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Thanks Dems for doing jack shit about abortion bans, trans bans, the cost of living, the drone strikes, global warming, COVID.

Might as well just call them Blue conservatives. The outcome of voting for them is much the same.

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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roe v Wade was overturned under the Biden administration, idk if you missed that.

[–] Wheeze@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You do understand that this happened because of the supreme court, and not because of Biden, right? And the supreme court was able to do this because of Trump. Could you explain what Biden should have done to protect abortion rights on a federal level?

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Surely! Here’s a small and incomplete list of things he could do, at varying levels of usefulness and ease:

An executive order legalizing abortion nationwide

Pack the Supreme Court

Move the Supreme Court justices to lower courts and replacing them

Simply ignore the Supreme Court, as several presidents have done in the past (Andrew Jackson being the most notable)

Get his fucking party in order and pass a law legalizing abortion back when he had the majority in both the house and senate

Open abortion clinics on federal land nationwide, claiming new land to do it on if there’s none available in a needed location

Threaten to drone strike Clarence Thomas

Withhold highway funds from states that ban abortion

An executive order declaring banning abortion a felony, and then arresting every politician who implemented a ban

Call for a general strike until abortion rights are re-established

Personally sanction governors of states that ban abortion, freeze their bank accounts, seize their companies, all the shit we do to foreign leaders we don’t like

Call for people in states that ban abortion to burn down their state capitols cool-zone

Joe Biden is the President of the United States of America, the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. He’s not a powerless smol bean. If he actually wants something to happen, there’s a long list of ways to go about it. If something does or doesn’t happen under his watch, that is his responsibility.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always been saying that if it were two Republicans that had held up every Trump legislative priority, Trump would have been bullying them every day until they acquiesced, but Biden allowed Manchin and Sinema to do exactly that and acted all powerless.

Isn't it odd how the Presidency is only weak when it comes to Democrats passing their own platforms?

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh my god, can you imagine if it was Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney holding things up? Trump would’ve had them killed if McConnell didn’t do it first. But the republicans don’t have that problem because they actually keep their members on the party line where it matters

[–] huf@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so do democrats. what you're seeing is not them failing to keep their party in line. this is their line.

Fair point, I should say the party line democrats claim to have.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Of course. But one also has to question if the Democratic Party line is one of rotating villains. I don't think it's conscious, but Democrats probably felt like they do keep their members on the party line because large chunks of their sitting representatives are openly hostile to progressivism, so Manchin isn't "out of line" to them.

Liberals will huff about him and Sinema, then turn around and excuse their actions because they're from West Virginia and Arizona, and "can't" be like "coastal dems" if they want to be re-elected to which I'm just like "then what use are they to you?"

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can I have the "maoist biden" flavor?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Biden could literally declare them unlawful enemy combatants and have them shot. He's the president of the united states of america he can do whatever he wants.

He can drone strike the Supreme Court. But that will be saved for random children in one of the many countries that the US is occupying 🙄

[–] asparagus9001@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pack the court, like they had an exploratory committee to look into doing for about 4 days in January 2021

I'll take my "if Democrats ever try to actually wield power and improve people's lives then the Republicans might do something bad in return" reply off the air.

[–] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

He could have packed the court. Have you ever watched The Alt-Right Playbook Series? I think it does a good job of explaining some of the reasons why the democrats are mostly useless. It doesn't get into the problem of both the Ds and Rs being capitalists, but it does explain how Ds wag their fingers and Rs just keep doing wild shit anyway.