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Agreed.
The Biden Administration and All Things Politics
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I'm reframing this. I really like what Biden is doing. Trump isn't president anymore.
The Good:
Health Care: I like how Biden is defending the ACA, not trying to dismantle it. I never understood (other than racism and hatred of Obama) why Trump wanted to take away health care from people. So maintaining the ACA is good for me. Unlike some people, I don't think you should be ineligible for health care because you have pre-existing conditions or cannot afford health care.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare
The president is moving forward with the legal attack, even as some Republicans worry it will hurt the party's electoral prospects.
www.politico.com
Covid Policy: I like the Biden administration's covid policy. It hasn't been perfect but it's been nice to see adequate testing and vaccine distribution. I'd like to see more mandates and greater vaccination distribution to African nations. It's also nice to not have a president make stupid suggestions, like injecting lysol or witholding valuable PPE because governors aren't kissing the ring.
Trump commits to helping blue states fight the coronavirus — if their governors are nice to him
The president prefers to be surrounded by sycophants.
www.vox.com
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/politics/florida-ventilators-desantis/index.html
Children: I really like cutting childhood poverty in half.
New child tax credit could slash poverty now and boost social mobility later | Brookings
President Biden has just signed into law a bill that fundamentally restructures the child tax credit: here's why that matters.
www.brookings.edu
Infrastructure: Remember how this was an ongoing joke for four years? Trump always talked about infrastructure and because he has the attention span of a squirrel, always lost sight of "Infrastructure Week" by shutting down the government or having a meltdown calling Haiti a "******** country." I like passing trillions of new infrastructure. Anyone stuck in Salt Lake bottlenecks, seen our inversion, or is subjected to the crappy Comcast Internet knows how important updating our infrastructure is. The reconciliation bill which provides more money to combat climate change and raise taxes on the wealthy is very important also.
Senate Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Handing Biden a Bipartisan Win (Published 2021)
The approval came after months of negotiations and despite deficit concerns, reflecting an appetite in both parties for the long-awaited spending package.
Immigration/Asylum: I like not banning Muslims and I also believe strongly that we shouldn't be abusing children to scare people from seeking asylum here. Is the border situation perfect? No, but there's a huge difference between the system processing (slowly) asylum seekers and purposely creating a humanitarian crisis to scare people from coming here. Ultimately, this situation needs to be addressed by Congress by making it easier for people to legally immigrate here.
No, Biden is not separating families entering the country
Conservative pundit Glenn Beck wrongly claimed on Twitter that President Joe Biden’s administration was doing the same t
www.politifact.com
Foreign Policy: Isn't it refreshing to have a President stand with our western allies and not kissing up to pigs like Putin and Kim? Isn't it nice to have a President who doesn't throw our IC under the bus in favor of Putin's lies?
The Bad:
Voting Rights: This should have been the administration's top priority after covid. They desperately need to get the Senate to blow the filibuster and pass voting rights. Otherwise, this will be a massive failure that could in the long-term damage our democracy. Biden said that Republican attacks on voting rights is our greatest threat since the Civil War... Well, his reaction to this threat certainly has been underwhelming.
Immigration: I think we need to make this a priority after voting rights. We need to pass the DREAM act and reform our immigration system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...rats-must-make-much-clearer-case-immigration/
Humanitarian Rights: Biden has been better than Trump with garbage like Kim and Putin. But that doesn't mean he couldn't do better. I don't believe in having low standards. I'd like to see Democrats really stand up for human rights. If that means going after Putin's money or ending our arms deals with the Saudis? Then so be it. Either we're for human rights and democracy or not. I'm tired of tiptoeing around human trash cans like Putin. **** Putin, Orban, Kim, etc.
I believe liberal democracy is worth fighting for:
Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
What role do members of the cultural and media elite play in the ascent of nationalist rule? In her new book, Twilight of Democracy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum examines the surrogates who enable autocracy. She discusses the patterns of weakening democracies...
www.brennancenter.org
The Disturbing New Hybrid of Democracy and Autocracy
In Poland and elsewhere, rulers—and the oligarchs who help them—have figured out how to create a one-party state without the hassle of staging a coup.
www.theatlantic.com
PS Notice the difference between what liberals and Trumpers stand for. We believe in actual issues. We believe in human rights. We're not merely "against" what the other side is doing. We're not merely focused on judges and #owninthecons. And probably most of all, we aren't afraid to call out our own. Think back to all the times any Republican on this entire board criticized Orange God King. You can probably count on one hand the number of times that happened.
Please keep this in mind next time someone says, "bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe!"
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FalseFlagg K
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so what happens if the powers that be decide to remove Joe or he decides to resign ?? As in who gets to choose who steps in, is it automatically the VP ?
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I think it's automatically the VP but I haven't heard anything about him being removed or resigning
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I guess Trumpers can always fantasize?
The truth is they’re staring down the barrel of 8 years of Democratic governing from the executive branch. The Biden administration hasn’t been perfect. But I haven’t seen anything from Republicans since Jan 6 to indicate that they have any solutions to any current problems. If anything, they’ve become worse. They’re the party of insurrection, covid, racism, and rampant authoritarianism. Biden maybe “only” have a 56 percent approval right now. That’s still 6+ pts higher than Trump ever had.
Good luck with that Trump/DeathSantis ticket in 2024. And the more covid ravages the south, the more we’re reminded how Republicans just can’t govern.
Is Florida tired from all of this winning yet? Not sure if threatening funding for teachers and schools unless they drop mask mandates is a winning strategy. But then again, I’m not a dumbass Trumper.
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FalseFlagg K
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no .. just a hypothetical was wondering
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It’s funny how Trumpers believe Biden is a big mean dictator while also believing he’s a weak senile puppet for the far left. Pretty hilarious
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Thriller can't see anything I write. I open this question up to those he can see: Does anyone want to tell him? Or should we just let Thriller be happy in thinking things are going swimmingly? I vote we don't tell him. I don't hold any animosity toward Thriller and I only brought it up because I have a thing when people quote statistics wrong.
Actually, per FiveThirtyEight, he's just under 50%, mostly due to the Afghanistan issues and his extremely poor reaction to it. This image I literally just took off there 2 minutes ago:
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Which includes outliers, like Rasmussen. Most reputable polls show hes in the low to mid 50s. A net positive.
Afghanistan will blow over. We won’t be talking about it by the start of September and certainly by mid September.
Btw, ya gotta love the context free way our “liberal media” has framed Afghanistan. Inviting clowns like Panetta, Bolton, and Rove on to describe what went wrong with Afghanistan. Might as well ask John Wilkes Booth about his opinion on the civil war and lincoln. Sadly, our media just does a horrendous job of informing the Public. They haven’t learned anything since 2016.
But they didn't change their methodology since before this, from back when they were showing him in the mid 50s. And they adjust their results based on the polls historical biases - although whether this snapshot from the front page reflects that or not, I'm not absolutely certain. I think it does, but not sure.
He has dipped, that's undeniable - but not to Trump levels, that is also undeniable.
***EDIT*** Let me also make clear: I don't really give two ****s about a president's approval rating, particularly not now, when just wearing the wrong color suit gets you ran from pillory to post. We're so polarized as a nation people wouldn't approve of someone on the other side if it was literally a matter of life and death.
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Doesn’t Biden’s fluidic approval rating somewhat refute this?