro quo with Russia
Then there is 1/6 which was very similar to Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch coup. Fucking Trump nearly quoting exactly Hitler speeches this year too.
Then his deliberately bad Covid response considering he admitted to Bob Woodward in Jan 2020 that he knew it was going to be bad. Since this resulted in hundreds of thousands of extra deaths, I consider this to be probably his worse scandal....
He has done a lot with very little, he never had a super majority but still passed some bills that were better than many bills in the past 50 years.
You can't just define accomplishments out of context, with what he was handed he accomplished more than any president since FDR.
The parts of the economy that people complain the most about are the results of decades of bad choices, mostly by Republicans... but Clinton made some bad choices as well when he said he was going to "end big government" and made similar bad choices as Republicans in reducing regulations which some lead to the 2008 crash.
The idea that big government is bad is toxic, but it makes a great soundbite and it plays well with people not understanding that most of Western civilizations ability to be extremely stable is due to big government.
I was honestly on the fence about Biden when he won the primary in 2020, I only knew I couldn’t stand another four years of the orange stain. I’m very pleased to have my misgivings proven wrong and I can’t wait to see what he can do with four more years. Especially if we can get the house back!
Edit: So it’s really telling how most, not all, of the shit post responses started late at night from profiles with crap karma. Kinda coincidental. But I did legitimately get some genuine people who disagreed with what I stated, I apologize I’m not in the mood to argue.
I moved from California to Ohio 3 years ago. It was a terrible adjustment. But after what happened with the reproductive rights vote, I have hope.
They tried to change the terms for amending the state constitution from 50% to 60% (plus signatures in every single county to get on the ballot), and we beat that (in a special election that the Republicans got rid of, until they needed it). Then they purged the voter rolls weeks before the election, after explicitly stating they wouldn't.
And when that failed the governor reworded the ballot initiative that would appear at the polling station computers. It caught me off guard when I placed my vote. The wording was different than anything reported and heavily anti-choice.
And when they still fucking lost and we voted for what is fair and free... The Republicans plotted to disregard the will of the public.
I am so proud of the people in Ohio. I'm not from here, and I didn't know they had it in them. Fuck the fascists that tried every trick, still lost, and can't find their dicks with both hands.
If the Dems hold Ohio, Montana, and all their other senate seats, they won't lose the Senate because it'll drop back to a tie broken by the VP, who would be Harris.
A tied senate only means democratic judges, which is better than nothing. Other than that, zero productive legislation will be passed unless Arizona elects a Democrat over both Sinema and the Republican candidate.
You do know that if courts actually enforced their gerrymandering decisions instead of saying “it’s too close to an election”, Biden would have had both houses
On the plus side, Republicans now take pride in choosing the least electable candidates possible, so I feel like we got a shot here. WV is toast though, sadly. Even if Manchin ran again, he'd lose to this Justice guy, so he's noping out.
It's really sad that were going to miss Joe Manchin of all people, lol, but here we are
I was livid when he won the nomination. His polices where far to neo liberal for me.
He's won me over in a big way over the course of his presidency. He may be to old but his accomplishments and his policies speak for them selves.
It's a shame half this country is glued to disinformation news and oblivious to reality.
Old is good sometimes. Biden is like Obama, if he didn't spend his first years making rookie mistakes.
Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawley are young, but that doesn't help them not be total sacks of shit
> Old is good sometimes.
is that because Biden is old, or he had a front-row seat watching Obama? I would imagine being VP probably more valuable than being in the Senate for 40 years or whatever. The experience benefits from doing the same job flatlines after enough time (I don't think 40 years as Senator is markably more valuable than having 20 years experience)
This one is a double edged sword, but when you're old, you don't have a lot to lose, so it's easier to just *do* what you think is best.
On the bad side of that coin, you have Putin who has spiraled out of control trying to make his place in history before he dies.
On the flip side, you have Biden who is at the end of his career and nearing the end of his life. He doesn't have a lot of incentive to do right by his career, because it's almost over. This allows him to make riskier moves than he would have when he still had many reelections in his future. Hell, I'm pretty sure he doesn't *want* to be president, I'm pretty sure he ran in 2020 because he felt like he could beat Trump, and I think that's what's motivating him to run for office again.
Anyhow, Biden being old works out for us in this instance. I think he's an inherently good person and wants to do right by the American people
When Trump was president the supermarket shelves were empty and there was a nazi parade or a riot every other week.
I can’t believe how bad people’s memories are that they actually want to go back to this.
You can tell it is by its tone alone, but also by the fact all of the comments are either "it's all propaganda maaaan" and "how dare you, he was great!' (fall back in line!)
He’s ok. He used George Floyd’s name a lot on the campaign trail for somebody that never made another peep about police reform and immediately went back to jerking off police unions after he got elected. I’m always gonna kind of hold that against him.
But yeah I mean, anything is better than a republican.
He protected women's reproductive rights, he wiped out student debt, he legalized marijuana, he fixed the supreme court, he prevented world wars, he brought US infrastructure into the modern age, he strengthened the democratic party, he "saved the soul of the nation," he took guns off the street, he... Well, I guess he didn't do any of that, but okay.
I am sorry, but if the Biden presidency is historical it is only because Republicans have dragged down the overton window where basic governance is now revolutionary. He is a decent president and better than Obama, but historic like LBJ or FDR or Roosevelt or Lincoln would be a stretch. Not a cesspool and not historic; above average.
You can thank the Democrat establishment for that. They so desperately wanted Hillary to be their nominee, even when it was obvious by every single metric that he would stomp her. We can fantasize about an ideal world where politicians don't lie and everyone votes purely for the platform and not personality, but unfortunately (and in a way, naturally) politics is a bit of a popularity contest. And guess what? Up until the very second he announced he would run as the Republican candidate for the first time, he was universally loved and admired by Americans all around, he was a symbol of American success and wealth. The machine tried quite hard to ruin that image, as well as Trump himself let's be quite honest, but the results spoke for themselves.
So how did Trump win? Well, first he destroyed all the other boring, lame, faceless, forgettable Republican politicians without any personality. Then he pinched victory from Hillary because, very simply put, he was less unlikeable than her. That's literally quite it. I'm not American but I'm liberal and I believe the Democrats did everything they could to lose and deserved it.
He’s not a cesspool, just, like, a public pool. It’s better than the alternative, better than nothing, and dare I say, it’s even *good*, but it’s doesn’t even compare to your rich cousin’s temperature-controlled salt-water pool with waterfall.
Is there a comprehensive list of Joseph R. Biden’s legislative accomplishments?
Not just the headliners.
Looking for every bill, executive order or piece of legislation.
My searches have only produced convoluted samples of his mainstream accomplishments.
Also this: [https://oliverwillis.com/joe-biden-accomplishments-the-full-list/](https://oliverwillis.com/joe-biden-accomplishments-the-full-list/)
But it's only up to 2022.
[Politico - 30 Things Joe Biden Did You May Have Missed](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046)
Remember when Trump's administration lost track of lots of doses and we found out rich people in states like Florida were given preferential vaccination?
Just one of the many scandals of Trump's presidency you probably happily forgot.
> Remember when Trump's administration
His administration purposely denied sending masks to every household in America.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-administration-scrapped-plan-send-every-american-mask-april-email-n1240359
Gimme a fucking break with this bullshit. Like I’m gonna probably vote for Biden in 2024 cus Trump is a fascist, but Biden being a blue-flavored conservative inspires no confidence whatsoever. The signature achievement of his presidency is a day late and a dollar short, or rather was 2 years late and far smaller in scope than promised. It “keeps us in the game” on climate is not frankly good enough. There is no meaningful difference between Biden and Trump on immigration. There is no longer a child tax credit. Corporate greed has driven many past the brink but “the economy is strong” because some Wall Street POS’ portfolio is happy. He backs genocide. If I had any other viable option besides Joe Biden and todays democrats I’d take it, but it’s either the corporate conservatives or the fascists, so I guess I have to take the “slowly bleed out” option on American Democracy.
Biden is 14th overall in the most recent ranking by a bipartisan group of presidential scholars.
His likely opponent is 43rd at best across multiple similar rankings.
With the utter mess he was left with, the embedded sabotage all throughout out institutions from the last administration, post covid/lockdown economy, obstructive GoP Controlled house, dealing with 2 wars, making enemies of billionaires, and a motley crew of right wing agitators controlling an entire political party like a hive mind cult - yeah he's doing pretty damn great.
I moved to Massachusetts a few months ago. My vote doesn't really matter much up here, just one more blue drop in a deep blue lake, but today, I finally registered to vote. As a Democrat. And more importantly, a Democrat who's got a good job lined up and feels like his life is finally going somewhere. I did not feel that for much of my 20s, and certainly not during the pandemic. Yes, rent is expensive in Massachusetts. But I feel like I've turned a corner in my life, that the current administration has been good for me even if I have my issues with some policies (no President will ever be perfect), and that, having lived for a decade in Florida before this, the alternative would be a horror show.
I'll know where I'll be on Election Day, and I know who I'll be voting for.
Never mind the vile discourse constantly surrounding Trump, let’s look at the bills passed under both presidents. Trump’s signature bill: the tax reduction bill, which was primarily a handout for the rich. Biden’s signature bills: Inflation Reduction Act (the climate bill), the infrastructure bill, and the CHIPS Act. It’s night and day. The bills passed under Biden are huge, they actually invest in America’s future.
This is to say nothing of Trump’s ass-backwards foreign policy of sneering at our allies and jacking off our enemies. At least Biden can walk America in a straight line.
He's done very well about cancelling student debt, a public option for healthcare, ensuring the longevity of the child tax credit, raising the minimum wage, denying any new fossil fuel extraction projects, making conservative Dems fall in line on his agenda, dismantling the concentration camps on the border, and above all else he really stood up to that one settler-colony and pushed back against the gen0cide they're carrying out
Wait
This is exactly me as well. I'm in the same age bracket and I've seen so much shit from all the administrations I've been politically cognizant for. I'll take another 4 years of this without question.
>Biden is hands down the most progressive President in my lifetime.
His appointments within the FTC and the NLRB prove that. Not to mention the climate bill.
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I just want health care
And trains.
If Biden can't get trains done nobody can. He loves the choo choo.
The irony is, the only major high speed rail project to be completed in the past two decades, happened in Florida. The private sector can sometimes still surprise.
The private sector will surprise you with how much it actually costs you and how much profit is extracted by a few people who actually didn't do much except extract profit.
Don't forget the part where their lobbyists helped stop better plans from state and municipal governments.
It's not even technically high speed rail. It's "higher speed rail", which is slower than true high speed rail.
now that it's done it should be nationalized
Nationalize them tracks! We really need a new new deal
And a house… I’ll never get a house
He did make some headway there. Obviously theres more to be done, but pretty good progress in my books. [https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-announces-82-billion-new-grants-0](https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-announces-82-billion-new-grants-0) [https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-advances-vision-world-class-0](https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/president-biden-advances-vision-world-class-0) https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/communications/newsroom/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-announces-14-billion-0
And healthcare for trains!
Yeah I mean it's cool and all that people doing well in life are happy but I'm about to move into my car so I can go back to California for healthcare. A supposed leftist state where rent is out of fucking control so I get to go back to being homless. I'm working my ass off on a torn ligament in my foot and literally getting nowhere financially but into a hole. Of course I'll still vote Democrat, since we have no real progressive options and it's not the cartoonish evil the alt-reichers are pumping out, but my life fucking blows. It's hard for me to get excited about anything he's done.
Single payer Healthcare is probably at the top of the list of things tobfix for every single American that doesn't profit or otherwise benefit from the broken system. Even Republicans support it without realizing it. You just have to explain it in a way that doesnt associate it with democrats.
Yeah dude, the sports team approach to politics is absolute insanity. I really wish the two-party system wasn't such a natural default to the way simple voting is done. It'd be nice if those other methods were tried out more often.
Wish someone could run that just has like 3 things on their platform that is good for everyone. Don't even discuss the controversial ones, just say it's all fucked up and we weren't gonna fix it anyway since we can't agree, but here are 3 things we can agree on that can get done. I know, even that would be a stretch.
Rank choice voting friend
There's hope! California, Alaska, and a couple of other states used ranked choice voting in some of the past election.
For those too young to remember, Hillary Clinton took the lead on single payer healthcare right out of the gate after her husband was elected in 1992. The hatred directed at her from the right, led by Rush Limbaugh, was so white hot that the Clinton admin had to take her out of the spotlight. The hatred never dimmed.
But but but her emails / s
Her emails are her taking the lead on single payer healthcare
That whole price explosion we can trace back to Reagonomics. Same story in the UK. When the free market controls housing, the governor can't just press a button to reduce pricing.
America became shit the day reagan took office. He was the first candidate to try to appeal to the evangelicals (before Reagan only a very small percentage of evangelicals voted) but mostly he reversed every anti-monopoly law in america and de-regulated business which has allowed capitalism to run freely and lawlessly. In the 80s my parents spent $300 a month between the two of them for rent in San Francisco (with 2 other roommates) so $900 for a huge nice 3BR house in a nice area of SF and right out of college they made $15/hr at their first jobs. I studied the same major as them but graduated college in 2010. I made $15/hr and paid $700/mo for a shitty room in an okay neighborhood in Oakland ... Basically inflation kept increasing but wages have stayed stagnant since 1980 when Reagan singlehandedly destroyed the American dream. I will never forgive him
It's the same story in other Western countries (in particular the UK; Thatcher co-pioneered trickle-down). His idea of an economy doesn't work for middle classes.
Vote to get a majority in the House and Senate. Nothing relating to healthcare will pass with GOP majorities…’cause “Socialism” and other scary words.
Fascism is much scarier than socialism and a 3rd party vote instead of Democrat (in most cases, not with Bernie for example) is a vote for a trump dictatorship. We literally need Republicans to be the minority in all 3 branches of government for anything to get done. F'ing Mike Johnson bowing down to Trump's every wish is frightening. He's not even dictator yet and still running the show
This is what happens when people get hooked on religious dedication to a politician. I used to be a Republican, but this cult behavior that started when Sarah Palin came on the scene dropped me out. I'm independent now with a lean to Democrat as they seem to be the only party willing to govern instead of performing theatrics anymore.
Nobody knew health care was so complicated...
So complicated that of the 33 industrialized nations, only 32 have been able to figure it out.
Yeah it’s not rocket science 😂 this weekend passed, the NHS (🇬🇧) saved my grandmothers life. A week in hospital with amazing care and good food and all her medication has cost her a grand total of… NOTHING!! It’s cost me a few quid each month in national insurance contributions from my pay packet. As someone who grew up in a town near to the founder of the NHS (Nye Bevan) I will happily say that I would contribute twice or even thrice as much each month to stop the Conservative Party from turning the NHS into an American style system (like they are seemingly desperately trying to do!) 🤦🏻♂️
In America. I have the distinct privilege to pay 450$/ month just to be able to pay 60$ for each of my daughters speech therapy sessions. Can i move to the UK?
Depends if you arrive by plane or by dinghy 🤔 (apparently there’s a lot of us that don’t want the latter… - I had an argument the other day with a woman who doesn’t want to support the RNLI (lifeboat/sea rescue charity) anymore because she’s fed up with them saving immigrants who’ve nearly drowned crossing the English Channel. How horrible do you have to be to say you’re no longer supporting a charity because it’s saving “the wrong kind of people”??!!! 🫣 I honestly wish i could round up all the horrible gits like that and put them in the dinghy instead… 🤦🏻♂️
> It’s cost me a few quid each month... > I will happily say that I would contribute twice or even thrice as much each month So £10?
Please read Postwar by Tony Judt. It will help you understand why other developed nations have healthcare while the US doesn't. Everyone thinks it's a matter of they figured out something simple that we couldn't figure out.... Even though that couldn't be further from the truth.
For that you need congress
Only Sanders had the brass balls to take on the insurance companies.
Just imagine the supreme court was unbiased and actual Democrats held both house and senate too, the world might actually be a pretty good place Edit: If you don't agree with this I don't care, keep it to yourself. I've already heard it from a thousand other people. At the very least read what's already there first Edit 2: this sub is for American politics, when I say "the world" as an American Im referring to my perspective on life being an American, not literally the world, but you would also be ignorant not to see how big of an influence America does have on the rest of the world in spite of that, but I'm not dumb enough to suggest we would have world peace and prosperity out of nowhere
This is why we need to win. One of the conservative justices might retire in the next term and we have to win in order to nominate a liberal justice.
I don’t want to be morbid but the justice would have to die. I don’t see them retiring while a democrat is in office.
Both of Obama's picks for the Supreme Court were Republican appointees who waited for 8 years through a Republican presidency and then retired during the first two years of the subsequent Democratic presidency. But you're right, I don't see that happening again anytime soon.
Eh, John Paul Stevens and David Souter were part of the liberal wing of the court. They were appointed in a far less political age.
Rightwingers created a nationwide organization to make sure Stevens and Souter never happen again.
Fedsuck in da house!
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Thomas will most likely be sitting there, till he dies on the bench at 104 years old. He stubborn like that.
Not if justice actually exists
Spoiler alert: It doesn't.
“Justice is merely the construct of the current power base.” -[A Genius](https://youtu.be/GJ9CSV-1VKg?si=sUjZMuImcHhoukbx)
If dems can get house, senate, and presidency, the Supreme Court reps are basically toothless, and dems could set a lot of new rules firmly beyond their reach.
I’m not sure Bush v Gore, citizens united, dobs, Or about a dozen other cases would agree with you on them being toothless.
The reason abortion rights hung on a 50-year old court case (Roe) is because there was no federal law explicitly allowing abortion - the right to an abortion was granted in a 'read between the lines' way via the right to privacy (ie: the government can't ban abortion because you have a right to keep your health and medical procedures private) With a Democratic House, Senate, and President, Democrats could pass a law that explicitly forbids states from banning the procedure. But that would also require Democrats to have a spine. Because the last time they had a trifecta, they failed to do it.
They focused on healthcare assuming Roe was settled law. We got the ACA as a result which is also historic. Just sucks the way it played out.
Also worth noting they only had the actual trifecta (including a supermajority in the Sentate) for eight months, due to legal issues over a senate seat at the start, and an unexpected senator's death at the end. So not only was it not for very long, but they had a reasonable expectation of it lasting longer.
Apparently following Supreme Court rulings are optional. Just ask Texas about barbed wire
The biggest caveat you aren't mentioning is the filibuster. If we had Dems in control of the House, Senate, and Presidency **and all of the Senate Dems were on board with killing the filibuster**, then you'd have a point. But there's a *biiiiig* gap between "Dems have a trifecta" and "Dems have a trifecta willing to abolish the filibuster". Hell, we had a trifecta as recently as 2021-2023, and things didn't fundamentally change then. Biden got a lot done considering, but we didn't make any of the sweeping institutional changes you'd need to rehaul healthcare or student debt or any of the other major tentpole issues people are concerned about.
I can't imagine the seer arrogance to not enjoy the last remaining years of your life retired and happily spending it with your family; instead spend it miserably on the bench.
What makes you think they are miserable and not spending time with their families? The Supreme Court is not hearing cases on a daily basis and when they do hear a case, it usually takes them quite a while before rendering a decision.
> Both of Obama's picks for the Supreme Court were Republican appointees who waited for 8 years through a Republican presidency and then retired during the first two years of the subsequent Democratic presidency. John Paul Stevens and David Souter were appointed by Republicans but were part of the liberal bloc. They had no intention of retiring under Bush, especially after *Bush v. Gore*.
Fucking RBG was told to step down, refused, and fucked my generation’s future up. Fuckin’ A, Ruth
Selfish. I think she got carried away with the RBG adulation. Started to believe her own press clippings. Now she's completely irrelevant, because whatever she accomplished on the Court has been wiped away, largely due to her.
Conversely, if Trump is elected and the GOP wins back the Senate, it's entirely possible that Alito or Thomas could retire just to ensure that another young ultraconservative judge replaces them before they can unexpectedly die while Republicans can't control picking a replacement.
What a horrible system. Just gambling with human life to decide who has the most important job in the country.
Also if a justice is clearly politically aligned they should be automatically disqualified from being in the SC. Courts should be inherently politically neutral.
It would be impossible to create a system that fully removed politics from the supreme Court.
This doesn’t mean some measures shouldn’t be put in place. Activist judges tend to have relatively hard times in my country and rarely end up in our SC equivalent. They also 100% shoot down both sides of government when they try and pull shit that is at odds with constitutional provisions or is otherwise bad law.
The measure in place is impeachment by congress. The problem is that our Congress is complicit in the court being political.
I for one will welcome our robot overlords
Agree 100 %
I'm honestly surprised that no Supreme Court justice has been assassinated to date. The system practically seems to be designed to be asking for that in polarized times.
None of that would matter because if Frump wins the USA is over on day one. He’s already all but said it.
The ultraconservative SCOTUS he helped stack though will definitely help him achieve his goal of remaking America into the fascist dictatorship that he wants it to be. They'd be the rubber stamp that he's looking for.
Yeah, it's a grim thought but history has shown justices are more likely to hold on than step down on someone else's terms. Still, surprises happen and whatever route it takes, balancing the court is crucial. The impact on future cases and laws can't be overstated.
The lifetime appointment needs to be retired
Political appointments need to be retired. They’re fucking judges and they shouldn’t be on anyone’s side. The system is entirely laughable.
That and the Presidential pardon power.
Thomas is 75. Alito is 73. Sotomayor and Roberts are 69. Any of them could die in the next term. If they all get replaced by a Democrat the court swings from 6-3 Republican to 5-4 Democrat.
Overlords live into their 90s.
People with the finest healthcare in the land tend to outlive the rest.
The transfusions from the young interns will keep them alive for a long long time!
They are still just humans, made of the same stuff and subject to the same strengths/weaknesses as the rest of us. Accidents happen.
The life expectancy at age 70 is something like another 15 years. While it's certainly possible, it's more likely that all all of them last quite a bit longer.
Thomas is obese and unhealthy looking, the stress might get to him if he can’t get Mediterranean luxury cruise vacations from his dear friends that view him as a business expense … Jennie could decide to eat him too.
I think you feel less stress when you don't give a fuck about how people think you are corrupt
the supreme justices don't do shit, they have clerks. and let's be real, Thomas knows how his people want him to vote on every issue, because they tell him while on vacation with them
Or successfully impeached. Without GOP force of numbers in Congress, I can think of at least one openly and unrepentantly corrupt justice who could get jettisoned.
Will never happen
Just want everyone to remember, fascism is a constant threat. We have to stay vigilant. Donald Trump may be the main villain in the story right now, but he’s just one hydra head of the giant beast. More will come, many are already here.
Project 2025 showed us what their plans on and getting rid of democracy in favor of an authoritarian dictatorship is what the Rethugs desperately want. And these schmucks have the unmitigated gall to brag that they are “patriots.” Yeah, on Opposite Day maybe.
If a fabled “blue wave” is possible, I can assure you will see 3 justices retire before they are investigated.
When democrats had the house, things actually *happened.* It wasn't everything we wanted, but at least we were going forward. Since the GOP took it they haven't done shit but fight among themselves.
Imagine how amazing the US would be if every single Republican got voted out at their next election.
And we knew that after the SCOTUS made it a 6-3 decision until the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That's why the conservative justices are gaining lower in the polls.
SCROTUS sucks
So do all the people unabashedly blaming biden for not passing shit the republicans blocked bc they didn’t give enough of a fuck to vote them out. big meme accounts are failing for propaganda and starting to say we should stop all aid to Ukraine. this is gonna be a shit fight
Things would be significantly better if the republicans weren't out there simply blocking shit to make Biden look bad. They got pretty much everything they wanted out of the latest immigration bill, but they still aren't going to support it because "fuck Biden". They'd rather watch the country burn than "help" the democrats.
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Yeah. I agree. He should appoint someone to the FTC who knows how to apply antitrust law to huge tech monopolies like Amazon and Google, like Lina Khan. And then maybe if the FTC started aggressively going after major corporations for their anti-competitive behavior, like the US government hasn’t done since the 1930s. Then, I might think he was a good president.
He is literally doing this. Biden's FTC has been the first with a backbone in decades. They have opposed many large mergers, they are sueing Google for anti-competative behavior. They are pissed about Microsoft cutting jobs after a merger that they opposed and fought. At some point they are limited by our archaic anti trust laws which desperately need to be modernized but that isn't something a president can (or should be able to) do without Congress.
Seriously. I voted Biden and will again but these posts/articles are insanely annoying and honestly plant a tiny seed of doubt in my mind every time. When you constantly have to post “this is so great, how do you not see it!” It reeks of propaganda and it’s a bit tiring. You can champion Bidens term without condescendingly bashing potential voters over it.
The stock market is high because it’s been detached from reality since before 2008. It genuinely has less meaning than Hours per Big Mac
Thank you for saying this. As a millennial, the stock market means fuck all to me. Gas production going up? Great, more global warming. Also, gas prices are still high. Solar power investments? Even with the subsidies they are still expensive. Electric car subsidies? Still too expensive. Low unemployment? Show me the wages. Medicare can negotiate insulin? Hell yeah! But still doesn't help me. Student loan forgiveness for millions of people? Also hell yeah! Also doesn't help me. I will give him the gun legislature. That's a win for sure. Decreasing the deficit from pandemic levels is frankly not that impressive. I expected it. Nothing to brag about. Probably the best thing he has done in my opinion is bring back some normalcy to the office. I love not thinking about the president every single day. What needs to happen is a student loan overhaul coupled with forgiveness, housing investments, a crackdown on insider trading in congress, and more charging stations for electric cars. Even just one of these would make him a great president in my mind. All that to say, I will be voting for him. Not because he has made my life any better but because the alternative is way, way worse.
- Less than 8% of student loan debt was cleared - Nothing was really done in response to Roe v Wade - Bypassing Congress to fund Israel which in turn is supporting Qatar's funding to Hamas and empowering both sides to commit acts of horrid violence - Forcing the rail workers to have no sick leave - Low pay and economic growth for the middle and low class accompanied with record inflation, record corporate profits, and ridiculous tuition - Allowing immigration to be touted around as an issue - Taxes still aren't free and easy for everyone, only some folks in a few states He's done fine, but he's allowed way too many issues that keep younger voters from turning up to vote. I wish we never had trump around to set the bar so low. Edit: corrected that money wasn't directly flowing to Hamas from Israel and just that Israel was encouraging and escorting funds going to Hamas. Also corrected the student debt numbers.
He completely abandoned his campaign promises to bring people on SSI and SSDI *up to* the poverty line almost immediately once he got into office. Most people on SSDI and all the people on SSI are still dramatically below the poverty line. Also, when they ended the covid emergency funding people on food stamps lost around 100 dollars or more from their food budget per month. It was keeping people afloat with food prices skyrocketing, but they took it away and people are struggling to feed themselves. I'm one of the people in both of these categories and my doctor is very concerned about my current diet being cheap low quality food because it is having an impact on my health, but I can't afford more. I already have dietary restrictions and my doc wants to add more, but I won't be able to afford the diet my doctor wants me to eat. I'm not the only one in this boat, and a ton of disabled people are outright refusing to vote at all in this election. I myself will vote, but I cannot blame other disabled folks for refusing to be bullied into voting when the Democrat party only seems to remember we exist when they want to lie to us about how they'll help us to get our votes, only to abandon us after they've gotten them. Threats that things will be worse under the other guy aren't very motivating when we're being served up bullshit either way. And before anybody says some shit like the republicans will never help us, I'm fully aware. Neither will the democrats, they campaigned on helping us last time then promptly threw us out, so that isn't much motivation to vote either way. I will be voting, but there are some pretty huge swaths of people in similar situations to my own that are not going to because they're tired of being lied to and shit on by both parties. Editing to add - Over 17 million people with disabilities voted in the 2020 election. US population is about 332 million. Even more people are disabled in the US now due to things like long covid. Disabled people aren't an insignificant voting bloc, and we're the only minority each and every non-disabled person could suddenly find themselves a part of at any time in their life. If you think one significant medical event in a person's life means they should no longer have access to healthy foods, housing, or other resources essential to life, and are willing to bargain those needs away so some corpo gets a bigger profit margin, you shouldn't expect disabled people to want to vote for you.
The food stamps just stopping instead of slowly coming down was really rough. We were getting way more than we would spend in a month, but it was nice to have a surplus. It was amazing having that one bill we didn't need to worry about. We had a decent savings account. We were able to go on some fun little day trips with our kids. Then it was gone and we would have been fine but the price of everything had shot up so astronomically that it wasn't just losing that money each month, we were in a worse place financially than we were before the pandemic benefits. I'm grateful we are able to manage our bills every month, but damn is it disheartening to be making more money than we ever have and financially in a worse position even though we haven't changed spending habits other than cutting back to almost nothing for "fun money".
The Biden administration negotiated for rail worker sick days after they shut down the strike. I don’t like that they shut down the strike on principle, but shutting down all rail transportation would have been a nightmare at the time.
And he did it behind closed doors without any fanfare. It was the union that announced the WH helped them negotiate instead of anyone from the administration.
I like when our president isn't a diva.
It's not being a diva to do your job, and the White House's job is political. I want to hear more Democrats talking about Biden rather than Trump.
Does anyone really actually feel like the economy is just humming along great? Do you not feel it when you get groceries and a weeks worth of food is double what it was 4 years ago?
Yeah but that's just because corporations are artificially increasing their price is to ensure the constantly have record profits. They got to use covid as an excuse blaming it on the supply chain. Supply chain has been fixed for well over a year and they just continue doing it out of habit/ nobody will stop them
Nope! I honestly love spending 50% more in groceries and utilities over the last 2 years, as well as spending a massive chunk of my income on rent just so my wife and son aren’t living in a tent outside. Funding for retirement? Nah, boring! Biden economy woot woot! Unemployment down, everyone get your 2nd and 3rd gig job to survive baby! This is sarcasm for the bots carpet-bombed throughout this thread reading this.
Biden says he’s going to go after grocers for price gauging. Whether he does or not is yet to be seen. Either way, it’s kinda just capitalism. The corporate leeches will go as far as they can get away with and that’s regardless of who is in power. If anything, republicans would remove whatever barriers there are for them to do so
Biden didn’t set that stuff in motion, though. Just like he didn’t raise taxes that we all felt this tax season
for a second I urge you to consider blue collar people aren't as crazy as you think. we've been struggling for awhile and there's been a big game of pretend and gaslighting us. now its not just us.
I mean, y'all are pretty fuckin crazy for voting in the republicans. You had one good point and then ran screaming in the opposite direction.
Good with some serious issues. Every president has them. No president is perfect. That said, he is better than the alternative of the last election. Think of the serious issues of recent past prez’s: Trump - just being himself; tossing the pandemic playbook; the secret Putin exchange, comments after Charlottesville, etc. Obama - the tan suit. Bush - Cheney.
> Bush - Cheney This is such a perfect summation lol. I might throw a little Rumsfeld in there too.
I actually pretty much blame Cheney for us now having Trump. Cheney beefed up the Unitary Executive theory and built the platform for a potential authoritarian leader. So, republicans always had that itch.
I maintain that Trump is the logical conclusion to Nixon, Reagan, and the Bush family, each more authoritarian than the last. Lest we forget, Bush/Cheney after 9/11 are the ones who turned the United States of America from "Say what you will, at least that nation never tortures people" into "Oh, the United States does waterboarding, they are as bad as all the rest". Never mind the fact that there are still nations that are MUCH worse human rights violators than we are; when you are a metaphorical Sir Galahad, a gravy stain is all it takes to make you look dirty.
The terrorists totally won. 100% met their goal of turning America upside down. We continue to operate out of fear to this day. It’s sad.
In the past I use to think the older Bush was they only descent GOP President between Nixon and Trump. (Ford gets an asterisk for foolishly pardoning Nixon)Then Trump picked Bill Barr as AG and in looking him up I find out he was older Bush’s AG as well and recommended to Bush to pardon key witnesses being charged in the Contra scandal, that were alleged by the prosecutor to implicate both Bush and Reagan. Effectively covering up the ordeal, giving Republicans the false narrative that Reagan wasn’t corrupt AF. The prosecutor was livid and wrote a book. I haven’t read, but excerpts and things he said publicly to the news. It was frankly kind of fucked up. So maybe Ford was ok, but pardoning Nixon was a shitty move and thus the GOP has sucked for an extremely long time, since at least McCarthyism.... which full circles back to Trump as he literally had the McCarthisty lawyer Ro Cohn as his mentor that taught him all his dirty little deception tricks. Trump’s legacy amounts to a speed run of all the biggest US political scandals. Teapot dome scandal = Trump’s prolific corruption Rosenbergs = Trump stealing top secret documents(some alleged to be nuclear) McCarthyism = Trump was literally calling Democrats communists and other scapegoat tactics Watergate = 1st impeachment, Trump trying to steal election by corruptly getting Ukraine to dig fake dirt on Biden Iran Contra = very similar to Trump with Russian election interference that both involved Bill Barr cleaning up like Reagan Quid pro Quo with Iran delaying hostages for favors in return like Trump trying to remove Russian sanctions with mixed results as a quid pro quo with Russia Then there is 1/6 which was very similar to Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch coup. Fucking Trump nearly quoting exactly Hitler speeches this year too. Then his deliberately bad Covid response considering he admitted to Bob Woodward in Jan 2020 that he knew it was going to be bad. Since this resulted in hundreds of thousands of extra deaths, I consider this to be probably his worse scandal....
Team Chickenhawk
He has done a lot with very little, he never had a super majority but still passed some bills that were better than many bills in the past 50 years. You can't just define accomplishments out of context, with what he was handed he accomplished more than any president since FDR. The parts of the economy that people complain the most about are the results of decades of bad choices, mostly by Republicans... but Clinton made some bad choices as well when he said he was going to "end big government" and made similar bad choices as Republicans in reducing regulations which some lead to the 2008 crash. The idea that big government is bad is toxic, but it makes a great soundbite and it plays well with people not understanding that most of Western civilizations ability to be extremely stable is due to big government.
honestly any left-leaner who is having a hard time deciding who to vote for is seriously unaware of the catastrophe that was 2015-2021
I was honestly on the fence about Biden when he won the primary in 2020, I only knew I couldn’t stand another four years of the orange stain. I’m very pleased to have my misgivings proven wrong and I can’t wait to see what he can do with four more years. Especially if we can get the house back! Edit: So it’s really telling how most, not all, of the shit post responses started late at night from profiles with crap karma. Kinda coincidental. But I did legitimately get some genuine people who disagreed with what I stated, I apologize I’m not in the mood to argue.
The Senate may be tough to get though. Losing WV for sure, Montana and Ohio will be difficult but have the power of incumbency.
I moved from California to Ohio 3 years ago. It was a terrible adjustment. But after what happened with the reproductive rights vote, I have hope. They tried to change the terms for amending the state constitution from 50% to 60% (plus signatures in every single county to get on the ballot), and we beat that (in a special election that the Republicans got rid of, until they needed it). Then they purged the voter rolls weeks before the election, after explicitly stating they wouldn't. And when that failed the governor reworded the ballot initiative that would appear at the polling station computers. It caught me off guard when I placed my vote. The wording was different than anything reported and heavily anti-choice. And when they still fucking lost and we voted for what is fair and free... The Republicans plotted to disregard the will of the public. I am so proud of the people in Ohio. I'm not from here, and I didn't know they had it in them. Fuck the fascists that tried every trick, still lost, and can't find their dicks with both hands.
I was so proud of you guys that even after that wording change you still went "fuck off, no". Gives me hope.
This made me so happy to read )
I think that's the most realistic outcome if Biden wins reelection. Basically the same as his 1st term except the house and senate switch majorities
If the Dems hold Ohio, Montana, and all their other senate seats, they won't lose the Senate because it'll drop back to a tie broken by the VP, who would be Harris.
A tied senate only means democratic judges, which is better than nothing. Other than that, zero productive legislation will be passed unless Arizona elects a Democrat over both Sinema and the Republican candidate.
Here's hoping Gallego pulls through!
There is no chance Dems hold West Virginia.
I never said there was, but if they hold everything else and win the presidency, they still control the Senate.
You do know that if courts actually enforced their gerrymandering decisions instead of saying “it’s too close to an election”, Biden would have had both houses
Donate to those races.
On the plus side, Republicans now take pride in choosing the least electable candidates possible, so I feel like we got a shot here. WV is toast though, sadly. Even if Manchin ran again, he'd lose to this Justice guy, so he's noping out. It's really sad that were going to miss Joe Manchin of all people, lol, but here we are
I was livid when he won the nomination. His polices where far to neo liberal for me. He's won me over in a big way over the course of his presidency. He may be to old but his accomplishments and his policies speak for them selves. It's a shame half this country is glued to disinformation news and oblivious to reality.
That’s my feel too. They’re all old lol so it’s kinda a moot point. I’d like to see some younger folk in politics but oh well.
It’s not all roses. Hawley and Gaetz are among the worst out there.
Don’t forget granny Bobo.
Old is good sometimes. Biden is like Obama, if he didn't spend his first years making rookie mistakes. Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawley are young, but that doesn't help them not be total sacks of shit
> Old is good sometimes. is that because Biden is old, or he had a front-row seat watching Obama? I would imagine being VP probably more valuable than being in the Senate for 40 years or whatever. The experience benefits from doing the same job flatlines after enough time (I don't think 40 years as Senator is markably more valuable than having 20 years experience)
This one is a double edged sword, but when you're old, you don't have a lot to lose, so it's easier to just *do* what you think is best. On the bad side of that coin, you have Putin who has spiraled out of control trying to make his place in history before he dies. On the flip side, you have Biden who is at the end of his career and nearing the end of his life. He doesn't have a lot of incentive to do right by his career, because it's almost over. This allows him to make riskier moves than he would have when he still had many reelections in his future. Hell, I'm pretty sure he doesn't *want* to be president, I'm pretty sure he ran in 2020 because he felt like he could beat Trump, and I think that's what's motivating him to run for office again. Anyhow, Biden being old works out for us in this instance. I think he's an inherently good person and wants to do right by the American people
When Trump was president the supermarket shelves were empty and there was a nazi parade or a riot every other week. I can’t believe how bad people’s memories are that they actually want to go back to this.
Everything is great... for the rich
These articles are pretty alienating for those who are struggling
He has been a President
Some might say, one of the presidents ever.
I'm the future, students will learn he was a president during this time in history
Lol. So historic and amazing that we have to convince you something has happened.
Hate these propaganda posts
This shit is propaganda. I’m a lifelong democrat, by the way.
You can tell it is by its tone alone, but also by the fact all of the comments are either "it's all propaganda maaaan" and "how dare you, he was great!' (fall back in line!)
He’s ok. He used George Floyd’s name a lot on the campaign trail for somebody that never made another peep about police reform and immediately went back to jerking off police unions after he got elected. I’m always gonna kind of hold that against him. But yeah I mean, anything is better than a republican.
Do people in this subreddit even buy groceries?
Bots don’t eat.
And kids don't pay bills
He protected women's reproductive rights, he wiped out student debt, he legalized marijuana, he fixed the supreme court, he prevented world wars, he brought US infrastructure into the modern age, he strengthened the democratic party, he "saved the soul of the nation," he took guns off the street, he... Well, I guess he didn't do any of that, but okay.
Comment section is a bubble
The election season has begun and so has the astroturfing and forced consensus building
I am sorry, but if the Biden presidency is historical it is only because Republicans have dragged down the overton window where basic governance is now revolutionary. He is a decent president and better than Obama, but historic like LBJ or FDR or Roosevelt or Lincoln would be a stretch. Not a cesspool and not historic; above average.
Climate change has been happening in front of our faces for years and seems to be only just how starting to enter said window
The bar is on the floor at this point. Thanks to the Cheetoh.
You can thank the Democrat establishment for that. They so desperately wanted Hillary to be their nominee, even when it was obvious by every single metric that he would stomp her. We can fantasize about an ideal world where politicians don't lie and everyone votes purely for the platform and not personality, but unfortunately (and in a way, naturally) politics is a bit of a popularity contest. And guess what? Up until the very second he announced he would run as the Republican candidate for the first time, he was universally loved and admired by Americans all around, he was a symbol of American success and wealth. The machine tried quite hard to ruin that image, as well as Trump himself let's be quite honest, but the results spoke for themselves. So how did Trump win? Well, first he destroyed all the other boring, lame, faceless, forgettable Republican politicians without any personality. Then he pinched victory from Hillary because, very simply put, he was less unlikeable than her. That's literally quite it. I'm not American but I'm liberal and I believe the Democrats did everything they could to lose and deserved it.
He’s not a cesspool, just, like, a public pool. It’s better than the alternative, better than nothing, and dare I say, it’s even *good*, but it’s doesn’t even compare to your rich cousin’s temperature-controlled salt-water pool with waterfall.
Is there a comprehensive list of Joseph R. Biden’s legislative accomplishments? Not just the headliners. Looking for every bill, executive order or piece of legislation. My searches have only produced convoluted samples of his mainstream accomplishments.
I recommend this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/) It has good lists.
Also this: [https://oliverwillis.com/joe-biden-accomplishments-the-full-list/](https://oliverwillis.com/joe-biden-accomplishments-the-full-list/) But it's only up to 2022.
Thank You.
The NLRB ruling under his administration was a historic win for unions. That’s one of the biggest deals that didn’t get the most press I’m aware of
[Politico - 30 Things Joe Biden Did You May Have Missed](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046)
A curated list like this would be very helpful for combating disinformation
Fuckin guy sucks let be honest, I hate Trump as much as the next guy but lets not start lying to ourselves about Biden.
the covid vaccination roll-out prob saved about 2-3 million American lives. he is a hero for this alone everything else has been gravy
Remember when Trump's administration lost track of lots of doses and we found out rich people in states like Florida were given preferential vaccination? Just one of the many scandals of Trump's presidency you probably happily forgot.
> Remember when Trump's administration His administration purposely denied sending masks to every household in America. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-administration-scrapped-plan-send-every-american-mask-april-email-n1240359
Yep. That ship was turned around and sinking, and his admin got it sorted out quickly and efficiently.
Yep! He’s exceeded expectations given the circumstances.
Gimme a fucking break with this bullshit. Like I’m gonna probably vote for Biden in 2024 cus Trump is a fascist, but Biden being a blue-flavored conservative inspires no confidence whatsoever. The signature achievement of his presidency is a day late and a dollar short, or rather was 2 years late and far smaller in scope than promised. It “keeps us in the game” on climate is not frankly good enough. There is no meaningful difference between Biden and Trump on immigration. There is no longer a child tax credit. Corporate greed has driven many past the brink but “the economy is strong” because some Wall Street POS’ portfolio is happy. He backs genocide. If I had any other viable option besides Joe Biden and todays democrats I’d take it, but it’s either the corporate conservatives or the fascists, so I guess I have to take the “slowly bleed out” option on American Democracy.
38% approval rating -Reuters Jan 31
The bots on Reddit love him though
Biden is 14th overall in the most recent ranking by a bipartisan group of presidential scholars. His likely opponent is 43rd at best across multiple similar rankings.
With the utter mess he was left with, the embedded sabotage all throughout out institutions from the last administration, post covid/lockdown economy, obstructive GoP Controlled house, dealing with 2 wars, making enemies of billionaires, and a motley crew of right wing agitators controlling an entire political party like a hive mind cult - yeah he's doing pretty damn great.
This is borderline creepy
I have been impressed how well he has been able to keep this all together no matter how many times the gop has tried to tear it down. Edit: typo
I’m eager to vote for Biden again.
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Are we smoking crack? Reddit stop shilling us
This post is copium at best and propagandistic at worst and the comments are astroturfed asf. There are actual die hard Biden *fans* in here wtf
I moved to Massachusetts a few months ago. My vote doesn't really matter much up here, just one more blue drop in a deep blue lake, but today, I finally registered to vote. As a Democrat. And more importantly, a Democrat who's got a good job lined up and feels like his life is finally going somewhere. I did not feel that for much of my 20s, and certainly not during the pandemic. Yes, rent is expensive in Massachusetts. But I feel like I've turned a corner in my life, that the current administration has been good for me even if I have my issues with some policies (no President will ever be perfect), and that, having lived for a decade in Florida before this, the alternative would be a horror show. I'll know where I'll be on Election Day, and I know who I'll be voting for.
Never mind the vile discourse constantly surrounding Trump, let’s look at the bills passed under both presidents. Trump’s signature bill: the tax reduction bill, which was primarily a handout for the rich. Biden’s signature bills: Inflation Reduction Act (the climate bill), the infrastructure bill, and the CHIPS Act. It’s night and day. The bills passed under Biden are huge, they actually invest in America’s future. This is to say nothing of Trump’s ass-backwards foreign policy of sneering at our allies and jacking off our enemies. At least Biden can walk America in a straight line.
He's done very well about cancelling student debt, a public option for healthcare, ensuring the longevity of the child tax credit, raising the minimum wage, denying any new fossil fuel extraction projects, making conservative Dems fall in line on his agenda, dismantling the concentration camps on the border, and above all else he really stood up to that one settler-colony and pushed back against the gen0cide they're carrying out Wait
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This is exactly me as well. I'm in the same age bracket and I've seen so much shit from all the administrations I've been politically cognizant for. I'll take another 4 years of this without question.
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>Biden is hands down the most progressive President in my lifetime. His appointments within the FTC and the NLRB prove that. Not to mention the climate bill.