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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now that we've had him for four years, and he was worse than we expected...

He far exceeded my expectations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In which ways? motions to everything being crap

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • Massive infrastructure bill
  • Student loan forgiveness
  • Marijuana rescheduling

There’s plenty more, but my expectation was for him to not be Trump which he has thoroughly succeeded at. The rest is icing.

The biggest things he’s disappointed on, Trump disappoints on too…:

  • Palestine
  • Being too fucking old

…so it’s easy to see how that on balance he has exceeded expectations…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That bar was extremely low huh?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Being better than Trump is a low bar.

Are you confused about what’s happening here?

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

It would be nice if we actually had policies we could champion instead of just "not Trump".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That should be the bare minimum. Crumbs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's it? That's all he's supposed to do while millions are still struggling?

Single mom: "I'm working three jobs and my kids are still hungry. We're about to be homeless."

"Hey now, Paris climate agreement! Be grateful!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're right, everything is really great right now in America. Nothing else to see here folks. Everybody's swimming in gold.

Ignore the nearly 60% of people living paycheck to paycheck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marijuana rescheduling

Is weed now legal nationwide? Everyone in jail for marijuana convictions now released? Records all expunged?

infrastructure spending

Bridges are literally crumbling. Where's the high speed rail?

student loan forgiveness

$1,600,000,000,000 total student loan debt, 45,000,000 Americans. He's wiped $150 billion. That's around 9% of the total and most of that has already been added back from the interest. "We did it Joe!"

clean drinking water

Flint would like a word.

lowered costs of generic drugs

For seniors, and for insulin.

expanded Medicaid

expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level (about $20,780 annually for an individual or $35,630 for a family of three.) - How are they even surviving on that much? MURICA is doing great sweetie!

increased domestic manufacturing

What's the output not including the tax subsidized spending? Small businesses are being decimated.

increased nationwide gas mileage requirements

While increasing oil production he said he wouldn't do. There's a reason Sunrise Movement won't endorse him.

improved healthcare access for veterans.

Thanks Bernie Sanders!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, you have nothing to worry about with Biden in November then. He's doing such a great job, why isn't he 50 points ahead? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dems are walking us towards the cliff. We're sounding the alarm and they keep marching onward.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What subject do you want to discuss?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want my POTUS & Co. to fight for the following, as a start...

Universal healthcare, guaranteed housing, childcare for all, college for all, massive public transit projects in all the major cities, raise the federal wage to a livable wage, ban corporations from buying up housing, 75% minimum tax on rich.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are always policies they run on. It's a matter of believing or seeing them follow through with them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, no, it's not. We should have had those things decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're happy with being hungry for hours before being given anything to eat, then good for you I guess? We can do better. Being kept hungry and given crumbs isn't healthy, it's positively abusive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is like blaming Obama for his terrible response to Katrina.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen the need to point this out: Dems have had all 3 (of house, senate, presidency) for 4 years out of the last 24 years. If you include Bill Clinton that goes to 6 years of the last 32 years. Want to add Bush senior? Then it’s 6 years of the last 36 years. Want to add Reagan? Then it’s 6 years of the last 44 years. That's right, 6 years out of the last 44 years that Dems had control. And for filibuster proof majority they had 4 months of the last 44 years. Not years, 4 MONTHS of the last 44 fucking years.

And you want to ask why things haven't happened?

If you want progress, give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The bar was Trump

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s silly to downvote you for wanting the leaders and representatives of a country and its people to be held to a certain standard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, politicians work for us. We're their boss. They should be working their asses off for the people.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Massive infrastructure bill that just funnels money to companies like Comcast and Spectrum and othet corporations who'll squander like they have every other time they've been given money

Student loan forgiveness that does nothing to change the insane and continually rising cost of attending college.

Marijuana rescheduling that does nothing to address the fact that 40 states have already legalized it for medical use and 25 states who've legalized it for recreational use.

This is little more than a bunch of empty gestures and lip service to make it seem like they're improving things when in reality, very little is changing (and to give people like you hollow talking points to list as accomplisments). This is why so many people don't even bother to vote anymore because the whole system is stacked against us.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Everyone has different standards and expectations.

Hell, look at how many people say that about trump.