If the Republican Party bans the UBI, what the fuck is their plan?
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/if-the-republican-party-bans-the-ubi-what-the-fuck-is-their-plan
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 18•4 months ago
They will literally turn to fascism, and just take your shit and throw you in a grinder. They don’t care about the planet, the people, or anything other than their stock portfolios.
gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English10•4 months agowhy does the GOP just want to hurt everyone?
(the question is rhetorical)
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LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 8•4 months agoRepublicans don’t have a plan, outside of hurting ‘the other.’ Having a plan would mean having to defend something from scrutiny, and it’s way easier to tear shit down than to build or refine.
PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 7•4 months agoWhat does it even matter? Even if they ban it, it changes nothing because it’s not like they would ever implement it anyway. And if the dems would want to implement UBI someday couldn’t they just repeal the ban?
PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English7•4 months agoWhy are they blaming the republicans for banning UBI? Obama had a super majority, and the dems didn’t pass a UBI or even an abortion bill, so obviously the Dems dont want it either.
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 6•4 months agoThis is such a lie. Obama never had a super majority
PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English4•4 months agoNo need to change history to protect your best friends, the blue capitalist party. In 2008 they had a super majority for a few months, specifically July and August. Now I should specify, that 60 votes isn’t necessary at all, it’s just another one of those convenient rules that only seems to matter if it’s legislation democrats don’t want to pass in the first place.
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 4•4 months agoPresident Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009 with just 58 Senators to support his agenda.
He should have had 59, but Republicans contested Al Franken’s election in Minnesota and he didn’t get seated for seven months.
The President’s cause was helped in April when Pennsylvania’s Republican Senator Arlen Specter switched parties.
That gave the President 59 votes – still a vote shy of the super majority.
But one month later, Democratic Senator Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized and was basically out of commission.
So while the President’s number on paper was 59 Senators – he was really working with just 58 Senators.
Then in July, Minnesota Senator Al Franken was finally sworn in, giving President Obama the magic 60 – but only in theory, because Senator Byrd was still out.
In August, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts died and the number went back down to 59 again until Paul Kirk temporarily filled Kennedy’s seat in September.
Any pretense of a supermajority ended on February 4, 2010 when Republican Scott Brown was sworn into the seat Senator Kennedy once held.
Take you and your Mitt Romney talking point and shove it, you soggy bucket bad faith hack.
PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 months agoSo like I said and the article confirmed, July to August he had a super majority.
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 2•4 months agoYou need to read a lot more closely. You missed some important details.
One thing that was not mentioned in that was the fact that Joe Lieberman was an independent that leaned very much Republican. So he does not count towards the majority. So that’s even one less.
PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 months agoOh! How convenient. Democrats, that ran as Democrats, are referred to as Democrats, and are funded by various “Democrat” funding orgs such as the DNC or the DCCC, are suddenly not Democrats when it comes to actions in congress that might matter.
Maybe we shouldn’t vote for people just because they have a D next to their name?
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 1•4 months agoHe switched to independent around 2000. He was known as “independent Democrat”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Democrat
The idea that Obama ever had a supermajority is bad faith and lacking nuance.
crusa187 ( @crusa187@lemmy.ml ) 6•4 months agoGaslight, Obstruct, and Project. But harder!!
DarkNightoftheSoul ( @DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz ) English5•4 months agoWhy don’t we just eat brioche?
Whiskey_iicarus ( @Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•4 months agoThoughts and prayers. Did you not get yours?