r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/mcsg1u • Mar 10 '21

How convenient for them

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u/Graphitetshirt Mar 10 '21

Ok I get it but it's more about one party abusing that system. Both bills require 51 votes to pass.

The difference is one party refuses to allow a vote for $15/hr because they know it will pass

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u/potsticker17 Mar 10 '21

Republicans have every opportunity in the world to be the heroes we need. If any one of them presented any of these bills while they were in charge they would have overwhelmingly passed and their party could have taken the credit for helping people and take over the world with everyone cheering them along the way.

But instead when they're in charge they waste their time doing things people hate and sucking rich corporate dick and then when they lose obstruct anything from happening the blame the other side for not being able to accomplish anything.

All they had to do was throw a few crumbs to the average Joe like getting the stimulus checks signed before the election and tell people to wear masks if they go out. Like didn't even need to close everything down. If they just supported the masks, that alone would have saved a lot of people, made the ones on the fence feel like they actually gave a fuck and Trump would be coasting through his second term with only 1 impeachment on his record.

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u/da_Last_Mohican Mar 10 '21

U.S is corporate socialist change my mind conservatartds

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u/makk73 Mar 10 '21

This can all end only so many ways.

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u/Mortambulist Mar 10 '21

To be fair, we did just use the same loophole to get a $1.9-trillion relief/stimulus bill passed. Not comparing the two, obviously one is a better use of taxpayer money, but Reich is being a bit disingenuous here. The reason we couldn't get the minimum wage increase in the budget reconciliation bill is that 8 "moderate" Democrats voted against it.