President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

CNN, ABC, MaddowNBC, Mahar, Oliver etc etc could win the fucking day and move the needle with honest approaches. Spend the next 4-6 weeks doing segments with GOP women, housewives, their husbands and everyday donks from the 11 Southern states (and Texas) who agree with most of what's in the infrastructure plan:

FACT SHEET: The American Jobs Plan | The White House

Fix highways, rebuild bridges, upgrade ports, airports and transit systems. The President’s plan will modernize 20,000 miles of highways, roads, and main-streets. It will fix the ten most economically significant bridges in the country in need of reconstruction. It also will repair the worst 10,000 smaller bridges, providing critical linkages to communities. And, it will replace thousands of buses and rail cars, repair hundreds of stations, renew airports, and expand transit and rail into new communities.​

-- This one is obvious but still has to be sold with visuals of men and women doing the labor and cashing their checks.​

Deliver clean drinking water, a renewed electric grid, and high-speed broadband to all Americans. President Biden’s plan will eliminate all lead pipes and service lines in our drinking water systems, improving the health of our country’s children and communities of color. It will put hundreds of thousands of people to work laying thousands of miles of transmission lines and capping hundreds of thousands of orphan oil and gas wells and abandoned mines. And, it will bring affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to every American, including the more than 35 percent of rural Americans who lack access to broadband at minimally acceptable speeds.​

-- Another no-brainer. Who doesn't want clean lead-free water? Guilt them with visuals from Flint.​

Build, preserve, and retrofit more than two million homes and commercial buildings, modernize our nation’s schools and child care facilities, and upgrade veterans’ hospitals and federal buildings. President Biden’s plan will create good jobs building, rehabilitating, and retrofitting affordable, accessible, energy efficient, and resilient housing, commercial buildings, schools, and child care facilities all over the country, while also vastly improving our nation’s federal facilities, especially those that serve veterans.​

-- Again, how many (Southern state) homes and commercial/fed/vets buildings are in dire need of retrofitting?​

Solidify the infrastructure of our care economy by creating jobs and raising wages and benefits for essential home care workers. These workers – the majority of whom are women of color – have been underpaid and undervalued for too long. The President’s plan makes substantial investments in the infrastructure of our care economy, starting by creating new and better jobs for caregiving workers. His plan will provide home and community-based care for individuals who otherwise would need to wait as many as five years to get the services they badly need.​

-- This is a big one where you lay guilt on parents if they're against dollars that provide care for their kids ​

I don't have much of an opinion on these 2 items from the plan:

Revitalize manufacturing, secure U.S. supply chains, invest in R&D, and train Americans for the jobs of the future. President Biden’s plan will ensure that the best, diverse minds in America are put to work creating the innovations of the future while creating hundreds of thousands of quality jobs today. Our workers will build and make things in every part of America, and they will be trained for well-paying, middle-class jobs.

Create good-quality jobs that pay prevailing wages in safe and healthy workplaces while ensuring workers have a free and fair choice to organize, join a union, and bargain collectively with their employers. By ensuring that American taxpayers’ dollars benefit working families and their communities, and not multinational corporations or foreign governments, the plan will require that goods and materials are made in America and shipped on U.S.-flag, U.S.-crewed vessels. The plan also will ensure that Americans who have endured systemic discrimination and exclusion for generations finally have a fair shot at obtaining good paying jobs and being part of a union.​

Instead these fucking liberal douchebags let Chris Christie poison the waters of discourse again and again and again.

 

Keep pulling at these threads and sooner or later DeSantis is going to get dragged in. Interesting thread here.

 

It all goes back to that GQC world view that hasn't changed since the 1950s. Remember Trump wanted to revive the coal mining industry in West Virginia? And rejected the climate change accords because he was more interested in helping Pittsburgh than Paris (among other reasons), even though the Pittsburgh economy has morphed beyond the steel industry? And of course Cruz (perhaps wearing a sombrero with Cancun emblazoned across the brow) echoes it.

Yet they still buy into Trump's sthick. They lost the House, Senate and White House under him, and they still worship him like the bovines during the "Cow Days" episode on "South Park." It's how Infrastructure Week became such a running joke. They have no plans and, it appears, no desire to embrace emerging technology. Why, when you can just run down what the other guys are doing.

 

"POTUS isn't tweeting conspiracy theories, so I'll amplify one about him" is a hell of a look for a Senator.

 

As you said:

 

He's a rich girl and he's gone too far
but he knows it doesn't matter anyway.
He can rely on the old man's money- he can rely on the old man's money.

 

Here’s How Fox News and Trump Ended Up on Flip Sides of the Free-Speech Fight

 

I want the name of the printing shop that did that work.

Math not being one of its strong suits.

 

I believe the name you are looking for is Photoshop.

 

Damned Cancel Culture.