Quote (thundercock @ 1 Aug 2021 19:48)
Well, I think your list is simply the "state of America" as opposed to a reflection of the Biden administration. I'm not going to blame Biden or Trump for the murder rate in Chicago for instance. As for the economic indicators, I don't think Biden has been around long enough to really do much. I think fall/winter will tell us if inflation is actually a problem. I'll come up with a list later today once my kid gives me a little more free time.
I'm confused as to why you think the Taliban marching on Kabul or Cuba crushing protestors is a bad thing. Don't you support less intervention? Regarding Afghanistan, I think this is a black mark on the past 2 administrations. If you can't sell why staying there is good or at least be able to hide it from the American people, you're doing a poor job IMO. The cost benefit analysis clearly shows that staying there indefinitely is a good thing.
Sure, some of the stuff is just the state of America and predates Biden. But like I said, almost all of it was exacerbated by his policies.
Spending like a drunken sailor surely didnt help inflation.
Overly generous unemployment benefits most likely played a role in the stalled job market recovery.
Not replacing, or at least prioritizing, the eviction moratorium which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court with one month's notice is a massive failure for the WH and Congress.
Crime rates going up after decades of a downward trend for sure has something to do with Democrats vilifying and/or defunding the police for almost a year. Or Democratic cities releasing criminals back onto the streets. And with lockdowns championed by Democrats putting people in a desperate situation.
The mess at the border is completely on Biden. It's an issue on which he strayed from Trump's playbook and it's a debacle.
Pushing CRT and a goal shift from equality (of opportunity) to "equity" (i.e. equality of outcome) is solely on the Biden admin.
Biden's efforts at getting Americans vaccinated have been okay to decent, but not as good as they could have been either. A lot of people, particularly Dem-leaning constituencies like hispanics and blacks, still lack access or information.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation found in April that significantly more unvaccinated Black and Hispanic adults than white adults didn’t know where or when they could get a vaccine. More fundamentally, unvaccinated people of color were far more likely than white Americans to say they hadn’t gotten the vaccine because they didn’t have enough time or were worried about missing work, according to KFF’s June survey. Similarly, PRRI found that Black Americans were slightly more likely than Americans as a whole to say a lack of child care or transportation was a barrier to getting vaccinated.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/partisanship-isnt-the-only-reason-why-so-many-americans-remain-unvaccinated/When it comes to Cuba, I did of course not expect Biden to announce an invasion of the island to overthrow their government, but his response to the violent beatdown of the protests was unnecessarily timid.
Afghanistan is pretty much the only item from my list where my criticism of Biden has no merit. He inherited a bad situation from his three predecessors and there was no real way for him to change course amidst a public which has grown extremely weary of foreign wars.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 1 2021 12:52pm