QB House. Path to WTC, right outside the John St exit. $25. Japanese barber shop chain with a few shops in NYC.

Every night the Purge siren sounds across Jersey City....each night, all crime is legal and emergency services are suspended for tire and catalytic converter thieves. God Bless Jersey City.

-- "New Founding Fathers of Jersey City"

"or you will spend all your time in Manhattan/etc."........ Hoboken is nice but whatever. You get tired of it about as fast as your get tired of downtown or Newport. Light Rail/etc is nice but does not take you to the most happening places, and it's weekend schedule and maintenance delays suck almost as bad as PATH. My life in JC improved 10x once I got a car as NJ has so much to offer that is outside the range of mass transit.

Lived in Long Island City (on the border with Astoria), then moved to JC/Newport.

LIC:

• Good - Much better transportation options - Queens Blvd, Queensboro Plaza, Court Square basically gave you every train that matters. Plus, a taxi/Uber home from Manhattan is not too ridiculously priced.
• Good - More easy access to much better food in Astoria and LIC. Quick train ride to Jackson Heights, Elmhurst or Manhattan gets you everything else.
• Good - Pedestrian bridge to Manhattan. (59th St bridge)
• Neutral - No need for a car.
• Neutral - easy access to two trash airports (JFK and LGA).
• Bad - high rent/cost of living.
• Bad - It's Queens.

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Jersey City:

• Good - Much improving food options, but no match for Queens.
• Good - More space for lower cost
• Good - Less tax - city taxes add up quick.
• Neutral/Good - You are forced to take the PATH, which saves you money. Lazy people like me will hop in a cab, and that adds up real quick. Uber one-way to JC is too expensive and makes you think twice and only do it when necessary.
• Neutral/Bad - PATH
• Neutral - you really need a car or you will spend all your time in Manhattan/etc.
• Bad - No pedestrian bridge (or tunnel!) to Manhattan.
• Bad - easy access to just one trash airport (EWR).
• Bad - It's New Joisey

I agree he has been effective, I still think "most effective" is a big stretch. That's the point I'm supporting.

Some of the accomplishments were simply due to the current times and situation. If Orange man had won a 2nd term, there anyway would have been economic packages similar to ARR, CHIPs, etc. Different scale and scope but there would have been something.

IRA is purely a Biden/Dem accomplishment. Mr Orange would have had something immigration/border or domestic energy related.

Bipartisan Safer Communities Act - many gun owners support this... want to know why? It changes nothing whatsoever for any legal gun owner. It applies minor tweaks to some small laws and funds a bunch of social programs that barely relate to guns. It simply checks a box that Biden passed a gun law. The B&H Admin are keenly aware that even members of their base are purchasing firearms (women and minorities are the largest groups of new gun owners in past 2 years). Any major legislation or ban would hurt them more than help. This law is another sideshow meant to distract.

Apologies if I missed something, as I'm going off the top of my head and what I can easily lookup on Wikipedia/etc over the past 1/2 hour... If I am missing something substantial, please say so.

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - good thing, 100% agree.

CHIPS and Science Act - good idea and good something was passed, but quite underwhelming. $280b is chump change over 10yr. It costs $15-20b and years to just build a single fab, and this gives a measly $40b only towards construction and modernization. This will have some positive impact but in no way a slam dunk.

Inflation Reduction Act - it is about everything except inflation reduction. They simply renamed a climate bill because they were smart enough to know there would be blowback from the all sides of the public for passing a climate bill in the middle of this economic shitshow. It still is generally a good thing but people are too wowed by the sideshow to see what this really was.

KBJ Nomination & Confirmation - good thing.

Honoring our PACT Act - good thing, and is something Trump would never have done without being forced.

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American Rescue Plan - let's be honest, any Dem/Rep president would have passed something along these lines in 2021/post-pandemic. He gets a Participation Trophy for this one.

PPP Extension - Same as American Rescue.

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act - meaningful, does not do anything to fix our broken country. Participation Trophy.

Juneteenth National Independence Day Act - meaningful, does not do anything to fix our broken country. Participation Trophy

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Not caring about any of the Executive Actions or Orders or Proclamations.

Decently effective, 100%. Astronomically effective? That's a stretch, which is all I'm saying.

>Biden’s first two years defined the most effective Congressional term in decades.

Can you please point at hard data to prove this, comparing to past terms across decades?

A full-on ban is not even supported by a majority of Republicans. Graham recently proposed a 15-week ban on some abortions, not a full-on ban, and such a law puts the US in the same class as most of Europe. Also, our government is so dysfunctional that even the Dems could not pass any meaningful legislation when they controlled all 3 branches, what makes you think the Republicans are somehow smarter and can do it? The only constant in our legislature is nothing gets done, which is why we expect the judicial branch to do things they are not chartered to do.

Misinformation like we are "one step closer to a full-on abortion ban" is counterproductive. It only feeds more emotions which feeds more misinformation. I know I'm asking a lot of Reddit, but try to keep your posts within the realm of truth, and be better than the Republicans.