Joe Biden's Face Plant Could Cost Him EVERYTHING
The Biden Presidency
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Can someone tell me why Biden is hesitant to kill the filibuster?
Doesn't have the votes even if he wanted to.
The same reason I had to wait 10 minutes at CVS last week while a nice old lady hand wrote a check to pay.
Does he need the votes to do that?
The president cant dictate the rules of the legislative branch .They need to pass it , and currently they're two votes short.
Oh yeah Munchkin and Cnutface Sinema
Or, generally, in what respect has his presidency been an improvement upon the last one? Rejoined the climate accords which is a big positive and looks like he''ll initiate some kind of progressive jobs deal. His entire presidency hinges upon climate and so you have to wonder whether the increased rate in fracking and so on are short term appeasement ploys to an industry/base weening itself off of carbon or if he's just not committed to enacting any significant change. How does he sell the green new deal to conservatives? Can he? Or does he need to get it in via the backdoor by appeasing them on other issues? All undecided so far.
Trump and his madness no longer dominates the mediasphere which is a positive as well but aside from these two things I think Biden has been allowed to escape all manner of criticism. What is better about this presidency than the previous one, removing the climate issue and the fact that Trump and his base were all round cnuts? Another democratic president and another "doesn't have the votes"/"can't rock the boat"/"needs to heal" scenario. There are similarities to Obama 2009.
The child tax credit is huge. If they can make it permanent it will go a long ways to helping alleviate a decent amount of child poverty in this country. Of course I did throw up a little writing that sentence. Most is not all, and until it is we are a disgrace as a country.
Trump must be stewing inside watching the Brady - Biden bromance on the White House lawn. 
He's acted like an adult, but besides that it's been incredibly underwhelming - disappointing so far. Pretty much as expected.
Trump must be stewing inside watching the Brady - Biden bromance on the White House lawn.
He definitely won't like Brady mocking his false election claims....
Also, a Glazer sighting
Nothing will fundamentally change
that quote doesn’t even make sense.
It made sense to Biden, who really agrees with Manchin and Sinema regarding the filibuster.
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I mean, nothing is EXACTLY what is getting done except for those things going through reconciliation, which is basically what things would look like with no filibuster.
A really disappointing night from him. His answers on vaccination sucked. His "we are not in a pandemic" statement sucked. Just shut up Joe.
the 2020 primary was won on electability, but if there was one policy issue where bernie was effectively criticised, it was his mildly positive rhetoric about cuba.
what is being done is the will of not just voters as a whole but dems in particular.
Why does this clown think he deserves another "stimmy"? Rents are rising, used car prices are out of control and we're hitting every available benchmark, creating a genuine worry of an out of control inflation. Hiring is slow and several positions are going unfilled as the number of applications is low. Yet, you have these woke clowns on twitter, with handles like @BernieSandersIsMyPimpDaddy spouting random shit and throwing it on their proverbial walls. I fecking hate that website at times.
If Biden is shite too, can't they bring back Trump or just elect that nonce Matt Gaetz? At least that's fun to read.
Its well and good to end the filibuster when you have a slim tie breaking majority but what do you reckon will happen if the Rs flip the senate in 2022 and win the white house in 2024?
The same lack of filibuster is going to come bite you in the ass for 4 long years, with a president free to knock down every climate, EPA, healthcare law Democrats struggled to squeeze out over the years with a simple majority vote.
Actions have consequences that last much longer than a president's term.
The childcare law alone is a major policy win for him and that is going to do well to boost the economic recovery as it is set in motion by this month. He'll end up being the president to finally wind down American presence in Afghanistan, on top of that he succeeded in getting protections and immigration for the interpreters, other Afghan allies from the war. The US had a quicker vaccine roll out than anyone but Israel.
Considering he's only been putting out the fires that he inherited, he's done well for a presidency barely less than a year old.
folks who have been laid off, lost health insurance, facing eviction, etc over the last year deserve another stimulus cheque for the exact reasons you mentioned.
Yes, lets fight inflation by injecting more money into the economy, what could go wrong?
A lot of folks are yet to receive their previous stimulus cheques. And with cases rising again, there will be even more layoffs in the future pushing more people into homelessness, poverty, and joblessness. If they can keep funding cops billions of $$ during a pandemic, I am sure they can find a way to help those actually bearing the brunt of this crisis for more than a year.
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that was good
Heard that yesterday on Pod Save America. I thought Mehdi did a good job of quickly explaining why this is an insane position.
It's used to work previously with both sides have some sort of decency. All goes down the drain under trump.
It’s a regular routine of Uncle Sam’s color revolution:
1: Sanctioning your economy to trigger social problems
2: Utilizing the exiled group, usually the former priests, former landlords, former merchants, religious Zionists and of course lower class refugees fled from the country due to the sanction, who are now Americans, to protest in America, infiltrate into the former homeland, also contact their relatives to incite protest and violence
3: Mobilizing all the NGOs and “independent” corporate media and social media to mislead the public in the US, the targeted country and the rest of the world, to encourage and to intensify the conflict, selectively report and exaggerate the police’s response to the violence of the questionable rioters of who some aren’t even the locals or nationals
4: Bending the narrative into a typical “democracy vs dictatorship” and “freedom vs tyranny”
5: Reaching out the local elites and striking a deal with them to arrange the post-X regime
Heh, it started long before Trump, when Newt Gingrich became the speaker. McConnell only compounded that division.
yeah, Newt may not have started it but he sure as hell upped the game to gridlock+. He was also fueled purely by spite and lust for power. I actually shudder to think what harm prime time Newt could have accomplished now.
To be fair, Harry Reid was not much better in that aspect. Just that he was in our side.
At least in his defence, he was dealing with a president that started two wars, spawned an economic recession and inherited the advent of the tea party.
Two wars which were heavily supported by the Democrats. Reid himself voted yes for the Iraq war (to be fair, the Afghanistan war had to happen).
Those votes were made on fabricated evidence gathered from torture of prisoners. I'm not excusing him or anyone else for voting the way they did but the burden of those wars rests more on Bush than anyone else.