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The Biden Presidency
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Now you’re talking!
Twitter wants him to resign. Are these the usual keyboard warriors or is it actually strong consensus?
His approval stands from 44-49% depending on which poll you believe.
Twitter is the most overemphasised medium. It doesn't reflect strong consensus which is evident by the fact the majority of political candidates who are really popular on there tend to lose elections and often not in a close manner. I remember election day 2019 and the sidebar of trending items were all pro-Corbyn and/or anti-Tory but then it turned out the Tories got the biggest landslide in 80 years and the youth turnout was actually mediocre. Youth being the one thing Twitter has going for it. It's not representative.
I'm not discounting social media as a medium but Facebook is way more representative than Twitter and certainly more powerful - and Facebook itself is not very representative. The fact that the UK has almost 80% fully vaccinated is a relief because the online social media makes anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists far bigger than what they really are. On my local council's facebook page a post to update people with information was inundated with anti-vaxxers yet according to the tracker 72% of people in my ward have got their first dose and 64% have got their second dose. Those people are just a really loud minority.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map/vaccinations
I'm not discounting social media as a medium but Facebook is way more representative than Twitter and certainly more powerful - and Facebook itself is not very representative. The fact that the UK has almost 80% fully vaccinated is a relief because the online social media makes anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists far bigger than what they really are. On my local council's facebook page a post to update people with information was inundated with anti-vaxxers yet according to the tracker 72% of people in my ward have got their first dose and 64% have got their second dose. Those people are just a really loud minority.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map/vaccinations
Dems fear 'devastating consequences' in 2022 midterms after Biden's struggles in August: report
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-2022-midterms/#comments_section_start
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-2022-midterms/#comments_section_start
How the feck do they managed to blow this up. I would have thought trump set the Dem good for years
Coukd easilly go ugly if the spark caught wind. With him being 80+, afghanistan, trump punching in. Could well be
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They kind of already did. The rescue plan has billions of dollars set aside for rental assistance. The process is apparently confusing and does not apply to everyone, but money is there. The infuriating thing is that states, red and blue, are failing in helping people with this. This is the way to do it, not a moratorium, as it allows apartment/house owners to get revenue as well.
FACT SHEET: The American Rescue Plan Will Deliver Immediate Economic Relief to Families | U.S. Department of the Treasury
Landlords refuse to accept these funds as ‘rent’ and most states are doing a terrible job of handing them out. These funds are barely being utilized.
A moratorium means that the owning class gets their payment later (and the renting class gets thrown into jail later), not that they will never get it.
That makes absolutely zero difference since the money will then go directly to the renters as cash who can then turn around and use it for rent.
Agree with the second sentence.
That is a stupid term. Not all landlords are billionaire or even millionaire hedge funds. Many small complexes are owned by individuals who are using the rent as their retirement income or income in general. They still have mortgages to pay and upkeep to maintain.
No. The landlord can still can refuse the rent and evict them. This is why a moratorium is more effective than rental assistance programs.
Sure, the landlord can evict them provided specific, legal, conditions are met, but the renter still gets the cash directly from the rescue plan to be used for rent elsewhere. Meanwhile the landlord has an empty unit. I am not saying it is perfect, but neither is an indefinite moratorium which will take months to even implement.
Actually, that number seems to be diminishing as investment companies start seeing housing as a great investment, and some companies now have huge international housing 'portfolios'. Maybe laws should start reflecting that.
True, and not just apartments but housing as well. If the laws were able to distinguish between a hedge fund and people like my friends parents (a retired mechanic and a stay at home mom who own a 5 unit apartment complex and use it as their only retirement income) then it would make sense. I doubt it currently does though. What you touch on though is quite worrying though. Investors snatching up houses is crushing inventory and jacking up prices for homebuyers. On my team call yesterday my California team members all commented that they could not buy their current houses now if they had to. It's insane.
Of course its not a fecking consensus
I mean…they are evicting them. This isn't an imaginary scenario. It is happening. Also, having an empty unit sits on the market isn’t the same as being rendered homeless in the middle of a pandemic. It’s a terrible false equivalency.
Also, how the feck do you find housing on such short notice??? while waiting for a hail mary that your application is actually processed.
I don't know globally at all, but I know this is really a thing in the Netherlands, and is similar elsewhere: investment companies buy up big bundles of housing, do some general updates, and then put them back on the market for much higher fees (even if existing tenants can stay for their old fee). They'll say they do it to provide great housing for people, but in practice, it takes away big parts of the lower segment of the housing market, putting affordable housing in bigger cities out of reach for lots of people.
When you move into a new place it's usually first and last month's rent. Those payments aren't going to cover that.
It wasn't an attempt a equivalency, just (poorly now that I reread it) pointing out the insanity of landlords evicting people in lieu of accepting rent. An indefinite moratorium, and it needs to be indefinite because who the hell knows when this pandemic is going to be over, is going to be an almost impossible sell in the House, and you can forget the Senate. So it falls back on the executive branch to do something, because Dems in congress are cowards and/or greedy feckers. What the feds can do, but the Biden admin seems to not really care about doing, is providing federal assistance to help people get those funds so they can have something.
None of that is perfect and there are glaring gaps that people are going to fall through. I think an eviction moratorium, coupled with renter assistance, is the way to keep as many people whole as possible. It also does not saddle people with massive rent debts once the moratorium is over, because all the moratorium is doing is pushing rents off till later. Renters will eventually need to pay back the rent or be evicted then.
Agree with both points. Like I mentioned in the post above, those rents are going to come due at some point, so the assistance program provides a path to ensure eviction is not just delayed, but avoided. A hybrid approach is needed.
I haven’t been keeping up much with American politics beyond the latest Afghanistan stuff but I’ve heard precisely zip about her. Strange.
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...-resume-oil-gas-drilling-auctions-2021-08-31/
Biden administration to resume drilling auctions in setback to climate agenda
Biden administration to resume drilling auctions in setback to climate agenda
She's in Asia, but yeah if she is being groomed to be the successor taking over as the continuation candidate in 4 years, she sure isn't shouldering the responsibility to warrant it.
Bit misleading heading though, They need to comply with a court order.
i don't know if the court can overturn a freeze rather than a pause, and if the court compelled them to say this or to not do the environmental analysis:
e - the reporting is really shoddy, it can be pieced together from 3 different articles:
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Anything ‘too’ revealing will surely stay buried.
Trump was also going to reveal things about the Saudi’s and 9/11 but just another nothing burger and this will be the same from a career politician like Biden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/climate/line-3-pipeline-biden.html
Biden Administration Backs Oil Sands Pipeline Project
The administration urged a court to throw out a challenge brought by tribal and environmental groups, backing a pipeline that would carry Canadian oil across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Old story (June) which I missed, but saw now in this context:
Biden Administration Backs Oil Sands Pipeline Project
The administration urged a court to throw out a challenge brought by tribal and environmental groups, backing a pipeline that would carry Canadian oil across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Old story (June) which I missed, but saw now in this context:
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Texas shows we can’t wait any longer. It’s time to pack the court
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/06/texas-pack-the-court-biden
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/06/texas-pack-the-court-biden
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I could not even give that 10 seconds.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...n-tax-reform-congress-democrats-moderate.html
Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden’s Tax Reform by Three-Quarters
Moderate Democrats have quietly knifed the president’s legacy bill.
Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden’s Tax Reform by Three-Quarters
Moderate Democrats have quietly knifed the president’s legacy bill.
the feck is this crap?
“An increase in estate taxes now looks unlikely… Raising the capital gains rate is facing the most internal opposition, and it could end up staying at its current 23.8%.”
Ridiculous that a Dem controlled Presidency, House and Senate can't these super mild reforms passed. raising estate taxes (after the 1 million exemption) should be a no-brainer and it's just insanity that capital gains tax is what it is. No surprise that I, and the rest of the middle class pay a higher percent in taxes than multi-millionaires. They also need to change the unearned income rate but no hope for that either.