Pretty good so far. Stimulus bill successfully passed, markets surging, economy recovering as COVID winds down, infrastructure bill in the pipeline which will create a lot of jobs, back in the Paris accords, renegotiating the Iran deal, effective public health policies on the vaccine rollout, removing all troopz from Afghanistan. Pretty good in less than 90 days in office with tight House and Senate margins. Still needs to find a better way to deal with the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The Biden Presidency
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He "ran" on decriminalization. He also said he would not fire staff if they had previously used it. He then fired staff for previously using.
Fair criticism, but don't think it warrants such a low mark. This legalization may still come at some point, he has been 3 months in the job.
then his mark will go up. My score was based on what has been done. The border stuff is an automatic -10 in my book. It is horrific and the lack of apparent attempts to fix it is reprehensible.
Yeah that is something that baffles me, there are so many resources to construct adequate quarters if the processing is going to be a bottleneck.
And yet he's been pushing hard for a return to in person schools, which are obviously not safe.
He ran on federal decriminalization and expunging marijuana convictions federally.
That's not necessarily true. Health authorities in Norway are now saying the government probably made a mistake by shutting down schools in March of last year.
Of course, Biden's probably not coming at it from that point of view.
norway isn't a real place
An important message from Mitch McConnell....
Americans don’t know what left wing is.
I bet a few voted for more than that, but he probably counts them as 1/3 of a person.
Even Progressives by left wing standards are not far left. The question should be, how far right as American politics gone.
You mean 3/5 of a person.
No, deliberately avoided that fraction.
But he's doing a great job... Blah, blah, blah..
fecking shameless hypocrisy.
fecking shameless hypocrisy.
What's Biden's take on Guantanamo Bay by the way?
He's ordered a review and wants to close it before leaving office.
Grand. so 3-4 years of a study, then pass it on to Harris to deal with.
If it was easy to shut down, it would've happened under Obama.
The base or the prison within?
Bit of excitement in my area tonight. AF1 was flying Biden to/from DC/Wilmington and some guy out flying his Cessna on a Friday night got too close so a couple of fighter jets were circling around the Cessna dropping flares and shit. I was sitting at my home office desk when I heard the noise and couldn’t make out what it was. Found out later when a friend sent me video.
I know this was meant to be a sarcastic post but it almost reduced me to tears, thinking about that generation where you counted as less than a person based on your ethnicity and skin color.
Where exactly?
Can you send the video? That would be interesting to see.
I’m sure @MrMarcello would be interested in seeing it as well. No worries if you can’t for privacy reasons.
All due to political representation & taxation. No concern given to the human.
A bit of a reversal...
Maryland. I’ll see what I can do.
Yeah, it's easy to make those comments (I did too) to put someone away (McConnell in this case) and feel good about yourself (I suppose it's a kind of virus signalling); but it's not really a way to do justice to anything, or acknowledge the immense suffering that's behind the reference. It's easier not to think that through too much I guess - also because, if you do, you essentially remain in a constant state of enormous rage about the hurt and injustice that people have doled out throughout history and still today.
They're fully conscious of what they're doing; I just can't understand how these people can live with themselves.
Not a Biden policy, but this is a pretty awesome picture.
Didn't know POTUS has an Osprey.
Didn't know POTUS has an Osprey.
There’s a safety net for the expunged pot heads...
https://www.fox13news.com/news/get-...8v_P6BGUpJrpKFe5DfofWLJt5c7wsSqGA09THJZ0mLlg8
https://www.fox13news.com/news/get-...8v_P6BGUpJrpKFe5DfofWLJt5c7wsSqGA09THJZ0mLlg8
Biden's proposed capital gain tax change has wall street in jitters.
btw, this proposed change is for folks making more than $1m per year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/bid...ax-hike-to-fund-education-and-child-care.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-weighs-raising-capital-gains-rate-to-over-40-percent
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...capital-gains-tax-as-high-as-43-4-for-wealthy
Funny how the % changes depending on the "news" source.
btw, this proposed change is for folks making more than $1m per year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/bid...ax-hike-to-fund-education-and-child-care.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-weighs-raising-capital-gains-rate-to-over-40-percent
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...capital-gains-tax-as-high-as-43-4-for-wealthy
Funny how the % changes depending on the "news" source.
I mean, he ran on doing this... right?
I guess 4 years of a president doing none of the policy things he ran on got people complacent.
I think of them fairly often actually. Such an incredible potential source of state revenue!