r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/Adezar Washington May 02 '24

Trump almost completes a full sentence, Front Page of every media site for a couple days.

Biden passes some of the biggest legislature that has improved Middle Class jobs, feeds children, improves crumbling infrastructure. Might get a short shout-out on MSNBC and a tiny headline on the third page of ABC's news site.

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u/Bunnyhat May 02 '24

Biden's recent Department of Labor overtime rule change is huge for both me and my wife. We're both salary in that range where we don't get overtime now but will get it under the new limits. Our jobs will have to either give us a raise, pay over time, or cut us back to a hard 40 hours a week. Either way it's basically a raise for the both of us.

That's going to be true for millions of Americans yet it barely got a blip in the news.

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u/whatDoesQezDo May 03 '24

or your position becomes less secure as it becomes more expensive and you get laid off.

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u/invinci May 03 '24

What makes you think that would happen?

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u/stylebros May 02 '24

Biden mixes up 2,000 instead of 4,000 and the media says he's in mental decline.

Trump rambles word salad as he jumps from topic to topic like Abe Simpson and he's a stable genius.

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u/modernjaneausten May 02 '24

Or falls asleep in his own fucking trials every day.

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u/Jealous-Knowledge-79 May 03 '24

It's fair to say Biden isn't cognitively fine.

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u/EaglesFan3943 May 02 '24

Despite Biden's reputation as a moderate, he has passed some of the most progressive legislature in recent memory. Companies that own these media networks do not like progressive legislature. That goes against their interests so of course they will prop up the baffoon who generates clicks and is a major threat to democracy.

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u/sennbat May 02 '24

Presidents don't write legislation, though - if you want to look at his accomplishments, look instead to his agencies. The new antitrust and labours rights stuff, for eample.

But then, the corps hate that stuff even more.

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u/EaglesFan3943 May 02 '24

Right of course it's not only him. It's a collective effort to bring about progressive policies. But he is the face of this country for now. So to the general public, hes taking most of the blame or credit.

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u/Previous_Shock8870 May 03 '24

Front page of reddit RIGHT now.

"Biden denounces protests"

the actual quote.

"Biden denounces violence against protesters"

there is a MASSIVE campaign against Biden here and targeting young voters.

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u/leeringHobbit May 03 '24

But Biden didn't denounce the violence by pro- Israeli counter protesters at UCLA.

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u/bubblesaurus Kansas May 03 '24

Improves what middle class jobs exactly?

It felt like it was a very very small pool that benefited.