:biden-nibble: Listen Jack, I'm doing austerity during a pandemic and global recession, some folks call me the most progressive president in US history.
Reminded of Felix's idea of Joe as the guy who exists only to suck and be bad and lose.
Everyone that wanted to get vaccinated got vaccinated and now the pandemic is over.
The whole reason for the vaccines was to get people back to work. Never assume any wellbeing was meant by it at any point.
Another Jan 6th would be hilarious. Everybody year we just let the FBI van 20 of the shittiest Americans for meandering the halls of power
It's like The Purge but for the worst people. Once a year they can do whatever, but only to anyone in DC and only if it makes for a funny livestream. I expect no masks and a Where's Wally adventure of doxxing them based on who shit where.
Sitting here thinking about how articles in 2040 will be talking about how it’s actually good for humans to no longer have a sense of smell or taste thanks to COVID.
Taste and smell are useless in when working, and getting rid of them makes it so your eyesight, hearing, and touch get more sensitive! We're basically creating epic Captain America supersoldiers for doing soul-sucking menial labor for minimum wage!
"Can you believe how much money we used to waste on making things taste and smell 'good'? We would have whole departments creating perfume, scents, and figuring out how to add them to products. We used to pay people known as 'chefs' to create food to eat that pleased those senses in addition to just providing nourishment.
Thanks to Covid we've been able to streamline our business models to eliminate those unfair skilled jobs and create more jobs on the food factory floor."
Of course it's good, it will massively help us when when we have to consume our daily rations of Tesla™ Augmented Nutrition-Paste®.
Personally I'm waiting until there's multiple grades of Soylent available. Soylent Blue Label will have up to 23% human-based protein! Red Label will have some insect protein in it, but it will be mostly recycled paper pulp.
We're going to get deathwaves. When millennials start getting into their 50s, we're going to get articles about them dying off in higher numbers than boomers or genx. Lots of wondering why and maybe the pandemic had something to do with it but that was a long time ago and maybe it's their own fault for not being healthy. There's going to be a lot of sudden heart failure and strokes.
Why do you think most people in hard sci-fi just eat featureless protein cubes? :covid-cool:
"Winning the War on Taste and Smell - the Biggest Barriers to a Bug-Based Diet"
Dismissing concerns about losing our oldest sensory system and the one that's most deeply wired into our brains is upsetting to me more than just about any other facet of this "omicron is more mild" phenomenon.
The comments have a bunch of libs just doing variations of this
Why would we need protective measures when we have a free, safe and effective vaccine?
The 2k wasn't to help you it was to keep the economy going, now that it is its your responsibility to be vaccinated and yes work. I thought that is what Republicans like. Hard workers.
The 2k wasn’t to help you it was to keep the economy going, now that it is its your responsibility to be vaccinated and yes work. I thought that is what Republicans like. Hard workers.
When you start spouting republican talking points to own the left. Remind me again about how libs are progressives?
I thought that is what Republicans like. Hard workers.
Libs are literally stuck in this Red vs Blue fight and cannot comprehend there is anyone outside that
Even when the original tweet calle trump unhinged for a Republican.
I think it's deliberate, if the democrats dont portray themselves as the only legitimate opposition, they have nothing going for them
I've seen libs call people republicans for calling them blueanon or bluemaga, and it's just like, can you use the smallest amount of critical thinking? Like, briefly think about context? Republicans think maga and Qanon are good, they don't use them as insults.
Money from the government is so you buy treats and make the dow average go up you filthy swine
Stop paying rent with it
What's fucked up is I'm pretty sure the people hiring thing is just a myth. I've been applying like mad and still not getting calls back. I'm not that unhireable
I read a theory that it’s dead positions being advertised in order to make sure that companies don’t have to pay back PPP loans. No intent to fill them, but they need to keep them open to avoid repaying the loan. It’s a similar grift to advertising jobs to be filled by folks on H-1B visas - you have to “prove” they couldn’t be filled by an American in that case.
The implication of this is utterly fascinating for the real state of the Biden economy.
The 2k wasn’t to help you it was to keep the economy going
:maybe-later-kiddo: :stalin-gun-1::jokerfied:
The only thing democrats want is for a republican to give them a thumbs up, just once.
so many people purposefully ignoring the point of that tweet. 2k checks is actually something you can point to. you can't give biden credit for much beyond the vaccine, and then libs go Oh well its all republicans fault because they wont take the vaccine. That doesn't absolve him! In what world is this not a monumental systemic failure? Even if you, personally, do not know how to solve the issue: guess what, that's not your job! You're allowed to expect people to do their fucking jobs, and not go eh seema kinda tricky, guess it's cool that a million americans are gonna die. Have some standards!!!
solving the problem entailed either taking China's approach and aiming for zero Covid or waiving the vaccine patents and exporting enough vaccine to stop the virus's spread globally, before it mutated and got out of control. either way it's never been the fault of the people who refuse to take the vaccine and it's totally impossible for the liberal state to take either approach.
I think people tend to severely underestimate China's approach to COVID, the zero covid policy was amazing but China is now at close to 1.2 billion people vaccinated.
At this point the anti-vax crowd do share part of the blame if we accept that the only way they will take the vaccine is by force. Yes the US should definitely just pay people but then that is not zero covid anymore there are more than enough chuds that would literaly burn free government money to own the libs. It would be far better than the current situation but it is not 100% guaranteed to work.
You just made me imagine a Federal Shots-for-Shots program. Where you get a free gun / free ammo if you get vaccinated. Would probably make all the libs freak, but I think it might make the chuds get on board. Also biden could frame it as some attempt at bipartisanship like he always wants.
Yes the US should definitely just pay people but then that is not zero covid anymore there are more than enough chuds that would literaly burn free government money to own the libs.
This has been tried in many places already for many immunization programs—and specifically with COVID, in somewhere my family is from. It had little to no effect on vaccination rates. People holding out at this point either have legitimate barriers to access (e.g. can't get time off from multiple jobs, no transportation to clinics, etc.) or are ideologically opposed and cannot be bought off.
Mandates and harsh punishment for non-compliance is the only way forward.
Pretty sure Biden didn't sign the 'make a vaccine exist bill' either. Writing some checks is something you have real co trip over. The vaccine came when Joe was president cause that's when it was ready to go
Vaccines were already good to go by the time Biden took office, with the first US vaccination being done in December 2020. Kamala Harris initially said she didn’t want to take the vaccine because Trump said it was safe. Also, their initial target of “x million people vaccinated in the first 100 days” was criticised as it matched the vaccination rate set under Trump. They did improve and hit a bigger target, but I feel like I’m losing my mind when I look back at the gaping chasm between the political opportunity and what Dems actually did.
They aren't arguing what they think they are arguing when they say "But the republicans prevent us from doing things when we are in charge!!!" That is just saying "we are actually able to force republicans to do things when they are in charge because they are afraid of looking guilty." Now this isn't me saying its good that the open fascists control the government, just that libs dont actually reflect on what they are doing and saying, they are purely reactionary in their ideological stances in the literal sense of the word, they simply react to external stimuli without thinking as to what their reactions might entail.
"OMG! HOW DARE YOU criticize the most progressive president since FDR????"
I can’t even argue this point with chuds anymore. Normally the “economy was better under a Republican” thing is bullshit because Republicans always seem to make the bubbles that burst under Democrats. But legitimately, I can’t argue that Joe has been better for these people in the long run than Trump was. It’s straight up not true. The ones I talk a lot with are mostly white boomers who have never left the US, so they would never have been hit too had by the worst of the fash shit. All they care about is their self-interest and in that regard, I just concede. Yeah, Trump was better for you than Biden. Continuing the unemployment insurance would have been the difference for most of them too.
Reminder that just chalking everything up to "inflation" deliberately ignores the agency of businesses and capitalists, conveniently.
Even more broadly, it ignores the real soft ceiling on available resources.
Like, we've got millions of Americans who insist on stuffing their faces with meat at every meal. And that meat has to come from somewhere, be farmed and packaged by someone, be delivered, be cooked, be served. There's a real use-value cost to all this shit. There's a use-value cost to cars. There's a use-value cost to semiconductors. There's a use-value cost to running water and real estate. There's a use-value to vaccinations and intubation wards and N95 masks.
We're a country that seriously believes you can just create a derivative of a derivative and finagle the price of things so as to never, ever run out of stuff. Now that we're no longer enjoy comically oversized surpluses and competing with the rest of the world on a more-equal footing for material wealth...
Even if the US never printed another dollar, we're running into a question of where stuff actually comes from. We could do Full Communism tomorrow, but it still won't do anything to keep the lights on under current consumption patterns. No economic system can squeeze extra toothpaste out of an empty tube.
Idk, like 80% of dollars in circulation have been created in the last year and a half through massive QE that dwarfs the recession bank bailouts. They don't lie about it though, they just don't report it a d it gets ignored
Has he even made a public address about the fucking million cases a day lol
Edit: him and his team are "convening" and going to say something today apparently
The White House put a positive spin on record-high coronavirus infections ahead of the 2 p.m. meeting. Biden will “hear about the latest data on the Omicron variant, including that while cases continue to increase, fully vaccinated and boosted Americans that get infected are not likely to have severe symptoms,” a White House official said.
Lol I can't believe he's fuckin worse than Trump at this. How is it possible
Has he even made a public address about the fucking million cases a day lol
Like, what is he even going to do? Slide out in suspenders and thick rimmed glasses to say "Uuuuuh, did I do that?" in a whiny drawl, to a laugh track composed by the pack of hyenas currently digging through your local senior center?
Lol I can’t believe he’s fuckin worse than Trump at this.
The thing about Trump is that he wasn't meaningfully worse than any other President. He was just terminally online. Joe's not online. He's a President that has chosen to log off. That's what we voted for in 2020.
Some sort of assurance that you won't be left on the street if you get sick from being forced to mingle with the plague might be a nice thing to say idk
Literally one thing besides you're on your own good luck
I’m feeling harmed and reduced.
Covid-19 is the perfect crisis as it is also preventing people from organizing together against this shit.
