The whole “Biden is doing his best you just have unrealistic expectations” bit literally every time he takes any criticism is never going to get old these next 4 years.
That same group of people calling others here shitposters is too funny.
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Well, I obviously post a lot, but I do make a lot of short conversational posts. I’m just chatting here.
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I’m sure Biden could do more. He is the boss of everyone in ICE and CBP. If I give him an excuse it’s that he’s afraid of being an enemy of the police state and has good reason to be.
USA: 38 days without an insurrection!
He’s not an enemy of the police state though. He has a record.
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There’s a difference between “takes any criticism” and:
Call it whatever you want but I’m not wrong.
I don’t know. I’m not familiar with the issues involved with that.
When one doesn’t know why something good didn’t happen, the default should be “maybe I should learn about it and trust the experts if I don’t” instead of “the experts suck and are evil”.
The Democrats by and large aren’t experts either. What are you even talking about here.
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Biden has people on staff who are experts.
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So did Obama. Obama had largely deplorable immigration policy. Your argument is flawed because by that metric he wouldn’t deserve any criticism either.
can reassign them all to desk duty or like duty in minnesota, though, yes?
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I do know why. It’s because of the same old reason. They are scared of a rush of immigrants, which of course never materializes. Given we know immigrants are a net positive it makes zero sense.
This is a place Democrats are not doing well. It’s ok to admit that.
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He could reassign them to releasing detainees and helping get them jobs where they are needed and education so they can be happy and productive and help all of us.
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Don’t know that either.
All kinds of people were released with a court date under Obama who would have been detained under Trump with only executive orders and direction from administration officials and not changes in law. Every day we are in any way worse than Obama on this is a day we should be extra pissed.
And if we ever get back to Obamaland we should still be pissed.
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I don’t think democrats deserve credit for getting watered down relief out three plus months after they have taken total control of the government.
That isn’t some gotcha.
They don’t have anything close to total control of the government. They have to use a budget reconciliation process that is slower than just passing direct aid through a normal bill. They have a caucus with a bunch of weirdo half Republicans that they have to keep together. They won the Senate on January 5th, I don’t know where you are getting “three plus months”. It took weeks to get Cocaine Mitch to agree to an organizing resolution for them to get committee chairs.
Should they have taken a recess, fuck no.
eta: Just to clarify, I’m not giving them credit from doing the relief bill, although I’m pleasantly surprised that so far the framework of the bill is not worse than it is. Cite or ban was about whether a D bill will be a lot better than an R bill, which would have been like an extra $300 and more liability waivers for companies who are forcing people back to work.
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They actually don’t have to use the reconciliation process. They are choosing to instead of nuking the filibuster.
That’s kind of the whole point I am making. They always always always will hide behind something to make it seem like it isn’t possible to do the things that need doing. They need 60 votes when they don’t. Biden can’t fire civil servants when he can. And on and on and on. We literally just saw Trump do whatever he wanted with zero consequence and some of you are still here lawbroing us with process arguments.
It’s a sham and the fact people here are still falling for it and admonishing those of us who bother to call it out is exactly why it works. They can say “well we tried” and enough people on the left will buy it.
To effect change you need both power and will. We heard for literally a decade that they didn’t have the power to do anything. That was the excuse. They now have the power to do things so failure to do the things they promised will come down to a lack of will.
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The only lawbroing or admonishing I’m doing is when I say that certain D-R equivalence claims on some issues like covid relief are preposterous because they are. I’m not admonishing anybody for saying that too many Democrats suck (except in edge cases when it’s extremely tedious) and are quite likely fail to meet the challenges the country is facing, because this is precisely what I believe.
There is also a pretty big political asymmetry here when you say 
did whatever he wanted with zero consequence. First he did fail to get a handful of things he wanted, but overall the Republicans dgaf about legislation. It’s always a lot harder to pass big bills than it is to cut taxes and cry about Ben Ghazi or the Deep State.
I didn’t mean you specifically and apologize if it came off that way.