Thread by @cwebbonline

Just finished watching the Sunday shows and I need to vent.

Folks need to wake TF up! The media is playing us…AGAIN. According to the Sunday shows, Biden is too old, but Trump who’s living in delusion, lies and literally wants to ban the Constitution in order to save his own skin is just fine. Do people not realize what’s at stake here?
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I’m so over hearing about Biden’s age. He wasn’t a young man when we voted for him the first time. This is a man who’s running all over the planet engaging in diplomacy, negotiating with world leaders — our allies. Trump was cozier with our adversaries.

Trump was more than just a little cozy with Putin. Remember the outrage we felt when we heard him at Helsinki? He wanted to do away with NATO, Biden has made it so much stronger.

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Biden and Trump are virtually the same age, but the media isn’t riding Trump’s ass about being old! Biden is 3 years older than he was when we voted for him the last time and only three years older than Trump.

Guess what? Trump isn’t really 6’3” and 215 lbs.

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Under Trump, we were regularly teased that it was infrastructure week. It never came. But the media kept acting as if it was imminent.

By contrast, Biden managed to get the bipartisan infrastructure act passed. It’s created good paying jobs and money is flowing into the economy. We should’ve been in a recession by now if you listened to economist’s forecasts 2 years ago. But we aren’t and our economy is heading in the right direction — according to realtime facts.

4.

Perhaps the news networks can talk about the healthcare plan Trump told us was only 3 weeks away - literally once a month. The “best healthcare ever”, he kept saying. Obviously a lie, but they kept giving him a platform to keep saying it.

Biden has made insulin affordable for millions who were rationing their medication because they couldn’t pay the high cost. He also kept his promise about negotiating lower prices for the most vital prescription drugs for seniors. This takes time, but he’s on it.

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President Biden has regularly addressed abortion bans and done what he can through executive orders to safeguard access to reproductive healthcare for women. This after we dropped the ball and didn’t fight hard enough to demand Obama the hearing he was denied for his Supreme Court Justice nominee — as was his right as President.

We should have marched on Washington and had sit-ins at Mitch McConnell’s house over that. Let’s not take anything for granted again. There is no precedent. There is no settled law. But I digress.

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Biden promised student debt relief of $10K. He put forth $20K for Pell grant recipients. When Republicans sued and blocked his forgiveness plan, where was everybody at? I missed the Democratic outraged directed at Republicans over this. Biden paused interest loan payments much longer than he had to and was able to cancel student loan debt for hundreds of thousands of borrowers.

Did you or yours register for SAVE yet? The Biden program that will revise student loan payments to be 5% of individual discretionary income, and affectively making payments $0 for millions of borrowers.

Trump doesn’t give a damn about your loan debt. He cares about tax cuts for billionaires and we have the increased deficit to show for it.

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Biden has nominated and gotten the most diverse bench of federal judges confirmed in our history, and was able to get Ketanji Brown Jackson, confirmed to United States Supreme Court, our first Black woman Justice — as promised.

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Under Trump, we were worse off when it came to addressing climate change. We are in deep, after generations of ignoring the climate crisis yet the US withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord agreement under Trump. Under Biden we are back in.

With the bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and the Chips Act. We are addressing climate change and creating green energy jobs. A long way to go, but Biden is working on it. And he gives a damn about the planet. Let’s support him on that. Keep pushing for more, but we are better off under Biden vs any Republican.

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There’s so much more to consider.

Biden is trying to ‘finish the job’. He just put forth a new rule that makes millions more workers eligible for overtime pay.

Think about — Social Security, Medicare, abortion rights, voting rights, the right to privacy etc…

And don’t forget about the threats of violence and civil war coming from the right. I feel safer under Biden. The thought of another 4 years of Trump is terrifying. He will certainly be a more dangerous President than he was before.

Make the right choice in 2024. We may not get another opportunity.

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@KyleNumber And please confirm you read my thread before you reply. Thank you.