Joe Biden keeps sneaking wins past Republicans distracted by Trump

I think that Biden has done a better job of working the hill to get the stuff he wants than Obama ever did

Hear hear.

Most underrated President of all time. My expectations weren't high, but I have to admit, he's absolutely blown me away with how effective he's been.

Given the shit he was handed from the previous admin, with a divided Congress, etc. he's absolutely crushing it. Imagine what he could do with a Congress behind him and a supreme Court that wasn't broken.
That's great, but he needs to now self-promote and market himself, or we'll be stuck with another Trump term (and possibly the end of democracy in America).
- So your saying a guy who has 40 years of experience in lawmaking is good at lawmaking?
- It would also help if he stops SUPPORTING THE FUCKING ISRAELI GENOCIDE.
- lol we don't have a democracy in america.
See, I'm almost convinced that it isn't even Biden. Like, Biden is not a strong leader at all......and I think that's been a great thing (at least for domestic policy).

It feels like he's gotten out of the way of the competent people who actually "run the show" in all the myriad departments of government and just let them do their thing.
- It feels like he's gotten out of the way of the competent people
  
  Literally the definition of a strong leader, knowing when to step in and when to let the people you hired do their jobs is the hall mark of a good leader
- Yeah, that's what leadership is, chief.
- Based on what, exactly? Biden is a very experienced politician. And the Republicans have taken their mask off and shown there's absolutely no point in trying to compromise with them. They only negotiate in bad faith and will reneg on every deal if/when they can.
  
  It took the Dems far too long to accept that you have to fight fire with fire, but they got there.
  
  Obama had a Dem party still valuing bipartisanship and healthy differences of opinions within the party.
  
  Biden has a Dem party that falls in line because they have accepted that they have zero margin for civil discourse, because the Republicans will run away with the country if there's even the slightest bit of slack.
  
  And so Biden and his administration aren't pulling their punches. There is no bipartisanship to be had. Only wins where you can take them.
- Man, the lengths people go to not give Biden any credit.
- That is what I'd call good leading.

He snuck a win past the GOP!

Article immediately references Aid for Israel and the TikTok ban.

I'm not sure those are wins.

Right, the biggest wins really are the changes we've seen come out of the FTC & FCC
The TikTok ban threat is definitely a win.
- Yeah I'm not so sure. It's a pretty popular platform. Going after something popular during the election season isn't generally considered a good thing. There's a lot wrong with it too but that alone has left a pretty sour taste in hundred million Americans.
The TikTok ban is a bad thing? Israel for sure is, but considering the current situation in congress, getting the Ukraine funding passes along with other legislature is amazing.
- It's a win for whoever is invested in the company that buys them
- I have to disagree, I actually haven't seen any evidence presented showing the Chinese government is meddling through TikTok, at least not to any higher degree than the US government meddles in US-operated social media.
  
  A Tiktok ban comes off as red scare-style overreaction that risks losing the support of a lot of young Americans who already see the US federal government as a surveillance state. This certainly does not do anything to quell those sentiments.
- I just think the tik tok ban is pointless, they can buy our data from Facebook anyway. I don't disagree with it per se, I just think it's a waste of time.
- TikTok is used by 140 million people. Who have had no evidence of wrong doing presented and whom see influencers and official accounts already on a PR offensive. It was absolutely a poison pill amendment by the GOP. I agree Ukraine funding is awesome but the domestic cost will be high. They better get Trump by the balls in that trial.

It also doesn't hurt that Democrats in Congress have held unprecedentedly united

"unprecedentedly" is one of those words that just shouldn't be. Just because it's a word doesn't mean it makes a good sub header.

'it also doesn't hurt that Democrats have maintained a united front of unprecedented durability' or '...unprecedented strength' seems less clumsy if you really need to drive home how...unprecedented it is.

Anyway, well done Joe, you already got my vote but by all means keep dropping those table scraps. They are tasty.

I think it's a perfectly cromulent word
- uncromulentedly so !

For a moment, I thought republicans wouldn’t stand behind a loser.

I haven’t seen a Republican stand for anything.

edit: I see your replies, and I get your point, but I don’t think that’s what “stand for” means. They slink around and deceive to get their way, hardly ever owning their actions or their goals. And they definitely stand against plenty of things: democracy, human rights, and integrity to name a few.
- They stand for the death of women and the sexual assault of children. That’s as much as I’ve seen though.
- They stand for insurrection and Russia.
- They stand for whatever they think will get them money and power at any given moment.
- No, no, I can see them standing up for ask sorts of policies that destroy themselves for the enrichment of their masters.

The GOP infighting has escalated in the wake of the House's months-long tantrum led by the far-right extremists who seemed to truly believe that they could hold their breath until they turned blue and they would eventually get everything they wanted.

Which they would have gotten almost everything they wanted except for the approval of Don Poorleone.

... And despite all the drama, the Biden White House ended up getting most of what it wanted without having to give up much of anything in return, at least in part because the Republicans wouldn't take yes for an answer when concessions were offered.

I'm glad the Democrats have gotten bored of not governing that they actually got the resolve to come together and do something rather than cave to Republican obstruction.

This reminds me of that Zizek joke:

Content Warning: Joke that contains description of rape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkptPb0gS_Y

Nothing he's done has been a win.

Oh boy more funding for the genocide

Let me guess, you're just as hard on the other candidate for US President...? Hoo Boy, you're going to freak when you learn what their position on Palestine is!
- If the article itself is directly counting Israel funding as the wins he's sneaking past Republicans, that's a very fair comment.
- Ive been lambasting Trump since the birther movement started. That doesnt give anyone a free genocide pass
- biden is trump, trump is biden. There is absolutely no difference.
We can congratulate for the good while booing the bad.
- Booing dont cut it, im holding them to account

why do people love genocide joe?

Because you can judge actions separate from other actions.

Doing bad does not mean he can't do anything good.
- At least Mussolini made the trains run on time energy
- of course not. him not doing anything good makes him bad.
Oh look. A two day old account.
- Do you have anything to actually counter what i said or are you just going to attack me?

I'm tired of the rah-rah articles about Biden's polling numbers slightly up all the time. I read about disunity in the GOP and when it got to the "now let's pump you up for Biden" section I tuned out.

Cool story. It's an election year. And for the first time ever, one of the candidates might be in federal prison during their own inauguration! So yeah, you might read some election-year news. Despite how "over it" you are. Sorry...