Biden says he is ‘considering’ Australian call to drop Julian Assange charges
theguardian.com
Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.
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Only good thing he’ll ever do if he actually does it.
Covid response
American rescue plan (1.9 trillion)
Infrastructure investment and Jobs Act (1.2 trillion)
Climate Change - Rejoined Paris Agreement
American Families Plan and Social Policy (significant education, childcare, and healthcare investment)
Foreign Policy - ended the war in Afghanistan (no big deal I guess lmfao)
Elected first black woman into Supreme Court (social change for a class of oppressed minorities who still have not received reparations btw)
Should I keep going or
Not being Trump also should be on the accomplishments
Disagree. Because literally anyone but trump can do that.
Hey, don't take my greatest accomplishment away
Wow way to just shit on Ron Desantis’s dreams like that.
Hey, good job at doing it.
It’s kind of dumb that Biden gets to be a great president just for erasing some of the mess Trump made. I miss the days when we were actually talking about things like better healthcare, meaningful gun legislation, and education, not back to basic human fucking rights.
When he's being actively undermined by Republicans the whole way, just cleaning up Trump's mess can be an accomplishment. The Inflation Reduction Act went against heavily entrenched interests to restart the US federal government's response to climate change. It took real finesse to get that through Congress.
That's kind of bullshit. With a divided government, Biden has managed to do more than most of his recent predecessors, much with bipartisan support. I didn't expect much from him when I voted -was more of a "not Trump" thing - but I have to give him credit, he's done a lot. Even just the infrastructure bill is a big deal, with positive impacts in several needed areas. The inflation reduction act is pretty major, too.
I by no means said or implied he was great for having accomplishments.
Taking a shit and showering every day is a good accomplishment but it doesn’t make me great.
Not trying to disparage this list, but we all know the Paris Agreement is bullshit, and not a single country is on pace to meet it, despite signing it.
FYI, the biggest thing Biden had done for climate change is indefinitely halt approvals for LNG export terminals in the US, this headline went completely under most people’s radar (Biden did a trash job of even trying to make a big deal out of it) but environmental activists and experts like Bill Mckibben say this is actually a massive deal. Decades of investment won’t be put into export terminals and so the incentive to keep going down the LNG road becomes significantly less attractive for energy companies.
results, though?
Yeah... and look at how that turned out.
Yeah I guess the only option would’ve been to continue funding a war we had no fucking business being in the first place thanks to ANOTHER Republican president.
I'm sure the girls who got to go to school would appreciate it.
Now there's no hope for them except as obedient wives.
You just like saying words together don’t you
You don't like what's being said so you pretend it doesn't make sense.
I don't expect more from you.
Perhaps people telling you they’re confused actually mean they’re confused.
Not everything is a grand conspiracy. Toodles.
Yeah, but that's not the case here.
I wasn't born yesterday :P
This comment was removed for saying "I'm sure the girls who got to go to school would appreciate it. Now there's no hope for them except as obedient wives."
It wasn't breaking any rules, so I'm reposting it.
It wasn't removed.
The student debt stuff was nice, even though refinancing made me ineligible.
Or getting mandatory the overtime pay cutoff more than doubled, OTC birth control, investment in renewables and infrastructure, new anti-redlining regulations, fighting junk fees in finance, advising the DEA to reschedule MJ, domestic semiconductor investment, getting more pro-union leadership back at the NLRB, better consumer protections for flight delays an cancelations, healthcare for veteran burn pit victims…
I wish the guy was further left but there’s plenty of stuff he’s gotten done that under four more years of the orange menace would have never happened.
I know a Rick, and you're nothing like him.
Good! Rick sucks!
Alternatively, Rick is tough to measure up to; I’ll try to do better!
Rick's kind of a dick. If life were the Internet he'd be a troll.
I'm genuinely curious, is that how it works? If you refinance, the new loan loses the "student loan" earmark and you're no longer eligible? Or did you consolidate two/multiple loans and the student loan was one of them?
It sounds a bit unfair in the former case because in my mind it's still the student loan debt, just with (hopefully) better conditions.
But I agree, it's good that at least some headway has been made. I miss the "investment into the future" perspective we had from before the news became so gloomy :)
It was the former. The wounded pride of having to actually pay for my unused degree* is somewhat lessened by having the interest paid to a credit union rather than a national telecom/finance conglomerate.
*Still would, being educated is hella good.
Investing in infrastructure was a pretty good thing