Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion: Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime.

I’m center-left. Born in 1988. Of all the presidents in my lifetime, Biden, whom I voted for but not in the primary, has come closest to making my own (middle class) life meaningfully better. He has taken reasonable and pragmatic action on student loans. He is staying strong on Ukraine without doing anything stupid. He’s rescheduled marijuana. His NLRB has been fantastic. He’s good on infrastructure and not terrible on the environment. He’s softened the blow of a looming recession. He’s old, but a sane and rational adult. He’s not perfect, but he has earned the vote of this former Bernie-or-Buster.

Completely agree.

I think that history will be particularly kind to Biden. He's overseeing a great economy, managed the transition from COVID to post-COVID very well, passed a great infrastructure bill, the IRA will likely prove to be a fantastic investment, and his reintroduction of industrial policy is leading to reshoring well-paying jobs. He's repaired our image abroad, strengthened old alliances, and has helped Ukraine stave off Russia and exposed them as a paper tiger with minimal investment and zero US casualties.

Fifty years from now, people will look at is low approval ratings and wonder what the hell most people were thinking. Republicans are pitching a hissy-fit for no reason other than the (D) next to his name, and people are wringing his hands because he's old, but whatever. Dude's killing it.

+1 to you both. I think most people don’t really think for themselves on politics. Hardcore Republicans reflexively hate Democrats and the rest of most people mentally frame things however mainstream media frames them. The mainstream media in this country is very Republicans from the point of Afghanistan withdrawal - yet another thing Biden did well and is not going to get credit for for years - i.e. when a massive source of revenue for the corporate owners of media dried up, they began to go hard against Biden.

Would I have picked him? No, I voted in the primary for someone else. But he’s been amazing. Way to go, Black voters. You’re the ones who picked Biden and he’s been great.

Ask the black people in Chicago and other cities who are pissed about migrants flooding in, getting better benefits than them

I listened to a NY Times The Daily podcast about Ramaswamy who likes to make this same claim as you and he went to Chicago to meet with a Black community thinking he could play up the migrant angle. But no one in the audience wanted to talk about it. They had other issues like gun violence on their minds. Not migrants. So yes you can ask them. But you won’t hear what you want to hear. It’s a made up GOP talking point.

Oh, gun violence.

They replaced Mayor Lori Lightfoot with Brandon Johnson. They could have chosen someone less radically left like Paul Vallas, but they didn't.

They should have chosen more wisely. Decisions have consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion: Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime.

I’m center-left. Born in 1988. Of all the presidents in my lifetime, Biden, whom I voted for but not in the primary, has come closest to making my own (middle class) life meaningfully better. He has taken reasonable and pragmatic action on student loans. He is staying strong on Ukraine without doing anything stupid. He’s rescheduled marijuana. His NLRB has been fantastic. He’s good on infrastructure and not terrible on the environment. He’s softened the blow of a looming recession. He’s old, but a sane and rational adult. He’s not perfect, but he has earned the vote of this former Bernie-or-Buster.

Completely agree.

I think that history will be particularly kind to Biden. He's overseeing a great economy, managed the transition from COVID to post-COVID very well, passed a great infrastructure bill, the IRA will likely prove to be a fantastic investment, and his reintroduction of industrial policy is leading to reshoring well-paying jobs. He's repaired our image abroad, strengthened old alliances, and has helped Ukraine stave off Russia and exposed them as a paper tiger with minimal investment and zero US casualties.

Fifty years from now, people will look at is low approval ratings and wonder what the hell most people were thinking. Republicans are pitching a hissy-fit for no reason other than the (D) next to his name, and people are wringing his hands because he's old, but whatever. Dude's killing it.

+1 to you both. I think most people don’t really think for themselves on politics. Hardcore Republicans reflexively hate Democrats and the rest of most people mentally frame things however mainstream media frames them. The mainstream media in this country is very Republicans from the point of Afghanistan withdrawal - yet another thing Biden did well and is not going to get credit for for years - i.e. when a massive source of revenue for the corporate owners of media dried up, they began to go hard against Biden.

Would I have picked him? No, I voted in the primary for someone else. But he’s been amazing. Way to go, Black voters. You’re the ones who picked Biden and he’s been great.

Ask the black people in Chicago and other cities who are pissed about migrants flooding in, getting better benefits than them

I listened to a NY Times The Daily podcast about Ramaswamy who likes to make this same claim as you and he went to Chicago to meet with a Black community thinking he could play up the migrant angle. But no one in the audience wanted to talk about it. They had other issues like gun violence on their minds. Not migrants. So yes you can ask them. But you won’t hear what you want to hear. It’s a made up GOP talking point.

I think you meant to say "But you won’t hear what you don't" want to hear.

Here's another FACTUAL GOP talking point: The mayors of Chicago have been all been democrats (all 14 of them) since 1931.

Elections have consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:No one above the age of 2 can claim Joe Biden to be the best President in their lifetime.

Who would you say is, then?

Clinton and Reagan in my lifetime. I think history will bear that out.

Epstein island, cigar sucking Clinton and racist, dementia riddled Reagan? I think history has already borne that out.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion: Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime.

I’m center-left. Born in 1988. Of all the presidents in my lifetime, Biden, whom I voted for but not in the primary, has come closest to making my own (middle class) life meaningfully better. He has taken reasonable and pragmatic action on student loans. He is staying strong on Ukraine without doing anything stupid. He’s rescheduled marijuana. His NLRB has been fantastic. He’s good on infrastructure and not terrible on the environment. He’s softened the blow of a looming recession. He’s old, but a sane and rational adult. He’s not perfect, but he has earned the vote of this former Bernie-or-Buster.

Completely agree.

I think that history will be particularly kind to Biden. He's overseeing a great economy, managed the transition from COVID to post-COVID very well, passed a great infrastructure bill, the IRA will likely prove to be a fantastic investment, and his reintroduction of industrial policy is leading to reshoring well-paying jobs. He's repaired our image abroad, strengthened old alliances, and has helped Ukraine stave off Russia and exposed them as a paper tiger with minimal investment and zero US casualties.

Fifty years from now, people will look at is low approval ratings and wonder what the hell most people were thinking. Republicans are pitching a hissy-fit for no reason other than the (D) next to his name, and people are wringing his hands because he's old, but whatever. Dude's killing it.

+1 to you both. I think most people don’t really think for themselves on politics. Hardcore Republicans reflexively hate Democrats and the rest of most people mentally frame things however mainstream media frames them. The mainstream media in this country is very Republicans from the point of Afghanistan withdrawal - yet another thing Biden did well and is not going to get credit for for years - i.e. when a massive source of revenue for the corporate owners of media dried up, they began to go hard against Biden.

Would I have picked him? No, I voted in the primary for someone else. But he’s been amazing. Way to go, Black voters. You’re the ones who picked Biden and he’s been great.

Ask the black people in Chicago and other cities who are pissed about migrants flooding in, getting better benefits than them

^ We Black people can always tell when people who don’t know any Black people talk about what Black people want.

Please stop.

[Anonymous]

Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime. Biden has been surprisingly good though. What would push him over the top? If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly. Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime. Biden has been surprisingly good though. What would push him over the top? If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly. Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.

Clinton was fine but really disappointing he didn't achieve more with what he was given. He squandered a huge peace dividend after the fall of the Soviet Union. He implemented NAFTA (with no plan to address how it would decimate manufacturing jobs) and deregulated Wall Street (by repealing Glass Steagall) and allowed the dot.com bubble build - the first two of which contributed directly to the GFC as well as the populist surge we've seen in the last 15 years. He represented the worst aspects of meritocracy and the revolving door between industry and government -- smart people that thought they were too smart for main street and leveraged their influence and government positions to make money after office. He also was a centrist and contributed to the Republicans tacking right. That's not his fault but it's an indirect consequence of it.

Obama was not ready and relied way too much on the Clinton folks when he presided. He spent his political capital on the ACA rather than holding the banks accountable for the GFC and after two years, was in a holding pattern for the next six years. He got us out of the GFC and implemented the ACA but not much else. That's not his fault but it failed to recognize that you can't just implement policies and expect citizens to reward you for them. You have to sell those policies and make sure to claim credit with good messaging. Biden recognized this.

Biden has done more to implement direct policies to aid the working and middle class than any President in my lifetime. He implemented the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act designed to bring back manufacturing to this country, not to mention the largest Infrastructure Act in history. Is he perfect? No. But, GD, give the man credit for getting us out of the COVID slump and actually trying to make a difference. He's actively trying to help unions. He's about to reschedule marijuana. He also got us out of the quagmire that was Afghanistan and has not directly embroiled us in in Ukraine (the cost of turning a geopolitical adversary into an afterthought has been remarkably cheap and free of American lives lost). He also reaffirmed our ties to NATO. He's probably the best President on foreign policy since Reagan. And he's doing this all in the face of opposition that has gone completely off the rail to even aiding and abetting traitors.

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Anonymous wrote:Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime. Biden has been surprisingly good though. What would push him over the top? If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly. Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.

Clinton was fine but really disappointing he didn't achieve more with what he was given. He squandered a huge peace dividend after the fall of the Soviet Union. He implemented NAFTA (with no plan to address how it would decimate manufacturing jobs) and deregulated Wall Street (by repealing Glass Steagall) and allowed the dot.com bubble build - the first two of which contributed directly to the GFC as well as the populist surge we've seen in the last 15 years. He represented the worst aspects of meritocracy and the revolving door between industry and government -- smart people that thought they were too smart for main street and leveraged their influence and government positions to make money after office. He also was a centrist and contributed to the Republicans tacking right. That's not his fault but it's an indirect consequence of it.

Obama was not ready and relied way too much on the Clinton folks when he presided. He spent his political capital on the ACA rather than holding the banks accountable for the GFC and after two years, was in a holding pattern for the next six years. He got us out of the GFC and implemented the ACA but not much else. That's not his fault but it failed to recognize that you can't just implement policies and expect citizens to reward you for them. You have to sell those policies and make sure to claim credit with good messaging. Biden recognized this.

Biden has done more to implement direct policies to aid the working and middle class than any President in my lifetime. He implemented the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act designed to bring back manufacturing to this country, not to mention the largest Infrastructure Act in history. Is he perfect? No. But, GD, give the man credit for getting us out of the COVID slump and actually trying to make a difference. He's actively trying to help unions. He's about to reschedule marijuana. He also got us out of the quagmire that was Afghanistan and has not directly embroiled us in in Ukraine (the cost of turning a geopolitical adversary into an afterthought has been remarkably cheap and free of American lives lost). He also reaffirmed our ties to NATO. He's probably the best President on foreign policy since Reagan. And he's doing this all in the face of opposition that has gone completely off the rail to even aiding and abetting traitors.

pp. I agree a lot with your third paragraph. But I still wish he would do more to make cities safe again. There’s too much rot that progressives sweep under the rug because of their unproven theories. Biden needs to use his position as head of the government and the party to address this. Maybe I’m just old and wish for the moderate party I grew up with that embraces law and order-I genuinely see a societal breakdown occurring right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime. Biden has been surprisingly good though. What would push him over the top? If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly. Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.

Clinton was fine but really disappointing he didn't achieve more with what he was given. He squandered a huge peace dividend after the fall of the Soviet Union. He implemented NAFTA (with no plan to address how it would decimate manufacturing jobs) and deregulated Wall Street (by repealing Glass Steagall) and allowed the dot.com bubble build - the first two of which contributed directly to the GFC as well as the populist surge we've seen in the last 15 years. He represented the worst aspects of meritocracy and the revolving door between industry and government -- smart people that thought they were too smart for main street and leveraged their influence and government positions to make money after office. He also was a centrist and contributed to the Republicans tacking right. That's not his fault but it's an indirect consequence of it.

Obama was not ready and relied way too much on the Clinton folks when he presided. He spent his political capital on the ACA rather than holding the banks accountable for the GFC and after two years, was in a holding pattern for the next six years. He got us out of the GFC and implemented the ACA but not much else. That's not his fault but it failed to recognize that you can't just implement policies and expect citizens to reward you for them. You have to sell those policies and make sure to claim credit with good messaging. Biden recognized this.

Biden has done more to implement direct policies to aid the working and middle class than any President in my lifetime. He implemented the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act designed to bring back manufacturing to this country, not to mention the largest Infrastructure Act in history. Is he perfect? No. But, GD, give the man credit for getting us out of the COVID slump and actually trying to make a difference. He's actively trying to help unions. He's about to reschedule marijuana. He also got us out of the quagmire that was Afghanistan and has not directly embroiled us in in Ukraine (the cost of turning a geopolitical adversary into an afterthought has been remarkably cheap and free of American lives lost). He also reaffirmed our ties to NATO. He's probably the best President on foreign policy since Reagan. And he's doing this all in the face of opposition that has gone completely off the rail to even aiding and abetting traitors.

pp. I agree a lot with your third paragraph. But I still wish he would do more to make cities safe again. There’s too much rot that progressives sweep under the rug because of their unproven theories. Biden needs to use his position as head of the government and the party to address this. Maybe I’m just old and wish for the moderate party I grew up with that embraces law and order-I genuinely see a societal breakdown occurring right now.

PP. I agree but how much do you want the Federal government interfering with the governance of cities? Alot of this is on too many idealistic progressives failing to deal with the realities of crime in places like San Francisco and Chicago. We're still grappling with the George Floyd aftershocks. That's not on Biden. Biden, as a moderate, doesn't want to alienate those to left of him. It's a fine line to walk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime. Biden has been surprisingly good though. What would push him over the top? If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly. Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.

Clinton was fine but really disappointing he didn't achieve more with what he was given. He squandered a huge peace dividend after the fall of the Soviet Union. He implemented NAFTA (with no plan to address how it would decimate manufacturing jobs) and deregulated Wall Street (by repealing Glass Steagall) and allowed the dot.com bubble build - the first two of which contributed directly to the GFC as well as the populist surge we've seen in the last 15 years. He represented the worst aspects of meritocracy and the revolving door between industry and government -- smart people that thought they were too smart for main street and leveraged their influence and government positions to make money after office. He also was a centrist and contributed to the Republicans tacking right. That's not his fault but it's an indirect consequence of it.

Obama was not ready and relied way too much on the Clinton folks when he presided. He spent his political capital on the ACA rather than holding the banks accountable for the GFC and after two years, was in a holding pattern for the next six years. He got us out of the GFC and implemented the ACA but not much else. That's not his fault but it failed to recognize that you can't just implement policies and expect citizens to reward you for them. You have to sell those policies and make sure to claim credit with good messaging. Biden recognized this.

Biden has done more to implement direct policies to aid the working and middle class than any President in my lifetime. He implemented the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act designed to bring back manufacturing to this country, not to mention the largest Infrastructure Act in history. Is he perfect? No. But, GD, give the man credit for getting us out of the COVID slump and actually trying to make a difference. He's actively trying to help unions. He's about to reschedule marijuana. He also got us out of the quagmire that was Afghanistan and has not directly embroiled us in in Ukraine (the cost of turning a geopolitical adversary into an afterthought has been remarkably cheap and free of American lives lost). He also reaffirmed our ties to NATO. He's probably the best President on foreign policy since Reagan. And he's doing this all in the face of opposition that has gone completely off the rail to even aiding and abetting traitors.

pp. I agree a lot with your third paragraph. But I still wish he would do more to make cities safe again. There’s too much rot that progressives sweep under the rug because of their unproven theories. Biden needs to use his position as head of the government and the party to address this. Maybe I’m just old and wish for the moderate party I grew up with that embraces law and order-I genuinely see a societal breakdown occurring right now.

PP. I agree but how much do you want the Federal government interfering with the governance of cities? Alot of this is on too many idealistic progressives failing to deal with the realities of crime in places like San Francisco and Chicago. We're still grappling with the George Floyd aftershocks. That's not on Biden. Biden, as a moderate, doesn't want to alienate those to left of him. It's a fine line to walk.

I agree the crime has not been caused by Biden but he needs to use his position to address it and those masquerading as Democrats need to be called out by him for their failed policies. His failure to do so just feeds the Republican narrative. I would cheer him on should he “alienate” the progressives. They bring nothing constructive to benefitting the lives of voters.

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Anonymous wrote:Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime. Biden has been surprisingly good though. What would push him over the top? If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly. Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.

Clinton was fine but really disappointing he didn't achieve more with what he was given. He squandered a huge peace dividend after the fall of the Soviet Union. He implemented NAFTA (with no plan to address how it would decimate manufacturing jobs) and deregulated Wall Street (by repealing Glass Steagall) and allowed the dot.com bubble build - the first two of which contributed directly to the GFC as well as the populist surge we've seen in the last 15 years. He represented the worst aspects of meritocracy and the revolving door between industry and government -- smart people that thought they were too smart for main street and leveraged their influence and government positions to make money after office. He also was a centrist and contributed to the Republicans tacking right. That's not his fault but it's an indirect consequence of it.

Obama was not ready and relied way too much on the Clinton folks when he presided. He spent his political capital on the ACA rather than holding the banks accountable for the GFC and after two years, was in a holding pattern for the next six years. He got us out of the GFC and implemented the ACA but not much else. That's not his fault but it failed to recognize that you can't just implement policies and expect citizens to reward you for them. You have to sell those policies and make sure to claim credit with good messaging. Biden recognized this.

Biden has done more to implement direct policies to aid the working and middle class than any President in my lifetime. He implemented the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act designed to bring back manufacturing to this country, not to mention the largest Infrastructure Act in history. Is he perfect? No. But, GD, give the man credit for getting us out of the COVID slump and actually trying to make a difference. He's actively trying to help unions. He's about to reschedule marijuana. He also got us out of the quagmire that was Afghanistan and has not directly embroiled us in in Ukraine (the cost of turning a geopolitical adversary into an afterthought has been remarkably cheap and free of American lives lost). He also reaffirmed our ties to NATO. He's probably the best President on foreign policy since Reagan. And he's doing this all in the face of opposition that has gone completely off the rail to even aiding and abetting traitors.

Who does Biden define as the middle class? I have yet to hear any politician clarify this. Everyone thinks it’s them especially in DCUMlandia.

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Anonymous wrote:Reagan was so loved by hispanic immigrants that babies were named after him.

Biden though? puhleeeze

I’ve never met a Hispanic named Ronald or Reagan for that matter.

Fascinating. My kids have had Hispanic classmates named Reagan. I didn’t know there was a connection with the former president. I figured there was some other meaning behind the name. (Didn’t study Spanish, French or any more common foreign language.)

And Cristiano Ronaldo (born 1985) was actually named after Reagan. Who knew...

Dems love to argue and they lack logic in everything. I really don't see how they stay married to one another. It's like talking to Elle woods. Ronaldo is Brazilian. Latinos abroad aren't the same as Latino immigrants who aren't the same as Latino Americans who have been here for decades. There's a difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Reagan was so loved by hispanic immigrants that babies were named after him.

Biden though? puhleeeze

I’ve never met a Hispanic named Ronald or Reagan for that matter.

Fascinating. My kids have had Hispanic classmates named Reagan. I didn’t know there was a connection with the former president. I figured there was some other meaning behind the name. (Didn’t study Spanish, French or any more common foreign language.)

And Cristiano Ronaldo (born 1985) was actually named after Reagan. Who knew...

Dems love to argue and they lack logic in everything. I really don't see how they stay married to one another. It's like talking to Elle woods. Ronaldo is Brazilian. Latinos abroad aren't the same as Latino immigrants who aren't the same as Latino Americans who have been here for decades. There's a difference.

That would be a surprise to him. He's Portugese.

[Anonymous]

Joe isn't running again. He's physically and mentally unable to and he's going downhill fast. Take that to the bank.

You should concentrate on an alternative.

[Anonymous]

My lifetime is marked by GOP Presidents who increased wealth disparity by pushing for tax cuts the country couldn’t afford and slashing domestic spending, and weak Democratic Presidents who were unable to reign in the mess their Republican counterparts caused.

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Anonymous wrote:Joe isn't running again. He's physically and mentally unable to and he's going downhill fast. Take that to the bank.

You should concentrate on an alternative.

This.