• @[email protected]
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      Pretty sure anything that touches the budget in any way other than minor allocation changes is strictly congress’ business.

      For example, when he tried to forgive student loans several years ago he was empowered to do so by a law from 2003 which allowed the Secretary of Education to change rules and waive amounts during an emergency such as 9/11 or a Pandemic. And State AGs still sued him over it and won, despite that legislature.

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        I wonder if the

        2008 legislation that he wrote eliminating student loan bankruptcy forgiveness in exchange for $250,000 from MBNA

        got in his way too!

        Vote blue no matter who $hitlibs are counting on people not being able to do basic research and just taking their corruption apologia at face value.

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          I am not sure that legislation has to do with spending though.

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            No shit!

            What I intend to communicate is that Biden has never been, in any way, serious about any of the focus-grouped, means-tested student loan forgiveness programs that he has been pretending to work toward. He and his advisors clearly know full well that his buddies in Congress will NEVER, EVER pass it. It’s like the overdraft fee thing recently that doesn’t take effect until 2025 and will absolutely be eliminated by Congress before it even takes effect.

            They think we’re stupid.

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        Look, change is slow. Especially so when dealing with government. The Democrat party is also split between centrists and progressives, and this divide will only grow as more and more young people start to vote. Those changes that we all want to see are also being hammered by a Republican controlled House. Nothing is going to get through there - Biden can groan and moan all he wants, but it won’t do anything. But it’s not like he’s not doing anything…

        He’s trying to lower costs of healthcare and prescriptions.

        He’s strengthened Medicare.

        He actively prevent Medicare cuts by passing a Bill back in 2022.

        He’s not doing “nothing”. He’s working with what he’s got.

        I mean. I get that there’s a lot of complaints, but to say he’s not doing anything is incorrect. I mean, sure, do I wish more progress was made? Yeah, but I’m not going to blame Biden for it. Now, if Biden had control of the House and Senate, and this shit still didn’t happen…oh yeah, I’d be feisty right now.

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          310 months ago

          Change is not inherently slow, there’s just a vested interest by those with power granted by the status quo to stop it or slow it as much as possible. They don’t want it to change unless they can ensure they keep their power (or expand on it) with the change.

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          The rate of change is mostly set by the population. It’s historically slow, because the majority is usually slow to adapt. Change can also be fast (e.g. revolutions), when leadership is completely out of touch with reality.

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          110 months ago

          Several sources within the Biden campaign told Politico that the 2020 Democratic candidate would not run for reelection in 2024

          Unnamed sources within the campaign, not Biden and only on background. Strong take, pal.

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            I’m not the one who made him 82 years old. Be mad at time. Oh right, it’s my fault you have to vote for walking corpse.