Time to watch it be funneled into billionaire crony pockets.
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That's the only place it's gone for a half-century.
This is a completely valid reason to keep doing it.
Let's be honest, nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Biden should honestly just forgive all big debts for countries, healthcare education etc etc.... the hell would trumpy do when there's just...no money to steal since it was just given away.
He needs Congress to ok those things. That's why he's been dismissing student loans for four years. Republicans keep shooting it down.
And when there aren't enough Republicans to stop meaningful legislation then enough dems break ranks and stop it.
At some point we have to realize they work for the same oligarchs and that the Duopoly does not want our lives to ever improve.
The Democrats' policies are a carrot on a stick we will never be allowed to reach, we need a third party or more realistically make the rich fear for their lives
This just in: current white house occupants say current white house occupants did good thing!
Remember to tune in next year when we cover the story: current white house occupants say current white house occupants did good thing!
Oh, well as long as the economy is growing/metastasizing for the private shareholder owner class, the society that perversely lives in subsistent servitude to it can continue to get fucked.
This is why the neoliberals lost (yes I voted blue out of harm reduction).
The laborers needed a party that protected the needs of the laborers from the greed of the capitalists.
Instead we got, and even continue to get in defeat, "the economy is doing great! It's you fucking peasants complaining about having enough to make rent and still eat that are wrong!"
Economies are supposed to be lowly tools to benefit society through equitable distribution of goods and services, the tail has been wagging the dog for half a century, and it's destroyed us.
If the people that make up your society can't afford to live well despite working full time, the economy is a dogshit economy. It's only so fucking wonderful to these sick fucks of both parties because it's benefiting their wealthy bribers exclusively as it's been bastardized to do since the Reagan Revolution.
I did very well on my self-assessment too
Don't worry. It'll all be undone now. Thanks for the incompetence, Dems. Really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
...what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.
…what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.
I don't suppose being up against a senile rapist who fellates his microphone in front of a crowd and peddles deeply unpopular policies at all counts as a victory that should be, by all rights, a layup, except for the fact that Dem messaging is and has always been pure dogshit?
Those jaws.
Oh, you're one of the people that think the average American doesn't support those things.
I hope you maintain your sense of innocence. I gave up.
Half of America loves him. None of those things seem to bother them. They were never going to vote dem.
They definitely fucked up but let's not pretend Trump isn't loved by way to many Americans.
You've maybe spent too long in the echo chamber.
GOP voters were never going to vote anything other than Trump. Abstainers (and, for the record, FUCK them for not caring about literal fascism) largely saw no point in turning out for the Dems for a lack of inspiring message.
Democrats moved to the right to try to get Republican votes. It failed. They will learn nothing and do it again.
Voters didn’t turn out for Dems because of people like yourself constantly shitting on Dems with FUD
Bruh, I was full-throated in my support of the Dems because I understood the importance of maintaining enthusiasm for turnout. You can check my comment history if you like. Arguing against people shitting on the Dems when the alternative was literal fascism made up a great deal of my activity these past few months.
But the election's over now. We can bitch now without worrying about depressing turnout amongst those with the memories of goldfish who only remember the last comment they read. It's safe, at least until the next election cycle revs up again. And, in fact, if we do not bitch now, we risk not knowing how to correct our mistakes next time.
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If only it had been 2 trillion...
As if it would make a difference. Success doesn't matter if your PR arm can't meaningfully capitalize on it. The Dems could bring up fully automated luxury gay space communism to the US with total success, and their obsession with being an inclusive, big-tent party, like it's the mid-2000s, would make them unable to campaign on it.
Weird, I've heard of the IRA, chips, and infrastructure act from the Dems.
We're the politically involved, man. It's not us that need the messaging. It's the mass of American voters who don't remember anything if the drum isn't being beaten 24/7.
Maybe they should have put it on the news.
Maybe Harris should've made it a centerpiece of her campaign rather than the message of normality, 'they go low we go high', and 'being the adults in the room' style of 'bipartisanship' which appeals to Beltway types and other such Very Important Commenters, but is viewed indifferently by most of the country.
Fuck, man, I'm not trying to assign 100% of the blame to the Dems. This election was fucked from top to bottom, and ultimately the responsibility lays with the American people for voting in fascism. But it's hard not to be pissed at the Dems for trying nothing new and being all out of ideas.
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Or maybe they shouldn't have punted on things that had immediate tangible benefits to individuals and then gloat about the IRA which, while a positive, was largely bereft of tangible individual benefits.
Particularly after a very long, very public dismantling of every benefit of BBB and then killing it entirely. And then we saw the minimum wage increase die. So we saw Democrats show their true colors toward people who were struggling, and expected us to be happy with something where the only tangible individual benefit was 10 reduced drug prices for boomers on medicare. In 2026. And increasing the length of subsidies for the ACA.
As far as individuals are concerned, they were picking around the edges and ordering us to be happy about it. People had every right to ask "what's in it for me?" after Democrats' golden boy Manchin killed BBB. The answer was lacking.
And calling it the Inflation Reduction Act was a sick joke.
EDIT: I forgot about how Manchin was also the deciding vote to kill the expanded child tax credit, doubling child poverty overnight.
Odd, I find none of this personal opinion resonating in reality. IRA led directly to ~100000 new jobs.
The Inflation Reduction Act or IRA signed by President Biden back in 2022 invest close to $370 billion to combat climate change, and to date, there's been more than $100 billion in private investment and roughly 100,000 new jobs created in clean energy manufacturing.
Unsure how reducing drug prices for those on Medicare is a criticism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan
Continued negotiations between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer eventually resulted in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which was signed into law in August 2022, and incorporated some of the Build Back Better Act's climate change, healthcare, and tax reform proposals while excluding its social safety net proposals.
Calling Manchin any sort of "golden boy" of the Dems tells me everything I need to know about this line of discussion. And that I'm not gonna continue with you because this is venturing more into unfounded personal opinion than fact. I can see you prefer to consider Manchin some sort of instrument Democrats employed to deny people the benefits of the full BBB rather than an outlier of the Democratic party who, along with sinema, voted more in line with Republicans than Democrats. Saying "Democrats showed their true colors" is disgustingly disingenuous.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kyrsten_sinema/412509
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/joe_manchin/412391
Have a good day!
Edit: nice tonal edits to your comment. I definitely won't be responding to such bad faith discussion.
Edit 2: reading the source I posted answers your question... Highlighted the section you didn't read.
Odd, I find none of this personal opinion resonating in reality. IRA led directly to ~100000 new jobs.
Got a source on that, or is that just the PR?
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America will now lose any further investment. It was going to red states so now they get what they deserve.
that's great, and means absolutely nothing to the people making minimum wage, who are now paying 30%-50% more for bread, milk, eggs, and rent than they were when joe took office. macroeconimic numbers mean nothing when after the pandemic americans got hit in the nose with what felt like the greatest sustained bout of ruinous inflation in peacetime memory. i voted for joe, and kamala, i know they're better for america than the fascist, by ordinates, but they never enumerated a plan to reel in the gouging occuring from landlords, grocery conglomerates, and just about everyone else squeezing the average american for every penny they have. and that's why they lost. everything.
You can thank Republicans for the minimum wage and the killing of a inflation laws. Also, I'm going to point and laugh when you're paying even more in the new administration.
I was paying less than ever for eggs only a month ago and gas is like $2.60 in my area. It's you're own fault for parroting and believing this garbage.
There are countless comments trying to keep in people's minds that Democrats didn't do anything to help people. The end goal is obvious, I don't think I need to spell out to anyone unless it's their first election that the classic cycle is that Republicans fuck things up and Democrats clean it up, but get no credit for it. Same reason users want to focus on "the economy" in a very specific way, despite Biden's clear accomplishments.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/the-critics-of-bidenomics-are-being-proven-wrong
Consider some of the headline economic statistics released the last few days, on top of the GDP release. At 3%, inflation is now at its lowest since the pandemic, down from its peak of nearly 10% of last year. Commodity prices have plummeted by at least 50% across the board, ranging from energy, food, agriculture, and metals. Some such as lumber are down a stunning 95% in a year. Even gasoline prices, which have ticked up slightly in the last few weeks, are now lower than pre-Ukraine conflict levels.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate of 3.7% is at a 54-year low, and the unemployment rate has stayed below 4% for the longest stretch in the last 50 years despite the Fed raising interest rates from 0 to 5.5% in a year. The last time this nation saw such good employment news, LBJ was the president and Bonanza was the top show on TV. In almost every major sector, real wages are now growing faster than pre-pandemic, with record workforce participation, amidst millions of new and returning workers—partially thanks to the workforce training, education, and childcare policies that are core pillars of Bidenomics.
The strength of our economic recovery is not just reflected in the headline statistics. In the private sector, corporate earnings calls this last month have resulted in many major companies across sectors beating their expectations by a healthy margin, and many CEOs are raising financial guidance for the rest of the year due to the stronger-than-expected economy.
Biden turned things around, and no one here will give him any credit because it didn't happen fast enough.
I just disregard anyone acting like Democrats can't get anything done like I have every election, because Republicans don't help whatsoever and Democrats do, and it seems people need to learn this lesson again. Buying into the idea that Democrats are inept got us here instead of a continuation of the above.
Fucking thank you!
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Stupid Biden pulling the grocery price lever in the Oval Office instead of pushing it!
Another thing Trump will take credit for.