Remember when people said Bernie wouldn't be able to get anything done because he couldn't work and compromise with politicians but Biden could?

I haven't been paying attention to US politics recently and was just wondering how well that argument held up. :biden:

  • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    It held up zero lmao. Any remotely 'controversial' legislation proposed by Biden has been shot down by a variety of legislators, notably Sinema and Manchin. Hell, why should I tell you, let's just have Joe himself tell ya! From Joe himself this morning:

    Biden, speaking during an event marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, responded to critics who question why he hasn’t been able to get a wide-reaching voting rights bill passed. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House, and a tie in the Senate — with two members of the Senate who voted more with my Republican friends,” he lamented.

    Biden is in the perfect position to use that supposed 'master compromiser' angle, but he can't do shit, because he has never been able to do shit, unless it was brazenly terrible. The only angle was that maybe conservatives would help out a dem that was more akin to them than not. And if you believed for an instant that conservatives would ever help out any dem ever, than you are dumber than Joe himself. It also underscores that Biden himself is dumb enough to believe that conservatives are 'friendly' with him; you know, the people who call him a 'dirty commie' much to his chagrin lmao.

    So we're going to get 4 years of this sniveling shit before some QAnon chud wins the presidency.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Is he speaking in the third person or did he just forget who he is?

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      So we’re going to get 4 years of this sniveling shit before some QAnon chud wins the presidency.

      Biden's also going to run again. How old will he be on election day 2024 - 82? It would be pretty funny if he died of old age a couple months before election day. It would demoralize the dems (Our guy is dead!) and give the GOP a fantastic bump of base enthusiasm (Their guy is dead!).

      • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        You have more faith than I do that he won't just conk out at some point during his presidency (or have one of his dogs maul him)

        • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          conk out

          I made a joke about that in another comment. He runs for reelection and a couple months before election day 2024 - he dies of old age.

          Another possibility is that his mind starts to go.

          one of his dogs maul him

          Best day ever.

          An enterprising right-wing Twitter troll could tweet - "Don't put down Champ! I wanna adopt him!" - and get a zillion likes.