Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President
Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President
His achievements have been nothing short of historic.
Background: I supported Bernie in the 2016 primaries; I ended up voting for Hillary. In 2020, Biden wasn't even my 3rd pick in the Primaries (Warren, Sanders, maybe Buttigieg and even Steyer.). I still voted Biden, despite a clear lack of enthusiasm because I know how much easier it is to break and corrupt things than to simply maintain it or build upon a trillion-piece puzzle.
Overall, Biden has been a pretty great President if only for one simple fact: The genuine experience and expertise of his cabinet. When I think of Donnie, I think of Bill Barr, Richard Spencer, Mike Pompeo, and other scum of his cabinet. These people are psychopathic, smarter than Trump, and dangerous. While they're incompetent in their actual roles, they leveraged their offices to incredibly nefarious ends.
The true stars of Biden's administration has been his advisors and cabinet: Blinken, Yellen, Garland, Austin, Kirby, Bill Burns, Jake Sullivan, etc. These are the people that keep the machine running. Who actually take advice from reputable experts in respective fields, like Dr. Fauci.
So yes, given the bigger picture, Biden has been a great President; partly because of stability; partly because of contrast with chaos.
And folks, yes, it's campaign season now. Expect a massive influx of ads and opinion pieces and a general attempt to drum up energy and awareness to a crucial election. Don't shoot yourselves in the foot; the right has massive megaphones of propaganda they're using every single fucking day to distort reality. Don't be afraid to push back.
Biden has been a fine president, but notably failed to do a number of things that are important to me such as legalizing marijuana, codifying into law RvW, ending Citizen's United, increasing the minimum wage, etc. I like Joe Biden, and he's way better than the other guy, but I wouldn't say "great".
I could go on citing the achievements of a president who actually cares about governing. All of these actions and numbers are important, but none matter as much as what Joe Biden has done to restore stability and decency to the presidency. One of the greatest gifts of a democratic civil society is the freedom not to think about government, to wake up and not worry about the mood of a leader. Joe Biden has made governing boring and predictable, both fundamental rights of the people in a healthy democracy.
As a Canadian this was one of the greatest benefits of the Biden Presidency. I can rest assured Biden won't be contradicting the weather service, licking Putin's boot or whatever stupid thing that's going to end up on Canadian news five times a week.
This article is an archetypical "come on America!" fanfare to drum up patriotism and exceptionalism, it feels over the top to me as a non-american. However, I suppose we'll have to try everything for Democrats to stop whimpering about Trump and sleep-walking towards his dictatorship.
Stop confusing democrats/liberals with leftists.
Democrats will probably almost universally agree that he's been a good president. Tribalism is a hell of a drug.
It's the leftists that won't. And speaking as a leftist, he's done a lot better than I thought he was going to. He ended up pushing for more progressive ideas than I thought he would. Good for him. He's been stymied by the courts and his own party on some of them. And that why I, as a leftist, think the democratic party is still (less) trash. They had a majority for two years. Did some stuff. Could have done more. You can be all "but but Manchin/Sinema" all you want, but I'll bet all the money in my pocket against all the money in your pocket, than if Manchin and Sinema were to announce that yes, they'd vote to abolish the filibuster, there would be two other democratic senators who would come out and say no. And that's fine as it relates to their world view. They're liberals. They're not leftists.
As a Republican media consultant, I made hundreds of ads about the high cost of prescription drugs.
Stuart Stevens, one of the people who brought us to the brink of fascism desperately wants us prevent the dystopian future he helped to create. Unfortunately, Stevens has no idea who the people on the left that he's been demonizing over the years actually are. As a result, he assumes we might be authentic Republicans who call ourselves Democrats.
Maybe you’re a Democrat who actually cares about the federal deficit, unlike the Republicans who fake concern.
Maybe if Republicans had spent the last 55 years listening to what people on the left wanted instead of engaging in bad faith with the political process, he would actually be able to write this article with some certainty.
Regardless, Vote Blue! We can make fun of this person all we want if we aren't killed in death camp in the following years.
Yeah he's better than trump for sure
A blind and crippled hedgehog would be better than trump
He's nowhere close to great. Hes run back much of his campaign promises and he's funding a genocide. The best thing he could do is say he's not running and throw his support behind someone actually progressive and actually not half senile
I don't think he's been a great president. I think he's a million times better than Trump, though. That applies to the last election, and some-crazy-how to the upcoming election, too...
I want to go back to my timeline, where Sinbad starred in a movie about being a genie. Things made sense back then...
When you're used to getting nothing but Ds and Fs, a C+ seems great.
This is why we have trump. Biden hasn't been a great president, he has had a great presidency. The man who is president is a small part of the equation. By attributing it all to him instead of all the people in the administration, in congress, and to just to where the world was at the time, we reinforce a culture where people praise guys like trump, and musk, and other billionaires. All of them were mostly lucky. They had some special skills to take advantage of thier luck that others don't, but without the luck, they would be nobody. Stop praising people for the work of many and good luck.
Make Brandon Dark Again
Best Republican president since Eisenhower.
Don't you want to at least see Biden in a last term with nothing to lose besides legacy? He'll be term limited, plus his age... he'll do something crazy to be loved.
He'll make weed legal if it isn't by then... He'll forgive all the student debt this time.... He'll expand the Supreme Court... He'll do something worthwhile and he will continue to not be trump.
Plenty of things where he misses my ideal, but generally positive progress and we keep pressure on for more progressive choices. General progress...
He has not been great. He's not been Trump. We deserve a better class of politician, but as long as there's a citizens united we won't have them.
We live in the "imflamitory headline era". No one reads articles that say "Biden delivers infrastructure bill" they read articles named "Biden is crazy!" The news definitely skews peoples views. He's done a lot but doesn't get a lot of front page coverage.
No the fuck he has not, stop propagandizing us
Joe Biden is a hero for beating Donnie and making his win stick, which was harder than he made it look.
If Biden can put Donnie away for good, they will be making a monument to him.
I agree that he has been a good president - the most progressive president in 50 years (yes, I realize that's a bullshit statement since there have been no even-close-to-progressive presidents). For those who think he's demented, please listen to his interview on Conan O'Brien's podcast. He's phenomenally engaging and has a great wit and memory.
Say the thing! Say the thing! Say the thing!
That’s a weird way to spell Independents.
Grasping for straws
Is it really a whole article saying "don't believe your lyin' eyes"? Wow
If he's so good why do we need articles to constantly remind us of it?
More of this disconnected messaging. "You're not struggling, look at this graph." "Please ignore his role in a active genocide." I get people want to beat Trump but being dishonest doesn't help.
From the Wikipedia page on OBL:
According to the seized material, former commander of the international forces in Afghanistan David Petraeus and US President Barack Obama should be assassinated during any of their visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan, if there was an opportunity to do so. Bin Laden opined that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden should not be a target because "Biden is totally unprepared for that post [of president], which will lead the US into a crisis."
Considering how he gave zero f**** about Israel & Gaza both in foreign policy and locally, yet seemingly thinks winning the election will be easy, I guess he wasn't too far off.
The insurrectionist orange set a very low bar to pass, so I guess in that metric he definitely exceeded expectations.
You know how we say Democrats are terrible at messaging? This comment section is perfectly emblematic of why. You can't make a statement talking about accomplishments without people bringing up negatives.
It's fine to debate value judgements here, and we should, but be wary about continuing them in neutral spaces. We don't have to be happy about everything Biden has done. I'm certainly not. But if we're trying to convince moderates by talking about his accomplishments, we probably shouldn't talk about everything we dislike too.
I mean, he's just left-lite.
Nah, fuck that, he's part of a major genocide and that's his legacy. We will remember his failures for all time.
Was he a better president than his opponent? Yeah, but it's a low fucking bar.
Barf
For some reason I feel like these articles are written by people for whom covid was their first real brush with death
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Copium off the charts. Take this back to /r/politics.
Simping for Genocide Joe.
That's be a yikes from me dawg.
He's a great president whenever his brain is functioning, so at least 0.3% of his total tenure so far.
Somehow still a better pick than DJT. What a fucking world we live in. Fuck the democrat trash for fucking over all other potential nominee's in favour of the guy who's one stressful situation away from a fucking aneurysm.
His record is meh. The economy has been doing alright, and he has made at least some progress on climate change. He did get a much-needed infrastructure bill passed through Congress. He also did follow through on the withdraw from Afghanistan, and Republican attempts to stir up scandal have been largely for naught, mainly focusing on Hunter instead of him.
Now for the bad: the signs of mental decline are hard to ignore, and his insistence on running for a second term puts the country at risk of a second Trump term. Fair or not, the honorable thing to do would have been to put the country first and step aside so that the Democrats could have had a proper primary and let some fresh blood in. If Trump is elected, and polls suggest he might, Biden's legacy will be ruined.
His "human rights based" foreign policy is a joke, with his term marked by support for brutal wars in Gaza and Yemen and the return of the Taliban to rule in Afghanistan. (Though, to be fair, I agree with his decision to withdraw.) I do think his administration is likely responsible for the Nordstream bombing as well. While it could be argued that the bombing was justified due to the Ukraine war, it undermines the idea of a "rules-based" order that the West is supposedly fighting for.
Most recently, his party's attempt to reform immigration has stalled in Congress, Ukraine aid is at a deadlock, and the possibility of war with Iran hangs on the horizon. All of this remains to be resolved.
I live in a pretty solid red state, so I might vote third party, but if was a more competitive state I would probably vote to reelect Biden. Unfortunately, I think the best case scenario is that Biden is reelected and either dies or resigns to make way for President Harris. Not ideal, this.
Before he was president, he helped weed out corruption in Ukraine, preventing Russia from gaining a foothold via selling cheap gas.
He pulled out of Afghanistan, and, while the Taliban promptly took over, the region saw more peace than it has in 40 years.
Of course, then Netanyahu left the door open on the 50th anniversary of the last Yom Kippur war, providing an excuse for rampant bloodshed, which the US has basically been facilitating. However the US' presence in the area has been arguably more about keeping trade corridors open than it has been about supporting Israeli terrorism.
He's also stood idly by while the Supreme Court exhibited the worst corruption seen in years. Sure, half of them were installed by Trump, but he hasn't exactly put up a solid opposition.
but hurr durr genocide
america has been killing people and supporting slavery directly and indirectly since it was created
why do you think we are so well off
suddenly now it's a problem?