| ▲ | epistasis 3 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Biden administration was actually extremely competent, handled global inflation after the pandemic and Russia's war fairly well relative to peer nations, and set US manufacturing on course to provide us with all the batteries, solar panels, and EVs to prevent oil crunches like this from causing future inflation. I expect more competency from US Presidential administrations, and also expect more competency and indpendence from the various parts of the executive branch, which should execute their missions without micro-management from the President, and I further expect far more competence from Congress and the US Supreme Court in setting law and enforcing law. It's bad enough that we have an incompetent Presidential administration, but that damage should be limited by the independence of the other parts of the government. The blast radius should be far smaller, we shouldn't have a King. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pibaker 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Biden held back arms support for Ukraine on dubious "we don't wanna test Russia's red line" grounds, gave unlimited support a wannabe despot's (Netanyahu's) wars of aggression even as he tried to backstab democracy in the US, arguably also enabling him to start the current situation in Iran, failed to prosecute an attempt to overturn the US election, and stayed in the presidential race for too long when his body and mind was in visible decline. We wouldn't be having a discussion about the US having a king if Biden's administration was actually competent at doing its job. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | bouncing_bolete 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bothsides-ism is such a plague. While I don't agree with everything you said, I feel like the pandemic response doesn't get enough credit. Everyone hated how the Biden admin responded in the moment, but looking back the US really came out ahead compared to almost everyone else | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 1234letshaveatw 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
well, Biden was extremely generous towards Iran at least, which most likely resulted in the current situation we are facing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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