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it really do be like that tho (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by JimmyMemes to c/politicalmemes

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Biden isn’t able to pass any good legislation.

Old enough to remember 2009, when the Senate had a 60 vote majority but Joe Lieberman kept threatening to join the filibuster with Republicans, so nothing could pass. He famously gutted the Public Option from the ACA with no effort by Obama to save it. Then in 2016, Chuck Schumer allowed an open SCOTUS seat to languish for 11 months because he didn't want to hold up any other Senate business for Mitch McConnell. Then in 2020, Dianne Feinstein couldn't stale the Judiciary Committee for even 3 months to keep ACB out in time for Biden to take office - ACB was seated a week before the general election. Then you've got trillions in bank bailouts, an SEC that doesn't prosecute obvious financial crimes, and an IRS that primarily prosecutes people earning under $20k/year. And every fucking thing that McKinsey Consultant Pete Buttigieg stands for.

This isn't just a Joe Biden problem, although the guy who gave Strom Thurmond's Eulogy is definitely a part of the problem. This is a party that exists entirely as a placeholder when Republicans aren't in power, in order to guarantee only business-friendly legislation and war funding is ever under consideration.