• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    237 months ago

    I’m far from a trump supporter, but these feel like empty promises. Why next term and not this one?

    • @givesomefucks
      link
      English
      137 months ago

      Shit, it’s more like “why not last term” at this point.

      He had two years with a Dem house and Senate, and “looked into” if he was able to fulfill the last round of campaign promises, many of which are on this same list

      Like, he hasn’t even looked into this past someone telling him it would help his numbers.

      • @WraithGear
        link
        English
        57 months ago

        So in order to have a to do list to campaign on Biden (or any politician) damns the rest of us, metering out the bare minimum as a treat but stringing us along like an abuser. And all on the hope he wins and wont go back on his word. And if he fails, not only do we not get the progressive promises, but the other president takes more away. Maybe presidents only deserve a single term.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        47 months ago

        This does not remotely comport with actual presidencies. Obama didn’t get more powerful and make bigger goals in his second term. There’s a word for a president who can’t be reelected: “lame duck”.

        • @MrMcGasion
          link
          27 months ago

          It’s wild to me that the term “lame duck” has been expanded to include an entire second term. When it was originally coined it was for the period of time between an election in November and the inauguration in January. It’s only in the last 20 years or so that we started calling a second-term president a lame duck, and acting like it’s over at the halfway point.

  • @kikutwo
    link
    77 months ago

    Any reason why the Dems didn’t deal with SS and Medicare when they controlled both houses?

    • OptionalOP
      link
      47 months ago

      Like “quick, change the entirety of the existing safety net while we have 18 months to do it instead of everything else”?

      I dunno. Lazy?

      • @kikutwo
        link
        27 months ago

        It’s just weird that nothing was done when they knew that the elitists had targeted the entitlement programs. Now, the very lemmings who most rely upon them are going to vote for the evisceration of them.

        • @WraithGear
          link
          English
          17 months ago

          I can only think they were targeting them too but we’re not as brazen as the republicans

      • @BradleyUffner
        link
        English
        07 months ago

        And you think they have a better chance of doing it this time?

        • OptionalOP
          link
          17 months ago

          Give them the house and senate. You know why, right?