Honestly a comforting read as someone who isn’t a huge Biden fan. Things are improving! As a person in their early 20’s it’s felt like the world fell apart right as I was entering the work force, nothing has been affordable and crime has been a major worry. Seeing that crime is down and we’re likely going to avoid a worse recession is like having a weight off my shoulders.
Keep it up Biden administration.
I’m also not a huge Biden fan. He’s been in the pocket of the movie and recording industry for most of his political career, and as Vice President helped write treaties that further empower them around the world. I was expecting more of a capitalist liberal and less of a progressive. I wonder if Harris isn’t the mitigating factor here, but in the end he’s still done far better as President than I expected.
Man I hope us Europeans are just going through a phase right now. Here in Germany the population didn’t take green politics well and global disruptions were blamed on the current government so the far right got an uptick in popularity. Other EU-countries also have the far right on the footstep of ruling and some already fell.
I’ll admit I don’t know much about European politics, but from a foreign view it’s scary. I’ve always seen the far right in American politics it’s more or less the status quo, but seeing the far right rise in modern Europe is shocking to me. Most of this is informed by what I’ve seen in the news about what’s been going on in Italy though.
I’d say that Italy is still an outlier and for example in Germany we’re still far far away from a situation like that. There are some early warning signs though and we better collectively get all our shit together.
Propaganda works on the ignorant. Do the world a favor and stop voting.
Let’s just agree to both stay home voting day instead wasting both of our time just to cancel eachother out.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Heading into next year’s presidential election, Republicans have been readying a three-pronged attack: crime soaring in cities, chaos raging at the southern border and prices spiralling out of control everywhere.
Consumer sentiment is at its highest point in two years, according to a survey by the University of Michigan, while both Federal Reserve staff and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office now predict that America will avoid a recession.
Violent offences rose sharply in major cities during the coronavirus pandemic, loomed large during last year’s midterm elections and prompted a backlash against progressives pushing to “defund the police”.
Yet last month, under a new rule that makes it harder to attain full asylum, illegal border crossings fell to the lowest level in more than two years and the issue quickly faded from the news agenda.
Speaking at a manufacturing plant in Auburn, Maine, the president said: “While there is more work ahead, earlier this week, the Washington Post suggested Republicans may have to find something else to criticise me for now that inflation is coming down.
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Heh, I’ll take it as a praise.
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One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treddle.
Since when are Republican decisions or campaigns influenced by facts of any sort?
Biden did a great job of making sure that Roe v Wade could be overturned. Remember in 2008 when it was the number 1 priority and conservative joe, was vice president and the dems had a majority in congress and suddenly it wasn’t that important anymore?
Didn’t Trump do the more important job of ensuring the conservative domination of the court to overturn it? People who didn’t vote because she wasn’t left enough are more to blame from my perspective. Voting for Hillary would have preserved it.
People who supported Hilary during her sham primary she was trying to setup were the problem and still are the problem.
Unlike the last two Democratic presidents, Biden inherited an economy that was, fundamentally, OK, and thanks to an extremely narrow Congressional majority he had a good excuse for not doing anything to help poor people and instead simply spending money to build stuff and create jobs.
He’s also come along at a fortuitous time in foreign relations; China’s antagonized most of its trading partners plus their economy’s spiraling into catastrophe, Russia managed to stitch the EU and NATO back together and get all of our lukewarm allies back to feeling extremely gung-ho about American military assistance, renewable energy is starting to make a real dent in oil politics…
He’s a perfectly competent old-school moderate Democrat and his relationships on the Hill may have made the difference with the infrastructure bill e.g. but he also came into an unusually good situation.
When he took office, 700 people a day were dying of COVID. At the end of his first year, it peeked at 2000 a day. I wouldn’t call that an “unusually good situation.”
Of all the things that could be said about 2020, Biden coming into an unusually good situation is the most disingenuous, even if you are just talking about the economy.
Trump and Republicans blew an insane amount of money and had nothing to show for it among the general population, covid-19 was handled incredibly bad by Trump leading up to that point, and the lame duck president of the United States had just attempted a coup to stay in power.
Framing this time as anything but unprecedented and tumultuousis does not do it justice.
The only thing I care about is student loan forgiveness and so far he’s done fuck all. Until that is handled, as far as I’m concerned his presidency had been mediocre at best to shitty at worst.
so far he’s done fuck all
Come on now you absolutely know he tried to forgive a ton of student debt and you know it was republicans and the right-wing captured supreme court that blocked it. So why are you blaming Biden exactly… I don’t really need an answer I just think you should blame the right people and maybe appreciate where we would be if we didn’t have Biden in the white house.
I feel like some people think he can wave the “Executive Order” wand and there wouldn’t be repercussions or other roadblocks.
Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand.
Problem is, that only works when you have flunkies that can back it up for you. Trump had a horde of goons that were eager to drink the kool-aid and support anything he said, reasonable or not. Biden is working with the opposite, with a congress full of people that will reject anything he says even if it’s a genuinely good idea. Obama struggled with similar problems, being stonewalled by congress.
The Republican party long ago abandoned any pretense of actually governing and has simply become anti-democratic. This, in part, though not completely, is what has halted Biden’s progress, just one in a line of many of his forebears and probably several of his successors unless America collectively pulls its head out of its ass.
“Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand.”
And, honestly, a lot of his executive orders did f*** all because of that. He claimed to have passed an EO to do something, but nothing really happened in actuality, he just got to claim it did.
The Republican party long ago abandoned any pretense of actually governing and has simply become anti-democratic.
I’ve been wondering for years now how long it will take until the majority of your population finally recognizes the fact and hits the streets about it. So far I’ve been dissapointed repeatedly and crushingly. Voting repeately against your own interest seems to be some kind of national sport in the US 🤕
He even exercised his veto power to force student loan forgiveness through. Like if it weren’t for assholes it would have happened.
Blaming the president for the existence of powerful assholes is like blaming the police because an alcoholic ran into your parked car.
I will blame the Biden and every goon in power for the horrible quality of life were all about to feel in September. Full stop.
What exactly do you think is going to happen in the next 30 days?
I would argue that the carrot should not have been dangled unless there was absolute certainty that they would deliver. Otherwise I’m fine with Biden. His experience is underrated, IMO, and I think the guy does want to do good for the country. He is old.
That kind of certainty is unreasonable in this world. Especially while Republicans are dealing in bad faith.
Democrats could do it if they wanted to.
Oh yeah, I’m sure the democrats and Republicans are both locked in a charade. Oh it’s the Republicans fault. Oh no! wink wink
I’m sorry that the issue you care about most has failed, but it’s not like it’s because Biden hasn’t fought for student loan forgiveness. It is not his fault that conservative judges have shut it down.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1176839127/supreme-court-student-loan-forgiveness-decision
Also they keep rolling out new repayment plans and narrower rounds of forgiveness and stuff like that - if the courts won’t let them do it all at once, they’ll keep chipping away bit by bit until they forgive as much debt for as many people as the system will allow.
There are a ton of people who can’t accept progress unless it arrives hand delivered to them in a package that looks exactly the way they imagined with a bow on top.
Progress is progress. I don’t care how it happens. We need to stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good
Yeah, honestly these people can pretty much do anything they want if they want to do it. Democrats could’ve fought about it harder. People commit people to war to die and change the lives of others every day. If they wanted to do something, they could do it. It’s no excuse. This is all a charade.
It’s the Republicans fault wink wink
I see that enlightened centrism has entered the chat.
Goodbye.
On one end, I believe most of us can see the republican party is outright embarrassing this idea that they hurt the poor.
On the other hand, a leader is defined by his successes, not his failures. No matter how charismatic he might be. He is already clearing student debt in a different ways, So I am not counting him out yet.
But I also know the dangers of overpraising democrats for starting a project and not finishing it.
He hasn’t done shit for me so yeah, nah, he’s done fuck all. When September comes and the economy comes crashing down we’ll see how forgiving everyone is.
He did everything within his power to do, so if you feel he did “fuck all”, then look to all the other branches that got it shut down.
Vote in more people who have your interests, don’t blame the person who tried to do something.
Liberals are so fucking predictable lmfao “just vote harder” 🤣
Well wtf are you going to get out of getting mad at someone who very clearly got shut down trying to do something?
I’m not mad lol I just think your idea of voting to save the future is funny.
If voting doesn’t work, why are Republicans trying so hard to keep us from doing it?
He did everything in his power that wasn’t politically risky, but not literally everything.
I don’t blame him. If he did some of the more risky things that I’ve heard of, I think it would have either resulted in impeachment or civil war lol
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One thing he hasn’t tried is to ignore the Supreme Courts decisions. Republicans are already doing it, so turnabout is fair play.
Another thing he hasn’t tried is to use the power of his public reach to rally supporters and call them to action. This is something Trump did to great effect, leading to all those MAGA moms invading town halls and school board meetings and getting the GOP agenda pushed through.
Stuff like that. It’s all way too extreme and would destabilize the country, be he could technically do it.
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We’ll see.
My point is, Biden doesn’t even try stuff like this; he doesn’t do risky things that might lead to political backlash. He plays it safe and obeys the political norms, and within those limitations does everything he can. I understand his strategy, even if I disagree with it.
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This isn’t a fair comment and your recent comments acknowledging the pause on interest prove that you know enough that you should realize it.
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Conservatives are to blame for student loan forgiveness not being enacted. By the way, his backup plan is a huge step, despite conservatives attempts to make students suffer. You will still being paying very little in loan repayments, and in some cases absolutely nothing (depending on income). I don’t know how this is being so over-looked, but it’s still a huge win.
(From the official whitehouse website)
Borrowers will only pay a maximum of 5% of discretionary income monthly.
Raise the amount of income that is considered non-discretionary income and therefore is protected from repayment, guaranteeing that no borrower earning under 225% of the federal poverty level—about the annual equivalent of a $15 minimum wage for a single borrower—will have to make a monthly payment under this plan.
Forgive loan balances after 10 years of payments, instead of 20 years, for borrowers with original loan balances of $12,000 or less. The Department estimates that this reform will allow nearly all community college borrowers to be debt-free within 10 years.
Not charge borrowers with unpaid monthly interest, so that unlike other existing income-driven repayment plans, no borrower’s loan balance will grow as long as they make their monthly payments—even when that monthly payment is $0 because their income is low.
I can’t believe the absurd neoliberal replies you’re getting. Dude literally WROTE the legislation that put us in this student loan predicament and his son was given $250,000 by MBNA the following year.
And for everyone saying Biden tried his best, He INTENTIONALLY lost the battle to forgive student loans, you stupid dupes!
https://www.gq.com/story/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/biden-bankruptcy-president/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-2005-act-2020
