Genuine question for you, what good stuff has Biden done for you? My life is worse now in almost every way than it was pre-COVID and nothing in Biden’s track record shows that he plans on reversing that for me.
Biden, like Trump, is a garbage neolib whose biggest accomplishments are funneling more public dollars to the 1% via ridiculous, inefficient contracts, who, unlike Trump, just so happens to not want to kill gay people. The billionaire class is the single greatest threat to Americans and he’s done nothing tangible to address or solve that problem.
My life is worse now in almost every way than it was pre-COVID
That’s an interesting choice of timeframe. My life has changed a lot since before Covid, too. Can you list some specific ways yours changed that are Biden’s fault?
nothing in Biden’s track record shows that he plans on reversing that for me.
Sure, I’ll copy-paste:
He took the biggest action on climate change in US history; the goal of the climate bill is to put us on track for a 40% reduction in US emissions by 2030. It’s way too late but that’s clearly not Biden’s fault since he started fighting for it basically as soon as he got into office, and managed to achieve passed legislation which is several standard deviations above the norm for “let’s ignore it until we’re underwater and on fire” US politician status quo.
He ordered the forgiveness of half a trillion dollars in student debt, about a third of the current total balance, and the Supreme Court told him no. He’s still managed to forgive $138 billion worth of it even against stiff Republican “no we need that money to give to Wall Street criminals pls” resistance.
He introduced a bill to legalize marijuana federally, which the Republicans killed in the senate.
He achieved the lowest unemployment in 20 years after having been handed an economy that was still digging out from the apocalypse that was 2020.
I think the first one is probably the biggest one in terms of having a potential impact on me directly. I mean, any amount of change in emissions will probably alter the apocalypse that’s coming within my lifetime, to some degree… it’s a little bit of a hard thing to judge because it’s so abstract and far away, and the outcomes will be so bad regardless that it’s hard to celebrate any amount of “progress” that’s only drawing down the continuing damage that’s added to the pile with every passing year. But specifically because the likely outcomes include so much death and suffering, withdrawing that amount of US emissions will save some large number of human lives way way down the road once the piper starts to ask for the bill in earnest. Whether that’ll include my individual life is obviously impossible to say, but it might.
Biden, like Trump, is a garbage neolib whose biggest accomplishments are funneling more public dollars to the 1% via ridiculous, inefficient contracts
I think it goes without saying that I don’t agree with this. Can you list some specific policies and events, similar to the ones I listed above? Every single one of those is something no US president within my lifetime would have done. Can we keep moving forward from there to get a Bernie Sanders in? Sure! Sounds great. Does that mean he’s a shit sandwich because he only did that much? No. I’m stunned that he was able to get the carbon emissions bills or the student loan forgiveness through the rest of the current US government.
If you’re going to say that all doesn’t count, can you list some harm he’s done? I’m fine to talk about this stuff.
The billionaire class is the single greatest threat to Americans and he’s done nothing tangible to address or solve that problem.
You know he did the 15% minimum corporate tax which took a big bite out of the “big companies paying no tax through tricksy methods” problem, beefed up the IRS to go after rich tax cheats, and his current budget includes more stuff aimed at the millionaire/billionaire class, right?
These folks aren’t operating in good faith.
Have you ever, and I mean ever, seen them point at a deeply divided congress under Biden’s tenure as President? Have they reckoned with the fact that anything Biden does by executive order can just as easily be undone? Do they talk of how America is largely moderate and not at all far left? Look around and see them continue to deny Bernie’s loss of nine years ago, even while they blame Hillary ad nauseam (twice today by my reading.)
There’s little if any good faith coming from these folks, and so they take the cheap, uninformed hits and block their detractors. They know nothing of compromise and little of how governance works, and often can easily be confused for Trump’s own lifeblood.
Genuine question for you, what good stuff has Biden done for you? My life is worse now in almost every way than it was pre-COVID and nothing in Biden’s track record shows that he plans on reversing that for me.
Biden, like Trump, is a garbage neolib whose biggest accomplishments are funneling more public dollars to the 1% via ridiculous, inefficient contracts, who, unlike Trump, just so happens to not want to kill gay people. The billionaire class is the single greatest threat to Americans and he’s done nothing tangible to address or solve that problem.
That’s an interesting choice of timeframe. My life has changed a lot since before Covid, too. Can you list some specific ways yours changed that are Biden’s fault?
Sure, I’ll copy-paste:
I think the first one is probably the biggest one in terms of having a potential impact on me directly. I mean, any amount of change in emissions will probably alter the apocalypse that’s coming within my lifetime, to some degree… it’s a little bit of a hard thing to judge because it’s so abstract and far away, and the outcomes will be so bad regardless that it’s hard to celebrate any amount of “progress” that’s only drawing down the continuing damage that’s added to the pile with every passing year. But specifically because the likely outcomes include so much death and suffering, withdrawing that amount of US emissions will save some large number of human lives way way down the road once the piper starts to ask for the bill in earnest. Whether that’ll include my individual life is obviously impossible to say, but it might.
I think it goes without saying that I don’t agree with this. Can you list some specific policies and events, similar to the ones I listed above? Every single one of those is something no US president within my lifetime would have done. Can we keep moving forward from there to get a Bernie Sanders in? Sure! Sounds great. Does that mean he’s a shit sandwich because he only did that much? No. I’m stunned that he was able to get the carbon emissions bills or the student loan forgiveness through the rest of the current US government.
If you’re going to say that all doesn’t count, can you list some harm he’s done? I’m fine to talk about this stuff.
You know he did the 15% minimum corporate tax which took a big bite out of the “big companies paying no tax through tricksy methods” problem, beefed up the IRS to go after rich tax cheats, and his current budget includes more stuff aimed at the millionaire/billionaire class, right?
These folks aren’t operating in good faith.
Have you ever, and I mean ever, seen them point at a deeply divided congress under Biden’s tenure as President? Have they reckoned with the fact that anything Biden does by executive order can just as easily be undone? Do they talk of how America is largely moderate and not at all far left? Look around and see them continue to deny Bernie’s loss of nine years ago, even while they blame Hillary ad nauseam (twice today by my reading.)
There’s little if any good faith coming from these folks, and so they take the cheap, uninformed hits and block their detractors. They know nothing of compromise and little of how governance works, and often can easily be confused for Trump’s own lifeblood.
You don’t say 🙂
I’m mostly just posting this stuff so that other people can read. Maybe I should get a job with the Biden campaign.
Oh, you are definitely working for the Biden campaign.
It’s still important to give at least the initial response.
If people read one narrative with nothing to counter, it’s in our nature to believe it. Fiction just wouldn’t work otherwise.