Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:08 pm
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
A-Series-Of-Tubes wrote:Umeria wrote:Uh, if they're unemployed they have no income
Previously medium/high-income, currently on little or no income (bear in mind assets they could sell) but trying to keep their residence in the hope of getting their old job back.
It makes sense for Democrats to help those people, firstly because not all Democrats are poor, but more because at this time they are income-poor.
Whether the $100 raise survives the Senate I'm not sure. It might be one of those things Manchin cares about, West Virginia having high unemployment at the best of times.
Kowani wrote:NASA, you gotta cancel that contract with SpaceX
They finally successfully landed a prototype...and then it blew up
A-Series-Of-Tubes wrote:Dresderstan wrote:They don't, they say they'll help but really it's solely for their own ego and power, doesn't help the "aid" they say is no where near enough to make a change.
Trying to help everyone means helping the 1% as well.
There's some point between 75% and 99% where a left-of-center government has to draw the line, and say "you people don't need government help, you've already helped yourself plenty".
That said, I wouldn't go much below 75%. It's political suicide to disdain the middle class.
Bear Stearns wrote:A-Series-Of-Tubes wrote:
Previously medium/high-income, currently on little or no income (bear in mind assets they could sell) but trying to keep their residence in the hope of getting their old job back.
It makes sense for Democrats to help those people, firstly because not all Democrats are poor, but more because at this time they are income-poor.
Whether the $100 raise survives the Senate I'm not sure. It might be one of those things Manchin cares about, West Virginia having high unemployment at the best of times.
If the ongoing political realignment continues, this may not be the case
Neocons and Never Trump Republicans will join the Democrats. Romney has more in common with Biden than he does with the populists. Democrats are already on the path to becoming the party of big business and the rich, and this will only solidify it.
And if Biden's policies so far are anything to go by (especially his foreign policy), this will be welcomed by the Democratic establishment.
These people hate Bernie Sanders supporters, who incidentally, have more aligned interests with Trump supporters than with neoliberals.
If a populist Republican Party is smart,
they can build a blue-collar, working class coalition uniting left and right wing populists.
The problem is in both sides you have fake populists that cater to more to the establishment of their respective parties (the AOC crowd for Democrats and the TPUSA crowd for Republicans). I'll suspect when push comes to shove, they'll side with the establishment.
San Lumen wrote:Zurkerx wrote:
Regardless, Trump will go with someone that's most likely going to be the loyalist- and someone that will lick his boot and only say yes. Given a majority of these type of choices are nut cases, I suspect it will only help with Trump Supporters and not key voters.
Then again, if the GOP does succeed in getting many of their voting restrictions passed, Trump could barely sneak a second term.
Making it harder to vote tends to make people only more determined to do so. There is is only so much you can do.
Bear Stearns wrote:Well someone should have thought of that about 70 years ago.
The Black Forrest wrote:San Lumen wrote:
Making it harder to vote tends to make people only more determined to do so. There is is only so much you can do.
Republicans have been using voter suppression for a long time. It works. It’s one of the reasons they are scared of HR1. A decades old playbook will be lost to them.
Punished UMN wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZsKQLT-Tw&ab_channel=TRUMP2024
Punished UMN wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZsKQLT-Tw&ab_channel=TRUMP2024
Kowani wrote:NASA, you gotta cancel that contract with SpaceX
They finally successfully landed a prototype...and then it blew up
Punished UMN wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZsKQLT-Tw&ab_channel=TRUMP2024
The military and the C.I.A. must now obtain White House permission to attack terrorism suspects in poorly governed places where there are scant American ground troops, like Somalia and Yemen. Under the Trump administration, they had been allowed to decide for themselves whether circumstances on the ground met certain conditions and an attack was justified.
Punished UMN wrote:Senkaku wrote:What a fundamentally absurd comparison. You're making these points and in each case leaving out the most important details of FDR's record-- you know what the difference between him and Stalin is, in this case? Stalin killed millions of the Soviet civilians he interned; FDR did not (even though it was still wrong and people did die because of the terrible conditions). You really don't think that's a worthwhile distinction to draw, or that it's reasonable for that fact to differentiate our historical interpretations of their records?
And? That does not excuse that FDR committed arguably the biggest human rights violation in US history, in direct violation of the Constitution. His achievements don't negate that he put his own people in concentration camps, auctioned off their property, and deported tens of thousands of them for dubious reasons.
Postauthoritarian America wrote:
I stopped listening and started laughing after he said he was sorry if he offended anyone. Every married man tries that excuse. Once. My wife laughed herself sick as well. The only thing missing from his nonapology shitshow was a political wife standing behind him with an adoring look and frozen smile on her face. But it pretty much explains why he's divorced.
All that being said I'm still waiting for the explanation of why not counting some deaths of nursing home residents that happened in hospitals as deaths of nursing home residents warrants an FBI investigation, particularly with the COVID-related shit going down in Florida. Luckily for the Andy Cuomo haters they're dealing with yet another in the long list of politicians who never learned which was the proper side of his pants to keep his pecker on.