Joe Biden wants to take away our meat!!!

I think it also comes down to the expectations we have for certain people. Trump is an insane narcissist, so him ordering his name be on all the checks is stereotypical.

Whereas Biden probably just has more competent people around him that are doing this. People on the left-of-center talk about how Obama didn't do a good job politically of letting Americans know that Democrats were the ones who passed a stimulus bill that helped stave off a worse economic situation. Biden sending these letters is probably good politics.

copy of the letter. bragging about the $600 from Trump’s administration + 2 month delay for $1400 as somehow being the same as the (D)s promise for “$2000 checks on day one”

I'm cool with Biden doing this tbh.

you’re cool with the people running the harris/biden copying the Trump administration playbook on everything other than taxes. bullshit style over actual substance, we know.

I'm cool with Biden's team doing things like this in order to inform Americans about what he and the other Democrats are doing for them.

Whereas, when Republicans, Democrats, and Trump voted for a stimulus bill together, I was offended Trump wanted to put his name on it.

Now that I've seen the letter I can accept that this is political grandstanding. However, it's not the same thing as wanting your name on the checks. The latter is significantly more narcissistic and unwarranted. The former is just annoying

Also, let's say that Biden wanted his name on the most recent round of stimulus checks. That would still be not as bad as what Trump was doing because the most recent round of stimulus checks didn't have any Republicans vote for it and it's not right before a presidential election.

So even if we imagine the worst case scenario it still doesn't rise to near the level of the previous administration.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Apr 26 2021 03:41pm

Unrelated, do we have any more information on what's happening with the National Security Council that Biden eliminated everybody from

Wasnt the main criticism of Trump's check-grandstanding that he delayed the checks (which were ready to go out) for another week or two just because he wanted his name on them? THAT, of course, is a much more substantive criticism than "he broke protocol to score political points".

The reality for me is that I give Biden(in his first year) way more leeway than Trump(in his final year and in the midst of a pandemic). Plus it is relevant that the Democratic party were the ones who passed this recent bill, whereas under Trump the initial one passed pretty much unanimously. To try to score political points when we're at the beginning of the pandemic, and the effort was bipartisan, was much grosser politically than what Biden did.

Also, I wrote the above before I read your second bit. Great minds think alike.



I'm trying to forget what happened during that difficult time in American history.

This post was edited by IceMage on Apr 26 2021 04:16pm