• Redditsucks1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hell, I’m a Gen X’er and I’m not happy with either party. I literally cringe knowing it’s going to be Trump vs Biden in the next election. And no matter what either party says, it’s all fucking lip service. Dems had control for 2 years and couldn’t pass shit. They’re supposed to be pro union, but we all saw how that played out. And Conservatives are more worried about transgenders and Hunter Biden than fixing the fucking economy. We’re so screwed for the next 5 years

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      Honestly I’m just so fucking thankful Biden just got the fuck out of the way of science and medical experts in addressing covid instead of fanning bullshit conspiracy theories like drinking bleach and ivermectin shit. It was so cringe that Trump would hijack expert panels on covid. He sounded like the obnoxious freshman in college who thought he’d stump the professor.

      Also thank fuck the Putin bootlicker Trump didn’t get a second term. Pretty clear Putin was banking on that for a more fragmented West.

      Worth noting that, no, Democrats did not have complete control for 2 years. If you believe this, then you do not understand how the Senate works as of late.

      Reconciliation is literally the only way anything gets passed unless it’s something both parties have no choice to support.

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        Yeah go tell that to the railroad workers that dont get any sick days cuz Biden fucked them over

        Unions in general maybe doing good but the one major union thing he had direct control over he sided with the corporations in the name of protecting the economy because they are too big to fail

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            I’m glad it ended up well. I understood why they needed to prevent a strike back then. I didn’t like it. But I understood it was the least shitty option.

            I expected that to be the end of it, and I’m glad it wasn’t. It seems the Biden administration went right back to antagonizing the rail companies until they finally gave. It isn’t good politics, but it is good governance, and I’ll take that any day.

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              I expected that to be the end of it, and I’m glad it wasn’t.

              Same here. I wish Democrats had made a huge deal about it.

              Everyone saw Biden the strikebreaker. Everyone saw him promise to keep working for rail workers, but we’ve seen Democrats say they were going to keep working for the public option and raising the minimum wage. There are still plenty of people who don’t know about the sick days because Democrats are garbage at messaging, ashamed of their accomplishments, or both.

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          Unionization is pitifully low in the US. To suggest they are booming is like someone saying they got a massive raise this year because their boss almost matched it to inflation.