• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    This is objectively a step in the right direction, though. I’m tired of hearing people criticize Biden for making significant progress because he didn’t single-handedly perfectly solve everything. This is progress within his powers, just like pardoning federal marijuana sentences, just like his climate commitments, just like his chipping away at student loans.

    Yes, you are allowed to criticize the president, but calling the man “an animate bowl of tapioca” because his progressive initiatives are checked by the balance of powers which forms the actual cornerstone of our freedoms is anything but honest. Grandpa is trying, much harder than most presidents in recent memory. He has done what he can, and pushed for more. Criticizing him personally for the deliberately intrinsic inertia of our democracy is dishonest.

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      7 months ago

      I’m mostly with you on this one, but you have to admit, “an animate bowl of tapioca” has got to be one of the funniest ways I have heard of President Biden described as. But yeah, I think he does care and is trying pretty hard to effect some level of significant change. I feel like he’s trying to softly get the ball rolling for a second term where he really shows what he’s made of.

      I hope for and look forward to great change and progress in the coming years.

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        7 months ago

        I’d think it was funny if it didn’t read like another desperate attempt to stifle enthusiasm for progress and make the fascist guy seem more appealing, and why again? Because the president isn’t embroiled in daily antics? Dear heavens, not a boring President, quietly doing his job instead of tweeting scandalous things. Another boring, incremental legislative step in the right direction. The gears of democracy turning, yawn.

        Why can’t milquetoast Biden be more exciting like the fascist guy? Why does the bureaucracy of running a country have to be comparable to tapioca instead of something flashier, with big banners and snazzy outfits and catchy slogans.