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What exactly do you think the president can do about that?
Wave his magic wand, clearly.
He is the leader of the nation.
I dont know, lead your party, address the nation, inspire the people.
You know, the same way Obama made Obama care happen.
Instead Biden hid under a rock for 3 years before comin' out blazing to keep a genocide going and campaign for reelection.
I happen to enjoy not seeing multiple deranged tweets at 2 am from the president that cause nothing but chaos.
In a similar vein, I happen to enjoy a president fighting to push forward infrastructure and green energy funding despite a 0-vote majority and two wolves-in-sheeps-clothing included in that.
Fuck, I don't need to be reminded of that trauma...I enjoy the fact that he has a contractual obligation to solely use his dumb Twitter clone
Which genocide is it that TransplatedSconie supports that would have been countered by "multiple deranged tweets at 2 AM from the president that cause nothing but chaos"?
... Obama made Obamacare happen based on an overwhelming election victory leading to a (tenuous and temporary) 60-vote majority which allowed him, over the course of months of negotiation to deliver an extremely watered down version of just his main campaign promise, the one, focused policy that he unambiguously emphasized more than any other policy.
I don't say this as condemnation of Obama. I say this as 'what the fuck do you think Biden is working with in comparison'? What's his one goal that he should be working towards? What's his supermajority? What did his election victory look like? Approval numbers?
Okay.
So if Biden can't do shit because of congress, why will Trump be able to do anything?
We have troves of proof that Red congresspeople are only able to cannibalize themselves and smear shit on the walls of the Capitol.
If a US president can't achieve anything because of congressional incompetence, why is Trump even a threat?
Jesus idjit. Use your brain for once in your life.
Because the GOP wants to do fucking dogshit things. Did you miss the whole "2017-2021" period or fucking something? 'Obamacare' was within one vote of being repealed, and only survived because a cancer victim had a last-minute crisis of fucking conscience.
Because Biden isn't trying to implement Project 2025 to make the executive branch into a dictatorship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Because they don't plan on using congress to do anything. They plan on having control of the military
Could've stopped there
This is a fantastic example. Obama started the term with 60 senators, and Obamacare was the most left thing they could pass. To get them better policy, they needed more senators so they could bypass the Manchins.
Except, voters were apathetic. So Democrats lost big time. It led to gridlock in Congress and solidified a status quo where you had to compromise with Republicans to get anything to happen.
And voters were apathetic about that. And Trump was elected.
The way we make Obamacare and better happen are crushing Republicans in the polls. Not bemoaning how things could be better. Because staying home has only made this country move further and further right.