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  • @givesomefucks
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    -611 months ago

    Bidens just the president, he can’t do anything!

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    Look at all the good stuff that happened, Biden did that!

    Is getting fucking old mate.

    Pick a lane.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      211 months ago

      That’s what a system where a President has significant but not unlimited power looks like: he can do a lot, but it’s not unlimited.

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        11 months ago

        So how is Biden responsible for a drop in crime?

        Last I heard he was still talking about how the 92 reduction was Clinton’s harsher punishment despite a shit ton of empirical evidence it was the natural result of banning leaded gas a generation earlier.

        And why are you saying he’s doing stuff to help the environment when fossil fuels.production has drastically increased since he took office? Did he sign an executive order about low flow toilets and we’re just ignoring how bad fossil fuels are again?

        It’s hard to keep up with neoliberals, their reality is constantly changing

        • @[email protected]OP
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          311 months ago

          Two big ways:

          • the successful vaccine scale-up and distribution enabled people to socialize again
          • the Inflation Reduction Act spending ensured that a lot of people could work

          These sharply changed peoples behavior in ways that have made crime less of a problem nationally.

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            11 months ago

            the successful vaccine scale-up and distribution enabled people to socialize again

            I’d love to see a source that first vaccination went up under Biden, and you’re not just talking about the same people taking multiple vaccines. But your acting like there weren’t vaccines under trump?

            Are you just talking about Biden giving a bunch of taxpayer money so that giant billion dollar companies would keep making the vaccines they were making crazy money on already?

            the Inflation Reduction Act

            Presidents can pass legislation?

            If Biden did that, why can’t he do anything about: cannabis, abortion, healthcare, student loans, taxing the wealthy, breaking up corporations…

            Really anything that when he gets asked about he says presidents can’t pass legislation so he can’t do anything?

            Because it kind of feels like you’re just giving credit to Biden for anything good that happened while in office.

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              11 months ago

              The President’s signature is the last step in its passage, and he and his staff were intimately involved in the negotiation needed to get it through congress. He’s not magic, but Biden got things done when others would likely have failed.

              • @givesomefucks
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                -111 months ago

                So why won’t he negotiate for any of that other stuff?

                When asked about it, he openly says he can’t change anyone’s minds and it would be pointless to try…

                But when something good happens, it was all because of him.

                I give up man, this just keeps going in circles