By DY_nasty Go To Postare you talking about THIS bill or overall perspectives on fiscal expansion?
because crutching off of the rona crash is clearly an event unto itself
Both. Biden didn’t put Bernie in charge of reconciliation because he’s concerned about debt. Like I said, in 2008/9 the trillion number was a nonstarter. The Great Recession is Rona comparable. That situation was also dire. Obama tried a second stimulus and got shot down too
I mean it’s not total unity, I’m not arguing that. We’re just more unified than we were about it. What’s kinda sad is I think Trump is a reason why. That tax cut and subsequent first stimulus really put people’s inflation theories to the test
This guy. No majority. No super majority.
meh
Wouldn't expect shit outta a super majority either if the dems we do have are Manchin and others who vote certain kinds of ways. Just nonstop convenient excuses.
meh
Wouldn't expect shit outta a super majority either if the dems we do have are Manchin and others who vote certain kinds of ways. Just nonstop convenient excuses.
Damn they really shouldn't have cut this part out. The best part about this is that McConnell totally does not give a shit about her attempt to impress him. Yeah it's totally sexist to critique her body language when the whole thing was done for performance
i don't know how rona is comparable to the 2008 stuff when the same risk factors that existed before rona will exist afterwards but ight
had something much longer typed up but im not leaning up in my chair if we're gonna call it 'unity' when there's simply more faith in a growing economy than a sinking one.
had something much longer typed up but im not leaning up in my chair if we're gonna call it 'unity' when there's simply more faith in a growing economy than a sinking one.
They’re not totally comparable but they’re both dire circumstances that needed huge actions. Obama’s wasn’t close to enough. Maybe unity isn’t a good word, but there’s much less division over deficits and debt. We still have a jobs bill to pass
By Perfect Blue Go To PostHe never said who was getting the help
Depending on who you ask billionaires are struggling
By Fenderputty Go To PostThey’re not totally comparable but they’re both dire circumstances that needed huge actions. Obama’s wasn’t close to enough. Maybe unity isn’t a good word, but there’s much less division over deficits and debt. We still have a jobs bill to passMan, politics pisses me off. How hard is it to just help people? Fuck dealing with Senate Majority Leader Manchin. Biden is officially trash-tier until proven otherwise. The bar is low and I don’t expect anything worthwhile from this administration. 2022 looking like your typical mid-term bloodbath.
By Blue Go To PostMan, politics pisses me off. How hard is it to just help people? Fuck dealing with Senate Majority Leader Manchin. Biden is officially trash-tier until proven otherwise. The bar is low and I don’t expect anything worthwhile from this administration. 2022 looking like your typical mid-term bloodbath.
I’m more optimistic, obviously. But only for things that can pass via reconciliation. I do think we’ll see a minimum wage increase, but it won’t be 15$. Probably more like 11.-12. Voting rights, police reform, DC and PR statehood and anything requiring 60 isn’t happening. Corporate tax increases, jobs bills and student debt relief / free community college i think have good shots at passing. Maybe that child poverty bill Romney likes too.
By friskykillface Go To PostDemocrats are washed
2022 and 2024 is gonna be a massacre now
By Perfect Blue Go To PostAnyone mention the John McCain connection with that thumbs down?
Yeah I think the funniest part about all this is that she tried to make this an iconic moment, and it backfired spectacularly
Every new angle just makes it look worse lol
By Fenderputty Go To PostI’m more optimistic, obviously. But only for things that can pass via reconciliation. I do think we’ll see a minimum wage increase, but it won’t be 15$. Probably more like 11.-12. Voting rights, police reform, DC and PR statehood and anything requiring 60 isn’t happening. Corporate tax increases, jobs bills and student debt relief / free community college i think have good shots at passing. Maybe that child poverty bill Romney likes too.
Will they ever see power again, if they don't at least try, this time around? Supreme Court is not to be trusted on this issue. lol
By cashman Go To PostYeah I think the funniest part about all this is that she tried to make this an iconic moment, and it backfired spectacularlySexist
Every new angle just makes it look worse lol
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/03/05/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-hearing-musico-morrison-bellar/4591203001/
was waiting for this 😂 would make a great netflix movie
was waiting for this 😂 would make a great netflix movie
By EldritchTrapStar Go To PostWill they ever see power again, if they don't at least try, this time around? Supreme Court is not to be trusted on this issue. lol
You see the shit Georgia is pulling too ...
By FortuneFaded Go To Posttrain your pigs better if they get murderous because someone called them a mean name
It's one of those bills that's gonna fuck up waaaaay more white people since they're the main ones letting it fly on cops 😂
It was too much to ask wasn’t it? Get a generationally bad president, a generationally bad division, a failed attempt at overthrowing the election results through the use of violence, and Covid as the cherry on top. Not enough.
By DY_nasty Go To PostIt's one of those bills that's gonna fuck up waaaaay more white people since they're the main ones letting it fly on cops 😂You think the law would be equally applied?
By DY_nasty Go To PostIt's one of those bills that's gonna fuck up waaaaay more white people since they're the main ones letting it fly on cops 😂
TEST YOUR WHITE
TEST YOU MIGHT
By EldritchTrapStar Go To PostWill they ever see power again, if they don't at least try, this time around? Supreme Court is not to be trusted on this issue. lolI don't know how the Dems don't get wiped out in 2022 based on the state-level voter reform happening in the name of 'rebuilding trust in elections'. They need to pass H.R.1 to counteract voter suppression.
By Fenderputty Go To PostThey’re not totally comparable but they’re both dire circumstances that needed huge actions. Obama’s wasn’t close to enough. Maybe unity isn’t a good word, but there’s much less division over deficits and debt. We still have a jobs bill to passYour original point was that the Dems showed more unity than the GOP. Never-Trumpers like Romney to Trump-bootlickers like Cruz all fell in line to vote no. You'd think having the House, Senate, WH and a bill with 60+% approval with the public would be enough for Senate Dems to do the same.
The wait till 2022 shit might've flown if it was just two shitheels to deal with, but when put through a litmus test, there's 8 of them.
By trevorariza Go To PostYour original point was that the Dems showed more unity than the GOP.
I suppose 2009 Dems could be called the GOP lol
By markao Go To PostLewa
nice assist Sane
bayern = Republicans
By n8 dogg Go To Postbayern = RepublicansCosign
By n8 dogg Go To Postbayern = Republicansthe entire state of Bavaria =
By markao Go To Postthe entire state of Bavaria =It's so close to Austria and we all know who came from Austria
By reilo Go To PostIt's so close to Austria and we all know who came from AustriaHow many titles did Bayern win before Hitler is all I'm saying
Y'all wanna see a dead body?
Socialist California
Exactly one year ago, the U.S. Department of Labor released its annual solvency report of state UI programs and ranked California’s program dead last among all 50 states. And now, the state’s UI program is $19 billion in debt.
The reason that we are worst in the nation is simple. UI programs are funded by payroll taxes on employers. For 39 years, California has held its taxable wage base for UI at the federal minimum of $7,000, while the average wage in the economy quadrupled. The $7,000 is the maximum amount of earnings on which a California employer pays UI tax for any employee in a year.
This implies that workers receive (partial) insurance on earnings up to $46,800 annually but pay taxes on earnings up to just $7,000 annually (about $40,000 less).
But this reform would on average change taxes very little, while redistributing the tax burden away from millions of low-income Californians to higher-income workers like me (who should pay, since we are getting “free” insurance on our annual wages beyond $7,000). Why should part-time and low-wage workers (indirectly) pay the same UI tax as high-income workers while qualifying for a benefit just one-sixth as large?https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Fraud-is-just-one-problem-with-California-s-15970499.php
Socialist California
By Daz Go To PostTEST YOUR WHITE
TEST YOU MIGHT
lmfao. Even funnier reading this with the music playing in my head.
Today the shortage of basic supplies, alongside inadequate testing and the slow vaccine rollout, stands as a symbol of the broken federal response to a worldwide calamity that has killed more than a half-million Americans.
An investigation by The New York Times found a hidden explanation: Government purchases for the Strategic National Stockpile, the country’s emergency medical reserve where such equipment is kept, have largely been driven by the demands and financial interests of a handful of biotech firms that have specialized in products that address terrorist threats rather than infectious disease.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/us/emergent-biosolutions-anthrax-coronavirus.html
Chief among them is Emergent BioSolutions, a Maryland-based company now manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines for AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. Last year, as the pandemic raced across the country, the government paid Emergent $626 million for products that included vaccines to fight an entirely different threat: a terrorist attack using anthrax.
Prioritizing defeating middle eastern terrorists explains a lot about America's priorities even 20 years after 9/11
At the time that order was announced, in 2016, the reserve already had enough to vaccinate more than 10 million people. The stockpile has long been the company’s biggest and most reliable customer for its anthrax vaccines, which expire and need to be replaced every few years.
One of the vaccines has yet to be approved as safe and needed special clearance to be bought by the government, which has maintained a large supply of another Emergent vaccine after a string of anthrax attacks nearly 20 years ago left five people dead.Stockpiling 10mil doses of an unapproved vaccine because 5 people died 20 years ago seems a bit overboard
Seems like a strange time to be writing articles about criticizing the government for being overly prepared. Wonder how long they have been waiting to hit the submit button on that one.