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Why shouldn't they have been there? By the logic of the other poster, having the national guard with rifles lined up would have protected the protesters from an active shooter. Wouldn't everyone be so angry at the police if they didn't stop the active shooter with the national guardsmen?

Is there something special about being a sniper that makes you not a cop? That makes you not part of the same system, the same trainings, the same culture, the same lunch room, that leads regular officers and riot cops to brutalize protesters, especially those on the left? Is there some requirement that to be a sniper you have to be extra nice to leftist causes?

The fact is that absent some specific threat the department received, or some extra-special high value target/event (Superbowl, presidential address, etc) the use of snipers to "protect" the protesters is a farse. We should both know that if anything the snipers are there to "protect the university and its property" much more than the protesters because that's what the rest of the cops are there for.

Student loans: But it was the fact that Democrats couldn't even have gotten all their members on board for student loan forgiveness that likely kept them from putting it in the bill, experts say. Given the party's razor-thin majority, the opposition of one Democrat can derail the entire legislation.

$15 Minimum wage: Sinema famously voted it down.

How exactly does either of these reflect badly on Biden? The whole point is that people like you are forgetting that Biden couldn't do it alone and that we need more Dems in Congress so that people like her can be put in a corner and ignored. A vote for Biden isn't an endorsement of all Dems. If you live in a district where a moderate Dem is representing you than do your part in the primaries. If you don't, do your part in voting in better/more Dems so we can religate the moderates.

Jesus Christ dude, do I need to link you the list of Trump lies told in his four years? What had Biden lied about that's even close to that!? Trump averaged multiple lies in a day and you're here saying they are basically the same. If you want Trump to win just vote for him instead of pretending it's some principled stand against Biden.

Sorry, you expect Biden to undo it if he is elected? Or do you just mean that it will be removed if Trump wins. Of course if Trump wins he'll undo whatever of Biden's work he can. I don't have any reason at all to think Biden would remove it after the election if he won. Why wouldn't he maintain it?

Do you know who the Dept of Ed works for? Do you know who put the guy in charge of that Department?

Biden didn't directly make this change because he doesn't have the authority to do that, but he did direct his appointee to do it.

What part of the way the government works did I get wrong? Does the President get to will laws into existence? Did Manchen and Sinema not matter?

That's a good question! But it's one I ask myself every time someone complains about the Dems not doing enough when they had full control of Congress.

"Why didn't they pass a student loan bill or abortion protection or $15 minimum wage when they had the chance?" Manchen and Sinema.

See? He's just like Trump! And he's not doing enough! And the things he has done are only to help secure votes!

Edit to add: Also, my dude, did you forget which post this is on? He's literally protecting trans people with this move but it's still not enough. Fact is you wouldn't support him even if he led the revolution himself. He's not perfect, but he's done more to clean up Trump's mess and help marginalized people than any president in history.

Almost like the Dept of Ed has been working on these rules for years and the process takes some time and has to be open to public comments and things. The wheels of the government are designed to move slowly. We can discuss if that's good or not, but this isn't something Biden decided last week, it's been in the works for a long time.

And it's almost politics, especially on the left, is more complicated than one party having the slimmest of possible margins. Did you forget about Sinema and Manchen? Have you already forgotten the fights the Dems in Congress had within the party to get enough support to pass things? If you want more progressive polices to pass than you need to elect even more Dems into Congress so that the few fuckwits in the "center-right" can be relegated to the corner and ignored. That doesn't work when nothing can pass if even one senator decides to vote no.

Jesus fucking Christ I swear we need to mandate more than one part of one class for how the government works. So many of you out here acting like the moment a Dem becomes president they can just will whatever laws they want into existence.

Biden does a bad thing: See? He's just like Trump!

Biden does a moderate thing: See? He's not as left as he should be!

Biden does a good thing early in his term: See? He's not doing enough yet!

Biden does a good thing halfway into his term: See? It's just to help the Dems in the midterm!

Biden does a good thing late in his term: See? He's just trying to appease the people who might vote for him!

Protect them from what? The president was asked in Congress specifically if there were any threats made against Jewish students or even a protest specifically against Jews or Jewish students and she said no.

No one has a right to not see things they don't like or hear things they don't like. Some students may have been uncomfortable, but that's good, that's literally the point of protesting.

What actually happened here is the president got shit from Republicans about "not supporting the Jewish students" by making the pro-palestine protests go away, was scared by the resignation of other presidents who have gotten flack from Republicans, and gave into the pressure. If there was real evidence of harm to students, and not just making them uncomfortable, she would have said it in her email or letter to the NYPD.

Well, it happened in 2008 and 2020, so all we gotta do is wait for the economic crash in 2032 and we'll be set!

God the fucking privilege on display in these anti-Biden posts.

"I shouldn't have to vote for the lesser of two evils, I should get to vote for a candidate that 100% aligns with my desires. Who gives a shit about what will happen to the people around me and the people I'm virtue signaling about, all that matters is the feeling of clean-hands I'll have as my trans homies are marched off to the death camps or the Palestinians are eradicated. For I, the enlightened leftist, didn't vote for Biden."

For every reason you have to dislike Biden, you have an even larger reason to fear Trump. Want to support LGBTQ folks? Surely Trump will be better for them right? Want to support women's rights? Surely the guy who put three anti-abortion judges on the court will give us abortion back, right? Want to support Palestine? Surely Trump will put BB in his place and stop the genocide, right? Are you really willing to risk that for those groups just so you can feel superior? Just so you can hope to get a shit party to the 5% threshold and have them still fall on their face the next election?

If you feel comfortable enough voting third party or not voting it's because you have the privilege to be mildly inconvenienced for 4 years and be ok, unlike the groups you claim to be supporting with your protest vote.