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      Growth shatters expectations: GDP expands 3.1% - a year beginning with heavy odds of a recession

      Job creation 40 times rate of last 3 republican presidents - More than double Clinton and Obama

      Black unemployment rate lower under Biden than any other administration (4.7%) - Compared to black unemployment under Trump was 2nd worst number in history, reaching over 16%

      $1 Billion to replace the Blatnik Bridge connecting WI - MN

      $600 million to replace the I-5 Bridge between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, with an earthquake-resistant, multimodal bridge.

      $427 million to establish the first offshore wind terminal on the West Coast, off California.

      $372 million to replace Cape Cod’s nearly 90-year-old Sagamore Bridge.

      $300 million for a new container terminal for the Port of New Orleans.

      $95 million to widen a 10-mile section of I-10 through the Gila River in Arizona.

      $142 million to fix the I-376 corridor in Pittsburgh, including an area infamously known as “the bathtub” due to its regular flooding.

      $150 million to reconnect communities divided by the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York built in the mid-1900s.

      Modernizes American port infrastructure

      $3B investment for high speed internet for rural communities

      $623 million to build EV charging network

      Awards nearly $163 billion in federal contracts to small businesses

      $426 million for Northern California offshore wind farm

      Post-pandemics recovery is by far the most successful in the world

      US oil production hits all-time high

      Rescinds Trump-era “Denial of Care” rule that allowed health care workers to deny medical care to patients because of their personal religious or moral belief

      Launches $11 billion on semiconductor-related research and development including $5 billion National Semiconductor Technology Center

      US Trade Deficit With China Narrows to Lowest Since 2010

      $250 million to modernize airports in 37 states

      $4.4 million to upgrade Maine’s power grid

      Violent crime drop significantly since 2020

      $5.8 billion to clean up nation’s drinking water and upgrade infrastructure

      Round 15 of student loan forgiveness: $1.2 billion of federal student loans

      Orders cybersecurity regulations for port operators similar to standardized safety regulations preventing injury and damage to people and infrastructure

      $500 million to combat wildfire and improve resilience

      $1 billion deal with Oregon, Washington, and 4 Columbia River tribes to revive Northwest salmon population

      $1.7 billion package to fund initiatives aimed at ending hunger across the United States by 2030

      $1 billion toward cleaning up 110 contaminated sites

      $28 billion towards substance abuse treatment

      $366 million to accelerate clean energy deployment in rural and remote areas

      Implemented new rule that cuts credit card late fees $32 to $8

      Allows student loan borrowers to repay based on income providing affordable payments and eventual student loan forgiveness

      Directs DOJ to issue regulations giving clear protections of sensitive data from access by countries of concern

      Bans asbestos

      Funds program to fund coast-to-coast bicycle path without hitting a road

      Commits $6B to cut emissions from high-carbon industries

      Lends $1.5B to restart Michigan nuclear power plant

      Allocates $750 million for hydrogen research and development

      Restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

      Blocks mining on more than 221,000 acres of federal land in Colorado

      First National standard ever for reducing harmful chemicals in drinking water

      “Last resort” program keeps tens of thousands of American veterans who were in danger of losing their homes

      America’s economy growing at double the rate of all other G7 countries

      Adds Title IX protections for LGBT students, forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity

      Shields millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness from drilling and mining

      $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households

      Extends rule requiring overtime pay to workers making under $58,000 annually

      Requires airlines to give cash refunds for canceled and significantly delayed flights

      Establishes standards to eliminate emissions from new federal buildings by 2030

      Lays out conditions for national goal to cut emissions from freight shipping down to zero

      Bans most noncompete employment agreements preventing workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own

      Reinstates net neutrality

      Prohibits federally funded health providers & insurers from discriminating on basis of sexual orientation and gender identity

      Canadian Solar, one of the largest solar manufacturing companies in the world coming back to the US, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act

      Round 16 of student debt forgiveness: Clears $6 billion in debt for closed art school’s students

      In 2021 only three states supplied 12 months of post partum care - Three years later 46 states now do

      Online platforms and social media companies required to report child sex trafficking and online enticement to NCMEC’s tip line

      Bans Russian uranium imports

      $16 billion investments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

      Round 17 of student debt forgiveness: $7.7 billion for over 160,000 borrowers

      Free online tax filing program piloted this year made permanent and scope will be expanded

      Executive action ordering the closure of border cutting asylum claims in half (according to FOX News)

      Prohibits medical debt from being reported on credit reports

      Pardons US Service Members convicted because they were gay

      Enacts plan to end Parkinson’s disease

      Codifies same-sex and interracial marriage

      Bolsters nation’s nuclear power by speeding timeline for licensing new nuclear reactors and cut fees that companies have to pay to do so

      That’s just the past year. Want me to find more for you? Or maybe you can do more research past “he’s old!!!1!”

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        US oil production hits all-time high

        Executive action ordering the closure of border cutting asylum claims in half (according to FOX News)

        Aren’t these generally seen as bad things, though?

        I’ll also say a lot of this list is basically just routine infrastructure maintenance funding, which was arguably necessary, but I would much rather see a combating of the more institutional problems that led to this infrastructure being in such a state of disrepair in the first place. Expanding a highway, for example, not really something I would say is a great accomplishment. The economic citations are things that I find kind of suspicious more generally, because I’m familiar with the amount of laundering economists can accomplish when they really put their pussy into it. Post-pandemic recovery, for example, I can think of a couple ways to spin that, most of them involve us having taken a very large hit from the pandemic compared to other countries because we had a shit ass pandemic response relative to other countries. Violent crime dropping from 2020 is gonna be a fuckin no brainer, for example, like obviously that’s gonna be the case, I don’t think you can really attribute that to a biden presidency.

        Eliminate the padding in this list and back up what appear to be the stronger points and it would be more serious. As it stands, this is more just kind of a gish gallop. You’re just popping a bigass list with no citations and then that’s gonna look more credible while your opposition can’t do much in the face of it without looking like they’re nitpicking or denying reality, even though you don’t have any citations. It might be cynical, but I’ve been on the internet before, so I bet if I push back at all, you’re just gonna tell me to look into it further myself, and that it’s not your job to educate me even though you’re the one who has the burden of proof for making these claims, like how tankies tell me to read theory whenever I ask them questions about books they’ve supposedly read biblically and know so well.

        In any case, a lot of these aren’t really fighting against the idea that the democrats just end up as a controlled opposition band-aid which barely does anything before fascism creeps back in and fucks something else up in our shitty pendulum system. It’s not really fighting against that claim, which I would say is the core nihilistic, apathetic claim that has to be disputed before people can be convinced that their vote will do something.

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          4 months ago

          I agree, and I was gunna start giving facts on stuff, but after tonight I’m just gunna get super drunk haha

          But I will say the dude I responded to was acting like Biden has done nothing so I loaded the lost just to make it look better. Bit also that was only this year. If you really want me to I’ll make a better list of just the highlights with sources

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        4 months ago

        A recession typically follows after interest rates come down (interest rate cuts are a leading indicator of a recession because the Fed is usually too slow to cut).