• Blackbeard
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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?

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

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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.

      • Blackbeard
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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?

        • @[email protected]
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          If you’re happy with being hungry for hours before being given anything to eat, then good for you I guess? We can do better. Being kept hungry and given crumbs isn’t healthy, it’s positively abusive.

          • Blackbeard
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            75 months ago

            So no? We should spit at the gift horse?

            • @[email protected]
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              I’m not going to praise someone for doing something that should have and could have been done decades ago, no.

              • Blackbeard
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                Then why would anyone do anything good for you, ever? If you’re going to blame them for the fact that it wasn’t done before now, then shouldn’t they completely ignore what you want and move on to someone else?

                • @[email protected]
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                  We should not do good things purely for the praise of others, we should do good things because they are the right thing to do.

                  • Blackbeard
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                    45 months ago

                    We’re talking about politicians who do things for votes. The whole system is predicated on popularity being the only thing that matters.

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                So once the perfect moment has passed, might as well never try to catch up.

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                  The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is… fuck it, I’m just going to complain that there aren’t enough trees.

      • @AbidanYre
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        65 months ago

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

    • @return2ozmaOP
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      That should be the bare minimum. Crumbs.

      • Blackbeard
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        95 months ago

        “What about policies?”

        “Here’s some.”

        “Not THOSE.”

        • @return2ozmaOP
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          That’s it? That’s all he’s supposed to do while millions are still struggling?

          Single mom: “I’m working three jobs and my kids are still hungry. We’re about to be homeless.”

          “Hey now, Paris climate agreement! Be grateful!”

          • Blackbeard
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            That’s it? That’s all he’s supposed to do while millions are still struggling?

            In aggregate, they’re actually not. Consistently.

            Single mom: “I’m working three jobs and my kids are still hungry. We’re about to be homeless.”

            Family homelessness is actually down by a lot, and a recent uptick isn’t enough to counteract the decline in homelessness since 2013.

            “Hey now, Paris climate agreement! Be grateful!”

            You skipped: Marijuana rescheduling, infrastructure spending, student loan forgiveness, clean drinking water, lowered costs of generic drugs, expanded Medicaid, increased domestic manufacturing, increased nationwide gas mileage requirements, and improved healthcare access for veterans.

            Why?

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              You’re right, everything is really great right now in America. Nothing else to see here folks. Everybody’s swimming in gold.

              Ignore the nearly 60% of people living paycheck to paycheck.

              • Blackbeard
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                75 months ago

                Literally not what I said. Can you address what I actually said instead?

                • @return2ozmaOP
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                  Marijuana rescheduling

                  Is weed now legal nationwide? Everyone in jail for marijuana convictions now released? Records all expunged?

                  infrastructure spending

                  Bridges are literally crumbling. Where’s the high speed rail?

                  student loan forgiveness

                  $1,600,000,000,000 total student loan debt, 45,000,000 Americans. He’s wiped $150 billion. That’s around 9% of the total and most of that has already been added back from the interest. “We did it Joe!”

                  clean drinking water

                  Flint would like a word.

                  lowered costs of generic drugs

                  For seniors, and for insulin.

                  expanded Medicaid

                  expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level (about $20,780 annually for an individual or $35,630 for a family of three.) - How are they even surviving on that much? MURICA is doing great sweetie!

                  increased domestic manufacturing

                  What’s the output not including the tax subsidized spending? Small businesses are being decimated.

                  increased nationwide gas mileage requirements

                  While increasing oil production he said he wouldn’t do. There’s a reason Sunrise Movement won’t endorse him.

                  improved healthcare access for veterans.

                  Thanks Bernie Sanders!

                  • Blackbeard
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                    35 months ago

                    Is weed now legal nationwide? Everyone in jail for marijuana convictions now released? Records all expunged?

                    Many pardons , clemencies, and commutations, to date.

                    Bridges are literally crumbling. Where’s the high speed rail?

                    $40 billion is being spent to fix bridges. $8.2 billion on high speed rail.

                    $1,600,000,000,000 total student loan debt, 45,000,000 Americans. He’s wiped $150 billion. That’s around 9% of the total and most of that has already been added back from the interest. “We did it Joe!”

                    To the ones who got relief, yes. Courts stopped him from doing more, unfortunately.

                    Flint would like a word.

                    Sure. Let’s have one.

                    expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level (about $20,780 annually for an individual or $35,630 for a family of three.) - How are they even surviving on that much? MURICA is doing great sweetie!

                    Why are you trying to change the subject?

                    What’s the output not including the tax subsidized spending? Small businesses are being decimated.

                    False actually.

                    While increasing oil production he said he wouldn’t do. There’s a reason Sunrise Movement won’t endorse him.

                    Why are you trying to change the subject?

                    Thanks Bernie Sanders!

                    Takano and Kaine, actually.