Biden on the GOP asking for money: "I didn't know there were so many socialists in the Republican caucus"

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Originally published at: Biden on the GOP asking for money: "I didn't know there were so many socialists in the Republican caucus" | Boing Boing

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Annnd he should deny every damn one of their requests.

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This will lead to regime change?

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Perhaps they’re National Socialists.

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What happened? When did the Democratic party start to develop the impression of a back bone?

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Uncle Joe, keep kicking those Nazi GQP’ers in the nuts, they like it.

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When they looked at Biden’s approval ratings and looked forward to this years midterms and determined they needed to actually do some shit.

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That’s some quality shade for an old dude.

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Nice. This is pretty much how Democrats should have been treating Republicans for the past decade or so. I guess it takes the country teetering on the edge of autocracy to get them to employ sarcasm.

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Tough room. Nobody in the audience laughed for some reason.

(Obviously the audience wasn’t mic’d like they are on a comedy show, but you’d expect to hear at least something)

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Or even Christian Nationalist Socialists?

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Kinky!

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What you’re suggesting there is a step down the slippery slope of clientism. I.e. central government only handing out money to communities governed by loyal representatives.
I suggest instead you give the money on the merit of the projects themselves, then make sure to educate the citizens of those states on how their rep voted against it.

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all of what you said. hurting the people living in those states because their gerrymandered representative is terrible won’t do anyone any good

turn their parking spot into accessible parking? relocate all committee meetings without telling them? support progressive candidates in their district?

now those things i could get behind

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I like sassy Biden.

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I mean watching this actually feels refreshing.
I just wish I could really believe in my heart that anyone who needed to hear it was listening, or that if they were listening they didn’t manage to instantly spin the implications of what Biden was saying out of existence.

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I think for decades now most Democrats thought they had to try and court some kind of vast ideological middle ground to stay viable. But might be coming around to the fact that every time Biden actually manages to enact a policy that has at least a faint whiff of progressivism, the crowd goes wild.

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I think it’s easy to forget that while nominally the Democratic party is the more progressive and liberal party, the fact remains that in very real terms it’s just slightly left of center and has indeed been courting that middle ground for a long time. That’s why it’s such a shame we’re more or less locked into this two party stalemate, a true liberal left party could get so many problems solved.

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Again, no. Why let the asshole escape the very valid criticism they deserve to hear in each and every meeting? Film and broadcast it too, why not.

Yup, it’s that easy. Hand over the money to those projects as appropriate, then make go the extra mile to endorse the local D candidate when the next election comes around. The majority of local voters will listen if you show them physical evidence of what was built, and written evidence that their R candidate voted against it.

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That was a nice clap back from dark brandon aka Joseph Biden, the real, legitimate one and only President of the United States of America. He won by a landslide in 2020.