#first term

[saywhat-politics]

[all-the-stars-hills-milky-way]

🍂 18-11-2024

Revised Philosophy

TOOK THE LAST TEST OF THE TRIMESTER

Went out for a run

Took a shower

Practiced a Psychology presentation with my father

🕓 Total study time: half an hour

🎧 Listened: Dog days are over by Florence + the machine and Stephanie by Joker out

📺 Watched: football

📖 Read: a little bit of Book lovers by Emily Henry

👣 Walked/ran: 6,2km

[hale-my-nathan]

Trump Weird News -Trump Clown To Crook

[deadpresidents]

Would you say Biden has been a better president (so far) than Obama?

That's an interesting question. Obama had a really tough first three years. He inherited two raging wars that were not going well at all and an even worse economic crisis than the pandemic's aftermath. Sometimes, I think people forgot how scary the Great Recession got between 2008 and 2010. All Presidents are forced to hit the ground running on Inauguration Day, but the Obama Administration had a five-alarm economic fire to put out from the moment he took the oath. It required expending a ton of political capital just to get things steady and heading in the right direction. And then the Democrats got slaughtered in the 2010 midterm elections.

So almost all of Obama's first term was spent climbing out of a deep hole and despite the fact that he had some major legislative accomplishments from pretty early on in his Presidency, he really didn't start finding his footing until 2011. I was highly critical of the Obama Administration's communications strategy during his first term because he had some massive legislative victories (the Recovery Act, repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, the 2010 tax reform bill, Dodd-Frank, S-CHIP, and, obviously, the Affordable Care Act), but they fumbled some of the rollouts and did a lousy job promoting the impact of those accomplishments and their successes in implementing TARP. That started to improve after the 2010 midterms and as Obama became more comfortable in the White House. Remember, when he was elected President in 2008, he had only had three years of experience in Washington as a junior Senator -- and, quite frankly, he spent a lot of that time building a Presidential campaign and running for the Presidency. No one is ever completely ready to be President on day one, but Obama needed a lot more on-the-job training about Washington politics than, say, George H.W. Bush or Biden. After President Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and started diving into the 2012 reelection campaign cycle, he was on a roll. He also seemed to do a better job arguing his points when he had the foil of an opposing party in control of a Congressional chamber after the 2010 midterms. But it was rough for most of that first term, even though it seems like he was chalking up legislative victories at first glance.

Biden had the advantage of eight years as an influential Vice President and nearly 40 years as a powerful U.S. Senator. There are few Presidents in all of American history who had more Washington experience than Joe Biden did on Inauguration Day. He also was succeeding the worst President in history; someone who had bungled the biggest health crisis in modern memory, been impeached twice and had just incited an insurrection that attacked the U.S. Capitol and tried to overturn an election. It's not that he had an easier task -- not by any means -- but Biden would have really needed to fuck up right out of the gate in order to have done worse than his predecessor.

The Biden Administration has clearly had its struggles, as well, but I think his team was far better prepared to tackle those problems than Obama's was during Obama's first term. Of course, most of the Biden Administration had worked in Obama's Administration, so they knew what they were doing by that point, and they communicated far more effectively. I think the biggest individual legislative victories and policy accomplishments of Obama's first term were probably bigger than any of Biden's individual achievements, but Biden's may have been more immediately impactful to more people, if that makes any sense. I also think that the fact that President Biden’s party performed so well in his first midterm election will also be remembered as a big victory because that just doesn't usually happen historically, and future historians will see it as even more impressive in contrast with the political climate in which it occurred.

After all of that, I recognize that I still didn't really answer your question! I honestly don't know. It always requires time to be able to properly judge Presidencies, especially when comparing them to others, so it's just too difficult for me to give a clear answer while we're still in the middle of Biden's first term. And I believe a President's job performance has to be rated on more than just legislative achievements, so other aspects of the job should be factored in. Did they inspire change? Did they provide moral leadership? How did they respond to the crises unique to their specific times? Did they have a certain vision or an agenda and how much of that mission did they accomplish? How did they meet international challenges and did they provide the global leadership that the rest of the world has sought from American Presidents since World War II? Did they fulfill their oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution? Was the country in a better place on the day their term ended than the day they were sworn in? It requires much deeper thought and a closer examination of how the Presidents led the country within the context of the times they presided over. I understand that I ended up asking more questions than answering, but it's just never quite as simple as looking at a scoreboard of legislative victories and policy failures.

[spacetime-singularity]

1st Day of University

4.10.2021 |

I’m so excited about starting university that I can’t sleep! It’s a new beginning after 2 bad years.

Anyway, I was very lost at the end of the day because everything was like before but everything was different… I didn’t know anyone and this made me insecure 😕

[qupritsuvwix]

And so the liar in chief left us with a last spurt of mental masturbation:

“I didn’t start any new wars on my watch!”

Aw, go fuck yourself.

You started one war and failed to initiate another one.

You declared war on reality with your first words in office and you’ve carried it forward until today.

You failed to declare war on Covid 19. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy and watched as the casualties mounted. I hope their graves fucking haunt you until your greatly anticipated demise.

[rosepetalsandstudy]

semester a review!!

so today i finally got all of my assignment grades back and i thought i’d do one big post to write about how i found my first term at university. this term i had 4 modules, one compulsory and 3 i chose. to break it down i had 2 or 3 assignments for each and they varied from 10% to 60% of my final grade!

texts up close (compulsory module):

assignment one: no grade given

assignment two: 88/100 (this was a quiz)

assignment three: 62/100

journeys and quests:

assignment one: 65/100

assignment two: 62/100 (a group project)

assignment three: 58/100

shakespeare reframed:

assignment one: 58/100

assignment two: 65/100

assignment three: 65/100

romantic origins and the gothic afterlife:

assignment one: 62/100

assignment two: 62/100

as a whole, i’m really proud of what i was able to get in my first year, especially when essays seemed to be worded differently to a level, and that my marks were pretty close together

hopefully this will carry on this term and with the exam i have with one of my modules and learn from the feedback i was given :)

[asra-floof-blog]

The only reason I’m still forcing myself to work on homework today is bc it’s hogwarts first day back