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I'm so tired (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 15 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

Did Biden win the senate?

It seems that now that Trump is president, what congress says doesn't matter at all and the President can do whatever.

Did he appoint the judges for the supreme court?

He could've expanded it, like FDR threatened to do and forced the court to let him do some of the New Deal reforms they were previously opposed to. Biden never lifted a finger with regards to that. This also could've maintained Roe v Wade.

I agree that he mishandled the conflict in Israel,

  1. it's a genocide
  2. "mishandled" is a really egregious weasel word for "gave unconditional support to the government even as approval ratings slid down the drain"
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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    The problem is if Biden had done this everything he did would have been struck down why it works for Trump is because Republican Congress doesn't stand up or have a spine when it's a Republican leader

    You're literally dragging Democrats through the mud for the fact that Republicans won't hold each other accountable

    Now don't get me wrong there's a lot Democrats need to be held accountable for but I just want it to be things that they earned

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    So the Democratic Party is structurally incapable of pushing through the reforms and new programs that are necessary to stop fascism? Why should people keep being married to that party instead of supporting any other effort, and pay no rhetorical support nor lip service to a party that also facilitates fascism?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    The problem is if Biden had done this everything he did would have been struck down why it works for Trump is because Republican Congress doesn’t stand up or have a spine when it’s a Republican leader

    That's why you keep trying. That's what Republican presidents do. When they want to do something by executive order, they have their lawyers come up with a dozen different ways to accomplish the same goal using various provisions in different laws. They implement one. If SCOTUS strikes it down, they just move on to another method from the list. It takes years for the court to strike it down, and in the meantime they keep doing what they wanted to do.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    The democrats didn't have to play by trump's rules, but they had to dismantle the foundations he had put in place during his term. I mean, they didn't even strengthen rules to avoid another Jan 6th. Didn't protect the freedom of the press. Didn't strengthen campaign finance laws. Didn't approach voting reform. Didn't ban gerrymandering. Nothing.

    Democratic politicians (as opposed to Democrat Party politicians) seem to think you defeat the other side by winning elections, but it's impossible to win all the elections. At some point you lose, and all you've got left is your systematic safeguards to keep your democracy. You must bolster the safeguards while you can, even if it might work against you in the short term.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Now don’t get me wrong there’s a lot Democrats need to be held accountable for but I just want it to be things that they earned

    They earn our vote when they aren't shitheels for fascists.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Trump has been doing everything via executive orders which is why he has been able to bypass everything. I do agree that executive orders need to be nerfed if we ever get out of this mess. The problem with Democrats is that they play by the rules and Republicans don't, thus why Biden never spammed executive orders. Though it might all come back to haunt Trump eventually since there's thousands of lawsuits filed against him for all the times he misused executive orders. That's just wishful thinking on my part though.

    "Mishandled" was perhaps oversimplifying a little too hard, but it's not like the genocide was strictly committed by the Biden Administration. Biden's sin was only making a public statement for Israel to "improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza" and then continuing to send military aid anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Though it might all come back to haunt Trump eventually since there’s thousands of lawsuits filed against him for all the times he misused executive orders. That’s just wishful thinking on my part though.

    He'll die before any of those consequences matter. His fascist successor will probably rinse the next Democratic nominee because the Democrats don't intend to change anything or make any of the changes you're talking about happen. It's a million times more realistic to hope that the United States splits into multiple incoherent territories that are no longer able to terrorize the rest of the world than hope the Democratic Party suddenly turns around and become the opposite of what it has been during essentially its whole existence (maybe except for the minute that Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights act).

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