Barack Obama's end-of-presidency legacy essay ran in The Economist; Biden chose @theprospect.bsky.social. prospect.org/economy/2024... - ThreadSky

ddayen.bsky.social • 78 days ago

Barack Obama's end-of-presidency legacy essay ran in The Economist; Biden chose @theprospect.bsky.social.
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-12-16-biden-from-the-middle-out-and-bottom-up/

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grkstav.bsky.social•78 days ago

To be clear, this is something supposedly written by JR Biden regarding his Administration's legacy, right?? And you're promoting that it appears on your publication as a positive, correct?

wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@ddayen.bsky.social

wasn't Biden very much of a DLC Dem back in the day? is there a good explanation of how he changed over time published somewhere?

jsherman39.bsky.social•78 days ago

Obama’s legacy:
1/ US health insurance
2/Iran’s terrorism funding
3/ Syria
4/ Trump 2016
5/ Trump 2024

chicagobeersnob.bsky.social•78 days ago

1) Heritage Foundation Care act of 2009. 🤭

torff.bsky.social•78 days ago

Publishing a genocidal war criminal is not something you should be proud of.

larrythesequel.bsky.social•78 days ago

Much to my surprise (but perhaps it shouldn’t be so surprising), this thread has been useful in adding to ye olde block list.

Re: The article itself - I am pleased to see that he’s offering a vigorous defense of his agenda.

I really like the illustration that appears above the headline.

minimasuburbia.bsky.social•78 days ago

missal.us•78 days ago

ahhh beat me to it lol

likesuchas.bsky.social•78 days ago

not reading all that, Genocide Joe

nwbvt.bsky.social•78 days ago

Seriously,do they not know?

worldundercurrent.bsky.social•78 days ago

I was wondering why I was seeing all these Silicon Valley memes 😂

chekovsgunman.bsky.social•78 days ago

I will never forgive the msm for being "bored" with this administration's accomplishments and with the public for frankly being ungrateful

quasihistorian.bsky.social•78 days ago

Ungrateful?? Lmao. You need to radicalize more rapidly because this is the most “normie dem” attitude imaginable

gregsowa.bsky.social•78 days ago

I think the two things are very closely related, though. People were never given the chance to realize what was happening, and the admin's aversion to self-promotion didn't help.

quasihistorian.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yes, and people were being flooded with narratives from the other side about how bad things were without any pushback. Aside from how gross it is to expect people to be “grateful” for anything a public servant does, it was a failure of basic political communication and campaigning

chicagobeersnob.bsky.social•78 days ago

The right controls the narrative, and the DEMS play defensive to that narrative. The MSM goes along with this as well, as it drives ratings. The "liberal" media spend more time trying not offend the right, then tell the truth.

ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social•78 days ago

similar to Obama's legacy being ACA

Biden's legacy will be how much of IRA/CHIPS endures

chicagobeersnob.bsky.social•78 days ago

What's the 2nd chart on voting?

Also, my hope is the IRA/CHIPS is more helpful to the working class than Obama's Heritage Foundation Care Act.

ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social•78 days ago

bubbles showing congressional districts that favored Trump in the 2020 election receiving three times as much clean energy and manufacturing investments as those that leaned toward Biden

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/climate-bill-biden-clean-energy/

chicagobeersnob.bsky.social•78 days ago

Thank you for the link!

davekasten.bsky.social•78 days ago

Congratulations to whichever staffer puppeted this.

ddayen.bsky.social•78 days ago

Fun fact: Barack Obama didn't write his public communications either. In fact there's an entire podcast network of people who wrote Obama's words for him

davekasten.bsky.social•78 days ago

You know, if my friends gave me a really prestigious exclusive, I wouldn't insult them with a comparison like that.

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