Don't worry, Manchin is in control now.

  • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    "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:

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This is what I think is actually driving down Biden's approval %. Dude looks weak af letting Manchin work him like a speed bag.

        • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.

          • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            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!”

    • fayyhana [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      :shrug-outta-hecks: oh well what can you do, I guess there's always next time