Did you know the ultra-rich lobbies support a minimum wage? Here is a big hint, it's not out of "compassion"
Bruh what? Ossof and Warnock literally ran their entire campaign on 2000 dollar checks and now they’re backing off.
The 15 dollar wage is a poison pill. You could reasonably get bipartisan support without it, but now they purposefully put it in an irrelevant bill and their own party members are opposed to it. Why can’t Democrats pass two separate bills?
A poison pill is defined by its purpose; to stop the bill from passing.
The $2000 is a continuation from the debate we had in December. Democrats wanted $2k, republicans stood on the way so democrats accepted the $600 and pledged to get the rest once they won the senate.Anyone who was paying attention knew this and understood what they were talking about. It’s true that a lot of people did not understand and assumed it meant another $2k, misunderstandings that work in your favor are unfortunately nothing new in politics.
It’s not a poison pill. A poison pill is defined by its purpose; to stop the bill from passing. Democrats are putting it in there in an attempt to get it. That’s not the same thing.
The reason they don’t just leave it as a separate bill is because it probably won’t pass. The two democrats that object are more likely to cave in rather than to be stigmatized as standing in the way of COVID relief.
It’s ugly and dishonest, but this is how politics has always worked.
they don’t want the bill to pass.
It’s ugly and dishonest, but this is how politics has always worked.
This was after the 600 dollars had already started going out. Only an idiot would believe they meant 2000 total when Biden talks about 2000 dollar checks.
No they put it in there because they don’t want the bill to pass lol. If they just cared about the money they wouldn’t attach if 15 dollar minimum wage lol. They’d pass that in a separate bill.
That’s literally the definition of poison pill. You put something into a bill that makes the bill impassable.
it’s pretty simple, but your side doesn’t want that because they don’t want the bill to pass.
Just because republicans don’t give a rat’s ass about helping people or fighting COVID doesn’t mean democrats don’t either.
Because once again, context be dammed.I know this doesn’t make sense to you because right wing media has no interest in educating you, but anyone actually following the conversation knew this. Yes there were some left wing politicians calling for a whole new $2k, that’s not relevant to what the majority of the party was talking about.
I’m starting to realize this is all you do. You don’t respond, you just repeat.
It’s not impassable. I just explained why. “Nuh uh” is not a response.
Do you have any explanation for how on earth this makes sense to you?
The only explanation I gather is projection. Just because republicans don’t give a rat’s ass about helping people or fighting COVID doesn’t mean democrats don’t either.
You're actually wrong about this. Democrats do want the bill to pass, they just want the bill to pass while also appeasing the fringe ultra-rich corporate lobbyists demanding a minimum wage to destroy their competition.
How tf is context relevant to this when Biden, Warnock, and Ossoff word for word said they support 2000 dollar checks in people’s pockets.
It literally is because two Democratic Senators have already said they will vote Nay if 15 dollar minimum wage is a part of it. It’s literally dumb af to move to a vote when you know you don’t have enough votes.
Why can’t they pass a simple bill with 2k checks. It’s simple.
that's not true at all. the "process" is a sham, it is just used as an attempt for hateful sick people in congress to attack a President AFTER he already servedif donald trump was treated normally, he would be in the office again
Trump just spent the past few months claiming that he won an election where his opponent had 7 million more votes and won the electoral college by the exact same margin that Trump spent 4 years calling a landslide victory
Then when the people he riled up over those few months attacked the US Capitol, he sends out an "I told you so" tweet telling all of us to "remember this day". I can only imagine what you would be saying if Hillary did that.
And that was just the finale. It only scratches the surface of the record this man has amassed over the past 4 years. Right wingers talk about Trump derangement syndrome, that's just comical. The derangement is watching all of this and thinking anything other than this man should be convicted and barred from running for office again.
