Oh Captain my Captain!
Fuck yeah, he has my vote. The Supreme Court needs some serious nerfs and better guardrails.
Hey Biden, why don’t you work on giving term limits for the house and Senate first And then work on term limits for the court.
Honesty kinda conflicted on representative term limits. Longer term people can be out of touch, but they also have a lot of experience and know how to collaborate to get laws passed 🤔
I think congress critters should be seated and dormed together by state, not by party. They would be less vile towards each other. Think of the pizza parties!
Or more vile, I feel like Californian house members would start trying to openly kill eachother. Imagine an Inland Imperial trying to get along with someone from LA, or San Francisco, or the Central valley, or the Hi desert, or Hesparia, or the wrong part of the Inland empire. Ya know what I think we just have problems with everyone else, Victorville and San Diego are chill though.
Hopefully he succeeds. The court is fucked
I can’t imagine how he possibly will. R is happy just the way things are.
People need to flip House and Senate blue. Theres a better chance of that happening than Biden winning.
Even when Biden loses, it will be necessary to have a majority to keep Trump in check.
Bush full of birds, but our hands are still empty…
Biden had four fucking years to do something, half of that time Dems controlled both House and Senate.
But he doesn’t start talking about it till right before the election as a promise for something he’ll “look into” in January
Yeah, seriously considering, so nothing is going to happen. Words mean nothing without action.
Dems didn’t control both the house and the senate soo… Thats why Dems haven’t been able to pass as many things as they would like.
It’s very disingenuous to say the Democratic party controlled the Senate while having the House majority. The Senate was 48 Democratic, 2 Independents who caucused with the Democratic Senators, and 50 Republicans with the VP casting tie-breakong votes. Very little legislation could be passed because of the filibuster, which needed 51 votes to reform and both Machines and Lineman stating they absolutely would not go along with that. The Senate could approve most nominees, and pass reconciliation (ie 3 types of budget-related bills) once a year. They had no path the expand the court or codify Roe or anything like that with the “majority” they had. We need either 51 Senators who will amend the filibuster (or get rid of it) or 61 Senators to overcome the filibuster to really have the ability to get anything substantial done.
Then why was Biden saying he could work with a Republican controlled Senate 4 years ago?
Why say that the Georgia runoffs would get the whole platform?
What number do we need for any current campaign promises to come true? And if the deciding factor is House and Senate, shouldn’t we do ch Biden for a candidate that would help down allot races?
Then why was Biden saying he could work with a Republican controlled Senate 4 years ago?
Probably because he did have a history of bipartisan work as a Senator.
Why say that the Georgia runoffs would get the whole platform?
In 2020? We didn’t know yet that Sinema would do a 180 after being elected or that Manchin would be such a dick.
What number do we need for any current campaign promises to come true?
I already addressed that.
And if the deciding factor is House and Senate, shouldn’t we do ch Biden for a candidate that would help down allot races?
Anybody who supports the Democratic platform relative to the Republican platform and says they won’t vote if Biden is on the ticket is, quite simply, failing our society most egregiously. Protest voting does nothing but lose.
Historically, a contested convention or not running the incumbent is a losing proposition. But I don’t care who the Democratic party nominates in this election, I will vote for them up and down the ballot. The presidential nominees are going to be shitty until we can collectively get our heads out of our asses and turn up it overwhelming numbers in the primaries to get progressives in state legislatures to overhaul our election process. It will take a constitutional amendment to unshitify the presidential election.
Probably because he did have a history of bipartisan work as a Senator
Oh ok…
So despite Biden spending 8 years in Obama’s White House and getting a literal front row seat…
Biden was just too stupid to realize shit changed?
Or you think he knew and intentionally lied about it in that primary so he’d be the candidate even tho he knew the only reason to go with him was bullshit?
Like, you get that’s where your logic leads right?
Biden is either:
- Dumb as shit and if ignorant of modern politics
- He knew what reality was like, but lied to become an ineffectual president on purpose. Not just bad because he put himself over the country, but he did it in the middle of a fascists takeover. Literally, there was a failed insurrection days before he took office.
Neither of those options makes people energized to vote for him again, and this election is too important to risk Joe.
My dude, Biden has had more bipartisan success than Obama did. So I really don’t think you have a winning point here.
Like, you get that’s where your logic leads right?
No, but I get that it’s where you insist on taking it.
Neither of those options makes people energized to vote for him again, and this election is too important to risk Joe.
You have it wrong, this election is too important to risk not voting Democratic regardless if it is Joe. O will vote blue regardless. Will you?
, this election is too important to risk not voting Democratic regardless if it is Joe
There are 10s of millions of voters Biden needs to convince, and every indication is he’s not going to be able to convince enough, especially not the tens of thousands up for grabs in battleground states.
It’s easier to switch out Biden while there’s still time than to convince all those people.
You’re worried about forcing everyone into making a smart decision. We’re talking about the American public here. We don’t have a good track record with that.
So rather than gamble on the intelligence of the American public, why not give them a better candidate?
What’s the benefit of sticking with Biden? How many people already willing to vote for Biden isn’t voting D regardless of candidate?
You’re right that everyone should vote Biden.
But that doesn’t matter. The American public does the wrong thing almost constantly, have you been in public lately?
What you don’t seem to be understanding is that I’m not arguing for Biden being the nominee. I’m arguing against not voting Democratic in the event the Biden is the nominee:
Anybody who supports the Democratic platform relative to the Republican platform and says they won’t vote if Biden is on the ticket is, quite simply, failing our society most egregiously. Protest voting does nothing but lose.
I’m not objecting to people asking for a better candidate. I’m concerned that those people will fuck over the rest of the country and not vote Democratic if they don’t get one.
Yeah, would have loved to see action before now. Still, what specific steps would you rather see this moment?
At least he’s talking about it and maybe giving people hope that things could settle the fuck down. Lot of people probably voting against Trump, but would help to have more reasons to vote for Biden
Democrats should quit waiting until they can’t do shit to suggest doing it.
That’s their whole strategy. If they suggest doing shit when they still had time to do anything, they might feel pressured by the populace to do something, and that would upset their owners.
At least he’s talking about it
So noble to bring up things the country desperately needs and he has no intention of working towards
Shits too bad to keep wasting Dem administrations on neoliberals
What specific steps would you like to see Biden take right now?
Use the powers granted to him as president of the United States…
He can just fucking arrest Clarence for acts against the US government and throw his ass in Gitmo
What’s the reason not to? You one of those people that think Republicans are holding back so if we fight back they’re fight even harder?
They been fighting as hard as they can for decades. And Trump will use every power granted to him (and some that aren’t) if he’s president.
You don’t fight fascism with both hands tied behind your back unless you’re not worried about fascism winning…
What was that Biden quote about if he loses the election?
Dems controlled the Senate with the slimmest majority possible. One fucker that owns a coal company was able to tank all meaningful climate bills and there was nothing Biden or anyone else could do about it. You can forget about any progressive policies in that environment, lol. Biden did well with the tools he was given.
Dems controlled the Senate with the slimmest majority possible
And four years ago Biden wouldnt shut up about how only he could work with a Republican Senate.
Long before we dreamed if 50 seats.
As soon as that was on the table, it switched to 50 accomplishes everything. And almost immediately after we got that. Biden said it wasn’t enough
Three big goalpost moves in like 6 months, that shit is noticable to voters and some can remember the last election, and not take Biden on his word again.
Not sure why you’re getting negative votes. You’re right. But Dems still haven’t learned that the days of working across party lines is a dream from a bygone era.
Old man dreams.
You can’t even get moderates to understand if the best we can do is a tie, it’s harder to even manage that.
Anyone that can look at the last 16 years of the party and say with a straight face we’re making the right moves isn’t worth listening to.
There is absolutely zero benefit to running Hillary/Biden types rather than an Obama type
You’re supposed to be angry at the people preventing progress, not the people trying to create progress.
Promising progress and intentionally not fulfilling the promise is, indeed, preventing progress. Of course the R’s are awful. The D’s are also shitty and I hold them to a higher standard.
You’re misplacing the blame, friend
This is like saying we can’t criticize the police because criminals are worse…
Tag his username, he’s usually like this
I love how people blame Biden for shit the racist rapist with 34 felonies did. The amount of mental gymnastics that requires is amazing. Unless you’re not a real person and at this point, I kinda hope you’re not.
Bruh…
How is it you read something like:
We’re not fighting fascists enough
And your take away
That guy likes fascists
Seriously, what steps of logic did you get to thinking I’m a trump supporter?
It’s 2024, you can’t imagine someone doesn’t like Biden but hates trump?
What in the hell are you talking about? Did you respond to the wrong person because you’re quoting shit that wasn’t in what I replied to. You broken?
How is it you read something like:
I mean, I thought the “like” was a clear signal I was paraphrasing…
But overestimating people is a flaw I openly admit
Biden has been successful at getting bipartisan legislation passed over the last few years. That doesn’t mean that everything can be done. It horse shit that you think that because he wasn’t able to convince any Republicans and lost a turn coat and coal barron that it’s his fault, or that he mislead with his “working across the aisle” comments.
To address one of your other comments, this shit is the reason people might believe your a Trump supporter. The same shit rhetoric day in and day out. There’s being critical and there’s being beneficial to Trump. You frequently sit on the Trump benefits side of comments.
Needs the Congress to make them amendments
And if they’re going to do that, they should add all federally elected or appointed people. If you hit the federal retirement age during your term, you’re ineligible to run again. For SCOTUS, if you hit it, you begin the process to step down while a replacement is vetted and approved.
Make every US citizen a Supreme Court justice when they turn 18. There’s nothing in the constitution that says you can’t do that. Put cases up to popular vote every year or two. Also, whatever law passed to do this would count as senate approval because who’s going to strike it down… the Supreme Court?
There’s nothing in the constitution that says dogs can’t play basketball.
There is that basketball court that’s on top of the Supreme Court…does that mean another Air Bud sequel but this time he’s a justice?
This meme is great but it drives me crazy. There are certainly multiple eligibility requirements to play on a school basketball team, including age and being a registered student, which would prevent a dog from qualifying.
Don’t stomp on Air Bud’s dreams.
This is hilarious. I’m sure someone with more bandwidth than me can point out a dozen reasons why this is bad, but fuck if it isn’t funny and appealing.
We’ve already got a partisan court and the decisions affect us all anyway, so…
Yeah but what we have now is clearly bad too.
He can’t do it with a Republican House and a Senate that requires 60 votes to do anything.
And even if he could, there’s literally zero reason to think he would. This is more empty campaign rhetoric like back in 2020.
Yep, this is the carrot that will never be given to us, standard DNC playbook.
That’s the thing that kills me, he makes these promises that he KNOWS he can’t get done, which leads to the whole “Well, Democrats never do anything!” argument.
What he NEEDS to say is “Here’s what I want to do, but I need your help throwing out the bastards in the House and Senate blocking it! Here are their names, let’s get them gone!”
That’s the real problem, but too many people here and elsewhere are unaware of the limitations on how the legislative process works. Anything like this is pretty much DOA and purely ceremonial. I’m happy for all of the positive things Biden has been able to get done in spite of such gridlock, but amendment level change in this country is just not at all possible right now.
Nope. And while the call for a Constitutional Convention to re-do the whole thing currently has more support (28 states out of 34 required), it’s generally coming from red states and would require 3/4 of the states to approve it. So that’s a non-starter too.
https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/#
Well, I mean. if their rhetoric has hit a tipping point, maybe there wont be 60 for long.
Would have been good if he was working last 3.5 years too, now doing damage control is too little too late
The problem ofc being that congress fights him tooth and nail for anything he wants done, but yeah… all his fault.
He could have done what hes trying to do now three years ago. Why did he wait until there were LESS democrats in office before trying?
… Because the SC seemed to act sufficiently unbiased and ethically until now?
Not all his fault, but he definitely shares much of the blame, largely due to a lack of leadership on the topic.
What the president can do in those situations is focus the discussion, he has the highest pulpit of any politician, he should’ve been using it to move the frame of discussion and shift party strategy to make court reform a stronger pillar of the party platform. When the president says something it gives other party members permission to hammer on an idea.
Instead he lingered on his dusty, worthless notions of bipartisanship and “reaching across the aisle” and wasted all his political capital defending a genocide.
PACK THE FUCKING COURT! You’re in that office to serve the people not the fucking system. Doesn’t matter anyway republicans are going to destroy everything they can get their hands on.
If he doesn’t do it, Trump will if he wins.
Yeah, why would you try to actually solve a problem instead of just applying a band-aid that the next administration can rip of again (by incresing the size of the court again)?
Every solution that works within the system would be a band-aid. The entire system is band-aids. The government set up by a group of wealthy white men almost 250 years ago for a population 130 times smaller than it is now simply does not and cannot work in today’s world.
“Biden says more things he’ll immediately abandon on day one to appeal to a left he’s actively working to undermine with multiple bills in congress right now.”
Demonstrably false.
Please demonstrate. He still owes me $600.
Wrong
Here ya go: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true
Edit: I know, you’ll bitch and moan and complain but the facts remain facts
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his “top 5” is actually just 3. The other 2 marked ‘compromised’ and ‘stalled’. lmfao Blue MAGA Only-Bidens crack me up.
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Lmao You think his top 5 being only 3 real things he’s done is helping your point? That’s crazy.
There’s more to the list, sure. But they could name 3 that were significant enough? Wild.
You can’t reason a person out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
I’m not sure I’ve read a single political post by facebones that has ever been actually thoughtful. It’s also just “muh both sides!”
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38 states to agree on that constitutional amendment ?
Which states ?
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I’m down to commit regicide
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Where was suicide mentioned?
I respect the decision. We all gotta go our particular ways
Imagine shit hitting the fan if Congress passed a law limiting a clearly corrupt court and then the court “ruled it unconstitutional”.
That isn’t going to fly.
It’s not even in the constitution that the supreme court can rule something unconstitutional, they just did it once early on and everyone went with it.
If he doesnʼt die from COVID.
The most amazing ideas always come when the election draws close. But he can’t implement any of them because there is no time.
Good thing Biden already fulfilled his previous election promises. Student loans are a thing of the past.
He rescheduled the fuck out of weed too right….riiiight?
Whoah whoah whoah. He said “push for”, not implement. He’ll do his best!
