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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Racism pretending to be "Nationalism" on the rise - check
"United we stand, Divided we fall" - check on the latter
Senseless, easily avoidable, mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Americans - CHECK
Shuttered businesses from lack of Stimulus or PPP - check
More wealth to the 1% - check
Make America an International Laughing Stock - check
Conspiracy Theory as Political Strategy - check
Guiness Book of World Records for Lying to the American People - check
AG as personal lawyer - y

Greatest Piece of Sh*t ever - check

Just off the top of my head - I'm sure there are others (NATO, Iran Nukes, Climate Treaty...?).

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Democrats stonewalled all year on a new pandemic relief package. Now they're proposing a new plan that undercuts even Republican proposals, and screws everyone but - get this - defense contractors...

With the election over, the Democratic leadership in the space of a few weeks somehow negotiated against themselves, working with Republicans to push the total amount of a Covid-19 relief deal further and further downward, to the point where previous plans offered by the likes of Mitch McConnell and Steve Mnuchin now look like LBJ’s Great Society.

Democrats ultimately settled for less than a third of what they had set as a baseline for state and local aid, accepted a package without any $1,200 direct payments, and signed off on a plan that, after offsets, includes less than $350 billion in new money, well below a slew of pre-election proposals rejected by Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as being too low.

Back in May, the Democrat-led House passed the HEROES Act*, a $3.4 trillion relief package that was pitched as the bill Democrats really wanted. It contained $413 billion new dollars for $1,200 direct payments to citizens, as well as $437 billion in additional unemployment benefits, and a whopping $1.13 trillion for state and local governments.

Remember all of that state and local funding that Democrats insisted was so crucial to the aid package?

Today, the state and local aid package signed off on by Manchin and Warner is down to $160 billion, appropriated as part of a separate bill that may or may not pass at all, with the main $748 billion plan. In other words, Democrats just agreed to take seven times less than the $1.13 trillion they asked for in the HEROES Act, and about half of Mnuchin’s $300 billion offer in October that Pelosi rejected as “sadly inadequate.”


https://taibbi.substack.com/

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