***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[AEA18]

I still remember the musical we had to perform in elementary school about recycling and protecting the environment.

A certain demographic of parents now would probably raise hell about it for trying to "indoctrinate" their kids

 

[gry60]

Today marks 18 months of the Biden Administration.

What are everyone's HONEST thoughts about the Biden presidency so far?

I think making Merrick Garland his AG was his biggest mistake.

All things considered, he's not meeting the moment. I'm not blaming him for things that are beyond his control, but he hasn't used his executive pen as much as he should have IMO.

We need someone petty in the white house because whether Democrats like it or not, Republicans have declared war on them. Acknowledge that, and act accordingly.

 

[gry60]

You mean like they're not talking about the falling gas prices?

 

[sneeker]

All things considered, he's not meeting the moment. I'm not blaming him for things that are beyond his control, but he hasn't used his executive pen as much as he should have IMO.

We need someone petty in the white house because whether Democrats like it or not, Republicans have declared war on them. Acknowledge that, and act accordingly.

I understand what Biden is trying to do as much as he can to gain allies from the right. but I believe he now has to acknowledge that the republicans are far long gone from the typical republicans and now has to deal with radical trumpers. the current gop are mainly too fixated on themselves to make any true changes and republican voters are that dumb to even know what they need. they treat partisan politics as some sort of a fanclub.

I do agree that Biden needs to throw down the hammer as he won't be gaining any favors from either the voters nor the republicans other than Cheney. he needs to be radical in his own way.

 

[mplsdunk]

I don’t expect anything out of Biden or any meaningful change.

More concerned about local stuff anyways.

 

[Air Champa]

Don't let word of this spread too much.

We'll see somebody wanting to bring back CFCs to own the libs.

 

[mplsdunk]

Tell that to Australia.

 

[heelsandeers]

What are everyone's HONEST thoughts about the Biden presidency so far?

I think making Merrick Garland his AG was his biggest mistake.

I think this administration knows what it is doing legislative politics wise despite having little to show for it

He is getting judges confirmed at a record pace and his selections (from what I can tell) have been excellent

I think he has handled the crisis in Ukraine better than any president has handled a foreign policy crisis in my lifetime

Biden is in a weak position and probably the most vanilla, stay the course Democrat of the last five decades. I give him a passing grade based on expectations and circumstance

 

[sneeker]

I think this administration knows what it is doing legislative politics wise despite having little to show for it

He is getting judges confirmed at a record pace and his selections (from what I can tell) have been excellent

I think he has handled the crisis in Ukraine better than any president has handled a foreign policy crisis in my lifetime

Biden is in a weak position and probably the most vanilla, stay the course Democrat of the last five decades. I give him a passing grade based on expectations and circumstance

it's just bad timing really with Covid and war in ukraine going on. and having stupid trump to deal with didn't help either.

 

[dwalk31]

 

[whywesteppin]

Biden paresidency has gone about how I expected. If the most charismatic and competent president of our lifetime with control of the house and Senate kept getting blocked from doing anything other than a weakened ACA, what makes anything think an elder Biden with a divided country, hostile Republicans fresh off an attempted overthrow of the government, and ongoing pandemic is going to do more?

 

[sneeker]

Biden paresidency has gone about how I expected. If the most charismatic and competent president of our lifetime with control of the house and Senate kept getting blocked from doing anything other than a weakened ACA, what makes anything think an elder Biden with a divided country, hostile Republicans fresh off an attempted overthrow of the government, and ongoing pandemic is going to do more?

he can't do anything unless he starts getting those hostile Republicans voted out.

 

[Based Jesus]

Foreign born billionaire narrows it down so little. With that criteria conservatives have Murdoch, Thiel and Musk to target, guys who are actually up to stuff to make their lives worse, and waste it on Soros instead just because he's Jewish. They're so goddamn stupid.

 

[Wargames]

Biden paresidency has gone about how I expected. If the most charismatic and competent president of our lifetime with control of the house and Senate kept getting blocked from doing anything other than a weakened ACA, what makes anything think an elder Biden with a divided country, hostile Republicans fresh off an attempted overthrow of the government, and ongoing pandemic is going to do more?

Elect Newsom

 

[whywesteppin]

Elect Newsom

it's a gamble but he may be our only shot.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I don't see the appeal with Newsom

Like is it because he is a high profile governor?

If I was picking a Dem governor I would think Andy Beshear would be the best choice. Then Whitmer.

 

[mplsdunk]

Elect Eric Adam’s b.

 

[Wargames]

Elect Eric Adam’s b.

The only Eric I would vote for

 

[Wargames]

I don't see the appeal with Newsom

Like is it because he is a high profile governor?

If I was picking a Dem governor I would think Andy Beshear would be the best choice. Then Whitmer.

I didn’t see the appeal of Biden or Trump…. Yet here we are….

 

[IATT]

I didn’t see the appeal of Biden or Trump…. Yet here we are….

The appeal of Biden was pretty obvious

Just as the appeal appeal of Hillary shoulda been obvious

Or anyone who ran against a bush or Reagan or republicans in the last 40-50 years

 

[IATT]

 

[dmbrhs]

Biden paresidency has gone about how I expected. If the most charismatic and competent president of our lifetime with control of the house and Senate kept getting blocked from doing anything other than a weakened ACA, what makes anything think an elder Biden with a divided country, hostile Republicans fresh off an attempted overthrow of the government, and ongoing pandemic is going to do more?

To be fair, Obama had a filibuster-proof Senate for only a couple of weeks. It took forever for Minnesota to declare a senate winner (Franken), and it also took Arlen Specter ditching the GOP to give them the 60 votes. They literally didn't have time to ram through other legislation.

 

[Nike Jordan]

wavycrocket

 

[dmbrhs]

The GOP playbook is now "It'S uP To ThE sTaTeS!"...except they are absolutely introducing federal legislation on all of this stuff once they take the house and senate.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I didn’t see the appeal of Biden or Trump…. Yet here we are….

The appeal of Biden and Trump is that they could win a large enough majority of the most politically favored (unfairly) voting bloc. Midwestern voters, especially white men.

Like if we are throwing names out there, I think it is wise to at least know why they would be a good candidate.

Newsom seems like he would not be that great.