The Biden Administration (No Lago)

[Kaelik]

Joe Biden hired a guy who wrote for skull measuring monthly to help design dhs policy.

But I'm sure the people saying we should vote for biden not sanders because biden accepted an endorsement from the gop govenor of Michigan who caused flint which is good and sanders accepted an endorsement from stupid meat head joe rogan which is unforgivable were definitely arguing in good faith.

(Dont worry this skull measurer is a good one, he worked for bill clinton to gut welfare. Democratic phrenology: good actually.)

[Kaelik]

The United States, in addition to continuing the unilateral sanctions on Venezuela, funds non profits who urge people in Venezuela to not get vaccinated.

[Kaelik]

The commerce department has finished its probe and finds that the commerce secretary did crimes and referred the matter to the DOJ.

Garland promptly informed them that he will give him a medal because he loves crimes, but he will not be prosecuting any (rich) people for their crimes.

[Harshax]

The commerce department has finished its probe and finds that the commerce secretary did crimes and referred the matter to the DOJ.

Garland promptly informed them that he will give him a medal because he loves crimes, but he will not be prosecuting any (rich) people for their crimes.

You are why I don’t need Twitter or Facebook. I read multiple political sources daily and have yet to consider a remark this funny.

Your’s in hatred,

-H

[Kaelik]

Stats are in. The one year expiring child tax credit that would have halved child poverty with 100% uptake hits 10% of qualifying non filers, who are incredibly disproportionately those in deep poverty.

If only people were correctly pointing out from day 1 that this would happen and that it should be administered through social security not the irs as a tax credit.

Then surely democrats would have been done the right thing and .... oh right literally Mitt Romney was to the left of the democratic party on this and had a proposal using the social security admin.

[Kaelik]

Joe Biden planning to announce further sanctions on Cuba, because even though everyone thought that the embargo was actually the maximal punishment anyone could manage, but then Trump found some new ways to enhance the embargo, and then when Trump left office, strangely, the bad things he did were never reversed.

In practice, it's hard to imagine how additional sanctions on Cuban officials (who are already subject to murder by the United States if ever caught in the United States) will actually do anything at all. I would suggest it is still bad that the evil fucking empire announcing plans to figure out if they can murder people harder in the countries that they have been constantly trying to maximize the suffering of the citizens of for 80 years straight.

Really bad even. Good thing Joe Biden is exactly the same as Bernie Sanders and there would have been no difference really.

[Kaelik]

Democrats now negotiating themselves down from 20% of funding for public transit and 80% for highways that are part of killing us. Thinking about compromising at 15% transit 85% highways until republicans announce a new lower amount they can compromise with and still get zero votes.

[Kaelik]

Democratic senate that already passed an increased military budget for the year over trump's went ahead and added another 23 billion to the defense budget.

I guess while I've listed almost 1 quarter of the evil shitty things democrats have done this week I might as well mention the evilest and shittiest, which is completely give up on voter rights and just tell all the civil rights orgs that the democrats will pass zero national laws to address voter suppression and that it is the Civil Rights Org's fault if democrats ever lose because they didn't organize hard enough to defeat the laws designed to prevent their organizing.

[Kaelik]

Biden admin piloting a program where they ban all federal prisoners from recieving any mail of any kind so that they can charge prisoners and their families money to look at scanned copies of letters to profit a Biden donor.

[tussock]

So, midterms are gunna be, like, Dems again. By the look of it. Mostly off the back of that Republican thing where they say and do things they know are wrong just because it pisses off the Democrats, like, you know, not wearing a mask or not getting vaccinated against deadly pandemics.

Because that's the Democratic agenda. And they're not gunna be helping you with your agenda. Your agenda of hoping less people die in this pandemic. Because that's the Democrats agenda.

And, just, the Republican politicians this week desperately trying to walk the tightrope of telling their biggest fans that it's OK to wear masks and get vaccinated, even while they totally support people "doing their own research" and "making up their own mind" still. Because they know how many people they've killed and now someone has pointed out that hurts them at election time.

Like, the still have senators and such doing performative unmaskings. While begging their voters to at least not beat up other people wearing masks maybe.


Also, can I just say, "I did my own research" is such a massive category error. Just, you know, that is not what research is, they did not do it on their own, it was just some weird grifter pointing them at other things that said the same thing. "Do your own research, by reading this thing I wrote, aren't you clever now, also pay me money."

[Josh_Kablack]

So, midterms are gunna be, like, Dems again. By the look of it.

It's gonna come down to three things, in order of importance:

1. The extent of voter suppression enacted and implemented at the State level.

2. When the stock market correction happens. If it occurs within 90 days of the election, the party in power takes a big hit.

3. How bad Covid numbers still look over a year from now.

[Kaelik]

Yeah I have no idea how anyone could think they could confidently predict a dem victory when the MAPS haven't been drawn yet.

Like we actually don't know what any districts look like!

[Kaelik]

This is really more a congress issue, but to be fair, the Joe Biden admin could unilaterally extend the eviction moratorium based on authority already granted to it by congress.

But the moratorium will end soon resulting in a mass wave of evictions and people dying. (In fact I believe it did this weekend.)

This was extremely predictable and everyone had months of notice, but specifically a month ago the court told congress that it would last one more month and then end without congressional action.

(Saturday? Friday? I can't remember exactly but it doesn't matter because it's just based on when the recess started) Nancy Pelosi said they only found out about it the day before. Now, obviously, that's bullshit. But also that means they had a whole day to pass something in the House. Would it have passed in the Senate? Maybe or maybe not. But you can't blame Joe Manchin (also a democrat the democrats could influence if they wanted to) if you don't even pass it through the House. But why did they not pass it through the House when they had that one days notice? Well see, they were dealing with more important issues. They had to approve a 3.4 billion dollar arms sale to Israel so that Israel could do more genocide.

[Kaelik]

Biden Admin new CDC guidelines just dropped.

It's totally safe to evict all the poors. But one threat remains. The filthy dirty mexicans.

The CDC recommends a continued indefinite suspension on non citizen migration to the US.

Because you see..... Covid 19 might get INTO THE UNITED STATES if we let the dirty people come.

[Kaelik]

The US Federal Prison population has been going down since 2012. Joe Biden promised to cut it in half. Joe Biden has given a bunch of money to cops and picked like, the shittiest possible AG.

Anyway, for the first time in nearly a decade the Federal Prison population is going up.

[Kaelik]

"Moderates" (extremists psychopathic centrists) and Centrists have no fucking clue how or why people vote.

The Biden admin has spent like 5 months working on infrastructure. They knew exactly what they wanted 2 months in, and basically what would pass.

However, they have wasted 3 months negotiating a bipartisan infrastructure bill that is 1.2 trillion and also mostly sucks and is filled with bad things. Moderates are currently trying to pass this before the reconciliation vote so they can then kill the reconciliation bill that this was ALWAYS promised as part of not a replacement for. Everything in this bill could be in the reconciliation bill.

The alleged reason why we should have wasted 3 months not passing reconciliation while negotiating this is because now we can pass a bipartisan bill and also because now we can spend 4.7 trillion on infrastructure but have 3.5 trillion be in the partisan bill. This because centrists either believe or are lying about believing that this it is better politics for winning elections to do things in a bipartisan and partisan bill instead of the same spending in a reconciliation bill passed immediately.

Think seriously about the world. Is there a single fucking voter in the entire country that will vote for democrats in 2022 or 2024 because they passed a bipartisan bill or because the number on reconciliation was 3.5 trillion +1.2 trillion in bipartisan vs 4.7 trillion in reconciliation? No of course not, no person exists who fits that.

SOME people might note vote democrats in 2022 because they haven't seen the benefits yet because democrats wasted a bunch of time and the benefits haven't trickled down, though even that number is probably negligible, and the main reason this should have been passed 3 months ago was to do something and move the fuck on to voting rights.

But centrist liberals believe in an absurd delusional idea of how people vote that causes them to do bad things constantly.

[MGuy]

Well we've had people here who have unironically defended that 1400+600=2k move so that's probably their target audience. They also don't have to win that much. Just do enough to keep things together and not lose the seats of the people who matter. Not like they suffered all that much under Trump. It was mostly Reps that got sick and died from the virus anyway and they have delicious ice cream at home.

[Kaelik]

Joe Biden actually getting us out of Afghanistan. He has made clear twice now that he wants to use "the same strategy we use elsewhere" for counter terrorism, so he will probably drone strike random Afghan weddings, but that's still a drastic reduction in the number of people the US will be murdering. Hopefully he won't also follow through on Blinken's desperate begging for sanctioning them, but that's still very likely at this point.

Still, as we can see from literally every pundit begging for us to reinvade and inviting on every general within shouting distance to explain how 20 years of occupation resulted in a stronger Taliban then the day we invaded, 21 years would have eliminated the Taliban, this was very much swimming upstream against the prevailing consensus of the military, contractors, democratic party advisors and consultants, and the news people. Good on Biden.

[JonSetanta]

Hey, I wanted Sanders, but no... he gave up.

Or Yang.
Or Warren.
Or pretty much anyone else but Biden.
... Except Drumpf or Pence.

[Kaelik]

It genuinely feels like you are replying to a different universe then me.

Sanders would have gotten us out of Afghanistan but probably no one else would have. Biden has many faults and I bring those up almost every other day but this one but today the thing I posted was praise for Biden bucking the establishment consensus and actually ending a forever war* that all his advisors wanted to keep doing.


*technically every time we launch a drone strike its an extension of the 2001 aumf but still.

[Kaelik]

Biden was mad I said he was doing a good job so he bombed 4 children in Afghanistan to let me know that he will continue to murder Afghans until they love us sufficiently.

EDIT: it was 6 children.

EDIT: it was 7 children 10 total dead and some permanently injured.



Imagine literally any other situation in the universe. Say (for the sake of argument) that you know for a fact that one person is a potential suicide bomber, and you know where they are. Now say "to get to them, we are going to have gun down his entire family, his wife, his kids, all his brother's kids some of them babies." This would be rightly understood as absurd.

Now of course, the US is full of shit and is very often wrong when it decides someone is a "potential suicide bomber" and blows up their family. But even if they were always right, they know where the guy lives allegedly! You can't stop him without killing multiple babies?

But anyway, he was too big a threat, they had to blow up the US charity worker who was driving two of his kids in the car with him and who had just parked in his own home's driveway because the guy who worked for the US charity for years and his son in law who worked for the US army were probably too great a threat to do anything but blow them up from the sky along with all the kids.

[tussock]

So the dance around the stimulus is now they've taken the 1.2 trillion out of the 4.7 trillion they'll have to cut the remaining 3.5 trillion down to 1.5 trillion because the rediculous narcissist Manchin wants to be in the news again. And also, the 1.2 trillion is now just 1 trillion and also will not pass because it was only going through on condition the rest did too, so ... yeah. On top of the unemployment stuff ending, to try and drive low wage workers back into covid hotspots while the hospitals are all overflowing ...

Hey, remember how Biden was gunna deal with covid and he's ... not doing that at all? Because that shit idea of "hey, what if we just let the pandemic run wild for a few decades and then see" is spreading.

But yeah, he did one good thing, that apparently Trump set up completely anyway, it's just Trump wanted it to happen after the election. There was a whole deal with the Taliban and Trump that they would take over that they showed to the US-installed Afghan army and stuff and they said, well, OK then. And apparently no one told Biden. Or they did, but he promised it would be fine so they didn't get a lot of refugee requests while they were still there to take them. Because of course.

[Kaelik]

Trump would never have actually done it if he had won reelection. Some generals would have told him that it would make him look bad and he'd have immediately doubled down on more troops and bombing.

The evacuations were not carried out based on the idea the puppet government would not collapse immediately because if you carried out 100k evacuations July it would be a clear statement you know they are going to and would have caused the collapse even earlier.

But yes, Biden's plan to deal with Covid is just pretend it doesn't exist and chalk up all the dead kids and permanent issues to some else's problem.

[Kaelik]

VACCINE MANDATE LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO.

(technically not a vaccine mandate, only applies to employers with more than 100 employees, then you have to test everyone weekly, but they can get vaccinated to absolve them of weekly tests. Still using OSHA to coerce vaccinations is insanely good and you can see from my post literally right above this one that it's way the fuck more than I was expecting. This is good stuff.)

[The Adventurer's Almanac]

Excellent. Let's fucking go, indeed. I'm down for a game of chicken.