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State of the Union Megapost!
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It's just dumb campaign promises that he cannot and will not deliver on. If he could do any of this he would have already done it
That's why he said, "Give me a congress that will work with me." Its not just the president. You need to get people into office who will do these things.
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Did you forget the Georgia runoffs?
Biden got elected because he claimed he could get Senate republicans to vote with Dems.
After the GA runoffs, we end up with a 50/50 senate with the VP as tiebreaker. And the House.
For two years.
And Biden literally said he couldn't change anyone's mind so it would be a waste of time if he tried.
That happened.
Recently.
So, how much does Biden need in 2028?
And why isn't he out there campaigning for himself and down ballot races?
Manchin and Sinema say, "Hi!"
No change to the fillabster means shit gets stalled.
Elect people who will shitcan the fillabster.
You think the result would be different with 52 Ds?
There's a lot more people that will vote against progress in office. But they're not all going to say it if they don't have to.
But the point is Biden said he could work with a Republican majority. And wouldn't try to change Manchin and Sinemas minds when they're his own party.
He literally made statements that he couldn't so he wouldn't try.
We do that by replacing incumbents. We need primaries to do that, and we have to fight against a shit ton of donor money, but we can do it.
As long as we keep having primaries. NH is already out of that...
Because no such congress can exist? Either there's a Republican majority in at least one chamber and nothing gets done, or there's a Democratic majority in both chambers that finds just enough no votes in the senate.
It's what could get done if Republicans got the fuck out of the way.
Well yeah, none of it will get done, and he will blame the guy behind him, and the other guy who is holding his strings.
First time?