Morgan Stanley is crediting President Biden’s economic policies with driving an unexpected surge in the U.S. economy that is so significant that the bank was forced to make a “sizable upward revision” to its estimates for U.S. gross domestic product, CNBC reports.As a result of these unexp
  • zombuey@lemmy.worldOP
    75·
    1 year ago

    The person your responding to is absolutely correct. For the majority of Biden’s career he was pretty despicable politician. He was one of the angry men yelling at the Anita Hill hearings. He famously lied about his credentials early on. For most of his career he has been owned by wall street. in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s he publicly had pretty hardcore racist and homophobic views. The Biden you see today is not the Biden most of America knows. He has never been a progressive ally.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/joe-biden-record-on-busing-incarceration-racial-justice-democratic-primary-2020-explained.html

    • Mewtwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      8·
      1 year ago

      He _is_the progressive ally that we need now.

      It’s unfortunate he was not perfect in the past, but he’s changed and making amends. Why do Republicans have an issue with that?

      • hark@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        Progressive ally? Biden was literally the candidate that the establishment put their full force behind (including having Obama make calls to have other candidates drop to back him) in order to defeat Bernie in 2020. Biden himself said “nothing would fundamentally change”. A couple bones thrown here or there doesn’t change that. I don’t know if democrats are astroturfing here of all places or people are just deluding themselves into thinking he’s doing more than he actually is, but he’s really not.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

      They’re not correct at all lol

      Biden has never been a racist. People try to call him racist over a crime bill half-written by black congressional leaders and loudly asked for by the black community.

      Biden has literally always been a stand up guy

      Calling out his busing stance as wrong when it was prescient and he was 100% correct about a generation of black educators losing their jobs is… An interesting take, to say the least.

      Maybe don’t get your news from rags

      • Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org
        23·
        1 year ago

        Did you not see his response in the primary debates when kamala called out his segregation policies? Rather than admit that it was the wrong decision, he defended it and used the times as an excuse. Just look at his voting record, he’s been very conservative over his career. It doesn’t matter though, people change, and actions speak louder than words. He’s doing good stuff as president and that’s what matters right now.

        Edit: spelled Kamala wrong and I’m embarrassed

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
          4·
          1 year ago

          Can you at least try to spell the VP’s name right enough that people know who you’re talking about?

        • SCB@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 year ago

          Perhaps rather than an abrupt about-face at 80 years old, you’re simply incorrect about Biden’s “history.”

          He was right about schools. We lost a generation of black educators due to the way desegregation was handled nationwide. Biden accurately commented on this. We could have done better, which is literally what he was arguing for.

          I actually learned of this fact tangentially, through an old episode of Revisionist History. His campaign ignored it because it’s safer to ignore than to trust people to understand nuance. Sound campaign move, but plays to a lie, fundamentally.