It’s not even just this.  Study after study, experiment after experiment, shows that if you just give people direct cash payments, they do better (e.g.: https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Cash-Payments-Lit-Review_final.pdf).  Whether it’s unhoused people, or struggling people, or whatever,…

If they kick the can down the road it makes good speech fodder for the next election. 

Yes, yes, it’s always the left’s fault and never moderate/centrist Democrats for going right to court the Republican base even though that literally never works. 🙄 You are why this country is going downward.

So he doesn’t head the party and can’t snatch a couple of motherfucker’s committee chair seats?

I’ve read several profiles of Sinema since this all started, the woman is deeply odd and its hard to have any other takeaway than that she really has become enamored with her own myth and power.

The solution is to procure more and distribute more. The UK has an absolute shambles of a government, run by an utter buffoon, that has mismanaged this pandemic every step of the way and even they’ve managed to sort this part out. It’s the bare minimum and the US can’t even meet that standard.

Stfu stop defending austerity it’s killing us. The government can easily afford 100 tests for every american every day. How can you make excuses for the politicians literally killing us? Jfc.

She’s not the fucking president and she hasn’t had all of the tools at her disposal that, say, the Biden administration has. Fuck outta here with that “don’t complain unless you have solutions” bullshit.

We don’t have enough tests.

Soooo….what’s your plan?

Thank you for saying this. A recent-ish Columbia U study of undergrad sexual behavior had similar conclusions - x% of male students reported violating a partner’s consent, and the study authors took great pains to point out that those are just the self-reporting numbers and the actuals will necessarily be higher.

Fuck no! He ran as a conservadem in 2014, as was popular among white candidates who wanted to burnish their “white working class voter” cred by staying all the things he disagreed with Obama on. You think I’m going to trust this Sinema-like candidate because he stands in front of a rainbow flag?

They don’t want to be in power, just in office. Being in power is the nightmare scenario for a lot of Democrats. They have to work and make changes, and risk ticking off donors if they do. They don’t want to do that. The goal of most Democrat officials is to sit in an office, be given money, and when asked to do…

Damn with all that incredible foresight you think she would have known to campaign in the Midwest rather than taking it for granted.

That “good reason” being those economists are fucking right wing ghouls who should **** themselves, just like anyone who agrees with them

This whole thing where we act like she was an unwilling accomplice in this man’s incarceration is pretty disgusting. She sacrificed this man’s life just because she had “a feeling” it was him during a random encounter on the street. You can’t do that, then act like she was unwilling after the fact.

Did not do anything malicious… except being coached into lying and robbing a man of his life.

Now, holding all these truths at once, here is what I feel about Alice Sebold as a person: nothing. I don’t believe Alice Sebold is “evil,” a “cunt,” “deserves to rot in prison,” or any of the other vitriolic takes that have been shared online in the days since Broadwater’s exoneration. We forget that there is a…

They just don’t understand how Trump could have won! They called him “orange” so many times!

I don’t think there’s anything “puritanical” about saying you shouldn’t help people cover up and escape accountability for bad and illegal behavior.