They spent their admin continuing many of Trump’s worst policies. Even put his deportation and fossil fuel extraction numbers to shame.
They’re not worried about it.
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They held a vote over if you wanted them to do something, and democrat voters stayed home while republicans showed up. We have literally no one to blame but ourselves. Vote if you get another chance, fight for that chance if you don't.
Oh boy, now you're gonna get all the "no, it's Democrats' fault that I didn't vote!" people desperately trying to assuage the guilt they're feeling for the idiotic decision that they made in the face of countless people pleading with them not to.
False. The democrats ran a terrible campaign. Biden refused to step down, until it was too late to primary. They forced a candidate upon the country without a democratic process. Their campaign had terrible messaging and was tone deaf to the real situation the working class faces. They were unable to convince millions of voters that showed out for them last time to show up again. The democrats are more concerned with protecting their donors than they are protecting the working class and winning. Until you and everyone else oblivious can come to grips with this, nothing will change.
And before you say anything stupid, I voted for her.
OP isn't wrong and neither are you. Democrats didn't show up, republicans did that is why Harris lost.
But Harris lost because of everything you wrote as well.
Don't forget the last 4 years of failing to deliver any meaningful improvements for the people who voted in 2020 or even stopping republicans from banning abortion. Also a year and a half of facilitating genocide while encouraging universities to beat the shit out of the very same politically-active students who would otherwise be campaigning for the democrats.
What were they supposed to do without enough votes to pass policy? That doesn't excuse them from not taking the gloves off and being very vocal about the roadblocks.
Gaza, while an issue is not moving the needle for the majority of voters.
What were they supposed to do without enough votes to pass policy?
Use executive orders. Instead of asking the SCOTUS to tell texas to remove the child drowning fence across the rio, and look like you don't actually want it gone, send in a tank to tear it out. The commander in chief can just do that. They can also order military hospitals to provide women with reproductive healthcare.
Did you not remember the Trump administration, where he'd try something new every week, and even if it did get shut down, getting told "no" after you've already accomplished what you wanted is better than not trying at all.
Appoint a head of the DoJ that would throw Trump in prison and investigate Manchin's family.
Appoint a head of the DEA who would actually reschedule cannabis. You don't need congress for these things.
ml users are incapable of nuanced discourse.
This is instance-based hate speech, a direct violation of rule 6.
Poor Biden and Harris right? They did their bestest but if the people dont like them then maybe they just won't talk to them anymore. Good thing we have some adults in the room.
Guess who made an absurd amount of money losing the election? Do people not realize what donations are spent on?
What do you want them to do? Barricade themselves in the Oval Office and go out in a blaze of glory?
Maybe arrest the criminal that was literally about to be sentenced?
This is the only alternative you can envision? Either Biden and Harris say nothing, as they've done since the election, or they go full Rambo in the White House?
Yes
If the US had Defensive Democracy, then maybe they could do something.
But instead, we have whoever wins (aka: gets the most rich doners) gets to become president, even if they want to violate the very oath they are about to take.
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If I were them I wouldn't exactly have a strong emotional desire to protect the people who voted for a fascist felon over them.
Sounds like terrible leadership
In a democracy giving people what they chose is good leadership.
We don't live in a democracy and good leadership is not telling your whole team that they can't get fucked because half of them made a bad decision.
Biden won the 2020 primaries by a huge margin, Trump won his primary by an even bigger margin, and Biden lost to Trump in the 2024 general WITH POPULAR VOTE.
Thats democracy. People chose this.
77 Million Trump voters who showed up and 6.6 Million DNC voters who stayed home, they all chose this.
Of course, good managers pick sides and help push the other one off a cliff.
Didn't Eisenhower or some president warn about the dangers of the burgeoning military indistrial complex in his farewell address?
And Eisenhower is remembered for it, respected for it, 60+ years later.
Biden and Harris will say nothing.
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