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Shoutrr
that's a lot of words to say "republicans will oppose anything proposed by democrats" followed by "republican laws only serve the rich"
GreenGaeasSon
Good for the Republicans! I'm still not voting for them.
NVGoddesscottage
Opposing the big original build back better plan, Sinema and Machin play this season’s rotating traitors and give cover for de
Ikwilstroopwaffels
Yes. That's right. They knew all that. They did it BECAUSE they do not want that. Stop expecting otherwise from them.
AbhainnFuil
They might not object to those specifics but you guys put so many different things into bills it guarantees that there is something to hate
fredh67
Why things should have separate votes, and no more riders.
Idrinkforevil
Also, their hands are out immediately asking for aid to Kentucky after Tornados. Like there wasnt even a little rain and Rand Paul was on tv
JHRD1880
Maybe advertise that to their voters who absolutely need all of that.
fredh67
No, they're not. Not necessarily, anyway. You can vote 'no' to give up a lot of good things if you think there are too many bad things.
spamsmells
Yes, and also fuck cryptocurrency because I can't be bothered to understand it.
macmaniac777
What if I'm objecting to the government fucking all those things up worse than they already are?
smashfaceawesome
Yknow what would be a major boon to business? Universal healthcare. How many GQP are down? Zero.
AngryGraphicDesigner
Republicans only focus on trickle-up economics
natebitatibetan
Yeah, but they're going to go around during reelection and say they voted for it which their constituents will believe...
SisterMidnight
That’s so frustrating!
Iblamemyparentstoo
https://twitter.com/SenDuckworth/status/1470087970984103941?t=gZcxPfv0TyhDO7hCAa0ZDw&s=19
SergeantMajorSpoiler
Oh, how I miss Georgie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso&ab_channel=SkyEcho7
EarthDiedScreamin
See but they don’t care about making things better for people, they just care about winning/making sure the other side loses
Gramzon666
Whats pre-k?
6313326
Pre- Kindergarten (preschool for children ≤5)
Gramzon666
Thank ye kindly
StarscreamAndHutch
They vote no and then take credit for the benefits to their constituents.
SisterMidnight
HieronymousFlex
It's pretty easy to do when you control all of the media they consume. They'll never even know what was voted on.
Shoutrr
the sad part about it: their constituents are so abysmally stupid, galactic sized cretins, that they swallow it gleefully
vigdoya
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. RUSH. fuckers. FTGOP Fuck the grand OLD party.
MrsGogol
TheYoungerChrisEvans
Gotta keep the poors poor, otherwise what will those republicans think of in order to get their micropenises hard enough to rape children.
SisterMidnight
Gosuamakenatek
"But how are we gonna pay for it?" - People who never asked that question about the billions we put into our obscenely fat defense budget
aFadingMemory
Or the 4 Trillion in tax cuts passed in 2019.
Anju42
ALL OF WHICH WOULD REDUCE ABORTIONS BY GIVING PREGNANT WOMEN THE ABILITY TO AFFORD THEIR BABY AND ACTUAL CHOICE IN THE MATTER!
Anju42
The GOP creates the need for abortions while claiming to be against them just to be a bag of dicks.
supraman2turbo
None of that benefits the rich so of course they are against it
getguds
worse it cuts into the profits via giving flexibility to the workers who's labor was exploited via holding healthcare etc hostage.
trippingthelightfantastic
Meanwhile...
trippingthelightfantastic
aFadingMemory
He'll get reelected without issue because giving everyone else the finger and then bringing home the bacon is exactly what his voters want.
Youhavinagiraffe
Kentucky do have a Democrat governor because of how awful the last GOP one was. Statewide election success is hard but not impossible
ghostleopard
Omnibus bills are designed to include great things to help pass not so great things. This one retroactively pulls back small business funds
mohavewolfpup
While future generations need support, what about those who are single and will never have kids? Anything for them?
Krypnot
You aren't going to provide possible fodder for a future oil war, so nope.
Youhavinagiraffe
Do single people not use prescription drugs?
mtimothy
Only my grandma's. She has the fun ones.
dohcohv
People educated enough to take care of you in retirement and provide new medical advances? New tech to help bring you joy?
dohcohv
Reducing poverty, which reduces crime, and taxes. Giving kids a stable start, helping the economy.
Thelrishlnquistion
Yeah but socialism and critical race theory and Hilary’s emails and Hunter Biden, so there.
MatrixVV
But what about the d̶r̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶W̶o̶o̶k̶i̶e̶e̶s̶ War on Christmas?
proracing53
Jooud707
Got em.
killbillsexwife
And Le Crusset pots
ihaveblunderedyetagain
Still waiting for the bombshells from that laptop that my right-wing former friends assured me about 18 months ago.
Thelrishlnquistion
Your friends now:
ReallyNotAVampire
Oh they're coming... Any day now, I'm sure of it. /s
Itouchedaseakrait
By reducing this complex issue down to this kind snarky comment you do all of us a disservice. It’s not this simple dude
PaintedSlate
Well, the content isn't even important to the R decision, which is political. So ignoring that is probably them being disingenuous.
Itouchedaseakrait
I support all of the changes listed in the post, but I oppose the timing and I oppose the bill for good faith reasons
Itouchedaseakrait
The GOP’s motivation is irrelevant to whether there are legitimate reasons to oppose the bill, which there are
PaintedSlate
The question of the GOP's opposition is a separate relevant topic. If you could choose current version or no changes this Congress, what
PaintedSlate
would you vote? Or what specific changes would be needed to change your vote to yes? What's the timing issue?
BurtTyrannosaurusMacklinFBl
Please explain the specifics that have made the right detract any support?
Itouchedaseakrait
Do you think it’s reasonable for an already over leveraged government to spend trillions more on non-productive assets during a pandemic?
BurtTyrannosaurusMacklinFBl
"By reducing this complex issue down to this kind snarky comment you do all of us a disservice. It’s not this simple dude"
BurtTyrannosaurusMacklinFBl
You didn't address specifics in this vague question to answer a question. I'm just trying to understand. The Republican spent a lot of money
BurtTyrannosaurusMacklinFBl
on tax breaks for corporations a couple years. What specifically prevented them from investing in infrastructure?
bracobe
Or they could not like all the other pork added to it? Just because it has good in it doesnt mean you have to pass a bunch of crap with it.
Gosuamakenatek
They never had that problem with the billions we give to the military to develop a new plane that never leaves the ground.
bracobe
They never have a trouble paying for military. It’s the other things. I think they do not feel they were given enough to push the BBB.
LtGenObvious
What other pork is in it?
bracobe
well the bill changes every 5 mins but here are some. 550 billion or 1/4 of the bill that does little to curb the actual climate change. ->
bracobe
affordable housing, while it sounds nice it has historically increased the issue. Tax increases, (I am ok with this some of these but not ->
bracobe
so much) and we know that the reps have to stick up for their rich friends. Added monies to easy boarder processioning agents but nothing ->
bracobe
for a wall or more agents to keep the boarder safe. And dont be fooled it will be more than the 1.7 trillion they have estimated as some ->
saysomethingcool
A $900 credit if you purchase an e bike. I couldn't find how much total $$ that is in the bill. But I want more money for low income food
blainetog
Who gives a shit? That's such an inconsequential amount of money. It's not worth thinking about.
saysomethingcool
Plans and options than an e bike credit. Or media companies getting tax breaks. There's good in the bill for sure. But there's shit too
Override9636
Dude, what's bad about ebikes? They're great.
saysomethingcool
What's bad about free healthcare? Or childcare? Every single person I know would much rather have that, than a penny go towards ebikes. Have
RedWingedBlackbirds
I don't understand. How does a $900 credit cost more money? Isn't that a credit off your taxes, or am I truly not understanding?
dbox
Government is offering the credit means 900 less income tax government gets for every e bike sold. That loss of income costs more¹
dbox
²money to the government. Subsidizing ebikes to consumers seems like a perfect reasonable thing to do to me, and inexpensive comparing³
PaintedSlate
There may be plenty of places to quibble, and not one of them would be relevant to the decision in question.
bracobe
If it’s not important to them why include it?
PaintedSlate
You're missing the point and ignoring all politics since the federalist system put state reps in charge of national lawmaking. But like I
PaintedSlate
said, feel free to quibble over specific details if you won't forget the surrounding context.
bracobe
It seems if you were being honest that would be something you might be trying to talk with OP about. But you agree with his point of view->
Swordguy
My reps are Paul and McConnell. The *only* way they'd seriously consider my opinion is if it was engraved on a bullet delivered at 2000fps.
DigiT00l
Since when do bullets travel at frames per second?
TopCommenter
As it turns out, Senate hearings are actually the ugly aftermath of bad Xbox Live experiences.
Daarst
fps = feet per second
DigiT00l
That makes more sense
Daarst
Acronyms can be tricky when you've already associated them with something else.
DigiT00l
And you don't use those units
TheRealPumpkinQueen
Everything travels at whatever speed you measure it with if that's what youre measuring it with.
mtimothy
Especially in America, we will measure with anything but the metric system.
TheRealPumpkinQueen
I'm gonna be the guys that says I use metric a lot cause engineering, and lab work. But I'm also capable of measuring with more
saysomethingcool
That's one of the problem with omnibus bills. We're gonna throw tons of unrelated things in there and then be upset when they oppose stuff
rebelplayerone
The EV portion really screws us Canadians https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2021/12/12/1_5703448.html
Youhavinagiraffe
The whole system of omnibus bills is deeply undemocratic because it makes it an near impossible task for voters to understand what...
Youhavinagiraffe
...their representatives votie. And the GOP love that since they're whole deal is blocking popular reforms
UltimaRatio
This add-on system is such a cancer. I've never understood why Americans use it
JCstormz
they don't care, they will vote against either way, has history has shown its not about the bill, its about "sticking it to the libs"
saysomethingcool
There's a long history of omnibus bills getting stupid add ons that either side disagrees with and votes against it.
JCstormz
sure, but you are missing the point, they will vote against it or anything simply because its a democrat bill, heck the treason turtle
JCstormz
filibustered HIS OWN BILL because obama was going to sign it.
fredh67
But if you force separate votes, they can't claim they voted 'no' because of some other bad thing in the bill. It will be clear cut.
JCstormz
they will do what they do now, still vote no, blame socialism or some other none sense
fredh67
Yes - but then they can't hide behind voting no for other reasons.
JCstormz
their base doesn't care, as long as it sounds and feels like they are screwing the libs thats all that matters.
forscience6686
Each bill should be a singular subject. Republicans don't compromise anyways, force their hand.
saysomethingcool
Sure. Giving media companies tax breaks shouldn't be in a build back better bill that includes child tax credits and funds for food for low
saysomethingcool
Income families. But if I object to media company tax breaks that must mean I hate low income families getting food money right?
RilynnRae
That's a bit disingenuous to call the credit for hiring LOCAL journalists a media company tax break, but you do you >.>
BroBummel
Gannet owns the lion's share of local papers. They'd reap heaps of dough from this.