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The fact that teachers, firefighters, and EMTs sandwich cops in that sentence but you chose to zero in and pretend Bidens only helping cops shows you have a major bone to pick and you’re just choosing to be upset, lol.

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teachers, firefighters, and EMTs sandwich cops in that sentence

I know a few teachers and one EMT. None of them have received anything close to a police officer’s salary since Biden took office.

None of them have seen their workforce balloon or received billions of dollars in surplus equipment from the military/national guard, either.

pretend Bidens only helping cops

My city spends something in the neighborhood of a quarter of it’s annual budget on the police. And our veteran Democrat mayor came into office complaining that we don’t have enough cops and they aren’t paid enough.

This isn’t just a Biden issue. The entire party is Blue Lives Matter to the fucking gills.

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I know a few teachers and one EMT. None of them have received anything close to a police officer’s salary since Biden took office.

Just to be clear my claim was just that this action to the student loan forgiveness program benefited teachers cops, firefighters, and EMTs, but they instead chose to ignore everyone else benefiting and just choose to get angry at Biden that cops are included.

As you’ve surmised, what you’re seeing is likely due to local, not federal politics.

As a contrarian anecdote, my democratic local government removed qualified immunity for cops, and established a set of unarmed cops for non-life threatening work like minor traffic violations. I’d say that provides equal weight to your anecdote showing that the entire party is not blue lives matter.

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this action to the student loan forgiveness program benefited teachers cops, firefighters, and EMTs

Cops receive substantially more support and benefit than a marginal amount of student loan forgiveness.

This goes to wages and overtime, housing, medical, retirement… Teachers and EMTs don’t enjoy anything comparable. Only firefighters come close, and their departments are dwarfed by comparison.

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