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’m just impressed he didn’t crack down on the left first thing.
Not snark here, I had worried he would.
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.
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.
Man I’m so fully employed that I have three part time jobs. All of which I need to pay rent. Pretty sweet!
No I do not have health insurance.
Oof life is a grind but if you can surround yourself with the right relationships/community and keep putting your best foot forward things will get better on the job front.
Why are you working part time jobs?
Full time jobs hardly ever work with a part time job. Finding times to fit usually means two part time jobs than a full time and part time. Plus businesses get jealous when you don’t dedicate your life to them.
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.
Yes and we should be doing less work than they did, not more.
Don’t believe your eyes and ears! You’re doing well! You’re all doing so well
“Full employment” is a lie…
Maybe they used speech recognition. They meant fool.
It’s not helping me or anyone I know, so…
Plus think of all the EXTRA jobs building the border wall will bring!
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.
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
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.
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.
