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As a consequence, he’s done more for childhood poverty than any president within the last 50 years.

Which is more an indictment of those presidents than it is praise for Biden.

Twelve million children are still food insecure. In the "greatest" country on earth.

What a joke of a government.

People like to forget the recession that didn't happen last year because Biden's administration busted it's ASS to keep Trump's economy from imploding our country for a decade. Instead it's "we have high inflation because Biden didn't do enough to fix Trump's economy."

Thanks to Biden’s, and definitely not Trump’s or any other Republican’s, American Rescue Plan, Biden increased the Earned-Income Tax Credit for those without children from $543 to $1,502, a $3,000 tax credit per child for children 6 and over, and a $3,600 per child for children under six. As a consequence, he’s done more for childhood poverty than any president within the last 50 years.

Once again. You're turning this into a binary choice that does not exist. In any case, you're also acting like the American Rescue Plan was Biden's work alone. It was far from it, and those provisions you're touting? First pushed for- and won by... that's right ... progressives. He's also done this at a time when he had full control of the house and senate. the biggest argument people make for Biden is his vast experience working across the aisle. Most of the heavy heavy lifting was done by Pelosi, Shumer and Sanders. But go ahead, give credit to BIden and only Biden on that.

Let’s turn to the Inflation Reduction Act. At 100% more than anything Republicans would ever do as far as green industrial policy, Biden made $240 billion available for clean energy manufacturing. Solar and electric vehicles incentives are also a part of this legislation. Also unlike Republicans, such massive spending is supposed to reduce the deficit by $288 billion over 10 years. Talk about fiscal conservatism. Just to be clear, 100% of Republicans voted against this legislation.

ONCE AGAIN. this isn't about republicans. I'll try not to bring that up again. No promises. In any case the clean energy spending is tax incentives and funding for things people (mostly corporations) were going to do anyhow. Or do you think corporations aren't looking at climate change and making plans? Further aspects of the IRA are hilarious the 15% minimum corpo tax for mega-corps? yeah. Corporate tax rate is supposed to be 21% since 2017... ask yourself how exactly a 15% minimum tax when the tax is supposed to be 21% is going to net more money? particularly when tax enforcement in these sectors is... insanely pathetic.

Oh, and Biden didn't do nearly as much of the heavy lifting, and if you want to give Biden credit, lets give him some blame too, considering that it almost didn't pass with Manchin and Sinema being party hold outs.

Economically, Biden has done more for Americans as Americans collectively rather than individually with investment in public infrastructure and through industrial policy that most modern presidents, especially every Republican since Reagan. More than likely, the benefits of such legislation won’t be felt for years; such is the nature of industrial policy.

to the benefit of corporations. Oh, and you some how managed to make this about republicans again. It's no secret the US is behind on infrastructure spending. should I applaud and celebrate the fast food line cook who manages to make my order adequately? Nope. compensation was already given for that. You'll notice, also, that this push for infrastructure started with... progressives. and made possible with their heavy lifting.

Also, just for the record, he’s the only sitting president to have ever joined the any picket line, let alone the one of autoworkers.

Pure political showmanship.
He also shat over the rail unions when they were asking for things like sick leave and shit. He could have just as easily used his authority to force the corporations to give labor what they wanted. Which is hilarious, because honestly... it's not like labor was asking for anything that wasn't just part of good business strategies or, you know... something that'll help keep trains from derailing... but nope. he forced the Union to take a shittier deal. (Yeah, they more or less got what they wanted later, but that was after the negotiations were done.)

The National Labor Relations Board under his administration just recently ordered Starbucks to open stores it illegally shut over union activity, and to remunerate them for loss of pay since those stores have been closed. Do you know how incredible that is?!

I do. But the NLRB is an independent agency. The best that could be said about that is that Biden had the opportunity to appoint 2 members to the current board. It's difficult to say whether better or worse appointments could have been made by another. As it stands, it was with a senate that was able to rubber stamp the democratic nominations. funny how that works.

And, finally, Lina Khan, Biden-nominated director of the Federal Trade Commission is trying to upend the enduring anti-trust paradigm that fails to recognize how Big Tech like Google and Amazon are in fact engaged in anti-competitive strategies. Everybody knows Amazon is a monopoly. But legally, it’s harder to prove, and Khan has taken up the challenge, to the benefit of all Americans.

Again, the FTC is an independent agency. and again. it's difficult to argue that another democratic president would not have appointed the same person. There is a lot of people who start that process before the president even considers a name.

He also nominated, and the Senate confirmed, the judicial powerhouse that is Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, who goes toe-to-toe with the misanthropic conservative justices. She’s now the one on the bench bringing the real heat to Alito and Thomas and their stupid-ass originalism doctrine. This was a strong strategic accomplishment.

Yeah. I like her. she's awesome. This was partly the result of Biden actually honoring a campaign promise to... oh, that's right... progressives who wanted a more diverse set of backgrounds on SCOTUS.

Like god damn…does anyone think Trump or Nikki Haley would do any of this?

You just have to keep circling back to that, don't you?

Let me be clear, though: I’m not saying we should trade Palestinian lives for strong domestic policies and well-chosen, strategic nominations. I’m saying that the alternative includes the destruction of Palestine and much worse across the board. And at least [Biden has the wherewithall to let Israel know it’s being an international asshole rather than anything any of the Republican candidates said during their fourth debate.

Just because Biden is less-supportive than republicans doesn't mean he's not on the wrong side of history there. Oh, and by the way, did you see the headline where we're expediting arms shipments?

I’m not being alarmist about Trump. The alarm has been sounded. We’re all just deaf to it now. But we don’t need ears to see that Trump is bad in every way Biden is and significantly worse in others.

Yet, half of your arguments in this entire comment relate Biden to being better than trump. Which leads us to back to: there are millions of eligible Americans who are also not-trump. this is a very bad argument to be making.... and lets be honest here... the reason people are trying to primary Biden isn't because they're disloyal so much as biden is fucking weak and they see blood in the water.

It’s a poll about Biden’s stance with voters as president. It absolutely is about Biden versus Trump.

It's about how unpopular Biden is with voters. the people who don't like Biden, dislike trump even more. it's really that simple. you can ignore the lions share of the progressive voters all you want, it's not going to end well. if you truly don't want Trump to succeed... then you should be down with considering who is the best candidate to defeat him, and nothing you have said is all that convincing that it is in fact Biden.

Domestically, the economy objectively sucks for the vast majority of Americans... trying to convince people how great the economy is, when there's record numbers of homelessness, and more Americans living paycheck to paycheck, people are struggling. but we're supposed to feel good because corporations are having record years? Fuck off.

foreign policy, he fucked the pooch with Israel. there's no way around that. he vowed unequivocal, and enduring support to a government that was plotting genocide. I don't have any good answers, but supporting Israel is not it. (as I've been saying since october... neither Hamas nor Israel are the good guys. they're both perpetrators. Civilians are the real victims here... on both sides.)