Update: Senate shelves the BBB Act

[CitizenVectron]

Next year the entertainment will end with a 2nd-grade teacher beheading an instructional assistant in front of a frothing crowd, all for thirty new crayon boxes.

[Jason]

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Annnnnnnd it’s dead

 

[SuperSpreader]

wtf

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

At least we don’t have to worry about republicans stealing the election, they’re probably just going to win it fair and square

[Uaarkson]

Fuck it. Let it all burn. I really don’t care anymore.

[CitizenVectron]

29 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Annnnnnnd it’s dead

 

 

The irony, of course, is that voting rights will also die.

[CitizenVectron]

Well, I guess monthly child support cheques for Americans was nice for the 3 months it existed, or whatever.

[Jason]

35 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Annnnnnnd it’s dead

 

 

Is it dead dead, or punted until January?

[mclumber1]

Voting rights should have been the priority this entire time!

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, Jason said:

 

Is it dead dead, or punted until January?

 

Yes

[Jason]

 

[Jason]

 

[SuperSpreader]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Along with every other goal post she's moved

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

That’s certainly a way to tamp down on inflation

[SuperSpreader]

Well this time the Dems would really be responsible for tanking the economy

[Jason]

Just now, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

That’s certainly a way to tamp down on inflation

 

 

Apparently that's explicitly the point.

 

 

[Zaku3]

40 minutes ago, Uaarkson said:

Fuck it. Let it all burn. I really don’t care anymore.

 

This. I am just gonna not worry about it for now. Country is fucked and it's better for my mental health to not worry about it. If worse comes to worse sell the house and skipping off to Canada or Colombia.

[brucoe]

As I was saying before, with BBB, the Democrats still had a huge hill to climb. Without it, be ready for a decade of Republicans completely running the entire government with one crazy after another becoming president. #Winning

[SuperSpreader]

All those concessions still meant nothing. You'd think President Bernie would have done better? Nope.

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, brucoe said:

As I was saying before, with BBB, the Democrats still had a huge hill to climb. Without it, be ready for a decade of Republicans completely running the government with one crazy after another becoming president. #Winning

 

I will once again point out that the Democrats being controlled opposition would explain pretty much everything.

[Guest]

54 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Annnnnnnd it’s dead

 

This was always the fate of the bill. I mentioned previously that the assumption is the bill never even gets taken up since they don’t have even the 50 Ds on board

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

10 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

 

Apparently that's explicitly the point.

 

 

 

Now I reeeeeaaaaaaly gotta wonder if the Biden administration itself gave tacit approval for this to happen considering all the "inflationary pressure" it's been under within the last few weeks.

[CitizenVectron]

 

 

10 minutes ago, Zaku3 said:

This. I am just gonna not worry about it for now. Country is fucked and it's better for my mental health to not worry about it. If worse comes to worse sell the house and skipping off to Canada or Colombia.

 

I have a spare room in my basement, but I can only take one fleeing American.

[Jason]

4 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

I have a spare room in my basement, but I can only take one fleeing American.

 

I'm willing to live under floorboards.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

 

[Jason]

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

 

 

 

Those kids clearly have a house to live in. Goddamn welfare queen luxury right there!

[SaysWho?]

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

wtf

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Yeah, I'm all-but-convinced that the White House just threw up its hands and called Schumer to take it off the table.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Yeah, I'm all-but-convinced that the White House just threw up its hands and called Schumer to take it off the table.

All so voting rights can languish for months on end 

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

All so voting rights can languish for months on end 

 

[SaysWho?]

From a story earlier this week:

 

Quote

The decision is also in part because Senate Democrats haven’t finished negotiating the bill. Provisions on state and local taxes and the methane rule remain undecided. Senate Democrats also haven’t finished clearing all the procedural hurdles necessary to hold a vote.

 

Two congressional sources said a vote could be delayed until March. The sources asked to speak anonymously in order to provide frank assessments of internal discussions.

 

[CitizenVectron]

Legit question—does the Democratic Party as a whole have any actual policy proposals/beliefs, in terms of wanting to win so they can accomplish them? Because in most countries, big parties have beliefs about how things should be run (and improvements that can be made), and then they campaign on them and then actualize them. It's not always perfect, but...even for someone like Justin Trudeau, who is seen as bag of hot air, he accomplished something like 75-80% of his campaign promises in his first term, and has since expanded on many of those things.

[GeneticBlueprint]

18 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

 

I can't help but think of this line every time I see this.

 

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Legit question—does the Democratic Party as a whole have any actual policy proposals/beliefs, in terms of wanting to win so they can accomplish them? Because in most countries, big parties have beliefs about how things should be run (and improvements that can be made), and then they campaign on them and then actualize them. It's not always perfect, but...even for someone like Justin Trudeau, who is seen as bag of hot air, he accomplished something like 75-80% of his campaign promises in his first term, and has since expanded on many of those things.

There are three pretty distinct things at play: the party platform, the presidential candidate platform, and the aggregate of the individual congressional platforms.

 

The only one that can be effectuated to any large degree unilaterally is the presidential platform with regards to the administrative nature of the position. Any aspects of those various platforms needing legislation to pass is difficult under our current customs and norms like the senate filibuster. The Dems also have a more difficult time legislatively due to the makeup of their caucus, which is much broader from fairly conservative to solidly liberal. The GOP generally only has to deal with fairly conservative to solidly conservative members in each chamber, with the House increasingly being only solidly conservative.