• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Inflation reduction act. No recession so far. Student debt forgiveness. He’s not just sitting on his hands.

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      9 months ago

      Exactly. Anybody paying attention would realize he’s delivering on so much shit no Republican in my working memory ever has.

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        9 months ago

        Exactly. Too much Trump outrage posting - fueled by the media for advertising clicks. Ignore the cheese turd.

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        9 months ago

        Honestly, not really. There are times I have to remind myself. The Biden administration has a special knack for not publicizing their victories at all. As Stewart recently commented about Harris and others talking about Biden being sharp and in command. “Did anyone happen to record this?”

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        9 months ago

        Tell me you’re not a billionaire without telling me you’re not a billionaire…

        Edit: lots of downvotes. Must be all the billionaires who don’t like being called out.

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      9 months ago

      Noone is paying attention to that. Their strategy should be hammering this over and over and over nonstop. They have had no strategy for a year while focus was on the Republicans, and they still have no agenda other than Trump bad and Biden is not that old.

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      9 months ago

      What matters is perception and public messaging and that is currently one of a centrist president incapable of reigning in a foreign ally or continually calling out House Republicans for their shenanigans that put American lives at risk at home and abroad.

      Conservatives have constant control of the conversation because they have zero qualms publicly stating how their political adversaries stand in their way. But instead it looks like Democrats trying to win Republicans support by adopting republican policies instead of bullying them into accepting the plan of the majority party of the upper legislature and presidency.

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      9 months ago

      This insistence that everyone be excited about the Inflation Reduction Act after we all saw what happened with BBB is insulting.

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        9 months ago

        The IRA made European countries begrudgingly pass similar legislation so their green energy companies would stay and be globally competitive. We can be excited about the significance of the IRA and still acknowledge we could go a lot further. It remains that it was some of the strongest climate policy passed in the entire West.

        If Europe is so much more left wing, they should’ve had legislation and policies like it much longer ago. The US shouldn’t have needed to push them.

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          With exception of Bobby Kennedy, I’m not sure the latter part is true. On the other hand Republicans seem to fall in love pretty hard recently. To a shockingly worrying degree.

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            I don’t think that’s what the expression means. I think that expression means that the Left is quick to look for reasons why it can’t work with so and so politician, while the Right mostly just goes with what Leadership says. To borrow from Stellaris, we on the Left are Libertarian and Materialist in our ethics, favouring science and self determination far more than the Right, who is Authoritarian and Spiritualist, who believe that everyone is subjected to God’s laws, and that you have people you follow, and people you command, and all is right in the world when that paradigm is followed. Sure, there are Right-wing politicians that the constituents like more than others, but they’ll ALWAYS vote Red in the end, because the most wishy-washy Conservative is still subject to pressure from leadership and the RNC, while a Blue politician isn’t (in fact, in their worldview, the Blue pol will be subjected to the DNC machine).

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          9 months ago

          Republicans are in love with Trump.

          Democrats are being ordered to fall in line behind Biden.

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          Voting first time in my life for a Republican, basically out of spite. Nothing in my personal life has changed at all after 3 presidential elections, so I’m going to vote for the one that will piss off the most people on Reddit. Watching the meltdown will be hilarious.

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            That’s how you got Trump in the first place though. Are you seriously saying (voting for) the president that made your life the worst of the three is your way to show them?

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      9 months ago

      no recession so far

      Lmao. Biden would get my second vote again if he came out and actually acknowledged there was a recession. At least then I’d feel like he listened to Americans.

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        There was additional loan forgiveness just earlier this week. SCOTUS stopped him from taking massive sweeping action, so he’s instead taken smaller actions that are still impactful. The requirements aren’t absurdly narrow, and I suspect the people who have benefited aren’t spurning the actions.