Summary

President Joe Biden’s economic achievements—lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturing—are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.

His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.

However, Biden’s approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.

Democrats face a “propaganda problem” rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Biden’s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      As the link i posted points out, there is already a law on the books to stop exactly what Walmart and Target are doing in the US.

      It has just never been enforced against them and the Biden administration joins the list that did nothing to stop them using laws they already had

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          3 months ago

          I for one am tired of the smoke and mirrors.

          Queue up meaningful change but then “oops, new term, <insert insane reason or just GOP>” Obama didn’t investigate Dubya’s fucking Torture Camps, nor into the subprime mortgage.

          They did the same shit with Net Neutrality under Obama. Left it with a massive and meaningless “ramp up” time that coincidentally meant it would be a year into the next president’s term. Oops Ajit Pall is parachuted in and cancels the whole thing before the “ramp up” is done.

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      3 months ago

      To be fair, she had little more than a weekend to come up with her campaign messaging. She was made candidate like 3 months before election day.

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          3 months ago

          If we’d had a proper primary Harris wouldnt even have been the nominee at all. I agree with you, Bidens self serving hubris is a key part of the loss and potentially the end of our republic. Obama did warn us all several times that Biden is an idiot.

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          3 months ago

          Hmm… I’ve dealt with elderly relatives, and it can be hard to tell when someone’s no longer capable of doing something… so I have a bit of sympathy for him there. It’s possible that a year ago Biden was up to the job and really was the best chance at defeating Trump. And he gets credit for stepping down when he did. However I’m a little more skeptical of his sticking VP Harris with the job of solving the border crisis, which is a notoriously unsolvable problem.

          I suspect that given 3 months to jump-start a campaign, NOBODY could have won this election against Trump. Biden was headed towards Dukakis and Mondale levels of defeat, and Harris at least brought it to a couple hundred thousand in 3 states. (I wish I could post my argument to “unpopular opinion”, but apparently they prohibit political posts.)