• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Where are all the centrists who insist that Biden is the most progressive president who ever drew breath?

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      13 hours ago

      Here. He ran as a centrist, acted as a centrist, and pursued the most progressive policies of any president in my life, except maybe Carter

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        “Pursued” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

        The Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest thing Biden got done. Centrists expect everyone to act like it’s the New Deal and the Great Society rolled into one. That ain’t holding water. We saw what we lost with BBB.

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        There aren’t any. But there is no shortage of centrists who want progressives to be happy with what makes centrists happy. They’ll outright lie and say that Biden is progressive.

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        Probably Franklin Roosevelt, though cases can be made for both Lyndon Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt.

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      I’m not a centrist but he’s absolutely been the most progressive president in my lifetime in terms of policy.

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        are you 8 years old ? otherwise a shameless genocider who sold american working class to corpos is likely the worst scammer to be in white house after trump

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    I mean, he’s tons better than the dipshit getting ready to replace him, but that doesn’t put him anywhere near ‘good’.

    Let’s not lower our standards just because of the orange contrast.

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      What standards? If you can’t get over the concept and f an ideal president, you’re going to be very disappointed the rest of your life. You should absolutely advocate your preferences and cast your best vote. However the reality is that all too often you need to vote against the worst candidate or compromise on the least bad.

      Biden may not have been my ideal candidate either but it was an easy choice to vote for him over the other guy and I do believe he did better than most here give home credit for

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        What standards? If you can’t get over the concept and f an ideal president, you’re going to be very disappointed the rest of your life.

        “Don’t sell weapons for genocide”

        “ZOMG YOU WANT PERFECTION!!!”

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    ““The Joe Biden story is one of the great tragedies of American politics. I really mean that. He should be having a glorious, well deserved, highly acclaimed retirement. And he’s not,” veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville said”

    Its a bigger tragedy that James Carville still gets quoted in the last 20 years. He should be selling used cars in New Jersey.

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      Yup he was big on killing the advanced us nuclear power program during the clinton admin. Just because the republicans were pro nuclear. That did more damage to our carbon footprint than any good that came from the IRA.

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    I can’t believe he’d throw away his legacy of decades of destroying black people’s lives 😔

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    This is another reason why this ancient fossils shouldn’t be allowed to wait this long to retire. If he had retired from office about a decade ago … people would have remembered him for a lot better things. The fact he stuck around this long will mean that everyone just remembers this fossil that drove the bus off a cliff and everyone wondered why they ever let him take the wheel.