Joe Biden is a great president.
Supported a genocide and just let the Supreme Court ride roughshod on women’s rights and push the country as close to fascism as it has ever been. You and I have a different definition of great.
If I had Joe Biden’s power and platform for fifteen minutes I’d accomplish more.
Debatable. He is certainly better than Trump, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call him great. He is mediocre at best. He’s a career politician and doesn’t really have America’s best interests at heart. He toes the line.
Has he done good things? Yes. Are we better off than before he took office? That’s honestly such a low bar, should we give anybody credit for that? 😉 But seriously, he is not a risk taker, and being a risk taker is what separates good from great.
I think we can separate a great administration or rather great accomplishments from the president in that his administration has certainly gone above and beyond what many other presidents were able to achieve in just 1 term. Given the status-quo and chaos of the time, that is impressive. I also credit him with making deals with the progressive coalition and uniting the party significantly.
On the other hand I do agree with the criticism that he largely leads from behind the polls instead of really being a visionary and change-maker. I think that’s what most of us respect Sanders for. He stands up for what must be done, regardless of whether it’s popular and advocates for this until it becomes popular.
That is a wonderful insight about Sanders that I have not seen articulated before
I’m in a job that’s unionized for the first time in my life. It’s awesome. Get fucked, repubs.
Yeah but something something train workers who still got almost everything they were demanding anyways because Biden personally negotiated on their behalf after stopping them from striking leading to supply chain chaos right before the holiday season, quite possibly the single worst time imagineable for supply chain chaos.
More leftist than thou types are gonna see Biden literally mandate buyouts of productive assets for transfer to the working class and will have a hissy fit about how he’s basically the same as the American Neo-Nazi movement because he didn’t seize the assets while lining the former owners up against a wall for mass execution to be watched by their families and loved ones who’s eyelids were surgically removed for the purpose of being able to force them to watch.
The issue isn’t whether or not they ended up getting it, the issue is that the government will forcibly end strikes that are too dangerous to the economy. Yknow, the entire point of strikes.
Luckily, it worked out this time. What needs to happen is the removal of the government’s power to end rail strikes in the first place.
The US has intervened in strikes since the concept was first conceived. The difference is they used to, quite literally, beat, arrest, and kill striking workers.
Biden advocated for the striking workers and made gains that they were thrilled about. If you can’t see the difference I don’t know what to tell you. And I say this as somebody who was thrilled to see Biden drop out
Yes, we were lucky that Biden was actually advocating for them. That’s what the lucky comment was about.
What happens if the next time is under a GOP government? The power to do this shouldn’t exist in the first place.
It’s not an explicit power it’s just exercised. His non-intervention wouldn’t have stopped the GQP.
You’re missing the point entirely. We need legislation thay explicitly forbids it.
Ok but it doesn’t exist and didn’t when it was happening. He’s also the president, not in Congress. So why that’s laid at his feet when he did the right thing is hard for me to square.
I’d also like to point out that we are a long way from “Biden fucked over railroad workers” and are now going “Biden didn’t legislate this problem away.” Even if you dismiss everything I wrote above the argument that he didn’t help them reads hollow to me.
I never said I hated or blamed Biden for it. Ive infact said the literal opposite, that were incredibly lucky he was in office when it happened. You’re pulling shit out of your ass and putting words in my mouth, which I don’t appreciate.
My entire point this whole time is the power to do this shouldn’t exist. Don’t twist my words.
Like I said, “literally the same as hitler because he intervened to prevent supply chain chaos right before it would have done nothing for rail workers but get everyone unimaginably upset with them.”
I’m so glad unions are mandatory in Europe.
They are stronger and more common, but unfortunately they are not mandatory, at least not everywhere.
I’m so glad unions are much more prevalent in Europe.
Mandatory in what way?I live in Europe and I’ve never heard of that. Which country? Which industry?
In France when a business reaches a certain size there’s a whole host of mandatory committees and stuff they have to get going
I agree with the sentiment all around, but this bar graph is fucking manipulative trash.
Unless it’s the rail unions I guess.
And then a real strike happened and Biden shit all over it. See: train workers.
Rail union https://youtu.be/EM6jMtG_MB8
Did you see what happened after? There were negotiations and some things got a bit better. More is needed, but it wasn’t just one act and then he forgot about the issue.
