Are you aware this is actually what multiple RNC candidates were doing?
> 'he' did not allow silly things like the supreme court stop him from attempting to buy voters by cancelling their student loan debt
This is moronic. Farmers receive the most subsidies, is the RNC buying their votes by enacting policy? You could call literally anything "buying votes"
Your post is beyond biased, it's contradicting itself.
Sure, they flew migrants to 'sanctuary cities' - remember the panic on Martha's Vineyard when a few of them showed up and remember how quickly they were shuffled away by the virtuous inhabitants of that island - to demonstrate the magnitude of the problem. They were very vocal about it and did it out in the open, inviting press and publishing widely about their intents. That is not what I referred to. I was referring to the secretive night flights ordered by Biden's government, something along these lines:
https://homeland.house.gov/2024/04/30/new-documents-reveal-a...
a subpoena of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [...] identified over 50 airport locations, including our nation’s capital, used by DHS to help process into the country more than 400,000 inadmissible aliens through the administration’s unlawful Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) mass-parole program. The program was officially launched in January 2023, and the documents obtained by the Committee cover the period from January-August 2023—accounting for roughly 200,000 of these individuals.
> This is moronic. Farmers receive the most subsidies, is the RNC buying their votes by enacting policy?
Apart from the fact that both parties are in on the farm subsidy racket - the main difference being that the 'democrats' specifically target 'farmers of colour' through the 'black farmer relief program' [1] - there is a clear difference in that those programs have been going on for decades while the 'student loan debt forgiveness' scheme popped into existence at just the right time to attract voters for the upcoming elections.
And yes, of course my post is biased, I am after all playing devil's advocate to defend the 'effective' Biden presidency in ways most likely not intended by the parent poster.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/black-farmers.html
And? You are aware that promising to do things for voters that aren't being done yet is not exactly a Machiavellian scheme. It's how a policy gets started. Do we just not do anything because that would be new and scary?
I know you're pretending to play devils advocate but you are transparently being critical of politicians doing the bare minimum of their job because they have a D next to their name. Devils advocate means you are taking a position you don't agree with for the exercise of it. You are making bad faith statements about a party you visibly hate.
- 'he' managed to allow a record number of people to illegally cross the borders and helped those people along by flying them to non-border states
- 'he' oversaw one of the largest increases in costs of living in recent memory
- 'he' certainly won when it came to using executive orders to push through policies which 'he' - most likely correctly - thought would not otherwise make it through the house and senate.
- 'he' did not allow silly things like the supreme court stop him from attempting to buy voters by cancelling their student loan debt.
- 'he' oversaw one of the largest armaments transfers to an adversary when 'he' ordered the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan without leaving a token force of a few thousand behind to make sure those weapons and material were either shipped out or destroyed. To put this in contrast with a well-known historical armaments transfer to an adversary: the 'Iran-Contra' deal relates to a $30 million sale of missiles to Iran in 1986 and the use of $18 million of that money to fund the "Contra's" - anti-communist insurgents fighting the communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. $30 million in 1986 is equivalent with $86 million in 2024. Biden's withdrawal left the Taliban with at least $7 billion worth of material but possibly more - the estimate goes from a minimum of $7 billion to more than $10 billion.
- 'he' was a master in creatively (ab)using government agencies to push through his agenda, e.g. by using OSHA to get companies with 100+ employees to force those employees to get one of the experimental COVID vaccines.
Etcetera. A lot was done during Biden's presidency so in that sense 'he' was an effective president. It is up to the beholder to decide whether a lot of 'good' was done during 'his' presidency. I use quotes around 'he' and 'his' because it is as of yet unclear how much of the above 'achievements' were actually Biden's work and how much was done only in his name.