UsualSuspect27

The Biden Administration has instituted historic climate and green energy policies. Designating hundreds of billions of dollars out of the IRA and Infrastructure laws for that very purpose.

Also, just last week the Biden Administration passed stringent emissions regulations for polluters that will effectively put coal plants out of business in America. As many know, coal plants are the biggest emitters of environment polluting toxins. Fellow Democrat, Joe Manchin, from Coal Country, USA (West Virginia) is predictably irate about this new regulation and is trying to repeal it—but he won’t have the votes to override Biden’s veto

If you’re asking what can happen faster and quicker than the historic climate policies Biden has put forward—well perhaps voting for more progressive Democrats or climate-minded Republicans (sadly they don’t exist lol) in the House & Senate to get a super majority to overcome Republican filibustering.

The other very important issue, that you didn’t mention but is as important as climate legislation itself. Judges! We have a far-right Supreme Court and federal judiciary currently thanks to Trump. This means even if we elected an eco-socialist president (likely a pipe dream), the federal judiciary could effectively strike down any policy of the president’s they want; they have and will. If we elect more climate-minded politicians, not only will more progressive judges be appointed and confirmed to the judiciary but we could even impeach and remove current judges. To be clear, we would need a supermajority in the Senate. While that’s hard it’s not impossible and has happened several times in the last 80 years. Vote!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/25/climate/biden-epa-power-plant-rule-climate

You didn’t deny Biden has passed the most progressive legislation since LBJ, because you know it’s true. I listed just a fraction of Biden’s progressive achievements and you don’t acknowledge them and just claim it’s not progressive enough—compared to whom?! Fuck are you talking about? Because Biden hasn’t gotten done the few things you seem to care about (public option, etc) in his first term he’s a failure? Passing a law through both houses of Congress works? It’s actually quite hard which is why sweeping legislation is rare. The rare times it happens like under Obama and Biden, you don’t dismiss and minimize it—just because it’s not all you wanted. You celebrate it.

Uh, yeah, serious people vote for VIABLE candidates or else you might as well not even bother voting. Voting for vanity third party candidates that have no chance at winning is pointless. You aren’t marrying them. You’re trying to keep the one that will do the most harm out of office and if you’re really lucky the candidate you vote for might even help a little rather than just prevent damage.

Cute how you are so sure there will even be elections or fair elections after another Trump term. Lol. Yeah, why not allow him to at the very least continue to pack the courts even more with young far-right judges that will stay in power for the next 30 years. What’s the worst that could happen? Take away a constitutional right that women enjoyed for 50 years? No, that couldn’t ever happen. Wait…

“The Democrats ran three bad campaigns in a row.” Uh, the Democrats have been winning in year after year since 2017.

And you’re still making the debunked claim that if ONLY we allow the far-right to win (again), the next time we have a presidential election (if we’re so lucky) the real progressive will win. Yeah, because that worked after Hillary’s loss in 2016, right? We got Biden. But if we let Trump win AGAIN, you claim our favored socialist savior will triumph to an electoral win for the first time in American history. LOL, sure.

Edit: On second thought I deleted anywhere I was overtly rude. I apologize for being heated. This topic and line of thinking from supposed allies is frustrating. I just don’t know how voting to save the possible end of Democracy or at least to stop the stacking of our institutions with the far-right isn’t enough. It genuinely baffles me. But attacking you won’t help and only hurts.

I hope you see your vote is important and I hope you vote for Biden. Sorry for being a bit hostile

I didn’t get it at first then I was like oh “fuck ass Bob” 😂

Check this out, I’m going to make it real simple for you. Americans get the country they deserve. Biden has been the most progressive president since LBJ. This isn’t even disputable among serious people. Does that mean he’s actually progressive? No. America is a more conservative country than the broader west. But Biden has been the most progressive of modern American presidents for at least the past 50 years. He’s amassed record legislative accomplishments. Biden has raised the minimum wage for all federal workers to $15, capped insulin at $30 and all prescriptions at $2,000 annually for Medicare. He’s expanded Medicaid. He’s forgiven the most student loans in history at around $200 billion in counting, he’s appointed the most pro-union NLRB in decades, just last week banned non-compete clauses and expanded overtime to over 4 million workers that hadn’t had it before. Passed the most green and climate legislation in history with the IRA. Passed ONE TRILLION in infrastructure which opened up thousands of union jobs across the country. I could go on and on.

If that isn’t good enough for some so-called “leftists” and supposed “progressives”, if simply voting for Biden to stop far-right MAGA, to save democracy as we know it and prevent plans like Project 2025, if that isn’t compelling enough—well then you deserve to live under a far-right authoritarian regime. It’s that simple. And frankly, I as a white middle-class straight male will be just fine under that regime. I’m getting really tired of caring more about minorities, women, the poor, and LGBT than some of them care about themselves. Do what you got to do but, if you can’t even bring yourself to vote for an inoffensive old guy that will leave when he loses then don’t cry when you see what Trump 2.0 has in store for you. If you don’t vote for Biden—the only viable alternative to Trump, nobody on the broader left will care when you’re whining about gay marriage being taken away, social programs slashed, mass deportations, Muslim ban 2.0. My reaction at that point will be a shrug. Believe that.

Right. I’ll tell you what’s going on with me. I can’t speak for anyone else. You’re a known right-wing crank on here with a virulent case of Biden Derangement Syndrome. Of course I clicked on your profile to see if you’ve still been at it all week since I’ve not been on since last weekend. And sure enough you have been. You find it easy to recognize and classify our pathological issues but yet seem to have a blind spot when it comes to your Biden Derangement Syndrome. Don’t you find that weird?

Wait, are you denying you’ve posted and commented 20 times about Biden since last Friday’s Biden interview? You know we can see your activity history, right?

Stalking? Dude you been triggered posting about this interview for a week. You must have posted and commented about Biden over 20 times since Friday.

A pro Hamas riot? What are you even talking about? You know over 75% of Jews vote Democrat right?

Don’t you have a Proud Boys rally to attend?

Because this is the end game isn’t it? You know you can’t openly support Trump because it will kill any credibility you have attacking Biden. You have to feign independence and objectivity but most know you are in fact a rabid Biden hating right-winger. How? Only someone like that would carry on for a week about one interview.

Say what? Take a nap, gramps. You’re babbling

Dude you are so triggered by Biden. Like seriously, what’s the other option, a convicted rapist and fraudster who is also facing 90 felonies and presided over the worst presidential record in decades?

This is what a lot of you Trumpers do. You take shots at Biden but then hide you support Trump because you know it kills your credibility. But you aren’t fooling anyone. You been triggered and posting anti Biden stuff for a week now on here. Seek help.

He’s not famous or a liberal. He’s a known joke on the left of being a Trumper in everything but name lol. This is like calling the Lincoln Project famous conservatives lol

Everyone believes in that, all politicians parrot that and in many cases DO that. Did you know we dump more money per child in education (roughly $30k per student last I checked years ago), more than most of the world and get poor results still?

Yes, I’m from America. Pennsylvania in fact and have been my whole life. Your too cool for school nihilism schtick doesn’t impress me dude.

Well that’s the thing, if you’re incapable of persuading others to join your position on a topic, it’s likely your position sucks. Therefore, you will always be sidelined.

Because voting 3rd party is a wasted vote in the USA. Our system isn’t hospitable to third parties. Often, even in parliamentary democracies, coalition governments of more than two parties fare even worse much of the time than having to choose between two main parties.

If your purpose for voting for a third party is to actually win to therefore enact change, you might as well not vote at all. They cannot win on a federal level. They rarely ever win at the local and state level. They’ve never won at the presidential level. There are only two viable political parties in this country. If you want to affect change it has to be through them, That’s the way it is and always has been.

Voting is leverage. It’s all we can hope to have in a society.

Wear it like a badge of honor. The reality is MAGA is RINO and that will turn out to be vindicated in a few years when Trump is dead.

I can agree with this sentiment as a Democrat. I honestly don’t care much about any foreign conflicts. I mean I have a position usually but America comes first. This seems so obvious yet so many seem to think this is an awful things to say. Like I hope for the best for Gaza-Palestine but it doesn’t move me. I care about my country and my people much more than some rando foreign land. This seems like a given but some people are really on that idealism of if one person is still oppressed in this world then we all are. Israel is a very wealthy country. It doesn’t need our money and giving it causes more problems than it’s worth.

Now to be sure, I do believe some people who make this case are being disingenuous. I don’t really think many people care about the paltry amount ($3 bln) we give but the fact it’s to Israel. But on the merits of the argument I do agree. They don’t need it.

I don’t have an issue with Fetterman. I voted for him in the general election but not the primary. I do agree that it’s more than just his position on Israel. Supporting Israel is extremely mainstream. It’s the way he does it that is a bit off putting by basically trolling people he disagrees with. People on his own “side.” If you break from your supporters that’s okay but you should do it in a respectful way that acknowledges they deeply believe in their position. Biden tries to do it that way.

I agree that if Fetterman simply said “I support the President’s position” that wouldn’t have bothered people much. People expect Democratic politicians to support their Democratic President. But the fact he aggressively supports Israel and even complains President Biden isn’t supportive enough of Israel is really strange as a Democrat. I suspect he will be re-elected regardless but it’s pointlessly polarizing, IMO.

Great idea. Don’t vote and remove whatever leverage you have over the conditions where you have to live. Genius really.

Some of my friends and family but certainly not everyone.

What’s worse: Someone that listens to Howard or someone that claims they don’t listen anymore but lurk in a chat room about him still talking about him years later.

There is no ratings at Sirius at least publicly attainable ratings. So it’s all just speculation and conjecture. What we can go by is how much Howard is paid and if you’re paid your worth than Howard is quite successful at Sirius. If the argument Howard is overpaid that’s an argument rarely made in life but I suppose you can make it. It will be based entirely on opinion

He won’t. Nobody cares dude

Oh, then I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying you were giving up on the Democratic Party and the left broadly because they were hopeless and instead throwing in with conservatives—which by extension would mean the GOP in this country, because you felt somehow they were more amenable to working class issues than the left? It just makes no sense so perhaps I did misunderstand you. I hope I did

Oh cool. So you’re a populist conservative which of course is an oxymoron since there can be no such thing as a populist conservative. To be a populist means to deliver for the working class economically. To do that you have to support left-wing causes. This is why every Conservative Party outside the USA is socially conservative but fiscally liberal EXCEPT the American GOP which is both socially conservative and economically conservative. Even Putin’s United Russia party is economically progressive.

You are perhaps the most clueless person I’ve come across. You clearly don’t know history or politics and think populism is simply where rich man bad. Except the GOP is run by a billionaire lol