Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.

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      Covid response

      American rescue plan (1.9 trillion)

      Infrastructure investment and Jobs Act (1.2 trillion)

      Climate Change - Rejoined Paris Agreement

      American Families Plan and Social Policy (significant education, childcare, and healthcare investment)

      Foreign Policy - ended the war in Afghanistan (no big deal I guess lmfao)

      Elected first black woman into Supreme Court (social change for a class of oppressed minorities who still have not received reparations btw)

      Should I keep going or

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        Not being Trump also should be on the accomplishments

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        Not trying to disparage this list, but we all know the Paris Agreement is bullshit, and not a single country is on pace to meet it, despite signing it.

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        It’s kind of dumb that Biden gets to be a great president just for erasing some of the mess Trump made. I miss the days when we were actually talking about things like better healthcare, meaningful gun legislation, and education, not back to basic human fucking rights.

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          That’s kind of bullshit. With a divided government, Biden has managed to do more than most of his recent predecessors, much with bipartisan support. I didn’t expect much from him when I voted -was more of a “not Trump” thing - but I have to give him credit, he’s done a lot. Even just the infrastructure bill is a big deal, with positive impacts in several needed areas. The inflation reduction act is pretty major, too.

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          I by no means said or implied he was great for having accomplishments.

          Taking a shit and showering every day is a good accomplishment but it doesn’t make me great.

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        Foreign Policy - ended the war in Afghanistan (no big deal I guess lmfao)

        Yeah… and look at how that turned out.

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          Yeah I guess the only option would’ve been to continue funding a war we had no fucking business being in the first place thanks to ANOTHER Republican president.

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            I’m sure the girls who got to go to school would appreciate it.

            Now there’s no hope for them except as obedient wives.

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        Or getting mandatory the overtime pay cutoff more than doubled, OTC birth control, investment in renewables and infrastructure, new anti-redlining regulations, fighting junk fees in finance, advising the DEA to reschedule MJ, domestic semiconductor investment, getting more pro-union leadership back at the NLRB, better consumer protections for flight delays an cancelations, healthcare for veteran burn pit victims…

        I wish the guy was further left but there’s plenty of stuff he’s gotten done that under four more years of the orange menace would have never happened.