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Right when he's completely useless, he pushes for this. Pathetic and disingenuous.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 9 points 49 minutes ago

In the month he has left in office?

This is just a fucking PR stunt and won’t go anywhere.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago

He couldn't and didn't pursue this when he wasn't a lame duck. Get real on that fixing your legacy in a month thing

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Hahaha. Good one.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 50 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It’s a little late for that.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Don't worry. Whenever Biden calls for doing something, centrists will uncritically treat it as an accomplishment.

There are still centrists who falsely insist that Biden rescheduled cannabis.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (6 children)

It's never too late for neoliberals to fuck shit up...

Pelosi just threw her weight around to get a 74 year old with terminal throat cancer as the head of the oversight committee...

Even tho he just broke the already weak insider trading laws 2 years ago.

Biden can mumble whatever he wants into a microphone, but it's never connected to the reality around him.

If he really wanted this to happen, he'd have pushed for AOC over Connolly

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

the boomers are going to cling on to power until their dying breath, and on the way out, they'll usher in some kind of apocalypse, either nuclear war, or we all get eaten by self replicating elonbots.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

If he really wanted this to happen, he’d have pushed for AOC over Connolly

If he'd wanted it to happen, he'd have pushed through Pelosi's HR 1 back inside his first 100 days, rather than sitting on this for his last three weeks.

Liberals are going to be doing so much "You could have had nice things if you hadn't voted for Trump" whining and complaining and hand wringing over the next two years. Its going to be awful. But none of them want to talk about how they had both Exec and Leg branches of government twice in the last sixteen years and deliberately squandered it sucking up to Big Business both times.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 hours ago

Pelosi won't let that happen.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Give them all 401ks like most people get.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee -3 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

It's funny how much tankies run this community. Very different from Reddit.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 12 minutes ago

It takes a special kind of stupid to think much of anything on .world is run by tankies.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

Do you honestly consider anyone criticizing Biden from the left to be a "tankie"?

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 1 points 3 minutes ago

I'm not sure how much in the loop you are with USA politics, but Biden, just like every public facing member of the two party system, is a representative of private interests. The democratic party is incorporated, just like the republic party.

It only makes sense that a tankie wouldn't be in support of a figure head of corporate interests.

[–] Filthmontane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If you don't like it, go back to Reddit.

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 1 points 9 minutes ago

Pretty sure their statement is neutral. The only statement they made was that it was funny, which is a net positive depending on how you view a 50/50 glass of gas and water.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I can hear Michael Cole from WWE:

Vintage Biden

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