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It's an election year, don't hold your breath.
by klyrs 2y ago
It's an election year, don't hold your breath.
- laidoffamazon 2y agoElection year is 25% of a single administration's term, why should events be ignored 25% of the time?
- mapt 2y agoIt's also not like they're not campaigning for the other 3 years of the term.
- Loughla 2y agoYes, but the public memory is increasingly short.
- dclowd9901 2y agoHell, anymore it’s more like 50%.
- lesuorac 2y agowell at least 50%. I guess everybody forgot there are mid term elections which affect what the administration can do with help of congress.
- klyrs 2y agoIn this case, because I don't expect Biden to win another term and I expect the prosecution of this case to take longer than a year. The last several administrations have opened their term by tearing down everything that the prior administration had done. To be specific: I'm not confident the prosecutor behind this will have a job at the end of the year.
- dan_atem17 2y ago[dead]
- laidoffamazon 2y agoI genuinely think that if Biden does not win another term there are far larger problems for the American project than Ticketmaster, including democracy existing as we know it today.
- xwolfi 2y agoOn your opposite side, they think if Biden wins babies will die horrible deaths. American politics are full of superlatives, and very devoid of any real actions. Once the hero or the devil gets elected, nothing happens much.
- throwaway173738 2y agoYeah except for Roe v. Wade which you might consider a bellwether event for anti-contraceptive activists. But other than that yeah nothing much happened.
- gruez 2y ago>including democracy existing as we know it today. Weren't there similar predictions back in 2016? How is it different this time? Or to back up a bit, what exactly does "democracy existing as we know it today" mean? It could mean anything between "US becomes North Korea" and "the whitehouse revoked the press credentials of someone who said something mean about trump".
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoIt wasn't wrong in 2016 either, what's your point? That the coup failed and Congress wasn't murdered doesn't mean they didn't try.
- gruez 2y ago>It wasn't wrong in 2016 either, what's your point? Of course "it wasn't wrong" if claims are vague like "democracy as we know it", which means they can be used in a motte-and-bailey manner to initially imply that the US is going to turn into China/North Korea or whatever, but then later be walked back on to whatever the predictions don't really pan out. >That the coup failed and Congress wasn't murdered doesn't mean they didn't try. Was the claim back then that they'll "try" (however poorly planned/executed), or that they'll actually succeed?
- mindslight 2y agoI'm pretty sure that if the incumbent conservative President loses to the radical reactionaries, that incoming administration will be tearing down much more than merely the prior administration - more like two hundred years of the painstaking progress we now take for granted. (Just for context here, lest the postmodern fence-sitters write me off as some rabid partisan - I'm an unaligned libertarian who had never voted for a major candidate in a national election before 2020)
- brightball 2y agoBecause they've had the entire term to take action and the only reason anything is happening now it to attempt to build some momentum going into the election itself. Soon as it's over, everything most likely goes away.
- kelnos 2y agoIt takes time and work to put together cases like this. I look at it the other way: they've only had three years, and have already done some impressive things.
- fragmede 2y agoBut we have Taylor Swift to thank for this one and she's not running for office.
- kylebenzle 2y agoWhat? Because she set her ticket prices so high?
- jprd 2y agoPearl Jam
- llamaimperative 2y agoFTC has been aggressively pursuing antitrust since pretty much day one of the admin. You just weren’t paying attention.
- klyrs 2y agoTo the contrary, I've been paying very close attention. I'm just not confident that the DoJ can pull this off before the end of the Biden administration.
- llamaimperative 2y agoAh I see. You’re saying that you don’t expect this to complete, not that this is cynically political/false… sorry!
- jimbokun 2y agoHow dare politicians implement popular policies to appeal to voters!
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2y agoI think the objection is the timing. If the administration truly cared about such things, they'd do them in non-election years. But they seem to save up these things for election years so people feel listened to.
- the_gastropod 2y agoYes. I think that is the objection. But it's absurd. It's not like the FTC has been sitting on its hands the past 3 years. Last year, for example, they sued Amazon for illegally maintaining a monopoly. In 2022, they sued Walmart for facilitating money-transfer fraud, Harley Davidson for illegally restricting customers' rights to repair, countless health insurers to block illegal mergers. In 2021 they sued Frontier Communications for advertising false internet speeds, Lockheed Martin from illegally acquiring Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Nvidia from acquiring Arm Ltd, etc. There are hundreds of cases this FTC has brought in the past 3 years. Cynically saying "LOL ELECTION YEAR" at this case, because it's the first case you've paid attention to is just... so comically predictable.
- WWLink 2y agoIf Fox News lies to them enough times it becomes the truth :P
- dmvdoug 2y agoRight, right, right. So what we really need is for politicians to be consistent and never do anything at all, including during election years, because they don’t really mean any of it (as we wise folk all know).
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoI’m confused about why you’re so opposed to the biggest climate legislation package ever signed into law.
- Salgat 2y agoTheir literal job is to perform based on what made/makes them desirable to the electorate.
- nerdponx 2y agoIf one party's election-year pandering is legalizing marijuana and enforcing antitrust law, I'll take it.
- dragonwriter 2y agoRescheduling marijuana is a multistep regulatory process set out in law that Biden initiated with an executive order the month before the 2022 midterm election, so its kind of weird to call it election year pandering.
- parineum 2y agoRescheduling is not descheduling. It's better but it's still a half measure and far away from the blanket pardons that the President (any president) needs to be signing asap. I get the whole "progress is slow thing" but this is a case of politicians being the only slow ones. A supermajority of the public supports alcohol/marijuana parity.