All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[PaulBullion]

Ah yes, clearly she cares greatly about helping the nation and is not simply trying to use an emergency to push a wish list that otherwise would never have a chance of passing. You can tell she's super serious because of all the relevant regulations she inserted into the bill:

-Subsidies for solar and wind power are clearly about reacting to the virus.
-A massive handout to public employees unions is clearly about the virus.
-Bailing out the post office is about reacting to the virus.
-Same day voter registration is about reacting to the virus.
-Emission regulations on commercial airlines are clearly about reacting to the virus.
-Regulating the diversity of corporate boards is clearly about reacting to the virus.


Anyhow, there's 1400 pages to the Dem's plan and those are just a handful of the goodies they've stuffed in there. Their entire plan is to reject the Senate's bill (which Schumer was just praising as bipartisan a day or two ago) and hope that the public blames the Republicans.

That's it.

If they were serious about it they'd strip all the "corporate welfare" and pass a clean bill. But they have no such interest and most of the people on this comment board will pretend otherwise.

Republican slipped "abstinence only" sex education into their version of the bill, Karen.

[Kirby101]

Link please. Because there is nothing on Darman's about that.

Do you support the unaccountable GOP $500 billion fund for corporations?

[Mister Mets]

I thought Manchin won re-election in 2018 though. Wouldn’t he be up for re-election again in 2024? That gives him plenty of time to be known as the renegade who held both Trump and Biden’s feet to the fire and appease West Virginians on that front.

He'll also be 77 years old on election day. I don't know if he wants another term.

Granted, he has enjoyed being one of the most powerful politicians in the country as one of the key swing votes.

Why would I have criticized him for being there? That’s literally his job. And it isn’t a “bad faith attack”—I’m just pointing out his statements and cursing out a reporter, implying he is actively involved in trying to get the crisis to subside. Instead, Sanders is about as involved as Biden is, despite Biden not being a sitting Senator or government official.

I’m glad she voted no, but, no, a “not there” vote (which isn’t a vote to be clear) doesn’t count for anything. It changed the margins needed for passing or defeating a bill. Sanders could very well have risked a horrible bill to pass because he couldn’t be bothered to do his job and vote his conscience.



He would’ve acted quicker and ensured that people coming from international territories were screened at airports and tested if their symptoms matched. He would’ve ensured that testing was prioritized over stopping a stock market fall. He would’ve pushed for drive thru testing sites. He talked about this all at the debate, in his address today, and has pointed to experts whose opinions were instrumental to the anti-Ebola effort under the Obama Administration. Just because one might argue it doesn’t go far enough doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to his ideas. That seems like more of a bad faith attack.

To be clear, the bill needs 60 votes to pass. Sanders isn't changing the margins at all, even if it was a tie. They don't need 50% plus one. They need 60 out of 100 to pass, or 41 out of 100 to reject.

[Mister Mets]

Link please. Because there is nothing on Darman's about that.

Do you support the unaccountable GOP $500 billion fund for corporations?

Here's a twitter thread pointing out elements of Pelosi's bill that do not directly seem to tie into directly responding to COVID-19.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...834845710.html

https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/sta...16258834845710

[TheDarman]

Here's a twitter thread pointing out elements of Pelosi's bill that do not directly seem to tie into directly responding to COVID-19.

https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/sta...21907694186497

I think the dismissal of vote-by-mail as not relevant to this crisis given how many primary elections have had to be delayed demonstrates the slant of this particular poster. However, I’m certainly understanding how the other things, like corporate board diversity, isn’t necessarily relevant to this crisis and seems like a pork-barrel provision.

[Kirby101]

I think the dismissal of vote-by-mail as not relevant to this crisis given how many primary elections have had to be delayed demonstrates the slant of this particular poster. However, I’m certainly understanding how the other things, like corporate board diversity, isn’t necessarily relevant to this crisis and seems like a pork-barrel provision.

Or bargaining chips.

[babyblob]

Both Dems and Republicans tried to push some bull crap in the stimulus bill. Abortion, climate change, voter rights. They are important topics to address but not in a bill meant to help the American people through the crisis in memory. It makes me thing neither side wants to get this done.

[Crabble]

Um, which bill is being discussed in that twitter thread that Mr. Mets has provided? The text doesn't seem to match H.R. 6201.

Currently looking at H.R. 6201, S. 3548, and H.R. 6074.

Found it. https://apps.npr.org/documents/docum...ted-House-Bill

[Mister Mets]

I think the dismissal of vote-by-mail as not relevant to this crisis given how many primary elections have had to be delayed demonstrates the slant of this particular poster. However, I’m certainly understanding how the other things, like corporate board diversity, isn’t necessarily relevant to this crisis and seems like a pork-barrel provision.

A permanent shift to nationwide vote-by-mail is going beyond the scope of something meant to address the current crisis.

It's defensible, but it requires serious debate, and this is not the best time for that.

[Mister Mets]

Um, which bill is being discussed in that twitter thread that Mr. Mets has provided? The text doesn't seem to match H.R. 6201.

Currently looking at H.R. 6201, S. 3548, and H.R. 6074.

Found it. https://apps.npr.org/documents/docum...ted-House-Bill

NPR has the text of the emergency appropriations bill.

https://apps.npr.org/documents/docum...ted-House-Bill

It matches the snapshots in the twitter thread.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Is it really that hard to just make a bill that says

1. Give regular people these things

-tax relief
-a monthly check for somewhere between 1k-2k until this emergency ends
-unemployment relaxed
-paid sick leave

2. Give corporations
-a stimulus to survive this if they had to shut down
-a tax break for not laying people off


3. Essential healthcare services money necessary to conduct operations

[Crabble]

NPR has the text of the emergency appropriations bill.

https://apps.npr.org/documents/docum...ted-House-Bill

It matches the snapshots in the twitter thread.

Just found the link, but thanks.

[The no face guy]

Good god! There is a sociopath in the Whitehouse! I'm generally a non partisan person, but if you open up the U.S. for business in less than a month, the cornavirus will spread through the United States like a wildflower.

Every other western nation is going into a strict lockdown, while Trump is advocating opening the country back up for commerce in possibly less than a month. That is insane!!! New York is turning into the next Spain & Italy.

As a Canadian sharing the same landmass this freaks me out, Canada needs to build a wall now!!!

[numberthirty]

Is it really that hard to just make a bill that says

1. Give regular people these things

-tax relief
-a monthly check for somewhere between 1k-2k until this emergency ends
-unemployment relaxed
-paid sick leave

2. Give corporations
-a stimulus to survive this if they had to shut down
-a tax break for not laying people off


3. Essential healthcare services money necessary to conduct operations

If you are a "Business As Usual..." politician in DC?

Apparently.

[JCAll]

A permanent shift to nationwide vote-by-mail is going beyond the scope of something meant to address the current crisis.

It's defensible, but it requires serious debate, and this is not the best time for that.

Seeing the pandemic crash into primary season, as well as the fear that it might stretch out to the general election, is the reason it's being discussed in context of the current crisis.