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Can't do much if the majority rule is blocking all of that.
He should be getting in front of a camera every day and saying "here's what we're trying to do. Here's why it helps you/society. And here are the assholes standing in the way". And if those assholes are Democrats, kick them out of the party and support a better candidate to run against them.
Yes! This is what strong leadership looks like. We haven’t seen it from POTUS in far too long.
It wouldn’t matter. It wouldn’t get coverage in half the media in the country. And most people don’t even watch the media, anyway. It’ll be bullshit stories and anti-liberal memes as per usual.
Easy solution to this constant nagging problem would be ending the filibuster.
When did he try and congress blocked it?
March 2021
You can stop promising things you don’t have control over.
Don't make promises you can't keep. Especially, if people will take you up on these promises.
I'm very confused. The president can't know the composition of Congress during the campaign because all of the Reps are on the same ballot as the president. Are you saying prospective candidates should always say "If I'm elected and we have the house and Senate I will..." to cover their asses? I think most people understand those ramifications.
I think "most" people do NOT understand those ramifications. Maybe 33% of the population does, 33% think and want the president to be a dictator, and 34% don't pay attention to anything at all.
Failure to pay attention in civics class cannot possibly be the fault of a presidential candidate.
Also, presidents and presidential candidates do a ton of campaigning for both their own candidacy as well as for down ballot candidates in an effort to achieve these things. They're only advertising their intentions and priorities. That's your it has worked since the beginning of American democracy
Yeah but making promises abojt things you’ll do as President, that you can’t do as President, is the fault of a Presidential candidate.
Sure, OP is demonstrating that quite clearly, although as usual the goal is just to bash Biden (as if Trump would do any of this).
Derp, what’s a legislative branch?
A simple modifier like "I'll push for..." would have covered his ass a lot.
Not to cover their asses, but to push more people to vote not just for them, but for their party all down the ticket.
Yeah that’s a great idea.
I think, this may make for an interesting art-statement, adding a page long disclaimer to everything a candidate says. I don't think it will work out well, on the other hand
But can make empty promises
Yeah, I'm sure there was no way to either pressure Sinema and/or replace the parlementarian when Congress had the chance to do this.