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Legislative: * Inflation Reduction Act * American Rescue Plan * Infrastructure Bill * Coronavirus Relief package * CHIPS and Science Act * Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Administrative: * Improved student loan structure and provided some discharges * Halted federal death penalty * Appointed the most federal judges since Reagan * Expanded child tax credits * Improved out-of-pocket caps for Medicare Leadership: * Unified NATO and other allies against Russia * Rejoined the Paris Climate Accord * ~~Rejoined~~ Kept the U.S. in the World Health Organization * Restored professionalism and expertise to federal agencies, especially the Department of Justice

Context makes these accomplishments more impressive, too: * 50/50 Senate with no traction on removing the filibuster, requiring heavy compromise with Moderate Democrats and/or Republicans; * Covid recovery and corresponding supply chain issues, compounded by the war in Ukraine; * Partisan SCOTUS decisions complicating how to craft legislation to avoid judicial activism, especially within the administrative state. TBD on whether success is possible there. I would add getting out of Afghanistan, too, because I think it took some stones to actually go through with it, but the case for that one as an accomplishment is probably stickier.

I'm biased but I think Biden got way too much flak for Afghanistan, and the withdraw was the best case scenario. It's been over a year now and I think every year after the withdraw it looks better and better.

Frankly, I don't have any idea what the potential outcomes were for the withdrawal, and I'd hazard a guess most pundits don't either. Those kinds of operations are ridiculously complex, and I think require a pretty intimate knowledge of the situation. What I do think we can say for sure is: 1) We needed to get out, and 2) Given how long we'd been there, and how unstable the region remained, getting out was always going to be messy. For me, that's really all the context I need to give him some credit for just getting us out.

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Had Trump not lost the election, I do believe he'd have backed out of the plan to with draw

Naw I think he would have half-assed it and withdrawn but with a lot of extra confusion. But it wouldn't have hurt him as much politically because competency isn't why his supporters love him and because his supporters and boosters are less reflexively empathetic to people in Afghanistan.

Yeah, the people who raged against Bidens pullout would have praised Trump for the exact same pullout. And it would have been the exact same pullout, run by the same people at the Pentagon. The difference would have been that there would have been zero Afghan civilians helped by Trump when it came to escaping the Taliban. All those people who worked for the US would have been abandoned by him.

Like he did to the Kurds?

Yeah, like Trump did to the Kurds.

He negotiated the withdrawal. Not only would Trump not have backed out, he would have found a way to commit a crime while doing it as a direct result of trying to enrich himself from the effort.

>Had Trump not lost the election, I do believe he'd have backed out of the plan to with draw How do you figure that?

Simple, he would have been told what a mess it would be, and not done it. It's not like her had a plan for it. Yes I know he agreed to the withdrawal and signed off on it. But has that tang taint stool sample of a human, ever lived up to an agreement/promise in his life ?

Why would he want that trouble on his hands. Clearly he would rather have more dead Americans on his hands than look bad.

Afghanistan was always going to fall. I could really see Trump pulling out like in Syria but then sending troops back in just because he wouldn’t want to be perceived as the “weak” guy who lost Afghanistan. Seeing as he both signed the near unconditional surrender to the Taliban and would have been the guy who had actually pulled out, he’d have been much more accurately seen as that as opposed to Biden who got handed a no win situation and handled the withdrawal poorly but had the guts to not send troops back in in the face of all sides relentlessly attacking him over it. One things for sure, all the talk of a “plan” by Trump was just bullshit he realized was bad in hindsight. All the “ID HAVE PULLED THE WEAPONS OUT THEN CIVILIANS THEN MILITARY” talk I guarantee he never considered prior to August 2021.

Why would you think that? I'm confident that everyone knew they'd have to pull out. Trump was very "profit" about the US military powers. He wanted them to be mercenaries, essentially. So, if there was no profit in keeping the troops in afghanistan, he would have no motive to keep them there.

Exactly this, and there is only so much you can do in the situation. You can't come out and say you expect the Afghanistan army to collapse, that just makes them collapse quicker, so the "lying" over it is just showing confidence in an "ally". The US had told it's citizens to leave months prior to the actual withdraw, and we can't force people onto the planes even if we might have wanted to. After all of that, we still had an incredibly amount of people that were brought out in only a few weeks. Didn't we get 250,000 people out in less than 2-3 weeks or something? At the end of all that, we lost 13 soldiers which is far less troops than if we had tried to stay when we were losing 50 soldiers a year.

What he could have done would be to delay the pull-out plan, but he was committed to it on principle - so he deserves credit for sticking to the plan, but the military leadership was mostly against (Trump admin's) timeline from the beginning. The timeline and conditions were set/negotiated by the Trump administration. It's been reported that the generals and top brass almost immediately asked Biden to review (change) the Trump admin plan soon after he took office. Trump's Pentagon purge has been reported as caused by the lack of support for an Afghanistan departure plan (Ex: [https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-trump-carried-out-his-pentagon-purge](https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-trump-carried-out-his-pentagon-purge)). The President is responsible in the end, but if we're to blame him for the lives lost, then we also need to credit him with the lives saved by successfully pulling out. Leadership is about these tough decisions. Balancing a swift pull-out vs a prolonged one is a tough call. The latter would likely have led to more loss of life due to more widespread attacks.

He *did* delay the pullout. Trump set the initial date for a full withdrawal by May 1, Biden pushed it back *three months.* And was telling American citizens for that entire three months "get the fuck out." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2020%E2%80%932021)

President Biden did actually delay the withdrawal timeline, giving Afghanistan 3 extra months to prepare. If he had gone with Trump's timeline the situation would have been considerably worse. It is very unfortunate that Trump decided to negotiate with terrorists and not include the Afghani government in the negotiations.

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Dunkirk was a bit of a different situation, they were pulling out in a full retreat pursued by most of the Wehrmacht. Vietnam is definitely a better comparison, or maybe the force drawdown in Korea after the ceasefire was signed (honestly don't know a whole lot about that).

One thing that went actually very well is that the US and Taliban - despite being enemies - actually worked ok with each other in coordinating the withdrawal and there were no Taliban - US firefights. There was a Taliban faction that split off, pledged allegiance to ISIS, and was fighting the main Taliban faction that was responsible for the one bombing, as it wanted to try and create friction between the Taliban and the US.

The fact that Trump was the one who negotiated the US withdrawal form Afghanistan, cut out the Afghan government from negotiations, and then released 5,000 Taliban militants, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Biden getting all the blame for that is downright laughable. It’s just evidence Z-9,870 that Americans are fucking stupid.

Also, after Trump's 'negotiation', he stalled the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa process, and the visa interview process.... so Biden had to deal with a backlog when he became pres.

Whenever I hear a ton of criticism I just ask "how did you want it to go?". There was never going to be a good exit

There was zero way to do it and also keep everyone happy (issue a ton of visas early and the Afghan government would protest and claim the administration was undermining them by making it appear the government would fall, for example). The only thing that would have worked is if the US had left earlier. Then those same people would want to flee, they just wouldn't be able to use US military transport. And there would be a lot more stories about people "abandoned" in Afghanistan.

Agreed. The Biden Administration got a lot of flak for the Afghan army collapse for some reason, and even despite that the US made the best out of a bad situation. The 13 we lost weren't from the Taliban but from ISIS, and 13 deaths is very much in line with how many soldiers we've lost the last few years, so it's being made out of more of a talking point than how these people actually feel about the deaths.

It was basically from a ton of reporters who visited Afghanistan from 2001 on and had met people in Kabul during that time. And those people were afraid of the Taliban and communicating with the reporters about the fall of the government and the reporters all felt bad about it so yelled at the Biden administration for leaving. For a lot of people who bring up the 13, the occupation of Afghanistan starts on January 20, 2021 until the withdrawal and they don't think about any of the mistakes that led up to that point.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

This is a bit of a mixed bag… it took courage to decide to do exit Afghanistan but it ended up being a decision made by politicians, for politicians. Much like the majority of the entire operation in Afghanistan. The Afghan war was a disaster simply because of it’s political nature. It was a confused operation with no condition for success that tried to turn a very professional military into a “nation” building operation that it was ill suited for. If you talked to anyone involved in the training of the Afghan Army in 2013 they would have been able to tell you exactly what was going to happen when the US left. This was a no win situation because there was no realistic win condition ever set. But I would argue that if the military had been given the opportunity to plan and execute their own withdrawal (time lines, etc) it wouldn’t have been the gong show it turned into.

When you’re occupying a country, *especially* a country like Afghanistan, you need to be willing to commit a century or more to that occupation. You need to be there long enough that most of the population doesn’t remember a time when you weren’t. You can’t just change an entire culture in twenty years, it takes generations. The US was never going to be ready to make that sort of commitment.

> I think Biden got way too much flak for Afghanistan Of course he did - Republicans had to find a way to spin saving countless American lives into being a negative

I mean, Afghanistan definitely doesn't look any better, that's a total disaster for the Afghan people. But the withdrawal was about as good as something like that would ever be. And keep in mind that it wasn't the Oval Office micro-managing the withdrawal. The Pentagon ran that, and they would have pulled out exactly the same way no matter who gave the order to leave. A large part of that disaster lays with Trump, and his capitulation to the Taliban. Trump threw the Afghans under a bus and sold them out to the Taliban, so is it any wonder that the government fled at the same time that the US pulled all support for them?

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> No matter what, there was never going to be a good time to withdraw. There were always going to be "reasons" for not doing it, like some concocted excuses by those who stood to benefit from staying there. Precisely this. There was never going to be a good time for this withdrawl. In 2070, we still would not have been in a good place to remove our troops from Afghanistan. We don't have the stomach or the moral grounds to do what would have been necessary to prevent some variant of Islamic extremism from taking root and taking over as we left.

Plus the Trumpite administration gave his administration little or no help in the transition with information about the situation there thus causing his State Department to have to start from basically zero in January 2021: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-pentagon-transition-460768

Just showed me why Obama couldn't do it, they would have lynched him for having to deal with that reality of what withdrawing is

I think it’s easy to look back on what happened and claim it was a mistake, but it may have looked even worse if we didn’t withdraw and the Taliban ramped up attacks against US troops.

Yeah same while the coordination could have been better with removing American forces and equipment in a safe manner, pulling out what undoubtedly a necessary move that was a decade overdue. It was clear that the makeshift army we were propping would not be willing to fight the Taliban once our billions of income stopped flowing. Ultimately Afghanistan needs to get its shit together and establish a government that the majority of the country wants. If the people do not have to will to fight against the Taliban, the task should not fall on America. No matter what pulling was going to be messy but we needed to rip the band-aid off.

Agreed. I think what left a bad taste in people’s mouths tho was that it appeared hypocritical to GOP voters who got flak for Trump’s military actions. I didn’t follow either story too much so I’m sure context was valuable here.

I do not support most of the president’s policy positions I think it’s fair to say it was a bungled withdrawal But, like, it was a bungled mess going in and it was going to be the same coming out. If the ANA lasted a week after 20 years and trillions spent would they have lasted 2 after 40 years? He got us out of that quagmire so he gets points in my book

Afghanistan is run by the mysoginists named Taliban. It's a terrible thing. But as I understand it, the US had no real choice but to leave, and I believe any president would have pulled out.

>I would add getting out of Afghanistan, too, because I think it took some stones to actually go through with it, but the case for that one as an accomplishment is probably stickier. Getting out was sort of foisted upon his administration. Redeploying arguably would've been much more painful for American troops than simply GTFO'ing, and extracted a larger political toll. Though obviously, Adghanis themselves were fucked, but Americans have largely forgotten about that as we head into the midterms.

It was best that he did the Afghanistan pullout when he did it. With how short our attention spans are now, it's almost forgotten about.

Trump "negotiated" the exit plan with Afghanistan. Biden got the blame. Obama pulled out of Iraq based on the timeline and agreements set by Bush W. Obama got the blame. The GOP is great at putting the Democrats in a double bind. GOP "negotiates" a deal that will happen under the next term. If the GOP wins they can renegotiate. If Democrats win the the GOP will blame them if they don't honor the deal. If the Dems do honor the deal the GOP blames them for not continuing the unwinnable war because ending Occupation is always a mess. GOP started Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

I think any president would have pulled out of Afghanistan. It looked like Trump was fixing to do it. It appears to me that those in the know, were aware the US would need to withdraw from Afghanistan for maybe a year or possibly more, before Biden pulled out.

> It looked like Trump was fixing to do it. Trump negotiated the withdrawal and set the withdrawal date. Biden simply let Trump's plan go forward as planned.

Not exactly as planned, Biden delayed the withdrawal by three months, but yeah mostly correct.

Ya, and there were other signs it seemed like it was going to happen even before then. I think any president wouldn't have done it.

The bandage needed to be torn off. I'm glad Biden made the hard choice to do it instead of wimping out and staying longer.

And many of those Legislative bills will have an impact over the next decade. **Infrastructure Bill** * Roads and bridges: Headlining the 2,702-page bill’s spending, roughly $110 billion of new funds would go toward improving the nation's roads and bridges, and investments in other major transportation programs. * Public transit: The package also includes the largest-ever federal investment in public transit, allotting $39 billion to modernize systems, improve access for the elderly and people with disabilities, and repair more than 24,000 buses, 5,000 railcars and thousands of miles of train tracks. * Amtrak: The legislation marks the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago, with $66 billion earmarked for high-speed rail, safety improvements, Amtrak grants and modernization of the rail route connecting Washington, D.C., to Boston. * Broadband internet: Tacking on to billions authorized by last year’s American Rescue Plan, the infrastructure bill includes $65 billion to bolster the country's broadband infrastructure and help ensure that every American has access to high-speed internet, with one in four households expected to be eligible for a $30-per-month subsidy to pay for internet access. * Electric grid and energy: Though many clean-energy measures were cut from the bill to satisfy spending-weary lawmakers, a $108 billion investment will help upgrade the nation’s electricity grid, with thousands of miles of new transmission lines and funds for environmentally friendly smart-grid technology. * Electric cars, buses and ferries: In addition to $7.5 billion for the nation’s first network of electric-vehicle chargers along highway corridors, lawmakers have shored up $5 billion for zero-emission buses (including thousands of electric school buses) and $2.5 billion for ferries. * Clean drinking water: Following high-profile water-supply crises plaguing cities like Flint, Michigan, the legislation includes a provision for $55 billion to replace all the nation's lead pipes and service lines, representing the largest investment in clean drinking water ever. * Great rivers and lakes: Among the bill's more than $50 billion for water infrastructure improvements, about $1 billion is slated to go toward the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a sweeping clean-up measure targeting toxic hot spots—or areas of heavy industrial pollution—around the Great Lakes region, and $17 billion will be allocated to ports and waterways. * Airports: More than $25 billion has been allocated to help modernize America's airports—funds the Airports Council International says will help tackle more than $115 billion worth of project backlogs. * Road safety: The deal invests $11 billion in transportation safety programs, including a new program to help states and localities reduce crashes and fatalities in their communities, particularly among cyclists and pedestrians. * Normal funding: In addition to the $550 billion in new investments, the package also includes roughly $650 billion in previously authorized funding for roads and other infrastructure, including nearly $300 billion for the Highway Trust Fund and $90 billion for public transit over the next five years. **Inflation Reduction Act** * Creation of a 15% corporate minimum tax rate: Corporations with at least $1 billion in income will have a new tax rate of 15%. Taxes on individuals and households won’t be increased. Stock buybacks by corporations will face a 1% excise tax. * Prescription drug price reform: One of the most significant provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act will allow Medicare to negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs, bringing down the price beneficiaries will pay for their medications. Medicare recipients will have a $2,000 cap on annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, starting in 2025. * IRS tax enforcement: The IRS has been sounding the alarm for years about being underfunded and being unable to deliver on its duties. The bill invests $80 billion in the nation’s tax agency over the next 10 years. * Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy extension: Currently, medical insurance premiums under the ACA are subsidized by the federal government to lower premiums. These subsidies, which were scheduled to expire at the end of this year, will be extended through 2025. Approximately 3 million Americans could lose their health insurance if these subsidies weren’t extended, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. * Energy security and climate change investments: The bill includes numerous investments in climate protection, including tax credits for households to offset energy costs, investments in clean energy production and tax credits aimed at reducing carbon emissions. **[American Rescue Plan](https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/fact-sheet-the-american-rescue-plan-will-deliver-immediate-economic-relief-to-families)** * There are a lot of pieces to this plan. I recommend you review the linked document. **Bipartisan Safe Communities Act** * $750 million to help states implement and conduct crisis intervention programs, like mental health courts, drug courts, and veteran courts. The programs are aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of those who are a threat to themselves or others. * Requires more gun sellers to register as Federally Licensed Firearm Dealers who are required to do background checks before they sell a gun to anyone. * Closing the so-called boyfriend loophole in domestic violence law which bars anyone who is convicted of domestic violence against someone they have a serious relationship with from having a gun. Gun ownership right can be restored after five years if they don’t commit other crimes. * Thorough reviews of potential gun buyers aged 18-21, implementing a new protocol for checking juvenile records. The National Instant Criminal Background Check system must complete the review within 10 days. * Increased funding for mental health programs and school security, including $150 million for the suicide crisis hotline and $250 million for community mental health. * Penalties on “straw purchasing,” that is buying a firearm for someone else got unlawful purposes. New sentencing ranges from up to 15 years for making an illegal purchase and up to 25 years if the fun is used in a felony, terrorism, or trafficking. * Provides $1 billion for safe schools and citizenship education.

**CHIPS and Science Act** > The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, referred to as the CHIPS Act, is a $280 billion dollar spending package passed by Congress in July. About $50 billion in spending is directly focused on increasing semiconductor production domestically. The rest of the spending package mostly focuses on science and technology research funding across the US. > > The CHIPS Act includes $39 billion in tax benefits and other incentives to encourage American companies to build new chip manufacturing plants in the US. Currently, many US companies outsource chip manufacturing to international-based companies. For example, Taiwan-based companies account for 73% of the market share for contract-based semiconductor production as of 2021. > > The remaining $11 billion funds programs dedicated to other parts of the supply chain such as semiconductor design, packaging, and manufacturing. The goal is to entice companies to complete as much of the production process within the US as possible. **Coronavirus Relief Package** * $600 direct payment checks for every adult and child earning up to $75,000. Individuals earning between $75,000 and $87,000 would get smaller checks, and the benefit cuts out entirely for individuals earning over $87,000. Unemployment benefits: Lawmakers agreed to extend enhanced unemployment benefits for jobless workers, who will receive up to $300 per week through mid-March. Self-employed people and gig workers will also receive extended assistance. * Rental assistance: The measure includes $25 billion to help families pay their rent, and it extends the eviction moratorium now in effect until Jan. 31. SNAP assistance: The measure includes an additional $13 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Sponsor Message Small-business help * PPP loans: The agreement includes some $284 billion for Paycheck Protection Program loans. Democrats say they expanded eligibility for the loans to include nonprofits and local newspapers, along with TV and radio stations. Also, $15 billion would be reserved for live venues, independent movie theaters and cultural institutions, which have been struggling due to pandemic-forced closures. * Child care centers: The measure includes $10 billion for child care centers to help providers safely reopen. Vaccines * The agreement includes some $68 billion to purchase and distribute COVID-19 vaccines and help states conduct testing — $20 billion of that funding will make the vaccine available at no cost for anybody needing it. Broadband access * The measure contains $7 billion to increase access to broadband Internet, including a new Emergency Broadband Benefit that Democrats say will help millions of students' families and unemployed workers afford the broadband they need during the pandemic. Transportation aid * Lawmakers also agreed to provide $45 billion in transportation-related assistance, including: $16 billion for airlines to pay the salaries of workers and contractors. $14 billion for mass transit agencies. $10 billion for highways. $1 billion for Amtrak. Education * The measure contains $82 billion in funding for schools and universities to assist with reopening, including, $2.75 billion for private K-12 education. Agriculture * There is some $13 billion in the measure for farmers and agriculture, including money under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program for growers and livestock, dairy and poultry producers. Medical bills * The measure also includes a provision ending surprise medical billing. Republicans say patients would be required to receive a "true and honest cost estimate" three days before any scheduled procedure and that billing disputes would be subject to arbitration. Tax-deductible meals * Lawmakers also included a provision sought by Trump, making the cost of meals a deductible business expense. To be fair: **Major Legislative Accomplishments by Trump After Four Years** * Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Tax breaks for the wealthy that the middle class now pays for. * Space Force - The branch the military did not want. * Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act * Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” * Save our Seas Act - $10 million to clean the oceans. * Preventing Maternal Deaths Act - Provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans. * First Step Act - a criminal justice bill that enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society. * $28 billion in aid to farmers, but farmers were impacted from the tariffs that Trump had previously imposed. Much of the data on the Trump accomplishments are murky. He signed many Executive Orders, but many were not actually implemented. He took credit for many things that Obama had done. More research would need to go into specific points.

Wasn't there also the right to try act or something like that regarding experimental treatments and terminal patients? I remember thinking it was one of the few positives

I had forgotten that one as well. But again, everything the Trump administration did was murky. It has only helped two patients. Two. [Right to Try Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law) > Prior to the passage of right to try laws, patients needed FDA approval to use experimental drugs. As of 2018, 41 U.S. states had passed right to try laws. The framers of these laws argue that this allows for individualized treatments that are not permitted under the FDA's current regulatory scheme.[1] The value of these laws was questioned on multiple grounds, including the fact that pharmaceutical manufacturers would have no obligation to provide the therapies being sought.[2] A federal right to try law was passed in May 2018. > > When President Trump signed the legislation into law in May 2018 he said, "We will be saving—I don't even want to say thousands, because I think it's going to be much more. Thousands and thousands. Hundreds of thousands. We're going to be saving tremendous numbers of lives."[44] Following the passage of the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act, as of June 2019 **only two patients have received access to experimental medical products through the federal right to try pathway.**

If you can make write-ups like this you should be applying for positions in the White House.

I just know how to Google. You can do it too!

Great list! While some of these will take time, I wanted to share one small anecdote on the immediate impact of Biden being in office. There is now going to be a utility scale wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts because Biden's team gave approval after Trumps staff stalled. [https://www.vineyardwind.com/](https://www.vineyardwind.com/) It is being constructed now, after years of counstruction being stalled due to this last federal approval.

Don’t forget judicial appointments

> Leadership: Remaining in the WHO, ending trump's procedure to withdraw.

Oh, yes. That's correct. I was trying to phrase it in a way that was clear and brief, but I may have have fumbled it. I tried to amend above. Thanks for the nudge.

All of that. A great list. Frankly, I was amazed that he was able to pull off the IRA at the last second, which I see as his crowning achievement.

Yeah but he’s old /s It is amazing that he has been able to do so much especially with the narrow power that he has in Congress.

>Unified NATO and other allies against Russia How is the Biden administration responsible for this?

Coordinated a united front, provided intel on what was going on to fellow NATO members. Persuaded most of Europe to go with sanctions packages.

>provided intel on what was going on to fellow NATO members. Did you pull this one out of thin air? NATO is not in Ukraine. What good will "intel" do?

>Kept the U.S. in the World Health Organization This is very bad. The WHO are corrupt puppets of the CCP and are responsible for spreading the pandemic.

They’re not though. They have many, many member countries with varying needs and interests to think about, so they can’t afford to think of just themselves, unlike the GOP. The WHO played (and still plays) an instrumental role in spreading evidence-based information and helping world leaders make important decisions about how to control global health crises and issues.

All I see in that list is print money and spend it all. That is all that he's accomplished out of all that. Nothing of any use will come out of any of that.

Your very last point about the Department of Justice is merely an opinion and also highly debatable considering the Hunter Biden laptop coverup.

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And his predecessor added 4 trillion the previous year. Sounds like an improvement to me. See how dumb talking about debt without context is / implying that debt has been materially important in the past 2 decades.

That’s down from the previous year, which is a good thing.

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DJT added 8 trillion

2020: Elected President, defeating Donald Trump in the Electoral College 306 to 232, with a popular vote margin of more than 7 million votes. 2021: Directed USA to rejoin Paris Climate Agreement. 2021: Halted the Keystone XL pipeline. 2021: Repealed Trump’s travel bans. 2021: Repealed Trump’s transgender military ban. 2021: Ordered an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. 2021: Pledged $4 billion to COVAX global vaccine alliance. 2021: Signed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. It includes: Small business support. $1,400 per person checks. Increases to the Child Tax Credit, Earned-Income Tax Credit, and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credits. $300 extended unemployment insurance. Lower health insurance premiums for lower- and middle-income families enrolled in health insurance marketplaces. 2021: Canceled $1.5 billion in student debt for victims of for-profit school fraud. 2021: Ended the War in Afghanistan after 20 years. 2021: Negotiated and signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. It includes: $110 billion for roads, bridges, major projects $73 billion for power infrastructure $66 billion for passenger and freight rail $65 billion for broadband $55 billion for clean drinking water $50 billion for water resilience and Western water storage $39 billion for public transit $25 billion for airports $21 billion for removal of pollution from water and soil $17 billion for port infrastructure $7.5 billion for electric vehicles $7.5 billion for zero/low emission busses and ferries $1 billion for the revitalization of communities 2021: U.S. gross domestic product grew at 5.7 percent for the year, the strongest economic growth in 37 years. 2021: Favorability of the United States improved sharply around the world. 2022: Approved a U.S. special forces mission that killed ISIS leader Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. 2022: Nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman in history to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. 2022: Signed the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). 2022: Led a massive international response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. 2022: Signed the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in nearly 30 years. 2022: Ordered the drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the world’s most wanted terrorist. 2022: Unemployment falls to 3.5 percent, matching lowest rate in 50 years. 2022: Signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law, providing $52.7 billion for chip manufacturing and research and $170 billion for scientific research, innovation, and space exploration. 2022: Signed ratification documents approving NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, strengthening the NATO alliance and reinforcing democracy in the face of Russian brutality against Ukraine. 2022: Signed PACT Act strengthening health care and benefits for America’s veterans and their survivors. 2022: Signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It includes $369 billion to provide energy security, fight climate change, and create clean domestic manufacturing jobs. It also lowers healthcare costs by extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for 3 years, expanding vaccine coverage, and reforming prescription drug pricing. The act also raises revenue by establishing a 15% corporate minimum tax on companies with at least $1 billion in profits. Through revenue and savings, the Inflation Reduction Act reduces the deficit by a net $305 billion dollars. 2022: Less than 2 years into his presidency, Biden is already one of the most legislatively successful presidents of the modern era.

As ugly as it was, getting our military out of Afghanistan turned out to be really important for our ability to support Ukraine.

I'd disagree with that. With the exception of a number of transport helicopters and a few other items that were earmarked for the former Afghan government and redirected to Ukraine in 2022, there was not a major or even middling amount of US resources related to Afghanistan that have since been redirected to Ukraine. We were conducting a fair number of air strikes, but we have not been doing that in Ukraine, nor should we at the moment. Nor was our ability to conduct air strikes anywhere near its limit. The vast majority of the support we have provided to Ukraine (intelligence, materiel, planning, training, and money) comes from our own stocks and innate capabilities. I think a lot of people overestimate the US presence in Afghanistan in recent years, but the truth is we had well below 20,000 troops there since 2015, down from a peak in 2011 of 110,000. By the beginning of the Biden administration, the total number was a mere 2,500. By comparison US troop levels in Europe have been hovering at between 60,000-70,000 since 2007. For much of the 90's that number was above 100,000, and that's a mere third or fourth of regular Cold War levels. People can debate the merits/futility of staying in Afghanistan, but it was not a major drain on US military capabilities in recent years, certainly not to the degree that staying would have had any kind of major impact on our ability to assist Ukraine.

>As ugly as it was, getting our military out of Afghanistan turned out to be really important for our ability to support Ukraine. How?

Money deployed to Afghanistan could now be sent to support weapons bought by Ukraine to defeat Russia

Thank you. That is good to know.

A lot of those things are actually not good things.

Good wasn't the question. They are big accomplishments. Good or not is often going to be much more subjective.

>They are big accomplishments They are evil. As Plato says, the root and stem of evil is ignorance. The travel ban was NOT anti Muslim since the most populated Muslim nations were not on the travel ban list. Joe Biden was stupid for lifting a ban that had kept us safe statistically (Remember the Pulse Nightclub shooting, for one example) . But, yes, you are right, whilst Trump's policies were good for us, Biden's policies are good for our enemies. But, hey, that is just subjective and depends on what side YOU are on.

Whether the travel ban was objectively good or not, Trump's reasoning for the ban (based on what he said, his spokespeople said, his press secretary said, and his administrations attempts to defend it in court said) was based in abject ignorance. So... I agree with Plato.

How is providing $369 billion to fight climate change, strengthening health care for veterans, providing $52 billion for computer chip manufacturing, re-authorizing the violence against women act, nominating judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first black woman to the supreme court, negotiating and signing the bipartisan infrastructure investment act, and re-joining the Paris climate agreement EVIL accomplishments?

Would you please elaborate?

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>2021: Halted the Keystone XL pipeline. This is a bad thing on multiple levels. I wonder if it is worth my time to list them since I have found that Liberal Democrats are blind to facts and when I tell them, they automatically dismiss what does not support what they have been conditioned to believe. The USA, under Trump, had become an EXPORTER of oil. Taking action to support this does not magically make us all switch to green energy. Green energy still needs development and a strong economy is necessary to make this happen.

What does exporting oil have to do with the extension to a Canadian pipeline through US territory? We still use Keystone to run oil into our refineries, but it’s coming from Canada.

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> Compare this list to the astronomically long and impressive lists at Trump's two year mark Is this satire? Are we going to get one of those links to a list that includes things like "Lives in the White House" as an accomplishment?

this is sarcasm... right?

>2022: Signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It includes $369 billion to provide energy security, fight climate change, and create clean domestic manufacturing jobs. Exactly how does it do this?

A lot of it is tax credits for energy efficient construction and electric vehicles.

>2022: Led a massive international response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. So you are saying Joe Biden did this and Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not? I am pretty sure Zelenskyy did this and deserves all of the credit for doing so. And he did it very effectively with great intellect and leadership. His speeches to NATO are the stuff of legends. I might add that I think he wrote those speeches as well.

I am talking about the international community. According to the US assistant secretary for the treasury, “is really unprecedented and in particular from Europe, where you have the unplugging of Russian institutions, the targeting of oligarchs and leadership - and even the private sector now, unplugging from their interactions, leading to what is, in essence, the financial and commercial isolation of Russia and very much putting at risk the Russian economy.”

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How is it racist to want our supreme court to represent the diversity of our American population? Would you rather have all straight white men instead?

>How is it racist to want our supreme court to represent the diversity of our American population? Would you rather have all straight white men instead? It is racist because it is not diversity to categorise someone by the color of their skin. It is racist to categorise someone by the color of their skin. How is the color of your skin or your sexual orientation make you less or more qualified for any job? And your assumption that people of the same sexual orientation or color think alike is insulting to everyone.

It’d be the same for congress. A black representative doesn’t make them more capable of doing the job, however, that specific person may have better insights into the need of that racial community based on past work and experience of being in a marginalized group. If they experienced adversity as well, it helps support other communities experiencing similar issues It’s okay to cheer when something big like that happens, it’s not okay if she was not qualified and if it was politicized. We have no indication to believe that to be the case

Is she qualified? If so ... Why shouldn't the highest court in the land reflect the melting pot that is our nation, so long as the person is qualified? At the end of the day, our backgrounds, experiences and upbringings will shape us...and judges can and will be biased because of those things. I'd much rather have a diverse high court than a homogenous one. The right can continue to complain about folks desiring representation in positions of power....but it looks mighty suspect that the GOP is overwhelmingly less diverse than the left when it comes to those positions. It's harder for people to consider their politicians and courts legitimate if most of the powerful people are different from the populace.

>2022: Signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It includes $369 billion to provide energy security, fight climate change, and create clean domestic manufacturing jobs. Sounds like an acceleration towards economic depression. In no way can I see how this is going to reduce inflation. It seems to me that we would have been better off if we had been invaded by China instead of had Biden with his doubtful cognition suspiciously forced upon us.

Nobody outside of the White House would call a majority of these things accomplishments. The economy grew initially because we came out of a pandemic. Joe Biden had nothing to do with that. You listing as accomplishments actions that directly resulted in today’s inflation and flat economy. You are listing as an accomplishment the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Where we left behind citizens, allies and billions of dollars of equipment. It’s absurd. Joe Biden doesn’t believe that these are all accomplishments. Why do you pretend to?

I didn’t realize that Biden doesn’t consider what I have listed as all accomplishments. What do you think Biden would consider as accomplishments?

>2022: Signed ratification documents approving NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, strengthening the NATO alliance and reinforcing democracy in the face of Russian brutality against Ukraine. As in opposition to NOT doing this? Did he have a choice? Are we to applaud mundane acts that anyone would have done or should have done? Does he brush his teeth? Does he poop? Should that be applauded as well? And I have to ask, how the hell does a strong NATO reinforce democracy?! Do you KNOW what democracy is? Also, is this even true? How is a sitting US president involved in another nation's decision to join NATO? Is this simply something that all NATO countries did and you are trying to make this seem more important than it really is?

>As in opposition to NOT doing this? the guy he was running against absolutely would NOT have done that

Seeing as Donald made comments on how NATO should be disbanded, yes it should be applauded.

>2022: Signed PACT Act strengthening health care and benefits for America’s veterans and their survivors. This sounds A LOT like something Trump did and Biden is magically taking credit for it.

It is NOT something that Trump did or Congress and Biden wouldn’t have had to pass this Act.

>Led a massive international response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Show me. This is laughable, by the way. I want to see what cherry picked facts you present to justify this false narrative. I think the opposite is true in a "massive" way simply because a good president and qualified leader should have as an achievement "Led a successful effort to prevent the invasion of Ukraine". Which could have been accomplished. But Joe Biden did absolutely nothing until it was too late.

>2021: Favorability of the United States improved sharply around the world. No. It definitely and absolutely did NOT. You are just making things up now. This is supposition here. You assume this is true because of all the biased bad press Trump had. But, this item on your list is a lie. Do you KNOW anyone who lives in another country? I do. And I have a basis to proclaim this item is a lie.

From a non-U.S. viewpoint, he has restored confidence that the U.S. is being run by adults. I feel reasonably confident in this administrations abilities to handle any international crisis that may arise. It was both terrifying and exhausting to watch the Trump clown car. It is so refreshing not to open my news feed to be confronted by the daily horror that was Trump. I completely appreciate that it was even more appalling for U.S. citizens, but there was a sense of powerlessness for those of us in the rest of the world. We are subjected to the consequences of U.S. politics without any power to change the situation. I am so glad I can go back to not caring about U.S. elections for a little while.

My favorite talking point from 2017-2020 were Trump/Republicans acting as if the world now respects the US and their leadership under Trump. It was one of the most unattached distortions of reality that people had in my opinion. You can support the guy or whatever, but most of the main western world were flabbergasted at how dumb he was/is. It was not a debate.

Here’s a Canadian perspective. We are in a military alliance together and we always fight on the same side, like WW1, WW2, Korea and Afghanistan (we skipped Vietnam and Iraq, phew). USA is Canada’s biggest trading partner, Canada is USA’s 2nd biggest trading partner. Why the hell did he impose tariffs on us while buddying up to dictators across the world? That’s the dinkiest thing a POTUS has done to my country in my whole lifetime, so fuck him! I know, I know, he specifically imposed steel and aluminium tariffs on Canada because Oleg Deripaska was trying to get an aluminum plant built in [Kentucky](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-mcconnell-backed-effort-to-lift-russian-sanctions-boosted-a-kentucky-project/2019/08/13/72b26e00-b97c-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html), but even if you’re clueless to his many shady oligarch connections, how do you explain to me that Trump was great at foreign relations? What kind of guy pisses in his friends face then goes hangs out with the evil kids? Buddy’s facked!

The world still can't trust the US because every 4 years there's a possibility of Trump II. Or every 2 years Congress may get taken by Rs. If the world were to trust the US they should fix the election system. And democracy advocates in Middle East probably still remember how their friends in Afghanistan fell in the hands of Taliban...

I'd agree that until Trump is gone, the rest of the world has to keep looking at the US with some concern. After...not sure; hard to see into the future. As for Afghanistan, the US supported them for 20 years. But it was never a proper democracy when the US was there. It was corrupt warlordism mixed in with occasional voting. The US had a chance to build something new in Afghanistan in late 2001 and 2002 and blew it, because the Bush administration wasn't interested in nation building or Afghan reconciliation and was already looking at Iraq.

Unfortunately for us in the states, he's still a daily horror because he has really committed to his whole "I should be president despite losing the election" thing. And with his party having fallen in line behind him, we're in for a rocky 2024.

Two years of the government not being a circus of corrupt incompetence is a big one for me.

You may think it's a cop out, but him just being sane and providing the ultimate contrast to the previous 4 years is his greatest accomplishment. What this country needed most, and got, was an absence of drama.

Not seeing what insanity the President of the United States of America tweeted out every day on major news sites has been a much bigger quality of life change than most people realize.

Things go better when the pilot actually knows how to fly.

You have no idea how many people I talk to that take it as a given that Biden is senile. Makes me feel like I'M going insane.

That's exactly why they say it. They know it annoys Biden supporters. >Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Biden’s accomplishments: \- Fully vaccinated over 200 million Americans in his first year. That's the largest, fastest vaccination effort our history. \- Passed Inflation Reduction Act \- Nominated and confirmed historic judicial nominees \- PACT Act – the largest single bill to address our service members’ exposure to burn pits and other toxins in American history.  \- Passed the CHIPS and Science Act \- Reauthorized the  the Violence Against Women Act is now reauthorized through 2027  \- Added almost to 10 million jobs. That’s the fastest job growth in history. \- Passed the American Rescue Plan \- Passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law \- Got us out of Bush's unwinnable Afghan War \- Droned al-Zawahiri

To the COVID thing I should add how impressed I was when on the 60 minutes interview when asked whether pandemic is over he did not use it as an invitation to score karma points or boast for influence, but simply and fairly said "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it – but the pandemic is over"

> ending the war in Iraq, etc.? I think you mean, Afghanistan and I would say that most consider the pull out to have been executed haphazardly.

Unfortunately, it was never going to end well. With the deal that the Trump administration made, the end of the war was not going to end well. Biden manned up and ended it anyway because it was the best thing to do. Not the easiest decision, but the best decision. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973604904/trumps-deal-to-end-war-in-afghanistan-leaves-biden-with-a-terrible-situation

Trump did a poor job, but also it just goes back to the Bush Administration sneering at the idea of trying to reincorporate elements of the Taliban back into Afghanistan, embracing torture, and being happy to use discredited Afghan warlords in late 2001 and 2002. It was a strictly "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" mindset without thinking about how the rule of those people led to the Taliban in the first place.

Agreed. And Obama kicked the can down the road as well. I'm glad Biden finally put an end to it. It was messy but it needed to end.

“Most consider” those are some weasel words. Most don’t really consider it at all.

[Americans give Biden low marks on Afghanistan pullout: Reuters/Ipsos poll](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-give-biden-low-marks-afghanistan-pullout-want-see-evacuations-through-2021-08-30/).

Where is “haphazard” in that?

That’s what the poll would imply.

and yet it doesn't say that. Maybe you shouldn't put words into people's mouth. "unapprove of handling" is not the same as "consider it to have been executed haphazardly" I'm curious what other opinions you'd ascribe to them. Maybe "most consider it to be lazy", or "most consider it to be too fast" or "most consider it to be too slow" or "most consider it to be too expensive". If we're making up "most consider it to be haphazard" I'm sure we can make up some other descriptions these people didn't really say.

I don't really care too much what you call it tbh. You're acting way too partisan, no offense. Please try to look at it though a slightly less biased lens.

It's partisan to not make things up? You just literally lied. Being annoyed at obvious lying is not partisan. Please try to look through a slightly more honest lens. Just don't lie dude, accusing me of partisanship because I called our your obvious lying is obnoxious. Oh, "no offense" I guess.

-Bipartisan Infrastructure investment -Biggest Climate investment in History (IRA) -Bipartisan Gun Control w/Red Flag Laws -Expanded Obamacare, record low uninsured (IRA + COVID relief) -Bipartisan CHIPS Act investing in Semiconductors -Prescription Drug reform -Ended the Drone War while keeping America safe

Being a presidential president, supporting Ukraine as it faces Russian aggression, an inflation reduction act, reducing student debt, infrastructure bill

>Being a presidential president Is this really a plus? Using the smoke and mirrors of decorum and prestige to do some horrible stuff and pretend he cares?

The obvious question is "what horrible stuff do you think he's done?" but I think a better question is "did you prefer the president who did horrible things and made sure you knew he didn't care?"

> to do some horrible stuff and pretend he cares? At least reference what you're referring to, otherwise I'll just assume you're mad he injected you with 5G or something.

Continuing Trump's border policies, continuing war crimes through the drone war, fabricating a famine in Afghanistan by freezing its central bank's assets, refusing to reinstate the Iran Nuclear deal, continuing to let untold hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer punishments for marijuana convictions, letting the fed push a recession without complaint... But most of these things hurt brown people first, so I guess that is also an explanation

Hello, brown person here! Not a single one of those things hurt me. Please don’t use me to try and bolster your nonsense arguments. Thank you!

Yes Having a President that acts Presidential is a plus

https://www.whitehouse.gov/. Regardless of approving/ disproving of Biden, it’s more important to look what our country would look like with a Republican House and Senate. Also- who is your local senator, representative, governor , Secretary of State, atty general, elected sheriff, Supreme Court judges etc. Those are the people that will affect your life on a daily basis. The League of Women Voters website is non-partisan. If you click “find out what’s on my ballot” you’ll see a list of local candidates and a questionnaire of how they all stand on several issues. You can also change your address, register to vote, check that your party is correct find out about a mail ballot…www.vote411.org

>The League of Women Voters website is non-partisan Uuh what? Here's a section straight from their front page of their website: >YOUR VOTE MATTERS >It determines your access to affordable health care >It lifts up the voices of those most impacted by climate change >It ensures that we're all represented in our government, not just those of us with greater wealth or systemic advantages >It promotes immigration reform, including family reunification and political asylum "Partisan" doesn't mean "specifically mentions the party by name to promote it." It's abundantly clear that this organization's desired political outcomes fall pretty much exactly along party lines. If you think that's not the case feel free to share something from their website that is clearly supporting a republican party position. Right now you look incredibly disingenuous just from making that statement, since it's obviously not true.

First, I think it’s pretty telling that basic issues of human rights are being assigned to what I’m assuming you want to call “Democratic”, when it is simply a human rights, women forward platform. The sad truth is that apparently you, as well as lot of other people that subscribe to the notion that the suppression of voting rights, denial of climate change and women’s rights are “Republican”. I can teach you the difference between Partisan and non-partisan, but I can’t understand it for you.

Literally none of those things are human rights. You clearly don't know what human rights are, yet that's the main thing your post is centered around. You then go on to talk about things that aren't even mentioned in the blurb. It's a complete strawman attack. I doubt you can teach me the difference between partisan and non-partisan when you do not know what those words mean. Imagine that someone were to link a website and key parts of its messaging are >1: Stop illegal migrant criminals from crossing the border >2: Uncover the truth of the 2020 election and stop election fraud >3: Save the lives of unborn babies And then claim it as non-partisan. There's no way you'd accept that as a good faith statement.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the debt forgiveness, the student debt relief, infrastructure bill, inflation reduction act... Unfortunately, each comes with huge asterisks, and exist in a background where Biden has refused to act on things like rescheduling Marijuana, push a public option during a pandemic, or do more student debt forgiveness. Not to mention the Trump policies he has continued at the border, in privatizing parts of Medicare, and the Iran Nuclear deal.

Rescheduling marijuana he should still do, but there's absolutely no world where a public option gets passed with the current razor-thin margins in the Senate. [Polling](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3623055-majority-backs-student-loan-debt-relief-poll/) suggests that Biden hit the sweet spot with student debt relief. More would've crossed into unpopular territory. Lower relief allows Democrats to more easily sell that the policy isn't a naked giveaway to the middle class because the Pell Grant relief and interest rate retooling become larger shares of the bill.

He could have used emergency powers triggered by the pandemic to install a public option. Or at least drop some statements pushing congress to include it in one of their bills. Dropping it entirely just displays contempt for the idea as one he never took seriously. Maybe Biden hit a sweet spot, maybe it was just a gamble after spending 2 years pretending he couldn't do it. Either way, the ethical basis of forgiving any debt is the same for forgiving all student debt.

Why not forgive all mortgage debt then? Edit to say, I don't think he, or anyone, should do this.

Because its not federally held, and a large portion is probably held by those profiting off of it like landlords and rental agencies. Kind of a smooth brain question to be honest. But that does bring up the unfulfilled promise of the Obama administration to help people losing their homes to the banks. Maybe mortgage debt forgiveness for individual homeowners would be good.

Mechanics aside, having an educated populace is much more valuable to us as a society than having everyone live in a 4000 sq ft home. On the whole, college graduates will more than pay off the cost of paying their debt through increased tax revenues and by doing work that makes us more competitive globally. Large homes have no such external effects. Now if you wanted to ask "Why doesn't the government guarantee every person a home?" I'd say "Yes, why not?"

Because only debt directly held by the government can be forgiven how Biden did it.

Spanking the nuts off of Putin by outmaneuvering him at every corner while trump pretended to get tough on Russia and china. China doesn't fucking dare go close to Taiwan rn

Wouldn't say that Biden has done much good, but I'd still rather have him than Trump. At least Biden takes his job seriously and doesn't waste all his energy on twitter shitposts.

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Appointing the most Federal judges since Kennedy with a focus on inclusion and diversity.

Build Back Better didn't pass. COVID management was a Cirque du Solei tier shitshow from Day 1. He "ended" the war in Afghanistan - not Iraq - in the most humiliating and potentially lethal manner imaginable and was humiliated on the world stage. He is spending $400 *BILLION* of taxpayer momey - per the CBO today - to knock a small fraction of debt off of SOME student loan debtors who should have either paid their own bills or not taken the loans out to begin with. I can go on. What else you got?

Build back better did pass on November 19th, 2021 (220 to 213) COVID came to the states under Trump's tenure. And I agree it was a shitshow of a response. Those crucial early days were wasted and because of the horrible shape Trump policies had put the economy in, it hit harder than it needed too. But again, that was under Trump, not Biden. Also, I don't remember there being highly skilled acrobats, you this criticism is just all sorts of wrong from every angle. He was following the previous administration's plan and timetable for the Afghanistan pullout. What should he have done differently? Should we have continued the occupation? For how much longer? What are you advocating here other than that? And the student debt relief has been widely popular across the nation. It has been a big help to struggling people and got them participating in the economy again. The Republican administrations have done so much to kill the middle class it is really good to see someone actually try to help build it back.

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What part of that is untrue?

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This isn't an answer to the question, this is just you talking about your personal feelings

You're right. But I still wanted to get that out.

Do not submit low investment content. This subreddit is for genuine discussion.

Besides ruining the economy and ensuring Europe freezes to death this winter?

He has succeeded in not being Donald Trump which is what won him the election. There are no real accomplishments beyond that. He has been divisive, he has politicized the DOJ, the FBI, etc…. He has violated his oath of office in trying to pay his political allies by forgiving their student loans and not enforcing laws at the border. I could go on. Some will argue that not being Trump outweighs the negatives. That part is largely unknown.

Coming from an independent that rarely ever votes at all. Here is my take: Accomplishments: - Student loan forgiveness * albeit he hasn’t presented a plan to fix the root cause of all the debt - Infrastructure Bill * even though I disagree on the broadband subsidies - Pullout from Afghanistan - Way less drama in the White House compared to Trump - Standing firm with NATO Disappointments: - Has yet to decriminalize weed and expunge the records of citizens with weed charges - Huge cognitive decline and beginning stages of dementia (Don’t try to convince me otherwise. My grandma has it, so I know it when I hear and see it) - Immigration crisis is still in full swing - Hasn’t done anything to seriously address healthcare issues - His random outbursts of shouting during speeches trying to be “strong” is off-putting at times - Has not attempted to raise minimum wage - Refuses to call out insider trading in Congress Edit: Yesss keep downvoting. I know some of you hate to hear that old Joe isn’t perfect. Cope harder. If some of you could think about things logically as opposed to basing your opinion solely off of emotions, then we might would have a solid non geriatric President.

Dementia progresses. Always. Typically exponentially. I’ve been told Biden has dementia for years now, yet somehow he seems the same. There is no difference between a 2022 Biden interview and a 2019 Biden interview, but somehow both times he had dementia. That makes him a medical miracle. It’s going to be funny in 10 years when Biden sounds exactly the same. Why do I assume the dementia truthers will suddenly pivot to “he actually gets a secret cure that isn’t available to the rest of us”

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I don't see anything Biden has accomplished except run away inflation and corruption of the DOJ.

Maybe you should read some of the very well written and researched comments in this very post!

It's corrupt to go after people who commit crimes. Got it

Fact: his first accomplishment was kneecapping the orange Jesus That’s good enough for me. He could have golfed from then on. I support him 100%. But he chose to work his ass off everyday. Let’s not leave manchin and sinema (?) out of mix. Lousy bastards

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No red state is ever gonna lock down again and as a liberal living in a red state myself I’m ok with it

> Adding a trillion to the national debt through forcing blue collar workers to subsidize children of the upper middle class sure didn't help. This didn't happen, nothing was added to the debt. >There is a looming economic recession (that we may already be in) despite throwing heaps of infrastructure money around. Q3 GDP looks like it will grow and job numbers are still at record lows. >Covid is over now, except not really, the president doesn't speak for the White House. Expect more lockdowns as it gets colder, but only if we really trust the science and weren't acting as political opportunists. There haven't been any lockdowns in since the start of 2021 I believe, even with COVID blowing up last year. No one really cares about COVID anymore now that vaccines are out and the people who want to be protected are protected.

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Inflation has basically stopped rising. Gas prices are falling. Unemployment is at a record low. Republicans hoping for a recession doesn't mean there will be a recession. States are in charge of lockdowns (always have been); it seems unlikely that state governments want to implement any. There have been no lockdowns in 2022. At most it might be something like "masks required on public transit."

> Inflation has basically stopped rising. Inflation being flat at 8+% doesn't mean prices aren't still going up. They're still going up 8+% year over year even if the inflation numbers aren't going up. No matter how much the White House tries to frame flat inflation as the end of inflation, it doesn't make it true. We are still experiencing the highest inflation rate in 40 years. And it's unlikely to remain flat, as lower (but still high) gas prices skewed the last month's figures, and now gas prices are creeping up again.

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They haven't. The present economic situation driving the inflationary trend is actually divorced from the majority of indicators that economist use to determine if we are in a recession. The US economy is slowing, that is true, but the actual bottom line is we aren't having a recession and the only agency that determines the official status of whether the economy is in a recession has not declared us to be in one. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/is-a-recession-coming/

Inflation is through the roof but I think it won’t go any higher. ? Gas prices are falling slightly from the astronomical increases they saw over the last two years. Good grief. With accomplishments like this…

You asked for the facts, these are the facts... \- Since Biden and the open border democrats took over in January 2021, they have facilitated an invasion of our sovereign borders of more than 4.2 million illegal aliens. Included in this invasion are terrorists - over five dozen documented so far, drug traffickers, sex traffickers and common criminals. Biden‘s own Department of Homeland Security estimates that more than 500,000 “gotaways” have walked across the border so far this year in addition to the nearly 400,000 “gotaways” estimated to have walked across in 2021 \- Average inflation for President Biden’s administration was 4.7% for all of 2021, followed by a steady uptick from January 2022, when it was 7.5%, through September, 8.3%. Average inflation under Donald Trump’s presidency was 2.1% in 2017; 2.4% in 2018; 1.8% in 2019; and 1.2% in 2020, according to USInflationCalculator.com. \- The average American has lost $4,200 in annual income since President Biden took office — entirely wiping out gains made under the Trump administration, an analysis from the Heritage Foundation shows. \- The latest inflation figures released in September show food prices have jumped 11.4%, fuel and oil are 68% higher, and electricity bills are 15.8% higher. Two-thirds of the country have reported they did not add to their savings in the month of August to compensate for the higher cost of living. According to the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, \- A survey by the Trafalgar Group found that nearly 68 percent of Americans don't feel as safe in the United States as they did two years ago, while 27 percent said they do feel as safe. In addition, 5 percent of people said they weren't sure. \- In a report released in August, the Major Cities Chiefs Association found that a number of major U.S. cities and counties have seen an uptick in homicides. In a press release, the association said that since 2019, its member cities "have experienced a 50% increase in homicides and a roughly 36% increase in aggravated assaults." \- Wages and inflation are both up. But real weekly wages, adjusted for inflation, declined 2.2% for production and nonsupervisory workers. \- Twenty months into the administration, there is no public National Security Strategy. That makes it difficult for Congress to align spending to strategy, and difficult for allies to align their policies to support ours. All of the downstream strategy directives, including the National Defense Strategy and the National Military Strategy, are hostage to delays on the National Security Strategy. \- The U.S. trade deficit, which grew larger under President Donald Trump, continued to increase. The gap grew 27.3% in Biden’s first 10 months. \- About half of U.S. homes use natural gas to heat homes and water. Natural gas also is often used to generate electricity, which is why electricity prices have risen 15.8% in the 12 months to August. The average cost of home heating is expected to rise 17.2% from last winter to $1,202, the second consecutive year of major prices increases and the highest price in more than a decade, the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA) said. \- More than 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021, a new high for the United States. \- Gun violence and homicides rose sharply in 2020 and 2021, with Black and Latino communities hit the hardest. \- The federal debt continues to rise, and annual deficits remain in the trillions. \- National test score data suggests that American 9-year-olds took a major step backward during the Covid-19 pandemic when many of them were not physically in the classroom. Average scores between 2020 and 2022 in math and reading fell “by a level not seen in decades,” according to a CNN report: \- 7 points down in math – the first decline ever. \- 5 points down in reading – the largest decline since 1990. \- The share of adults who have confidence in Biden on the world stage has decreased by double digits in 13 of the 14 countries surveyed in both years. In Italy, Greece, Spain and Singapore, half or more now have little or no confidence in the U.S. president. \- On Sept. 23, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 700 points to 29,371, a 2.4 percent decrease. The downturn is the second time this year that stocks have gone below when President Biden (D) took office in January 2021, signaling a stagnating economy. \- The S&P 500 dropped to 3,667 points, down 2.4 percent. The decrease is once again the second time this year that it fell below the 3,799 level on Biden’s inauguration day, according to Breitbart. \- Similarly, The Nasdaq Composite plunged 2.4 percent to 10,808 compared to 13,197 on January 20, 2021. Since that date, it has fallen by over 18 percent. \- There was a 16.5% increase in air travel service complaints from June to July, and complaints are more than 260% above pre-pandemic levels. The previous report from June showed a 34.9% increase from May to June, and complaints were nearly 270% above pre-pandemic levels. \- The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the Biden student loan bailout will “wipe out the disinflationary benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act.” It also said that $10,000 in forgiveness would add 0.15% to the personal consumption expenditure price index, according to CNBC. Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, agrees that Biden’s bailout plan will cause inflation. Zandi says that $10,000 student loan debt forgiveness will increase the consumer price index by 0.08%. Should I add more? This is impact on real American's. These ARE the facts.

LOL, that's hilarious. Assuming half of it is accurate (doubtful as there are no sources) I'd still take Biden over open racism, fascism, attacks on demoncracy, attacks on gay rights, attacks on women's rights, attempted coups... etc.

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Have you considered that might be because every thread that tries complimenting the Biden administration is immediately overrun with Trumpist trolls?

Pulling out of Afghanistan, killing 13 American soldiers, and tens of thousands of American citizens and allies in a slaughter that's still ongoing. Starting the first ground war in Europe by lifting sanctions, Green lighting nordstream 2, and showing our weakness to the world with the aforementioned Afghanistan debacle. 40 year high inflation from blowing out every budget line, foreign oil dependency to stimy our own energy markets, crippling our economy and all of Europe simultaneously. Shady backroom deals with the largest state sponsor of terrorism worldwide, providing them with means and funds to develop nukes. Weak China policy, weakening us on the global stage. All time low military recruitment, crippling us on the world stage in a time of war when every free nation will depend on our strength. An open border bringing in astronomical quantities of fentanyl, leading to a massive spike in overdoses, not to mention other violent and petty crimes. Depriving Americans of their innate right to self defense by pushing racist gun control. An approval rating in the 30s is outrageously high. He is an abject failure in every way, and hasn't got a single redeeming quality or achievement in his entire political career. I don't think it would be possible to be a more disastrous president if one made a concerted attempt.

Racist gun control lmao? What the heck is that? Lmao lmao. Are some peoole losing their guns because they are white or black or Hispanic or Asian. LOL. This is the funniest thing I have read today.

Clearly you don't like Biden. Trump and the Republican party tried to overturn an election. There really is no more damaging or anti-American action a President and his party could attempt.

His approval rating is currently in the mid-40s and rising.

“Yaaaaas! Lets continue to spent trillions of tax payer dollars staying in a war that’s gone on 20 years, based on an event that happened 20 years ago! Us neocons love blowing up brown people and spending our tax dollars doing so, instead of stuff that actually helps the country like our infrastructure and our shit healthcare, bomb the afghans”!!!

The Inflation Reduction Act Flipping the makeup of the 2nd circuit court of appeals (pretty much the only appeals court where he wasn’t basically just only replacing old Democratic appointed judges) and at least appointing judges who will be on the bench for a while in other areas that won’t be replaced by the next republicans senate/president

Only accomplishment is Ukraine. He did better on Ukraine than Trump would have. Way better.