• quink@lemmy.ml
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    Gee, however long ago could we have foreseen that Trump would have just the worst takes when it comes to first responders and 9/11.

    Washington Post: On 9/11, Trump pointed out he now had the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. He didn’t.

    Right. Publicly, since literally 9/11.

    I guess it must have been too late for them to possibly know, when he already had the shittiest take possible the day it happened, a quarter century ago.

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      Law and order had always been a tool to oppress minorities. The people who loudly proclaim to be in favour of it never feel bound by laws themselves.

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        Have you ever actually needed the police? Once you do, I’m pretty sure you won’t feel repressed.

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    5 hours ago

    That’s not the whole story, that union extremely rarely endorses any candidate and only endorsed Biden specifically for the funding. Not to mention that this occurred under the Biden presidency.

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      The legislature creates the budget, not the presidency. And the legislature is controlled by Republicans.

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          Have you missed the last week of news? The funding was stripped out of the original budget, which had already gone through bipartisan negotiation and had support from both parties, because Trump and Elon Musk coerced their party into rejecting it.

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            Ok yes that’s true and I do think it’s a terrible sign on the deathknell of democracy, but how is that different from Trump dictating GOP policy for the last 4 years?

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              It isn’t, many things have been unable to pass both chambers due to the 48:2:50 split in the Senate and Republican control of the house. Most of Biden’s accomplishments were from 2021-2022 and changes to the agencies under the Cabinet.

              But that’s not really the point of the discussion, the discussion was about blaming the Biden Admin for things literally being done (or in this case explicitly not being done) by the Republican Legislators.

              In fact, another great example almost exactly like this is when Biden endorsed a Border Security Bill to compromise with moderates and the GOP, Trump killed that one as well because it would have made Biden look good. LINK TO STORY

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    This was always Jon Stewart’s pet project. I’m sure we’ll hear it from him, though idk what he can do to lobby for it now.