John Fetterman says he'll 'never understand' progressives who refuse to support Joe Biden

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The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

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Is it already the time of year to bash progressives in case democrats lose so that they can be blamed for it? The extent of support Joe Biden will get is a vote against the republican party. As a candidate himself, he sucks as does the "democratic" party in general.

to be fair, he's done a lot more with his term than I had ever expected.

He's advanced the progressive agenda more than anyone else in modern history.

And progressives hate him for it.

You people have issues.

I guess I didn't just recognize his contribution in my comment. I'll try harder next time.

so progressive of him to shut down striking rail workers and fail to implement the student debt relief. hell i'm still waiting on the universal healthcare dems promised in 2008.

He did shut down the strike yes, but was recently credited by the unions for helping them in the months since to apply pressure to finally get them the sick days they were after.

Quote from the article:

"We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

That's not even mentioning all the good things happening at his NLRB under Lina Khan. My favorite of which being the new rule that straight up just orders companies found to have engaged in union busting tactics in response to workers trying to get a union election to immediately recognize and begin bargaining with said union.

n working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

so they've been paying lip service and not actually accomplishing it? sounds about right. you don't get credit for lipservice.

I was happy with the union busting changings though. but that is likely admin dependent.

No like, the IBEW workers actually have the sick days now. It's like the first thing they say in the article I linked.

Quote again:

After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.

Then they thank the Biden administration specifically for helping them provide the pressure on the rail companies that helped them get the sick days. So yeah, breaking the strike was shitty but he at least didn't leave them out to dry and helped them get what they wanted.

The point about the NLRB changes being administration dependent is true. Which is a big part of what moved myself specifically from "Ugh... I guess I'll hold my nose and vote for Biden because I don't want the fascists to win," to actually feeling like I had a reason to vote for him.

Don't get me wrong, fuck the DNC for deciding that there's essentially not going to be a primary. We deserve the chance to pick someone better than Biden if we can find them. But if we can get 4 more years of the kinds of labor and union gains we've been seeing I think that's worth voting for.