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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But Biden ended up building the border wall? Also pushing loan forgiveness is neutralized by the fact that he restarted loan payments.

I can list dozens of other trump-era bullshit Biden maintained, but it's tiring.

I feel like I've been having this same conversation for a decade, after watching Obama demotivate the base by maintaining/expanding Bush's policies, while republicans and democrats insist that he actually implemented socialism.

[-] EmptySlime 18 points 9 months ago

To my knowledge the only sections of wall he's built were funded by Trump's Congress before he left office. Meaning he had little choice but to spend the money on what Congress appropriated it for.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather not live in a world where someone like Trump can just decide he doesn't want to spend portions of the money Congress appropriated. He could just suddenly decide that the federal government isn't going to pay like Medicaid or SNAP.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

this is basically what he tried to do with money for ukraine. refusing to give it till he got tit for tat. Its funny that alciholicorn is continuing the exact crazy type of arguments that the screenshot highlights.

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[-] PrettyLights@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

he constantly flirted with WW3

How?

If we were flirting with ww3 before, what would you say the current president is doing today?

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[-] Crampon@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok. So orange man is a fucking maniac.

But rejoining the Paris agreement is just dumb without intention or interest of fulfilling it. So many countries have signed it just for show. Leaving it and calling it bullshit virtue signalling is actually better.

Look at the statistics for the countries. It's not doing anything than green washing.

The other points is probably true and great. But the Paris agreement is pure trash.

  • Damn. I was mistaken. Guess promises will solve the climate crisis. Not action.
[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What gets me is the Democrats have a candidate who actually supports policies that would enrich the poor and working poor: Marianne Williamson: Universal health care, universal living wages, affordable housing, free college, taxing the ultra wealthy, etc.

You wouldn't have to make excuses for her like you do for Biden. And even better, she can string together a coherent sentence.

This election is a rerun of 2016. You're all ignoring the most important fact, that tens of millions of Americans have experienced such paralyzing inflation that their cost-of-living has become untenable unless they work 2-3 jobs and sacrifice their lives and health in order to do it. I'm seeing it myself, with 80 year-old parents that have to work DoorDash.

They're not going to care that Trump is a fascist. What's going to win this election for Trump is that he can market himself as the candidate of change.

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[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago
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