NBC News: Senate expected to shelve Build Back Better bill, moving forward aggressively now on voting rights— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) December 15, 2021
I think the Democrats split the bill. Infrastructure bill passed, investing an amount of money that’s less than 1/3rd of California’s GDP for a single year then making the entire country draw from that pool over the course of ten years.
The Infrastructure Bill will widen highways and probably stuff pork in a lot of pockets. But the Build Back Better Bill was where they put all their aspirational stuff then got humiliated for months by Manchin as he told them, “No, mothers and children must starve because of the deficit.” They licked boot and compromised and demeaned themselves and now they’ll get nothing.
They squandered their first 100 days ‘negotiating’ with a bad-faith actor who only told them no and would, as a rule, give them 20% of whatever they asked for.
It made them look irredeemably weak. Now, people are suffering and there’s a very clear group to blame: the Democrats who couldn’t deliver results with a fucking trifecta.
The comfie libs won’t hear it; their income properties continue to appreciate and I understand most of them got raises. But it’s a lousy place to be if you are trying to run on the D ticket in 2022.
The stimulus dried up and unemployment ran out and the only message coming from the top was, “Back to work, you! Oh but get a vaccine we’re all in this together :avoheart:”
Gas prices, rent prices, food prices are all distressingly high. I predict it will be trivially easy for Republicans to say “all this bad stuff is happening because Dems went woke!” And Dems won’t have a thing to say except “No, we hate that woke stuff too!”
wait is this the 1.75 trillion dollar infrastructure bill? because if so what the fuck
I think the Democrats split the bill. Infrastructure bill passed, investing an amount of money that’s less than 1/3rd of California’s GDP for a single year then making the entire country draw from that pool over the course of ten years.
The Infrastructure Bill will widen highways and probably stuff pork in a lot of pockets. But the Build Back Better Bill was where they put all their aspirational stuff then got humiliated for months by Manchin as he told them, “No, mothers and children must starve because of the deficit.” They licked boot and compromised and demeaned themselves and now they’ll get nothing.
Quelle surprise
"We need to pass the infrastructure bill first, the build back better bill will fix all the problems with it" :maybe-later-kiddo:
1 month later... :capitalist-laugh:
They squandered their first 100 days ‘negotiating’ with a bad-faith actor who only told them no and would, as a rule, give them 20% of whatever they asked for.
It made them look irredeemably weak. Now, people are suffering and there’s a very clear group to blame: the Democrats who couldn’t deliver results with a fucking trifecta.
The comfie libs won’t hear it; their income properties continue to appreciate and I understand most of them got raises. But it’s a lousy place to be if you are trying to run on the D ticket in 2022.
This is what I think is actually driving down Biden's approval %. Dude looks weak af letting Manchin work him like a speed bag.
Eh, I think it's mostly the gas prices. Your average voter couldn't tell you who Joe Manchin is if you gave them three guesses.
The stimulus dried up and unemployment ran out and the only message coming from the top was, “Back to work, you! Oh but get a vaccine we’re all in this together :avoheart:”
Gas prices, rent prices, food prices are all distressingly high. I predict it will be trivially easy for Republicans to say “all this bad stuff is happening because Dems went woke!” And Dems won’t have a thing to say except “No, we hate that woke stuff too!”
Fair enough
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:shrug-outta-hecks: oh well what can you do, I guess there's always next time
Unless we lose the midterms!!!! :vote: like your life depends on it, because it does!!!!
Yeah the one they passed had more bad than good shit in it lol
Over ten years, so averages to 175 billion per year lol.
Next year's defense budget is 780 billion lol.