The predominantly ludicrous lawmaker from Georgia did Biden a solid this weekend, telling Republicans the Democratic president is fiendishly attempting to make people’s lives better.
I wish he was FDR
If only FDRs second bill of rights was passed… https://www.ushistory.org/documents/economic_bill_of_rights.htm
Marianne Williamson is running (Democrat primary) with an economic bill of rights as the main thing in her platform.
He’s not bad though all things considered. I don’t know if we could do much better in Ukraine than how Biden has responded. His global policy approach is pretty impressive. He’s had a few misses in domestic policy but overall I’d say he is doing quite well.
I like him, but I’m old. I want more Dark Brandon. When he gets a second term, I think he’s gonna be more open and do something transformative. Maybe, I’m just being optimistic
Nah, I think you’re right. I think he’s going to do some sick flips on his bike.
You could be damned sure FDR wouldn’t have soft-pedaled any part of a pandemic response.
Wholly cow, I just realized if they put him in a wheelchair, he’d win the next election. No one would vote against a guy in a wheelchair, right?
I’m sure the same party that repealed the right to abortion and is fighting for assault rifles in schools will campaign against a guy in a wheelchair.
If the Left had a clue about marketing, they would be producing some patriotic video showing the successes of FDR and LBJ and then tying that imagery to Biden. Americans winning against Nazis, New Deal, waving American flags, etc. Have the whole video being narrated by MTG’s own words. Using the enemy’s own attacks against them.
If by “left” you mean democrats then they will not do this because it is not what their views are. They are ideologically as neoliberal as Reagan and Thatcher. This is part of why they don’t do as good of a job opposing the far right as they could, because they only exist as long as their only opposition is unhinged far right politicians.
And I would say that’s fairly representative of the views most voters have. The left needs to win the argument with voters before they can complain about the politicians.
I mean the opinions of the voting public are nearly always more complex than either Republican or Democratic party dogma. The problem is that there is no substantial way of politically engaging besides voting. I would argue actually that generally the public is way more left wing than it is given credit for, but a lot of people have no accessible ways to transform these ideas into action. And for this I don’t have an easy answer. Disclaimer, am a leftist so I would obviously think this, but I do still think that we would see more diverse political ideas if our political systems were made to be more open.
I fuckin wish the Dems were reliably neoliberal, in the vein of Clinton(s).
Neoliberalism is dope as fuck. Free trade and open borders let’s gooooo
Did not Trump cause currently 25% of our national debt with his tax cuts? How the hell do they say this shit with a straight face
Biden wishes he was FDR.
But I’ll give him a cookie for trying to cancel student debt, and then refusing to give up when SCOTUS decided to fuck us over.
fuck us over
You fucked yourself over by not showing up at the polls 6 years ago at the numbers needed to keep Trump out of office.
Voting (and not voting) has consequences. You fucked around, then you found out.
(to be clear, I am using the generic “you” here, not trying to beat up on OP)
Trump won because people fell asleep, didn’t care and Hilary was unlikable. Let’s just hope that next year they keep that in mind when the polls open.
They thought Hillary was unlikable, so instead let’s let a corrupt fascist win… brilliant!1!!
I’d like to think the American people have learned their lesson, but let’s be honest, we never learn.
Through recession and boom, war and peace, pandemic and climate change, there is one constant in this modern world… Americans will never learn from their past.
This isn’t strictly true. People did show up to vote for Hillary, but not in electorally advantageous locations. Let’s not forget that she won the popular vote, it just wasn’t enough.
she won the popular vote
That’s like saying a team shot the most free-throws in a sport like basketball where the winner is the one who scored the most points. Or in football, having the most minutes of possession, but not scoring enough points.
The metric to winning is rather clear. Whether it is football, basketball or winning the White House.
You don’t get enough people out there across the country to win the EC and you lose. Period. So yeah, it is indeed strictly true.
Seems a lot like he gave up. What we got instead can’t be called half measures. Hell, they can’t even be called quarter measures.
Oh, you made it so for 6 months, non-payments don’t hit your credit? What happens after those 6 months? And interest continues to accrue during that time so you’ll find yourself more underwater than before.
Oh, you reduced the percent of income that is to be spent on paying off the debt? Did you adjust the interest rates too? No? So you’re extending people’s length of debt. Cool.
This isn’t even tossing a bandaid at the problem. It’s handing someone a self-help book while they’re on the ground bleeding out.
I wouldn’t call pursuing another path to forgive $10K giving up, I mean it’s literally the opposite of giving up.
Also its 12 months, not 6 months
And you are ignoring the benefits of the SAVE Plan https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187545921/student-loan-forgiveness-save-repayment
https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2021/idrfactsheetfinal.pdf
Biden is doing a ton considering he has had 0 help from Congress who has power of the purse. If you want interest rates adjusted you gotta go through Congress.
The dude you replied to isn’t here to debate or exchange ideas. He’s here to make sure you don’t believe in the process and don’t turn out to vote. It’s the same strategy the right used in the run up to the 2016 and 2020 election. Vote out every scumsucking republican you have especially in the statehouse where the real power lies. Get everyone you know to get registered and get them to the voting booth.
The Republicans are such good hype men for Joe Biden, he might as well pay them.
