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Should retire, right now, so Kamila is president for a few days. Just so technically she's a president. Just to annoy trump
Just to make all those Trump 47 bumper stickers look silly.
I'm not a fan of any of them but this would be hilarious.
Biden was an og Congressional neoliberal. A prominent one. He helped Reagan convert Republican's former opposition party into the corpo bribe taking, social inclusion!... Economic die in the streets... party it is today, locking arms with Republicans to defend our murderous economy from us as they stoke social division between us so we don't look up at our sociopath owners.
Voted for him out of harm reduction compared to Trump, a vote for quiet not peace, but fuck Joe Biden.
I agree fuck him he wasn’t bad but boy did he lack a spine
This just in: Oligarch warns about other oligarchs
He could use his Supreme Court given powers and do something with that?
Yeah, thanks dude, for not actually doing anything about it. Enjoy your millions in retirement.
Oligarch warns of oligarchy
No
Biden has his faults, sure, but Trump & co are on such another level that it's literally not funny anymore
Whataboutism
On what fucking planet is Biden an oligarch
Are you fucking kidding me? He's a plutocrat.
Thank God Joe promised to address this issue before taking office:
"Nothing will fundamentally change."
Ah. Die of gonorrhea and burn in hell, then.
He probably should have led with this speech.
Damn. Looks like you guys are headed for a system that treats rich people and poor people differently. Where you can get away with countless felony charges just for being of a particular status in society. ~~Where they'll push for the death penalty for someone that shoots a CEO but sleep when schools get shot up~~ (see below). I feel bad for you guys that all of this is only going to start happening to you on January 20, 2025.
I mean we've always really been that place but at least the 1% had the decency to pretend they were for fair and equal treatment and justice for all.
Timely.
President Biden warns of 'oligarchy' as he bids farewell to five decades in ~~politics~~ service to the oligarch-beholden establishment
Fixed it for them.
If we allowed Biden and the DNC to write the tax plans it would have made billionaires eat shit. Instead the country reelected the guys who made the last awful tax plan just as it expires next year.
He did try many times to get rid of student loans, only for Trump’s judicial picks to say it’s illegal to forgive loans of poor people
Fun fact: if he hadn't deliberately means tested student loan forgiveness to death, the GOP lawyers wouldn't have been able to argue discrimination and he knew that.
He wanted the credit for trying, but his owner donors didn't want his "attempt" to actually succeed.
and he knew that.
Or
He's a fucking liberal that believes means-testing actually works.
Except for all the times that it doesn't. This is one of those times.
People who are rich enough to not need student loan forgiveness don't have student loans in the first place. Either they come from a rich family that paid for their college or they did so themselves after becoming rich.
With that in mind, means testing student loan forgiveness to death was a hell of a lot of downside including the argument that the fascists used to kill it, in exchange for absolutely no upside.
Regardless of his personal beliefs, half a century worth of experience should be WAY more than necessary to find out how things work regardless of how you think they SHOULD work.
Tl;Dr: he either knew that means testing would doom it to failure and did it anyway, means tested it BECAUSE he knew it would cause it to fail, or he was WAY too incompetent and naive for someone who'd been in the game for longer than most people have been ALIVE.
Either way, he fucked it up.