Here we go again. It’s 2009 all over.

By making life difficult for Joe Manchin until he cries uncle. Go on TV in WV talking about how Manchin wants to limit who gets a check. Kick him off of his committee assignments (or pressure Schumer to do that). Sign executive orders slapping sudden regulations on businesses that Manchin and his inner circle are…

LBJ frequently called up congressmen and senators and strong armed them into voting. He would horse trade with them and get provisions placed in legislation that they wanted in exchange for their votes. Bush 43 also whipped votes. Sometimes people change parties, but legislation got passed. I just don’t think Biden is…

Instead of blaming the bullshit far left and their “defund the police” rhetoric which scared a lot of white people into voting for Republicans in key senate races you blame Joe Biden?

A 50/50 split took away the republican majority. It didn’t create a democratic one and most certainly didn’t create a progressive one.

Even more important than police reform — ELECTIONS. Want to still have a democracy in 5 years?

We didn’t “give the Dems a majority” that doesn’t rely on the vote of Sen. Manchin. Unless if someone wants to claim that they thought the only Dem elected state-wide (or to federal office) from West Virginia was some sort of secret progressive, then we might want to be a little more clear about the governing…

Because of the makeup of the senate, the centrist Democrats are extremely powerful and they know it. Literally any single one of them can derail pretty much any progressive legislation. You may not like Joe Manchin, but if you piss him off then it is entirely possible that literally zero progressive legislation will…

So instead of blaming Joe Manchin and Kristin Sinema you throw this at the feet of Joe Biden? Instead of blaming the bullshit far left and their “defund the police” rhetoric which scared a lot of white people into voting for Republicans in key senate races you blame Joe Biden? Instead of blaming all those people that…

The Dems are their own worst enemy. They’re constantly negotiating against themselves and the GOP/Nazi party just has to sit back and laugh.

Anywhere but the U.S., our most liberal politicians would be moderates.

Hell, the Overton window is so far right that the mainstream Democratic caucus is basically the 1980s GOP.

They should cut the foreign aid and support to business over profit cap, but it sounds worse than it is. If you are still making 80K as an individual or 160K as a couple, you do not need an extra $1400. The joke of the matter is the people that have no income or have lost a good percentage of it, will have only…

Nice to see Dems negotiate with *themselves* to come up with a worse deal for their own constituents. I mean, seriously, what did that even get them? They “saved” $12 billion out of a *$1.9 trillion* bill for what? That’s a literal drop in the bucket that is going to come back and bite the party in the ass.

I hear what you are saying, but how do you think Joe could get it passed without Joe effing Manchin? It is a 50-50 senate. The only way I can think of is to promise some pork to West Virginia (Manchin being an old school pork belly politician), which might be a deal breaker with other senators.

Should people be disappointed/frustrated, etc? Absolutely. We didn’t elect Biden and give the Dems a majority just for them to cave into conservatives in their own party. Should anyone be surprised? Nope.

Which shows how far-right wingnut the modern GOP has become, by comparison.

“It is totally bizarre how much they will just shoot a firehose full of money at businesses and rich people”

If they get the vote together and get it out, then fine, fuck it, whatever.

imagine what it’s like being the last person to be president of the united states before the fascists took over forever.