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America will never be the same after Milwaukee’s tent revival for the cult of Donald Trump (www.inquirer.com)

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[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -78 points 4 months ago

For any Trump voters reading this, I challenge you to go back and find any coherent points of actual operational improvement these people talked about. Hopes and dreams don’t count. Solid steps to some sort of better life was never once mentioned from any of these people.

same with the Democrats none of the two parties have any plan to improve anything except the lives of the elites

we are worse off this election than last

[-] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is this a shit post? Are you kidding me?

One party wants to tear down our democracy via Project 2025, imprison political rivals, remove voting rights, remove women's right to choose and give big buisness more tax cuts.

The other wants to restore women's rights, term limits, hold the Supreme Court responsible to it's "ethics" codes, student loan relief, ggun control and restore voting rights.

The second party isn't perfect but to brush them off is dangerously stupid.

You can just fuck right off

[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Dems are corporatists but they at least try to make people’s lives better. Conservatives actively make people’s lives worse on the behalf of their masters.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 26 points 4 months ago

Income inequality a trillion dollars on climate change stronger NLRB working class wages outpacing inflation, idk, what the fuck have YOU done to improve anything; definitely quite a lot less than that

[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -7 points 3 months ago

our minimum wage is $7.25 not outpacing shit and since the pandemic places like walmart have dropped the start pay to $13 or lower

Biden has been a career politician for fifty years and Harris might be younger but she spent her time as career politician in the justice system using things like Biden's crime bills

what have I done? after politicians like Biden took my vote away sit back and wait for the world to change

looks like going to waiting a while longer

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Sure! I'd be happy to.

Biden took the biggest action on climate change in US history; the goal of the climate bill is to put us on track for a 40% reduction in US emissions by 2030. It’s way too late but that’s clearly not Biden’s fault since he started fighting for it basically as soon as he got into office, and managed to achieve passed legislation which is several standard deviations above the norm for “let’s ignore it until we’re underwater and on fire” US politician status quo.
Biden ordered the forgiveness of half a trillion dollars in student debt, about a third of the current total balance, and the Supreme Court told him no. He’s still managed to forgive ~$150 billion worth of it even against stiff Republican “no we need that money to give to Wall Street criminals pls” resistance.
Biden introduced a bill to legalize marijuana federally, which the Republicans killed in the senate.
Biden achieved the lowest unemployment in 20 years after having been handed an economy that was still digging out from the apocalypse that was 2020.
Wages at the bottom end of the economy have actually been growing, outpacing inflation, every single year that he's been president. The top 10% of wage earners actually have lost some ground, it's true -- that probably makes "wages are growing" not feel true to most Lemmy users, because for tech workers, they're shrinking. But the majority of US wage earners have been making more and more year by year. $15/hr is the new unofficial minimum wage in a lot of sectors. That's not enough, but it's sure as shit better than when he came in and unemployment was 6% and a lot of people and businesses were still dependent on Covid-aid stimulus payments.

Oh, and he also raised the minimum wage for federal workers to $15/hr. That doesn't really do anything; the act of congress which is needed to create a national minimum wage got stalled because of Republicans; he was limited to only economic policy things which raised the income level for working class people, not an official cap at the bottom end, which would also be a good idea yes.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 3 months ago

None of that stops you from helping people.

Hell plant a tomato plant and give away the tomatoes

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

You're 100% wrong. ONE side is saying "Hey, we want things fixed as much as you, so don't vote for these psychos because we've been trying but are deadlocked".

Don't know if I need to whisper in your ear, but the GOP/MAGA folks aren't saying that. DFW you even talking about?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Medicare can negotiate drug prices now

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