Post #1295002 · Elektrine

2026-04-17 08:41 UTC

> Did Biden win the senate? It seems that now that Trump is president, what congress says doesn't matter at all and the President can do whatever. > Did he appoint the judges for the supreme court? He could've expanded it, like FDR threatened to do and forced the court to let him do some of the New Deal reforms they were previously opposed to. Biden never lifted a finger with regards to that. This also could've maintained Roe v Wade. > I agree that he mishandled the conflict in Israel, 1. it's a genocide 2. "mishandled" is a really egregious weasel word for "gave unconditional support to the government even as approval ratings slid down the drain"

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@KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2026-04-17 11:48

The problem is if Biden had done this everything he did would have been struck down why it works for Trump is because Republican Congress doesn't stand up or have a spine when it's a Republican leader You're literally dragging Democrats through the mud for the fact that Republicans won't hold each other accountable Now don't get me wrong there's a lot Democrats need to be held accountable for but I just want it to be things that they earned

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@pirate2377@lemmy.zip 2026-04-17 11:37

Trump has been doing everything via executive orders which is why he has been able to bypass everything. I do agree that executive orders need to be nerfed if we ever get out of this mess. The problem with Democrats is that they play by the rules and Republicans don't, thus why Biden never spammed executive orders. Though it might all come back to haunt Trump eventually since there's thousands of lawsuits filed against him for all the times he misused executive orders. That's just wishful thinking on my part though.\ \ "Mishandled" was perhaps oversimplifying a little too hard, but it's not like the genocide was strictly committed by the Biden Administration. Biden's sin was only making a public statement for Israel to "improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza" and then continuing to send military aid anyway.

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