https://xkcd.com/2875/

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It wasn’t originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington’s example and gotten false teeth.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They can block anything they want with 40 seats.

    Strange that the Democrats were never able to do the same under Trump or Bush.

    You’re looking at a president and expecting a king.

    I’m looking at an Obama and expecting him to exercise all the powers Congress invested in George Bush. I’m looking at a guy who was literally handed direct ownership of the entire financial system at the end of 2008 and choose to appoint a Fed Reserve hack to the Treasury who would hand it all back to the same bad actors that brought about the crash.

    I’m expecting a President to behave like a President and not simply an employee of Wall Street.

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      10 months ago

      Well that’s a standard no president since Jimmy Carter meets. And the Democrats used minority filibusters all the time in the 2000’s.

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          10 months ago

          Oh no half as many? So they did do it after all?

          And dude are you really going to try and tell us the peanut farmer president was a bank man?

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Carter was a nuclear technician with a 15 year long political career fixated on privatizing the state and national economy. He inherited a peanut farm from his dying father and kept the business afloat precisely because he understood how to obtain cheap lines of credit. Carter wasn’t tilling soil in the 50s. He was a spreadsheets guy.