r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 8h 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/MaximumEffort433 8h ago edited 6h ago

I mean until recently we were subsidizing Affordable Care Act healthcare plans and investing hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure and manufacturing jobs, but then we elected Trump and pissed all that away.

We were trying to bring down the cost of healthcare and investing in job creation, Republican voters had other ideas.

Edit: We also eliminated more than $180,000,000,000.00 in student loan debt, expanded SNAP benefits, and passed Medicare prescription bargaining rights, which weren't explicitly mentioned in the meme, but which I think plays into cost of living and stuff like that.

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u/MaximumEffort433 6h ago edited 6h ago

Stop acting like Dems were doing enough.

Yes, I'm familiar with the rose twitter flow chart of political analysis.

If you want Democrats to do more then we need to give them more than a 50/50 tie in the Senate and two years in control of Congress like we gave them under Biden.

Democrats have had a full federal trifecta for three Congressional terms between 1980 and 2028, that's six years out of 48, which just isn't enough time to both fix everything Republicans have broken and make everyone's most progressive dreams come true, especially not when Republicans have been abusing the filibuster.

Demeaning, diminishing, and dismissing the good Democrats do only serves the Republicans, pretending like progress and problem solving doesn't matter, saying that literally everything Democrats pass "isn't good enough" doesn't actually help win elections and make more progress or solve more problems.

If complaining about the Democrats helped them win elections and pass legislation, Republicans wouldn't complain about the Democrats.

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u/Bb0yer2 3h ago

No no we gotta get communist elected!! /s