He let all the benefits of the Trump-Era COVID spending lapse. No more free testing. No more daily case tracking. Huge decline in public investment in vaccine development/distribution and mitigation of side-effects of innoculation. No further efforts to regulate against continued spread.
No more monthly child tax credits. Student debt collections have restarted. No national leadership on extending Medicaid to states. No Public Option. Less than 1% of outstanding federal student loans have been forgiven.
Meanwhile, tens of billions were released by the FDIC and Fed Reserve to stabilize Silicon Valley Bank, despite the bank being in blatant violation of a host of financial regulations.
No productive action on climate change. Increased drilling permits. Increased construction of new pipelines. Increased O&G traffic on the Mississippi, resulting in more spills and more contamination of waterways. A virtual standstill on advancements in domestic clean energy, in an era when highly efficient Molten Salt Reactors are being constructed in France, China, and India and wind/solar energy have dipped below liquid gas prices.
He’s once again juiced the Pentagon/police budgets. Escalating conflicts in Syria. New war in Yemen. Hundreds of billions spent on Ukraine. Tens of billions more to ramp up military across the South Pacific. Still hasn’t closed Gitmo. $7B stolen from the Afghan treasury, kicking off the worst hunger crisis in the world prior to the Gaza invasion.
No DC statehood. No restoration of the Voting Rights Act. No national law to protect a woman’s right to health care during a miscarriage. No DOJ action on any of the above.
It took four fucking years to get Trump to trial on any of his 91 indictments. In the same time, Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested, tried, convicted, and has been in jail for a month.
wHy iSn’T bIdEn dOiNg aNyThInG fOr tHe lEfT???
Why indeed? Almost as though that’s not his real constituency.
Most of what you’ve described are things Congress does, not the president. I highly doubt the quality of your research.
Plus, if you had done proper research, you’d see that the Inflation Reduction Act was actually such a productive climate action that it forced Canada and European countries to pass similar legislation.
the Inflation Reduction Act was actually such a productive climate action
Every year since the passage of the Act has seen an increase in gross carbon emissions both domestically and when combined with Canada and Europe. We crested the 2 C mark for several months in 2023, half a decade sooner than expected, despite its passage. US production and consumption of fossil fuels has increased. New well drilling is at its fastest pace since pre-COVID. O&G companies made record profits and have rededicated a big chunk of that new wealth into propagandizing against additional climate change reforms, both domestically and globally.
There’s an important lesson here too – actions that we take today will not have an observable effect until months later. Everything has a lag time. It’ll probably take 3 years until we see the start of the Act’s impacts, 5 until they become obvious.
You mentioned increased emissions in Europe, and Germany is a fantastic example of this effect. They created a moratorium on nuclear energy years ago, and many reactors were shuttered these past few years. They’ve also been burning more coal now, year over year. And they had to temporarily increase energy imports from France… Which was largely nuclear generated. I think we’ll see in the coming years that Germany gained nothing from closing nuclear plants, and will probably lag because of it too.
We could’ve stopped all pollution with the IRA, and we still would’ve hit +2C early. The trends are already in motion and will take time to reverse.
Lenin was acutely conscious of the dangers of parliamentary cretinism: socialists treating parliament as the primary arena of struggle and subordinating everything to its priorities. This would bend socialists’ politics towards compromise with capitalism and also their practical orientation to parliamentary manoeuvring. He was equally alert to the problem of voter fetishism: voters mistakenly thinking the vote is an exercise of power, when in fact power in a capitalist society is collective, social and located largely outside the parliamentary realm. Elections had a place, but they were no substitute for mass working-class action in the workplaces, streets and squares. Ultimately power must be wrested from the capitalist class in revolution. Source
Does no research into what Biden has already done
wHy iSn’T bIdEn dOiNg aNyThInG fOr tHe lEfT??? 🤡
Lol and if you keep up with politics you’d see how many of the things he tried to do but got shot down by Republicans. Ex: Student Loan forgiveness
We don’t want Logan forgiveness. We want the end of loans. Scraps from the dinner table are no longer sufficient.
He let all the benefits of the Trump-Era COVID spending lapse. No more free testing. No more daily case tracking. Huge decline in public investment in vaccine development/distribution and mitigation of side-effects of innoculation. No further efforts to regulate against continued spread.
No more monthly child tax credits. Student debt collections have restarted. No national leadership on extending Medicaid to states. No Public Option. Less than 1% of outstanding federal student loans have been forgiven.
Meanwhile, tens of billions were released by the FDIC and Fed Reserve to stabilize Silicon Valley Bank, despite the bank being in blatant violation of a host of financial regulations.
No productive action on climate change. Increased drilling permits. Increased construction of new pipelines. Increased O&G traffic on the Mississippi, resulting in more spills and more contamination of waterways. A virtual standstill on advancements in domestic clean energy, in an era when highly efficient Molten Salt Reactors are being constructed in France, China, and India and wind/solar energy have dipped below liquid gas prices.
He’s once again juiced the Pentagon/police budgets. Escalating conflicts in Syria. New war in Yemen. Hundreds of billions spent on Ukraine. Tens of billions more to ramp up military across the South Pacific. Still hasn’t closed Gitmo. $7B stolen from the Afghan treasury, kicking off the worst hunger crisis in the world prior to the Gaza invasion.
No DC statehood. No restoration of the Voting Rights Act. No national law to protect a woman’s right to health care during a miscarriage. No DOJ action on any of the above.
It took four fucking years to get Trump to trial on any of his 91 indictments. In the same time, Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested, tried, convicted, and has been in jail for a month.
Why indeed? Almost as though that’s not his real constituency.
Most of what you’ve described are things Congress does, not the president. I highly doubt the quality of your research.
Plus, if you had done proper research, you’d see that the Inflation Reduction Act was actually such a productive climate action that it forced Canada and European countries to pass similar legislation.
Every year since the passage of the Act has seen an increase in gross carbon emissions both domestically and when combined with Canada and Europe. We crested the 2 C mark for several months in 2023, half a decade sooner than expected, despite its passage. US production and consumption of fossil fuels has increased. New well drilling is at its fastest pace since pre-COVID. O&G companies made record profits and have rededicated a big chunk of that new wealth into propagandizing against additional climate change reforms, both domestically and globally.
Uh… yay.
It hasn’t even been 2 years.
There’s an important lesson here too – actions that we take today will not have an observable effect until months later. Everything has a lag time. It’ll probably take 3 years until we see the start of the Act’s impacts, 5 until they become obvious.
You mentioned increased emissions in Europe, and Germany is a fantastic example of this effect. They created a moratorium on nuclear energy years ago, and many reactors were shuttered these past few years. They’ve also been burning more coal now, year over year. And they had to temporarily increase energy imports from France… Which was largely nuclear generated. I think we’ll see in the coming years that Germany gained nothing from closing nuclear plants, and will probably lag because of it too.
We could’ve stopped all pollution with the IRA, and we still would’ve hit +2C early. The trends are already in motion and will take time to reverse.
So, when something good happens: It’s Biden. But, when something bad happens: It’s Congress.
Schrödinger’s Government.
No, you’re correct. It’s primarily a victory of Congress. One that Biden argued for, yes, but one he ultimately did not accomplish.
Then it’s a fait accompli and no one should be upset when Biden loses.
I don’t need Biden to win, I need Trump to lose. I’m all ears on other ways to make that happen.