• @aberrate_junior_beatnik
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    9 days ago

    The party refused to pressure Breyer & RBG to step down. Obama refused to play hardball with Garland.

    Biden negotiated with himself and cut debt forgiveness to 10K. Then the SC strikes it down , and he throws his hands up and walks away. I’m old enough to remember when Trump’s obviously unconstitutional muslim ban got banned and he rewrote it and tried again until it stuck. It didn’t fully take until the third try. Then he expanded it twice.

    [Edit: I looked it up and he did give it another go, my b]

    • Natanael
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      479 days ago

      Biden didn’t give up on debt forgiveness, he pushed 20 different forgiveness schemes instead of trying to get the original 1 scheme reapproved

    • @givesomefucks
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      139 days ago

      Yep

      It’s because the same billionaires/corporations donate to both parties.

      If a moderate wins, the most they’ll do is “try” they were paid too much money to actually succeed, so they do the bare minimum till people stop complaining they didn’t do anything.

      And the donors know that means a republican will likely win the next election, which is their preference anyways.

      The moderate wing of the party only exists to make sure the wealthy never lose and we never really win.

      • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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        29 days ago

        The biggest problem is the donors can say, “what about your constitutes? Fuck um, they’re not going to do shit.”

        Then we don’t do shit.