• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    is the minimum wage still $7.25 and the rent and food more than even $20 an hour would cover?

    has the police problem been solved?

    what about the environment we got cop city being built on a national forest?

    what about healthcare or bodily autonomy?

    what about worker’s rights

    what about anything else he ran on?

    not all of live in a HOA bubble in the US

    Trump left the office with the country in worse shape and so is Biden

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      4 months ago

      It is unbelievable to me how people just hand wave away the fact that Biden inherited the Covid economy.

      We have no problem acknowledging that Obama did not create the economy he was handed, i.e. the one the Republicans handed to him in the form of the great recession. But a worldwide pandemic? No, that can’t possibly be the issue. It’s the president’s fault!

      Shit I didn’t even do that to Trump and I looked for literally anything I could throw at him.

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      4 months ago

      “Not a total disaster” is better than the alternative. Welcome to voting as an adult. There’s no such thing as a perfect candidate. There’s not even really such thing as a great candidate. The absolute best you’ll ever find is “good.” We don’t have that option this year, so you vote for “least bad. ESPECIALLY when the alternative is a narcissist con-man who’s only in it to enrich himself.

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        Don’t bother trying to reason with people who don’t lift a finger for anything socially or politically important for 3.5 years then just show up in the final inning for the general election to complain about how they aren’t represented at all and don’t like any candidates. They’re children going “it’s my money and I want it NOW!” with whatever nebulous political outcomes they want.

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      4 months ago

      not all of live in a HOA bubble in the US

      … I’m trying to figure out if you threw out a positive “just to be fair”. HOA’s universally suck.

      joking aside…yup.

      I’m waiting for people to chime in that “he doesn’t have that power! the DOJ is independent!”

      Then he didn’t solve the economyrich people’s yacht money problems. because the treasury is also indepenent, and so is the Fed. Reserve. Regardless… he does have influence with the DOJ, at the very least, including on dictating what sorts of crime get priority. and firing Garland for not doing his fucking job.