1990 points 11 hours ago 👋 🦕3 🍆 🇺🇸 🗽
There’s no reason why Trump should lead in any poll or be a threat in the general election. Biden has accomplished more than any president since FDR. In 2022 alone, Biden and Dems did the following:
- passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment in fighting climate change in history
- passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the largest investment in infrastructure since Eisenhower
- passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, breaking a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence legislation
- signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law
- took out the leader of al Qaeda
- ended America's longest war
- reauthorized and strengthened the Violence Against Women Act
- signed the PACT Act, a bill to address veteran burn pit exposure
- signed the NATO accession protocols for Sweden and Finland
- issued executive order to protect reproductive rights
- in the process of canceling $10,000 of student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 and canceled $20,000 in debt for Pell Grant recipients
- canceled billions in student loan debt for borrowers who were defrauded
- nominated now-Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Breyer
- brought COVID under control in the U.S. (e.g., COVID deaths down 90% and over 220 million vaccinated)
- formed Monkeypox response team to reach communities at highest risk of contracting the virus
- unemployment at a 50-year low
- largest one-year deficit reduction in U.S. history
- limited the release of mercury from coal-burning power plants
- $5 billion for electric vehicle chargers- $119 billion budget surplus in January 2022, first in over two years
- united world against Russia’s war in Ukraine
- ended forced arbitration in workplace sexual assault cases
- reinstated California authority to set pollution standards for cars
- ended asylum restrictions for children traveling alone
- signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, the first federal ban on lynching after 200 failed attempts
- Initiated “use it or lose it" policy for drilling on public lands to force oil companies to increase production
- released 1 million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from strategic reserves to ease gas prices
- rescinded Trump-era policy allowing rapid expulsion of migrants
- expunged student loan defaults
- overhauled USPS finances to allow the agency to modernize its service
- required federal dollars spent on infrastructure to use materials made in America
- restored environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects
- Launched $6 billion effort to save distressed nuclear plants
- provided $385 million to help families and individuals with home energy costs through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. (This is in addition to $4.5 billion provided in the American Rescue Plan.)
- national registry of police officers who are fired for misconduct
- tightened restrictions on chokeholds, no-knock warrants, and transfer of military equipment to police departments
- required all federal law enforcement officers to wear body cameras
- $265 million for South Florida reservoir, key component of Everglades restoration
- major wind farm project off West coast to provide electricity for 1.5 million homes
- continued Obama administration's practice of posting log records of visitors to White House
- devoted $2.1 billion to strengthen US food supply chain
- invoked Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic production of critical clean energy technologies
- enacted two-year pause of anti-circumvention tariffs on solar
- allocated funds to federal agencies to counter 300-plus anti-LGBTQ laws by state lawmakers in 2022
- relaunched cancer 'moonshot' initiative to help cut death rate
- expanded access to emergency contraception and long-acting reversible contraception
- prevented states from banning Mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancy that has FDA approval
- 21 executive actions to reduce gun violence
- Climate Smart Buildings Initiative: Creates public-private partnerships to modernize Federal buildings to meet agencies’ missions, create good-paying jobs, and cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Paying for today’s needed renovations with tomorrow’s energy savings without requiring upfront taxpayer funding
- ended Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy
- Operation Fly-Formula, bringing needed baby formula (19 missions to date)
- executive order protecting travel for abortion
- invested more in crime control and prevention than any president in history
- provided death, disability, and education benefits to public safety officers and survivors who are killed or injured in the line of duty
- Reunited 500 migrant families separated under Trump
- $1.66 billion in grants to transit agencies, territories, and states to invest in 150 bus fleets and facilities
- brokered joint US/Mexico infrastructure project; Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security
- blocked 4 hospital mergers that would've driven up prices and is poised to thwart more anti-competition consolidation attempts
- 11 million jobs—more than ever created before at this point of a presidency
- record small business creation
- banned paywalls on taxpayer-funded research
- best economic growth record since Clinton
- eliminated civil statute of limitations for child abuse victims
- announced $156 million for America's first-of-its-kind critical minerals refinery, demonstrating the commercial viability of turning mine waste into clean energy technology.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/14je97i/democrats_warn_party_the_threat_of_trump_winning/jpkqa15/
These wall-of-text dumps of "accomplishments" exist entirely for supporters to point to in order to refute the idea that "Biden's done nothing in office." The fact that it's a list of actions instead of meaningful results is completely irrelevant.
And since refuting drivel like this takes much more effort than it took to create it, it goes uncorrected and people go on believing it
Thus begins again the cycle where Democrats say, "It's not that we didn't do enough, it's that you are all too stupid to notice how much we actually did."
Essentially Hillary's "everything is already good and you are a bad person for not feeling good"
So much of this is just "I signed the papers they put in front of me" or "my underlings did something but technically I gave the order" or "I'm gonna do it, trust me bro". I wish I had the confidence to make such mountains out of molehills
Also LMAO
brokered joint US/Mexico infrastructure project; Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security
Literally "build the wall and make mexico pay for it" but it's bloo so it's something to be celebrated
Withdrawing from Afghanistan is the only thing that was directly Biden himself. He watched the generals string along Obama for 8 years and he was also the only one against the surge in 2009 and Biden generally is resentful towards the staff of Obamaworld not taking him seriously and patronizing him and viewing Hillary as Obama’s successor, so being right about Afghanistan was his fuck you. Out of the entire 2020 Democrat field only Biden and Bernie would have ever actually withdrawn imo
brought COVID under control in the U.S. (e.g., COVID deaths down 90% and over 220 million vaccinated)
Bruh COVID deaths dropped because everyone who was susceptible to Covid was thrown in to the flaming cauldron at the feat of a giant brazen statue of a three headed goat.
best economic growth record since Clinton
Lol Clinton's Free Trade bullshit is the reason the Rust Belt is the Rust Belt and is the direct proximal cause of the opioid and meth crisis but go off.
brokered joint US/Mexico infrastructure project; Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security
Nazi shit
Operation Fly-Formula, bringing needed baby formula (19 missions to date)
Late, and only when it became clear that actual babies would actually die and people would blame him for it
invested more in crime control and prevention than any president in history
Nazi shit
Climate Smart Buildings Initiative: Creates public-private partnerships to modernize Federal buildings to meet agencies’ missions, create good-paying jobs, and cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Nazi shit, specifically "Public Private Partnerships"
Reunited 500 migrant families separated under Trump
How many kids are still missing, Brandon? Are the concentration camps still open, Brandon?
Paying for today’s needed renovations with tomorrow’s energy savings without requiring upfront taxpayer funding
The fuck does this word salad even mean?
21 executive actions to reduce gun violence
Whoopdeefucking do.
prevented states from banning Mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancy that has FDA approval
Did he? Did he really?
allocated funds to federal agencies to counter 300-plus anti-LGBTQ laws by state lawmakers in 2022
Wow that's going real fucking well
took out the leader of al Qaeda
It stopped being impressive about 15 leaders of al-Qaeda ago, but go off.
ended America's longest war
I thought the Taliban did that but whatever
united world against Russia’s war in Ukraine
AHAHAHAHHAAHHAHHAHHAHA
continued Obama administration's practice of posting log records of visitors to White House
Truly ushering in a new era of prosperity and hope
overhauled USPS finances to allow the agency to modernize its service
I don't know what this is in reference too but given the decades long bipartisan plan to loot the USPS it's probably bad
unemployment at a 50-year low
That's because at least a million people died and millions more are disabled you dipshit 🦣 <- pretend this is the ba'al Mammon. How many of these are Brandon taking credit for feeding hundreds of thousands of people to the Altar of Khorne?
signed the NATO accession protocols for Sweden and Finland
Double Nazi Shit
Initiated “use it or lose it" policy for drilling on public lands to force oil companies to increase production
Literally destroying the world you fucking toolbag
required all federal law enforcement officers to wear body cameras
Lot of cop humping here
This is so fucking pathetic.
Paying for today’s needed renovations with tomorrow’s energy savings without requiring upfront taxpayer funding
Tax credits for heat pumps and other appliances that use less electricity
brokered joint US/Mexico infrastructure project; Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security
TrumpBiden is going to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it!
Holy shit, like half of these "victories" are actively bad things. "Actively fucked over the USPS worse than anyone ever has before" "Forced companies to drill for more oil faster in national parks" "Handed monsanto $2.1 billion to make roundup ready crops mandatory"
If it weren't for that whole Vietnam thing, liberals might know LBJ was after FDR and signed a lot of important stuff that has had an actual impact on American life. The civil rights act, the voting rights act, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, the creation of the corporation for public broadcasting, national endowments for the arts, federal housing assistance, expansion of food stamps, large increases to public schools and university funding. Stuff that actually matters. He also raised minimum wage. The last president to raise minimum wage was George W Bush. That's a disgrace.
He did a lot of bullshit, too, but he was also the last Democratic president with a fucking backbone who knew how to wield power.
Literally The Great Society and the reason conservatives look back at the 60s/70s as beatific.
Incidentally, a bunch of that stuff came out of the popular politics of the 40s and 50s, finally bearing fruit. Decades of regional activism and special interests building momentum for these programs, much of which carried into the Nixon Administration and providing the largest wave of environmental protection legislation the nation has ever seen.
For some reason, we just kinda ignore the community leaders that made this shit possible. We just kinda pin the meddle on whichever President happened to be in power after a prior President and his Attorney General brother had their heads aerated.
The only good thing Biden did was ending the war in Afghanistan. And his poll numbers plummeted. God damn America.
I like how he tightened restrictions on warrants but still increased funding for police.
"Look you have to say some different magic words for it to be ok. Now here's a million dollars."
Yeah lots of bare minimums, not even close to enough/not worth mentioning, actually really bad, basically useless, totally unrelated to POTUS, would've been passed with or without him (let alone a Dem), and overly rosy attributions here.
Libs are committed to never understanding that "we made things get worse a little slower" isn't a winning message. The number of individuals whose lives were measurably improved by something here, but whose life didn't overall get worse in the same period, is pretty small. Absent improving their conditions, the most effective way to win a vote is to define outgroups worthy of hurt which you then hurt.
Some r/neoliberal post saw tankie copypastas and was like, “oh, the point is that they’re really long, cool”
ended America's longest war
united world against Russia’s war in Ukraine
Ending America's longest war. Starting America's new longest war. Both of these count as accomplishments.
