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I didn’t imply anything. Republicans are worse is not a direct answer to my question. It is insufficient to play lesser evil when either option will drive you off an existential cliff.

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Biden is protecting LGBTQ rights, strengthening labor organizing protections, enforcing fair housing, strengthening consumer protections, investing in technologies and creating policies to reduce carbon emissions and protect natural spaces, reducing student loan debt, making the tax code more progressive, going after wealthy tax dodgers, and so much more. What in the ever-loving fuck are you talking about

a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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What, do you want a dissertation? Read the damn Wikipedia page

On inauguration day 2021, Biden fired pro-business Peter Robb, then general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, replacing him with pro-union Jennifer Abruzzo in February 2021. Biden’s NLRB has pursued action against Starbucks’ and Amazon’s alleged anti-union activities. On August 24, 2023, the NLRB reinstated Obama-era policies regarding union elections, speeding up the timeline by removing restrictions such as resolving litigation before holding an election.

Biden became the first US president to run for election with a unionized campaign staff for his 2024 election run.

Biden made Juneteenth (June 19) a federal holiday in 2021, celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S. In March 2022, Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law. With the enactment of that legislation, lynching was made a federal hate crime for the first time in American history.

In October 2022, Biden pardoned all past federal marijuana possession charges and announced an inquiry into whether cannabis should be removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. In December 2022, Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act which was the first standalone cannabis-related bill ever passed by the United States Congress.

In December 2022, Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which repealed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), required states to recognize other states’ marriage certificates for LGBT Americans.

On January 25, 2021, Biden signed an executive order that lifted the ban on transgender military service members. This reversed a memorandum imposed by Trump.

In January 2021, Biden directed the U.S. Department of Justice to reduce their usage of private prisons and ordered the attorney general to not renew contracts with private prisons, citing the need to “reduce profit-based incentives” for the incarceration of racial minorities.

The Biden administration rescinded work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The administration opened a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act as well as extending the normal enrollment period, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration provided larger premium subsidies.

In August 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The law allocates $64 billion for a three-year expansion of Affordable Care Act subsidies originally expanded under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and $265 billion for prescription drug price reform to lower prices, including providing Medicare the authority to negotiate the prices for certain drugs.

In August 2022, Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law. The bill included significant federal investment in domestic clean energy production, combatting climate change, and healthcare; it aims to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 40% from peak 2005 levels by 2030.

There’s so much more. Are you saying you prefer the Republican version of all these policies?

I prefer the repeal of taft Hartley and the abolition of the nlrb. the respect for marriage act repealed doma but who authored, introduced, and voted for doma?

lifting the ban on trans people in the military isn’t good: he should be dismantling the military industrial complex instead of giving it a link and purple paint job.

how many “welfare reform” bills did he author and vote for before his presidency? I’m not saying some of what you said is worse than republican policy. some of it is a vast improvement even over his own past policy. I’m saying he’s not good enough.

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Maybe you shouldn’t have flunked out of high school civics and you might learn the difference between the legislative and executive branches

if you hadn’t flunked high school English, you might be able to make your tenses agree.

I know the difference, but the poster above me was giving Biden credit for legislative action so I thought it was fair to demand legislative action. does that only work if I’m sucking the dick of racist democrats?

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