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Student loan debt cancellation efforts lead to the SAVE Plan rollout which reduced many american's payments to $0 monthly.
Biden did permit drilling to meet US demands, but he also did everything in his power to reduce demands.
If you wanted better and more extreme actions then you would need Democrats to have the power to make constitutional amendments, bypass filibusters, and remove corrupt positions, which means 60 Senate Votes. Example: Citizens United SCOTUS decision means either removing SCOTUS judges or passing a constitutional amendment, 60 votes.
We have NEVER given dems true power since 1979, at which point they were a very different party than they are now.
They just need 101 senators to accomplish anything.
The SAVE plan that still only slightly mitigates the student loan problem? They still guarantee excessive profits to lenders and keep student loan repayments up to 20 years. I can see he's really doing a lot on that problem he created. The fact of the matter is that democrats do not use the power they do have. Biden had the power to appoint an effective attorney general but instead appointed Merrick Garland who did nothing to prosecute Trump even with years of time on his hands and plenty of evidence. The supreme court gave the presidency supreme power for "official acts" and what did Biden do with this power? You tell me.
For someone who's a fascist and such a threat to democracy, Trump was handled with kid gloves by the democrats and Biden welcomed him back into office with a warm smile and a handshake. Democrats will endlessly shriek about Trump to garner donor dollars and will make token gestures like impeaching him and declaring that he's the most impeached president as if that actually did anything. When it comes to actually solving the problem, democrats aren't interested.
Also, it's a funny coincidence that just the right number of democrats will turn heel the second democrats do manage to get a majority. Just look at senators Lieberman, Manchin, and Sinema. Don't forget about the sudden senate parliamentarian who comes in with the steel chair in case democrats might have to actually do something. It's a rigged carnival game and you keep arguing that we just need to get the ball in the hole when in reality the game is set up to make that impossible while looking deceptively possible.
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Biden Pushed for half of all new vehicles to be EV by 2030
Biden admin invested billions into the construction of 37 stations with 226 EV charging ports across the USA
Biden began steps to replace the entire federal vehicle fleet of 645,000 vehicles with electric
But sure believe your magical fantasy where Joseph Biden presses a mysterious button which changes all of the prices on the market to whatever number he puts into the computer that controls all of America.
When you put 100% and 50% tariffs they really do change the price of stuff
Yeah but the Tariffs were only on the Chinese, honestly the already cheap and low value EVs, so the overall market wouldn't fluctuate much.
I really do believe you're getting what you pay for when you invest in western EV markets instead of Hostile Foreign Dictatorship products.
"Push for" means "accomplish" to people who are fine without accomplishments.
Setting a goal is a token gesture. We'd get there a lot faster with cheaper EVs, but that would piss off the oligopoly which have been sitting on their asses, keeping EVs expensive, and loading them up with dumb subscription services and other unappealing "features". Japanese manufacturers kicked American manufacturers' asses since the 70s and forced them to get better. The American oligopoly did not want that to happen again with China and Biden sided with the oligopoly, greatly delaying EV adoption.
The charging stations are great. Too bad there won't be as many EVs taking advantage of them since the EVs themselves are still too expensive.
The federal vehicle fleet pales in comparison to the general population. Also:
Which is perfect since they can say they're working towards it and when republicans inevitably get in, they can just stop/reverse it.
China is not a friend to anyone in this world, not even the citizens of China.
While some very cheap EVs had to deal with Tariffs, the majority of the market stayed unchanged.
The US is not a friend to anyone in this world, not even the citizens of the US. You can see this in action as the US exploits people domestically and abroad in the name of profits. The US is the biggest bully in history and projects its power across the entire globe. That's why they have military bases set up everywhere they can. They also use their economic might to force change they want to see. On the surface it looks voluntary, but if you reject the US's offer, they will work endlessly to make your life hell.
Climate change is a global existential crisis, we should be working together to solve it. We can't afford to reject solutions just to continue propping up American power and profits.
When you've got nothing to say, just throw out the "tankie" label. Classic.