Biden to push for Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits and amendment to overturn immunity ruling, sources say

Yes. He said both what I wrote and wanting revenge, saying he will be a dictator for one day, day one. This video has both clips, if you want to skip to 8:17 for the revenge and judgment day after that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNzzOwiebvM

4 years of daily Republican sabotage of the US government. Democrats are not perfect. They are also not the problem at hand.

Undoing the amount of damage they caused takes time. Biden inherited a spiraling economy, hundreds of thousands of people sick and dying, and a coup attempt that nearly got a bunch of people killed.

Not to mention all the idiotic shit the prior president had done while in office, such as austerity cuts that fucked social programs, legal systems, and low and middle income Americans.

It will take 12-16 years of unified democrat rule to fix corruption, regulatory capture, anti-trust for monopolies, universal healthcare, infrastructure investments that don't get slashed by idiotic presidents, etc.

Four years of chemotherapy isn't nearly enough when we have policy tumors and R&D funding cut abscesses from fucking idiots like Regan, Bush, and Trump.

The fact that the US has to 'pack the courts' to get anything through shows how broken the system is.

Not that any other country is better but still, you'd think judges should be impartial and resistant to influence, and yet you get Clarence offering up his chocolate starfish for a vacation in a warm climate

Fuck procedure. Dems need to act instead of just talking about shit. I'm legit terrified for this next election.

And you think that wasn't the wanted outcome.

True, I was just dreaming for a minute.

The skeptic in me says democrats love not being in power cause they don’t have to be responsible for what actually happens.

Why not get rid of delegates altogether while we're at it?

Isn't ranked choice like straight up banned in like 12 states or something? You'd have to flip each of those states first before even going down that road right?

This meme is great but it drives me crazy. There are certainly multiple eligibility requirements to play on a school basketball team, including age and being a registered student, which would prevent a dog from qualifying.

There is that basketball court that's on top of the Supreme Court.....does that mean another Air Bud sequel but this time he's a justice?

Yeah but what we have now is clearly bad too.

We’ve already got a partisan court and the decisions affect us all anyway, so…

People need to flip House and Senate blue. Theres a better chance of that happening than Biden winning.

Even when Biden loses, it will be necessary to have a majority to keep Trump in check.

Nope. And while the call for a Constitutional Convention to re-do the whole thing currently has more support (28 states out of 34 required), it's generally coming from red states and would require 3/4 of the states to approve it. So that's a non-starter too.

https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/#

That's the thing that kills me, he makes these promises that he KNOWS he can't get done, which leads to the whole "Well, Democrats never do anything!" argument.

What he NEEDS to say is "Here's what I want to do, but I need your help throwing out the bastards in the House and Senate blocking it! Here are their names, let's get them gone!"

Yep, this is the carrot that will never be given to us, standard DNC playbook.

Every solution that works within the system would be a band-aid. The entire system is band-aids. The government set up by a group of wealthy white men almost 250 years ago for a population 130 times smaller than it is now simply does not and cannot work in today's world.

He's a "soft" Democrat that cares about "optics" 🙄

Become ungovernable instead, whatever that means to you. Refusing to have kids and then living as flat as possible so you can smoke weed is one example of social behavior that harms their agenda a lot more than committing suicide does.

The Supreme Court has always been susceptible to corruption and bribery, which is how corporate power and influence has been expanded to the virtual oligarchy we have today. That said, the current court outed itself as biased and broken when they wrongly handed the 2000 election to W Bush. I don’t believe corrective actions at any point during the Biden presidency could have been legitimately questioned, and certainly not after the SC stripped women of the right to bodily autonomy over 2 years ago.

It's crazy how often I see people doing this; they're ardently against Trump's efforts to turn the presidency into a dictatorship, while at the same time complaining that Biden didn't do x y, or z when those aren't things that fall under his purview.

What do they want?? Dictatorship is ok if it's the neo-liberal I like?

Instead of trodding out the tired old excuses of Sinema and Manchin time and again for doing absolutely nothing, I suggest that instead Biden actually tries something. He could demand they be removed from the party. He could go to their home states in their home districts and loudly campaign for them to come around, all the while screaming from the rooftops how badly their constituents are being screwed by their reprehensible policies and refusal to cooperate. Force them to comply, or ensure their removal from office.

But no, Biden is not this kind of leader. Instead he thinks of them as friends, and would never seek to challenge their positions for a meaningful political agenda. Perhaps this lack of initiative to deliver for the people is why Biden is so wildly unpopular, and hurtling towards a landslide defeat to the criminal traitor Trump in November. Trump may be a totally fake populist, but at least his messaging resonates with the pain and suffering felt at this time by the American people. Of course Trump has no agenda other than self enrichment, but he at least says things that people want to hear. DC insiders such as Biden, Manchin, and Sinema are totally oblivious to that reality.

Those two should've been kicked out of the party a long time ago. Both are up for reelection this year and are not running as a democrat.

Oh then it's okay he didn't even try anything until he realized he was so unpopular people are asking him to step down.

Push for Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits and add amendment to make even the president not above the law.

Not an American, but increasing SC members would seem like a good thing to do. The more people on it, the harder it is to stack.

Just saying, he could officially eliminate a few justices in the short term.

Vote and volunteer to help others get to the booths if they can't on their own. We know they want to do everything they can to make voting harder for the blue. Getting the blue to stay home is their only chance of winning. If everyone votes, there is no longer a republican party. (or those that are around won't matter, they won't be able to strip rights from the American people)

They had the house, the senate and the white house before the mid terms and they squandered it

You mean conservatives, but I agree. Our less-fascist conservative party doesn't like to even attempt too much progress; it would upset their owners.

Dems controlled the Senate with the slimmest majority possible

And four years ago Biden wouldnt shut up about how only he could work with a Republican Senate.

Long before we dreamed if 50 seats.

As soon as that was on the table, it switched to 50 accomplishes everything. And almost immediately after we got that. Biden said it wasn't enough

Three big goalpost moves in like 6 months, that shit is noticable to voters and some can remember the last election, and not take Biden on his word again.

Then why was Biden saying he could work with a Republican controlled Senate 4 years ago?

Why say that the Georgia runoffs would get the whole platform?

What number do we need for any current campaign promises to come true? And if the deciding factor is House and Senate, shouldn't we do ch Biden for a candidate that would help down allot races?

Democrats should quit waiting until they can't do shit to suggest doing it.

At least he’s talking about it

So noble to bring up things the country desperately needs and he has no intention of working towards

Shits too bad to keep wasting Dem administrations on neoliberals

Not all his fault, but he definitely shares much of the blame, largely due to a lack of leadership on the topic.

What the president can do in those situations is focus the discussion, he has the highest pulpit of any politician, he should've been using it to move the frame of discussion and shift party strategy to make court reform a stronger pillar of the party platform. When the president says something it gives other party members permission to hammer on an idea.

Instead he lingered on his dusty, worthless notions of bipartisanship and "reaching across the aisle" and wasted all his political capital defending a genocide.

He could have done what hes trying to do now three years ago. Why did he wait until there were LESS democrats in office before trying?

Thanks for the context.

Steak.

I think congress critters should be seated and dormed together by state, not by party. They would be less vile towards each other. Think of the pizza parties!

Please demonstrate. He still owes me $600.

Wrong