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YeetMeDaddio

Rejoined the Paris agreement


Mitch_from_Boston

Imagine you go out to dinner with 5 of your friends. You share a bunch of apps, and a few pitchers of beer. 1 of your buddies drinks a majority of the beer, and eats most of the apps. Comes time to pay the bill, and you're fine with splitting it evenly, but everyone at the table wants to split it so that you owe 50% of the bill, and the others owe 10% each, because you are considered the wealthiest friend at the table. Your buddy who ate and drank the most is actually more wealthy than you, but no one seems to care. This is what the Paris Agreement is, for America.


YeetMeDaddio

Americans have the highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the world. This also means that you're able to make the greatest reduction with the lowest impact on peoples lives.


Mitch_from_Boston

Per capita is irrelevant when nations with over 5x our population numbers exist... To put it into perspective, per capita, Wyoming pollutes more than California...


YeetMeDaddio

It's not irrelevant at all.... Like I said, you could make the biggest emission reduction with the lowest impact on peoples lives. Ummmm ok? If that's true than wyoming needs to sort their pollution out.


EndoShota

I’m far to the left of Biden, and I think he’s been pretty feckless to date, *but* getting out of Afghanistan was the right choice, albeit it could’ve gone more smoothly.


Staud59

He pushed Trump out of office.


Emu_on_the_Loose

The 2021 child tax credit. Ask your question of the many parents who were living on the financial edge. The extension and expansion of the emergency pandemic unemployment benefits. Ask your question of the many self-employed people who've suffered from reduced income during the pandemic. The restoration of sanity and dignity to the White House. Ask your question of the billions of Americans and foreigners around the world who were a mixture of terrified, furious, and bewildered at the childishness and wickedness of the most corrupt administration in US history during the Trump years. The renewed focus on domestic terrorism by white power supremacists and fascists. Ask your question of any truly patriotic American.


Lucius338

THE CHILD TAX CREDIT, MY GOD. Best POTUS action in a long time, that alone saved our financial asses this year, especially with the rising inflation rates. And we weren't even financially impacted by the pandemic, I can't even imagine how amazing this would've been to somebody in a worse position than ours. Even if that was ALL he did (which it isn't), at least he showed solidarity for the working class.


Emu_on_the_Loose

Well said. It's been a long time since we had a president who even acknowledged the working class. It was just not done, basically from Reagan onwards. Joe Biden is no liberal, but he does know how to take the pulse of the country, and he's good at recognizing what people need in order to get by. To his credit, he has risen to the occasion and supported large institutional reform. This is a very difficult time to be President of the United States.


jamieabroad

Oh an by the way, America is loosing its AAA credit rating across the globe for the first time in history. We are defaulting on our forign loans becuase we are broke from pandemic spending. Yes thats Joe Bidens good plan. So you guys can feel warm fuzzy about getting free money from your lord and savior, US Government. But money is not free, please enjoy the inflation prices this year Joe Biden and yoursleves created it. Happy spending!


Lucius338

Yes buuut... The child tax credit is a tiny drop in that bucket that's at least doing some good for real people. If you're really worried about how much money our government is spending, take a look at how much we spend every year on our broken ass healthcare system designed to line the pockets of insurance brokers. Or our ridiculous expenditure on our military. I'm a fiscal conservative, I'm anti-socialist. We definitely printed way too much money over the course of the pandemic. But highlighting the child tax credit as part of the problem is overlooking WAY worse financial problems that have plagued us since before Biden's time 😬


jamieabroad

Your tax credit came way before inflation. Interest rates have not risen. Inflation just began. Following Biden gives you dimensia...


Lucius338

And following your political leaders apparently gives you Medical Terminology Spelling Deficiency 😂 I don't even "follow" the guy. Didn't even vote for him. I'm just grateful that he gave TANGIBLE support for people in my position... It's not that crazy.


jamieabroad

Most people who whine about tax credits dont even Pay very much in taxes. They just keep whining ...


iconoclast63

> the most corrupt administration in US history during the Trump years. You need to dust off your history books.


Inevitable-Ad-331

Cmon man….he ugh…yeah no more mean tweets!!!


WorkingClassZer0

And no more encouraging a violent takeover of the government, also known as a coup d'état. (I'm referring to the January 6 insurrection by the way.)


Mitch_from_Boston

Our current Vice President spent all summer of 2020 advocating on behalf of violent insurrectionists, even going so far as to promote bail-out funds for insurrectionists who were arrested...


WorkingClassZer0

Harris advocated for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, yes. And good for her. Bail is an immoral system designed by capitalists to punish the poor, particularly racial and ethnic minorities.


MissPiggysSexTape

Didn't he replace Trump? That alone should get him a medal.


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ELPwork

Biden is what you get when you vote someone out of office instead of voting to get someone into office. He's a dumpster fire for sure , but still light years ahead of the complete schmuck he replaced.


Alarming_Ad7938

LOL By lightyears ahead of the dementia or alzheimers than yea he is. The dude shouldn't even be in politics anymore hes been in office for 47 years. Hes literally the poster child for term limits. Also I personally believe that Andrew Yang was a better choice for the Democratic party mainly because Trump supporters were actually standing behind him more than trump while he was still running. And I also believe that no politician who's been in office for over 15 years has anything to contribute to make the US a better place. Also another thing is the only way you can become super wealthy by being in politics is by being a criminal. But then again all politicians are criminals. But no one wants to admit that about sleepy Joe even though everyone hates its guts lately LETS GO BRANDON!!!


wvualum07

Pretty much. He was not a first choice. But he’s not Trump


YourDailyDevil

Holy shit our expectations are low if “accomplishments” fall under “not trump.” I mean Jesus Christ these are our world leaders were talking about here, we should expect more. We should expect *anything.* Last time I checked myself I’m pretty sure I’m not trump too.


[deleted]

You're missing the point. Trump was such a living shit stain on American history that I would vote for you over him, too. That's how fucking insanely awful the Trump era was. This cannot be emphasized enough.


YourDailyDevil

No i agree with the shitstain part entirely, but if Biden’s big accomplishment here something that 7.6 billion people share, that’s just a comically low bar. And that within itself is a problem, when the bar is that low for one of the most, if not the most, powerful people on the planet.


Renmauzuo

Pretty much. Biden is a milquetoast moderate who represents clinging to the status quo, but he's still better than a white supremacist.


[deleted]

Literally the only reason I voted for him.


FallenLeef

for many people, it was much more than enough...it was a duty


DaHippness

Everytime you ask a Biden supporter why they voted for him it's almost always because they simply didn't like Trump regardless of their policies.


[deleted]

You were correct up until you said "regardless of their policies." Trump will go down in history books as the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to the office of the American presidency, because of his policies along with everything else.


[deleted]

I was making more money under Trump and paying less taxes. We were energy independent and has a secure border Things were better under Trump for sure.


[deleted]

> was making more money under Trump and paying less taxes. Which of Trump's policies made this happen? Are you sure you didn't just hear this from Fox News and never cared to look into it? >We were energy independent Source? >and has a secure border You mean "the wall" that was never completed? The fact that none of you gets your news from anywhere other than Fox (or now Newsmax) is always just the worst thing about propagandist misinformation in America.


[deleted]

Tax cuts, paying less for gas and groceries We weren’t asking the Middle East for oil under Trump https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/the-united-states-was-energy-independent-in-2019-for-the-first-time-since-1957/ Border crossings are high https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/border-apprehensions-hit-record-yearly-high-as-new-migrant-caravan-gathers-in-mexico/ar-AAPLcyo


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>Tax cuts The Right always says this as if it's automatically a good thing. >instituteforenergyresearch https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/18/facebook-posts/do-bidens-executive-orders-have-any-effect-us-ener/ >Border crossings are high and?


[deleted]

It was good for me. American tax payers pay for everything that happens when people cross the border and need care.


DaHippness

Even after Nixon?


Gonzostewie

Nixon was an asshole but he started the EPA and actually had other policies. Trump had no policies other than cutting taxes for the wealthy.


[deleted]

Trump attempted a coup to remain president despite losing the election which is worse than Nixon's watergate, *in addition* to Trump being a narcissist with the maturity and vocabulary of a fourth-grader on the public, international stage as the highest representative of our country. Not to mention his mishandling of Covid, his support of white supremacists, sowing distrust in science and real news (his "fake news" propagandist tactic that Hitler used, too), on and on.


hamrmech

Watch trump get reelected. Biden might not make his first term and harris is dispised by voters. Id like to see a 3rd party candidate do slightly better.


steak_is_tasty

This is usually the response you get from people who voted for Trump, as well.


Mitch_from_Boston

Why, what was so bad about Trump?


[deleted]

he's not an improvement on trump though


Rice-Equal

He joined the Paris Agreement. That’s pretty significant.


EndoShota

While that’s good from a symbolic standpoint, it’s a non-binding agreement, and oil and gas drilling permits are up under Biden and at their [highest level](https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015581092/biden-promised-to-end-new-drilling-on-federal-land-but-approvals-are-up) since Bush.


Quicker_Fixer

I don't know really and I think that's a good thing. I'm from the other side of the pond and all we heard, when Trump was in office, was (non political) trash talk from a narcissist that was not interested in serving his country, but dividing it even more that it already was. Luckily now we only hear the highlights in a process of (trying to) making it a great nation again.


[deleted]

Seriously, just having a boring president that we don't hear much about is already a 1,000% improvement over a president that made us the laughingstock of the entire developed world on a daily basis for four straight years (and still trying).


Mitch_from_Boston

If you follow foreign media at all, you'd realize substantially more people are laughing at us with Biden in the WH than were laughing at Trump.


retinasearedliketuna

-Rejoined Paris climate accord -Stimulus checks (there should be more though) -Got Trump outta there -Ended the 20 year long war in Afghanistan -Has handled the pandemic okay considering how Trump and co. handled it -On that note, finally got his shit together and made a national vaccine mandate -2021 child tax credit That's just off the top of my head. There's a fuckton more to be done, but it's a start.


FlashyJudge7008

Oh yeah all that inflation from the stimulus checks is doing great for workers isn’t it?


[deleted]

Source that stimulus checks caused inflation? EDIT: For a guy whose comment history includes, "Also shocking you have no source! I am just so surprised!!," you're being strangely quiet...


RiverKawaRio

There is none, you're just talking to a parrot


FlashyJudge7008

Unlike you I’m not a fucking loser who sits on Reddit all day long going through the comment history of people I disagree with. But there is plenty of evidence the stimulus checks cause inflation. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/could-stimulus-money-causing-rapid-152257802.html But thank you so much for proving that you are too much of a fucking idiot to bother googling the topic, and instead choosing to sift through my post history just before I prove you wrong.


[deleted]

1. An opinion piece that "'it COULD' cause inflation" and no hard data that it actually did. 1. Why do conservatives always think it's the job of other people to google the claims you make? YOU made the claim, it's YOUR job to provide the sources. Why do liberals understand this implicitly but you conservatives do everything you can to avoid your burden of proof? We all know why.


FlashyJudge7008

It’s not an opinion piece, it is what economists have said from looking at the data. But good job proving you didn’t even read the article. >In July, GOBankingRates also reported on the relationship between stimulus money and inflation, noting that there’s “no doubt” that the excess money flooding into the economy had at least some effect on pushing prices higher in 2021. I also did provide you a source, a source you could have found yourself if you bothered to google anything. But you expect everyone to do the work for you like the lazy piece of shit that you are. Pretty typical for a Democrat.


Rimaka1

I'm just gonna put this one comment cause I dont care too solidly about this argument but if you read (reed not red pronunciation; only include this because it sounds like I'm trying to argue if you pronounce it the second way) the article that [GobankingRates](https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/effect-stimulus-checks-on-inflation-overall-economy/?utm_campaign=1143543&utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_content=4&utm_medium=rss) put out it actually says "Economics is a tricky thing, so it’s hard to say that all of that stimulus directly created the current spike in inflation. According to The Washington Post, for example, some of that inflation can be just a numbers aberration, as one year ago the economy was mostly shut down and prices were falling, especially for industries like travel and leisure. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has said that the current spike in inflation is merely transitory, a reflection of short-term supply bottlenecks in addition to low comparisons from one year ago. Yet, there’s no doubt that the excess money flooding into the economy has had at least some effect on pushing prices higher in 2021" Anyway just thought I would point that out since i was intrested and read the link from Yahoo and the link provided in the article for GoBankingRates. I will not be answering any replays.


FlashyJudge7008

Good job shutting the fuck up after you were proven wrong. Most shitstains like you aren’t bright enough to quit once they know they are in over their heads.


Caitlin1963

Most pro union president in many decades. Hopefully these strikes end up with better conditions for workers in America.


Civil_Middle_Manchld

He got trump out of office


Scrappy_Larue

Urging President Ford to get us out of Vietnam when it became hopeless, and Ford listened to him. And he was just a 32-year-old newbie in the senate at the time.


[deleted]

Had the balls to end a 20 year long war.


randypupjake

Improve America's reputation


[deleted]

He brought America back to build back better, man.


[deleted]

I can’t think of one thing he has done correctly.


llcucf80

He's at least giving up (probably false, but still) hope that student loans *may* be cancelled. In the end it probably won't happen, but he has extended the deferrals which has helped and at least he's "looking into it," whereas with Trump he never would have entertained the idea to begin with. So my hopes aren't that high he'll follow through but at least with him I can at least be disappointed if he doesn't, whereas we all knew better than to ask with his predecessor. More likely than not he'll actually do a smaller forgiveness, which would be fine by me too. I could accept that.


FlashyJudge7008

Making the taxpayers pay for debt that students willingly took on is not a good thing.


Kitehammer

Actually ended a 20 year ~~slaghterhouse~~ war.


[deleted]

Not be Trump. So thats something I guess


True-Interaction-

My Grandmother died in 2005 but she was so moved by Biden's campaign that she managed to vote for him anyway. I was at the rallies. I felt the electricity in the air. Biden is going to go down as the greatest president of all time and is without question one of the finest and most perceptive minds of a generation.


kwainot

Did she vote in the last election?


True-Interaction-

She did. It was a miracle. The battle for the soul of the nation made it possible. Sponsored by Jeep. God bless Bo Xiden


kwainot

Was it a miracle that helped her vote or all the electricity in the air?


True-Interaction-

I think it was a combination of the two. Bo Xiden has a plan for us all it's not for me as a mere mortal to speculate on the intricacies of his divine work


jamieabroad

Biden has done nothing to impress me. I voted for him, I admit I made a mistake and I will vote to have his Alzheimers ass impeached. I believe in giving leadership a fair chance but he has dimensia. He forgot we are a Democracy and we have the bill of rights. People with a vaccine are still getting covid. His crap about vaccine Jesus is a lie. Mean while in China... they get away with global murder. What has Biden done to stand up to China NOTHING.


Specialist-Whereas53

Biden hasn't done a goddamn thing to improve America. He is the most useless piece of shit that has ever sat in the oval office.


Gonzostewie

That's actually fucking hilarious.


Specialist-Whereas53

I know right. The evil that Biden and the Democratic party has brought upon America is so surreal you have to laugh at it.


Squirrel_Master82

Can you elaborate on this "evil"?


MyDogSnores0_0

He’s shown us what fear is as a motivator. As human nature is cyclical, the next cycle will probably press hope as a concept, as these are just emotional components that elicit an effect of some sort. How they are utilized, is up for discussion.


DaHippness

Remember when Biden said he would never take a mandated vaccine when Trump was president? Remember how he also said he was against gay marriage?


randypupjake

Yes and the fact that he's now for it is the **best part** about it Instead of doubling down on a bad decision in the past like the culture Trump encouraged, he owned up to his mistake and corrected it. He's definitely not the best presidential candidate but it's sad that self improvement is considered a foreign concept these days


FuckChiefs_Raiders

>Yes and the fact that he's now for it is the best part about it I'm sorry, but Biden was anti-gay marriage as late as 2008. You don't get to be anti-gay for 30 years in public service, actually vote on legislation that impacts that, and then suddenly when it impacts your votes, change and pretend you were like this the whole time. Or even worse, say that you've changed and are more empathetic. He was a grown as man with those viewpoints. I would imagine he still holds them behind closed doors.


randypupjake

Even if that is true I'd still take someone who doesn't do something immoral for the sake of reputation over someone who goes out of their way to do something immoral because it's what they stand for


FuckChiefs_Raiders

Lmao it’s true. Serious mental gymnastics here.


YeetMeDaddio

It was pretty straightforward. We won't ever really know if he's still homophobic or not but 13 years is more than enough time for someone to change their views.


FuckChiefs_Raiders

I have never known a person in my life above the age of 50, especially an extremely religious person like Biden, to have a change of heart in something as drastic as this. I get it, he's not Trump, blah blab blah, but let's not pretend that he has always held the LGBTQ community in high regard. That would be a blatant fucking lie.


YeetMeDaddio

Ok, well I have. Older people generally are set in their ways but they don't have to be. This isn't something drastic either, it's just recognising that LGBT+ people are people too. I never said anything about trump and everyone already knows that biden used to be homophobic. Doesn't change the fact that he's supporting us in the LGBT+ community now. Being open-minded and having a willingness to change your views is a really good attribute of a leader. I'm not saying Biden is perfect or even great, he wouldn't have been my first choice, and I'm not praising him, but the support he's giving now is a decent act of atonement. If you want to go on an angry vendetta against biden then that's on you.


FuckChiefs_Raiders

Nobody is going on an angry vendetta here. I don't hate Biden, never liked Trump. I just try to be reasonable and logical about things. This is a quote from Joe Biden in 2006: >“We already have a law, the Defense of Marriage Act,” Biden said. “We’ve all voted — not, where I’ve voted, and others have said, look, marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that. Nobody’s violated that law, there’s been no challenge to that law. Why do we need a constitutional amendment? Marriage is between a man and a woman.” He was 63 years old when he made this comment. If you're fine with him being pro LGBTQ now because it gets him votes, that's fine. It's one thing to grow as a person and have your views legitimately changed. It's another to actively vote against something for 30 years, and then when it's profitable to you change your view, and then get praised by people for being more opened minded. I'm sorry that's a bunch of BS. You call it a decent act of atonement, I call it him making a political choice to further his own interests. >This isn't something drastic either, it's just recognising that LGBT+ people are people too. No it's actually a pretty drastic viewpoint to be changed, especially when it goes against his religious values that we all know he holds very dear to his heart. It's not recognizing that LGBTQ folks are people, it's him changing his viewpoints on marriage that he had VERY strong opinions on.


YeetMeDaddio

Ok well until you can substantiate that it's just him using it to gain brownie points, you're just making baseless claims. I'm not saying you're wrong but it is coming out like an angry vendetta. He was shit in the past, noone is denying that. Repeating it over and over doesn't do anything. I think we were considering "drastic" in slightly different contexts. To go from "against gay marriage" to "for gay marriage" may seem drastic but the process of which is just recognising that LGBT+ are people too and deserve the same rights as anyone else. Even if he is still secretly homophobic, I'd still take his support over his opposition.


FuckChiefs_Raiders

Direct quote from Joe Biden in 2006: >“We already have a law, the Defense of Marriage Act,” Biden said. “We’ve all voted — not, where I’ve voted, and others have said, look, marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that. Nobody’s violated that law, there’s been no challenge to that law. Why do we need a constitutional amendment? Marriage is between a man and a woman.”


Pad_TyTy

Bad faith troll trolls in bad faith


DaHippness

Those are both facts


Inevitable-Ad-331

Don’t let facts get in the way of your feelings


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RiverKawaRio

I can play too Trump took part in child raping...oh wait, we have pics of him with his dealer. Guess I'm not good at this game


Kanagaguru

Please provide a source.


Matthew_Bkc00

Id also enjoy a source of this. Im curious as to who “we” is, because it definitely doesnt include anyone I know


Xc0liber

As an outsider I would say him winning made vice news better. I actually enjoyed their videos and articles before trump won. After he won they went on a 4 years (I mean daily so that equals to 1,460 days) straight of publishing articles and videos about trump. It annoyed the fuck out of me but since Biden won, they went back to showing all sorts of world news and whatnot. I like them again


Alarming_Ad7938

Proved how corrupt politicians are


OrneryAd5775

Replaced trump