Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members

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    What has he gotten done that you support?

    I’m pretty disappointed in the Inflation Reduction Act that actually prints a trillion more dollars.

    We need inherent change in the government, we need congress to get off their asses and create good bills. We need to get away from the 4th branch of government.

    Not print a trillion more $ that goes to government subcontractors and the top 1%

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        I can post a lot of links to different people talking about different things.

        What has he gotten done that you support?

        Or do you support every single thing in that exhaustive list? If you do support every single thing, that might be more telling of you than Biden’s ‘accomplishments’

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          There is far fewer things there that I don’t support than those I do. Considering majority of that list were wildly popular, and in many cases supportive of basic human decency, I suspect it is less about my personal views than you’re trying to make it.

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            What has he done that you support?

            It’s a very simple question, I don’t know why you have such a difficult time answering it since you just spoke so highly of everything he’s done!

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              Not OP, but anything good for the planet I support. Anything that helps equality for all I support. All the steps he took to help us during Covid, including securing enough vaccines for everyone and helping people out of jobs due to covid with stimulus checks and small business protections (though I agree it probably could’ve been handled better, to curtail fraud), I support.

              So, three large key points that in truth pertain to a LOT of small initiatives he’s done, I support. Much better than Trump would’ve done.

              That being said, I wish we had better democratic alternatives for president. Biden (and honestly, a good chunk of our representatives on both sides) is just too old. We need to have term limits and age limits for all seats in government and SCOTUS.

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      You listed a lot of legislative issues there. What should the executive branch do for those issues? Veto the Inflation Reduction Act? Not enact bills passed by congress?

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        Executive branch should enforce laws passed by the legislative branch and do what they can to keep us out of more international military conflicts.

        The IRA was Biden’s baby, it’s not that he was silent on the bill then it just happened to cross his desk. The executive should NOT be pushing legislation, the executive branch should NOT be trying to unilaterally pass $1T in debt relief with an executive order and should NOT promote divisiveness.

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          do what they can to keep us out of more international military conflicts

          Hard disagree. The Pax Americana is the best thing to happen to the geopolitical landscape in all of human history.

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            Between the dogwhistle about wanting to end our support for Ukraine, and complaining about the IRA-- the largest climate change bill passed by any nation in human history-- because it “cost too much”, I’m starting to wonder if the guy you’re replying to is on the left at all.

            EDIT: Just checked their post history, and yep, they’re openly a conservative.

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        Do what it does whenever a Republican is in office: bully the holdouts of their own party standing in the way of their agendas. When Trump’s legislative agenda was imperilled, he used Twitter to the point where a whole generation of GOP legislators decided not to run for re-election.

        Every time Manchin and Sinema held up his agenda in 2021, he should have been hitting the airwaves and social media every day to single them out BY NAME for holding up what he was elected to do.