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Unfortunately his domestic achievements have been somewhat mediocre. His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people. I really do

Unfortunately his domestic achievements have been somewhat mediocre. His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people. I really do think his major failure was not pushing for a lasting achievement like implementing federal parental leave. He had the chance, but opted for a 1 year extension of child tax credits. And of course the US has an illegal immigration problem. European right on the rise from 1/10th the number of illegal immigrants the US gets.

vlovich123 2y ago
Arguably he saved the US from a major recession that all the experts were predicting post COVID. But avoiding a disaster is harder to campaign on.
- votepaunchy 2y ago
  Difficult to have a recession when the federal deficit is 6.3% of GDP: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727
  - seaal 2y ago
    Looking at those charts makes Biden's presidency look even more successful to me given everything he walked into.
  - jeffbee 2y ago
    The US economy is extremely robust right now and the European countries that took a balanced budget austerity approach are in shambles. Look at England. Just carnage over there. Deficit spending makes sense when the spending invests in the future. Every mortgage holder understands this implicitly. If these deficit levels concern you the obvious first place to start would be on the revenue side, by letting the Trump 2017 tax cuts expire.
shepherdjerred 2y ago
> His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people. I was so excited for the infrastructure bill, but unfortunately it got way stripped down. You can tax me at any percent you'd like if you're using it (efficiently) for public transit.
piva00 2y ago
> And of course the US has an illegal immigration problem. European right on the rise from 1/10th the number of illegal immigrants the US gets. Those are also the backbone of a lot of agriculture in the US, either a president tackles it and food inflation rises or you keep the status quo and prices steady. There's no winning strategy, whomever tackles it will have it backfire someway, the US depends on exploiting cheap labour for its low margin industries.
- teractiveodular 2y ago
  Trump's strategy of making lots of noise about building walls to stop illegal immigrants while not actually building or stopping them seems to be working reasonably well.
nozzlegear 2y ago
Genuine question: is the European right actually on the rise? It seems somewhat localized to France, where Macron just unexpectedly outmaneuvered both Le Pen's party and the left coalition that formed to counter Le Pen, securing himself a surprise victory in the snap election everyone thought would be a disaster for him. In the EU as a whole, Ursula von der Leyen just won another 5 years as the President of the European Commission, which seems like a continuation of the status quo in the EU rather than a turn toward the right. This is all from my naive perspective as an American. Edit: I'd appreciate a reply instead of a downvote. As I said, I'm asking a genuine question.
- jochem9 2y ago
  Biggest party in the Netherlands is radical right (PVV). In France they barely got a parliamentary majority against Le Pen, in a country that's not particularly good at coalitions, so doesn't look like it will last. Hungary has been on the authoritorian track for quite some time. Poland just managed to get off it, but we'll have to see if it will stick. Italy got a neo-fascist. Generally you see radical right gaining more votes in Europe, even if they don't outright win everywhere. You also see that other parties adopt ideas from the far right. This means that policy is changing in that direction and that the discourse is more around those topics. Meanwhile research shows that this doesn't actually make voters vote less for the radical right parties, so those other parties are not gaining anything from it.
  - nozzlegear 2y ago
    I see, thanks for the info! Interesting that Poland managed to get off the authoritarian track as you said, when they're so geographically close to being embroiled in war again. I'd think that would lead people to lean toward that kind of "follow the strong leader to get us through war" thinking, but obviously I'm glad it doesn't.
    - badpun 2y ago
      The right-wing party in Poland (PiS) still won the latest election (as in - got the most votes), but didn't anyone willing to form the coalition with them that would secure enough votes to form government - other major parties campaigned on being explicitly anti-PiS. So, even though PiS won, they are the opposition now, and the wide anti-PiS coalition is in power.
jncfhnb 2y ago
The inflation reduction act has been an immense boost to green energy. This is not very visible to the public. But it’s been a big deal
- Arthur_ODC 2y ago
  Can't wait til Jan 2025. I'll be taking full advantage of the home energy rebates to rewire the electric, install modern insulation, and install energy efficient heating/cooling in my 1930's Craftsman. The rebates should cover up-to $14,000 of that cost which will be a great help.
energy123 2y ago
"His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people." Look at the $300bn climate funding in the Inflation Reduction Act and the impact on bringing chip manufacturing onshore with the Chips Act. All this with a nearly divided congress. Easily the most effective US president of my lifetime.
- enraged_camel 2y ago
  The IRA has nothing to do with Joe Biden. It passed because Joe Manchin decided at the last minute that he hated what China is doing with trying to monopolize stuff like solar panels and batteries. There's a reason people jokingly refer to him as President Manchin.
  - crakhamster01 2y ago
    If Biden is blamed for failing to get certain bills passed, it seems fair that he should get _some_ credit for the ones that are, no?
- purple_ferret 2y ago
  The inflation reduction act is essentially a bundle of small things, many that don't even go into effect for years. We need permitting reform at this point to tackle climate change in any meaningful way, which unfortunately the left doesn't want to touch.
- drak0n1c 2y ago
  The CHIPS act has stagnated since its announcement, it comes with onerous DEI requirements on new chipmaker facilities which just compounds the shortage of skilled labor. There has been no progress on construction of announced facilities since the bill's passage.
  - energy123 2y ago
    What's this then? https://x.com/ChorzempaMartin/status/1796649970335994067 https://x.com/ChorzempaMartin/status/1796649970335994067
zer0zzz 2y ago
> Unfortunately his domestic achievements have been somewhat mediocre. The airlines would like all of your money next time they cancel your flight.
oezi 2y ago
1/10th the number of illegal immigrants? The US gets less illegal immigrants than Europe per capita. If you look at the charts from the last 10 years of the immigrants as percentage of population you recognize that the US is seeing slower growth while European countries see faster immigration. This is happening while the US has a high immigration rate of desirable skilled workers. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/migration?tab=chart&time=1995..latest&facet=none&country=USA~DEU~FRA~GBR~SYR~TUR~YEM~IND~CAN~ESP&hideControls=false&Metric=Number+of+international+immigrants&Period=Total&Sub-metric=Per+capita+%2F+Share+of+population https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/migration?tab=chart&tim...
- Aloisius 2y ago
  Even on a per-capita basis, the US has considerably higher levels of both legal and illegal immigration. About 3% of the US population is in the US illegally compared to about 1% in the EU. Overall, about 15.8% of the US population are foreign born, compared to 6.1% of the EU. Just like in the US, immigrants aren’t evenly distributed though so some countries have far higher percentages - just as some US states do.
  - oezi 2y ago
    From the chart I linked it seems clear to me that the US doesn't have high new immigration numbers anymore relative to its population.
ActorNightly 2y ago
Biden has passed more bipartizan legislation since LBJ. Whatever Russia is paying to post dumb shit like this, its not worth it.
Nimitz14 2y ago
His domestic achievements are the most impressive and impactful since LBJ. You should educate yourself.

vlovich123 2y ago

Arguably he saved the US from a major recession that all the experts were predicting post COVID. But avoiding a disaster is harder to campaign on.

votepaunchy 2y ago
Difficult to have a recession when the federal deficit is 6.3% of GDP: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727
- seaal 2y ago
  Looking at those charts makes Biden's presidency look even more successful to me given everything he walked into.
- jeffbee 2y ago
  The US economy is extremely robust right now and the European countries that took a balanced budget austerity approach are in shambles. Look at England. Just carnage over there. Deficit spending makes sense when the spending invests in the future. Every mortgage holder understands this implicitly. If these deficit levels concern you the obvious first place to start would be on the revenue side, by letting the Trump 2017 tax cuts expire.

shepherdjerred 2y ago

> His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people. I was so excited for the infrastructure bill, but unfortunately it got way stripped down. You can tax me at any percent you'd like if you're using it (efficiently) for public transit.

piva00 2y ago

> And of course the US has an illegal immigration problem. European right on the rise from 1/10th the number of illegal immigrants the US gets. Those are also the backbone of a lot of agriculture in the US, either a president tackles it and food inflation rises or you keep the status quo and prices steady. There's no winning strategy, whomever tackles it will have it backfire someway, the US depends on exploiting cheap labour for its low margin industries.

teractiveodular 2y ago
Trump's strategy of making lots of noise about building walls to stop illegal immigrants while not actually building or stopping them seems to be working reasonably well.

nozzlegear 2y ago

Genuine question: is the European right actually on the rise? It seems somewhat localized to France, where Macron just unexpectedly outmaneuvered both Le Pen's party and the left coalition that formed to counter Le Pen, securing himself a surprise victory in the snap election everyone thought would be a disaster for him. In the EU as a whole, Ursula von der Leyen just won another 5 years as the President of the European Commission, which seems like a continuation of the status quo in the EU rather than a turn toward the right. This is all from my naive perspective as an American. Edit: I'd appreciate a reply instead of a downvote. As I said, I'm asking a genuine question.

jochem9 2y ago
Biggest party in the Netherlands is radical right (PVV). In France they barely got a parliamentary majority against Le Pen, in a country that's not particularly good at coalitions, so doesn't look like it will last. Hungary has been on the authoritorian track for quite some time. Poland just managed to get off it, but we'll have to see if it will stick. Italy got a neo-fascist. Generally you see radical right gaining more votes in Europe, even if they don't outright win everywhere. You also see that other parties adopt ideas from the far right. This means that policy is changing in that direction and that the discourse is more around those topics. Meanwhile research shows that this doesn't actually make voters vote less for the radical right parties, so those other parties are not gaining anything from it.
- nozzlegear 2y ago
  I see, thanks for the info! Interesting that Poland managed to get off the authoritarian track as you said, when they're so geographically close to being embroiled in war again. I'd think that would lead people to lean toward that kind of "follow the strong leader to get us through war" thinking, but obviously I'm glad it doesn't.
  - badpun 2y ago
    The right-wing party in Poland (PiS) still won the latest election (as in - got the most votes), but didn't anyone willing to form the coalition with them that would secure enough votes to form government - other major parties campaigned on being explicitly anti-PiS. So, even though PiS won, they are the opposition now, and the wide anti-PiS coalition is in power.

jncfhnb 2y ago

The inflation reduction act has been an immense boost to green energy. This is not very visible to the public. But it’s been a big deal

Arthur_ODC 2y ago
Can't wait til Jan 2025. I'll be taking full advantage of the home energy rebates to rewire the electric, install modern insulation, and install energy efficient heating/cooling in my 1930's Craftsman. The rebates should cover up-to $14,000 of that cost which will be a great help.

energy123 2y ago

"His signature achievements essentially were one time cash payments to people." Look at the $300bn climate funding in the Inflation Reduction Act and the impact on bringing chip manufacturing onshore with the Chips Act. All this with a nearly divided congress. Easily the most effective US president of my lifetime.

enraged_camel 2y ago
The IRA has nothing to do with Joe Biden. It passed because Joe Manchin decided at the last minute that he hated what China is doing with trying to monopolize stuff like solar panels and batteries. There's a reason people jokingly refer to him as President Manchin.
- crakhamster01 2y ago
  If Biden is blamed for failing to get certain bills passed, it seems fair that he should get _some_ credit for the ones that are, no?
purple_ferret 2y ago
The inflation reduction act is essentially a bundle of small things, many that don't even go into effect for years. We need permitting reform at this point to tackle climate change in any meaningful way, which unfortunately the left doesn't want to touch.
drak0n1c 2y ago
The CHIPS act has stagnated since its announcement, it comes with onerous DEI requirements on new chipmaker facilities which just compounds the shortage of skilled labor. There has been no progress on construction of announced facilities since the bill's passage.
- energy123 2y ago
  What's this then? https://x.com/ChorzempaMartin/status/1796649970335994067 https://x.com/ChorzempaMartin/status/1796649970335994067

zer0zzz 2y ago

> Unfortunately his domestic achievements have been somewhat mediocre. The airlines would like all of your money next time they cancel your flight.

oezi 2y ago

1/10th the number of illegal immigrants? The US gets less illegal immigrants than Europe per capita. If you look at the charts from the last 10 years of the immigrants as percentage of population you recognize that the US is seeing slower growth while European countries see faster immigration. This is happening while the US has a high immigration rate of desirable skilled workers. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/migration?tab=chart&time=1995..latest&facet=none&country=USA~DEU~FRA~GBR~SYR~TUR~YEM~IND~CAN~ESP&hideControls=false&Metric=Number+of+international+immigrants&Period=Total&Sub-metric=Per+capita+%2F+Share+of+population https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/migration?tab=chart&tim...

Aloisius 2y ago
Even on a per-capita basis, the US has considerably higher levels of both legal and illegal immigration. About 3% of the US population is in the US illegally compared to about 1% in the EU. Overall, about 15.8% of the US population are foreign born, compared to 6.1% of the EU. Just like in the US, immigrants aren’t evenly distributed though so some countries have far higher percentages - just as some US states do.
- oezi 2y ago
  From the chart I linked it seems clear to me that the US doesn't have high new immigration numbers anymore relative to its population.

ActorNightly 2y ago

Biden has passed more bipartizan legislation since LBJ. Whatever Russia is paying to post dumb shit like this, its not worth it.

Nimitz14 2y ago

His domestic achievements are the most impressive and impactful since LBJ. You should educate yourself.