You guys criticizing DAY ONE covid relief when over the course of 12+ months trump only issues a total of 2000? A one time check of 1200 and a follow up of 600. Some of you are even from countries that have had continuous payments.
Its issues like this, that conservatives take up, where the hypocrisy makes it clear what their motivations are. Its not the good of the people, its not about the truth, or whats morally right, its just "im red team, and I dont like blue team"
Promises given, promises not kept. Instead of focusing on their stated Day 1 goals, Congress focused on an impeachment trial that was doomed to fail from the start, suspending most of their activity besides that one issue. Anything relevant achieved by Biden so far was achieved through overreaching executive orders. The balance score card is looking extremely favourable to Trump, by any stretch of the imagination. The Biden administration has delivered zero direct relief and it's mid-February. No, I'm not going to count the latest $600 as a "Biden win", that package was well-underway when Trump was still in office. The voters in many states voted in part on the basis of "we are the party that is going to give you $2000 instead of $600 in your time of need" and they've seen ziltch. It's not beyond the pale to call this a bribe without putting any actual money on the table. The Democrats had ample time to pursue impeachment before the inauguration, they could've mounted a more effective push when Trump was still in office, or they could've refrained from wasting time on a fool's errand. Instead, they chose to pursue the issue in January because it enables them to stall. I don't see how any of this is disputable, they have both chambers and the presidency, they can do whatever they want in this regard, even without a supermajority. In fact, Biden himself has the power to redirect funds from the military towards a national emergency, the same power Trump used to secure wall funding - that absolutely would work in a pinch, but he hasn't done that. I would say that a pandemic that put large swathes of Americans out of work and led to the permanent closures of an unprecedented percentage of small businesses classifies as an "emergency", so it wouldn't exactly be without precedent. Long story short, people voted to get the bag, and they should get the bag they were promised. If Biden's admin has the time to review arms deals, they most certainly have the time to secure the livelyhoods of the citizens, specifically as a matter of national security given the recent public unrest that spread across the country. It's a perfectly valid criticism. The GOP cheapskates are not without blame here, but they're not in power right now - the Democrats are, at every level of the federal government (besides the judiciary, perhaps, if we consider the Supreme Court, but political affiliation is irrelevant there). I heard a lot about "keeping the President's feet to the fire" after the election, but I'm not seeing it. He should be hollering about it 24/7 until it's done.
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fair point
idk how I managed to miss that
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back to our regularly scheduled bickering programming
No harm done, you would be surprised by how many people raise the issue regularly, it's how the cookie crumbles. I mean, he's using nearly the exact same username, the exact same avatar and he has been a member since April last year. He's also chatting in the presence of a Global well-aware of his history on the site. If he were evading, he wouldn't be doing a very good job now, would he?
This isn't something users should be used to, however - unbans are exceptionally rare, I can only think of a handful of instances when they were allowed, either due to improved behaviour outside of the forum structure or due to the fact that, upon reflection, perhaps the punishment didn't quite fit the crime... Or simply because a long stretch of time has passed and we let bygones be bygones.
@Valwinz quips are still biting, but they're biting and to the point, he isn't going around flaming like he used to, so we showed him some kindness. That can of course change depending on the circumstances, there are limits to kindness, but he hasn't reached them as of yet. One thing I can say with certainty is that asking to be unbanned is a surefire way to stay banned, so treat this as an exception, not a common occurance.
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