Biden was asked whether he would be running for re-election in 2024 and whether his opponent would be Donald Trump. He replied with a half-joke, saying he had no idea whether he’d face Trump, and indeed “no idea whether there’ll be a Republican party”, adding that he was “a respecter of fate” who had learned not to make plans for several years ahead. In that answer, he managed simultaneously to punch the bruise of his opponents’ current identity crisis, as Republicans ask themselves if they are anything more than the Donald Trump fan club, and to remind Americans of the sudden and cruel losses that have marred his life, and have given him an emotional gravitas unusual in politics
The fuck is this psychobabble lol?
Earlier this month, he sat for two hours with a group of presidential historians, pressing them hard on how FDR and LBJ had moved swiftly to make changes so profound and systemic they endure to this day.
Okay. Cool.
The foundation stone is the $1.9tn Covid relief package Biden signed into law a fortnight ago, which has seen $1,400 payments land in the bank accounts of more than 100 million Americans. But this is about far more than a short-term stimulus effort.One estimate calculates that the move will, at a stroke, cut child poverty by half. The poorest 20% of families will see their income rise by 20%. The law expands subsidies for healthcare and introduces something akin to child benefit. It directs $4bn to black farmers, in what some have hailed as a first step towards reparations for slavery.
There were criticisms of the bill, weren’t there? Like how the dems just negotiated among themselves, didn’t include $15/hr etc. I didn’t go too deeply into it as I’m not American so it doesn’t matter that much to me. I’ll let some American comrades chime in.
Biden promised to get 100m jabs into American arms in his first 100 days; in fact, he hit that milestone on his 58th day in office, and now aims to reach 200m shots by day 100.
Cool.
In the pipeline is a green energy and infrastructure plan that, coupled with an education bill, carries an astonishing $3tn price tag. He’s also under pressure to fend off Republican voter suppression efforts, aimed chiefly at keeping black Americans away from the ballot box, by passing a voting rights act, and to make other democratic reforms, whether granting statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico or scrapping the filibuster mechanism
Listen, Jonathan, if he does all this, I’ll accept that he’s not a “bad” president. Cool? But to be called a “radical” he needs to do much, much, much more.
Democrat: "Our lord and saviour st. Biden cut child poverty in half!"
Normal person: "Yeah... For a month or so."
Democrat: "You see how poverty alleviation is really complex. Just giving the poor more money won't work, they just relapse into their old irresponsible habits. We need smarter market-based solutions."
Fending off Republican voter suppression that benefits Republicans to the detriment of his own party and is just sort of blatantly immoral. Radical.
The vaccine thing is hilarious because he just literally became president around the time that vaccines were starting to roll out all over the world and then ends up taking credit for the fact that the US has a large pharmaceutical industry.
It is very nice of them to give 4 billion dollars to black farmers, but from what I can see US farmers got 22 billion in subsidies in 2019, so an extra 4 billion in subsidies for black farmers isn't exactly revolutionary. The 1400 dollar payments. Again, nice, but it is 200 dollars more than the old payments, not exactly radical or revolutionary. Actually, it seems a lot more like the bare minimum to prevent economic collapse.
As for the proposed infrastructure spending, if you live in a country where preventing the bridges from collapsing is a radical idea, you have some serious problems with your government.
Link to the article.
The fuck is this psychobabble lol?
Okay. Cool.
There were criticisms of the bill, weren’t there? Like how the dems just negotiated among themselves, didn’t include $15/hr etc. I didn’t go too deeply into it as I’m not American so it doesn’t matter that much to me. I’ll let some American comrades chime in.
Cool.
Listen, Jonathan, if he does all this, I’ll accept that he’s not a “bad” president. Cool? But to be called a “radical” he needs to do much, much, much more.
for one month
Wait that’s it lol?
that's what people were saying here, yeah. :dem:
Democrat: "Our lord and saviour st. Biden cut child poverty in half!"
Normal person: "Yeah... For a month or so."
Democrat: "You see how poverty alleviation is really complex. Just giving the poor more money won't work, they just relapse into their old irresponsible habits. We need smarter market-based solutions."
Yeah it's not permanent or anything lol they get the money once and that's it.
Fending off Republican voter suppression that benefits Republicans to the detriment of his own party and is just sort of blatantly immoral. Radical.
The vaccine thing is hilarious because he just literally became president around the time that vaccines were starting to roll out all over the world and then ends up taking credit for the fact that the US has a large pharmaceutical industry.
It is very nice of them to give 4 billion dollars to black farmers, but from what I can see US farmers got 22 billion in subsidies in 2019, so an extra 4 billion in subsidies for black farmers isn't exactly revolutionary. The 1400 dollar payments. Again, nice, but it is 200 dollars more than the old payments, not exactly radical or revolutionary. Actually, it seems a lot more like the bare minimum to prevent economic collapse.
As for the proposed infrastructure spending, if you live in a country where preventing the bridges from collapsing is a radical idea, you have some serious problems with your government.
This sentence is a great summary of the crisis that's happening in the US and Europe.
and $600 less than it was originally going to be
:fidel-salute-big:
Makes sense, since he has no idea whether he'll be alive several years ahead. (in fact, it's a safe bet he won't be)