Many voters seem fooled that Trump 47 would be a bland replay of Trump 45, not the authoritarian nightmare he actually plans.

This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what’s actually going on.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
    23·
    9 months ago

    Man… why are y’all making me defend the Democrats I don’t even like most of them

    Biden: Marijuana legalization bill passes house, blocked by Republicans in senate, anyone in federal prison for possession is pardoned and free

    Biden: Loan forgiveness order is completed, then blocked by Supreme Court, $138 billion in forgiveness comes anyway through a separate executive order

    Biden: Manchin blocks half-trillion-dollar climate legislation, replacement legislation comes all the way to a signed bill and takes effect expected to produce 40% reduction in emissions by 2030, short of Biden’s original effort but still expected to cut 2 billion tons per year out of our carbon emissions

    You: WAAAAAA NOT GENUINE EFFORT, THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS TRUMP, THIS ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      118·
      9 months ago

      Biden: Marijuana legalization bill passes house, blocked by Republicans in senate, anyone in federal prison for possession is pardoned and free

      trump actually got the first step act through both houses. it seems to me that if biden wanted to do it, he would have. instead, he didn’t.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
        7·
        9 months ago

        What on earth are you talking about

        The Donald Trump administration took positions against marijuana and against the easing of laws regarding marijuana.[1] Although Trump indicated during his 2016 presidential campaign that he favored leaving the issue of legalization of marijuana to the states, his administration subsequently upheld the federal prohibition of cannabis, and Trump’s 2021 fiscal budget proposal included removing protections for state medical marijuana laws.[1] In 2018, the administration rescinded the 2013 Cole Memorandum, an Obama-era Justice Department policy that generally directed federal prosecutors not to pursue marijuana prosecutions in states where marijuana is legal as a matter of state law.[2]

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      118·
      9 months ago

      why are y’all making me defend the Democrats

      you don’t have to. i watch liberals lie about republicans dozens of times every day, actual, flat out lies, and i rarely say anything. because republicans suck, too.

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      220·
      9 months ago

      Biden: Loan forgiveness order is completed, then blocked by Supreme Court, $138 billion in forgiveness comes anyway through a separate executive order

      seems to me, if biden wanted to do it, he would have. i don’t believe the supreme court can block it, since they don’t have an enforcement arm.

    • Sybil@lemmy.world
      223·
      9 months ago

      You: WAAAAAA NOT GENUINE EFFORT, THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS TRUMP, THIS ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH

      i never said this. it’s a strawman.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
        12·
        9 months ago

        You never said “exactly the same as Trump”; that was exaggeration on my part and maybe unfair. The rest of it you absolutely said and I stand behind my characterization of how much sense it makes.