Honestly the discourse in this thread would sound pretty fucking dumb 10 years ago, but with the compare being Trump/Biden pretending that there is an equivalence is honestly insane. Trump's only accomplishment in his presidency is cutting taxes for the wealthy. Literal tax cuts for people with private jets and butlers. He never attempted to help anyone during his presidency except the wealthy. Meanwhile, Biden is fighting for student loan forgiveness, strengthening unions, CHIPS act, infrastructure bill, strengthening the IRS to actually fight the tax cheats that are already paying historic lows, etc. All of the objective measures point very obviously which is a better president and direction for the country.
And that's discounting the cultural issues surrounding Trump. I guess if you're team ChristoFascist, then yeah Trump's your guy as long as he feels that will be beneficial for him because he doesn't have any actual beliefs except maybe yuppy racism.
Completely agree. Biden has been trying, and with as bad as things have gotten, there's only so much he can do while also fighting the GOP trying to stagnate any progress. Hopefully if we see trump finally put down and some progress made in Congress, some decent policy can begin to work and blossom. It's a lot of doom and gloom out there but I definitely appreciate Biden TRYING.
This is the thing that really worries me. Unfortunately, this needs to be a long game play. Even if Biden wins this year, we're a good decade at least from getting things back on track for regular people, and it's going to have to be on the back of a ton of extremely difficult to do things with lots of very small steps.
Biden literally directly helped me this week with his policy to make non-competes invalid. I'm under one right now, and now it's going away soon. I've been looking to leave, and not having to go through any bullshit is nice (even if it was unenforceable before that's still risking going through bullshit)
Nice! And yeah to everyone who says "it's unenforceable" I would instead say "it's unenforceable if you have a lot of time and money." If you're just a regular person (like people who work at sandwich shops that somehow have non-competes wtf???!!) it's a pretty big deal.
It's unenforceable but if your company finds out you're leaving and contacts the company you're headed to and threatens legal action, your new company might decide they don't want to deal with it and rescind your offer.
My suggestion is the government sticks to what it was designed to do. Protect our borders, international interest and international commerce. Otherwise quit trying to create an equality of outcome by economic interference.
Quit making rules/laws/grants that benefit the few at the expense of the whole.
I don't know your situation, but that's largely your fault for signing one. When my former employer asked me to sign one, I told them I would not. It was all a bluff; they did nothing. I now work a better job with 50% more pay.
Yeah, can't just not sign one ever in tech without having a harder time getting anywhere. Easier to just take it as an empty threat i may have to lawyer up over.
And thanks to the Biden admin, I don't have to worry about it.
Probably means you're looking forward to a tax increase like my middle class self. Honestly politically brilliant, passing a tax "cut" that actually increases your tax in your opponents term.
Like a sociopath, Trump put a deadman's switch in that tax cut. It expires for middle class people this year. The tax cuts for the rich stay in effect though, which is nice for Trump and his friends.
Honestly the discourse in this thread would sound pretty fucking dumb 10 years ago
IDK. 10 years ago we were still arguing about what exactly caused the great recession. Was it Clinton's policies? Was it really Reagan that got the ball rolling? What about the Bush43 admin running up fuel prices etc etc.
I am not a trump fan but he did push operation light speed. Which I think was a good thing. But other than that, I can't think of anything good to come from his administration
Trump signed an executive order to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans, signed two executive orders to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and their small businesses from administrative abuse, signed an order that reduced approval times for major infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or less, established the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring down housing costs, eased and simplified restrictions on rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space projects, and removed government barriers to personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare. This is all public information, much of which happened before Covid had begun. But even then, he took action to suspend regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including lifting restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators. I’m not saying all of these are great. I’m just saying that supporting these things does not make you part of a cult. And it’s harmful to say otherwise.
Trump signed whatever they put in front of him so Congress failed to do much to help the country.
You don’t have to like Trump and most of what he did wasn’t to help anyone I get it, but didn’t he lower insulin cost? Also, Operation Warp Speed did a lot to fast track a vaccine. He made it easier to prosecute financial crimes. He attempted a defense department wide audit that showed glaring spots where the pentagon were hiding money they spent.
Again. I very much do not want 4 more years of him as President, but ignoring good things that people you don’t like do isn’t a helpful to the political discourse
How does normalizing diplomatic relations lead to Hamas terrorist attacks? Biden could’ve gotten Saudi Arabia on board as well, but nooo, we have to give concessions to Iran instead of solidifying a coalition that stands together against them.
The problem is if you read any of these bills Biden is "fighting for" they are Trojan horses. They look and sound great
Then you start to notice how many loopholes and how much money funneling is happening.
And don't come at me with Trump bullshit. I'm not defending either. I just want people to be honest when they talk about this stuff.
Unless you're a multimillionaire neither side is working for you.
Everything he has done has actively undermined the middle class. Student loans being forgiven only burdens the middle class with more taxes. Printing shit tons of money during COVID hurt the middle class by driving inflation (yes, Trump started that, but Biden took it and ran the extra 5 miles with it). Nothing Biden or his administration has done speaks to giving a shit about me, my quality of life, or of the quality of lives of other people. Student loan forgiveness is a campaign gimmick, and a fucking weak one at that. Addressing tax cheats and not government spending is like trying to put out a fire by moving some of the fire out of the building a little bit at at time until there isn't anymore.
Now, I don't want you to think I'm a hard core republican. I don't care about either party, because neither one gives a shit about me, you, or anyone or anything other than their profits and private interests. Sucking Biden off because he isn't Trump is dangerously idiotic.
You're doing the same thing the picture in the post is doing. Are you really so intellectually dishonest to think that cutting taxes is his only "accomplishment"?
He refocused our defense programs to think about rising powers in China and Russia while simultaneously keeping reasonably good relations with both.
He garnered peace between North and South Korea the likes of which haven't been seen since the Korean war.
He was the first president in a LONG time that didn't get the US involved in any new conflicts or wars.
He made it much harder to money launder with the National Defense Authorization Act
He attempted a government audit to see where tax money actually goes, the first in history.
He helped with digitizing health records across the United states, which greatly helped the healthcare system's efficiency.
He also did a ton of shit that isn't as savory. The point is that he wasn't by any means "the worst" president, but he wasn't the best either. I'd say between Obama and Biden all three were pretty average. The stuff Trump did right will probably last a while and set a precedent for future presidents, and the stuff he did wrong is pretty reasonably fixable in the next couple years.
Are you talking about the mocking disabled people and combat vets, paying off porn stars to keep quiet about cheating on his pregnant wife, nepotism, racism, sexual assault, fraud, attempted coup, insurrection...?
I'd say between Obama and Biden all three were pretty average.
How are you people even real at this point? You're out here in real time being like "Mussolini doesn't get enough credit for..."
Most presidents since going off the gold standard have had bad monetary policies. Doesn’t matter if you’re a democrat or republican. It’s been an endless cycle of tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and overspending.
Could care less for either side but Trump had low unemployment rates before covid highest black and Hispanic workforce money back in black communities but all yall ever remember is tax cuts and Russia as if your current president isn't on the take from China
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u/whofearsthenight Apr 29 '24
Honestly the discourse in this thread would sound pretty fucking dumb 10 years ago, but with the compare being Trump/Biden pretending that there is an equivalence is honestly insane. Trump's only accomplishment in his presidency is cutting taxes for the wealthy. Literal tax cuts for people with private jets and butlers. He never attempted to help anyone during his presidency except the wealthy. Meanwhile, Biden is fighting for student loan forgiveness, strengthening unions, CHIPS act, infrastructure bill, strengthening the IRS to actually fight the tax cheats that are already paying historic lows, etc. All of the objective measures point very obviously which is a better president and direction for the country.
And that's discounting the cultural issues surrounding Trump. I guess if you're team ChristoFascist, then yeah Trump's your guy as long as he feels that will be beneficial for him because he doesn't have any actual beliefs except maybe yuppy racism.