Except the chyna “investments” aren’t really those so much as schemes to make other countries indebted to them. Largely big white elephant projects like massive highways and rail-lines that are way beyond what the country actually needs or can support.
Wouldn’t look at them as a model for anything except an eventual nuclear test site for our next-gen toys.
Grunwald has done yeoman work over the years explaining infrastructure and climate change legislation. His book The New New Deal is a really good overview of the 2009 American Recovery Act.
Yea don’t want to pay for it. He wants it for FREE!
Why? Fed dollars just prevent the good people of WV from pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Surely they don’t want any damned socialist projects sullying their State.
They think they are so fucking cute.
Put on a business suit and the gibberish becomes fact.
“Most presidents try to act swiftly in the first 100 days, and President Biden has next to zero accomplishments as we approach the last 60 days of his first year,” the Vermont state GOP said in a statement announcing the rally.
Damn it all to Hell! Did I miss the announcement that the Fucking Global Pandemic is over? Which fat lady sang?
I wish someone more adept and media savvy would create a meme or talking point using WW II generals and what setbacks and victory happened fighting a Fucking (almost) Global War. I mean these Republicans are all knowledgeable in all things military?
It’s going to be interesting for the Congresscritters in states of GOP senators who passed the bill to campaign against it.
It will also be interesting for them to keep this noise up if Manchin does indeed tank BBB.
I was going to say that Russian is his mother tongue.
Yes, but not restore or even maintain.
Apparently we have been slow to recognize the relationship Trump and the GOP have with the Truth.
Early in 2015 we should have transitioned to a two-tiered communication strategy:
(1) Communication with facts for those who deal with facts
(2) Communication with facts for those who do not.
It is, was and always has been a tale of two strategies and resultant tactics. No comments-section post is going to give all the details necessary for the above, but we sure as hell are continuing to miss the boat on dealing with lies of Trump and the GOP.
Tax cuts are the spring that fills the trickle down trough of infrastructure.
How about this: No infrastructure money for Congressional districts who had a NO vote for the bill?
When the funds starting flowing, these same obstructionists will tout how much project money they brought home. Happens every time . . .
Hey there! Quite a few of us here remember when Alaska was a territory.
Clyde continued: “Yet under the cover of darkness, Speaker Pelosi forced a vote on a massive $1.2 trillion piece of legislation…
They really should get that place wired for electricity so we can see what’s going on after dark. Or at least get some candles.
I didn’t and still don’t buy into POTUS can say whatever he wants. That the press can’t fact check him, or that we’ve grown from one news organization that lies sometimes, to three that do. These three media outlets aren’t offering a different view or a different solution to a problem. They deny that there is a problem, and create problems that weren’t there before.
There are probably people who could have and should have been working on this, but it’s also a really intractable problem. How do you make inroads with someone who is predisposed to believe the other side’s bullshit over your facts? Even when you’re telling them the sky is blue, they are half-convinced the sky is actually made of green cheese because that’s what “their” side it telling them.
It’s no mean feat to break through to people who are that knee-jerk opposed to accepting the truth from your lips.
Clyde must still be griping about the rural electrification act from the 1930’s. “Darn it our candles and gas lamps fought off that kind of socialism”.
The U.S. Press is a valuable entity. Other countries have a lot less. But lies cannot go un-challenged.
That is a knotty problem for Biden, the Dems in Congress and, ultimately, our voters.
If the lies continue to go unchallenged, ways must be found to combat this.
I mention things like strategy and tactics because the situation begs for a coordinated response and those types of things arise organizationally.
You are NOT going to get them…at least, most of them…but you will get some.