https://subium.com/profile/cooperlund.bsky.social/post/3kxdrc3g23k2i
Does he mean "caps rent increases at 5%"? Because that's literally higher than the rate of inflation lol
Also, from a different source
From 2017 to 2022, the average year-over-year increase in rent was 5.77% nationwide, with the biggest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022 at 14.07%.
Generous Joe Biden, capping rent increases nationwide to .77% lower than the nominal increase
"Left wing win" bite me, loser. "Oh but it's still good" Joe Biden's team did 20 minutes of research to figure out what figure they could use that would not upset their corporate donors while still seemingly being 'good enough' to throw out, and it's STILL never gonna happen because they need the legislative and executive branches, and barring Donald Trump dying that won't be happening. And if they are in position where they actually have the ability to enact it, they just won't.
with the biggest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022 at 14.07%
To be honest - I only read the Bluesky text and I then scanned the rest in about 3 seconds. I read enough to know it was funny and the details don't matter at all because it will never happen anyway.
It would be hilarious if by some miracle Biden wins and the dems control congress too. Biden has kingly powers but somehow he and the dems just can't figure out how to do the things they pretended they wanted to do. They don't shitcan the parliamentarian who - of course - says "no" to many things. The dems keep the filibuster alive which provides them any number of conveninet own goals. And they don't even bother to try to do some stuff because - gosh darn it! - the GOP SCOTUS justices would never let them.
Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress
tell me some other things that won't happen
Oh wow only a 5% increase annually, now if only my salary increases matched that it might not be fucking me over! Thanks Brandon!
i'm a reasonable woman, open to compromise
i'll have them do a little dance first. deal?
public option
minimum wage
my fucking $600
and that's when they win the election which they will not do
I'M SWIFTLY MOVING TOWARD A SOLUTION WHICH PLEASES NOBODY!
That sounds like a way to have another entire class of the population homeless lmao
How so? The USSR subsidized apartments to the point that they'd cost a trivial amount of money to rent and they had virtually 0 homelessness. The subsidies could be achieved by defunding the police and MIC, which would also easily give enough money to run single payer healthcare and make college free.
A crumb of a crumb offered as a maybe. Who's falling for this shit?
But a "crumb of a crumb offered as a maybe" - is the traditional dem "problem solving" method.
If you sell your soul to the imperial war machine and backstab the working class of the world you too can get…*reads note….a 5% rent cap!
An announcement about a plan for a rent cap, assuming a Democrat controlled Congress
I haven't seen this before. It's very accurate and clever. I hate it.
remember build back better, that was another 'plan' that failed and given up on immediately with democrat control of congress
Brandon's smart, savvy political instincts and brilliant tactics were on display in 2021 to 2022. He put Sinema and Manchin - two super-attention hounds - in the spotlight for a year until he took an ax to his own bills and did exactly what they wanted. Manchin also got a payoff. I forget what it was exactly - a mining exception or something?
For the rest of time, if Pramila Jayapal shows up in public, she should have reporters asking her "hey remember when you agreed to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the house and send it to the senate with assurances that you'd get Biden and Schumer to whip votes for BBB afterward, then you completely ate shit and gave away all your leverage and got nothing in return and Manchin and Cinema left the party and nobody even attempted to bring them in line in any way?"
Most reporters are very busy generating SEO manipulation and cranking out shitty articles for their private equity paymasters. But if she promises to say only good things about Brandon - she can go MSNBC and do that.
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Ninja edit: I wasn't making fun of typical reporters. They do god's work for shit pay. It was a comment about how everything is so monstrously fucked up.
Landlords: "Not the Tax Benefit!? How ever will we make up the loss????
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oh yeah, we'll just raise the rents high enough to cover that too."
if you want a kick, you gotta vooooooote!
Seize the means
Test the means
