Joe Biden Launches His Campaign For President

[Husseinisdoingfine]

 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Donald Trump responds:

 

[Danioover9000]

@Husseinisdoingfine

   Sigh, I wish we can just vote for another person than Donald Trump or Joe Biden. You know what? Let's vote in Eminem as president, clearly we need to vote in a new, fresh candidate, Eminem being president, giving up his rap god status over to MGK, as well all in the rap community know deep down, the better rapper in the beef.

[Hardkill]

Most people in America and in many other parts of the world wish that there was some Obama-like superstar candidate running for president in 2024 who is either centre-left or centre-right. 

Of course, America ideally needs a progressive president like Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, or JFK/LBJ.

Unfortunately, there hasn't been anyone over the past 2 years since Biden has been president who has been able to clearly demonstrate themselves as either a charismatic moderate liberal or inspirational moderate conservative or a progressive who has enough popular support from the American people.

Furthermore, believe it or not, but Biden has actually turned out to be so far one of the most successful US presidents we've ever had since LBJ in the 1960s.

 

Btw, Biden succeeded to bring back a lot of manufacturing jobs back in America. When Trump ran for the 2016 presidential election, he made a big promise to working class Americans that he would bring back those good old manufacturing jobs that paid well and protected the national interests of the American people. That's partly how Trump won in 2016. Yet, Trump was never able to make that happen when he became president and probably never had any real intention to do so. Nevertheless, Biden was the one who was able to get it done.

Edited April 28, 2023 by Hardkill

[Danioover9000]

@Hardkill

35 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

Most people in America and in many other parts of the world wish that there was some Obama-like superstar candidate running for president in 2024 who is either centre-left or centre-right. 

Of course, America ideally needs a progressive president like Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, or JFK/LBJ.

Unfortunately, there hasn't been anyone over the past 2 years since Biden has been president who has been able to clearly demonstrate themselves as either a charismatic moderate liberal or inspirational moderate conservative or a progressive who has enough popular support from the American people.

Furthermore, believe it or not, but Biden has actually turned out to be so far one of the most successful US presidents we've ever had since LBJ in the 1960s.

 

Btw, Biden succeeded to bring back a lot of manufacturing jobs back in America. When Trump ran for the 2016 presidential election, he made a big promise to working class Americans that he would bring back those good old manufacturing jobs that paid well and protected the national interests of the American people. That's partly how Trump won in 2016. Yet, Trump was never able to make that happen when he became president and probably never had any real intention to do so. Nevertheless, Biden was the one who was able to get it done.

   Even if Trump didn't bring back that much in manufacturing businesses in America, he has reformed and made policies around imprisonment harder, and signed of some acts that allowed black prisoners to have shorter sentences or be released

   Despite how much of a scammer Trump is, and how incompetent he is, he has made a few positive changes despite some negatives. Question is, are you too triggered and dogmatic to be reading this?

Edited April 28, 2023 by Danioover9000

[Danioover9000]

   This is why you do research and learn some history:

   So embarrassing Why do this? There are other ways to do this, one way is do it like Sam Harris, delete your twitter account and move on, or if you're gonna be vocal about your opposition, better research the history before making such an ideological dogmatic and emotionally driven choice like that. Yikes.

[Hardkill]

2 hours ago, Danioover9000 said:

@Hardkill

   Even if Trump didn't bring back that much in manufacturing businesses in America, he has reformed and made policies around imprisonment harder, and signed of some acts that allowed black prisoners to have shorter sentences or be released

   Despite how much of a scammer Trump is, and how incompetent he is, he has made a few positive changes despite some negatives. Question is, are you too triggered and dogmatic to be reading this?

To be fair, that's true. He did sign the First Step Act into law which led to federal prison reform for the better.

He also signed into law the raising the minimum age of smoking from 18 to 21 years old and the signed into law the creation of the US Space Force. Furthermore, the CARES stimulus package he passed with Congress during the very beginning of the COVID pandemic was really good too.

However, in terms of the overall legislative accomplishments he made as president, he only achieved minimal success that was less than any president since perhaps the worst years of the Gilded Age. According to "Several political scientists described the legislative accomplishments of this Congress as modest, considering that both Congress and the presidency were under unified Republican Party control." Plus, according to a contemporary study, "House and Senate GOP majorities struggled to legislate: GOP fissures and the president frequently undermined the Republican agenda. Most notably, clashes within and between the two parties (for example, on healthcare issues) strained old ways of doing business." The only legislative success he got that most Americans really noticed was his big Tax Cut law that primarily benefitted wealthy Americans and corporations. 

It was primarily through his executive actions that Trump followed through on many of his promises (all of which where terrible far-right wing policies that really caused serious damage to the US and to many other parts of the world). These included: withdrawing America from the Nuclear weapons accord with Iran, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change, withdrawing from the Treaty on Open Skies, withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that President Reagan had negotiated with Russia, revamping immigration policy by separating the families of undocumented immigrants, imposed a travel ban on residents of certain foreign nations (particularly muslims), seized money from the military to build his "border wall," eviscerated clean air and water regulations, and throttled back efforts to control catastrophic climate change. Not to mention that he appointed three christian nationalist Justices to SCOTUS, which undoubtedly cemented a conservative supermajority in the US Supreme Court, and he appointed about a quarter of all federal appellate federal judges. All of these federal level judges got easily confirmed by the devious machinations of then-Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and the rest of his Senate GOP caucus. The total number of federal level judges that he appointed and got confirmed throughout his entire presidency became a modern record for a president in his first three and half years as president. Consequently, all of these Trumps judges at the federal level already have and will continue to have such a decisive role in American jurisprudence for decades in a way that's incredibly reactionary. 

Moreover, while his military/foreign policies thankfully did not lead to some disastrous war or some major foreign policy failure for America, his military/foreign policies were really not so great. In fact, his relations with every NATO ally were terrible and he was bed with Putin, Kim-Jong Un, and some very corrupt middle eastern leaders. All of his key foreign policy initiatives had failed. Rather than drawing down, North Korea actually ended up ramping up its capacity to produce nuclear weapons and develop missile delivery systems. Iran did not abate its support for international terrorism and instead relaunched its program for building a nuclear bomb after Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord and failed to negotiate a new treaty. Russia continued to increase its dominance in the Middle East and was not deterred from its aggression in Ukraine. Even though he made a paper treaty with Afghanistan, it did not help to prevent the Taliban from taking over the country. His order of the assassination of Qassim Soleimani, only ramped up tensions in the Middle East, and lead to the ISIS terrorists to come back with a vengeance. 

Biden at least made good on his promises to finally end the forever war in Afghanistan and finally put an end to the failed idea of nation building in underdeveloped countries in the Middle East. Plus, his handling of the War in Ukraine has without a doubt been highly strategic, wise, effective, and hasn't cost any American lives or even the lives of anyone in any of the other NATO countries. Plus, he's been taking a tough, but shrewd stance against China with regard to intellectual property rights and trading. 

Additionally, despite the fact that the Democrats lost control of the House in Congress, they defied electoral history by winning the 2022 midterm season overall while being the party in power. That gave Biden even more leverage to run for president again.

Regarding the economy, yes the US has been suffering from the inflation issue for over two years now, but during Biden's first two years as president, the US economy had a historic boom and recovered, at breakneck speed, all of the several millions of jobs lost from the COVID pandemic recession. Plus, the US unemployment rate has been at a historic low for almost a full year now and Biden has now presided over way more than a million new jobs (many of which are good paying ones) in addition to all of the jobs recovered from the pandemic.

Lastly, Trump incited violence, fanned the fires of hatred and racism, sowed chaos in America especially during his last year in office. Biden, on the other hand has significantly dampened down chaos, violence, racism, and the rise of hate groups in America.

Edited April 28, 2023 by Hardkill

[Buck Edwards]

Biden's tenure hasn't been too eventful. And that's a good sign. 

 

[Danioover9000]

@Enlightement

1 hour ago, Enlightement said:

Biden's tenure hasn't been too eventful. And that's a good sign. 

 

   Other than behaving strangely to some girls and a woman, and strange events with his family, he's okay for now, but he's age is catching up to him, so someone else must lead.

[Hardkill]

53 minutes ago, Danioover9000 said:

@Enlightement

   Other than behaving strangely to some girls and a woman, and strange events with his family, he's okay for now, but he's age is catching up to him, so someone else must lead.

and who do you have in mind? Can you come up with anyone for SURE who would be as popular as Bill Clinton or Barack Obama?

The fact is that none of the Democratic politicians in the US who are clearly anymore popular or likable than Biden is. Same thing with Trump and the GOP. There is no one in the Republican party who is more popular than Trump.

I'd like to think that Gavin Newsom might become the Bill Clinton of the West Coast; however, given his wide reputation of being the governor of California for more than 4 years, he might very well come off as being way too liberal for those in the Southern states and in the heartland of the US. Besides, he's already made it clear that he will not run for president in 2024. A lot of others are saying that Gretchen Whitmer, might have a chance, but she may not have enough charisma to overcome the fact that she's a woman. Too many Americans, especially those in the South and middle America, are still averse to the idea of a woman being POTUS, particularly after we already had a black president. 

Personally, I'd like to think that either Josh Shapiro or John Fetterman from Pennsylvania would seem to have great appeal to the America people, but they just got newly elected as the new governor of the state and new US senator of the state respectively. So, neither of them would be ready to run for president yet.

I can't think of anyone who would have a better chance than Biden. So, I don't see anyone who would be a better alternative for 2024.

Edited April 29, 2023 by Hardkill

[Buck Edwards]

2 hours ago, Danioover9000 said:

@Enlightement

   Other than behaving strangely to some girls and a woman, and strange events with his family, he's okay for now, but he's age is catching up to him, so someone else must lead.

That's least of the national worry. 

[Danioover9000]

@Enlightement

6 hours ago, Enlightement said:

That's least of the national worry. 

   That should be a national worry, it paints the picture that Americans are fools. For example, here in the UK we had Jimmy Savile, nobody batted an eye as he's so charismatic, and occupies the top position of the BBC, until his death, some girls came out with stories of him molesting them. It certainly painted the BBC as incompetent fools for allowing this to happen and not doing their background checks on the person.

[Buck Edwards]

39 minutes ago, Danioover9000 said:

@Enlightement

   That should be a national worry, it paints the picture that Americans are fools. For example, here in the UK we had Jimmy Savile, nobody batted an eye as he's so charismatic, and occupies the top position of the BBC, until his death, some girls came out with stories of him molesting them. It certainly painted the BBC as incompetent fools for allowing this to happen and not doing their background checks on the person.

Interesting. This is what we should be calling guilt by hypothesizing. 

[ryandesreu]

On 4/28/2023 at 11:48 AM, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Donald Trump responds:

 

Trump is saying that Biden is worse than the worst 5 presidents combined. I wonder if Trump realizes that he is on that list. I also wonder if he realizes that he is comparing Biden to Andrew Johnson who basically from what I understand wanted to reverse the emancipation proclamation after Lincoln's assassination and was impeached. (cough cough)