callmearcturus:

druidspell:

•$2000 stimulus: has to go through Congress, not executive order. In progress.

•$50k student loan relief: this one he could do with an order, because Dept of Ed is executive branch. Get on it.

•No kids in cages: has to get through the courts—which Cheeto Mussolini loaded with unqualified fascists; one executive order already stopped by a court in Texas. Working on it.

•$15 minimum wage: has to go through Congress, not executive order. Working on it.

PLEASE. I am BEGGING YOU. Learn how the US government actually works.

It took 4 years of the last shithead in office to fuck things up so dramatically that the world couldn’t ignore it anymore, and 240 years for it to get to the point where 45 even could become the chief executive of this shithole. It will take more than the 5 weeks 1 day (as of this post on 02/25/2021) that Biden has been in office for things to be fixed.

Yesterday I saw people angry at My Socialist Grandpa, Bernie, begging him not to remove the 15$ increase from the COVID bill. This is not his decision: the Senate parliamentarian (a nonpartisan rules lawyer for the senate) said the wage increase is outside the purview of the budget reconciliation. And honestly I was expecting that because they’re uh kind of right unfortunately.

This means 15$ wage is going to have to be its own bill. That’s a massive problem because the GOP and like four moderate Dems don’t want to pass it. And we need something like 60 votes to pass it anyway bc fucking Manchin and Sinema don’t want to kill the filibuster.

Anyone who has a moderate dem senator should blow up their phones. Esp if you got Manchin and Sinema. Tell them to stop being precious and get shit done.