Words != meaning

But look at him now. Two-thirds into its first 100 days, and the Biden presidency has easily secured the right to be described as radical. Usually sober observers of the White House are going further: just two months after Biden took the oath, they are branding him a transformational president. The comparisons to Franklin D Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson have already begun. And Biden is encouraging them. Earlier this month, he sat for two hours with a group of presidential historians, pressing them hard on how FDR and LBJ had moved swiftly to make changes so profound and systemic they endure to this day. At the Thursday press conference, Biden made explicit the scale of his ambition. “I want to change the paradigm,” he said, three times.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        4 years ago

        LBJ would have probably sexually harassed the guy with "jumbo" until he approved the law or whatever that made up position does

      • KoeRhee [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The position didn't exist before 1935, so it prob came to be because Congress wanted to put a cap on FDR doing too much too fast.

        • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          You don't even know how right you are lmao

          Senators only created the position 84 years ago, when they named Charles L. Watkins the first official parliamentarian on July 1, 1935. During the mid-1930s, the increase in New Deal legislation proposed by the Roosevelt administration made the legislative process more confusing. Senators also began to spend less time in the chamber, resulting in a decline in their familiarity with the Senate’s rules

          O shit I can't do my job right because too much is happening, time to create a position to do it for me

          • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Every single bad US "democratic" system seems to either come from the Founding Fathers or the one time someone actually did something.