I had heard the 1918 outbreak affected 20/30-somethings more than other age groups.

Ok the link didn’t load as expected… Fourth paragraph is the relevant part on law. The rest of the article is pretty interesting as well.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A~%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.

Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.

I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!

The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.

Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…

You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress. Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.

How was Biden going to cancel an act of Congress?

Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.

MAGA will blame this on Democrats.

The slice with the expiration date and lot number imprinted on it is the lucky slice

Nope. That’s why I voted for Harris.

Ah, LemmyWorld, if this post indicated that American Gaza protesters were gamed to help Trump get elected, it would be banned here too…

Genocide? That term is being used 100% to chide Jews. You want to talk to genocide, take a look at Sudan right now. Now that’s a genocide. But it’s “whataboutism” to you guys… Gaza is a massive military action but ain’t even close to genocide.

It’s literally 80 years of policy, but y’all are absolutely fixated on Biden/Democrats and can not fathom how worse it’s going to be under Trump. You are offended at the very idea you could be mistaken about this; fingers in your ears, “nyah nyah nyah”…

Here’s my prediction: once Trump wins, the Gaza protests will wither and stop. Because the way high up directive on these protests is about the Democrats losing, not about Gaza.

Lots of people here frame this as a Biden and Harris policy. While the Senate is evenly split between parties, the House is majority Republican. Congress is where this money is allocated. And Trump is rabidly anti-Muslim. But sure, frame aid as Biden and Harris only. Never mind what will happen once Trump wins the election.