Biden: Kinda meh
Eppstein-Friend Trump: Hitler 2.0
Its not a choice, but more a test for basic cognitive function. One which republicans routinely fail.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
-12 points (37.0% liked)
politics
19104 readers
4512 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Not to take away from your point or distract from how bad Trump is -- but Biden is not even kinda meh; he's actually affirmatively been doing a great job. Funny story, I actually didn't realize how much good stuff he'd been doing until I started arguing with shills on Lemmy who were bashing him left and right with clever little engineered talking points. Here's some of what Biden's done:
- He took the biggest action on climate change in US history; the goal of the climate bill is to put us on track for a 40% reduction in US emissions by 2030. It's way too late but that's clearly not Biden's fault since he started fighting for it basically as soon as he got into office, and managed to achieve passed legislation which is several standard deviations above the norm for "let's ignore it until we're underwater and on fire" US politician status quo.
- He ordered the forgiveness of half a trillion dollars in student debt, about a third of the current total balance, and the Supreme Court told him no. He's still managed to forgive $138 billion worth of it even against stiff Republican "no we need that money to give to Wall Street criminals pls" resistance.
- He introduced a bill to legalize marijuana federally, which the Republicans killed in the senate.
- He achieved the lowest unemployment in 20 years after having been handed an economy that was still digging out from the apocalypse that was 2020.
- After having spent several months engaged in absolutely war-criminal support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, he's now put sanctions on Israeli settlers for the first time in history, is putting the US military on the ground in Gaza after having publicly clashed with Netanyahu about the war, and is directly feeding starving Gazans. Does that mean a real reversal of the worst piece of the US's has-some-pretty-fucking-bad-pieces longstanding foreign policy? Er... fuck. Maybe. I don't know. Let's see. But he's showing some little stumbling signs of humanity as regards our Israel policy, which is un heard of for a US politician.
Did you know all that shit? I didn't. As recently as a few weeks ago I was describing him as "center-right" simply because he's a popular Democrat, but I think he might actually be kinda good. Which for a president is vanishingly rare.
So, yes, I think there could be two worse options. Not than Trump, Trump is the end of the world in human skin. But yes I think pretty much any presidential candidate since Al Gore would be a worse option than Biden.
Hey OP: Want to continue the conversation about Biden's marijuana policy? You said Biden could fix it all if he just would take action, and I asked what precise step you were asking him to do (beyond a federal legalization bill, pardons for federal prisoners, and asking the DEA to reschedule it), and then you fell silent instead of taking the chance to explain your position more. (As these accounts tend to do)
I know all that stuff and I still don't wanna vote for him. I will, don't worry. But he's still pretty far to the right of me politically.
a test for basic cognitive function
Can we get one shipped to OP?
Clinton/Trump, for one. Although there are literally billions of answers.
Every time Biden says or does something stupid, I try to take a moment to appreciate that at least we didn't get Michael Bloomberg instead
Orban/Putin/Xi - with Xi threatening to split the authoritarian vote and be a king maker.
Sure. Trump and his dad, Satan.