I’d love to see one of these articles where the list isn’t padded with non-accomplishments like painting the fucking plane, or giving Biden credit for starting preliminary inquiries into thinking about doing something like with cannabis legalization, or things that he should be ashamed of, like producing more oil than at any time in history.
In the good ol’ US of A? Good luck.
Expanded overtime guarantees for millions
First over-the-counter birth control pill to hit U.S. stores in 2024
Making airlines pay up when flights are delayed or canceled
Gun violence prevention and gun safety get a boost
Renewable power is the No. 2 source of electricity in the U.S. — and climbing
Preventing discriminatory mortgage lending
A sweeping crackdown on “junk fees” and overdraft charges
Forcing Chinese companies to open their books
Preventing another Jan. 6
Building armies of drones to counter China
The nation’s farms get big bucks to go “climate-smart”
Biden scraps Trump’s paint scheme for Air Force One (not sure this is worthy)
The Biden administration helps broker a deal to save the Colorado River
Giving smaller food producers a boost
Biden recommends loosening federal restrictions on marijuana
A penalty for college programs that trap students in debt
Biden moves to bring microchip production home
Tech firms face new international restrictions on data and privacy
Preventing a cobalt crisis in Congo
Cracking down on cyberattacks
Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea
Reinvigorating cancer research to lower death rates
Making medication more accessible through telemedicine
Union-busting gets riskier
Biden inks blueprint to fix 5G chaos
Biden empowers federal agencies to monitor AI
Fixing bridges, building tunnels and expanding broadband
The U.S. is producing more oil than anytime in history
Strengthening military ties to Asian allies
A new agency to investigate cyberattacks
And I will add a few of my own:
Creating a new 15% minimum corporate tax rate
Creating the most new jobs in any 4 year period of American history.
Ending inflation without starting a recession
Reducing student loan debt
Expert handling of Putin
Ending Covid without telling people to drink bleach
Ending inflation without starting a recession is probably the most impactful on this list.
A few years ago when Covid shut down the economy and the fed printed trillions to keep the whole system from collapsing, I would have bet anything that a major recession was just around the corner.
The ‘soft landing’ was one of the most significant challenges our country/the world has ever faced.
Obviously not completely attributable to Biden, but his leadership during this time allowed us to come out of Covid stronger than we were before it started. The whole world was at risk of the dollar collapsing and it was a super close call.
No one will ever remember it. That’s what government should be like. Inflation was guaranteed, now we just need to see them start hitting companies for over charging. So step 1 is getting congress to write a bill saying over charging for a product is illegal. The question is how much is to much… So we will likely never get legislation. Maybe start with saying food cannot be resold at a cost higher than 3%. It will start bringing food costs down, and we can fix Desantis’s stupid bill and change it from Chinese and make it so no one who does not live in the U.S. can buy multiple properties and companies cannot buy properties in residential areas. Then we might see housing stabilize or drop.
We are experiencing a lot of late stage capitalism issues.
With the increasingly valid excuse of uncertainty, mega corps ‘must’ make more money now because they don’t know what kind of economic hardships they will have to be prepared to endure in the future.
That risk is built into the cost of goods, and can’t easily be quantified, so a bill capping profit margins isn’t really feasible. And let’s not forget who really crafts legislation these days.
In my state, there is a limit to the number of liquor stores one person/corporation can own. They recently increased it from one to three. This law makes a lot more sense for housing than it does for liquor stores, but unfortunately there are too many billionaires with skin in the game.
A crash in housing prices comes with its own set of problems as well, so whatever changes are necessary, they should be taken slowly so as not to cause another collapse in the housing market. Home ownership is still the primary way for the average American family to develop any meaningful wealth, good or bad as that may be.
Whatever changes need to happen, they must be gradual and sustained over a long period of time. Massive and abrupt changes create instability which will have unanticipated consequences.
We want these mega corps to be like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot. Eventually, monopolistic and racketeering like practices could be diminished while millions are lifted out of poverty. If it is to happen, it will take time.
If I were a betting man, I would say that meaningful change is unlikely. Mega corps will continue to squeeze every penny out of the people, leaving us only enough to continue buying their shit. Bernie may have been able to do it, but sadly that ship has sailed.
“The U.S. is producing more oil than anytime in history”
The point is meant for the republican readers :P
Jesus christ, Politico.
Are they seriously trying to paint the mass production of AI powered war drones, while hinting they’d be useful in war against China, as a good thing?!
Político is written my actual morons.
If you believe we need to have the best technology to defend ourselves, and potential rivals are already pursuing this, yes. US has always tried to stay ahead in technology and this is no different than the latest stealth fighter, or vtol, or aircraft carrier or tank or missile or satellite or submarine or secure communications or radar system or even the best airlift or inflight refueling. The first wave of drone development was a huge success, as was what we were able to send Ukraine. Why wouldn’t we apply the same strategy to a new wave of same technology, and be mostly genuine in saying this will save American and allied lives?
This might be shocking to you, but those of us outside of the states don’t exactly think of your military power as the good guys by any stretch of the imagination.
Not at all, your interests don’t always align with mine, and any use of force has downsides. But of course I’ll usually prefer that my country not be at the mercy of someone else’s use of force.
I’ll also say that humanity is flawed, violent, ruled by baser emotions and …… one of the benefits of it being the US over some other possibilities is that we’re all (especially us citizens) free, even encouraged, to speak up where we have concerns. If you have a specific conflict in mind, I’d just like to suggest such things are never simple or straightforward: try to look at the conflicting requirements and goals, as well as history of the conflict
Pandora’s AI war drone box has pretty much been opened so might as well get ahead of the curve. More important than the utility in an actual war is the function of weapons as a deterrent to show that it’s not worth fighting a war.
Yes because you guys have been so responsible with your drone warfare in the past.
I’m a fan, for one. Fuck China. Fuck Russia.
The US can suck a fat one too while we’re at it.
Not just morons, paid DNC shills.
Granted, there’s a lot of overlap, including on Politico.
Politico is owned by Axel Springer, the media house that publishes the definitive unabashed, populist arch-conservative newspaper in Germany.
They are so unabashedly right wing, that they regularly bend and break journalistic rules and get sanctioned by the German press council for their violation of standard journalism ethics.
Today, Germans say they trust Bild significantly less than other German media sources.
This newspaper is an organ of perfidity. It is wrong to read it. Anyone who contributes to this newspaper is totally socially unacceptable. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to any of its editors. You have to be as unfriendly to them as the law allows. They are bad people who do wrong. - Max Goldt
Renewable energy as #2 source of energy.
As opposed to what? Non-renewables?
Is there even a #3?
The article says:
Electricity generation from renewable energy sources — including wind, solar and hydropower — surpassed coal-fired generation in the electric power sector for the first time in 2022, making it the second-biggest source behind natural gas generation. Renewables also passed nuclear power generation for the first time in 2021 and widened that gap the next year.
So at least it’s
- Fossil Gas
- Renewables
- Coal
- Nuclear
Don’t get me wrong, I do know what they’re referring to, but to group all types of renewable (solar, hydro, wind) against a single type of non-renewable energy source is a stupid way of comparing things.
Healthcare pls
They’ve found new and exciting ways to to stuff money in insurance pockets. I may be dumb, but I don’t think subsidies are a solution at all. If the Government wanted to set prices…great. if they want to run a single payer system…sploosh. all this does is obscure from people how fucking expensive their healthcare is. I get that that satisfies the need of individual healthcare consumers (sort of…40$ vs the actual monthly rates people will be paying is kind of an “oh how cute” situation), it doesn’t make the system any more sustainable.
The strategy that California is pursuing is providing subsidies to more and more groups of people, giving government a greater say in prices over time. Eventually the goal is to have government pay for everyone’s health care so they can negotiate prices to a fair level. Sounds feasible to me.
2000 dollars isn’t free.
Sure, but the point is we’re getting there. Vote blue and we’ll get there faster.
Hahahaha, lost me here. I’ll definitely take your point about California and how they’re going about universal healthcare to heart, but if you put hope in the Democrats, you will be disappointed. Fuck…the Democratic party. They would be nothing without the anti Republican vote.
“I can’t have everything I want right now, therefore nothing of value has been done!”
I can’t have anything I want…ever. They’re still a right wing party except on cultural issues.
Any Healthcare plan that could get through the Republican House is gonna be worse than what we already have. Vote for Democrats in 2024 if you want better laws on Healthcare.
It would be cool if it even seemed like he was trying. He let Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema block him because it was convenient for him too. It would be nice if he used his position of power to get what he wanted.
I don’t mean to be an ass regarding these because a lot of them are really nice but, none of them aside from the broadband expansion and maybe the funding for election transition/process really seem to help the current day millennial or Gen Z, the closest might be his environmental policies, I feel he should start focusing on thr younger groups if he wants to keep regained support for the newer gens.
That being said I did learn quite a bit from this article because I wasn’t aware he did most of what was listed here so it is cool
I feel like these should all establish a trajectory that very well aligns with the countries younger generation:
- Over the counter birth control
- Office of gun violence prevention
- Financial fee crackdown
- Inflation reduction act
- Assistance to smaller food producers
- Consequences to colleges drowning students in debt
- Chips and sciences act
- Access to medication without in person visits, including anti depressants, gender affirming care, and opioid addiction
- worker protections for union busting
I’m not a blowhard but I think this country could be in a really great place if this kind of progressive push continues with another Biden administration that would hopefully open the gates for an even more progressive eight years with his successor. The continued snuffing out of regressive views and bolstering a growing progressive shift in this country is exciting to think about. As much as I would like faster progress, and I admittedly voted for Biden as a vote against trump last cycle, I will be voting for him again because he’s exceeded my expectations. He’s laying a foundation this countries youth can build on and run away with. It’s not perfect but neither is this country. The aperture is opening up though.
Condoned and funded genocide should be the red line for everyone.
So you refuse to buy anything from China because of the Uighurs, right?
Purchasing an item manufactured in a country whose government is committing genocide is not the same as refusing to support a country’s leader who is directly supporting a genocide. I feel like this is obvious but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since your other comment indicates you believe in horseshoe theory.
You’re right. One of those options results in your money directly funding the genocide. The other doesn’t.
How does buying something that’s manufactured in China directly fund genocide, especially if the company you’re buying from isn’t even based in China?
whataboutism
It’s not. It’s establishing a base line of credibility of GodlessCommie.
So not for everyone then? I thought everyone there means everyone
What does this have to do with the genocide that biden supports? Or are you claiming that biden supports the genocide of Uighurs? Are you claiming that actually biden is fine to throw billions of dollars in support of the genocide of Palestinians because China?
They’re saying, if you still buy Uyghur slave labor produced goods from China, but tsk tsk Biden for being pro-Israel (literally every POTUS since the creation of Israel has been pro-Israel) you have no right to write Biden off and no right to tell others to not vote for him. It’s most likely that GodlessCommie is some kind of right wing astroturfer.
If it’s a red line for everyone, and it means you shouldn’t vote for Biden as a result, then you should also be minimizing your contributions/purchases with the US economy and all other countries currently engaged in genocide. Either take an absolutist stance on all of them, or make your rationalizations for all of them. Don’t pick and choose.
“How to derail a tankie” rofl
I’m a bit concerned by just how well that worked. It increasingly confirms to me that the alt right and tankies are birds of a feather. Ignore information you dislike as propaganda, condone human rights abuse if it’s by a country you like and call the reporting bullshit.
The political spectrum is a circle. Go too far left or right and you end up in fascism, with a different paint job.
The Uighurs issue is US propaganda anti China bullshit. Just like ‘Free Tibet’ was.
You sound just like the people who say Israel is doing nothing wrong and all the criticism is just from antisemitism.
You like them, therefore any criticism of them is propaganda and bullshit. Horseshoe theory in action.
No sweetheart. Israel is 100% in the wrong, their Zionist apartheid terrorist colonialist state is a failed experiment that needs to come to an end.
Anytime a person or a country tells you who your enemy is odds are it’s them
So when China tells you that your enemy is the US…
They don’t have to tell me, I know
Aw, tankies are so cute when they’re confused
Do you think Trump is more or less pro-Israel than Biden?
They are the same
Trump’s deals with the Saudis to genocide Yemenis are your red line for him, the situation for Gaza is your red line for Biden, and now you’ve solved genocide by throwing your vote away on someone who can never win.
Your assumption that a critique of Biden means support for Trump is infantile. Oh, and the Yemeni genocide by the Saudis started with Obama. My concern and vote isn’t about who can win, it’s about doing what’s right. Focusing only on who can win is for losers.
I’m not making that assumption at all. I’m saying your “red line” point is infantile because it rules out both major candidates, thus you will throw your vote away, which helps the candidate you hate most to win. If your metric is genocide, tasteless as it is, you have to vote for whoever you think will help minimize the deaths by genocide in the future. “Red Lines” don’t work if they don’t differentiate between the candidates.
I hate them both equally. And there is no lesser evil, that’s a thing white liberals tell themselves to ease their conscience for supporting people they know are doing harm, but not to them directly.
If you hate them exactly equally then I guess feel free not to vote.
A lot of people, ethically, would feel compelled to use their vote to minimize the amounts of deaths by genocide. Avoiding the question by pretending everyone sucks equally instead of actually trying to improve things is not some moral high road.
minimize the amounts of deaths by genocide
Supporting the guy thats continuing to fund and arm genocide is not minimizing death
It is if that guy can get the genocide to stop earlier than the other guy could. Or if the other guy would stop it earlier then vote for him.
>which helps the candidate you hate most to win
when i voted for howie and biden won, does that mean that i hated biden the most? what kind of quantum emotion theory are you cooking up?
You are not the only person voting, you not voting for a major party candidate doesn’t declare the person you dislike most the victor, it just helps them win.
Assuming you would have voted for Biden if you only had the two major party options, then voting for anyone else or failing to vote is a vote less for Biden, which is equivalent to a vote for Trump.
>you not voting for a major party candidate doesn’t declare the person you dislike most the victor, it just helps them win.
only a vote for a candidate helps them win
Ok so if all Biden voters stayed home, that wouldn’t help Trump win?
>Assuming you would have voted for Biden if you only had the two major party options
that is not a good assumption: I only vote for candidates if I want them to win.
The base assumption here is not that you would actually vote for either one, it’s that when given only two choices, you prefer one or the other. The only way that doesn’t hold is if you truly do not care between the two options and it’s a coin flip. If that is true, then the ‘person you hate most between the two’ still benefits, but it’s a coin flip which one it is so you don’t care.
If you prefer Biden over Trump, you are helping Trump by not voting for Biden. And vice versa. Even if you would never vote for any major party candidate, that just means you are always helping the major party candidate you hate the most.
if not voting is voting for trump, then voting for trump would be like voting twice.
this is clearly absurd election misinformation.
non-voters are the biggest voting block in the country. there is no way what you are saying is true.
Careful…. This will upset the kids.
Ooh. Preemptive deployment of the most common centrist thought-terminating cliche.
Liberals love to infantilize don’t they?
When all one sees are infants……
Why would anyone be upset that Biden issued an executive order to start the process of legalizing weed? Or that renewable power is now the number 2 source of electricity in the country?
Anything but fix real problems.
I don’t give a fuck about the paint on a fucking airplane
I’d say you didn’t read the article, but the Air Force One paint is smack in the middle of the article with 29 other things that actually do fix real problems.
I mean, whoever reads the article would also see that they did a similar piece on Trump, listing both positive and negative achievements of his presidency.
I think it’s a cool format. The media cycle tends to blow one single story out of proportions while neglecting anything else that happens, this is (imo) a good way to review some of what’s been happening the last four years.
Drones for China doesn’t fix healthcare.
Downvotes wont fix income inequality, chuds, just like Biden.
How about border security? Oh, Republicans torched that because Big Cheeto told them to? Must be Bifen’s fault!
There’s no border crisis
Biden can’t unilaterally fix healthcare. He would need congress to cooperate with him and he has never been able to get that. He couldn’t even pass the bills he wanted that did pass without major changes.
It amazes me what people think presidents have the power to do. They’re not absolute monarchs.
can’t unilaterally fix healthcare
He’s already said he won’t even try, and fixes would be vetoed
