Biden’s latest campaign video is a Marjorie Taylor Greene speech
Biden’s latest campaign video is a Marjorie Taylor Greene speech
The White House and Democratic members of Congress called Georgia Republican’s comparison a ‘compliment’
Imagine thinking those were bad things! That's close to 50% of the US voting population (and I'd like to pretend it was only them, but the rest of the world isnt necessarily better).
How the fuck did we get here? Actually scratch that, i know that humans are greedy, tribal animals who are driven by biological urges only sometimes obscured by higher level thought. The bigger question is how the fuck did we manage to make it as far as we have?
And the biggest question of all; how do we unfuck this thing?
Marj's ex husband has been asking himself that same question.
Have the American people stop being lazy bastards, generally. Especially young people.
2020 was the highest turnout in a century. And it was still only 2/3 of eligible voters. 79,000,000 eligible voters just went “eh”.
The primaries were even worse than that. The 2022 midterms were the second highest turnout for midterms this millennium. With 52%…. Despite 69% of eligible voters being registered. A ton of people just stayed home instead of making our highest civil duty a priority.
The bigger question is how the fuck did we manage to make it as far as we have?
That's not really a big question.
We made it this far because unlike what she thinks, her mindset is the minority stance.
How the fuck did we get here?
Complete failure of education system?
Deliberate sabotage of the education system by the Republicans.
No child were left behind.
Powerless hate finding powerful allies
I cannot imagine how anyone could think being compared to FDR would be a black spot for a progressive. I wish he'd be at least one Judicial Procedures Reform Bill closer to FDR.
I cannot imagine how anyone could think
MTG doesn't do much thinking at all.
What makes you think progressives were the target audience for her speech? The kind of person who likes fdr was almost certainly going to be voting blue regardless, and nothing she said would realistically change it, so why bother trying?
Right? Those would only be good things if the right people benefited from them and everyone else (all the people in the outgroups who might as well not be thought of as people) is cut off from them.
From the figures I found, Trump increased the debt by $6.7 trillion while Biden increased it by $2.5 trillion (over three of his four years). Note that the first year of spending for any president is controlled by the last president, so 2020 spending was Trump's, but also 2016 was Obama's.
Looking at just proposed programs, Biden's student loan plan would have cost 0.4 trillion, or $400 billion. Meanwhile, Trump's 'tax repatriation holiday' (companies illegally hiding money overseas to avoid taxes, make one year where you don't get taxes for bringing the money back to USA) cost taxpayers $465 billion.
Pepperidge Farm remembers the last couple of years of the Clinton administration when we had an actual budget surplus and all the talk was of what to do with this surplus. But then the "fiscal conservatives" said "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter".
And they blamed Obama for being spendy (because even $1 to a poor person is wasteful) while GWB racked up the biggest budget in history many times.
Deficits don't matter, but a surplus is still dope AF. It shouldn't come from cutting services like we did in the 90s tho.
I do agree it's insane that the GOP went from "deficits don't matter" when they control the Presidency to "shut down the gov over the debt ceiling" when they don't tho.
Deficits only don't matter when Republicans are in the White House.
COVID, which happened under Trumps administration, which throws any sort of comparisons out the window. Everyone, democrats and republicans alike, were crying for government handouts in the form of free payments, in order to survive. It was a (hopefully) once in a lifetime unprecedented situation that destroyed most budgets around the world.
Also neither Trump nor Biden are responsible for the budget surplus/deficit.
man I wish Biden was a strong advocate for even half of those things lol
It's just ridiculous that she talks about how "awful" those things are.
I know, they sound horrible, right? Imagine tax dollars going back into the communities that pay them. God what kind of awful country would do such a thing?
Imagine services that actually help people and not purely driven by profits.
Republicans are so far gone that they forgot what it's like to actually help American citizens
I mean if you like those things, I presume there's a roughly 0% chance you were the target audience anyway.
Neanderthal DNA. Lots of it.
I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA and I resent this
Neanderthals were better tool-makers, with bigger brains, bigger bodies, and stronger.
But they bred with the dumb, sexy Sapiens, and here we are.
Same, bro
Oh good lord, yes.
Link to the video. Sorry it’s Twitter.
https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=46&t=1RS4vxJ7QYuOgD4JTloPEA
Don't apologize, use Nitter: https://nitter.net/joebiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=46&t=1RS4vxJ7QYuOgD4JTloPEA
Oh to be a fly on the wall when she first saw this. She must be tearing that shitty dye job out of her head by the roots lol
And then she lists things the Republicans have done to dig our debt deeper…
this is gold
I wish there were someone who wasn't evil or whose only selling point was they aren't bad. Is having inspiring canidates really too much to ask for?
The most pressing crisis to all of humanity is the climate and somehow Biden got through congress an estimated $1.3 trillion climate bill. I'm not sure a Bernie could've pulled that off.
You don't have to love or even like him, but he has selling points other than not being Trump.
Literally in a thread talking about the good things Biden has done
I mean, kinda, yeah. You saw what happened to Sanders.
But so long as the red team is in full literal Nazi mode, we really shouldn't bitch too much about the not-evil options. We don't want to sentence the US with another Trump because the alternative is uninspiring.
It's a shitty system, but let's work with that we got.
There's nothing wrong with a boring, uninspiring president. Obama had a ton of charisma but Biden's presidency is honestly a lot better. Sure, the country sucks right now, but at least Biden is trying to make it better, after the last guy did so much to try and destroy everything our nation is built on. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work to crawl out of this hole the GOP has dug us into. I think there are people who could have done better than Biden, but in all honesty he's probably the best president we've had in my lifetime. I give him a B+.
It drives me nuts how so many people just claim FDR was any kind of socialist. FDR was the best capitalist the system ever made, he was responsible for saving capitalism in America and making it a bulwark against the waves of facsim and socialism that was sweeping the world.
Honestly, does he even need campaigning? Like since when did you read a political ad or billboard and was like "hmm my mind has officially changed". Most of people's mind has already been made up. He could really sit there and not do anything and end up winning.
Edit: yeah. We need every fighting chance we get. Release the dark brandon memes.
After 2016, I would not be so complacent. Never underestimate the stupidity and goldfish-like memory of the average American.
When I heard Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 I literally laughed out loud thinking there is absolutely no way, 0% chance, better odds that the sun will explode, this country is pretty stupid but not THAT stupid. And sure enough, I was wrong. That was when I realized that the GOP is very, very good at manipulating stupid people.
This is delicious
Lmao be nice if literally any of that was fucking true.
I have to wonder if she’s trolling Democrats to get more exposure.
Maybe she's thinking about switching parties. (LOL)
You give that Neanderthal brain of hers too much credit. Sad truth is that for her audience, all of those things she called out are considered negatives because they cut into their bottom line. They know right from wrong, they just don't give a fuck if it means making a little more at the end of the day
She's really that dumb. Miss can't pass the GED or that's the other crazy I get them mixed up. She really is saying look at all these problems we have. We can't afford to fix them. So let's just stop giving money to underfunded agencies.
I think we can count on Biden's campaign being stacked with young, media-savy people, like it was last time. A lot of his 2020 stuff was pretty well done, you could tell he had a pretty in-touch team that knew how to present him well. Literally all he has to do is not get in their way, and they can ride Dark Brandon memes into 2024.
That's called leadership. You put the right people in the right places and you don't get in their way.