more like i'll be eating salmon roe and watching russell crowe play Ben Wade in the 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma :biden-troll:
child tax credit
How that was passed and then just allowed to die was a hell of a thing. In r/politics when I get really mad at libs piling on me with bullshit like "You don't understand how politics works - do you," - I resist the urge to tell them to fuck themselves.
Instead I say something that includes stuff like this: "Filibuster this. The child tax credit which was a fantastic thing. It rapidly cut child poverty by a lot but they designed the thing to fucking fail. It only lasted ~6 (or whatever) and then had to renew it but they just let it die. Good intentions are fine and all that but designing the bill to fail is fucking stupid and abject failure however you measure it.." and then I disable comments because I've talked too long already.
We are not dreamers! :gigachad:
:maduro-katana-1::maduro-katana-2:
Who would have thought that electing someone who voted against Roe vs. Wade and who tanked #MeToo to cover up his own victim would have consequences? Who would have thought that electing a prosecutor whose only accomplishment is denying women in her jails healthcare would have consequences? Thanks liberals, you fucking irredeemable judas goats.
There's something tragically comedic about Clarence Thomas wanting to nuke a ton of rights after Biden went to bat to get him on the court by shitting all over Antia Hill like 30 years ago.
Catholic Joe Biden and Catholic Nancy Pelosi have a lot to lose from his decision they agree with but thought could be a convenient fundraising football.
I read a very good novel a couple years ago, The Folding Knife by KJ Parker. Parker is, ostensibly, a fantasy writer, though there is no fantastical element here. It’s set in a secondary world with roughly early European Renaissance level technology, though iirc there is no religion at all. The book is set in this prosperous city state that sits on the forgotten edge of this ancient lumbering empire. This city has a democracy, two parties. The main character is the scion of a banking family, a true genius, who decides he will become the most powerful banker in the city and then use that influence to become a supposedly benevolent dictator. He achieves this, but fairly early in his tenure, plague comes to the city. He begins to go to enormous effort to save the city, but they lack the science to understand how the plague spreads or how to stop it. Despite the fact that plague ravages the city, the dictator’s popularity with the people doesn’t go down. He asks his advisors why his popularity didn’t go down even though he failed to stop the plague. They say it was because the people really believed he was trying his hardest to save them, that it is more important to be seen to do something in the face of crisis, even if it doesn’t work, instead of doing nothing.
Makes sense to me, but then again I’m not a world leader.
I really expected them to TRY codifying Roe, even if Manchin would object
The democrat party already completed their goals of
- not being trump and
- being in power while vaccines became available
and it seems they have literally no plan to govern otherwise
For about the first half of 2021 I was 100% certain that they'd finally pass some totally shitty and awful cut-to-the-bone version of BBB. But then my faith started to fade that they'd be able even to do that much. I don't even remember the month (September?) but I saw a headline that senator Chris C00ns was going to give a speech on the filibuster.
He's from Delaware so even somebody with no knowledge of DC would assume Biden could keep C00ns on a very short leash. Nope. His speech was in favor of the fucking thing. I knew right then Biden's term would be utter dog shit. I didn't expect much but stuff like zero dollars on climate spending are failures of biblical proportion.
personally I think every senator should be [redacted]
Biden’s like, “in my experience, making a fool of yourself on camera as a distraction is an excellent way to become president down the line”
remembering that classic Matt line "your husband doesn't have a belly button, Kamala. you should know how this works."
OMG that video was literally captured and shared by the RNC. The fucking Dems can't even get softball shit right!!
:top-cop: explaining the plan to protect people from the anti-abortion legal regime: "do not come"
