Current Events > 30 Things Joe Biden Did as President You Might Have Missed

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If this is a list of good things, you won't get the usual to talk about those things. They tend to like to talk about only the negatives as a talking point to argue why both sides are the same and you should stay home in November.

Or the not so clever angle, "Im totally a Democrat, but I support people staying home in November."

Places like Fox also complain about places like MSNBC and CNN, but those media companies tend to both sides things too and play into the "perception" angle.

Remember when he killed God

Irony posted...

Remember when he killed God

I thought that was Nietzsche

Didn't go through the whole article, but of things I know about I mainly support. I might have disagreements with some technical aspects of it, but overall Biden has been good.

Greatest President in our lifetimes.

Most effective Democrat at pushing left-wing policy since LBJ

I mean they are all technically things Biden did, but some of them kind of fall under the "literally no one gives a fuck" category. Like the paint job on Air Force One thing.

Some don't mean anything like "recommending loosening federal restrictions on marijuana" because he has no power to do anything about it and saying "hey look at this" doesn't really count as a win to me.

Other than that, some I knew, some I didn't. The Replicator drone program sounds interesting.

I mean its definitely a list of things, I will give it that. But as the poster above pointed out, a lot of them are just proposals, which, as we saw with the student loan cancellation attempt, dont necessarily mean that anything will actually come of them. Granted, without support from Congress theres a limit to what a president can actually do aside from executive orders and administrative proposals, but it seems a bit credulous to simply give him the W for putting out proposals that might never actually live to see any sort of implementation.

Also some of them are contradictory (renewable energy growing to the #2 source, but also oil production the highest its ever been).

Also some of them contain just straight up liesthe bit about the Congo, for example, mentions China supporting the M23 rebels with drones, when most recent reporting shows that China sold attack drones to the DRC, not to the rebels (although there are reports from earlier in 2022 about rebels being captured with Chinese-made weapons, its unclear that China is tied directly to those as they sell weapons to many African nations). Also, and I admit this isnt actually relevant to the point of the article in terms of listing Bidens accomplishments, but the whole framing of the ongoing genocide, enslavement, and displacement of the Congolese people suffering under the conflict as a cobalt crisis is pretty gross to me, personally. Like a humanitarian crisis is mentioned, but the focus in on our posturing vs China over rights to the mineral resources.

And some of them are so minuscule they hardly seem worth mentioning. The extension for telehealth prescriptions for controlled drugs only lasts until the end of this year, so its a win but ultimately just kicks the can down the road a little.

Thats not to say the list is complete bullshit, though. But its definitely being padded with a lot of fluff.