• @ccunning
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    175 months ago

    Now that we’ve had him for four years, and he was worse than we expected…

    He far exceeded my expectations.

    • @givesomefucks
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      -115 months ago

      Everyone has different standards and expectations.

      Hell, look at how many people say that about trump.

    • @return2ozmaOP
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      -135 months ago

      In which ways? motions to everything being crap

      • @ccunning
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        165 months ago
        • Massive infrastructure bill
        • Student loan forgiveness
        • Marijuana rescheduling

        There’s plenty more, but my expectation was for him to not be Trump which he has thoroughly succeeded at. The rest is icing.

        The biggest things he’s disappointed on, Trump disappoints on too…:

        • Palestine
        • Being too fucking old

        …so it’s easy to see how that on balance he has exceeded expectations…

        • @[email protected]
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          Massive infrastructure bill that just funnels money to companies like Comcast and Spectrum and othet corporations who’ll squander like they have every other time they’ve been given money

          Student loan forgiveness that does nothing to change the insane and continually rising cost of attending college.

          Marijuana rescheduling that does nothing to address the fact that 40 states have already legalized it for medical use and 25 states who’ve legalized it for recreational use.

          This is little more than a bunch of empty gestures and lip service to make it seem like they’re improving things when in reality, very little is changing (and to give people like you hollow talking points to list as accomplisments). This is why so many people don’t even bother to vote anymore because the whole system is stacked against us.

        • @return2ozmaOP
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          -105 months ago

          That bar was extremely low huh?

          • @ccunning
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            95 months ago

            Yes. Being better than Trump is a low bar.

            Are you confused about what’s happening here?

            • @return2ozmaOP
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              -85 months ago

              It would be nice if we actually had policies we could champion instead of just “not Trump”.

              • BlackbeardM
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                Marijuana rescheduling, infrastructure spending, student loan forgiveness, clean drinking water, lowered costs of generic drugs, expanded Medicaid, increased domestic manufacturing, rejoining the Paris agreement, increased nationwide gas mileage requirements, and improved healthcare access for veterans not enough policies for you?

                edit 3 hours later…

                return2ozma: “There are policies we can champion that are more than ‘not Trump.’

                  • @someguy3
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                    I’ve seen the need to point this out: Dems have had all 3 (of house, senate, presidency) for 4 years out of the last 24 years. If you include Bill Clinton that goes to 6 years of the last 32 years. Want to add Bush senior? Then it’s 6 years of the last 36 years. Want to add Reagan? Then it’s 6 years of the last 44 years. That’s right, 6 years out of the last 44 years that Dems had control. And for filibuster proof majority they had 4 months of the last 44 years. Not years, 4 MONTHS of the last 44 fucking years.

                    And you want to ask why things haven’t happened?

                    If you want progress, give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories.

                  • @AbidanYre
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                    65 months ago

                    This is like blaming Obama for his terrible response to Katrina.

                  • BlackbeardM
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                    65 months ago

                    I don’t disagree, but that’s a bit like a teenager telling their mother, “This meal is shit. I was hungry HOURS ago.” Can we not be happy things are changing NOW? Is that somehow not allowed?

                • @return2ozmaOP
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                  -85 months ago

                  That should be the bare minimum. Crumbs.

                  • BlackbeardM
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                    95 months ago

                    “What about policies?”

                    “Here’s some.”

                    “Not THOSE.”

          • Dojan
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            25 months ago

            It’s silly to downvote you for wanting the leaders and representatives of a country and its people to be held to a certain standard.

            • @return2ozmaOP
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              -55 months ago

              I mean, politicians work for us. We’re their boss. They should be working their asses off for the people.

              • TWeaK
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                25 months ago

                Frankly we should be sacking the whole lot of them for gross misconduct.