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He had the banks and the military? (We already tackled why a decorative supermajority doesn’t equal progressive heaven.) So he should have what? Led a palace coup and ruled as a dictator?

And the GOP don’t need a majority. Or have you not been paying attention? They can block anything they want with 40 seats.

You’re looking at a president and expecting a king.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

They can block anything they want with 40 seats.

Strange that the Democrats were never able to do the same under Trump or Bush.

You’re looking at a president and expecting a king.

I’m looking at an Obama and expecting him to exercise all the powers Congress invested in George Bush. I’m looking at a guy who was literally handed direct ownership of the entire financial system at the end of 2008 and choose to appoint a Fed Reserve hack to the Treasury who would hand it all back to the same bad actors that brought about the crash.

I’m expecting a President to behave like a President and not simply an employee of Wall Street.

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- Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well that’s a standard no president since Jimmy Carter meets. And the Democrats used minority filibusters all the time in the 2000’s.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Well that’s a standard no president since Jimmy Carter meets.
    
    Carter’s Volcker Shock was
    
    And the Democrats used minority filibusters all the time in the 2000’s.
    
    Democrats forced half as many cloture votes in 05/06, the last year Bush had a Senate majority, as Republicans invoked in 07/08.
    
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    Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh no half as many? So they did do it after all?
    
    And dude are you really going to try and tell us the peanut farmer president was a bank man?
    
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