• StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    This whole crushing it narrative… Are we going to pretend like all working Americans aren’t struggling?

    Like sure Biden as corpse is better than Trump but he’s not more likeable and he isn’t doing a good job.

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      3 months ago
      • $35 cap on Insulin
      • Student loan cancellations
      • Restoring net neutrality
      • Banning non-compete agreements
      • Pardoned people convicted for simple marijuana possession convictions
      • Funding important infrastructure projects
      • Banning abusive and junky bank fees
      • Going after landlords who are price fixing
      • Minimum 15% tax on corporations, who otherwise use every trick in the book to hide their profits in tax shelters overseas
      • Rejoined the Paris Accord
      • Antitrust actions against Amazon, Google, Apple, various airlines, book publishers, even meat packers
      • Blocking mergers that would reduce competition, like Krogers acquiring Albertsons
      • Reducing fees real estate agents collect for home sales
      • Requiring airlines to refund passengers for delayed or canceled flights
      • Automatically recognizing a union when a corporation interferes with a union vote
      • Massive climate wins in the Inflation Reduction act
      • Giving IRS funding so it can go after the rich tax cheats, instead of just the poor people who make small errors
      • Allowing Medicare to actually negotiate drug prices, instead of being forced to accept whatever the drug companies decide

      And, this is despite a senate where Sinema and Manchin supposely give democrats a razor slim majority, but in reality they block almost everything. And, despite a congress that is currently republican controlled and block even the things their constituents want because they don’t want to let Biden have a win.

      In what way (other than Gaza) is he not doing a good job?

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        3 months ago

        Student loans have not been canceled

        Non-Competes are still in effect

        We still have the world’s highest prison population.

        Landlords are still price fixing and rent is still out of control

        Amazon, Google and apple nor any other large companies have been broken up with antitrust

        Despite giving the IRS funding, the rich are still not paying taxes

        Allowing Medicare to negotiate was pretty great. I’ll give you that.

        “In what way (other than Gaza) is he not doing a good job?”

        I don’t know if you’ve been to America or met most Americans, but most of us are really struggling. There’s a housing crisis. Most people can’t afford to live on their own. There’s a ton of food insecurity. Education is abysmal. I mean the whole thing’s just fucked. This pretending things are really good right now and gaslighting Americans and trying to shame them into voting for Biden is part of the problem by the way.

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          3 months ago

          And the reason for all of that is the GOP blocking or sabotaging every single effort to improve things, and then blaming the Dems, and it convinced a LOT of people.

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          3 months ago

          Student loans have not been canceled

          Some have.

          Non-Competes are still in effect

          https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

          Landlords are still price fixing and rent is still out of control

          The problem is being worked on, the solution wasn’t instantaneous.

          Amazon, Google and apple nor any other large companies have been broken up with antitrust

          Not yet, these things take time. The final antitrust case against AT&T lasted 8 years, and it was only one of many. The antitrust case against IBM lasted almost 13 years.

          Despite giving the IRS funding, the rich are still not paying taxes

          Again, these things take time.

          I don’t know if you’ve been to America or met most Americans, but most of us are really struggling.

          So… something that has been happening since at least the Reagan years wasn’t turned around in 4, so Biden’s doing a bad job?

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            3 months ago

            Most student loans have not been canceled claiming that student loans have been canceled. It’s just ingenuous and again it’s the whole fake Biden is killing it narrative. Be honest.

            Non-Competes are still in effect that ruling does not go into effect until September at the earliest and it is subject to many Court challenges before it will probably not happen. Regardless, it has not happened yet.

            You say the problem is being worked on in these things take time for multiple things. In other words, Biden has not done anything on these fronts. You cannot give Biden credit for something that he has not done lol.

            This is what I mean. Biden is milk toast at best. He’s really just slowing our rate of decline more than he is actually doing a good job. The insistence that he is killing it or doing a good job when he is not and people are suffering is a bad strategy politically.

            This giant list of things that turns out to be bs is the kind of thing making people more disillusioned. Stuff like this lowers voter turnout. Democrats lose when voter turnout is low. Do you see where this gets bad?

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              You say the problem is being worked on in these things take time for multiple things. In other words, Biden has not done anything on these fronts

              What an idiotic thing to say.

              Biden is milk toast at best

              You should look up that expression because you’re misusing it.

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                3 months ago

                I don’t think it’s an idiotic thing to say. I think you’re an idiot for dismissing it without reason.

                I’m not going to waste my time with you

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                  3 months ago

                  If you don’t think it’s an idiotic thing to say, you’re an idiot.

                  “If something extremely complex and time consuming isn’t already 100% done to my satisfaction, nothing has been done.”

                  Do you know that some things take time? Do you know that progress isn’t instantaneous? What are you, a literal baby who has no concept of the passage of time?

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    3 months ago

    So HR left us with just two choices, assured us they were the best of the best, and of course it’s two geriatrics.

    … one of whom is a rehire that tried to lynch us when we laid him off the first time. Good job HR, you wonder why people hate you.