The only thing I care about is student loan forgiveness and so far he's done fuck all. Until that is handled, as far as I'm concerned his presidency had been mediocre at best to shitty at worst.
Come on now you absolutely know he tried to forgive a ton of student debt and you know it was republicans and the right-wing captured supreme court that blocked it. So why are you blaming Biden exactly... I don't really need an answer I just think you should blame the right people and maybe appreciate where we would be if we didn't have Biden in the white house.
Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand.
Problem is, that only works when you have flunkies that can back it up for you. Trump had a horde of goons that were eager to drink the kool-aid and support anything he said, reasonable or not. Biden is working with the opposite, with a congress full of people that will reject anything he says even if it's a genuinely good idea. Obama struggled with similar problems, being stonewalled by congress.
The Republican party long ago abandoned any pretense of actually governing and has simply become anti-democratic. This, in part, though not completely, is what has halted Biden's progress, just one in a line of many of his forebears and probably several of his successors unless America collectively pulls its head out of its ass.
"Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand."
And, honestly, a lot of his executive orders did f*** all because of that. He claimed to have passed an EO to do something, but nothing really happened in actuality, he just got to claim it did.
The Republican party long ago abandoned any pretense of actually governing and has simply become anti-democratic.
I've been wondering for years now how long it will take until the majority of your population finally recognizes the fact and hits the streets about it. So far I've been dissapointed repeatedly and crushingly. Voting repeately against your own interest seems to be some kind of national sport in the US 🤕
I would argue that the carrot should not have been dangled unless there was absolute certainty that they would deliver. Otherwise I'm fine with Biden. His experience is underrated, IMO, and I think the guy does want to do good for the country. He is old.
I'm sorry that the issue you care about most has failed, but it's not like it's because Biden hasn't fought for student loan forgiveness. It is not his fault that conservative judges have shut it down.
Also they keep rolling out new repayment plans and narrower rounds of forgiveness and stuff like that - if the courts won't let them do it all at once, they'll keep chipping away bit by bit until they forgive as much debt for as many people as the system will allow.
There are a ton of people who can't accept progress unless it arrives hand delivered to them in a package that looks exactly the way they imagined with a bow on top.
Progress is progress. I don't care how it happens. We need to stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good
On one end, I believe most of us can see the republican party is outright embarrassing this idea that they hurt the poor.
On the other hand, a leader is defined by his successes, not his failures. No matter how charismatic he might be. He is already clearing student debt in a different ways, So I am not counting him out yet.
But I also know the dangers of overpraising democrats for starting a project and not finishing it.
He hasn't done shit for me so yeah, nah, he's done fuck all. When September comes and the economy comes crashing down we'll see how forgiving everyone is.
Yeah, honestly these people can pretty much do anything they want if they want to do it. Democrats could've fought about it harder. People commit people to war to die and change the lives of others every day. If they wanted to do something, they could do it. It's no excuse. This is all a charade.
I can’t believe the absurd neoliberal replies you’re getting. Dude literally WROTE the legislation that put us in this student loan predicament and his son was given $250,000 by MBNA the following year.
And for everyone saying Biden tried his best, He INTENTIONALLY lost the battle to forgive student loans, you stupid dupes!