Comment on Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day agoIt was not Biden’s job to prosecute his political opponent, nor should it ever be a president’s job. Unlike past examples, he did not pardon Trump.
Biden did so many great things that helped people, selflessly, that it’s hard to list them all. Here is an attempt at only some of the things:
expanded overtime pay eligibility to millions
forgave $186 Billion of student loans despite constant pushback from Republican AGs and courts
increased audits for the rich, which payed for itself and more
allowed over-the-counter birth control to hit the markets
pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions, commuting 2500+ sentences
awarded $286 million for schools student mental health programs
replaced more federal vehicle fleets with all electric
expanded solar and wind power across the nation
drafted new anti-redlining predatory mortgage regulations which went into effect in January
a crackdown on hidden fees from service providers, ticket sellers, and banks
forced Chinese companies to properly report SEC Filings in order to remain publicly tradeable
expanded less carbon intensive farming practices in the USA
expanded nature conservation and national parks more than any past president, including $4 Billion for the preservation of the shrinking Colorado River
cut federal funding for career training programs which trap their students in more debt relative to their post-graduation earnings
brokered a peace deal in the Congo
strengthened alliance with Japan and South Korea over countering potential threats from China and North Korea
funded medical research for things like cancer, countering the previous cuts by Republicans
helped Class-A railroad workers to have industry-wide paid sick leave, albeit after he undercut their strike he still aided them in getting all of their demands in the following months
literally penned the first and then only AI oversight and regulation with his AI Executive Order
investigated grocery store price gouging and blocked mergers such as Krogers-Albertsons
The Respect for Marriage Act which protects gay marriage
protected LGBT+ Service Members and Veterans
signed multiple executive orders protecting lgbt+ throughout the federal government including “prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation” and “advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals”
appointed the first openly LGBTQI+ Cabinet Secretary, White House Press Secretary, and White House Communications Director, the two first openly transgender people to ever be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the first out lesbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador.
It was not Biden’s job to prosecute his political opponent,
Bull fucking shit it wasn’t. The President is the chief law enforcement officer in the Federal government, and his “political opponent” was the most dangerous criminal we’ve seen in decades. Yes, it was his fucking job to make damn sure the DOJ did theirs.
lol sure bud… Making sure PROVABLE unconstitutional shitpiles do not gain power isn’t in the job description… but it should be.
Have fun getting ChatGPT to puke out that list for you?
I don’t fucking care if he personally cured cancer. The fact he allowed the cancer of Trump to fester is still despicable. The fact he gave people no hope such that they wouldn’t turn to the convenient lies of Trump is despicable.
Have fun celebrating your pile of shit covered in Fabreeze. Us people out here in the real world aren’t going to be convinced by a list of intangibles.
I personally wrote that list, albeit like a week ago. I don’t use AI for anything, ever, I think an LLM is a liability machine.
It wouldn’t be on a whim. It would be for provable, demonstrable violations of the constitution, but you go ahead and keep pretending that presidents are kings.
It’s the courts’ responsibility to sentence people for provable, demonstrable violations of the law.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
His “political opponent” attempted to overthrow the elected government of the United States, while sitting in the office of the president. What Trump did, treason isn’t even a strong enough word for.
The administrative branch, through the United States attorney general, decides which crimes or laws it pursues in applying and which ones it doesn’t. It is 100% the job of the administrative branch, The Presidency, to prosecute a former government official, especially of the outgoing administration, for treason.
And not one fucking iota of those, allegedly, “good things” Biden did matters now: Because Biden failed in his duty to prosecute Trump. And honestly, I’ll leave it for others to nitpick the absolute absurdity being extolled in that list you’ve come up with. The one that caught my eye at a glance is the bit about rail workers.
Fuck Biden. Worst president of the past 100 years (with one exception) and the man who sealed the fate on the downfall of the republic.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 day ago
1 exception? Just one?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m on the fence if its even hyperbole. For all the faults of all the presidents of the past hundred years, none of them directly contributed to the downfall of the republic in the way Biden has. Its hard to understand historicity in real time. We really don’t know whats going to necessarily get remembered or how.
Like, genuinely, who is worse? The guy who says “I’m going to burn the building down” or the one who, in a position of power to stop them, makes the conscious decision not to? Trump has never not said exactly what they are going to do. They are the quiet part-out-loud manifest. And Biden chose to believe something different. They had all the power to simply arrest Trump on day 1 of their office. Put him behind bars on that day, begin the investigation. Take it seriously, like Brazil has, like South Korea did. Biden
McKinley is one of the biggest pieces of shit that ever lived. I’ll live with PTSD forever because of the decisions of Bush. Trump. Well. Of course.
But Trump could have been stopped. We didn’t need to have him as President again. Trump was polling like shit. He was deeply unpopular, even though he won. Trump is a consequence of the decisions and the decision making framework of Biden and Democratic leadership.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If he had just worn a less revealing dress…
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
That guy is super-duper racist and hates Obama. He’s cool with Trump, though.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Excuse me are you accusing me of racism?