Joe Biden is (currently) President of the United States

I guess 'fuck it, you don't care - go ahead and get sick, I don't give a shit but you better make your student loan/car payment/credit card payments' is a plan of some measure.

I recall hearing a plan long ago. the next phase is Covid goes to Jupiter to get more stupider.

The plan was summed up by Jello Biafra long ago in the song "Kill the Poor," don't ya know.

there is a plan to get the left revved up before the midterms

National pot legalization?

that would be dope

plz

why would he legalize something that's already been done in half the country, is inevitable, and is just fine unless you're that all up in arms about having to smell pot smoke like 4 times a year on a street you've never been on?

no, it's better to just steer the country back to 2006 and pretend nothing happened

off topic but squares who oppose weed legalization because of the smells are the most square rectangles in a quadrangle i've ever fucking heard of, go smoke a blunt and get a lil' bendy ya fukken squares

it smells bad so teenagers should go to prison!!!!!!! RGB is a fukken legend, let's go to the mural store and buy a fukken RGB mural poster

cos that's her name, RGB, Ruth Gator Binsburg

that's what my daughter calls her. We have some books about her. Last time we were picking out some bedtime reading my wife suggested one (we just list all the books till she says ok) and Opal said "I know all about Ruth Gader Binsburg" and now that's a recurring joke. I read one of them the other night and ends with a very unfortunate page saying like "Some people think Ruth should resign, but she's going to keep on fighting!" or whatever. I had to close the book and say "actually...."

read one of them the other night and ends with a very unfortunate page saying like "Some people think Ruth should resign, but she's going to keep on fighting!" or whatever. I had to close the book and say "actually...."

yup.
I think it was this one: https://kidsbooks.com/Store/Details/9781481465595B?source=ppc&ppc_campaign=g10013861003&gclid=CjwKCAiAiKuOBhBQEiwAId_sK9Pg3rsCQCUiNaQ48lwB2muxg8B4CMGqB5BEK3qxYq_v-ZrfyPA-rBoCPyMQAvD_BwE

looool, that is awesome :)

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing with people who said she should retire before something really bad happens

Maybe the spread of the new variants caught the administration off guard

I am the president-elect, but will not be president until next year. COVID-19 does not respect dates on the calendar, it is accelerating right now. Urgent action is needed today, now, by the current administration.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 14, 2020

I used to say we’re rushing to the same cliff, there’s just two options in terms of speed.

p sure both vehicles are going the exact same speed now; option one is a Subaru and the other is 70k truck w a blue lives punisher sticker and nuts hanging from the hitch

that was during a winter surge and wasn’t an incredibly contagious variant, i’m sure you’ll argue this point and i’ll be wrong somehow

the plan was afaict a total abstraction to get votes but if there was a plan it was vaccine distribution which happened on an earlier timetable than the trump admin was capable of, i think, that’s also just a thought experiment. vaccine disparity between us and world still unforgivable ofc

“keep the economy humming even or especially if it costs lives” is such a deeply embedded cultural value idk if we’ll ever see the other side of it

like i’m still blown away that there was ever a lockdown

lockdown-ish, as I like to call it - it was state by state, and some states never did, and various degrees of permissiveness as to what you could do. I was pissed when we reopened just about every state too early, without them meeting the guidelines established for re-opening.

but yea, I am surprised we saw Red states doing it at all - I also was shocked that we managed to get the $600 per week unemployment passed (with the predictable pushback from Rs), less surprised when the initial rollout was a disaster due to giving the responsibility to states (which was a bad move).

there was a lockdown?

yeah, a lockdown on my freedom

spring 2020 when the they decided to actually try paying people to stay home (republicans no less) was, in retrospect, very radical for the us imo. those few months with no traffic and a paycheck every week, more than i've ever made before, were totally amazing from my pov. feel like the last two years has been both sides of the government just making absolutely sure that will never, ever happen again.

Yeah, it definitely had the feel of "ok fine, we're gonna do this HORRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE ECONOMY thing once, but that's it, we cannot keep doing this HORRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE ECONOMY thing after so get your affairs in order!". and I suspect a lot of Rs were thinking election year when they did it - it gave "I don't need no handout" conservative cranks an out to where getting a handout was acceptable ("ah couldn't do mah job!"0

now I have friends terribly afraid of losing weeks of work and not being able to pay rent and there is eerie deja vu.

dunno how President Manchin feels about it now

the Empire of West Virginia has seceded

The sick part is, we have evidence those checks...stimulated the economy and provided household savings.

saved my mother from utter ruin (or my brother and I from ruin, more like). and many many friends.

sounds awful. for democrats, i mean, that they were able to help you. that's not the kind of message they want to be sending heading into the midterms.

don't worry I assured everybody that my folks will be reporting to a worker's prison as soon as the pandemic is over

the message, instead is this: we're back on track and we're headed toward tomorrow. we can't look back now, we've got to go forward. we have to forget where we've been and think about where we're going. where are we going? that's the question we need to be asking. we need to be listening to each other more. we need to be quiet, sometimes, you know, and just listen? everybody, just be quiet and listen, ok? now everybody, i want you to grab the hand of the person next to you, go ahead, that's right don't be shy now, it's just hands! and let's close our eyes now and just listen in, toward the middle, listening to our own breaths. let's forget the past, together. where is the past, if we can't return to it? what is the past, if your past is different than my own? when was the past, and which one was it? forget the past. no one can be wrong here.

*joe biden quietly breaks from the circle and is escorted by secret service into air force one

"dunno how President Manchin feels about it now"

https://y.yarn.co/3742b89f-8b66-4eaf-9699-a630617ce08c_screenshot.jpg

We got to sop up all that free money, because we caaint open up the KFC except at the drive through. Good lawd fellas, man's got to sit down at the KFC after the church meetin' or else he gits it all over his Sunday clothes.

that was during a winter surge and wasn’t an incredibly contagious variant, i’m sure you’ll argue this point and i’ll be wrong somehow

(sincerely not trying to generate argument with any individuals, least of all Brad, but imo we are currently in a winter surge exacerbated by travel for Thanksgiving family gatherings, just as last November, when in the previous post the same dude described it as a "surge (that) demands a robust and immediate federal response which has been woefully lacking")

(at the very least I don't see any way in which December 27 2021 is less "winter" than November 13 2021!)

Joe Biden, November 2020:

"I am alarmed by the surge in reported COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and fatalities. This crisis demands a robust and immediate federal response which has been woefully lacking."

Joe Biden, January 2022:

lol idk, google some shit and figure it out

trump gave everyone $2000 when way less people had COVID

yeah, and they used it to buy fentanyl

$2000 in two payments over the span of 10 months, during a period of time when Rs were more amenable to voting "Yay" on a recovery package (i.e. when they had a Republican President in office whose approval rating could benefit, when the pandemic was new).

being that DINOs like Manchin want means testing for people receiving any benefits like this now, good luck getting this shit passed now.

lets not pretend it wasn't a Democrat proposal that virtually every Dem voted Yes on

Does that matter to the populace in general? A Republican President and Republican Senate were in office when people got those checks and the situation somehow seemed less hopeless. Oh, a Democrat is stopping Democrats from doing anything to assuage misery now? I'm sure when the midterms roll around "elect more Democrats to stop Democrats from stopping Democrats from helping you" will be a killer slogan.

Those dastardly Republicans just doesn't work when it was Biden who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into not restarting student loan payments at the peak of Omicron.

Got it, so should we vote for Republicans or just not vote?

that's the point.
that's why there has to be a revolution.
but it can't, because of what's happening.
so, we just have to keep watching out for that

I don't know, vote for whomever you want to, doesn't seem to matter much in the end.

today I learned a city testing site that I found by Googling charged me $1,068.89 for a test I didn't even end up getting 🙃 https://t.co/kgVSTS1bUZ

— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) January 5, 2022

right.

so what are the steps after that? it's that there has to be a big fundamental change, many are saying. some presidential candidates would refer to it every single day as "a revolution". but why doesn't that revolution happen. welp, yes, alas. we'll just have to keep an eye on all that

Steps after voting for whomever you want to vote for? I dunno, they usually hand me a sticker on the way out. I like to put it on my hat for the rest of the day.

Do any of you know what primaries are ? We need more people to primary out centrist assholes, and more people to run in those primaries.