• booly@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Because every single president does the same exact thing.

    What are you talking about?

    Biden got about as much as he could get through a Republican controlled House and a filibustering Senate: a major COVID relief bill, a major infrastructure bill, and a major environmental reform bill.

    Trump did a shitload in his one term:

    • Replaced 3 Supreme Court justices and a lot of lower court judges who went on to overturn Roe v. Wade and Chevron, deliver a shitload of conservative decisions, and block a bunch of Biden executive actions (including student loan forgiveness, all sorts of COVID policies, and a bunch of economic regulations).
    • Major tax cuts in 2017 for corporations and high earners
    • Withdrew from the Paris accords and rolled back a lot of Obama EPA regs
    • Made shifts towards privatization of k-12 education, including towards religious private schools.

    Obama signed a bunch of stuff into law his first two years:

    • Obamacare
    • Universal healthcare for children under S-CHIP
    • Student loan reform, creating public service loan forgiveness and much better repayment plans while cutting out private lenders who took all the upside with none of the downside.
    • Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
    • Repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
    • Passed Dodd Frank, including the creation of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
    • School lunch reform

    Bush campaigned on tax cuts and got them, and then got a bunch of other stuff in from his first term related to 9/11 and the aftermath: The Patriot Act, authorization for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, etc.

    If anything, presidents are far less effective their second term than their first term.

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      3 months ago

      What a terrible reply. I never said presidents don’t get anything done in their first term. Just pointing out how a lot of shit they campaign on doesn’t get done so they campaign on the same shit again.

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        3 months ago

        And they’re telling you you’re wrong. Biden campaigned on getting stuff done and he got stuff done. Don’t project your pessimism onto everyone else, it’s not helpful

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          Well of course there are things that get done. I feel like I’m talking to a child right now. I thought when I switched to lemmy I wouldn’t have to explain every single detail in my comments, boy was I wrong. You guys do not understand and you’re arguing like you do.

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            3 months ago

            Don’t be obtuse.
            They provided you a ridiculous amount of counter points.

            Please go back to Reddit.

            • hate2bme@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              Counterpoints to something I wasn’t even talking about. I never once said presidents don’t get stuff done in their first term. They just listed stuff they did in their first term.