I literally got -0- stimmy and or unemployment
But if I had a few S-corps laying around I could have
Crazy how much cash rich people got for free
Imagine if they just gave every person 50k the reaction
But give millionaires 350k. No one cares.
it would be so awesome if that account was bidenās real account
https://mobile.twitter.com/VoteDarkBrandon/status/1563364110099947520
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Did not see that coming from Garrison. I can only assume he personally knows people struggling with student debt.
After seeing that, Iām thinking I must be on the wrong side of this somehow.
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I need a Dark Brandon cartoon where he kills a bunch of recognizable Republicans.
Iām too old to even understand where we are with the Dark Brandon memes. I feel like originally it started ironically with the far left and then centrists used it and it became cringe but I donāt even know whatās going on in the memespace anymore. When I was a kid James Burke told me the internet would be anarchy and he was very right about that.
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400 whole families in a year in a half while detaining/deporting record numbers? Come on.
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I donāt know what the point is in getting mad about immigration because this is not one of those issues where leftist policies are popular and you lack an effective leftist party to implement them. Leftist views on immigration are unpopular and as much as can be furtively done under the radar is as good as it is going to get.
My view is that immigration is an issue that is downstream from stuff like raising minimum wage and universal healthcare. People do not have room in their lives for worrying about less fortunate people when they feel so precarious themselves. You are not going to get anything like the policies you want without social democratic reforms in general happening first. So if this is your pet issue, which I can understand, itās a human rights issue etc, I would seriously suggest tuning out of politics and trying to do something locally to help instead. You have a zero percent chance of any President in the foreseeable future being satisfactory to you. Even Bernie would have been a disappointment.
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Could not save said this shit better. I donāt say that as a slam dunk but as a sad you are right.
This is something all Dems for whom immigration is their pet issue (like me) should keep in mind.
But Dems also need to recognize they will be hammered as the party of border chaos literally no matter what they do. Obamaās strategy was to open legal pathways to immigration and close illegal ones. He expanded the rate of border deportations and gave a ton more resources to CBP, which swiftly lead to Republicansā¦nominating Trump. The entire prong of his strategy to secure the border was a complete mistake and the resources and unusual scope of power allocated to CBP were then used to become Trumpās quasi secret police.
Dems starting at Biden should suffocate the beast and impose limiting rules to make CBP less effective, at a very minimum.
Itās bad policy, objectively, to underfund and restrict an agency deliberately to drive down morale and effectiveness, rather than reform the agency altogether. But this is the hand weāre forced to play when todayās semi-fascists are on the other side of the aisle. Theyāre going to brazenly do the same thing with 20 agencies once DeTrumpis gets in office, whenever that may be.
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AOC seems to like Bidenās loan forgiveness order:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1563184111925088259
Iām not a big fan of the āyou guys donāt care about kids in cagesā genre of posting, but also the notion that he should just tune out and stop caring about this doesnāt sit well with me at all. US immigration policy is thoroughly jacked up and people should be upset about it.
Mixing in ākids in cagesā with ādeportationsā though is super annoying.
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Equivocating what is happening now with what happened under Trump is really underselling the horrors of what happened under Trump.
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I agree with all this except maybe the last line. Bernie would have been better at least but you may be right he would have ultimately been a disappointment. My main point, made in the light of day and sober, is just that there is no real hope on those isses, especially with Biden types at the head of the party.
Iām just generally angry about the state of things like that and blowing off steam.
And yes I agree the student loan thing is pretty good. The reconcilliation bill is at least ok. This has been a good month for Biden. The celebratory mood around here just felt like it was ignoring the fact that we are still doing 80 mph heading for a brick wall and running out of time to avoid it. And this probably wonāt be enough to manage it.
Iām sure my ranting was also driven by spending all week with my FIL in Florida who says insane shit like Black Lives Splatter when he sees a black guy crossing the street while being surrounded by Trump super stores and Fuck Your Feelings flags.
I do need to just tune the national shit out and do what I can locally. You are absolutely right about that because the general feeling of hopelessness I feel about these things isnāt healthy.
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Maybe your wife should start visiting her POS father without you.
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I certainly recognize that we are still heading for a brick wall and are maybe drawing to a gutshot straight to avoid it. Maybe itās worse than that and weāre drawing to runner runner.
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I do think doing SOMETHING gives us a chance and these things plus Dobbs might matter.
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Ya maybe. He did say last night after arguing about gun control that Trump had gone too far with the most recent scandal and he wasnāt voting for him again. Not that I really believe it.
The problem with a lot of my family, and frankly myself before I left home, is they are surrounded by nothing but deplorables and shitty news. Iām not sure there is any saving them but I donāt just smile and nod when they say this stuff I at least tell them that isnāt ok. They donāt know any other people left of Mitt Romney period and thatās the problem.
My wife isnāt close to willing to walk away either so itās a calculated decision to grit my teeth and bear it.
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