19 points

I mean… The country spoke… So why bother.

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-8 points

The tiny majority of voters. Not the country. Close? Not really.

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That’s a great argument until you realize the rest of the country (the part that didn’t speak) literally couldn’t decide which is worse or just didn’t care. So they did speak, and what they said was “hwbennfswbebnsjdjbdbshdukabw”.

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What still gets me is how there are Americans who’re still obliviously indecisive when they are presented, clearly, with one option being detrimentally worse than the other. And still can’t make up their minds.

“Uhhhhhhhhh dis guy has bad plans and uhhhhhhhhh I don’t know if they’re good or not. Wait, maybe…ummmmmmmm I…don’t know, I mean I guess? I don’t think struggling to make ends meet is that bad but I’m not sure…I don’t think I’ll have health care in the future if I go with this guy…I…I can’t decide!”

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All those eligible voters who didn’t bother to vote at all who make up the rest of the country spoke too. They said they didn’t give a shit.

So again, seems like a “why bother?” situation.

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I really don’t like it when people say “The country spoke” like, excuse you, but I didn’t vote for Trump so don’t you dare assume that I did.

71 million people spoke out of the 334.9 million in America. 150 million americans did vote while 90 million didn’t.

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I don’t understand your numbers but yeah, I am not exactly happy about how things went down.

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335 million is the population, 71 million voted for trump. You can extrapolate with 150 million voters and 90 million that didn’t , there are only 240 million of the US population that are eligible to vote (so near 100 million didn’t even have a chance to voice their opinion).

I’ve looked at the numbers before but can’t remember the specifics but it’s at least in the ball park if my memory serves me right.

edit: grammar

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4 points

Trump said he was going to reinstate all the debt anyway.

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11 points

Do you have a source for that? I’m not sure how one would even go about bringing debt back that has been effectively erased.

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7 points

You can’t, but that never stopped Trump from saying shit like this. “Mexico will pay for the wall”

I don’t have a source but that is about as Trump as Trump can get.

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54 points

He’s done what he could with the Republicans fighting him every step of the way. Better to spend this last month doing what he can to Trump-proof stuff.

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5 points

ugh i wish

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8 points

Right right. That’s why he needed to start doing things 3.9 years ago instead of screwing around for so long. What a failure. Or a success, depending on your perspective.

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And this is why Trump won. Because people like YOU. Just because YOU didn’t pay attention for 4 years, doesn’t mean he sat on his ass doing nothing.

I hope reality hits you like a truck now.

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I don’t know what the deal is with pulling this program now (although someone else said it was actually a way to block Trump from doing something worse), but he literally spent all four years trying to get through student loan forgiveness. His major plan was blocked by SCOTUS and he’s been blocked by other judges every step of the way.

And the fact that you don’t know that speaks much more about you than it does about him.

I have no love for Biden. I keep saying I hate that he’s been one of the best presidents of my nearly 50-year lifetime because that just shows the low the bar is. But he still did clear that bar on occasion and trying to do student loan forgiveness is one of them.

He can’t just make commands from on high and they get implemented, no questions asked. As Paddzr suggested, this is part of the reason why Trump won. People think the president is a dictator, which is why they elected a man promising to be a dictator.

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I’m not so certain he was genuine in wanting to get that done, or at least to the extent. He’s one of the reasons student debt is so hard to discharge, and played a role in manufacturing the current crisis.

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Have you been living under a rock for 4 years? The fuck you mean he spent 3.9 years screwing around on this, you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. This is one of the things Biden pursued hardest in the face of ridiculous opposition. It went to the Supreme Court. Like two years ago.

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Yeah I read the news, I still read the news. And all of it was him doing very little. When he predictably didn’t get what he hoped for, he apparently had no backup plan. It seemed like he was doing everything low key, low energy, no PR campaign. Amateur hour.

Now we can blame some of that on mainstream media having bad coverage. But that aspect was entirely predictable. He’s a pro, decades of experience, he should have had some plan for that.

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Biden had the same challenges Obama did when Obama had his terms. Republicans got in the way. But Obama was still dealing with moderate and crazy but tamed Republicans who still sided with Bush at the time and propped McCain and Romney to oppose him.

Biden was going up against a more insane breed of Republicans who’ve gotten a nice dosage of the first 4 years with Trump, who’ve turned the country upside down and all around. Everything was going to be an uphill battle moreso than Obama’s struggle was.

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18 points

Okay, so what is he doing to Trump proof stuff?

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24 points

Trying to finally send all the money approved by Congress to Ukraine

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I read that withdrawing the student loans was actually one of the things. If he hadn’t Trump could have used the years long progress to implement his own policies. Now he would have to restart the process over again to make any changes.

He just appointed a bunch of federal judges this week.

He has also just made a new international climate agreement. It can probably be thrown out but it’s another thing that would cause a delay. Nothing is going to make anything Trump proof since he controls 3 branches of government and is immune to crimes. It’s all stall tactics.

Biden is terrible at marketing the stuff he does. He doesn’t do enough and the things he does actually do just gets pushed through without any press. He also publicly shows no fight when things are blocked so it looks like he never even attempted. Still runs things like an old time senator expecting nonbiased journalists to spread the word for him.

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0 points

He pardoned a bunch of rich criminals

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Jaaaaaack

Fucking

Shiiiiiiiiit

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5 points

He could use his “official acts” granted by the Supreme Circus to rid us once and for all of this turbulent turd. But he won’t.

Motherfucker said “Nothing will fundamentally change”

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2 points

Pardoning Hunter and projecting an air of general, but aloof concern.

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5 points

I dont think he was doing what he could. He could have done a lot more.

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2 points

Hey now, he really needed all those years to mull it over, just to make sure it aged like milk.

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Biden: Hey here’s half a trillion dollars back on student loans, a trillion dollars on climate change, unions and manufacturing jobs, and a bunch of other stuff, all paid for by big increases in corporate tax

USA: Yeah but corporations are still doing bad stuff though

USA: We pick Trump

Biden: Alright fuck you then

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this is stuff that never would have made it all the way to implementation anyway; with voters shooting off their own feet last month, and some hand-picked maga judges ruling against the policy.

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Rules were unfinished - they were trying to rewrite a second version after Republicans kept blocking it in court. The unfinished rules already had republicans threatening to sue about it. Presumably ran out of time to complete it

He’s still looking at other more narrow areas that are less able for Republicans to make BS challenges on

Biden is still pursuing other avenues for debt relief before his term is up. On Friday, his administration announced an additional $4.28 billion in debt relief for 54,900 borrowers in Public Service Loan Forgiveness — a result of ongoing improvements to the program. Despite not being able to pass broad relief, Biden, over the course of his term, has provided relief to nearly 5 million borrowers through changes to various programs.

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