Democratic (Party) Direction

I won’t be happy til I get my childless tax credit

They only get half credit as long as it's a one year bump, we'll see how negotiations go for a longer term plan.

I feel like maybe the Clinton/DLC era of the party is finally ending, and it almost makes me want to cry happy tears.

Yesterday's Pod Save America episode title was "The Era of Big Government Is Back." :D

lol, big government never went anywhere. But welfare did.

• The average household in the bottom quintile of America’s economic ladder will see its annual income rise by more than 20 percent.

• A family of four with one working parent and one unemployed one will have $12,460 more in government benefits to help them make ends meet.

• The poorest single mothers in America will receive at least $3,000 more per child in government support, along with $1,400 for themselves and additional funds for nutritional assistance and rental aid.

• Child poverty in the U.S. will drop by half.

• More than 1 million unionized workers who were poised to lose their pensions will now receive 100 percent of their promised retirement benefits for at least the next 30 years.

• America’s Indigenous communities will receive $31.2 billion in aid, the largest investment the federal government has ever made in the country’s Native people.

• Black farmers will receive $5 billion in recompense for a century of discrimination and dispossession, a miniature reparation that will have huge consequences for individual African-American agriculturalists, many of whom will escape from debt and retain their land as a direct result of the legislation.

• The large majority of Americans who earn less than $75,000 as individuals or less than $150,000 as couples will receive a $1,400 stimulus check for themselves and another for each child or adult dependent in their care.

• America’s child-care centers will not go into bankruptcy en masse, thanks to a $39 billion investment in the nation’s care infrastructure.

• Virtually all states and municipalities in America will exit the pandemic in better fiscal health than pre-COVID, which is to say a great many layoffs of public employees and cutbacks in public services will be averted.

• No one in the United States will have to devote more than 8.5 percent of their income to paying for health insurance for at least the next two years, while ACA plans will become premium-free for a large number of low-income workers.

• America’s unemployed will not see their federal benefits lapse this weekend and will have an extra $300 to spend every week through the first week in September.

hopefully this won't be the only thing that passes

sorry, meant to link to the original, which has sources for most of those claims:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/what-is-in-covid-relief-bill-stimulus-checks-biden-progressives.html

i got to the fourth item and, just for a moment, let myself feel good. it's only half, but cutting something that important by half is huge.

lol, big government never went anywhere. But welfare did.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, March 9, 2021 10:49 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, but "welfare" is what Clinton meant when he said "The era of big government is over."

ok yeah, I figured that was probably what they were ironically referring to but I don't listen to the show

I assume (but IDK) that part of the reason it doesn't cut child poverty by even more is that a lot of the poorest people don't file taxes, and it's still based on last year's taxable income.

thanks for that list Karl - there's a lot i didn't know about in there

Feinstein, asked about some Dems saying they'd choose democracy over the filibuster: "If democracy were in jeopardy, I would want to protect it. But I don't see it being in jeopardy right now."

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) June 10, 2021

phew

Cool-ass party IMO.

odds that Feinstein even remembers 1/6?

her 16th birthday party, back in 1832? hell yeah she remembers that! that was the night before she sold her soul to satan and swallowed her puke for $2!

Aged 16 in 1832 ? Then she was born at the dawn of The Era of Good Feelings! Maybe that explains it.

On Hugh Hewitt's show, McConnell says it's "highly unlikely" he'd allow Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if he's majority leader. He also doesn't commit to allowing a vote on a nominee if a seat opened up in *2023*.

"Well, we'd have to wait and see what happens."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 14, 2021

oh for real?

when you lol the loud part loud

So Breyer’s really gonna keep riding this one out to see what happens, huh…

Why not? The Democrats are doing the same.

6pm:

What a wonderful bipartisan women Senators dinner at our @VP’s residence! Thank you Kamala! I am so proud of you! pic.twitter.com/l5sVNWO7lU

— Sen. Debbie Stabenow (@SenStabenow) June 16, 2021

8pm:

Sisterhood, solidarity and a late night Chinese dinner is our fuel 😘 pic.twitter.com/atZcEY8bNs

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 16, 2021

Andrew Yang: "Yes, mentally ill people have rights, but you know who else has rights? We do!" pic.twitter.com/l6AJ4xpqWV

— KnowNothing (@KnowNothingTV) June 17, 2021

d-fens

NYC left twitter was AWASH this morning with responses to that hot Yang take. Bleh.

It's scary that people take Yang seriously given how much of a complete and utter clown he is

Yeah. It seems like the clownishness, which is actually kind of chaotic, like, accelerationism??? appeals to ppl who think politics is a sport that you watch for entertainment. Ie, I guess, people who already have all the rights so they don't care because it doesn't affect them.

Is he likely to actually win?

(Genuinely curious, have not been following the mayoral race)

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams holds a solid 11-point lead in the Democratic primary for mayor, according to a new survey released Wednesday.

Adams is the choice of 26 percent of likely Democratic voters, with entrepreneur Andrew Yang in second place with 15 percent support, the poll conducted by the lobbying firm Capalino & Company with the Honan Strategy Group.

rank choice makes this unpredictable though

I am never getting past "YEEEEEEEEEEAH"

How old is that poll the last major one i saw was adams by like 2 over garcia and adams is no one’s second choice

yesterday i think

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/adams-garcia-wnbc-poll-nyc-mayor/3104963/

^^ from a couple of days ago

https://www.capalino.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Capalino-Honan-Election-Infographic.pdf

I think the end message is "too many people take Yang seriously"

Enough of New York City loves rich people telling them what to do, sadly.

been laughing at yang campaigning on "re-opening our schools" when schools have basically been open for months already.

his whole campaign is based on targeting low-information voters.

Dunno if this is the nyc mayor thread but this is incredible:

Oh look, here's a highly normal response from Eric Adams https://t.co/hmiOXAKEr7 pic.twitter.com/sKFj4T1uvf

— mattie kahn (@mattiekahn) June 21, 2021

I mean I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that the performance up to that unfortunate point was enough to make it the best he'd seen.

Trouble is, the accident happened right before he was supposed to start performing.

Hmm, something fishy then..

I thought this was a joke and then I looked it up and I am afraid my face is now stuck like this

I bet the Route 91 Festival was great as well. Too bad about the ending.

Confirmed in Mayfield’s son Todd’s book, excerpted by Rolling Stone. Mayfield didn’t play/sing a note that nighthttps://t.co/ebDcYN9yh0 pic.twitter.com/LjF0OAFIP7

— Escocés (@EscocesDays) June 21, 2021

You'll never guess who Mayfield's son blamed for not canceling the gig when the weather turned wild: local politician Marty Markowitz, who then served 12 years as BK borough president before passing the office to... Eric Adams https://t.co/JDQngAOQPY

— Leigh Walton (@leighwalton) June 21, 2021

all these answers are completely insane, holy hell pic.twitter.com/Bhvh8olRCR

— dj (@derekjay_) June 21, 2021

Andrew Yang doubles down on his debate comments:
"We all see these mentally ill people on our streets and subways, and you know who else sees them? Tourists. And then they don’t come back, and they tell their friends, ‘Don’t go to New York City.’” https://t.co/0rwphjOmix

— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) June 21, 2021

'What we need is a kind of sweep up operation, I don't know what you'd call it, cleansing. Like rain. A real rain to come and wash this scum off the streets'

How do motherfuckers like this get so powerful, they're just total fucking idiots