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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 119 points 9 months ago

$15 national minimum wage- No

Robust Medicare system- Lol, lmao even

Actual climate change plan-football-lucy

He did give us funding for neo-Nazis in Ukraine and for genocide in Palestine, so celebrate the small victories, I guess?biden-troll

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

someone needs to make a website that does nothing but show what the buying power $15 minimum wage would look like today ($20.32), compared to 2012 when "Fight for 15" started

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 96 points 9 months ago

A politician lied on his website? WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS UNHEARD OF AMERICA IS IN SHAMBLES

[-] context@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago

okay sure he lied about one or two things but do you really think he just lied about literally everything on his website? you-think-this-is-funny

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago

I do and I'm tired of pretending he's not. i-do

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

Especially with Biden, where he probably didn't know about half the stuff on his website. It was just there so that the media could point at it and say: "Not only does Biden have a plan for healthcare as well, but his plan is worse, which makes it actually better because it is more realistic".

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 90 points 9 months ago

I have pressed libs on these things and they say that Biden has made "serious progress towards these goals" and "he'll surely accomplish them in his second term."

Liberals are beyond the pale, truly

[-] Ideology@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

obama "he'll surely accomplish them in his second term."

billdawg "he'll surely accomplish them in his second term."

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

He'll surely accomplish them in his second term football-lucy

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is he going to list the same goals for 2024? His campaign site only asks for money, it doesn't mention his platform

Edit: Switched to an archive link

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 88 points 9 months ago

biden-horror Best I can do is the most brutal massacre of this century...

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 71 points 9 months ago

The most brutal massacre of the century... so far. Just wait till climate migration really gets going.

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

Life is cheap in the rules based international order. doomer

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Minimum wage: One (1) half-assed attempt at raising it followed by a collective shrug-outta-hecks from the entire Democratic party

Medicare: Costs slightly lowered from "ludicrously expensive" to "outrageously expensive." Apparently raised the Medicare tax rate on incomes over $400,000 by a whole 1.2%. Maybe not nothing, but still tiny ass changes that don't fundamentally fix a broken system, and still aren't single player, universal healthcare. You know, the kind of system that everybody else has that has been proven to work, is cheaper, and doesn't plunge people into six figures of debt for the rest of their (and their next of kin's) lives.

Climate change: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-administration-resume-leasing-oil-gas-drilling-federal-lands-rcna24646

In other words nothing fundamentally changed amerikkka-clap

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 43 points 9 months ago

Can't forget student loans.

All he's done is forgive those who actually got scammed and for everyone else just redid the payment plan based on income.

I tried but court said no so I won't try anything else

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe not nothing

Nah, I'm sick of trying to be overly reasonable about this garbage schtick liberal politicians enable and engage in

Liberal politicians always do this, instead of enacting something that would be massively popular and genuinely good, they do the most pathetically small thing they can think of to modify the existing structure, like increasing the existing tax on the top .1% by 1.2%. Then you get smug bootlickers who quote the White House website press release that it increased revenues by 50 million (for a program with a 500 billion dollar budget), while also explaining at you that it was actually massively helpful and wonderful for everyone, and if you don't understand that you're a moron and a conservative parasite. Or they try and explain that you don't understand the government, as if they were the only genius who had a grade school civics class.

It is nothing but piss in the wind and I refuse to consider it otherwise

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago

You really think a politician would do that? Just run a campaign and tell lies?

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

And even post them on the internet?

[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago

It's depressing to see people fall for the same carrot-stick nonsense year after year. An administration could arguably accomplish one major reform during a single term, even if it tanked their career. There are empowerments the president can use to do this (libs will often use you personally not being able to detail each legal subversion necessary as proof the acting president actually cannot do what they campaigned on, however this is a coping mechanism, as they refuse to believe that the person they voted for can be ideologically bad).

If Biden actually cared about anything he campaigned on, even if it were just one thing he was the most passionate about, he could have worked over the past three years to execute a plan to make it happen, even if it led to his impeachment. But he hasn't, because he doesn't, because the system he dedicated his career to uphold is working as intended.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 64 points 9 months ago

How can people still believe the dems will stop the right after a full term of them not doing anything to stop the right?

Every promise will be broken, every pseudo-progressive bullshit they spew is a facade, they don’t care about trans peoples, black peoples or anyone that isn’t a wealthy strait white men or a cop.

If you look at what they are actually doing it’s no better than what the republicans are doing.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

It’s especially vexing when it’s Gen Xers and boomers. Like I get if it’s some zoomer or younger millennial who only just became aware of politics in the late teens and hadn’t been burned yet. But when it’s people who’ve been through multiple dem presidents failing to live up to the promises still believing that vote for team blue is going to meaningful evolve anything, that’s sad.

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

After decades of not doing anything to stop the right.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

After decades of helping the right

During Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s press conference, I asked why Democrats were negotiating curtailing immigration with a party led by Mr Trump.

“What Donald Trump said and did was despicable, but we do have a problem at the border and Democrats know we have to solve that problem, but in keeping with our principles,” he said.

Just another drop in the ocean of monstrous things they've helped conservatives do

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

liberalism is when you don't literally say the words 'blood and soil'

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

the dems will stop the right

I remember Obama saying "the fever will break" regarding the Republicans pre-Trump lol.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

2020 made me lose faith not only in this country but in humanity itself

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It really was the tipping point for me, solidified that yes, there really is only one party in the West (the capitalist party) and also that even a pandemic that threatens to kill and/or cripple most of the population will be met with the same half-assed non-solution as climate change. There is nothing that will make them admit that capitalism is a suicide deal. No end to their delusion. They're a cult. There is no reasoning with a beast like that, so it solidified for me that the only way out is revolution.

I really feel like the left should have made a bigger deal about the shadow app shit in the 2020 primaries, I feel like the whole "we won't make a scene if Bernie loses" might have been exactly what the Dems wanted.

It didn't make me lose faith in humanity, though, it just confirmed without a doubt that, yes, the tankies were right after all.

[-] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

cool-zone was good for a few days of hope

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

The crushing disappointment that followed those protests was the cherry on top

Nothing will change

Nothing will save us

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

did biden cure cancer yet?

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

no, but no one i know personally has died of cancer since before his presidency if that counts for anything

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

Evergreen tweet

[-] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

i wonder if that person feels silly now or if they still think biden is the best thing ever

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

the tweet seems to have been deleted, (unless twitter is hiding it from me in the replies) but i don't know if that was out of shame, or if they got banned or deleted their account or what

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

Dark Brandon strikes again.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

I've got this website where I wrote that I'm going to marry your dad (I'm actually just going to string him along with empty promises and break his heart)

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Could have at least made die-motherfucker a campaign promise so he could have got credit for something

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