The Presidency of the Joes, part II: lol documents

VoteForSocialists · August 12, 2021, 4:44pm

Dumpster fires are infrastructure.

PaulMcSwizzle · August 12, 2021, 5:11pm

Maybe…but it seems good that they moved it along quickly, with 50 votes, including Manchin and Sinema.

StimAbuser · August 12, 2021, 5:16pm

I expect the bill to end up pretty decently. Unlike the covid relief bill the progressives have leverage with the bi partisan bill

Danspartan · August 12, 2021, 5:18pm

I assume it will have to cycle back once the house passes and the have to reconcile differences in the reconciliation bill. Some stuff the house progressives change?

StimAbuser · August 12, 2021, 5:34pm

Where did you read that? Almost everyone expected reconciliation bills to pass.

The bi partisan bill is shocking but makes sense when you realize how much the narrative benefits republicans and nukes any even small chance at voting rights

Nononocantsleep · August 12, 2021, 5:45pm

I’m still pretty WAAF re: voter rights stuff, but universal preschool would be transformative legislation if we can get it passed. It would take a pretty heavy burden off of lower and middle-class parents while also significantly upgrading early childcare for the most vulnerable - with subsequent carryover effects for decades. Way overdue, IMO, but I’ll take it.

champ · August 12, 2021, 5:53pm

No Census IGT?

catfacemeowmers · August 12, 2021, 6:06pm

I very much thought they’d torpedo the 3.5T reconciliation. There’s still time for them to whittle it down, and it’s still nowhere close to Bernie’s original proposal, but I’m pleasantly surprised.

StimAbuser · August 12, 2021, 6:28pm

Yeah there’s a lot of good things in this bill. Like I said it’s a great going away present for democracy

VoteForSocialists · August 12, 2021, 6:29pm

fyp

tabbaker · August 12, 2021, 9:03pm

NotBruceZ · August 12, 2021, 10:07pm

I support demographic change.

hammypotter · August 13, 2021, 12:03am

Will be interesting to see how much of the shift is undone by Covid

Huehuecoyotl · August 13, 2021, 12:57am

https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1425180083950690313

Come on man, weak sauce. Where’s my carp on crack and LSD for sparrows studies?

JackBando · August 13, 2021, 2:19am

Is there anyone who is honestly going to base their vote on what’s happening to non Americans in Afghanistan?

eyebooger · August 13, 2021, 2:31am

Americans should also know that the money for “roads and bridges” will ALSO pay for things like a $10 million program to “benefit pollinators on roadsides” or a $250 million program to remove “invasive plants.”

Umm…good?

AllTheCheese · August 13, 2021, 2:54am

I had the same thought, but it’s been a bigger-than-usual disaster in Afghanistan for weeks now, and rightwing media has to my knowledge been pretty mum about it. Kinda makes sense that it wouldn’t get traction though. Most Americans don’t care about Afghans dying, let alone self-declared “America First” rightwingers. Trump seemed to favor full withdrawal himself, but lacked the political will to get it done. Could become a bigger story if (maybe closer to “when” at this point, sadly) the Taliban takes Kabul and the government.

Danspartan · August 13, 2021, 3:27am

The Taliban was just biding their time, amassing weapons, personnel, etc.

Why waste their resources against the US when they could just wait for them to leave.

pvn · August 13, 2021, 4:37am

There will be ads about it and talking heads will get a lot of mileage talking about it but it’s pretty well-documented that voters don’t give a shit about foreign policy unless Americans are dying

VoteForSocialists · August 13, 2021, 4:40am

but they will nevertheless use it as a smokescreen when they vote for low taxes and against minorities/gays/immigrants anyway.