U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration’s top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

“And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war,” Vance said.

  • 8oow3291d@feddit.dkOPEnglish
    186·
    11 hours ago

    Absolute low-hanging fruits like fixing the healthcare system and affordability.

    Voters did not give Democrats the votes in Congress for this.

    Sometimes I think Americans just don’t know how democracy works at all. If you do not give a party legislative power, then you can’t blame that party for not passing legislation.

      • 8oow3291d@feddit.dkOPEnglish
        103·
        10 hours ago

        Trump lies. Trump has just caused huge inflation, with the oil crisis caused by the Iran War. Would you be happy if Democrats just lied too?

        • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
          39·
          10 hours ago

          If they actually tried to work towards getting those things to pass, yes I’d rather have them “lie” and try than be honest and do nothing. Because is it really lying if you’re actually trying to do it?

          • 8oow3291d@feddit.dkOPEnglish
            73·
            9 hours ago

            Last time you gave Democrats the slimmest temporary filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, they passed Obamacare. Which while imperfect was a huge leap forward for health care for the poor in America.

            And it wasn’t even a real majority - they had to court independent Lieberman, who demanded that Democrats drop the public option as a condition for his vote.

            If they actually tried to work towards getting those things to pass

            Are you aware of the policy plans Harris put forward? I haven’t read them myself, but people who read them said they were quite good.

            • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
              32·
              9 hours ago

              Harris was on the right track in some points but even those those points weren’t good enough and in some cases she ended up campaigning against her own points by refusing to distance herself from the Biden administration.

              • Child care should get better but her tax credit is kind of a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of having a child.
              • Healthcare should be free not get an extension of reduced premiums
              • First time homebuyer tax credit wasn’t enough to make houses affordable
              • And her affordability plan wasn’t to make things more affordable

              Furthermore people have a serious issue with the economy because things were getting more expensive while purchasing power was going down. Biden claimed everything was fine and Harris refused to oppose that though it was clear to everyone that things were bad. That is what Trump tapped into with his affordability claims. People responded better to a clear lie that acknowledged their hardship instead of ignoring the hardship all together.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        10 hours ago

        Trump can shamelessly lie and the media and his supporters will eat it up while democrats are held to an entirely different standard. Yes.