Don't worry, Manchin is in control now.
Well, that was the gist of my messaging to senator Schumer today. This stupid fuck is pandering to the left. How will we fundraise if we stay in power due to voting rights being improved.
It would be so funny if the repubs went reverse-psychology mode and allowed the voting rights bill through the senate so that Biden would be forced to veto it
Damn, definitely didn't see this coming when the progressive caucus gave up literally their only leverage
Not to give them too much credit, but Pelosi didn't even ask for their votes. She happily walked across the aisle and got a couple shitbrain Rs to vote on it, thus taking any leverage the progressive causus had.
Liberals siding w right wingers name a more heart warming story
the only thing the dems do aggressively is capitulate to republicans
wait is this the 1.75 trillion dollar infrastructure bill? because if so what the fuck
I think the Democrats split the bill. Infrastructure bill passed, investing an amount of money that’s less than 1/3rd of California’s GDP for a single year then making the entire country draw from that pool over the course of ten years.
The Infrastructure Bill will widen highways and probably stuff pork in a lot of pockets. But the Build Back Better Bill was where they put all their aspirational stuff then got humiliated for months by Manchin as he told them, “No, mothers and children must starve because of the deficit.” They licked boot and compromised and demeaned themselves and now they’ll get nothing.
Quelle surprise
"We need to pass the infrastructure bill first, the build back better bill will fix all the problems with it" :maybe-later-kiddo:
1 month later... :capitalist-laugh:
They squandered their first 100 days ‘negotiating’ with a bad-faith actor who only told them no and would, as a rule, give them 20% of whatever they asked for.
It made them look irredeemably weak. Now, people are suffering and there’s a very clear group to blame: the Democrats who couldn’t deliver results with a fucking trifecta.
The comfie libs won’t hear it; their income properties continue to appreciate and I understand most of them got raises. But it’s a lousy place to be if you are trying to run on the D ticket in 2022.
This is what I think is actually driving down Biden's approval %. Dude looks weak af letting Manchin work him like a speed bag.
Eh, I think it's mostly the gas prices. Your average voter couldn't tell you who Joe Manchin is if you gave them three guesses.
The stimulus dried up and unemployment ran out and the only message coming from the top was, “Back to work, you! Oh but get a vaccine we’re all in this together :avoheart:”
Gas prices, rent prices, food prices are all distressingly high. I predict it will be trivially easy for Republicans to say “all this bad stuff is happening because Dems went woke!” And Dems won’t have a thing to say except “No, we hate that woke stuff too!”
:shrug-outta-hecks: oh well what can you do, I guess there's always next time
Unless we lose the midterms!!!! :vote: like your life depends on it, because it does!!!!
Over ten years, so averages to 175 billion per year lol.
Next year's defense budget is 780 billion lol.
How it started...
Senate expected to shelve Build Back Better bill, moving forward aggressively now on voting rights...
How its going...
Senate expected to shelve Voting Rights act bill, moving forward aggressively on reauthorizing the the Federal budget for the year 20....
:geordi-no: 1.2 trillion pandemic relief, social programs, infrastructure and fighting climate change
:geordi-yes: 800 billion to bomb children in the middle east.
:good-morning:
I'd been suspecting it wouldn't go through for a while now. Still hurts that even this milquetoast version can't get passed. Voting rights isn't going anywhere either.
We know you can't get a ballot to vote for us anymore, but that is why it is even more important now that you donate to our campaign! We'll do something for sure, next time, that's a promise.
waiting for the parliamentarian or the filibuster to block the bill from passing, even though the senate just proved they can break the rules whenever they want by raising the debt ceiling with a simple majority
Just in time to take a break for the holidays, and then take another break for the entirety of 2022 because it would be impolite to pass legislation during an election year, and then lose control of congress and be unable to pass anything.
At this point I will not be surprised if this is the last Democratic majority congress in US history.
More and more people are saying it folks: nobody has ever deserved to lose more than the do-nothing democrats.
if bernie had any stones he'd go all preston brooks on manchin and sinema [in minecraft]
