https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/politics/democrats-midterms-message-2022-biden/index.html

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I am drowning in even more debt and am just one random surprise bill away from homelessness, but no I need to celebrate and support biden making some stupid ass means tested bullshit that doesn’t do anything and just wasted money

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    American Rescue Plan

    Yeah, I remember that. It set the tone for the entire administration when Biden and the Dems sent out $1400 checks instead of the promised $2000 and cut the expanded unemployment from $600/wk to $300/wk. There was literally more economic relief under Trump which is fucking pathetic. What else did we get? A corporate giveaway infrastructure bill? Remember when the squad got "assurances" from Biden that if they voted for the shit bill, he'd get the better bill through? REMEMBER WHEN THAT HAPPENED :jokerfied:

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      And then they claimed they never actually promised $2000 checks when campaign posters in Georgia were promising exactly that

      • binman [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Reddit: you can't prove that

        poster.jpg

        Reddit: That's photoshopped, Fact check site says so

        different poster.jpg

        You have been banned from participating in this community

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The conditions are perfect for someone (Trump, anyone) to come and and literally buy the election. Just promise people a cut on gas prices and across the board stipend of $1000 per month for one year, and student debt relief.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh absolutely. There are extremely dark days ahead. The US is running head-long into a recession, probably a bad one, if I had to guess. I'm not expecting things to be better in 2023 so a message like that would probably do wonders.

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Democrats will means test any relief and run on a recession spending cuts platform.

          Republicans will unilaterally do something good for the people money-wosr and just be unstoppable.

  • Homestar440 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    make sure Americans know what they’ve accomplished

    :wtyp:

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Party leaders are frustrated by how little credit they receive for enacting a massive economic stimulus and an infrastructure package, overseeing the distribution of coronavirus vaccines to hundreds of millions of people and fulfilling Biden's promise to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.

    Democratic Party leadership thinks they accomplished any of this or that much of this, in the form it's been implemented, actually positively affects people's lives?:jesse-wtf:

    • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      “Overseeing distribution of coronavirus vaccines and a black judge on the court”

      They want us to thank them for doing the absolute bare minimum, as always.

      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Maybe my brain is broken, but I associate the vaccines with Trump (despite receiving mine post-Biden), operation Warp Speed and Kamala saying she wouldn’t take it, etc. Biden’s contribution was sitting on his desk and saying “it’s vaxxed or masked” :biden-troll:

        Also the distribution wasn’t that good if you consider people actually taking the vaccine as part of it - only 44% are boosted :yea:

        Absolute joke of an admin, like children playing grown ups

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      how the fuck are professional politicians this clueless and bad at politics holy shit. how do I get a job being paid hundreds of thousands a year to consult for the dems and fail to understand the most basic concepts relevant to my job?

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    :matt-jokerfied: Democrats suck ass! There is no hope modern party system. Kill yourself and kill everyone around you

  • nohaybanda [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Y'all remember when libs learned about gaslighting and just couldn't shut up about it for a while? Yeah, me neither.

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It was a good two years. Now their complaints about republicans blocking their agenda will be for real

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      Mission accomplished :liberalism:

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    People don't know what you're talking about because they haven't felt any benefit.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm sure "who would you believe most, me or your own lying eyes?" will work wonders as an electoral strategy.

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        This has been the Democrats strategy for the past 60 years.

      • binman [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        It sure will with the media bleating it 24/7. Look how many people are foaming at the mouth to go to war with Russia.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Once democrats explain to voters that the fine print in a footnote on a subpage of the campaign website said that they were in fact not promising anything apart from not being Donald Trump, the stupid voters will have to acknowledge that the democrats were technically not breaking any promises and that they therefore are still required to :vote: for them.

  • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Look, Jack! I promised nothing would change and I handled immigration, COVID, and the economy as Trump would. I am doing...the thing...you know!

  • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :maybe-later-kiddo:: "Vote for us and we'll do this stuff. it might be unpopular but it's necessary."

    Somehow wins against a party that panders to popular opinion and has been winning culture wars left and right

    :maybe-later-kiddo:: "Haha! SIKE! We're doing NOTHING!"

    :maybe-later-kiddo:: "Wait where are you going, didn't you get what you wanted?"

    Sometimes even I have to admit that the normie's labeling of democrats as lazy sticks. They seem all too excited to do absolutely nothing:

    • California? Our party dominates! What's the hurry? Let's just kick back and twiddle our thumbs on taxpayer dime.
    • In the rest of the US, we're a dying irrelevant third party? Oh well! Time to kick back, we're not needed anymore.....
  • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    We didn’t stymie our own agenda, Vladimeer Pootin did :whywhywhywhywhy: