Yeah, and a lot of turmoil can be unleashed in 9 months. When you have one of the most unstable leaders in history in charge of a country during a once-in-a-century global pandemic, a lot of things get broken.

Right! Like Trump himself said about his handling of COVID: "The only thing we haven’t done well is get good press."

The first Covid vaccines were approved for humans before Biden ever took office.

One president talked down vaccines, despite some bragging about fast tracking them. The other talked vaccines up, and managed to stop rising inflation without crashing the economy.

>Biden was president for all but nine months of Covid but don’t let facts get in your way

Yeah and?

It's easier to turn a bike than a containership.

The global economy was never a bike

Someone has emailed us to point out the inflammatory, politically-charged commenting you've been engaging in lately, and I agree that it's not what we want to see on HN.

Comments like the ones you've been posting in the past few days that are low-effort but highly reaction-inducing for people across the political spectrum are the very kind of thing we're trying to avoid here.

A particularly bad one was this one [1], five days ago:

> You don't like being reminded of the results of your decision?

> Not generalizing, i mean you specifically.

It attacks someone for doing something without any evidence that they did that or agreed with people who did it.

You're a long-time user here and you've posted plenty of good things too, and we don't want to push you away from HN. But we need you to make an effort to use HN in the spirit that's intended, which means taking care to observe the guidelines and respect other community members.

We know we can't be a politics-free zone and it would be futile and counter-productive to try, but we can all make an effort to hold ourselves to a higher standard and make political discussions here higher-quality than what is found elsewhere, if we choose to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729698

Biden is competent and chooses competent people. Trump is NOT competent and hire incompetent people and fires competent people.

I'm curious what you think were the most extreme demonstrations of competence during the biden admin.

Not the op, but I think the IRA and to a lesser degree the IIJA were important bills that tackled big, important problems -- climate change, protecting security critical domestic manufacturing, building domestic energy production capacity. I am also impressed that Biden managed a soft landing from covid-era inflation. I expected a recession

We as a society have systems and checks for the democracy to work

The debate performance says otherwise

Trump and Biden are BOTH way WAY too old and senile to be president. I really don't understand how Trump supporters can complain that Biden is senile when Trump doesn't remember major things he did during his first term. 60 should be the max age to run for President considering how important and stressful it is.

I think it’s fair to compare the “administrations”, not necessarily the individual. Biden’s administration is relatively far more competent than the Trump administration, in large part because Trump doesn’t care what the rest of his administration thinks, so long as it benefits him personally. Biden, with all his flaws, was not egotistical.

Trump's debate performance against Kamala was awful too ("concepts of a plan", etc), but he will forever get judged with a different set of criteria by his fans.

Whataboutism is pervasive and pernicious

Biden is smart and senile. Trump is stupid and senile and that is worse.