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submitted 7 months ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

Seems kind of undemocratic to ignore the demands of the people that voted for you.

He was elected on the pretense that he would cancel student loans, stop covid, fix healthcare, stop the border camps, etc. But he hasn't done any of those things.

Pretty sorry democracy the US has. Some free country should liberate them.

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[-] Kalkaline@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago

He's not an authoritarian, he needs the backing of Congress to do those things as well as no Supreme Court challenges on those actions. Who are you voting for in his place?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 84 points 7 months ago

weird, he didn't seem to need congress to start a war with yemen

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 76 points 7 months ago

If he's not an authoritarian, why didn't he need the backing of congress to give more weapons to Israel?

Who are you voting for in his place?

hillary-contempt doing a write-in, it's her turn

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

hillgasm THE HILLDAWG COMETH planet-hillary

[-] davel@hexbear.net 76 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago

Noooo but the Supreme Court, the unelected body of ghouls wearing robes with lifetime appointments to a position that gives them the power to arbitrarily take away rights and de facto veto power over any federal policy project, but also has no mechanism for enforcing its power and is therefore literally dependent on the rest of the federal government to entertain their fascistic musings, said we can't do that!

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

And, as always needs to be mentioned, the entire student debt crisis is his legacy, his gift to the people, after making it illegal to discharge student loans in bankruptcy in 05.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 72 points 7 months ago

I guess the logical conclusion would be to vote for an authoritarian.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

A little kitty cat called Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Also, really funny how when some third world country nationalizes their lithium reserves (or even does as much as sway to another side geopolitically, as Ukraine did) the US just coups them and makes sure the correct policy agenda goes through. But when people at home ask for even a mild reform to the most broken, insane healthcare system in the world, liberals come out of the woodworks saying we gotta check what the cuckoo clock says and run a lap around the parliamentarian. Be for real, if Biden or any other ghoul actually wanted to get change done, they would've sent Joe Manchin and Sinema an overhead shot of their bedroom and dig out a million old skeletons from their closets, because that's how power operates. You've deluded yourself into thinking this elaborate trapezoid of checks and balances works in your favor when it's just Calvinball.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 56 points 7 months ago

interesting how everything that might materially help working people is "aUtHoRiTaRiAn"

your "democracy" is a sham and here's why

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

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[-] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 54 points 7 months ago

How come republican presidents don't need both houses of Congress and the supreme Court to advance their legislative agendas?

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 months ago

Because their legislation is usually "nothing". And they DO need both. What they've also done is compromise: they give Democrats something they want and in turn get tax breaks for the rich.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 53 points 7 months ago

why did you say "tax breaks for the rich" twice

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

This shit's so frustrating. "America civic religion" pilled, copemaxxxing

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

"there is no alternative" brain at work margaret-thatcher

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago
[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

Because their legislation is usually "nothing".

Then why was everyone freaking out about cheeto-man

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

So why should we be scared of Trump then?

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

LMAO, I wonder how many people knew about the parliamentarian before Biden was inaugurated.

Edit - oh shit you're serious. Lemmy strikes again. So if Biden has the power to make lives better through pushing through healthcare or prosecuting Republicans for their actions, he shouldn't?

Is that what you believe? He's called a tyrant regardless and he's allowed things like Roe v Wade to fall through.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

Oh got i forget about the fucking senate pastafarian!

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He's not an authoritarian

He's literally bankrolling a genocide, I'd love to see you explain how that's not "authoritarian"

Oh, and do it without going "buh Drumpf would be worse"

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He's not an authoritarian

Good for him. I'm glad he's a good little boy that followed all the rules. We're all definitely better off for it.

[-] CoolYori@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

Who are you voting for in his place?

countdown

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, when every candidate that people have to choose from are absolute garbage that everyone hates, and are probably there because they have funding from unelected donors, I suggest revolution and replacing them with people that are accountable to the proletariat. You know, a real democracy.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago

Then maybe he shouldn't have promised them, huh?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How is he bypassing Congress to fast track weapons to Israel for their genocide? Why did he waive a bunch of federal laws to build a border fence? Why can't he do that for a single good thing instead of something unspeakably evil?

Why doesn't he enforce the rule of law against authoritarian Republican governors who so openly flout it to commit their horrific human rights abuses and bigotry campaigns?

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

Thanks. I've been looking forward to the right opportunity to use this new emoji jagoff

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

Fish on the line

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

Oh shit you're serious.

Damn. I'm so sorry.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

i'm voting for cum

[-] jack@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

Who are you voting for in his place?

PSL

[-] D61@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

So, your admitting that its pointless to vote for Joe as "he aint fixing shit".

Nice!

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

Define authoritarian

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

He's not an authoritarian

Hey that meaningless term again!

he needs the backing of Congress to do those things

Then why were all you Libs freaking out about Trump? He was just a widdle president after all.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Is it not authoritarian to aid and abet a genocide?

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