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Joe Biden suddenly leads Donald Trump in multiple polls
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He's done an OK job for a run of the mill president during run of the mill times, but in my opinion he has failed to rise to the big threats of today, especially RAPIDLY encroaching fascism, climate change, and nearly catastrophic wealth inequality.
So our choice is between run-of-the-mill president or a guy who says he wants to a dictator, violently tried to overturn the last election, had fake electors etc. etc.
I'm not excited about Biden but the choice seems to be pretty straightforward and I'll be SURE to get to the polls.
I'm on board with voting for him as a means of harm reduction but I'm also not gonna pretend he's been great like a lot of blue maga liberals claim.
Lol the downvotes. I said I'm voting for the guy, but y'all are so mad that I'm not going to dickride him as well.
Meh, I upvoted you. I personally think he's been about as good a president as someone could hope for, which is a pretty fucking low bar, but I still voted uncommitted in my primary yesterday even though I would crawl over broken glass to vote against Trump in November. I don't blame anybody who holds their nose and votes as a pure harm reduction measure.
I will be getting to the polls as well but it won't be to reward Moderates for picking a shit candidate and threatening not to back him every time there's an opportunity for him to compromise with leftists and progressives.
Trump will make sure to thank you for your efforts getting him elected.
When moderates are ready to compromise I'll be here. We've done our part, it's time for them to hold up their end of the bargain.
The president has little power to address climate change/wealth inequality on his own. That all relates to the budget and is firmly in control of congress. Replace Manchin/Sinema with two progressive senators and you would have the BBB bill, which would have addressed both these concerns.
With respect to encroaching racism I am just not sure what any politician can do about it. Ideally, you would like to change the mind of hardcore Republicans, but it’s not like they are listening.
Encroaching *fascism. I agree there's probably not much to do about racism.
Democrats could have used the reconciliation bill in order to pass the BBB but they didn't.
Tells me all I need to know about establishment Democrats: they're not on my side.
What part about Manchin/Sinema is difficult to understand here? How does that relate to Biden who pushed the bill?
I'm relatively unconvinced by laying all the blame on them. The president is the leader of his party and has the massive power of the bully pulpit to help bring them into line. He was unable or unwilling to do that.
Question: what party is Sinema in now?
It's pretty evident now Sinema could not be bullied if she was willing to immolate her career over even the soft demands made of her.
And if he had used that "power" then he'd be called a bully, etc, (including by people who don't give a shit when R does it)
Better not try then, that is the democrats MO after all
Manchin/Sinema could not have stopped Democrats from using the reconciliation bill as a bargaining chip to pass the BBB. It was not called for by Pelosi, Biden or any establishment Democrat for one simple reason: They didn't care and expected voters to just show up anyway.
What are you talking about? They needed 50 votes in the Senate for a reconciliation vote which they did not have, because of the aforementioned senators. The bill was passed by the house (of which Pelosi was Speaker at the time). There was a lot of negotiation between the White House and the two senators to get the bill to 50 in the Senate. None of what you are saying is correct!