Great. Now, when Democrats inevitably get clowned on in the midterms, they won’t blame the Le-
Okay, I can’t keep a straight face.
Lmao, I got banned from r/politics. Every response to my post about how the infrastructure bill sucks was "oooh, so you don't want to replace lead pipes then", then I pointed out that most of the funding for replacing lead pipes has been cut from the infrastructure bill and put in the bbb bill instead and I got banned 😀
dawg, why even follow this shit enough to know those nuances? we're an empire in the process of collapsing...just learn mandarin.
I'm not USian so I already don't follow this shit. It so happens that I also know 中文. I can confirm that your advice leads to a healthier life.
completely crush and humiliate the Progressive Caucus
oh shit Pelosi is going to shoot force lightning at AOC Palpatine style
"I AM THE SENATE"
The Left wouldn't be any stronger under Trump. This sort of "fake friends" shake out was inevitable given how Democrats cynically adopted DSA language in an attempt to get younger voters excited. Biden winning simply accelerates the timeline.
Capital has won. Republicans will win and fascism will prevail.
This has already been true for ages lol
The real significance of this is that Pelosi finally get to completely crush and humiliate the Progressive Caucus after having to endure through their (milquetoast) challenge over the past months.
In fairness, wouldn't she have done this anyway in the other case? Where "progressives" stick to their guns and she paints them as a rogue element that's paving the way for Trump?
But yeah, this should show how the only point of bourgeois electoralism for the Left, at this point, is to expose the whole sham.
$110 billion per year, minus the inevitable grift, the bloated contracts, in five years we're gonna read "scandalous" articles about how the majority of the money supposed to have been spent hasn't even been touched
Also watch deficit hawks pop out of the woodworks in the next months
China spent $8 trillion on infrastructure in 2020, for comparison.
:xi-lib-tears:
Do you have a source for this? I would love to whip this out in an argument with some libs lol
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/08/07/biden-infrastructure-bill-message-china-502739
Numbers from the National Bureau of Statistics show that China spent about $8 trillion on infrastructure investment in 2020. The U.S. spent $146 billion in federal money over the same period. A comparison of 2018 infrastructure spending as a percentage of GDP by 48 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries ranked China first at 5.57 percent compared to 0.52 percent for the U.S.
Yep https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/08/07/biden-infrastructure-bill-message-china-502739
54 times as much investment in infrastructure
meanwhile bridges and apartment buildings are collapsing in USA
“scandalous” articles about how the majority of the money supposed to have been spent hasn’t even been touched
No way in hell isn't cash not getting appropiated to build more lanes of highway because congestion causes CO2
Called it.
The "progressives" never use their leverage and can therefore be ignored - when they're not actively fighting against us. They're a microcosm of the Democratic party, just slightly more left.
We really need democratic centralism applied to reps wanting to use any socialist party label. It's the only way out of pure bourgeois democratic theater.
The House Progressive Caucus is a joke, it's like a third of all Dems.
Six Democrats voted against it, though:
Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York
Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan
Glad these 6 at least stuck to their guns. Although I'm sure they only did so knowing they didn't have to.
These programs are backed by economists so hard they criticize them for not spending enough. You know it's bad when economists say you should spend more.
When you break it down to the yearly figure, 1.2 trillion / 10 years = 120 billion a year, it really puts it into perspective. pathetic.
I’m so fucking sick of people describing these numbers with the 10 year number. A “$1.2 trillion bill” that’s over 10 years isn’t a $1.2 trillion bill!!! It just isn’t!!! It’s a $120 billion bill!!! Which is embarrassingly pathetic.
We should literally be spending more than $1.2 trillion PER YEAR on this, not 1/10th of that. What a fucking joke.
Here’s the inside baseball, Jim:
I ripped off all of Joe Manchin’s toe nails in a CIA black site until he agreed to vote for it.
Sinema just got an imessage picture of the toe nails with the text “need a pedicure? Manchin did.”
Ripping out toe nails is so 800s, real enhanced interrogation technicians use blockchain powered bone conducted nft funky monkey screaming 24/7
blockchain is too much work and I’m an old fashioned kind of guy.
Anyone know about actual things to get involved with IRL to encourage non-voting or otherwise accelerating the Dem party next year?
edit: My best guess is just to volunteer for Dems and then go off script and enrage as many normal voters as possible
During the primaries I would phone bank for Joe and put anyone who picked up on the deceased list, and anyone who didn't pick up as 'for sure joe'
Once again any lessons or significance will be lost forever in the sea of nuance and the broader ideological blocks will not change whatsoever, another pointless expenditure of energy and attention
Per Wikipedia, this is what the bill includes:
"$110 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects; $11 billion in transportation safety programs; $39 billion in transit modernization and improved accessibility; $66 billion in rail; $7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle chargers; $73 billion in power infrastructure and clean energy transmission" and $65 billion for broadband development.[32]
The bill would also make the Minority Business Development Agency a permanent agency.[56] "
is it just me or is this pathetically low in every category
Yes, in fact the biggest mass transit system in the country the MTA is on track to have like 48 billion dollars in long term debt obligations lol
