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Surely! Here’s a small and incomplete list of things he could do, at varying levels of usefulness and ease:
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.
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?
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
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.
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?"
can I have the "maoist biden" flavor?