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alternatively: racist voting requirements are racist

just look at your post history like. “Yes we hate America, we hate POC, we are anti-American, we promote death” Or the fact that you think no people of color have said this bill targets them.

You are doing it more. Again, tons of groups of people of color are saying it’s racist and targets people of color. You are choosing to ignore them and take your own point of view. Ill go back to my original comment because it fits you well: White Republicans: this law isn’t racist People of Color: yes it is White Republicans: well we know better than you

youre the one ignoring people. Like really there’s tons of articles from groups of people of color saying hey this law is targeting us. You just chose to ignore them for some reason.

Do you not know how to use Google? Start with the NAACP: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/civil-rights-group-sue-georgia-voting-law/story?id=76775186 Just because you are used to ignoring people of color doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Let me summarize: White Republicans: this law doesn’t hurt people of color People of Color: yes this law hurts us White Republican: we know better than you it doesn’t hurt you People of Color: yes it is targeted to hurt us People who support capitalism: great job MLB! Republicans: no we want to be dictators and just agree with us People who support capitalism: F off Republicans Republicans: but my feelings

blue lives matter

Thanks! He wasn’t there best choice but he was the choice that could beat *****. He beat ***** rather easily so maybe us Dems could have made an actual left person.

Biden adds 916,000 jobs! https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/economy/march-jobs-report/index.html

And unfortunately one of those consequences was the Tea Party doing stupid things like not funding the resupplying PPE when asked. To add: 1. For the party of personal responsibility the Republicans/Tea Party sure are doing their best to say they’re not responsible 2. To the elections have consequences - so because there was an election and Republicans elected tea party nuts and those tea party nuts didn’t allow funding of core items like PPE it’s ok because well golly gee elections have consequences. Elections shouldn’t have the consequences of all these deaths just because the tea party was unable to properly govern.

As I said, the issue is with the Tea Party Republicans. If they didn’t have their hate for the ACA all the budget non-sense during the Obama admin wouldn’t have happened.

You apparently hate the constitution then since Congress has the power of purse and you wanted Obama to circumvent the constitution. Obama admin was trying to. Republicans said no. Trump had 3 years. Republicans didn’t do anything. PPE failures fall squarely on Republicans. I’d put it on Tea Party Republicans.

Obama tried to. The tea party house denied the budget requests: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-ebola-coronavirus-trump-congress-tea-party-a9469186.html At the time, the former president was asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to prepare the US for future pandemics, but the request was rejected by Republican politicians. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2020/04/06/how-tea-party-budget-battles-left-the-national-emergency-medical-stockpile-unprepared-for-coronavirus/ We recognized the need for replenishment of the stockpile and budgeted about a 10% increase,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration. “That was rejected by the Republican House.” Republicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare. Congressional Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and House Speaker John Boehner, leveraged the debt ceiling — a limit on the government’s borrowing ability that had to be raised — to insist that the Obama administration accept federal spending curbs. The compromise, codified in the 2011 Budget Control Act, required a bipartisan “super committee” to find additional ways to reduce the deficit, or else it would trigger automatic across-the-board cuts known as “sequestration.” Even in the aftermath of the swine flu pandemic, the stockpile wasn’t a priority then. Without a full committee markup, Rehberg introduced a bill that provided $522.5 million to the stockpile, about 12% less than the previous year and $132 million less than the administration wanted. “Nobody got everything they wanted,” Rehberg said.

Doesn’t this entire thread just point out that everyone is a hypocrite? The right never said anything about Trumps falls or attempts to drink water, but now point out Biden’s stumbles. Isn’t that also hypocrisy? So by creating the thread, you are being hypocritical in your treatment of Biden?

I prefer people per capita. Dollar per capita is subject to cost of living issues. People per capita basically says if we take a cross section of 100 people in each state, what percent is receiving welfare. Those numbers are: New Mexico (21,368 per 100k) West Virginia (17,388 per 100k) Louisiana (17,388 per 100k) Mississippi (14,849 per 100k) Alabama (14,568 per 100k) Oklahoma (14,525 per 100k) Illinois (14,153 per 100k) Rhode Island (13,904 per 100k) Pennsylvania (13,623 per 100k) Oregon (13,617 per 100k) NY is just outside the top 10. CA is around 10 percent.

The per capita matters because it shows the efficiency of policies to keep people off welfare. Which state most likely has poor policies, a state where 25 percent of the state is on welfare or a state where 10 percent is on welfare? If you look at overall spending without taking into account population size it tells you absolutely nothing.

Its almost as if states with much larger populations would have more people on welfare since you know they have more people. that’s why he didn’t want to look at per capita and how the red states are a drain on the American taxpayer.

So your grand idea is let’s not do anything and let Americans die for no reason when effective gun control has proven to help?

Rarely happens in the UK with strict gun laws, no one on the right ever mentions that. Rare in Australia which has strict gun laws, don’t see you mention that.

PPP loans are not true loans. Round 1 went to anyone who felt they could be economically impacted by COVID at the time of applying. That rollout was so bad SBA set a threshold of $2,000,000 with if your loan was under that, you had economic uncertainty. The PPP is 100 percent forgiven and not taxed Federally (and you get a deduction for amounts paid with the forgiven loan proceeds which you don’t normally get with tax-exempt income). To get the loan forgiven you basically need 60 percent going to payroll and 40 percent to any other business cost in an 8-24 week covered period. The amounts you could use the loans for originally were much more restrictive but when it looked like people wouldn’t get an easy 100 percent forgiveness, the government bent over backwards to extend the covered period and the applicable expenses. So while it’s a loan in name, if you ever have to pay a penny of it back, you were an extreme idiot.

And that is totally fine. Grandpa Munster ran in NY. Rent is too high man ran in NY. Gary Coleman ran in CA. Tiger King ran for office (but did violate campaign finance laws). None of them sought or used legal counsel from a major political party to do so. None of them met with a senior White House official of a person running in the election shortly before announcing their candidacy. Im cool with Kanye running. But it’s also fair to ask why we’re Republican and Trump operatives so eager and willing to help him? Trump even tweeted that it shouldn’t be hard for Kanye to siphon black voters from Biden on July 11. Aug 12 Kanye was asked if he’s trying to damage Biden’s campaign and his answer was “I’m not denying it” Kanye even turned down the one debate he was invited to. We saw a similar Republican strategy in 2006 when they tried to bolster Nader: https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131782&page=1 On the flip side in 2016, Evan McMullin was able to run a good campaign without using Democrat or Hilary operatives.

The GOPs biggest issue is that they try to govern and win elections with fear. We saw it this election (and every one ever), if the Democrats win the US will be a socialist country. If Dems win they will take your guns. If we allow gay marriage people will have sex with ducks (actual GOP talking point). And so on. Biden is such a vanilla candidate and so centrist it’s hard for them to run a campaign against him using his same old tactics. The Dems pushed healthcare Obama term 1 and did an awful job of marketing it. ACA always polled exceptionally strong when they polled the individual things ACA did. Republicans got ahead of the fear mongering with lies like the death care panels. Them getting ahead of messaging killed the Dems in mid-terms. The Republicans are already trying to setup their boogeyman this election cycle with immigration. They already have a favorable path in the House but I don’t think you’ll see the gains post Obamacare because it doesn’t seem to be resonating except to Trumps base.

It was a conspiracy theory that the Republican in the OP used a shame candidate to take votes away from the Dem and win an election by 32 votes. My point is I’m not saying there’s fraud here but there’s a lot of similarities between Kanye running after meeting with Kushner and all the help he received by Republicans and people in Trumps orbit. It is what it is even with any help Kanye received the better man still won the election and won the popular vote by millions.

Wouldn’t it be the Republicans demonstrating white supremacy then since they were trying to support Ye thinking it could split the black vote? (I’d argue from a democrat standpoint the youth vote would be more at risk though.) Still no reasons have been given why there was such a push by Republican and Trump people to support Ye and back do all his legal work.

I don’t know why would they? It’s not like it’s a disputed fact that Republican attorneys helped West. That’s public record. First you had Ye meet with Jared Kushner shortly before declaring his presidency. Here’s a great article that lays out Republican attorney help: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/901534846/heres-how-republicans-are-boosting-kanye-west-s-presidential-campaign https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/us/politics/kanye-west-president-republicans.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/politics/kanye-west-gop-operative/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-operatives-tied-trump-camp-working-kanye-west/story?id=72200390 Many Dems weren’t happy with Biden and Ye would be a better choice than Trump in most of their eyes. A 2-3 percent swing could have changed multiple states. So we know Republicans helped Kanye. Why? Do you think all these Republican operatives were just sick of Trump and wanted him gone (I mean who wouldn’t want that s show gone).