Would be interesting to see happiness segmented by Democrats/ Republicans.
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But tribal loyalty is a powerful force, so as soon as the questions or questioner appears partisan in any way, people form ranks for “their side” and you’d be hard pressed to get an honest response, least of all one that reflects badly on their team at the helm.
Unfortunately building and fixing things (or just keeping things working, negotiating compromises, and so on) takes a lot of time and effort, and doesn't make for great pithy slogans or rile people up.
We do not know this and social progress can't be taken for granted. We've seen many countries regress rapidly when totalitarian regimes (especially theocracies) got their foothold in power. Directly (Iran) or by proximity (Poland).
It's a naive story of the 90's that social progress is always upwards. Liberalism both social and economic is definitely on the back foot.
Biden in fact was the worse Democratic President for not stepping aside early enough and letting the DNC have a real primary. It was sheer selfishness and ego.
Results count - not excuses.
If you want to see sweeping legislation, you have to elect a Congress that with enough votes to pass it. Blaming Biden for not having the votes is an expression of political cluelessness.
You really think people were excited about Biden like Obama or Clinton?
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What they are doing now is hiring out all of the people they want from startups and leaving the undesirables in a lurch and decimating VCs investments - Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all used this playbook.
The problem with “administrative changes” is that they can easily be undone.
And he didn’t “protect women’s healthcare” at all. The red states are still seeing women die because doctors are afraid to perform abortions when the life of the mother is in danger and blue states aren’t - the status quo.
The very reason that Biden is an inconsequential President was because everything he did was easily undone between his lack of willingness to step aside even though he and everyone else knew he should and trying to do things through executive orders.
The Supreme Court is another symptom of old people not retiring when they should, dying on the bench allowing a Republican President to nominate replacements.
Inflation Reduction Act [0][1]
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act [2][3]
CHIPS and Science Act [4]
He worked to use our tax dollars to spur re-investment in America. From factory construction and utility jobs to grid resilience and innovation. Not to mention that zero to few Republicans voted for these, yet they are the largest benefactors. Texas massive growth spurt in Green energy can thank Biden, but they won't even though they are happy to take the infrastructure investments and enjoy the cheaper energy and jobs. I'll just be happy if I dont have to deal with another Great Texas Freeze.
Also, and even though, the coal mining communities didn't vote for him he made sure to single out investment specifically to coal communities "it announced $428 million in grants for 14 projects in coal communities, creating 1,900 jobs and leveraging $500 million in private investments."
Those also include tax reform (to collect from super-rich tax evaders, expire the deep corporate tax cuts etc) and prescription drug reform to lower prices among other things like investing in green energy projects for low income communities. He brought investment back into this country without sucker punching our allies.
Imo, that's what my tax dollars are for, for reinvestment back into building this country -- not to give rich business friends that donate meme coins to a family account extra large tax cuts or giving bonuses for rounding up brown people (including US citizens - google if you want links) and empower a federal immigration force to throw out any integrity and character they had before being told to make a spectacle.
Anyway there is a lot in there is you care to read up on it.
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How much do you want to bet that in four years nothing he did will have made a difference and Trump is going to undo it? That wouldn’t have been an issue if Biden had stepped aside and announced he wasn’t going to run for reelection earlier. Again results count. The few things he “accomplished” are going to be undone because he didnt step aside.
And all of his “prescription reforms” weren’t put into law and were easy to undo by the next administration.
The Republicans no matter how hard they try can’t kill the ACA and are probably going to vote to increase funding. The ACA would have been a lot easier to kill if Obama hadn’t won reelection. Biden should have known he couldn’t win.
By a wide range of economic metrics, the US economy during the Biden administration was incredibly successful. We somehow managed to reign in inflation caused by the follow-on disruptions coming from Covid pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war, while maintaining full employment and avoiding negative economic effects expected by most economists. Real wages went up. Federal investments set up long-term gains for US manufacturing. The US economy did better than just about every other industrialized economy in the world during the same time period.
Blaming Biden for the following administration doing everything it can to trash the economy and reverse every bit of progress he made is ridiculous. It's like blaming the fire department for the actions of an arsonist. Again, if you want sweeping legislation and long-term commitment to policy changes, you need to elect (and keep electing) enough votes in Congress.
Despite the current drama I do believe that in the long term today's culture wars will sound just as quaint.
Not to mention the Chips act just threw money at a flailing Intei without any strategy. There was a strategy behind Obama’s getting through the financial crises and the ACA
Biden had a 50–50 Senate, counting Manchin and Sinema among the 50. If you think he "should have" passed similar legislation and consider his failure to do so to be some kind of failure of willpower, then you fundamentally don't understand how our political system works. If the Dems don't have the votes, it's nonsensical to blame them for not being able to pass legislation that is opposed by 100% of the GOP.
The ACA was a big accomplishment, and it managed to go through during the exactly 72 working days since 1980 when the Democrats had such a majority in Congress and the Presidency. (We all owe an incredible debt of gratitude for that to Nancy Pelosi, who was personally responsible for getting it over the finish line after Ted Kennedy died in office.) If the Dems consistently had large congressional majorities, they could make much more progress. If you want to see that happen, make sure they get the votes.
Excusing that is like commending a surgeon for saving a life and then not washing his hands during follow up and killing the patient allowing the wound to get infected.
And why haven’t the democrats had a platform that could convince enough people to vote for them in the Senate since then?
The Democratic majority didn’t happen by accident. Howard Dean pushed for the “50 state strategy” in 2008. The current Democrats are feckless
- Trans people being an issue.
- Gun problems being an issue of the person holding the gun or gun related deaths being a necessary evil - evidence from practically every country on earth with strict gun rules shows otherwise. Less guns = less gun deaths full stop.
- Climate change being fake, chemtrails, Geoengineering, weather manipulation.
- Science, particularly medical research being fake. Covid vaccines being harmful, etc.
- "The great replacement theory"
- White genocide in countries around the world
- Jan 6th not being an atrocity.
- Ending non-existent wars.
Among many others.
The legal argument for in Loving v. Virginia was the same argument that was rejected when Roe v. Wade overturned in Dobbs. Thomas actually calls out the other major cases, basically asking for a chance to overturn those as well, specifically Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. He's not going to overturn Loving given that hes in an interracial marriage himself, but whoever replaces him when he finally retires might, and he would have done all of the work getting case law to that point.
The first part is a counter-factual hypothesis that seems wrong, which you keep insisting on without any evidence. The second part is thoroughly fallacious.
To first order, the summary is that you don't think Biden or his administration deserves credit for anything they actually did, while simultaneously thinking they deserve blame for a large number of things that other people did that they were personally opposed to and worked against.
You did see the first debate didn’t you? Could there possibly have beeb a worse strategy than what the DNC did?
Biden doesn’t get a participation trophy for doing things that were innaffective.
Look up the Senate Parliamentarian and how the Democrats used them as an excuse to not get anything done.
They could have played hardball with their rogue Senators but they didn't.
The new non-existent link between Tylenol during pregnancy / childhood and autism.
The 10ml of liquid in vaccines is too much liquid. This supposedly causes babies to swell up like a balloon and get autism.
The transcript of Charlie Kirk's last words are particularly telling on this point. He was pushing the idea that trans people are to blame for mass shootings when they were < 1% of total mass shooters over the last ten years.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-yes-charlie-k...
They were lying through their teeth. Biden had already fixed the crisis. Trump's undone that work, and is now going around claiming to have fixed stuff.
One example is how Trump is going to get a bunch of people to build factories in the US:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/C307RC1Q027SBEA
Biden also got the inflation caused by Trump's ZIRP + deficit spending under control, despite digging us out of COVID. (The inflation surge during Biden's term had already been predicted by most economists by the middle of Trump's first term. NPR even ran a series about "printing unlimited money bad" in 2018 or 2019.)
Also, Trump inherited the lowest crime rates in living memory, and then declared a national emergency about surging crime.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IecBIvnsudY
- Gun problems being an issue of the person holding the gun or gun related deaths being a necessary evil - evidence from practically every country on earth with strict gun rules shows otherwise. Less guns = less gun deaths full stop.
You want just the government to have the guns? You must be 3 years old. Also I don't mind having less guns - just tie it to your political affiliation - left leaning? No Guns.
- Climate change being fake, chemtrails, Geoengineering, weather manipulation.
Climate change was fake, it was 100% abandoned when Leftists started burning Teslas- the number one EV in America. Sounds like it was fake the entire time. Chemtrails are real, they are actually seeding clouds in an experiment that's not fully tested.
- Science, particularly medical research being fake. Covid vaccines being harmful, etc.
Lookup vaccine injury - it's a huge mess.
- "The great replacement theory"
Yeah, importing lots of people causing the housing prices to go up, also the non-stop pushing of agendas that reduce western women from wanting to have babies. A lot of that is paid for.
- White genocide in countries around the world
It's pretty much one country - south africa, but you know that.
- Jan 6th not being an atrocity.
J6 was an atrocity, it was mostly orchestrated by 300 FBI agents that worked for the leftist side of the deep state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WNNrS1hR8
- Ending non-existent wars.
I don't know what you mean by this one, ending wars isn't good in your opinion I guess.
I don't really care if you think none of this is real - just about every 5 minutes in the last 4 years under Biden we found out something was 100% fake and was motivated by pure malice against conservatives. Besides - we're winning. #walk-away