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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

He resigned for our crimes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

He should pardon every undocument immigrant in the US, just to stick it to Trump, any woman charged with any crime under retro-medieval aborton laws, and commute every death sentence under his jurisdiction. But he won't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He did. By passing meaningful legislation for 4 years and forgiving student loans.

Then we told him to go fuck himself and re-hired a felon rapist.

He doesn't owe us shit.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

He doesn’t owe us shit.

Like fuck he doesn't. He's the fucking president. If he had an ounce of decency, he'd keep fighting fascism 'til the last day of his presidency. That's what having power in a republic means, the duty to use it for the common good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone with an ounce of decency wouldn't even run for president, let alone get elected

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Senator from MBNA only ever had one agenda. I'll quote the man himself, "Nothing will fundamentally change". Caught hotmic'd in a closed door large ~~bribery~~ donor fancy plate shindig 4.5 years ago. Wouldn't be holding any breath waiting for anything from this guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

My point's just that he has the duty, not that I expect him to execute it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have suggestions? Or just complaints? Are you aware presidents can't just do anything?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have suggestions? Or just complaints? Are you aware presidents can’t just do anything?

Holy fucking shit man, the only thing I'm responding to is the idea that Biden doesn't "owe us shit" because the US electorate was mean to him. Biden owes us the full execution of his duty to the best of his abilities from now until the day he leaves the presidency.

Not to mention that the very topic of the post and article is literally a suggestion from a Congresscritter.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Despite these actions, the Last Prisoner Project (LPP) notes in a statement that Biden “has yet to release a single person still incarcerated for cannabis through commutation.” Although the pardons granted relief to thousands of people with a conviction on their records, the president’s clemency actions did not address the approximately 3,000 individuals serving time in federal prisons for cannabis related offenses.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajherrington/2024/11/26/nonprofit-group-calls-on-biden-to-pardon-cannabis-prisoners/

Ask more of your leaders. He in fact does owe us. We live in a democracy.

Be dissatisfied with corruption and nepotism. Otherwise that is all we will get. And we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could he pardon our loans please?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You don't pay much attention to news, huh?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you talking about the student loans he wrote off for a small subset of people who needed it?

I'm happy for those who got it, but that's hardly enough progress on this issue for me to give our government praise for it. Nearly all of us in the working class were still better off four years ago than we are now. Biden jacked up interest rates to address "inflation," which increased my mortgage by around $700 a month. That's more than what I pay in student loans, and that's just one example.

Things seems to just get worse slower when dems are in office, not better. IAnd I'm entirely fed up with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

100%

They're controlled opposition; they exist to block any leftist, progressive candidates from reaching positions of actual influence. They have abandoned workers and aided in the gutting of the middle class for at least 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

A true 'Murican (I live among them)

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