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Hot take here, judging by the company, but I think Biden’s doing great. He’s moved the federal government in a more progressive direction than any presidential administration since Lyndon Johnson, and I’m confident with more Democrats in the legislature he could do even more.
Simultaneously, the opposition has become so dangerous that it’s absolutely critical the Democratic coalition remain together. There are always going to be criticisms you can level against any leader. I certainly don’t agree with Biden 100% of the time. But if you check out the other hot takes here, making Biden out to be the devil, or saying they’ll never vote for him…those people are trying to elect Donald Trump again.
Biden is definitely doing much better than I expected. No question. Nowhere near the Bernie Sanders type that we need, but a pleasant surprise.
In another time, I probably would go on a rant about Boomer politics killing us slowly. But since Republicans have literally become fascist lunatics, Democrats have to stick together no matter what.
History has shown us just how bad things can get under fascism, and these Republicans are dangerous, stupid, and cruel, and stupid. And yes, I know I put stupid twice.
In another time, I probably would go on a rant about Boomer politics killing us slowly. But since Republicans have literally become fascist lunatics, Democrats have to stick together no matter what.
God, isn’t that the truth. If you told me in 2012 that Mitt fucking Romney, theocrat and corpo cocksucker extraordinaire, was going to be one of the least fascist members of the GOP in 10 years, I would have laughed in your face.
Or that we’d be happy with Liz Cheney?!
For real - coming to the realization that Liz was basically the only adult in the room that is the GOP who was willing to take any semblance of a leadership position staunchly against, you know, conducting a fucking coup was a bit of a shock for me.
I have no problem with democrats ‘sticking together’ as far as voting blue next election, but don’t sit back after you’ve done that.
The seeds for fascism in the USA are the same ones that were in Germany when Hitler rose - rampant inequality and poverty leading to desperate people leading to christian nationalism, and later fascism. I hate to break it to you but a Democratic party with no one to the left of them has no incentive to fix the root problems, and every incentive to stay on the take and then escape to their favorite country with their wealth if they push it too far.
Campaign finance reform, election reform, labor reform … pick a cause and find some friends. We cannot have a democracy without working for it. Fascism will rise in the absence of effort.
What we need is a left-wing candidate to win a primary, and pull the party to the left the way Bush and Trump pulled their party to the alt-right
I’m just impressed he didn’t crack down on the left first thing.
Not snark here, I had worried he would.
It’s the #walkaway all over again, which really was conservatives saying that they won’t vote for democrats “again”.
I don’t know if I’d say great, but he was considerably less disappointing than I’d feared.
Ultimately, we need an overhaul rather than incremental change - but bet your ass I’m voting Dem for every Federal office come 2024, Biden included. The overhaul the fascists promise, after all, is not one that can be reversed.
but bet your ass I’m voting Dem for every Federal office come 2024, Biden included.
And just a reminder, why don’t we all get warmed up voting in our local elections in 2023.
I have to admit, I was definitively in the “they’re really gonna make me vote for Joe Biden?” Camp, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised. His work with the railroad union really solidified it, where sure, don’t love the strike breaking, but the post-strike negotiations end results was certainly a win for those same rail workers.
The goal should be zero employment. Making people work to justify their existence is the antithesis of what we’ve fought and suffered for a hundred thousand years to achieve.
The goal should be zero employment.
Hunting and gathering is still working to justify your existence.
With the pretty huge difference that when they got enough for everyone, they stopped and lived life.
We on the other hand, sit there and try to find ways to complete our work day despite having completed our goals, we even work more than what the world needs, driving up profits for our masters and throwing away what isn’t used. And yet we still can’t feed everyone despite producing more than enough, because it would be less profitable to spread those resources equally.
Lol this is just unhinged man. You’re really arguing to go back to hunter-gathering. I thought you were kidding lol
Not even worth an argument. No one is going back to that en masse.
Move to Alaska. Hunt and gather all you want.
I’m not at all saying that, but you’re free to misinterpret it as you like
Yes and we should be doing less work than they did, not more.
Your life is massively easier, safer, healthier, and more convenient than theirs. Your life expectancy is massively higher. The trade off there is an interconnected and interdependent series of jobs.
You are welcome to go be a subsistence farmer or scavenging hermit at any point if youd prefer, but expecting all the same benefits without contribution is a bit odd.
There is a reason people choose even sweatshop labor over subsistence farming.
We aren’t having the same discussion. I’m talking about eliminating all work, including subsistence farming and sweatshop labor, not going back to hunting and gathering.
Then everyone just starves to death.
In 1776 years ago about 90% of the population were involved in farming. Today that number is under 2% and we have more food than we need to feed everyone. Working less does not mean producing less. It’s why we don’t mine coal by hand or haul goods on sledges.
That 2% goes to 0% and we get food how?
Or did you mean you just don’t want to work? Because we had that system too, up until a different American war about 90 years later
certain industries are also paying less than when Biden first took office and costs for everything has gone up sometimes doubling
Walmart is just one example paying $4 less or more than a few years ago
why should this be celebrated? links below are what we are celebrating the ones above stalled out
“Full employment” is a lie…
Maybe they used speech recognition. They meant fool.
It’s not helping me or anyone I know, so…
This was a well balanced article overall, considering the title. It does celebrate the low unemployment but balances it out by calling out cost related issues. Left leaning but not delusional.
Don’t believe your eyes and ears! You’re doing well! You’re all doing so well
Plus think of all the EXTRA jobs building the border wall will bring!
Fuck Biden
The economy is not doing well, I don’t care what statistics they use to try and lie about it. People are suffering.
If the economy was doing good, the feds wouldn’t keep increasing rates.
And to put cherry on cake, Biden did a photo shoot at the border wall last week and is expanding construction on something he promised to halt.
I’m getting closer to just voting for Trump at this point. Biden makes me so angry. Most important issue for me is immigration reform and foreign policy. Seems like Biden and Trump are identical in these two areas except for a disagreement on whether to turn off the money tap to Ukraine.
Found the worst take!
What’s better? The guy you know will try and fuck you or the one that promises he will help and then fucks you anyway?
The photo shoot at the border made me irrationally angry. You try and put yourself in the shoes and see how it feels to be one of the 12 million illegals or 600,000 DACA being promised something for decades by the Dems
Living in fear as states like Texas and Florida ramp up the use of illegals as scapegoats. Just to see the president you thought was on your side spit in your face
As a gay black man, I too will vote for trump because of a photo shoot.
photoshoot at the border. because he’s expanding construction on the border wall that TRUMP campaigned on. the same wall he said he would halt construction on.
if him and trump are the same, what difference does it make who i vote for? i only got the right to vote last year. i voted once in my state election for governor against desantis
what’s that idiom though… “fear not the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you”
you will never know the plight of these people. growing up in fear as the government becomes increasingly hostile to you while you are raised in school being taught about the “american dream” and “bring me your hungry your tired your weary” and “melting pot”
then someone like biden comes to give a little hope only to crush you and remind you that this country is a cruel and uncaring machine
So more people than ever are being forced to work or starve, all while earning less pay than any other time in American history? And all this is because Biden is a lame duck who either cannot or will not actually solve America’s problems? Oh, and more Americans than ever are working multiple jobs?
Sounds like cause for celebration to me!
Sorry what? In May, wages began rising faster than inflation for the first time in years. That stuff you just listed doesn’t just go away immediately overnight after decades of dumbass Ragenomics
You’re being pissed on and saying “at least it isn’t shit”
You’re the one pissing everywhere and now you’re threatening to start shitting everywhere too. Put on a diaper until you learn to use a toilet.
And you’re letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Wages rising faster than inflation is a good thing. I’m not sure why you think otherwise.
I suppose you have a solution and are aware of a candidate who can put that solution into action?
Google “lame duck”. You used the term wrong.
Let us see if Bidenflation is much better closer to 2024…
At any rate, I will have to admit that I have a personal stake in this debate. Back when the American Rescue Plan was being debated, I argued against Larry Summers’s notion that its size should be slashed because it might cause inflation. I said the balance of risks was not even close—on the one hand a continuation of the economic lost decade of the 2010s, but on the other some inflation that would cause only moderate pain. Inflation did come—and while I don’t believe Summers was right about the causes, which were more about the pandemic and the war in Ukraine than Big Fiscal, it did turn out to be quite unpopular.
The Lawerence Summers that blamed inflation on Jan. 6 2021, this is the person people are looking for advise?
Jimmy Dore did a video on him on Jun 15, 2022.
Obama Advisor Ties Inflation To January 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4L8PHBowpk
jimmy dore is a cryptofash and you spread cryptofash shit everywhere.
What is cryptofash?
When have I posted about crypto?
Only time I remember was when I posted Yanis Voaroukis talk about cryto.
Crypto is dead | Yanis Varoufakis x Viktor Tábori x Brain Bar
Crypto-fascism. Also, Jimmy Dore fucking blows
cryptofascist. nothing to do with cryptocurrency they just share the same prefix, in the case of cryptofascist it means obfuscated, hidden. jimmy dore is a fascist pretending to be a leftist in order to sow leftist division and fud. that’s why he only attacks left and simps for authoritarians states. like a tankie but no earnest leftist beliefs at all.
Who the fuck reads this and thinks the author, who clearly states they disagree with Larry Summers at every point, is looking to Larry Summers for advice? And who gives a flying fuck about Jimmy Dore? Are you Jimmy Dore?
He spams links for Jimmy Dore’s youtube channel.
He quoted him on the article, I did not bring it up for no reason.
If the bar is as low as Lawerence Summers, then that is good for you, not for me.
The bar for Jimmy Dore is far, far lower.
Is it though?
Watching his point of view vs. other politicial yters…
He calls it as he sees it, then the backlash and smears start, since he is left of those people.
He is more the lay person, no need to act like he is a professional politician.
Sabby Sabs is more to my taste, but I do try and watch as many people as possible.
Being in a bubble is not good.
Of course, inflation that every industrialised country is facing is because of Joe Biden.
Person who is currently in charge gets blamed as history shows.
What caused inflation? Federal Reserve printing out money like crazy for wars.
I do not see a push for a Great New Deal.
Mostly just corporate democrate talk and half tries.
