• astrsk@piefed.social
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, like, what do people expect? Of course they’ll do good things to get re-elected. That’s literally how this works! I don’t get the people who argue “it’s just for getting votes”. Yes, that’s how it works.

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      8 months ago

      Motherfucker did this in 2020. Yeah, it’s cool, but as a former president said, fool me once, can’t fool me again

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      8 months ago

      Because they hold things until election years, they also do performative bills that look good, or wait to progress good bills until a bill that hurts the working class comes up so that it’ll be more palatable in the short term even though we’re getting screwed in the long term.