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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- rescinded Trump-era policy allowing rapid expulsion of migrants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/
No one is saying it is long-term. They are literally saying the temporary bump is more than Biden has given.
The comment I replied to said it was "life changing" money, which means a long-term solution to one's problems.
Leftists almost never accept the argument that X policy from Democrats is better than Y policy from Republicans if the Democratic policy is woefully insufficient. So why are we hung up on praising a woefully insufficient check from Republicans, even if Democrats didn't match it? It's just contrarianism.
I think you are not understanding that people are not making serious ethical arguments. It is an american election, its all jokerfied irony shit. No one is praising shit.
Also life changing doesn't mean long-term. Enough to not have to pay rent late for the first time in years is life changing even if it doesnt stay that way, the government showing it can do something for you is life-changing, etc.
People are making serious arguments when it suits them and pulling the "forget about it, Jake, it's shitposting" when they don't have decent reply or when writing one is too much effort.
And what do you see every single time people on the internet try to one-up each other with ironic jokes? Inevitably some folks start repeating that stuff earnestly. I'd rather do bits with a better foundation so you avoid that.
The serious arguments came in because you responded seriously. Of course people are gonna back up and say "wait that money was pretty significant for some people"
So yeah, it's not all shitposting.
And I pointed this out elsewhere, but "wait Obamacare was pretty significant for some people" gets you called a lib, and you get a thousand serious (and correct!) arguments about Obamacare was nowhere near enough. But somehow "wait $2K was pretty significant for some people" is Real Material Analysis.
It's just contrarianism. Either they both fall under "not nearly enough to give anyone credit" or they're both real material benefits that people respond to.
You are complaining about how you perceived people's comments in jest to be, and now expect a totalizing "all shitposting or all serious"
That's not what I did and not at all what I'm saying.