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Biden could fight …… for anything.
They gave up on their “signature issue” of 15$ the fucking first month in office.
Biden has the bully pulpit free media attention whenever he wants it. He can fight for his agenda.
But he has no spine and does not fight for anything that his corporate overlords do not approve of.
Dude is basically Regan after Alzheimer’s
He literally just joined the UAW on the picket line. There is no point in fighting for a $15 minimum wage if congress will never go for it. And they won't with its current makeup. It's a non-started. He's not stupid and he's not going to waste his time on fighting for things that won't happen.
Anyway, people shouldn't be fighting for any minimum wage. They should be fighting for a UBI.
Poor helpless Biden has no power to persuade anyone
He did an amazing job when Dems had a 1/2 vote margin in the senate. But as long as the GOP controls congress, raising the minimum age is literally an impossibility.
Fdr fought for social security and Medicare and workers rights….. he called out senators who disagreed with him by name.
He did not call folks who shut down his policy proposals “my good friends”
If amazing job means calling senators who voted against your policy platform “my dear friends”, then okay I guess….. he did an amazing job at capitulating without putting up an ounce of fight. He didn’t call out anyone.
He didn’t actually want the policies he claimed to stand for. He lied to us. He is a corporate neoliberal. He wouldn’t be a democrat if the republicans weren’t actually racist fascist sons of bitches. But they all take legal bribes….
You think all a prez has to do is "call out someone" and then magically get Republicans to vote as Dems? LOL. Yes Bernie would have tried harder. But Bernie would have gotten the same results. Bernie told you that again and again and again when he said we need a "political revolution" to change the entire congress, not just the president.
No, you lied to us with this false statement. The policies he has already gotten passed have been amazing compared with all previous presidents. That you weren't paying attention is on you, not Biden.
GQP talking points numbers one, two, and three.