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    Because, like a lot of Biden policies, they are wins on paper but have little to no impact on voters daily lives.

    It’s not new either.

    Biden makes big promises, fails miserably, makes a token gesture, and then people claim he’s the best ever…

    At a Glasgow climate summit in 2021, the Biden administration offered a commitment to the world: The United States would stop the public financing of oil and gas projects. There would be no more American tax dollars for new natural gas pipelines or wells, the White House said

    The pledge drew praise from climate change activists. But there was one big problem—it was an empty promise.

    In the years since Glasgow, the US has continued to finance fossil fuel projects around the world. The latest example came Thursday, when the US Export-Import Bank finalized a plan to guarantee part of the financing for a $4.2 billion revitalization of natural gas production in the nation of Bahrain. The move—which comes just weeks after the Biden administration triumphantly announced a freeze on the domestic development of new projects designed to export liquified natural gas—will include the construction of dozens of gas wells and 450 new oil wells. It will bring online as much as 5.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, or about five years of additional gas production at Bahrain’s current levels.

    https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/03/biden-promised-not-to-finance-fossil-fuels-so-why-is-the-us-backing-a-huge-gas-project/

    To quote Kendrick:

    The audience not dumb

    Shape the stories how you want, hey, Drake, they’re not slow

    Biden, his campaign, and his supporters don’t realize people can just fact check this shit from their phones in two seconds. Voters aren’t as stupid as they keep acting we are.

    If we were, we’d probably be voting Republican…

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      It’s crazy how you start recognizing usernames. Every time I see some anti Biden baseless bullshit, it’s one of a handful of idiots vomiting it out.

      US Trade Bank Defies Biden to Expand Oil Drilling in Bahrain

      You think Biden personally financed this fucking deal? He’s not a king. He doesn’t like it. He’s opposing it. So are Democrats. But he’s not a goddamn king, and you know that, and more importantly you know that poorly informed voters don’t know that, so you talk your bullshit to try to sway them.

      This is the answer to the article’s question. Why don’t people know about Biden’s wins? Because people like you are intentionally misleading them.

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      That’s probably why they don’t seem interested in advertising Biden’s “accomplishments”… Instead just beating that Trump bad drum all day everyday

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      we were, we’d probably be voting Republican…

      Its clear from how Biden has managed his 2024 campaign he’d rather Republicans as supporters, so that tracks.