In the mega thread - I posted this (prescient?) tweet an hour ago...

By Wednesday it’ll be two weeks and the baby will have to prove it’s looking for work.

“It is down to 4 weeks,” Biden says on CNN of his paid family and medical leave proposal.

Tweet

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      My hunch is that the BBB bill will be ~$1.25T and on to of that paltry sum it will be filled with shit like means testing for people and free handouts to energy corporations for their "green" initiatives. In a week or two the consensus at r/politics will "Yeah - the bill wasn't great. But half a loaf is better than nothing. Nobody likes Manchin and Sinema but there's a solution. If need to vote more democrats into office..."

      And - of course - next year is an election year so by around March - the r/politics, etc will be entirely back to viewing politics like sports. They'll be back to vuvuzela-ing "Vote blue no matter who!"

    • fart [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Currently 11 posts about Jan 6th on the front page of r/politics.

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Trump and Jan 6th has obliterated any possibility of "pushing democrats left" in the minds of liberals. They are fully convinced they have beaten fascism and that the Democrats have to be in power to stop it from happening again.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      If you sort by controversial, you find a couple posts about this

      Shocking coincidence, I'm sure, that they are in denial about how fucking terrible Dems are. Also (funnily enough), I saw a pair of articles in controversial about how Biden's approval is worse than all presidents to this point, save 1