Trying to save the lives of urban citizens = racist.

Did the doctor drop you more than once ?

Actually most progressives are issue oriented.

That whole virtue signalling while extracting the wealth is more of a neo liberal ditty.

God Bless America! I could see some of these declining slightly, but I'll be absolutely stunned if the US falls below number 1 in any of them (besides covid cases) under a Biden administration.

NK may be as well with their labor camps. But the real response should be "Is that better?"

No one (well no one here) is saying Biden wasn't a competent speaker while VP.

LOL at the person who said "Biden has hundreds of hours on camera and hasn't done anything wrong."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihV9yrZRHg

Remember when he challenged a voter to a push up contest? I do.

Not surprisingly, I have low expectations of this administration. I know the platform was fairly progressive, but considering a lot of it was opposed by Biden in the primary, I have zero expectation he's gonna work hard on that stuff.

What I'm gonna be laser focused are the things he can do with requiring congressional approval (which will be the excuse for a lot of inaction), particularly with regard to climate change. There have been multiple stories about what Biden can do about climate change, so let's summarize the main points

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/08/93216...-climate-plans

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/c...n-climate.html

https://www.vox.com/21549521/joe-bid...-senate-runoff

• Biden has said he would stop leasing any new oil and gas rights on federal land raise fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to speed up a transition to electric vehicles.
• rejoin the Paris climate agreement .
• Requiring aggressive methane pollution limits for new oil and gas operations.
• Using the federal government procurement system — which spends $500 billion every year — to drive toward 100 percent clean energy and zero-emissions vehicles.
• Ensuring that all US government installations, buildings, and facilities are more efficient and climate-ready, harnessing the purchasing power and supply chains to drive innovation.
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation — the fastest growing source of US climate pollution — by preserving and implementing the existing Clean Air Act,
• Doubling down on the liquid fuels of the future,
• Saving consumers money and reducing emissions through new, aggressive appliance and building efficiency standards.
• Committing that every federal infrastructure investment should reduce climate pollution,
• Requiring public companies to disclose climate risks and the greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains.
• Protecting biodiversity, slowing extinction rates and helping leverage natural climate solutions by conserving 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030.
• Protecting America’s natural treasures by permanently protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

I expect to check back and see what progress has been made on these issues. Given that these fall within presidential powers there's no reason they can't be pursued within his first six months.

If your country doesn't start taking green tech seriously on both sides of the aisle soon instead of insisting bad takes like giving CPR to coal, you're going to be left behind commercially and ultimately also dethroned as a superpower. Yeah, it sucks for a lot of people that times move on, but the strength of the US has always been its ability to move on anyway.

That's the message I'd sell. Perhaps worded a bit less bluntly.

Man, good luck to whoever has the job of figuring out how to tell Trump supporters that USA#1 might not be very #1 anymore if they don't pull their heads out of their asses.

I agree strongly with this. It feels like a new variant of the digital camera that Kodak developed first, but then they chose to stick it out with film and then oops.

The money potential in this is so great that eventually that will overpower the politics.

As long as the score is kept in US$, they don’t have to worry _too_ much regardless of leadership.

Do the people deliberately blocking the transition go to jail afterwards?? Seeing Rs go to jail makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Telsa exists because of Federal subsidies.

small nit but you are being too harsh on Progressives. true Progs are actually pretty good. spot on for the libs tho.

So does Fossil Fuel and corn

lozen going hard in the paint for killing poor people with the shade toward energy and food subsidies.

That hot new idea becomes hey wtf that's the way we've 'always' done it soon enough

Just pointing out that the US government subsidizes more than alternative fuels. Does Tesla even get subsidies anymore.

It's ok Joe Manchin just helped them out big time.

No posts on Biden speech today?

Amazing the contrast between him and Trump.

It was very American, in the good sense. "We'll do this, your actions are irrelevant".

Thought the questions were very good, too.

Reporters can actually ask substantive questions without a rabid lying clown answering them.

The ACA speech ?

Harris said 'healthcare is a right' and then Biden went on his ACA tangent.

The GOP will never stop knocking it down. Biden won't sign an M4A bill into law.

As Biden promised, we're back to business as usual.

The thing is in the house candidates that supported M4A all won its the ones that lost their seat to Republicans did not. It baffles many folks that have Universal Healthcare in countries how you can not support it.

The public does support it.

But here in America (the great) politicians are allowed to take unlimited bribes from the health care industry and so don't represent the people who give them power.

I'm pretty sure most other democracies have much stricter laws regarding money in politics than we do. So they get better representation at the end of the day.

It's that simple really.

In other words dems running in safe dem districts did better than dems running in republican leaning ones.

AMERICA IS BACK BABY!

Katie Porter is in a R+3 district.
Matt Cartwright is in a R+1 district.
Mike Levin is in a R+1 district
Mondaire Jones is in a D+7 district.
Peter DeFazio is in an EVEN district.

All support M4A, all won.

Bolded is just the Democrat version of MAGA.

What foreign leaders see is that China has done a better job with the coronavirus and has more to offer economically.