• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    Biden: Hey here’s half a trillion dollars back on student loans, a trillion dollars on climate change, unions and manufacturing jobs, and a bunch of other stuff, all paid for by big increases in corporate tax

    USA: Yeah but corporations are still doing bad stuff though

    USA: We pick Trump

    Biden: Alright fuck you then

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      this is stuff that never would have made it all the way to implementation anyway; with voters shooting off their own feet last month, and some hand-picked maga judges ruling against the policy.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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        Would it not have been smarter, politically, to push it through to the end and let the GOP take the heat for killing it?