Joe Biden's time is up

[Yuwipi Woman]

There's been no shortage of food in New Zealand at all in our supermarkets, but price gouging is common as we only have two chains and has got worse. Loads of us grow fruit and veg through. I've got two types of lemon + mandarins and I trade them with the neighbours who have peaches and chili peppers.

Growing your own, if you can, really adds to food security and lowers food miles. I tried an experiment this summer of growing arrowroot. I've been really pleased with how much food value it produces with so little care. There's an Omaha man who's growing the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) in the middle of the city of Omaha. It's all traditional varieties he was able to track down. He talked a museum out of some of their bean samples and grew them. Then, he sent them to native run seed banks to share. Even small efforts like that can really make a difference in preserving native foodways and create food resiliency.

 

[petee]

 

[JimW]

In the country, the main reason you lock your car is to make sure none of your neighbors "gift" you with some of their surplus garden produce.

They come right in our yard and leave it on the step. Cucumbers, squash, scallions, and then there's the neighbour who brings over a big bowl of sweet bean porridge when she makes that or flatbread. We've retaliated with leafy greens and marrow but are definitely lagging behind.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

They come right in our yard and leave it on the step. Cucumbers, squash, scallions, and then there's the neighbour who brings over a big bowl of sweet bean porridge when she makes that or flatbread. We've retaliated with leafy greens and marrow but are definitely lagging behind.

Yep. We've come home to find the entire porch covered in a layer of turnips. Sometimes, they'll put cucumbers in a plastic bag and put it on the doorknob, just to make sure you don't miss it.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Had a bag of winter nectarines on my doorstep yesterday. Haven't worked out who from yet.

 

[Raheem]

They don't do anything like that where I live. But, during lockdown, the National Trust left several chocolate eggs on my doorstep. Some would say I win.

 

[petee]

yeh you laugh now, buddy ...

 

[AmateurAgitator]

 

[AmateurAgitator]

So whats Creepy Joe, the most powerful man on the planet, doing about climate change then?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

So whats Creepy Joe, the most powerful man on the planet, doing about climate change then?

I haven't paid attention to the details, but the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act is supposed to be partly a down payment of mitigating climate change:

President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The sweeping $750 billion legislation includes $369 billion in investments toward climate and clean energy programs. Following months of infighting, House and Senate Democrats passed the bill along party lines last week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia struck a compromise deal on Biden's Build Better Back framework. According to one estimate by Princeton University’s Zero Lab, the bill could reduce US greenhouse emissions by about 6.3 billion tons through 2032. The $369 billion set aside by the bill represents the most significant investment to combat climate change in US history.

"This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever, and it's going to allow us to boldly take additional steps toward meeting all of the climate goals we set out when we ran," Biden said before signing the bill. "It includes ensuring that we create clean energy opportunities in frontline and fenceline communities that have been smothered by the legacy of population and fight environmental injustice that has been going on for so long."

With the law now in place, US consumers can look forward to up to $7,500 in subsidies for electric SUVs, trucks and vans that cost less than $80,000 and cars under $55,000. The act is also set to provide up to $4,000 for buying a used EV. Both subsidies include an income ceiling that would prevent those who make more than the average American from taking advantage. The law also calls for the creation of a $1.5 billion program to incentivize companies to reduce their methane emissions.

President Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act to limit climate change

President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

news.yahoo.com

If it lives up to the hype (unlikely), it should address not only climate, but some of the effects of environmental racism. I suspect that is more difficult to address than even climate change.

 

[Yossarian]

The bill raises taxes on corporations to fund healthcare and the fight against climate change - and conservative groups were too busy freaking out over the Mar-a-Lago search to even push back against it.

“Everything was moving so fast, the tax provisions were being debated on the fly, so there was very little time for groups to do that in-depth grassroots pushback like we saw during Obamacare,” said Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at conservative grassroots organization FreedomWorks. “To create buzz in this town and for it to penetrate across America, you need more time. So yeah, we got rolled.”

‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump

The former president’s presence on the political landscape is making it harder to launch a modern day Tea Party movement.

www.politico.com

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I haven't paid attention to the details, but the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act is supposed to be partly a down payment of mitigating climate change:

President Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act to limit climate change

President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

news.yahoo.com

If it lives up to the hype (unlikely), it should address not only climate, but some of the effects of environmental racism. I suspect that is more difficult to address than even climate change.

Interesting. I doubt its gonna be truly effective though.

 

[NoXion]

The bill raises taxes on corporations to fund healthcare and the fight against climate change - and conservative groups were too busy freaking out over the Mar-a-Lago search to even push back against it.

“Everything was moving so fast, the tax provisions were being debated on the fly, so there was very little time for groups to do that in-depth grassroots pushback like we saw during Obamacare,” said Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at conservative grassroots organization FreedomWorks. “To create buzz in this town and for it to penetrate across America, you need more time. So yeah, we got rolled.”

‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump

The former president’s presence on the political landscape is making it harder to launch a modern day Tea Party movement.

www.politico.com

Good, fuck the Tea Party dickheads, they're part of the reason the US is in such a fucking mess right now.

 

[JimW]

Interesting. I doubt its gonna be truly effective though.

Not actively denying it's happening puts him a long way ahead of his rivals.

 

[petee]

Interesting. I doubt its gonna be truly effective though.

of course you do.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I am of the view that capitalism can only exacerbate the climate crisis

 

[Karl Masks]

god i hope the pathetic old cunt doesn't stand again.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I haven't paid attention to the details, but the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act is supposed to be partly a down payment of mitigating climate change:

President Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act to limit climate change

President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

news.yahoo.com

If it lives up to the hype (unlikely), it should address not only climate, but some of the effects of environmental racism. I suspect that is more difficult to address than even climate change.

Getting past the triple hurdle of the fascist Republicans, the barbarian Manchin/Sinema clique and the ultra-conservative Supreme Court now makes it almost impossible to achieve meaningful environmental reforms,

 

[petee]

god i hope the pathetic old cunt doesn't stand again.

I agree, 4 more years of Trump will leave us in a hellscape.

 

[Karl Masks]

I agree, 4 more years of Trump will leave us in a hellscape.

Its already a hellscape and that's under biden who does fuck all

 

[ska invita]

Its not really about Biden, its more about the limitations of anyone getting anything through the Senate.
Its a system that is designed to limit change
Yet climate change can only be solved at the state level. Bit of a dilemma.

For all the 'most powerful person in the world' talk the potential for progressive law passing is massively limited . The fact this recent bill passed was reported as a massive coup. People started crying!!

That's not to say someone more dynamic (like Trump in fact) could find ways of pushing back against those structural limitations. Biden is very much a man of the system.

The one possible benefit of our crap FPTP system is that if you have a big majority you can actually get quite a lot done. Only problem is England keeps voting Tory so much.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Its already a hellscape and that's under biden who does fuck all

He's doing more than you think. After Trump's bombastic style, it's difficult to notice. He's forgiven some of the more fraudulent student loans for example. He's also set to release another set of loan forgiveness soon:



He's also cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline and put people in charge of the BLM that understand environmental issues. He's actually acknowledged environmental racism as a real issue.

I can't say I appreciate all that he's done and I wish sometimes that he was more confrontational, but I'd still rather see Biden in office than Trump or DeSantis. Sometimes "fuck all" is better than the other option.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I don't think this is my politics but I also have to be fair and say that this seems like a decent article about the left's new hero president

Biden Gaslights Us With $10,000 Student Loan Forgiveness - Hood Communist

Joe Biden created this student loan debt trap to favor the student loan companies, folks. He sure isn’t going to be the one to fix it.

hoodcommunist.org

 

[NoXion]

"Joe Biden created this student loan trap"?

I can tell it's a shit article already.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

"Joe Biden created this student loan trap"?

I can tell it's a shit article already.

You clearly haven't bothered to read it all the way through.

 

[petee]

"Joe Biden created this student loan trap"?

I can tell it's a shit article already.

he participated in the legislation which led to this situation, so he's not responsible for it, but he is one of a great many who were responsible for it. remember, he didn't get to be senator from the most corporate-friendly state in the nation for 36 years without throwing sops to business interests.

but once again, people who don't do politics reveal they don't know how politics is done. there is nothing more important in the short term than that the democrats keep the house and senate this november. it looks like they may actually gain in the senate, because the GOP is putting up assholes.

Michigan GOP Candidate Says Rape Victims Find 'Healing' Through Having Baby

Tudor Dixon, who is running for governor, told Fox 2 Detroit about the "bond" between a mother and child.

www.newsweek.com

they need to keep the house. already there has been furious blowback against even this action (of $10K forgiveness). it would be a tragedy if the blowback against the recent Roe ruling, which has catapulted D candidates, were dissipated by the blowback against the loan forgiveness.

Poll shows Whitmer with double-digit lead over Dixon

One veteran pollster said abortion being viewed as a central issue by respondents bodes well for Whitmer, who favors expanded abortion access.

www.freep.com

so 10K seemed, i guess, like a good figure because it does after all rebate indebted people somewhat, but doesn't look like Full Communism.

i do not foresee a worker's uprising within the next two years that will lead to a moneyless economy with production based on need, not profit. so, this is what we have to deal with.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I don't think this is my politics but I also have to be fair and say that this seems like a decent article about the left's new hero president

Characterizing him as "the left's new hero president" isn't supported by data. His approval rating is still abysmal, even among Democrats. Most don't want him to run again. The main reason he's president at all is because he isn't Donald Trump and the Democratic Party foisted him on their base with a back room deal to cut everyone else out.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

he participated in the legislation which led to this situation, so he's not responsible for it, but he is one of a great many who were responsible for it. remember, he didn't get to be senator from the most corporate-friendly state in the nation for 36 years without throwing sops to business interests.

but once again, people who don't do politics reveal they don't know how politics is done. there is nothing more important in the short term than that the democrats keep the house and senate this november. it looks like they may actually gain in the senate, because the GOP is putting up assholes.

Michigan GOP Candidate Says Rape Victims Find 'Healing' Through Having Baby

Tudor Dixon, who is running for governor, told Fox 2 Detroit about the "bond" between a mother and child.

www.newsweek.com

they need to keep the house. already there has been furious blowback against even this action (of $10K forgiveness). it would be a tragedy if the blowback against the recent Roe ruling, which has catapulted D candidates, were dissipated by the blowback against the loan forgiveness.

Poll shows Whitmer with double-digit lead over Dixon

One veteran pollster said abortion being viewed as a central issue by respondents bodes well for Whitmer, who favors expanded abortion access.

www.freep.com

so 10K seemed, i guess, like a good figure because it does after all rebate indebted people somewhat, but doesn't look like Full Communism.

i do not foresee a worker's uprising within the next two years that will lead to a moneyless economy with production based on need, not profit. so, this is what we have to deal with.

People like you have given up on class struggle and class war. You are committed to the dead ends of liberalism and electoralism, of capitalism - all these things have nothing to offer the working class or humanity and are contributing to the destruction of our species and life as we know it on this planet. People like you are politically dead.

Nothing personal petee, those are simply the facts.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

but once again, people who don't do politics reveal they don't know how politics is done. there is nothing more important in the short term than that the democrats keep the house and senate this november.

This is the problem. People like you have given up, you won't contribute to the working class revolutionary movement or to class struggle. You are part of the diversion of working class anger and of passivity. You are supporting the barbaric capiitalist system, the bourgeoisie, the enemy. You support one faction of the bourgeosie against another, which is one of the things that actually fuels the right wing.

You have nothing to offer the working class. Wether you realise it or not or like it or not you are part of the problem.

 

[two sheds]

you don't think it matters whether Trump gets in or not next time?