Beware the Ides of March -- U.S. Politics March 2021

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Today Venezuelan Interim President @jguaido and I discussed our unwavering support for democracy in Venezuela and our efforts to improve the lives of the Venezuelan people.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) March 3, 2021

lmao where is he rn, Miami?

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A very interesting article about shifts in the voting public in 2020.

Over the last four years, white liberals have become a larger and larger share of the Democratic Party. There’s a narrative on the left that the Democrats’ growing reliance on college-educated whites is pulling the party to the right (Matt Karp had an essay on this recently). But I think that’s wrong. Highly educated people tend to have more ideologically coherent and extreme views than working-class ones. We see this in issue polling and ideological self-identification. College-educated voters are way less likely to identify as moderate. So as Democrats have traded non-college-educated voters for college-educated ones, white liberals’ share of voice and clout in the Democratic Party has gone up. And since white voters are sorting on ideology more than nonwhite voters, we’ve ended up in a situation where white liberals are more left wing than Black and Hispanic Democrats on pretty much every issue: taxes, health care, policing, and even on racial issues or various measures of “racial resentment.” So as white liberals increasingly define the party’s image and messaging, that’s going to turn off nonwhite conservative Democrats and push them against us.

everybody hates entitled nerdy overeducated very-online know-it-alls. i don't know anyone like that i should ask around.

That's an amazing article. Some of the conclusions about the Hispanic voting bloc in South Florida correlates with local pollsters learned after talking to voters and with my own conclusions.

sorry, slightly ot: before i make a new thread on the issue of "multiethnic multicultural multiracial societies: how can they work (justly)?" does anyone recommend a book or thread on this topic? i searched thraed titles and didnt see an obvious place.

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP source: Biden, Senate Democrats agree to tighten income limits for receiving $1,400-per-person stimulus checks.

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 3, 2021

such a great look that these checks will go to less people under Biden than Trump

The breakdown:

Biden agrees to phase out checks faster, per Dem source: pic.twitter.com/00WTBgcSPJ

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) March 3, 2021

Pathetic

some bullshit imo

Vote for us for a $2000 check!
$1400!
Not you!
Plz ignore the $15bn blank check we gave Verizon.

do you ant to lose the house in 2022? because this is how you do it

*bombs Syria*

this was like one thing they could have actually fucking done and kept their word on FFS

just incredibly stupid

idk Americans including Dems hate perceived chiselers. We might actually see in those who pay attention, "Mmm yeah, makes sense."

I'm being facetious but *shrugs*

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lol

how do you manage to shut down all campaign promises this fast is my question, shouldn't it take longer than 6 weeks to be disappointing

is this so by november 2022 people will forget, strategic like

Frack em in the leg Biden didn’t even have that high a bar to begin with

i know right. it's like you had one job.

If the economy picks up and vaccinations increase such that we approach something like semi-normal times in the fall, I don't see this thing mattering to anyone outside our circles. Lots of "ifs," of course.

shut down all campaign promises ths fast

lol ilx

the poster you're quoting is named harbl

yes, it's the consensus ilx opinion

There will be thousands of ads of Joe Biden saying “$2000 checks” and “DID YOU GET ONE?”

(We know it doesn’t matter that the GOP opposed checks.)

harbl’s a goddamn legend and they’re not wrong

I’m sure overriding right to work laws nationwide will be a breeze when they can’t get a relief bill with 80% approval through without stripping it and cutting checks to donors.

but hey he will fight for sneera tandem. i'm pretty center-y "okay, joe" at times, but this is so fucking stupid. some things are worth really fighting for, and some promises have been made, and some optics are bigger than others, and means-testifying of all benefits, esp against this economic public disaster, is bad bad bad. it makes me think he really didn't learn jackshit from obama.

It just sucks. The people adversely affected economically by the pandemic have gotten little more than a middle finger from the government for the past year. Living up to the promise of a $1400 check is almost literally the least these dumbfucks could do, and a helluva lot less than they should do.

The people adversely affected economically by the pandemic

Are likely making less than $75,000 a year. Which means they'll get a check. What, exactly, is the problem here?

If you and your partner/spouse make less than $150,000 a year collectively, you'll be getting $2800 in the mail. Do you people even know what you're complaining about anymore?

Yes, we do.

If you individually make $81k you now get nothing instead of something. Further eroding confidence in and support for the government spending money to help anyone has consequences. Making any voter feel like they were promised something and received nothing certainly has political consequences. Like all the upper-middle white suburbanites who've been so valued by Democrats over the last four years.

Defending the cuts to the actual economic stimulus to give money to telecoms is just fucking braindead.

One obvious issue is that there will be people who got a check from Trump but not one from Biden.

yes, but if you made 160 you get nothing, which is not how it was before. Ill out myself as someone who will be impacted by this going by my 2019 income, which previously would have meant I'd get some but not the full amount. Now I don't know what I'll get; and do I "need" it? Well I banked on having it to pay part of our property taxes which are now over due, partly because my wife's income decreased drastically, so yeah, I'm not happy about this.

^^^ object lesson as to why this is very dumb and the dems look like shit

Yes historic tax data isn't v helpful during a crisis. Plus the inevitable problem with means testing is being just over the limit: why, ethically or morally speaking, does someone "deserve" a check at 74,999 but not at 75,001?

Yeah this is getting worse and more indefensible by the week. What a terrible own goal at this point.

Yeah. My income level is below the threshold so his doesn't affect me directly (although I still never got that last $600 check so who knows if I'll even get the $1400) and I'm still working so I'm fine but this sucks.

Maybe if we can smoke 100 cigarettes before the checks get cut we guarantee a slice.

Like the only save here would be 'well, this is what we need to do to get this particular stimulus payment out ASAP but then the plan is for maybe like smaller regular stimulus payouts for EVERYONE after this is taken care of' but lol, yeah right.

I've never made $75,000 a year in my life. I bet it's nice.

Are they getting out ahead of this at all? Because otherwise they're just full-on letting the obviously shitty action dictate the shitty message, to no constructive end that I can see.

man, neither have i, that’s not what this is about

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I've never made $75,000 a year in my life. I bet it's nice.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:47 AM (forty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, me neither, nowhere near. What's your point.