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The fact that this race is even remotely close is un-fucking-believable.
What do you expect he has done nothing for what matters rent, food, houses, healthcare, income and the homeless are out of control but hey we might get weed put to schedule 3....woopie
American Rescue Plan reversed much of the damage done by the pandemic
Unemployment at historic lows
Expanded access to healthcare coverage
Passed bipartisan infrastructure bill
CHIPS Act
Inflation Reduction Act has brought inflation back under control
Rejoined the Paris Climate Accord
Passed sweeping student debt relief for millions of students burdened with predatory loans
And yes, rescheduled cannabis after a century of prohibition
All in just one term.
Wow, you're right, he's done nothing, guess I'll just vote for the dude with 91 felony charges who talks about being a dictator on day one, or maybe the dude with the brain worm. Really tough choice.
Don't get me wrong I'm not voting for the orange turd, but none of those things has changed anything rent is still 50% of my income and food is still double what it used to be electricity is high, gas is high child care is impossible I Guess I should have signed up for school loans
The president has little say on the laws that Congress passes. Vote for your local senators and representatives! The only way to realize change is to vote in your local elections!
It is local and state government that is important to making changes! Republicans have figured this out decades ago and have been gerrymandering and packing courts for decades.
The president can’t waive a magic wand and make any change he wants.
The president has little say on the laws that Congress passes.
Vetoes
Executive Orders
Judicial Appointments
Fundraising for Congressional Candidates
An Attorney General that can argue against legislation in federal courts
An enormous administrative bureaucracy that authors internal policy under broader federal mandates
A Vice President who breaks ties in a Senate split 48(D)/3(I)/49(R)
But other than that...
Enjoy Trump dumbasses.
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it again and again; of course you don't like the Democrat candidate; but you've got to swallow your damned medicine or the outcome will be exponentially worse.
Yeah, I voted for Hillary. I hate her so goddamn much. But you know who I hate more? The orange asshole. So I did what I had to do, I swallowed my anger and voted for the bitch. No protest vote, no skipping out on it, just sucking it up and doing what had to be done. If more people had followed my example, and the example of many others, we wouldn't be rapidly watersliding dowe the lubed-up slope to outright, unapologetic fascism.
of course you don’t like the Democrat candidate; but you’ve got to swallow your damned medicine
Tincture of Mercury and a regular bloodletting will give us the strength we need to fight off the Trump Virus.
So I did what I had to do
You did, but when the Dem Party regained office in 2020 they didn't.
Dems had an opportunity to give DC statehood in 2021. Two free senators, a house seat, and an easy 3 EC votes. This legislation was queued up and ready to go and the Dem majority just... didn't do it. So now 660k Americans are once again going into 2024 fully disenfranchised, in an election when every vote counts.
This isn't the only way in which the Dems sabotage their own success. But it can't be ignored how a party that zealously backed guys like Henry Cuellar and Bob Menendez during primaries, long after they'd been outed as crooks and frauds, are the biggest threats to their own success. Never even mind the horrifying genocide in Palestine or the slavish devotion to fossil fuel subsidies or the shameless pandering to crypto-bros.
If more people had followed my example, and the example of many others, we wouldn’t be rapidly watersliding dowe the lubed-up slope to outright, unapologetic fascism.
Every election gives the fascist party larger voter turnout. This isn't an issue of apathy, but of escalating tensions. Election turnout over the last six years has been reaching century-long highs but its a two-edged sword. Republican activists have been very successful in building up their own local majorities.
More people are following your example. Even in the face of gerrymandering. Even in the face of voter caging. Even in the face of shameless criminal-but-unprosecuted efforts at disenfranchisement.
But that includes conservatives. More and more of them, every year, as Trump drives an enthusiasm for the GOP I haven't seen since Reagan.
While I agree with your message, can you please refrain from name calling Hillary? In particular using that word. She's not perfect, no one is but that term is unnecessary.
Agreed. She's more of a cunt than a bitch.
blah blah blah, don't listen to the new york times about polling right now, it's all for clicks, not for any actually substances of truth.
This is a more meaningful critique — the poll is surely real, but that doesn't mean Biden is going to experience some sort of guaranteed loss.