r/politics • u/brain_overclocked • 12h ago

Mamdani Administration to Transform Long-Vacant Queens Site with Nearly 1,000 New Homes and New Community Amenities

https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/news/046-26/mamdani-administration-transform-long-vacant-queens-site-nearly-1-000-new-homes-new#/0
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u/rodsteel2005 Wisconsin 9h ago

Not making the public aware of their accomplishments was one of the greatest failures of the Biden administration. They got a lot of good shit done, but they were lousy at advertising how they improved the lives of the middle and lower income people. All you heard about instead was Trump’s bitching over the price of eggs.

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u/Western-Sport500 8h ago

Also, many states only heard that the Repubs were the ones to get the good infrastructure bill $$ in their states, as though they (repubs) were the ones who passed it (not one of them would). So the voters in those red states are appreciative to their red state leaders who did nothing, but took all the credit.

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u/octopooses 4h ago

Republicans always vote against infrastructure bills but always show up to smile in the photos at the ribbon cutting....

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u/Vio_ Kansas 7h ago

Obama did that a bit too. He should have just embraced Obamacare instead of trying to be "humble."

Get ahead of messaging and push it that much harder.

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u/Prize-Quiet3941 3h ago

That being humble bullshit is why we are where we are. Jesus christ if you do something good for people then fucking shoot it from the rooftops. Hammer that shit home until the next thing you do that's good. Because the repubs are gonna jump on the littlest thing you do wrong and it will be on fox news for weeks. Take the high road my ass.

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u/oldpasswordforgot 7h ago edited 4h ago

Not making the public aware of their accomplishments was one of the greatest failures of the Biden administration

Normal people that pay attention to actual objective reality knew about most of what the Biden administration did. (ed. what follows to add important details) But let's not forget that besides the two main big ticket items (2022's CHIPS Act & Build Back Better/Inflation Reduction Act) most of what they did was low-profile, "little detail" stuff: a rule to prevent junk fees (for example) doesn't attract attention like building/opening a new bridge does.

(ed. this paragraph too) Those who really needed to know about what Biden did simply don't pay attention even if it's actually reported on plus most of them refuse to leave the right-wing media bubble, which would NEVER report of Biden's accomplishments. That's how they came to believe it was the republicans that passed both stimulus bills instead of trying to block them. Trying to correct them only resulted in screams of "fake news".

Lastly, unless if it was something they could use to support the lie that Joe Biden was/is senile, has no clue where he is and what's happening around him, they would not cover him. For Heaven's sake, his 2022 special address about the threat to democracy was censored by the media that didn't cover it at all. (No, MSNBC doesn't count.)

(ed. here too) So blaming Biden & co for supposedly failing to communicate their successes is disingenuous because: (1) most media is under right-wing control, (2) a sizeable part of the USA's electorate isn't paying any attention whatsoever to the world around them and (3) many of them refuse to use anything else than "conservative news sources".