• TheKracken
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    7 months ago

    How else can they scream democrats do nothing?!

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      Yup and then you have some random weirdo comes in and says, “yeah the GOP do this stuff, but the dems let them, so we should vote GOP to teach those dems.”

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        I mean, those are just straight-up MAGA trolls. “Dobbs is Biden’s fault because he was in office when it happened,” that’s a Republican writing that.

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      Worth remembering how much of this is ultimately a kind of kabuki. The federal bureaucracy is massive and the President has enormous unilateral authority, particularly during emergencies, to mobilize the national guard and start spending money without Congressional approval. And, to his credit, it appears Biden is doing a lot of this.

      But the headlines fixate on the cost of relief rather than the actions of the emergency responders. Consequently, you get a bunch of noise about how Mike Johnson is haranguing people about the deficit and the debt ceiling and whatever other phony baloney excuse we’re using not to pay the people doing the relief work.

      This keeps people fixated on the budgeting/spending and ignorant of the real social need, whether or not it is being met.

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    I bet if another storm heads toward Louisiana they’ll have a vote faster than you can say "Fucking Hypocrite!’

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    Hopes and prayers that he is able to clap back after being slammed

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      How many broken beer bottles does it take to help assholes in power stop being such assholes? I mean that in a respectful way but also rectally. Since I’m now older than some politicians, but not so old, it feels like we will never see a good government ever again. So it’s easy to become a cynical about the whole circus show they put together.