Fresh Start Political Thread

At least something got through... bigly talked all about infrastructure and got nothing done. Same with his beautiful healthcare plan, same with the wall, etc. All talk.

There were alot of corporate handouts in that bill. That is the only way we will ever get a bipartisan bill. The corporate dems have to keep their overlords happy. Sorry I am a bit jaded because I wanted the 3.9 bill passed first help real Americans and not corps but the infrastructure is good. Yea! Welcome to the the year 2021 USA you're the last developed country here.

About 10 million homes still have lead pipes and this will address that. Finally being able to say there are no lead pipes and all american houses have clean water is a win.

bringing broadband to the rural parts is a win.

fixing some of these roads and bridges will be a win. I did lots of driving from Montgomery County to Annapolis to havre de grace last few days and we need some major bridge/road repair.

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Nearly 67,000 of the nation’s 605,000 bridges are rated “structurally deficient” and are in need of substantial repair or replacement, according to bridge inspections analyzed in The Fix We’re In For: The State of the Nation’s Bridges 2013. Nearly 8,000 are both structurally deficient and “fracture critical”, meaning they are designed with no redundancy in their key structural components, so that if one fails the bridge could collapse. The Federal Highway Administration estimates that the backlog of troubled bridges would cost $76 billion to eliminate.

The report ranks states and the District of Columbia in terms of the overall condition of the their bridges, with one having the largest share of deficient bridges, 51 the lowest. Twenty-one states have a higher percentage of deficient bridges than the national average of 11 percent. The five states with the worst bridge conditions have a share over 20 percent: Pennsylvania has the largest share of deteriorating bridges (24.5%), followed by Oklahoma (22.0%), Iowa (21.7%), Rhode Island (21.6%), and South Dakota (20.3%).

https://t4america.org/2013/06/19/one-in-9-bridges-still-structurally-deficient-as-average-age-nears-50-years/

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The need is growing rapidly, the report notes: While most bridges are designed to last 50 years before major overhaul or replacement, American bridges average 43 years old. Age is a major factor in bridge conditions. Roughly half of the structurally deficient bridges are 65 or older.Jun 19, 2013

Does congress work better when there is a 50-50 split?

Seems like Manchin (a moderate D) is able to reign in the most ambitious Dems much like Romney/McCain did 4 years ago.

As long as each side has a few moderates that wont bend thy knee and can take hate from their own party, it seems like this is working.

Manchin. McCain, Romney, Kasich .. these are guys I wish were presidents. Although they may have been more impactful right where they are.

No you are right SS there are good things in there. I am not a fan of privatizing public infrastructure. Hush yo mouth about Manchin and wishing he was a President.

Any hoo switching gears. Roberta Kaplan the chairwoman for Time's Up an advocacy group that claims to support women victims of sexual harassment, but actually did a good job of defending Gov. Cuomo, resigned. She was pretty integral in attacking some of his accusers. Here is her resignation letter: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/roberta-kaplan-times-up-resignation-letter/68528f359a886f99/full.pdf

The first sentence of the second paragraph is ironic she is talking about Cuomo but it should be about her.

Does congress work better when there is a 50-50 split?

Seems like Manchin (a moderate D) is able to reign in the most ambitious Dems much like Romney/McCain did 4 years ago.

As long as each side has a few moderates that wont bend thy knee and can take hate from their own party, it seems like this is working.

Manchin. McCain, Romney, Kasich .. these are guys I wish were presidents. Although they may have been more impactful right where they are.

Not much of a Manchin fan but your the other three I agree with. Voted for 2 of them and would have voted for the 3rd.

Does congress work better when there is a 50-50 split?

Seems like Manchin (a moderate D) is able to reign in the most ambitious Dems much like Romney/McCain did 4 years ago.

As long as each side has a few moderates that wont bend thy knee and can take hate from their own party, it seems like this is working.

Manchin. McCain, Romney, Kasich .. these are guys I wish were presidents. Although they may have been more impactful right where they are.

McCain and Kasich yes no doubt, Manchin seems slimy to me ,Romney if he campaigned the same way he has in the past no but he has stood up to the trumpettes.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/mom-says-atlanta-school-racially-segregated-daughter-lawsuit/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Atlanta mom says school ‘segregated’ daughter into black-only classes: lawsuit

Segregation is now acceptable to retards. So everyone in the school was ok with this…no one spoke up?

Who thinks this is acceptable?

So far under Biden,

Putin gets a strategic/economic win pipeline, Mexico gets an open border, and the Taliban gets Afghanistan

Meanwhile, Americans get higher prices on everything, the delta variant, more crime and segregation in our schools

Sad

So far under Biden,

Putin gets a strategic/economic win pipeline, Mexico gets an open border, and the Taliban gets Afghanistan

Meanwhile, Americans get higher prices on everything, the delta variant, more crime and segregation in our schools

Sad

Why do you hate America chico?

We need a Fresh Start Squared thread that we can all ruin immediately, before it gets to page 2.