If you want a vision of the future, imagine watching Charlie Brown trying to kick the football - forever.
Charlie Brown is Democratic voters, not any Dem politicians. Lucy is Biden now.
I think I've figured out why Biden doesn't have a big net worth despite being a corporate establishment fuck... there's a scammer out there living good on phishing Joe alone
- cover yourself in compromise
- cover yourself in compromise
- cover yourself in compromise
- blame leftists
Turning the surface of Earth to glass to bring prosperity to the great ol' US of A
#NothingWillFundamentallyChange
:shocked-pikachu: :surprised-pika:
Was he asleep 2008-2016? Why would he think the GOP would work with him now when they wouldn't compromise with infinitely more charismatic Obama? GOP legislators are literally receiving death threats from their constituency when they compromise with Democrats FFS!
Biden is doing this on purpose. This is his plausibly-deniable way of telling poor people, especially renters in danger of eviction, to eat shit. Look at all the smug fucks on twitter who think Biden is gonna do anything significant other than escalate conflict with China - Biden is convinced that enough of us are that oblivious to the kayfabe, and expects that people who already correctly see him for the reactionary monster he is and either refused to vote for him or held their nose to beat Trump are the only ones likely to notice or care.
The wealthiest Dem donors, especially the urban gentrifiers, are salivating at the opportunity to scoop up cheap, newly-vacant housing for themselves and are secure in the knowledge that Biden is gonna side with the cops when protests and riots inevitably break out again next spring because something like a fifth or a quarter of renters became homeless or were forced to live in their car/couch surf/move in with family.
a fifth or a quarter of renters became homeless or were forced to live in their car/couch surf/move in with family.
I'm kinda confused about the total lack of response from the gov on this. If that happens, and we have millions of people on the street, if those people get desperate it could seriously harm the State's ability to exert control. Am I overestimating how bad it will be? Or overestimating the State's ability to save itself from an obvious threat to stability? Or is this what they want to happen? Will Congress let the megacorps bring back company towns so all those homeless people have somewhere to live
in slaverywith a guaranteed job (hey, they could bring back cheap labor to the US, threatening China's hold on manufacturing)? Or are Republicans cutting off their nose to spite their face, thinking they can blame this crisis on Dems to hurt their chances in 2024, perhaps themselves underestimating how bad things will be if millions of people suddenly become homeless? Can anyone tell me what the fuck is going on?GOP are in fact acting spitefully on their way out because they know Biden and Pelosi won't do enough and will all but guarantee they regain the house in 2022. Trump losing is beneficial for them because he can just run again in 2024, blaming Biden/Harris for shit getting worse, and that delays having to answer the uncomfortable question of who Trump's heir apparent is.
The leadership of both parties, I could see them following the lead of companies like Amazon and use the coming homelessness crisis to bring back the company town/company store in order to simultaneously "solve" that crisis (and to quiet down the inevitable street brawls, and more of the sort of riots and protests we saw last summer), and to "bring back" manufacturing to the US without having to worry about being completely outcompeted by the PRC. Bezos and friends are trying to normalize and standardize the 10-hour workday and would probably love to force a transition to something like the exhausting Chinese 996 (72-hour!) workweek.
Amazon is becoming the new Walmart, an entity that can trick municipal governments into letting them set up warehouses only to wreck local small businesses and brick-and-mortar stores by promising economic growth, job growth, and increased consumer convenience, only to drive workers' earnings down, offer only precarious and exhausting work, and generally accelerating their immiseration in ways that PMC consumers mostly won't notice. Sorry to Bother You's "WorryFree" housing could, within the decade, become a plausible reality for most rent-burdened and underemployed workers priced out of renting in their gentrified hometowns, should the US working class fail to organize in defense of workers' housing rights.
What is a more "leading the lambs to slaughter" metaphor than judas goats? Normally I use that to describe liberals but it's too quaint by now. There are some culturally-specific ones like kapo but those don't have any resonance outside of those communities. There has to be something more fundamentally traitorous than a goat named after the Christ killer walking cows into a room where they're shot while it skips off to eat brunch.
That's a fun word. It sounds like a gnome who is good at trivia. Or maybe a goblin who makes you do algebra to cross a bridge.
Note that the one thing they can consistently agree on is China. So a toothless domestic policy but aggressive foreign policy.
I love that second tweet from Ryan Grim stating that Biden has been in the senate for decades, and yet he's still a mark. Really Ryan? You really don't get that that's exactly the purpose that Biden is supposed to serve?
Ryan Grim's naivety vs his perception of the Democrats naivety. We're not fucked because Biden is a ghoul. We're fucked because we have a very large amount of people in this country who still think the Democrats are some toddlers who just need a little push to get them where they need to go.
Love that only 25-30% of a politician's time in office is spent on legislation, and the rest on gearing up for the next campaign
