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‘Corrupt as hell’: Clarence Thomas faces fresh calls to resign after more billionaire gifts revealed
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Don't both-sides this. Republicans are overflowing with scandals and staying in office even though the evidence of their guilt is in the public record.
Republicans are trying to muddy the water by accusing Biden of corruption, but if you'll notice, they have ZERO evidence to back it up.
Democrats have to play the game, Republicans make the game corrupt
Democrats don't have to play the game, they just choose to because they're controlled opposition.
You're probably right
They choose to because it's making them rich too.
If you actually care and you want to push some good policies what would you do? Run independent and have no shot or make won't moral compromises and run as a Democrat? Idk what I would do honestly. But the Republican platform is literally big business and authoritarian control. There's no intention in not trying to keep corrupting the system when someone runs for that party.
Republicans are insane fascists, racist, assholes but if you think democrats aren't pro big business I have an igloo in Florida to sell you. All their insider trading, meat riding big tech until a year or two ago, and forgiving PPP loans to mega corps screams pro big business to me.
If you think they're equivalent you might actually believe you have that igloo
Corrupt or not, Biden is every bit as self-interested and neglectful to the poor and middle class as every Democrat since Carter.
He's a shitty president, and the fact that he's done absolutely nothing meaningful as cost-of-living has risen 30% to 50% for most Americans is going to get a open fascist elected in 2024.
I mean, Biden is no Bernie Sanders, but that's still an insane thing to say in a week where this happened: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ups-drivers-170k-per-deal-214956126.html
I mean, the article you mentioned name drops Biden a lot, but the only citation to anything related to him is just a quote from a speech. It feels like an AI wrote it, haha.
Did he actually do anything meaningful to help the UPS negotiations?
We can confirm he hasn't done anything meaningful to change the minimum wage. He hasn't done anything meaningful to make our health care system less predatory. He hasn't done anything meaningful to stop the forced scarcity of the housing supply. Over his decades in Washington, he's done a lot to help the prison industry keep its prisons full and to make student borrowers permanently indebted, and I'll never get over how he promised $2000 checks if voters delivered Georgia. and then sent out $1400 checks (of our own money) instead.
Apart from managing to cobble together a few pretty sentences (granted, a huge feat for a Biden) what has he done that helps the poor and middle class as a whole in any meaningful way?
I guess we should just be excited that he keeps finding ways to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars off to some other country's war instead.
Your statement represents a child's perspective, it lacks any and all nuance. It almost demands a Harry Potter spell from a president to show a direct result that immediately follows a flash, a bang and a puff of smoke - that's not how it works.
It's a trap to try to get someone to defend Biden with passion, but he's far from a bad president. You show your ass multiple times in your statement though and it's pretty clear where you stand generally. You're not a serious person.