1990 points 11 hours ago 👋 🦕3 🍆 🇺🇸 🗽

There’s no reason why Trump should lead in any poll or be a threat in the general election. Biden has accomplished more than any president since FDR. In 2022 alone, Biden and Dems did the following:

  • passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment in fighting climate change in history
  • passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the largest investment in infrastructure since Eisenhower
  • passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, breaking a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence legislation
  • signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law
  • took out the leader of al Qaeda
  • ended America's longest war
  • reauthorized and strengthened the Violence Against Women Act
  • signed the PACT Act, a bill to address veteran burn pit exposure
  • signed the NATO accession protocols for Sweden and Finland
  • issued executive order to protect reproductive rights
  • in the process of canceling $10,000 of student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 and canceled $20,000 in debt for Pell Grant recipients
  • canceled billions in student loan debt for borrowers who were defrauded
  • nominated now-Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Breyer
  • brought COVID under control in the U.S. (e.g., COVID deaths down 90% and over 220 million vaccinated)
  • formed Monkeypox response team to reach communities at highest risk of contracting the virus
  • unemployment at a 50-year low
  • largest one-year deficit reduction in U.S. history
  • limited the release of mercury from coal-burning power plants
  • $5 billion for electric vehicle chargers- $119 billion budget surplus in January 2022, first in over two years
  • united world against Russia’s war in Ukraine
  • ended forced arbitration in workplace sexual assault cases
  • reinstated California authority to set pollution standards for cars
  • ended asylum restrictions for children traveling alone
  • signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, the first federal ban on lynching after 200 failed attempts
  • Initiated “use it or lose it" policy for drilling on public lands to force oil companies to increase production
  • released 1 million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from strategic reserves to ease gas prices
  • rescinded Trump-era policy allowing rapid expulsion of migrants
  • expunged student loan defaults
  • overhauled USPS finances to allow the agency to modernize its service
  • required federal dollars spent on infrastructure to use materials made in America
  • restored environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects
  • Launched $6 billion effort to save distressed nuclear plants
  • provided $385 million to help families and individuals with home energy costs through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. (This is in addition to $4.5 billion provided in the American Rescue Plan.)
  • national registry of police officers who are fired for misconduct
  • tightened restrictions on chokeholds, no-knock warrants, and transfer of military equipment to police departments
  • required all federal law enforcement officers to wear body cameras
  • $265 million for South Florida reservoir, key component of Everglades restoration
  • major wind farm project off West coast to provide electricity for 1.5 million homes
  • continued Obama administration's practice of posting log records of visitors to White House
  • devoted $2.1 billion to strengthen US food supply chain
  • invoked Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic production of critical clean energy technologies
  • enacted two-year pause of anti-circumvention tariffs on solar
  • allocated funds to federal agencies to counter 300-plus anti-LGBTQ laws by state lawmakers in 2022
  • relaunched cancer 'moonshot' initiative to help cut death rate
  • expanded access to emergency contraception and long-acting reversible contraception
  • prevented states from banning Mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancy that has FDA approval
  • 21 executive actions to reduce gun violence
  • Climate Smart Buildings Initiative: Creates public-private partnerships to modernize Federal buildings to meet agencies’ missions, create good-paying jobs, and cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
  • Paying for today’s needed renovations with tomorrow’s energy savings without requiring upfront taxpayer funding
  • ended Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy
  • Operation Fly-Formula, bringing needed baby formula (19 missions to date)
  • executive order protecting travel for abortion
  • invested more in crime control and prevention than any president in history
  • provided death, disability, and education benefits to public safety officers and survivors who are killed or injured in the line of duty
  • Reunited 500 migrant families separated under Trump
  • $1.66 billion in grants to transit agencies, territories, and states to invest in 150 bus fleets and facilities
  • brokered joint US/Mexico infrastructure project; Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security
  • blocked 4 hospital mergers that would've driven up prices and is poised to thwart more anti-competition consolidation attempts
  • 11 million jobs—more than ever created before at this point of a presidency
  • record small business creation
  • banned paywalls on taxpayer-funded research
  • best economic growth record since Clinton
  • eliminated civil statute of limitations for child abuse victims
  • announced $156 million for America's first-of-its-kind critical minerals refinery, demonstrating the commercial viability of turning mine waste into clean energy technology.

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  • mkultrawide [any]
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    1 year ago

    He did a lot of bullshit, too, but he was also the last Democratic president with a fucking backbone who knew how to wield power.