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White House urging Democrats to reject progressive push to block arms transfers to Israel
(www.timesofisrael.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Yeah the Biden administration is going down as a terrible Presidency.
No punishment for January 6th, escalated war, lost reproductive healthcare rights for women, no functional student loan action, resulted in a more focused Republican party and Project 2025. Genocide in the middle east.
Now it's scorched earth on the way out. "But he tried his best" get the fuck out of here.
We would have been better off if Trump just finished his second term. It wouldn't be any worse than right now except the Republican Party would be on their way OUT in January instead of coming back in with determination and a new focus and a chip on their shoulder.
Cutting Trump off in 2021 and letting him come back four years later without punishment is the equivalent to letting a rabid dog out after you finally caught him. You think it's going to be easy to stop him again?
Fuck Joe Biden. And Merrick Garland is a traitor.
I get the sentiment but at least in my view Biden has had an overall reasonably productive term with the fatal flaw that he was trying to be "reasonable" with the GOP when he really shouldn't have been.
Define "productive". He did very little, and much of what he did was late in the presidency or undercut by the courts. What do you think is his biggest accomplishment?
have you not been paying attention to all the headlines about actual meaningful anti trust action in this country? that's because of Joe Biden's cabinet.
the true power of the president is in appointments. in much the same way that trump is responsible for repealing roe because it was his supreme court justice picks, this is Joe Biden's doing. so if Google does indeed need to sell chrome, that's one thing he did.
really though, he's changed the course entirely on anti trust. these are the first meaningful anti trust cases since the 90s. it's actually a huge deal.
Admittedly I don't remember most of his specific policies, but I'd say his support for labor (setting aside the rail workers strike; that was fucked up). The inflation reduction act also sounded important but I don't really understand what it did.