President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa.

“Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow,” Biden added, posting a link to a fundraising page.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There are lots of people who are Not-Trump.

    By you’re argument…. There’s hundreds of millions of people that are both eligible to be POTUS and who are not Trump.

    Including myself. Trump is awful. Vote for me.

    Seriously, I’m much, much better the. Trump.

    Saying “Trump is awful” is not a a legitimate argument for why you should vote for me (you shouldn’t. I’d be an awful POTUS and I’m not nearly corrupt enough for it anyhow.)

    Similarly, it’s not an argument for Biden, no matter how not similar they are.

    Now let’s get into you’re actual arguments for Biden;

    Climate agreements; bullshit promises to try and do something with no real effort to actually get there

    Climate investment: corporate pork for things those companies were largely going to do anyhow.

    Counter-argument; Biden opened up the willow project- personally approving it. Under his presidency, oil production has continued to increase and his leadership has seen more oil reased from the strategic reserves than all other presidents combined.

    American Manufacturing: tax incentives to subsidize corporations, maybe this is good, I’m Meh. The people who are most going to profit are the corpo overlords, though.

    Students loan debt: the loan forgiveness that he has done all should have- as a matter of contract- been forgiven years- frequently decades ago. It hasn’t been because of rampant fraud by the loan servicors. He’s done nothing to combat that. (Gee look whose fraudulently profiting off Americans… corporations…)

    Counter argument: he has done nothing to fix the core problem: excessive tuition costs that have- and continue- to skyrocket.

    Economy: the USD being stronger is a double edged sword; and in any case the economy is only great for the extremely wealthy. For the vast majority of Americans, this economy objectively sucks, and he’s done very little to actually combat that.

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      Biden has already proved himself to be a good leader, good policy maker and good president.

      You have not.

      And yes, no matter who the candidates are, voting for the better one is a good strategy.

      It would be nice if you had better candidates, but ever since voting started, people have not always had the choice of the perfect candidates.

      So you have to choose the one that will be better rather than the one that is perfect.

      In this case, the choices are: trump, a rapist who says he wants to be a dictator, or Biden, a left leaning president who’s invested in sustainable technology and actually helped people’s lives with the policy decisions has administration has gone forward with.

      Your arguments are vague, cynical conservative talking points that don’t reflect reality.

      We can look at just one of Biden’s sustainability acts, which has:

      " Achieved a record five-fold increase in light-duty zero-emission vehicle purchases from the previous year;

      Announced the intent to buy clean electricity through the first-ever 24/7 100 percent carbon-free electricity tariff in the United States;

      Established the first-ever Federal Building Performance Standard to drive building electrification;

      Issued a plan for major suppliers to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks and set science-based emissions reduction targets;

      Secured $5 billion through the Inflation Reduction Act to catalyze markets for American-made, lower-carbon construction materials;

      and Launched the COP27 Net-Zero Government Initiative to extend U.S. international climate leadership. "

      These are concrete changes from just one piece of legislation among many Biden has enacted.

      300,000 buildings are being renovated and 600,000 vehicles are being updated to these guidelines.

      Your other comments are similarly misleading, lowering the unemployment rate and improving the worth of the US dollar are not “double edged swords”, they are specific achievements brought about by direct policy changes.

      Biden is investing in American manufacturing to counter how ignored that industry has been for half a century and how far it’s fallen behind, especially now that chip technology is becoming so crucial to the future of technological progress.

      Tuition costs? Besides the direct 5 billion of student debt relief, The Biden administration hasn’t acted legislation that protects low income earners from unsustainable tuition loan debt, there’s still trying to eliminate tuition for State colleges entirely, trying to give out more direct student that relief, and are trying to increase the amount given out by grants and scholarships.

      Trump, a rapist, committed direct election fraud and spent hundreds of millions of tax dollars playing golf and taking vacations when he wasn’t making absolutely terrible policy decisions.

      The biden administration has made multiple tangible beneficial strides forward for the United States.