• hate2bme@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Somehow it won’t get done in her first term but vote her back in and she promises it will get done in her second term. How do I know? Because every single president does the same exact thing.

    • booly@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Because every single president does the same exact thing.

      What are you talking about?

      Biden got about as much as he could get through a Republican controlled House and a filibustering Senate: a major COVID relief bill, a major infrastructure bill, and a major environmental reform bill.

      Trump did a shitload in his one term:

      • Replaced 3 Supreme Court justices and a lot of lower court judges who went on to overturn Roe v. Wade and Chevron, deliver a shitload of conservative decisions, and block a bunch of Biden executive actions (including student loan forgiveness, all sorts of COVID policies, and a bunch of economic regulations).
      • Major tax cuts in 2017 for corporations and high earners
      • Withdrew from the Paris accords and rolled back a lot of Obama EPA regs
      • Made shifts towards privatization of k-12 education, including towards religious private schools.

      Obama signed a bunch of stuff into law his first two years:

      • Obamacare
      • Universal healthcare for children under S-CHIP
      • Student loan reform, creating public service loan forgiveness and much better repayment plans while cutting out private lenders who took all the upside with none of the downside.
      • Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
      • Repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
      • Passed Dodd Frank, including the creation of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
      • School lunch reform

      Bush campaigned on tax cuts and got them, and then got a bunch of other stuff in from his first term related to 9/11 and the aftermath: The Patriot Act, authorization for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, etc.

      If anything, presidents are far less effective their second term than their first term.

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        3 months ago

        What a terrible reply. I never said presidents don’t get anything done in their first term. Just pointing out how a lot of shit they campaign on doesn’t get done so they campaign on the same shit again.

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          3 months ago

          And they’re telling you you’re wrong. Biden campaigned on getting stuff done and he got stuff done. Don’t project your pessimism onto everyone else, it’s not helpful

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      3 months ago

      This is how politics work. This is neither new nor a deep critique.

      Most people have too much mental load in load in their life. Politicians tie things to election years because people would forget what they did otherwise.