Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President

And their propaganda has been so good for the last 60 years that even half the left believes it but think they're immune to it. See motions to every thread in Lemmy

The ones I know think it’s a scheme to bring minority immigrants in and pay them welfare to vote for democrats so they can “destroy us from within” and bring about a worldwide socialist government.

Yep, and a bunch of the things Biden supporters want to tout are making this problem worse, because his economic legislation and climate legislation and healthcare legislation and all the rest is almost entirely just throwing taxpayer money at businesses and hoping it trickles down to us somehow

I would argue the quality has been improving as if late. But kind of hard to blame him for the fact that the world was gripped and massively disrupted a by a pandemic and the financial moves by the fed to stave off an even worse financial melt down led to high inflation. But we're going in the right direction, even if it isn't fast enough for some people.

That has been a trend for decades so it's not going to turn around overnight. He has made some big steps by expanding numerous quality of life programs.

Real wages (i.e. inflation adjusted) have been growing for the last year and are now even with what they were before covid.

He's been a better president than Obama was.

It's not particularly close in my opinion.

I'm hella biased, but the SAVE plan and not accruing interest on student loans as long as you make payments is a huge win.

There's no reason they couldn't have done this under Obama....

Edit: just wanted to mention that this restructuring for student loans had absolutely nothing to do with Congress

I agree too. Obama had charisma and was a great speaker, but policy wise Biden is much better.

If Obama was firmer many current problems would not exist today. But it is easier to say now.

Obama was generally pretty terrible. Obamacare was a disaster and about the only good policies he had were around car emissions, which were significant but still. If you factor in the amount of political capital he had in 2009 it's sad really.

For a president of a war mongering country like the US he is ok. But he is still a president of the US so murdering brown people is a sport for him.

Those facts nobody tells you about?

Do yOuR owN ReSeARcH!!

What is this, the 1900's?

The best propaganda tool is obviously the internet: anonymous, spreads far and wide, can be automated

Imagine being downvoted for telling people to seek the truth in what they’re told.

This is lemmy now.

Facts aren't facts though.

Both sides of Covid had their facts, and after a few years, both sides had to admit they were wrong about certain things.

I think the other problem with only looking at facts is that it ignores the context.

Take 9/11 for example, the fact was terrorists attacked America, end of story.

But it misses the bigger picture; why did they attack America? There are no "facts" here. We can speculate, or we could take them at their word.

I mean, at least with dinosaurs the most I have to worry about is being eaten. With our government there's being eaten AND homelessness!

I'm 37 years old, the bar has been in hell for my entire existence and more than likely a handful of decades prior

I knew I'd forget a bunch of terrible people... There were so many...

Don't forget the blatant nepotism and incompetence from Ivanka and Kushner, etc.

"everything is bad, nothing can ever actually be good"

And the things he could do unilaterally (student loan forgiveness), he absolutely tried to do , but was cockblocked.

Drug schedules are set by the FDA. The FDA is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Health and Human Services is part of the executive branch of the US government. The executive branch is headed by Biden. Short of just waving his hand and magicking the drug classification away, there is still a lot he could do to make it legal.

If you cant hold him accountable for not getting minimum wage increase because he can't do it unilaterally why give him credit for things he cant do unilaterally, like the infrastructure bill? Clearly he didn't do that unilaterally either so why should he get credit? You can't have it both ways.

The President can't reschedule marijuana?

edit:

The Congressional Research Service seems to think he could:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10655

It's astonishing to me the supposed number of "informed" people with their moral purity on Lemmy don't know basic US civics. But hey trendy nicknames worked for the low intelligence maga voters no reason it doesn't work on them. Maybe they'll realize it when Trump takes power again.

Proceedings to add, delete, or change the schedule of a drug or other substance may be initiated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), or by petition from any interested party, including:

The manufacturer of a drug

A medical society or association

A pharmacy association

A public interest group concerned with drug abuse

A state or local government agency

An individual citizen

Not quite unilateral, but seems like he could lean a bit on Becerra and get the re/de-scheduling started. Congress handed that authority to the executive branch years ago.

The Railroad Union was all him. He can raise the minimum wage of federal workers, contractors, and sub contractors. He could have ended the Remain in Mexico program. He could have set the DOJ to monopoly breaking. He could have stopped supplying Israel. He could direct HUD to begin buying housing for direct rental programs...

The list goes on.

Can’t he just sign executive action after executive action and ignore the court like Jackson did?

Keep in mind, the Biden administration continued to negotiate on the unions behalf until the companies capitulated and gave sick days. The rail unions celebrated the victory and gave Biden credit.

Railroad Union buster... People might think he actually broke up the oligopoly on the rails.

Or they have to be willing to use a simple majority to get rid of the filibuster.

We had a majority in congress. But that majority was Democrats, so they found the no votes to maintain the status quo.

He set Harris on that issue early on, which is basically code for "it's not a priority, will probably fail, and I don't want to be associated with failure". Which was kind of self fulfilling, because the VP just doesn't have the stature to strongarm anyone into a reform.

Joe Biden is trapped in the White House. The Republicans refuse to let him out unless he pardons Donald Trump and let him be president. He needs your help but we can help him stop the Republicans from taking over the country.

All he needs is the 16 digits on the front of your mom’s credit card, as well as the 3 digits on the back but you must hurry, he doesn’t have much time.

You mean like all those other times Democrats had majorities and, checks notes, delivered milquetoast Republican bills?

Yes, the Biden presidency has been blissfully "boring". I might have hoped for better, but I'll settle for stagnant compared to 2016-2020.

The article lists a slew of accomplishments that can be touted as the Biden administration's greatest, please feel free to read it.

I know that acting President-like is something that should be a bare minimum expectation of a President, but here we are. I won't lie there are a bunch of things I didn't like from Joe but there are a lot I do, the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act is my top pick. It's the first step in a while that the U.S. got serious in funding public rail transport.

On average, wage growth has outstripped inflation in the last 2.5 years

fair

so most people are better off, income-wise

This doesn't necessarily follow. Is it possible to run inflation vs wage growth for the bottom 2/3 of earners? Top-heavy growth could distort the data.

How many middle class people do you know with 2 jobs and no stock options?

If you hopped jobs yea sure you get a pay bump. Not if you stay.

Anywhere, he would be. Using location as a barometer for left vs right, rather than the actual mechanics proposed, is bourgeois methodology.

If you want to know where democrats fall, leftists are a bigger enemy to them than Republicans and Trump.

Then I'm saying "at least he's not openly fascist but the democratic party still fuckin sucks."

Eh, I'm of two minds about the strike. On the one hand, he got the rail workers their sick days after the fact. On the other, he really pissed me off and threw labor under the bus by making it illegal (again) for them to strike. You can't be a pro labor president and take away labors most powerful tool.

I don't know anything about the BBB.

100% with you on Gaza.

And here comes "No TRUE leftist!"

The right has RINOs so I guess the left gets to have LINOS or something.

I don't think Biden has links to any of the defense contractors profiting from our proxy wars. This isn't a Haliburton situation. And he's been reasonably tough on Israel. There's a reason it's Bernard Sanders who is the only one who can be really tough on them in Washington.

Pepperidge Farm 'members. they can't grow cookies anymore because the oilly water kills the cookie plants.

Remember when "he did that"?

In the election year.

After approving more than Trump did.

I call shenanigans.

So Bidens gotta become more and more conservative to appease moderates

The absence of American support for Israel would not stop the genocide

I'd say cutting out hundreds of millions of dollars in weapon exports would do a hell of a lot to slow it down

His support of Israel is consistent with American foreign policy writ large since 1947.

Israel has never been this bad during our period of close alliance, and it's making us as Americans less safe to stand with them.

This is spot on. Politics is all trolley problems. Biden is the one pulling the lever and there are certainly fair criticisms to be pointed at the set of actions taken within a realpolitik approach to this, but this relationship can be stretched or stressed, not broken. If it breaks, the humanitarian crisis to follow is magnitudes worse than the current conflict.

Holy shit, is this someone who actually understands how foreign policy works AND you're getting upvotes? There may be hope after all.

But seriously, if you read between the lines, the Biden administration has had some of the hardest rhetoric towards Israel in decades. It sounds very minimal in a vacuum but saying things like, "we might stop sending actual weapons and only infrastructure support", is a huge step whether anything is actually done or not. It is very much a threat. The government in Israel absolutely knows what it means as well.

His support of Israel is consistent with American foreign policy writ large since 1947.

"That's the way we've always done it" is a monumentally shitty justification for supporting genocide.

Guess theres only a handful of good US politicians than.

I swear, it feels like it would only make sense that Mossad has something on so many of these folks.

President Sanders, finishing his second term, of course.

Im a low information voter because my information comes from sources that arent propaganda?

Meanwhile you're a high information voter because you accept articles such as this one at face value as well as the opinions of politicians saying their side is doing a good job?

Quite possible the most logically astute comment here, and lo and behold- downvoted by the outraged hive-mind.

Go figure.

he pulled out of Afghanistan,

no. trump pulled out of Afghanistan, which is why it was a fucking shit show.

Yeah as far as legislation goes he’s been one of the most effective presidents we’ve had. It’s been overshadowed by the media, constant rhetoric about his age and the small handful of mistakes he made. All in all he’s been good.

Are you 8?