But these personal attacks are all that you side has to go with, since Biden's performance in office has actually been quite impressive.
It's not "my side". I voted for Biden, and actually agree with a lot of what Biden has accomplished. That does not mean I can't criticize him where appropriate (the $3.5T Spendapalooza, or his timidity on the Houthis).
The economy is better than ever.
Is it though? The stock market is doing well, sure, and the unemployment is low. Those are positives. But on the negative side, consumers are still reeling from the consequences of inflation. To bring inflation down, interest rates had to be hiked. That affects the housing market. Homeowners locked into low mortgage rates from a few years ago are disinclined to sell where they otherwise would be because they do not want to give up their 3% mortgages.
Post-COVID inflation was bad for a while, but much worse in most other countries than the US. It is now down to almost 3%.
Due to aggressive actions by the Fed, that have their own negative consequences, as I pointed out above. And but for the heroic actions by Senators Sinema and Machin, inflation would have been much worse due to injection of $3.5T into an already overheated economy. That would have been like turning up the burner just as the pot is about to boil over. It was a dumb plan, and Biden was stupid for supporting it and making it part of the "Biden Agenda".
And we have now reached historic lows in unemployment--essentially full employment for US households. Much of the damage that Trump did to our national reputation has now been repaired, and reported violent crimes in the US have dropped since 2020. I
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To his credit, Biden was always opposed to insane things like defunding police. That said, many in his party are enamored of the idea and also of not locking up even violent criminals. Including "progressive" DAs that are not fans of prosecuting criminals. Like when Alvin Bragg wanted to
prosecute most armed robberies as petty thefts. It echoes what
Prez said in The Wire about "juking the stats" and "making robberies into larcenies". That particular plan did not go through, but "alternatives to incarceration" where even violent crimes can be expunged (and so do not appear in stats) did. It is the reason why Jordan Neely was not in prison but on that subway.
Finding Jordan Neely
New Yorker Magazine|Intelligencer said:
On February 9, 2023, Neely stood before Judge Ellen Biben on the 11th floor at 100 Centre Street. He had taken a plea in the 2021 felony assault, and his case was being heard in the novel “Alternative to Incarceration” court. Established in 2017, the ATI court has a “problem-solving” mission, connecting eligible defendants who have knotty issues related to drug use, mental health, or criminal history with a wide range of individualized therapeutic or supportive programs — housing, residential detox, anger management, outpatient therapy, medication compliance — in exchange for a guilty plea. The deal, Judge Biben reminds each defendant, is this: Adhere to the mandated program and the felony is erased from the record; ditch, rebel, or fail to follow its rules and the defendant will be sent upstate to serve their sentence.
He beat up a woman, and still was not locked up, even as a repeat offender (he had assaulted two other women before). And even though Neely ditched the program almost immediately, he was never sent up the river.
Note, this court was established by Bill deBlowjob's administration. Surely one of the worst mayors NYC had to endure.
The country is basically energy-independent.
Due mostly to private industry and not government programs. And much to the chagrin of the left-wing of the Party,
including the vice president who wanted to ban fracking during the primaries.
Fracking is done by private companies, and moved by privately funded and built pipelines. Note that the Obama administration blocked the Dakota Access Pipeline at the last moment, after it had been previously approved and was already mostly built, just to appease the extremists in their party. Trump administration promptly reversed that misguided decision.
US also has a major migration problem at the southern border. But Dems do not really want to deal with the issue.
The government has not yet suffered a shutdown or defaulted on its debts, despite the best efforts of Republicans. So there isn't a lot there to work with, but you still have a powerful propaganda machine to spread lies and disinformation with.
Much of the stuff Biden has done (or wanted to do) was good, but by no means all.
I am annoyed by partisans. If you offer any criticism of their guy, they accuse you of shilling for the other guy. It's immature. Not everything Biden does is good. Not everything Trump did was bad.
