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It’s been like that since about 2016
It has gotten so much worse in the last few months and weeks
Like two years of the Biden admin were okay, somewhere between the height of the pandemic and the Gaza Genocide, but otherwise yeah.
49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, 2 independents in the Senate, and a House majority Republican. That just means all bills/laws made from 2023-2025 were dictated by Republicans in that time. There are a lot of terrible Democrats, but people lie to themselves that we will get laws written by Democrats during any of that time. Most people on here saying "well Biden was President" are pro authoritarian, pro fascist regimes.
Presidents were ruled above the law during his time. He could have made anything he wanted a law because he was above the restrictions of power on the president.
Presidents can't make laws. And executive orders only apply to the executive branch. They are orders to his workers. It's like the CEO of Coke saying "put cocaine back in product". It didn't make it legal for the cocaine to be in the product.
So what's your point?
Biden was in fact president
If Democrats had absolute control, we'd still be on a slow boat to oblivion. That is no doubt an improvement over the express train we are on, but let's not pretend the Democratic establishment has anything in mind for the future of the middle class but utter destruction.
Oh, and Congress didn't exactly need to put a gun to Biden's head on Palestine.
The last time Democrats had any control at all they passed the ACA.
so what is it you want? Murder? Terrorism? Spell it out so we know what you are saying. Because many Democrats are stupid, doesn't excuse you from your words
What? How the hell did you get murder and terrorism out of that?
What I want is is social libertarianism. What I'd settle for is an FDR progressive. My bare acceptable minimum is liberal democracy. What the Democrats are is ineffective illiberal elitist technocrats.
I would like them to break out of the stupid two party system
So you vote Democrat and primary with progressives that run on election reform.
Id like them to update the impeachment/removal process to something like 25% house impeaches, and 25% senate removes. And bring it back to the VP being the runner up. 3rd place being put on queue. Emergency vote if to pick the next 3rd when needed. It would essentially put the executive branch back to being what I think they are supposed to be, people executing the laws made by our representatives in Congress. Presidential elections wouldnt matter much at all, and all the money trying to get candidates there would simmer down along with some of the corruption hopefully. People should be focused on who their representatives are in the house and senate. Then who represents them locally. No one should have to care who is president.
Is that more or less important to you than defeating Nazis?
what?
its not a this or that
Giving antifascists and other people the option to open their own party is very anti nazi while keeping the "1 Epstein party" system will keep the power in people that benefit from fascism
Disagree. Could be true with their half-ass efforts towards climate change but I think with enough Hillary Democrat control we'd basically go back to the 1990s, which right now looks like the peak of human civilization.
Personally I think we can do better. The gains in efficiency we've made since the 90s, and there have been a lot, should mostly be going to the people. I think we should be thinking big with projects like real mas transit and freight, reducing our reliance on semis, and more local, green energy independence. I think we can achieve a $25 (2025) , adjusted for inflation min wage WITH a 32 hour work week for everyone.
I'd like actual progress. I'll settle for the 1990s and rule of law. Neither are close to the actual fascism of Republicans.
I'll vote for the first in the primary, and whichever of the first two win in the general. Kind of how our democracy works currently. Yeah, ranked choice would be better but for right now I'll settle for one more reasonably fair fptp election.
What? Bill Clinton is more responsible than anyone but maybe Reagan for the gutting of the middle class. The Clinton's set us on this path. Hillary's only real track record is on foreign policy, and her positions there reflect the absolute worst aspects of American arrogance and interventionism.
The Clinton's and the rest of the Democratic establishment are responsible for destroying the underlying social fabric that would have made any of what you want possible. They are also diametrically opposed to a "fair" primary. Democrats have near 100% control over their own primary process, and the whole thing is rigged to maximize their ability to manipulate voters through their domination of media.
The manipulation of the media is true for Republicans as well
The good news is that people are (hopefully) getting sick and tired of it all
Pretty much everything wrong with Democrats is as bad or worse with Republicans. On the other hand, the Republican establishment did not want Trump to be nominated in 2016 any more than the Democrats wanted Sanders. It's up for debate if they were less heavy handed in manipulating the process, or if they were just more incompetent.
Not if you consider the deafening silence of Biden doing less than nothing to insure nobody like Trump could take office again. Or even his blinding inability to undo the BS Trump did his first term... He was basically screaming from the hills that this was going to happen again for those who could hear past the silence.
The sad reality is that he should not of run for a second term. He made it incredibly easy for Trump to look good in the debates. Harris for a lot of people was received as just another Biden.
The Democrats shouldn't ran someone from a different entirely
It was not Biden's job to prosecute his political opponent, nor should it ever be a president's job. Unlike past examples, like Ford for Nixon, he did not pardon Trump.
Biden did so many great things that helped people, selflessly, that it's hard to list them all. Here is an attempt at only some of the things:
expanded overtime pay eligibility to millions
forgave $186 Billion of student loans despite constant pushback from Republican AGs and courts
increased audits for the rich, which payed for itself and more
allowed over-the-counter birth control to hit the markets
pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions, commuting 2500+ sentences
awarded $286 million for schools student mental health programs
replaced more federal vehicle fleets with all electric
expanded solar and wind power across the nation
drafted new anti-redlining predatory mortgage regulations which went into effect in January
a crackdown on hidden fees from service providers, ticket sellers, and banks
forced Chinese companies to properly report SEC Filings in order to remain publicly tradeable
expanded less carbon intensive farming practices in the USA
expanded nature conservation and national parks more than any past president, including $4 Billion for the preservation of the shrinking Colorado River
cut federal funding for career training programs which trap their students in more debt relative to their post-graduation earnings
brokered a peace deal in the Congo
strengthened alliance with Japan and South Korea over countering potential threats from China and North Korea
funded medical research for things like cancer, countering the previous cuts by Republicans
helped Class-A railroad workers to have industry-wide paid sick leave, albeit after he undercut their strike he still aided them in getting all of their demands in the following months
literally penned the first and then only AI oversight and regulation with his AI Executive Order
investigated grocery store price gouging and blocked mergers such as Krogers-Albertsons
The Respect for Marriage Act which protects gay marriage
protected LGBT+ Service Members and Veterans
signed multiple executive orders protecting lgbt+ throughout the federal government including "prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation" and "advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals"
appointed the first openly LGBTQI+ Cabinet Secretary, White House Press Secretary, and White House Communications Director, the two first openly transgender people to ever be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the first out lesbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador.
Bull fucking shit it wasn't. The President is the chief law enforcement officer in the Federal government, and his "political opponent" was the most dangerous criminal we've seen in decades. Yes, it was his fucking job to make damn sure the DOJ did theirs.
His "political opponent" attempted to overthrow the elected government of the United States, while sitting in the office of the president. What Trump did, treason isn't even a strong enough word for.
The administrative branch, through the United States attorney general, decides which crimes or laws it pursues in applying and which ones it doesn't. It is 100% the job of the administrative branch, The Presidency, to prosecute a former government official, especially of the outgoing administration, for treason.
And not one fucking iota of those, allegedly, "good things" Biden did matters now: Because Biden failed in his duty to prosecute Trump. And honestly, I'll leave it for others to nitpick the absolute absurdity being extolled in that list you've come up with. The one that caught my eye at a glance is the bit about rail workers.
Fuck Biden. Worst president of the past 100 years (with one exception) and the man who sealed the fate on the downfall of the republic.
1 exception? Just one?
I'm on the fence if its even hyperbole. For all the faults of all the presidents of the past hundred years, none of them directly contributed to the downfall of the republic in the way Biden has. Its hard to understand historicity in real time. We really don't know whats going to necessarily get remembered or how.
Like, genuinely, who is worse? The guy who says "I'm going to burn the building down" or the one who, in a position of power to stop them, makes the conscious decision not to? Trump has never not said exactly what they are going to do. They are the quiet part-out-loud manifest. And Biden chose to believe something different. They had all the power to simply arrest Trump on day 1 of their office. Put him behind bars on that day, begin the investigation. Take it seriously, like Brazil has, like South Korea did. Biden
McKinley is one of the biggest pieces of shit that ever lived. I'll live with PTSD forever because of the decisions of Bush. Trump. Well. Of course.
But Trump could have been stopped. We didn't need to have him as President again. Trump was polling like shit. He was deeply unpopular, even though he won. Trump is a consequence of the decisions and the decision making framework of Biden and Democratic leadership.
If he had just worn a less revealing dress...
That guy is super-duper racist and hates Obama. He's cool with Trump, though.
Excuse me are you accusing me of racism?
I'm making a joke at your expense.
lol sure bud... Making sure PROVABLE unconstitutional shitpiles do not gain power isn't in the job description... but it should be.
Have fun getting ChatGPT to puke out that list for you?
I don't fucking care if he personally cured cancer. The fact he allowed the festering tumor that is Trump to fester is still despicable. The fact he gave people no hope such that they wouldn't turn to the convenient lies of Trump is despicable.
Have fun celebrating your pile of shit covered in Fabreeze. Us people out here in the real world aren't going to be convinced by a list of intangibles.
I particularly love how you celebrate help for thousands of people in a country with hundreds of millions, but you keep drinking that copium koolaid!
Your style of willful ignorance is EXACTLY why Democrats lose to lying shitstains like Trump.
I personally wrote that list, albeit like a week ago. I don't use AI for anything, ever, I think an LLM is a liability machine.
If presidents can send opponents to prison on a whim our democracy would have ended a long time ago.
It wouldn't be on a whim. It would be for provable, demonstrable violations of the constitution, but you go ahead and keep pretending that presidents are kings.
Treason is treason, and that fuck is GUILTY AS CHARGED. Anyone who disagrees is just a fucking ignorant accomplice.
It's the courts' responsibility to sentence people for provable, demonstrable violations of the law. Indictments were brought against Donald Trump, but then millions of assholes reelected him, and here we are.
lol there were a thousand things he could've done, but didn't. That's the point! He did NOTHING to prevent this.
Despite a clear and present threat to the country, he did NOTHING. That's a dereliction of duty. Period. When Trump DOES prevent the next Democrat from winning, you will see what the president can actually do.
In any case, defending a president as above the law is not only utterly pathetic and moronic, it's literally also an unconstitutional position... Congratulations on defending a stance Trump has.
Congratulations to Democrats on utterly failing to defend every single axiom this country is supposed to be founded on and handing the keys to lunatics.
They proved they are less than useless, and you fucking idiots still picachu-face at the populace choosing "anything else" over something provably inept...
I’ve been seeing this meme since 2016.
I read this to the tune of cotton eye joe.
It's been like that a lot longer than that. It's just that most of the damage leading up to 2016 was under the surface and most people didn't read their damage reports.