The bar for "insanely old" keeps rising as life spans increase, though.
And things could change by the end of his term. For instance, he might accomplish something. (Ironically, losing the midterms might be the best way to do that. He's tried to govern as though he had a large majority in Congress, when in reality he has a 50/50 Senate, and he can't pass anything further to the left than Manchin will go along with. If he clearly lost the Senate, he might stop trying to govern that way.)
There's still 3 years left until the end of his first term. A lot can change when there's still 3/4 of your term left.
When he was elected he was 4 years older than the oldest sitting president (who preceded him). What makes you think the second term will be any different?
a lot of the things mentioned are what his congress did...
and a lot of these are nitpicky nickles and dimes.
Like seriously 1 billion for headstart...whoopdie doo...
My wife wanted to teach for headstart, then found out it only pays like $20k for a teacher. I mean that's pathetic pay and we really need to do better by teachers, etc.
Biden promised to legalize marijuana, and fix healthcare and the only positive thing was maybe the child tax credit which is honestly the only time I've ever gotten a $ from the govt or any sort of oh wow the govt does do good sometimes...
Biden could wipe out student loans for millions of Americans, but chooses not to.
Biden could wipe out the filibuster (he has pressure he could put on Sinema and Manchin) but he does nothing.
I'd say Bernie has literally done more for us as the Budget Committee Chair this past year and a half than Biden has done.
He could probably even do an executive order banning congress from investing in stocks and self-enrichment, and a number of other anti-corruption things. But of course corruption is par for the course for most politicians...
Can't stand the GOP either but at least they don't pretend to be on your side then stab you in the back...they stab you in the front.
half a dozen things on your list not done is a LONG WAY from calling out Biden for "doing nothing"
There is a lot to fix, he's only been in position for 12 months. Politics and bureaucracy takes time man... and there is some seriously unprecedented shit happening that he walked into. he's not magic. he can't just click his fingers and fix everything that you want.
> a lot of the things mentioned are what his congress did...
Isn't that true for every president? Presidents love to claim all sort of "victories" for all sorts of things, or lambast their opponents for things, but in reality, it's really congress and the house that's are the legislative power in the system, not the office of the president. It should be them that enact the most changes.
A lot of these things you mention are quite literally outside of the scope of what the president can realistically do, or should be able to do. Sure, he can set the agenda to a significant degree, has a lot of control over his own party, has quite extensive executive powers, but in the end, congress really is much more powerful.
The way I head Americans talk about the president sometimes makes me feel like they are confusing "president" with "almighty ruler of the country" and don't understand their own political system.
Why is this likely?
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