Current Events > Omar: Trumps stimulus did more for Americans than Democrat slimmed-down package

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https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/stimulus-update-us-relief-bill-03-05-21/h_6cd7af74e019a1be57960bd206bb03af

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Democrats ran on buying votes the whole time. "We'll give you $2k", said Ossoff. "It'll happen immediately", said Warnock. Now that they're in, they decide suddenly they don't want to give out so much.

The key question here is this:
Will any of their voters learn? Will any of them care? Probably not. If they were paying attention, they wouldn't have voted for these fucks in the first place.

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onedarksoul posted...

Democrats ran on buying votes the whole time. "We'll give you $2k", said Ossoff. "It'll happen immediately", said Warnock. Now that they're in, they decide suddenly they don't want to give out so much.

The key question here is this:
Will any of their voters learn? Will any of them care? Probably not. If they were paying attention, they wouldn't have voted for these fucks in the first place.

Better than getting nothing from Republicans

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stupid person says something stupid, more at 11

wackyteen posted...

Better than getting nothing from Republicans

Trump tried to get you $2000 with the same criteria as the $600. Remember that in your darkest hour.

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Also I don't ever want to see another person here bitching when I point out that the progressive platform is about giving money to upper-middle class people, not the working class.

They've gone mask off with this check stupidity.

Where money
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onedarksoul posted...

Trump tried to get you $2000 with the same criteria as the $600. Remember that in your darkest hour.

He did like 100 horrible things for every decent or good thing he did.

And Congressional Republicans blocked it so how in the fuck is this relevant?


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lol love all these people not bringing up that democrats wanted $2000 way before trump even mentioned it

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/house-democrats-propose-2000-coronavirus-stimulus-payment-per-month

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pikachupwnage posted...

He did like 100 horrible things for every decent or good thing he did.

Irrelevant, and subjective.

And Congressional Republicans blocked it so how in the fuck is this relevant?

Pelosi blocked it first. Had he won, and kept GA, the GOP would've gotten muscled into it.

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onedarksoul posted...

Had he won, and kept GA, the GOP would've gotten muscled into it.

hahaha

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised considering how much worse things were back then

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if Trump really wanted $2000 checks during his term he would have told Mitch to pass it

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The left is being really stupid right now lol

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

hahaha

Let him have his delusions, they're all he has left.

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Trump was a shitty president lets move on

this country is doomed. people can just easily lie about trumps "covid relief" now that it's been ~3 months, as seen in this topic. the gop fought tooth and nail to prevent people from getting any help and instead focus on reopening businesses...which led to worse covid spreading and people having no money for themselves. and neutral people will just buy into it because on a base level, it seems to make sense. that is why this country is doomed.

i agree old joe is in no hurry to help anyone because he is a capitalist politician . still is better than trump and the gop by 100x. he will eventually get money out to those who need it due to covid...these checks wouldve never happened had trump actually been re-elected.

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Was Omar always this dumb, or am I just now noticing it

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oh my fucking god

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Samurontai posted...

Was Omar always this dumb, or am I just now noticing it

Delirious_Beard posted...

oh my fucking god

It's an entirely stupid move

If she keeps this shit up hope she likes being in the minority party and all the influence and power that comes with that lol

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if she's just trying to shame the faux-Democrats who voted against it, into changing their minds, i get it tbh

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God I'm so jealous of doomarts ability to erase his personality every two weeks and just glom onto the next thing

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pikachupwnage posted...

He did like 100 horrible things for every decent or good thing he did.

And Congressional Republicans blocked it so how in the fuck is this relevant?

he also had 9 more months than Bidens had so far.

@onedarksoul come back in November and well see where things stand.

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Eyeratosthenes posted...

God I'm so jealous of doomarts ability to erase his personality every two weeks and just glom onto the next thing

How am I erasing my personality lol

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Doom_Art posted...

It's an entirely stupid move

If she keeps this shit up hope she likes being in the minority party and all the influence and power that comes with that lol

Lmao right

Tbh, the only reason she even says shit like that is because they live in super safe districts and have almost zero chances of losing their seats


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it's almost as if people don't realize that calculated shaming is a legitimate strategy for pushing the overton window open a bit more

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I think there's some distance between that headline and the content of her comments

Omar, a progressive Democrat, was referring specifically to a change made in the Senate that would narrow income eligibility for the next round of $1,400 stimulus checks, cutting off couples that earn $160,000 a year and individual people who earn more than $80,000 a year. The House legislation, which passed Saturday, set the income caps at $200,000 for couples and $100,000 for individuals.
"I see it as a really disappointing development," said Omar, speaking on CNN. "We obviously are now ultimately sending money to less people than the Trump administration." [Fact check: true]
When pressed by CNN's Brianna Keilar on whether she was saying that "Trump wanted to deliver more in the way of checks for Americans than Biden?" Omar responded affirmatively.
"Yeah," she replied. "So the last checks that we were able to send had given 17 million more people than we will ultimately do with the caps now. And that, you know, is going to be something that we're going to have to explain, and I don't know if many of us have a logical explanation on why we are delivering less."
By contrast, the federal government sent about 160 million payments worth up to $1,200 per person last year, reaching about 94% of families. Some households that earned more than $200,000 a year were eligible, depending on how many children they had.
"This is not the promise that we made," said Omar. "This is not who we are given the opportunity to be as majority in the Senate and have the White hHouse. So ultimately it is a failure when we compromise ourselves out of delivering on behalf of the American people and in keeping our promises."

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What did she say that's wrong

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Are y'all really surprised? Even if you get a different asshole... the same things come out of every asshole.

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Antifar posted...

I think there's some distance between that headline and the content of her comments

No actually that's what we're all making fun of her for saying.

Democrats are about to pass an aid bill as big as the entire economy of Italy that has everything; unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, tax credits for the poor, an eviction moratorium, aid for vaccine distribution and schools, etc

And people like Omar and AOC are whining because... the affluent won't get checks. Oh how they miss when Trump was President and rich people got money too!

Fuck off.

IMNOTRAGED posted...

What did she say that's wrong

Trumps stimulus did more for Americans than Democrat slimmed-down package


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Samurontai posted...

Trumps stimulus did more for Americans than Democrat slimmed-down package

Are those her words or CNN's? Read her words.

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Antifar posted...

Are those her words or CNN's? Read her words.

The checks are bigger than the ones passed under Trump.

She's whining because people making twice the median income in the US won't get them.

Antifar posted...

Are those her words or CNN's? Read her words.

I mean, technically shes right, but the way she worded it makes it sound like they were trying to under achieve what Trump did with his bill

Its still stupid of her to say

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Hot takes

onedarksoul posted...

Trump tried to get you $2000 with the same criteria as the $600. Remember that in your darkest hour.

Trump couldn't convince McTurtle, what makes you think he could have done this?
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Slayer_22 posted...

Trump couldn't convince McTurtle, what makes you think he could have done this?

lol, you think he tried?

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thronedfire2 posted...

lol, you think he tried?

No, just saying he couldn't convince him. As in, there is no way on earth he'd be able to convince him.
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