Biden built the strongest safety net in U.S. history. Now it’s collapsing around him.
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The child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 as Covid-era aid programs expired, erasing major economic gains for the poorest Americans.
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"Biden officials pushed hard to make that program permanent but couldn’t overcome opposition from centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who argued the government’s spending was stoking inflation."
F@#& Joe Manchin!
Centrist my hairy ass. If it walks and talks like an obstructionist republican ballsack...
...then he's a centrist.
Only when the overtone window puts hard line conservatives in the center.
So like I said.
Joe Manchin gave us the IRA. Don't forget that.
Which was just a ruse to get us the IRA. Which is Build Back Better under a different name.
I'd say they're in the same vein and IRA is effective but many policies were watered down. You seem to know something I don't about this bill, I see Manchin as obstructionary. How could you possibly not?
Manchin, Schumer and Biden played the Republicans for fools. They couldn't get Build Back Better past the filibuster-proof 60 votes, so they split it into two - the CHIPS act and the IRA. Republicans agreed to pass the CHIPS act because the IRA seemed absolutely dead in the water due to Manchin. Then once the CHIPS act passed, Manchin was like "haha gottem" and voted for the IRA, which passed under reconciliation rules that are not subject to filibuster.
Republicans thought that Manchin was on their side and he manipulated the hell out of it. It was honestly brilliant.
I'm not saying Manchin is some paragon of social justice. I'm saying he really really helped the nation and there's a decent chance he might do it again. I'm also saying he is by far and away the best senator we will get out of west Virginia.
Oh wow! I didn't know all of that. What a wicked bit of drama 😍 Thank you.
Next time you see some loser with FJB written somewhere, cross out the B and put an M
LOL, "centrist".
That man is not a centrist.
Too bad an Executive Act could've made that negligible, but I'm glad that Biden and the democrats insist on playing by the rules when their opponents are bragging about cheating
The important thing is that we found a way to blame Joe Biden for everything.
I thought we blamed Canada?
I mean after a certain point, isn't inaction just complicity?
And what actions have the ones critical of Biden done for the American people other than just criticism?
Not relevant. All I said is that Biden isn't doing enough
That’s not what you said though. You literally said Joe Biden was complicit. Which requires intent.
If you watch a child getting beat up by an adult and you choose not to intervene even though you have every right to do so, does that inaction not show complicity with the situation?
Joe Biden has every legal right to do more, and every day makes an active decision not to. That shows complicity through inaction.
If you attempt to intervene and a police officer subdues you and puts you in handcuffs and sits you down, are you complicit?
Biden is not a dictator. He cannot unilaterally wave his magic wand and turn the US into a socialist paradise. That's not how government works.
Completely irrelevant. Answer my question without making weird extrapolation "what about"s.
Trump set so many legal precedents for what a EO could do. Biden has the full right to do more, but chooses not to. That's my entire argument.
See my comment above about Democrats insisting on playing by the rules when the other team is openly bragging about cheating. You Biden dick riders who don't demand more from the Democratic Party will be the reason we end up killed by the Repiblicans who aren't afraid to take radical action. You're either a Conservative yourself or just dumb if you can't see how dire things are in America right now.
No, he doesn't, and neither did Trump. God willing, Trump will go to jail for the shit he did.
You dumb teenagers who don't know what a primary is will be (already are in many respects) the downfall of America.
This is a great video about that. Really gets to the core of the complete phallacy of the DNC strategy. I'm starting to think they're intentionally ineffective at this point.
https://youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A?si=SIEcDNKIFIa3CTwa
It's "fallacy", unless you are talking about this book by Emily Willingham
I like your version, it really conjures imagery of the US getting fucked by the two party system.
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an executive act can also be reversed by the next republican president