There it is folks..... Updated X 2
No help is coming
My dad used to say, “Joey, I don’t expect the government to solve my problems. But I expect it to understand my problems.”
Folks out there aren’t looking for a handout — they just need help. They’re in trouble through no fault of their own, and they need us to understand. pic.twitter.com/V0OCfFXVKT
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 5, 2020
It might not mean anything, but it’s good to see Wolf calling Pelosi out like this. Good for Ro too.
Blitzer admits Pelosi cost Dems reelection.
“I know at least 10 or 11 of your Democratic colleagues who lost their bid for re-election are blaming the fact that there was no deal, before the election—at least in part—for their failure to get re-elected.” pic.twitter.com/6KTTYNq8jV
— Woobie Tuesday (@WoobieToosday) December 5, 2020
Watch the last 20 seconds of the clip. Wolf says that some democrats that lost their election do blame Pelosi for it.
The thing is that Pelosi never passed it out of the house to make McConnell vote on it. Why did she protect McConnell? Maybe McConnell would have lost if people were pissed off because he didn’t get them help.
Second Update David Dayen: Why Pelosi is TO BLAME for coronavirus economic disaster. Dayen discusses how Pelosi was 1st selected to congress, her commitment to austerity and other stuff. That there has been a discussion for many months on whether to get help to the people should be an outrage and yet lots of people do not think that it is the governments job to help we the people. This is what constant Reagan-ite propaganda has gotten us. And why they use it. It works and they are patient when waiting for it to do so.
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Yep, hit that on the money, Snoopy.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Surely the whole point of a modern government
is to pool resources (via taxation) to solve problems larger than those of the individual, but that help the individual also.
More Biden homespun nonsense.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I just saw this on Star Trek
Congress has abdicated their duty to us. We have become what we once fled from.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Eed pebnista,
nordor formor fectunum... We used to think that that utopian future was possible. Ya gotta admit that it was funny to see a Canadian utter those words with... such... conviction... (and impeccable......... timing).
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
What on earth did people
who voted for any of these yahoos think was going to happen? OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT HERE TO SERVE THE 99%. Once everyone gets that through our collective heads, we can unify and move forward. This government must be destroyed. A new government must be formed. That is what everyone should be working on instead of falling back to sleep because Herr Drumpf hs been ousted by the oligarchy and Jomentia has been inserted by them. It's time to stop complaining about these do-nothing assholes and get to work.
Have a pleasant evening!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
@Raggedy Ann
This shit is bananas.
We know
who Joe Biden is. To be fair, Obama had such a limited track record that we could be forgiven for giving him the benefit of the doubt. But Biden was sworn into the Senate in 1973. Nixon was President. He was out of office for the last 4 years, but that's it. The man is now 78, he isn't going to change.
Once big business, the wealthy, and the MIC have been taken care of, the deficit is the overriding concern. We need to be bipartisan and work with the Republicans, progressives can take a hike.
There was never a chance it would be any other way.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Can understanding soothe a hungry child?
Can understanding keep a roof over our heads? Mr. Biden, you have failed before you’ve even begun.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
This is what is so scary
How much Biden is telling us that we are beneath his contempt. But of course it’s not only Biden. It’s the financial goons who are pushing austerity while they continue asset stripping the country with congress consent.
Can you even imagine sitting down and discussing how you are going to let tens of millions of people get kicked out of their homes in the winter during a f’cking epidemic? Is heinous the appropriate word here or will something else fit? This is a crime against humanity on a massive scale.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
would
Depraved & Wanton Indifference work for you?
Yes
depraved indifference is what popped into my mind first.
Then I remember how struck I was when Biden said that "we had a duty of care" to one another.
That seemed so out of step with what I expected to hear.
My reason tells me how this is going to go.
The tiny little optimistic voice that occupies a corner of my brain is holding out a smidgen of hope for all those about to be evicted this cruel winter.
NYCVG
'duty of care
to one another'? translation: you're on your own, house and feed one another?
and yes, hope dies last for so many of us, for better or for worse.
Just plain evil.
They are purposely, consciously hurting people. This is nothing if not evil.
But wait, it gets worse! Apparently there's such a thing as at-will renting now--your landlord can choose to not renew your lease and not even have to give you a reason why. (Saw it mentioned on Reddit the other day.)
To quote Homer Simpson, "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!"
We are so fucked.
This shit is bananas.
Yeah I’ve been reading those stories
One was on KSL about a guy who has months to live and his landlord is not redoing his lease. He knows the guy is dying, but won’t change his mind. That’s cold.
They are using any excuse they can to get people out of their apartments. I used to wonder who would they get to rent if they kick out so many. I think it’s going to be the current middle class that is now falling behind and they will lose their homes and rent the empty apartments. We’ve been talking about how it was the middle class turn now that they have destroyed the job economy for low income workers. The PTB plan these things out well in advance and then they strike.
We’ve survived all the talks about cuts to social security and Medicare, but I feel that time is coming to a close with Biden. I watched an older episode of Rising and they talked about how Obama’s budget had $350 billion cuts to Medicare. I don’t know if it passed, but there’s stinky Barack again trying his best to hurt us.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Pelosi sold us out again big time
Nancy Pelosi Sells Out The Public: Agrees To Put Massive Copyright Reform In 'Must Pass' Spending Bill
Trump took the mask off the country, Biden is taking the gloves off. I’m guessing that no one will slip in monthly $2,000 for us? Speaking of this, Bernie has been tweeting that we need the monthly benefit, but now he’s only going to fight for another $1,200. See how it works? The squad and others are tweeting up a storm with that message and people are still holding on to hope that helps on the way. This is sociopathic too.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
All talk. No progress.
Sanders is no different than obomber.
Sweet talk of milk and honey while spoiling one and killing the producer of the other.
The squad? Bunch of goons.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
That's it folks, we are all victims
[video:https://youtu.be/raymu9S5qEg]
Sorry for misusing your thread here. But I had to post this. I also saw images from the weather front up in the North East. I really, really hope you all stay safe and inside and warm.
Jeez. I feel so worried about the American people. Sigh.
https://www.euronews.com/
was joey's father
Ronald Reagan?
I want my understanding government
to help me understand a couple of things.
First, what is the calorie content in kid-sized Understanding Sandwiches?
Second, what is the carb/protein content of said sandwich?
The difference between Biden and Regan is that Biden might hug a poor person, tell them he feels their pain, whereas Reagan would scold a poor person for not working hard enough.
It seems the only thing Biden has uttered that is a true policy statement is that nothing will change.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
refresh my memory
a bit more, please. wasn't it under reagan that public school lunches needed X servings of veg? thus, ketchup became...a vegetable?
this wasn't quite the quote as i'd remembered it, but i'd bingled for it, and he'd said:
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem."
yes, the only two promises joey's made are that nothing much will change, and that his cabinet will be the most diverse ever! (i poked about for Sec Def and CIA this a.m. and shuddered again.)
as a side note, bubba clinton was famous for biting his thumb, and saying 'i feel your pain'.
Good one!
If only a bite on the thumb equaled to hunger or sickness.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
"handouts"?
I think people would want some of the fruits of their stolen labor returned to them. Xrist, at one point Bezos was making a billion a day off his pandemic-stimulated delivery biz. While working people literally to death.
Hmm, i wonder how much the "defense" budget will increase.
It will be yuge.
And pay go will be automatically invoked. And we just think we feel austerity. The new round of it will simply fuck us up if we aren't rich.
Deficit talk is already beginning.
And stirring up trouble with China will be the excuse.
I thought 2020 was horrible, but 2021 just might be the new version of The Great Depression my parents barely survived.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yep so much for Hoping that things will Change
Usually people from the side that won have some hope that the new president will change something/anything for the better, but with Biden coming in there is no hope. And Pelosi is the one most responsible for that in my opinion. From refusing to pass bills that help us instead of her donors to her shutting out anyone else in the house from being involved in the discussion. In the last video I posted at the 10 minute mark Dayen discusses that. From what I understand is that no other dems are there, but there have been other house republicans that can offer their input. So looks like Nance is working with republicans and freezing democrats to screw the people.
It's good to see the media calling her out as well as Ro Khanna, but the squad needs to address their silly tweets to Pelosi not to the Twitter verse. People are tired of it and see through it.
Imagine growing up one day and seeing that you have the power to destroy your country's economy and kill millions by doing it. Now that will be something for the history books to discuss. We ask the Germans how they could allow Hitler. We should shut the F up because we have allowed our country to do even worse. Hitler never dropped an atomic bomb. There's that.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
True
Why wouldn't people want a handout? They've seen handouts go the the wealthy, the connected, the upper class.
The greatest privilege is class privilege. Money washes away all guilt, for those with means. It's always their talent and intelligence that brought them that privilege, and the lack of intelligence and lack of talent that makes others, us, our own instrument of our "failure", and deserving of nothing.
The financing of government is all citizens responsibility, while the responsibility of the wealthy, and corporations, is to always profit for their own gain. Meaning that the wealthy have higher goal, sanctioned by all of us, if we accept capitalism as the highest form of democracy. We're so browbeaten by the socialist epithet we will never stand up and demand what is ours.....a government of, by and for the people.
Of, by and for
the people: not just a government, but an economy.
Capitalism is economic feudalism.
Capitalism
has become a mental illness. A system that has come to a conclusion that the loss of a body part, or a life, has a relative monetary value in relation to the "value" of the damage of the person harmed. Jeff Bezos losing an arm is waaay more valuable than you or I losing an arm, even though Bezos can hire an army of underlings to carry out his needs, and we can't. We buy into that. We can't help ourselves because it's all we know.
The change is a different set of oligarchs get the money
I look at the money and where it goes. Statements like calling it a "stimulus" or "relief package" are meaningless. Mostly the money goes to businesses of one sort or another. People get evicted and go hungry, businesses go bankrupt, businesses don't have kids or medical bills. Small businesses are owned by and employ people, true, but if they don't make money the owners fold and either start something new or go work for Amazon or whatever. Give relief to people not businesses.
And don't even get me started on big businesses. Like the money they want to spend on "transportation" what does that mean? Bus fares? e-bikes? No, big multi billion construction contracts.
Yeah,
Ridding ourselves of this coarse parasite just gave us smoother parasites. Getting rid of Rump is a tactical victory in that it interrupts the momentum of one clique; they lose their chance to cement power. Strategically, the game remains the same: the rich vs the rest.
I confess to a sense of relief, though. There's evil, and then there's insane+evil. I'm tired of being threatened by neighborhood rumpists.
ETA: Other countries have sent bundles of cash to their citizens. This keeps money in circulation, food on the table, pays the rent, and keeps the corner store open. I still want to know how much of the CAREsLESS ACT money wound up sequestered in the coffers of the owners. Caymans, Anyone?
Being mean because they can.
Yeah, that's a thing all right. Trump has definitely allowed the crudest, meanest, and most crass to come out of the woodwork. Where I live, they almost advertise it. Hopefully, some of that will subside a bit. Gawd, I hope so. Sick of it. I do take notes when I see it, though...