$15 national minimum wage- No
Robust Medicare system- Lol, lmao even
Actual climate change plan-
He did give us funding for neo-Nazis in Ukraine and for genocide in Palestine, so celebrate the small victories, I guess?
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Thanks, I hate it. That fucking cutesy thumbs down infuriates me every time I think about it and now it'll be in my brain looking like this forever.
someone needs to make a website that does nothing but show what the buying power $15 minimum wage would look like today ($20.32), compared to 2012 when "Fight for 15" started
A politician lied on his website? WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS UNHEARD OF AMERICA IS IN SHAMBLES
okay sure he lied about one or two things but do you really think he just lied about literally everything on his website?
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
I do and I'm tired of pretending he's not.
Especially with Biden, where he probably didn't know about half the stuff on his website. It was just there so that the media could point at it and say: "Not only does Biden have a plan for healthcare as well, but his plan is worse, which makes it actually better because it is more realistic".
I have pressed libs on these things and they say that Biden has made "serious progress towards these goals" and "he'll surely accomplish them in his second term."
Liberals are beyond the pale, truly
Minimum wage: One (1) half-assed attempt at raising it followed by a collective
from the entire Democratic partyMedicare: Costs slightly lowered from "ludicrously expensive" to "outrageously expensive." Apparently raised the Medicare tax rate on incomes over $400,000 by a whole 1.2%. Maybe not nothing, but still tiny ass changes that don't fundamentally fix a broken system, and still aren't single player, universal healthcare. You know, the kind of system that everybody else has that has been proven to work, is cheaper, and doesn't plunge people into six figures of debt for the rest of their (and their next of kin's) lives.
Climate change: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-administration-resume-leasing-oil-gas-drilling-federal-lands-rcna24646
In other words nothing fundamentally changed
Can't forget student loans.
All he's done is forgive those who actually got scammed and for everyone else just redid the payment plan based on income.
I tried but court said no so I won't try anything else
Maybe not nothing
Nah, I'm sick of trying to be overly reasonable about this garbage schtick liberal politicians enable and engage in
Liberal politicians always do this, instead of enacting something that would be massively popular and genuinely good, they do the most pathetically small thing they can think of to modify the existing structure, like increasing the existing tax on the top .1% by 1.2%. Then you get smug bootlickers who quote the White House website press release that it increased revenues by 50 million (for a program with a 500 billion dollar budget), while also explaining at you that it was actually massively helpful and wonderful for everyone, and if you don't understand that you're a moron and a conservative parasite. Or they try and explain that you don't understand the government, as if they were the only genius who had a grade school civics class.
It is nothing but piss in the wind and I refuse to consider it otherwise
You really think a politician would do that? Just run a campaign and tell lies?
And even post them on the internet?
It's depressing to see people fall for the same carrot-stick nonsense year after year. An administration could arguably accomplish one major reform during a single term, even if it tanked their career. There are empowerments the president can use to do this (libs will often use you personally not being able to detail each legal subversion necessary as proof the acting president actually cannot do what they campaigned on, however this is a coping mechanism, as they refuse to believe that the person they
d for can be ideologically bad).If Biden actually cared about anything he campaigned on, even if it were just one thing he was the most passionate about, he could have worked over the past three years to execute a plan to make it happen, even if it led to his impeachment. But he hasn't, because he doesn't, because the system he dedicated his career to uphold is working as intended.
How can people still believe the dems will stop the right after a full term of them not doing anything to stop the right?
Every promise will be broken, every pseudo-progressive bullshit they spew is a facade, they don’t care about trans peoples, black peoples or anyone that isn’t a wealthy strait white men or a cop.
If you look at what they are actually doing it’s no better than what the republicans are doing.
It’s especially vexing when it’s Gen Xers and boomers. Like I get if it’s some zoomer or younger millennial who only just became aware of politics in the late teens and hadn’t been burned yet. But when it’s people who’ve been through multiple dem presidents failing to live up to the promises still believing that
for team blue is going to meaningful evolve anything, that’s sad.After decades of not doing anything to stop the right.
After decades of helping the right
During Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s press conference, I asked why Democrats were negotiating curtailing immigration with a party led by Mr Trump.
“What Donald Trump said and did was despicable, but we do have a problem at the border and Democrats know we have to solve that problem, but in keeping with our principles,” he said.
Just another drop in the ocean of monstrous things they've helped conservatives do
the dems will stop the right
I remember Obama saying "the fever will break" regarding the Republicans pre-Trump lol.
How can people still believe the dems will stop the right after a full term of them
not doing anything to stop the righthelping the right
2020 made me lose faith not only in this country but in humanity itself
It really was the tipping point for me, solidified that yes, there really is only one party in the West (the capitalist party) and also that even a pandemic that threatens to kill and/or cripple most of the population will be met with the same half-assed non-solution as climate change. There is nothing that will make them admit that capitalism is a suicide deal. No end to their delusion. They're a cult. There is no reasoning with a beast like that, so it solidified for me that the only way out is revolution.
I really feel like the left should have made a bigger deal about the shadow app shit in the 2020 primaries, I feel like the whole "we won't make a scene if Bernie loses" might have been exactly what the Dems wanted.
It didn't make me lose faith in humanity, though, it just confirmed without a doubt that, yes, the tankies were right after all.
was good for a few days of hopeThe crushing disappointment that followed those protests was the cherry on top
Nothing will change
Nothing will save us
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Friends I lost for posting a "being happy Trump lost, being cautious Biden won" meme in November 2020 have been oddly quiet recently. I keep telling them, dialectical materialism is a science, and yet they still keep voting Labor and calling out leftists for splitting the vote (which is not a thing in Australia, and I hate yanks for teaching them that term)
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It's the "/" for me, including slashfic writers is barely even a step above treating the "A" as meaning ally
did biden cure cancer yet?
no, but no one i know personally has died of cancer since before his presidency if that counts for anything
Evergreen tweet
i wonder if that person feels silly now or if they still think biden is the best thing ever
the tweet seems to have been deleted, (unless twitter is hiding it from me in the replies) but i don't know if that was out of shame, or if they got banned or deleted their account or what
Dark Brandon strikes again.
I've got this website where I wrote that I'm going to marry your dad (I'm actually just going to string him along with empty promises and break his heart)
Could have at least made
a campaign promise so he could have got credit for something
"he'll surely accomplish them in his second term."
"he'll surely accomplish them in his second term."
Best I can do is the most brutal massacre of this century...
