Where did it all go right for Biden? Facts blunt Republican attack lines
Where did it all go right for Biden? Facts blunt Republican attack lines
Crime is down, inflation is falling and the border is quiet. Little wonder the House speaker is floating impeachment of the president for … something
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.
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'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.
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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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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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