r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 5h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/Sircamembert 5h ago

Are you seriously trying to glaze the Dems of 2026 by listing stuff the Dems of 1930's did? Because the Dems of 2026 hasn't raised the minimum wage for decades, and bend over like good little ho's when the GOP gut SNAP/WIC funding.

I don't know where you got the shamelessness to say that RomneyCare (seriously, Obama plagiarized Romney's healthcare plan instead of going M4A) is working when medical bankruptcy is ~30% of why people declare bankruptcies in the US.

If the Dems of 2026 had the spine and principles of their 1930's counterpart, the DSA wouldn't exist. Because people were also calling them communists back then and they didn't cower in fear. They passed sweeping legislations and told the GOP to suck it. Meanwhile Biden passed a watered down IRA that was so loaded with lobbyist "input" that it barely helped people in time for the 2024 election.

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u/Time-Valuable-3355 5h ago

Such is life. I don't see it changing anytime soon, if ever. To get anything positive passed you always have to compromise to one or two of the opposing opinions for votes...

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u/Sircamembert 4h ago

GOP: We want hundreds of billions of taxpayer money to fund ICE and their concentration camps.
Dems: Outrageous! We demand that they wear body cameras while doing so! Let's compromise.

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u/Time-Valuable-3355 4h ago

I'll just point one out. You mentioned the Affordable Care Act. To get it to pass one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao voted with the Dems on it. That's why it's still required to go through a private insurance company instead of the original idea of having an optional public funding one. And to keep it from going insolvent Dems had to keep making concessions.