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Democrats Just Confirmed That We’re Screwed
In both the short and long terms.
Two of today’s news stories have confirmed that the Democrats care more about power than actually doing anything to help the American people.
We’ll start with Nancy Pelosi announcing that there will be no vote Saturday to continue the $600/week federal unemployment extension, which will leave millions of Americans possibly facing eviction during a pandemic. In an interview with PBS, she said that she doesn’t think “strategically it’s where we should go right now, because the Republicans would like to pass something like that and say forget about it,” continuing with weak excuses about other things that need funding as well. While it’s true that Republicans are likely to put up a fight in those other areas, refusing Americans the help they need right now to pay rent in September isn’t going to help. In fact, it guarantees that Congress will continue fighting about it for however long it takes them to come to some bigger agreement, leaving all of us screwed in the meantime.
Then we have the story about Ted Kaufman, reportedly the head of Biden’s transition team, saying that, “when we get in, the pantry is going to be bare.” Sure, it was just an advisor, and it isn’t actually proof of anything, but examine the historical evidence, and particularly Biden’s Wall…
