Once the GOP started this nonsense, they had no choice but to agree to something because the country knows this is a manufactured conflict which they cannot win. The Freedom Caucus will not agree to anything, and they are the ones forcing this fight on McCarthy.
Thank you Dean! I will be looking for my news every where but cable news... It amazes me how they don’t speak the truth! Negotiations my ass! rePUGliCONs are a domestic terrorist organization! Who care nothing for americans especially the dumbass white ppl who continue to vote for them! Shithole America!
Dean, I agree we have made a significant move forward. Retaking the House in 2024 is essential to make sure many of the benefits people need will be voted on and passed without fear of losing their lives due to budget cuts. Biden did a masterful job along with his White House team and I'm looking forward to younger people help vote out the GQP and GOP, respectively.
I saw you last night with Mehdi on MSNBC. They really should make you a regular so long as you can keep the Substack forum. At any rate, it ws the first time in a long time I actually reacted physically while seeing a TV antyihg -- you were hilarious! It was also the first time I encountered "inshalla" used as an adjective (the inshallah effect, the burning bush). [For those of you wondereing, it mean "God willing" and is in no way any sort of regilious affirmation]. Well, let the Republicans rot, inshallha!
Needs to be reported and repeated every time that the Rs won the House due to gerrymandering and inaction on Voting Rights when Ds had the chance to do something.
Work requirements will cut off the people most in need of help. We just came through a pandemic and Long COVID is real. It can take up to 3 years to get disability benefits. Put a work requirement on the people waiting and they get no help at all. Such paternalistic requirements are cruel and elitist. This is what happens when we elect nothing but millionaires. Even AOC and Cori Bush have never had to fight for disability benefits. Congress needs input from people too sick to run for office, who have actually had to deal with our pathetic social services system.
True but Dems lost the House in 2022. We need to win the House Back in 2024 so we can roll back these cuts. If we had won the House no cuts would have occurred. But the good news the deal expands benefits for the homeless and veterans.
True. I'm glad it helps veterans and the homeless. I'm worried about people who are disabled but who haven't been approved for disability yet. Work requirements means they go without until they're approved, which can take years. And what most people don't know is disability benefits never make you whole - the first thing they do is subtract a year from your benefits, so if you've gone to debt trying to survive, you're unlikely to get enough to pay it off.
I wish I could be so confident. I won't celebrate until the deal is actually signed. McCarthy has no backbone and the Sedition Caucus is viscious. I think he'll go back on his word. I also think the Dem Progressive Caucus, with whom I become more irritated every day, won't vote for it. At least Biden can say he tried when he invokes Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, as I still believe will be necessary.
Once the GOP started this nonsense, they had no choice but to agree to something because the country knows this is a manufactured conflict which they cannot win. The Freedom Caucus will not agree to anything, and they are the ones forcing this fight on McCarthy.
And by the end of this MAGA may remove McCarthy as Speaker!
Thank you Dean! I will be looking for my news every where but cable news... It amazes me how they don’t speak the truth! Negotiations my ass! rePUGliCONs are a domestic terrorist organization! Who care nothing for americans especially the dumbass white ppl who continue to vote for them! Shithole America!
Dean, I agree we have made a significant move forward. Retaking the House in 2024 is essential to make sure many of the benefits people need will be voted on and passed without fear of losing their lives due to budget cuts. Biden did a masterful job along with his White House team and I'm looking forward to younger people help vote out the GQP and GOP, respectively.
I saw you last night with Mehdi on MSNBC. They really should make you a regular so long as you can keep the Substack forum. At any rate, it ws the first time in a long time I actually reacted physically while seeing a TV antyihg -- you were hilarious! It was also the first time I encountered "inshalla" used as an adjective (the inshallah effect, the burning bush). [For those of you wondereing, it mean "God willing" and is in no way any sort of regilious affirmation]. Well, let the Republicans rot, inshallha!
Thanks very much and I commend your use of Inshallah!
Needs to be reported and repeated every time that the Rs won the House due to gerrymandering and inaction on Voting Rights when Ds had the chance to do something.
Work requirements will cut off the people most in need of help. We just came through a pandemic and Long COVID is real. It can take up to 3 years to get disability benefits. Put a work requirement on the people waiting and they get no help at all. Such paternalistic requirements are cruel and elitist. This is what happens when we elect nothing but millionaires. Even AOC and Cori Bush have never had to fight for disability benefits. Congress needs input from people too sick to run for office, who have actually had to deal with our pathetic social services system.
True but Dems lost the House in 2022. We need to win the House Back in 2024 so we can roll back these cuts. If we had won the House no cuts would have occurred. But the good news the deal expands benefits for the homeless and veterans.
True. I'm glad it helps veterans and the homeless. I'm worried about people who are disabled but who haven't been approved for disability yet. Work requirements means they go without until they're approved, which can take years. And what most people don't know is disability benefits never make you whole - the first thing they do is subtract a year from your benefits, so if you've gone to debt trying to survive, you're unlikely to get enough to pay it off.
Kevin McCarthy Brags About Making Struggling Americans Work for Food.
"We're gonna get America working again" the House speaker said of a nation with record low unemployment. #RedditPolitics
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kevin-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-work-requirements-1234743512/
I wish I could be so confident. I won't celebrate until the deal is actually signed. McCarthy has no backbone and the Sedition Caucus is viscious. I think he'll go back on his word. I also think the Dem Progressive Caucus, with whom I become more irritated every day, won't vote for it. At least Biden can say he tried when he invokes Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, as I still believe will be necessary.