114 points

There needs to be a true check to the complete corruption of the supreme court.

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We need,

The Ultra Supreme Court XXL

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224 points

This would be amazing if he can do it. At least he’s promising good changes vs trump promising judgment day on day one…

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Didn’t he literally say he would take vengeance on all his political opponents day one? Then the Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity?

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Yes. He said both what I wrote and wanting revenge, saying he will be a dictator for one day, day one. This video has both clips, if you want to skip to 8:17 for the revenge and judgment day after that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNzzOwiebvM

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22 points

It is weird that they dicked around for 4 years on this, though.

Still, vote blue, your vassals beg you (Australian here).

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9 points

4 years of daily Republican sabotage of the US government. Democrats are not perfect. They are also not the problem at hand.

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Undoing the amount of damage they caused takes time. Biden inherited a spiraling economy, hundreds of thousands of people sick and dying, and a coup attempt that nearly got a bunch of people killed.

Not to mention all the idiotic shit the prior president had done while in office, such as austerity cuts that fucked social programs, legal systems, and low and middle income Americans.

It will take 12-16 years of unified democrat rule to fix corruption, regulatory capture, anti-trust for monopolies, universal healthcare, infrastructure investments that don’t get slashed by idiotic presidents, etc.

Four years of chemotherapy isn’t nearly enough when we have policy tumors and R&D funding cut abscesses from fucking idiots like Regan, Bush, and Trump.

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Hmmm, genuinely improving the lives of Americans vs fire and brimstone and a dictator. Tough choice for Americans in November /s

Get everyone you can to vote in November, seriously. Trump’s faction is barely scraping by. We can do this.

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80 points

add ranked choice

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Only if the ranking is applied at the state level AND the national level. I’m not going to throw away my vote or my delegate’s vote.

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49 points

Why not get rid of delegates altogether while we’re at it?

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33 points

Yes please. As someone who isn’t in a swing state, I would like my vote to matter.

And a popular vote means citizens in other countries could vote (Puerto Rico).

Also, prisoners should get a vote.

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3 points

Isn’t ranked choice like straight up banned in like 12 states or something? You’d have to flip each of those states first before even going down that road right?

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16 points

Well, theoretically federal law would supercede state law. But current SCOTUS is kinda wack right now.

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5 points

Bush full of birds, but our hands are still empty…

Biden had four fucking years to do something, half of that time Dems controlled both House and Senate.

But he doesn’t start talking about it till right before the election as a promise for something he’ll “look into” in January

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Yeah, seriously considering, so nothing is going to happen. Words mean nothing without action.

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15 points

Dems didn’t control both the house and the senate soo… Thats why Dems haven’t been able to pass as many things as they would like.

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89 points

Dems controlled the Senate with the slimmest majority possible. One fucker that owns a coal company was able to tank all meaningful climate bills and there was nothing Biden or anyone else could do about it. You can forget about any progressive policies in that environment, lol. Biden did well with the tools he was given.

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Dems controlled the Senate with the slimmest majority possible

And four years ago Biden wouldnt shut up about how only he could work with a Republican Senate.

Long before we dreamed if 50 seats.

As soon as that was on the table, it switched to 50 accomplishes everything. And almost immediately after we got that. Biden said it wasn’t enough

Three big goalpost moves in like 6 months, that shit is noticable to voters and some can remember the last election, and not take Biden on his word again.

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24 points

You’re misplacing the blame, friend

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32 points

You’re supposed to be angry at the people preventing progress, not the people trying to create progress.

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23 points

I love how people blame Biden for shit the racist rapist with 34 felonies did. The amount of mental gymnastics that requires is amazing. Unless you’re not a real person and at this point, I kinda hope you’re not.

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Not sure why you’re getting negative votes. You’re right. But Dems still haven’t learned that the days of working across party lines is a dream from a bygone era.

Old man dreams.

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18 points

Biden has been successful at getting bipartisan legislation passed over the last few years. That doesn’t mean that everything can be done. It horse shit that you think that because he wasn’t able to convince any Republicans and lost a turn coat and coal barron that it’s his fault, or that he mislead with his “working across the aisle” comments.

To address one of your other comments, this shit is the reason people might believe your a Trump supporter. The same shit rhetoric day in and day out. There’s being critical and there’s being beneficial to Trump. You frequently sit on the Trump benefits side of comments.

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It’s very disingenuous to say the Democratic party controlled the Senate while having the House majority. The Senate was 48 Democratic, 2 Independents who caucused with the Democratic Senators, and 50 Republicans with the VP casting tie-breakong votes. Very little legislation could be passed because of the filibuster, which needed 51 votes to reform and both Machines and Lineman stating they absolutely would not go along with that. The Senate could approve most nominees, and pass reconciliation (ie 3 types of budget-related bills) once a year. They had no path the expand the court or codify Roe or anything like that with the “majority” they had. We need either 51 Senators who will amend the filibuster (or get rid of it) or 61 Senators to overcome the filibuster to really have the ability to get anything substantial done.

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Then why was Biden saying he could work with a Republican controlled Senate 4 years ago?

Why say that the Georgia runoffs would get the whole platform?

What number do we need for any current campaign promises to come true? And if the deciding factor is House and Senate, shouldn’t we do ch Biden for a candidate that would help down allot races?

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Then why was Biden saying he could work with a Republican controlled Senate 4 years ago?

Probably because he did have a history of bipartisan work as a Senator.

Why say that the Georgia runoffs would get the whole platform?

In 2020? We didn’t know yet that Sinema would do a 180 after being elected or that Manchin would be such a dick.

What number do we need for any current campaign promises to come true?

I already addressed that.

And if the deciding factor is House and Senate, shouldn’t we do ch Biden for a candidate that would help down allot races?

Anybody who supports the Democratic platform relative to the Republican platform and says they won’t vote if Biden is on the ticket is, quite simply, failing our society most egregiously. Protest voting does nothing but lose.

Historically, a contested convention or not running the incumbent is a losing proposition. But I don’t care who the Democratic party nominates in this election, I will vote for them up and down the ballot. The presidential nominees are going to be shitty until we can collectively get our heads out of our asses and turn up it overwhelming numbers in the primaries to get progressives in state legislatures to overhaul our election process. It will take a constitutional amendment to unshitify the presidential election.

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Yeah, would have loved to see action before now. Still, what specific steps would you rather see this moment?

At least he’s talking about it and maybe giving people hope that things could settle the fuck down. Lot of people probably voting against Trump, but would help to have more reasons to vote for Biden

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At least he’s talking about it

So noble to bring up things the country desperately needs and he has no intention of working towards

Shits too bad to keep wasting Dem administrations on neoliberals

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What specific steps would you like to see Biden take right now?

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Democrats should quit waiting until they can’t do shit to suggest doing it.

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That’s their whole strategy. If they suggest doing shit when they still had time to do anything, they might feel pressured by the populace to do something, and that would upset their owners.

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3 points

Needs the Congress to make them amendments

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And if they’re going to do that, they should add all federally elected or appointed people. If you hit the federal retirement age during your term, you’re ineligible to run again. For SCOTUS, if you hit it, you begin the process to step down while a replacement is vetted and approved.

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