• crusa187@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Let me be clear - Bernie isn’t in office right now. If he were, he’d have likely come up with some way to deal with these two.

    It’s really too bad that Mr Biden couldn’t arrange an audience with President Manchin during this time to figure something out, since Manchin is calling all the shots. At least they got some things accomplished together. Any and all applicable environmental regs be damned.

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      9 months ago

      Let me be clear - Bernie isn’t in office right now. If he were, he’d have likely come up with some way to deal with these two.

      LMFAO. I don’t even know where to start responding to that fanciful poppycock.

      It’s really too bad that Mr Biden couldn’t arrange an audience with President Manchin during this time to figure something out, since Manchin is calling all the shots.

      A government of multiple representatives from different places who must come to a decision as a group, THE HORROR!!!

      At least they got some things accomplished together. Any and all applicable environmental regs be damned.

      Politician negotiates. More at 11.

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        9 months ago

        fanciful poppycock

        lol yeah you’re right, Bernie is too nice to have done anything here either, who am I kidding. Successfully navigating these kind of hurdles is not some impossible feat however, despite what the Biden admin and MSNBC might have you think. Consider how FDR dealt with the Dixiecrats. Could Biden have done more along those lines?

        multiple representatives

        Since when are voters represented in Washington? If you’re not a donor, you’ve been left out to dry since the 1970s, full stop. The middle class has been eradicated in this country, if it ever even existed to begin with, and Biden has been a central complicit figure in making that happen.

        negotiates

        Negotiates for what? More drilling, more oil and gas subsidies. And a massive handout for Manchin, who if you believe the pathetic Dem excuses, was the primary reason we couldn’t get anything done after electing Dems into a majority. Again, I call bullshit. Biden doesn’t want to do anything to help the people, and it shows in his actions. idgaf what he reads from his speech writers, I care about what he does.

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          9 months ago

          We got four star basement politician over here.
          If everything is so easy, why don’t you run for office?

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      9 months ago

      he’d have likely come up with some way to deal with these two

      And everyone would get a pony.

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      9 months ago

      Bernie isn’t in office right now.

      Bernie is in office. He is the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. And he would not be in this position if the Democratic party had not heard what he is saying and agreed to demand government to perform better for the working class.

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-new-role-as-labor-committee-chair-bernie-sanders-says-corporations-should-be-nervous