It is day 100 of the Biden presidency. In 100 short days Biden has, unsurprisingly, not been a particularly progressive president. So here’s a list of every progressive thing that Biden could have done or every action that Biden took that was against a progressive agenda:
-Air Strikes in Syria
-Reopening previously closed “facilities” at the southern border
-sending more military equipment to American neighborhoods than Trump did.
-proposing a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget,
-not removing remove patent barriers on Covid-19 vaccines
-settling on a 25% corporate tax rate
-Not sanctioning MBS
-continuing to advance Trump's $23 billion arms deal for the UAE.
-considering "filling gaps" in the US-Mexico border wall.
-looking to extend a Trump era policy that bolsters mandatory minimum drug sentences.
-continuing to seizing land for the border wall
-continuing to support the Saudi Blockade in Yemen
-allowing oil to continue to flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline despite the ongoing threats it poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
-not ordering the Pentagon to recall the billions in military gear it loaned to police.
-continuing the Trump Pentagon’s policy of embracing landmines.
-continuing a Trump policy that boosted armed drone exports per Reuters
-urging the Supreme Court to let cops enter homes and seize guns without a warrant
-blocking media access to their border operations.
-Dozens of young Biden White House staffers have been suspended, asked to resign or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use
-continuing to house immigrant children in inhumane conditions.
-continuing to support a coup in Venezuela
-Issuing 31 new drilling permits on federal land
-Not passing a promised $15 minimum wage
-Not passing a promised $2,000 to all individuals
-not officially banning the death penalty
-not canceling any student debt
-not passing Medicare for all
-not passing a green new deal
-not ending fracking
-not legalizing marijuana
-not supporting ending the filibuster
-not giving visa’s to people who were denied them because of Trump's Muslim ban.
You may think that creating this thread is tedious or stupid but I think it’s important to understand what the President has done that is actively hurting Americans. Biden is not a left wing president, if we want him to move left we need to know what Biden needs to change to move
Here’s a list of accomplishments: https://twitter.com/bidentracking/status/1387755530177945600
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