spacemang_spliff posted:

I've bitched about it a lot but what they called infrastructure is really just maintaining or fixing roads and bridges. if you have like hosed up sewers in your neighborhood that cause your sewers to back up when it rains 3" in a day (a more and more common happening now that climate change is accelerating) then you're still stuck yelling at various local government bodies to spend money on infrastructure that they don't have lol

Zvahl posted:

fortunately just like with healthcare, literally mentioning the word infrastructure for the next 20 years will get you called a racist so you don't need to worry about it dems already fixed it

Good soup! posted:

DUMBORATS!!!!

spacemang_spliff posted:

I've bitched about it a lot but what they called infrastructure is really just maintaining or fixing roads and bridges. if you have like hosed up sewers in your neighborhood that cause your sewers to back up when it rains 3" in a day (a more and more common happening now that climate change is accelerating) then you're still stuck yelling at various local government bodies to spend money on infrastructure that they don't have lol

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2020/07/fort-lauderdale-sewer-calamity-blamed-budget-strategy/ posted:

State regulators did what they could to prevent the Fort Lauderdale sewer mess that experts predicted years before a major pipeline sprang leaks in December–and kept on spewing waste for almost three months.

But Fort Lauderdale failed to protect itself. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, the city is fighting a costly rearguard action to restore the sewage system, rescue marine life and preserve clean water.

While there is no villain in this saga, the state blames a budgeting technique that siphoned funds away from sewer projects to other services at times when the money was desperately needed for sewer projects. 

Real hurthling! posted:

ft lauderdale is already half seawater how do they have underground anything

LionYeti posted:

Just LOL if you willingly move to Florida anytime between now and when it finally returns to the swamp from whence it came.

Lib and let die posted:

i moved here in 2015 all i can say is that love makes you do stupid poo poo lmao

Lib and let die posted:

i moved here in 2015 all i can say is that love makes you do stupid poo poo lmao

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Here's to hoping you moved to an area of soon to be coast rather than soon to be ocean

ELTON JOHN posted:

poo poo

well it was probably gutted so i'm just gonna say "passed a half assed infrastructure bill" and still be right

Lib and let die posted:

i moved here in 2015 all i can say is that love makes you do stupid poo poo lmao

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

it's smaller than obama's little one

projecthalaxy posted:

Actually, the bill is for 8T dollars and passed in April of 2021 thanks to the Dem majority.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

november '21 and 1.2T, only 550mil of which was actually new spending ie what the bill actually introduced

Lastgirl posted:

projecthalaxy posted:

Thanks to getting out the vote in Georgia

Zvahl posted:

Lib and let die posted:

we're getting the gently caress out of here just as soon as my geriatric in-laws die tbh

Zvahl posted:

Acelerion posted:

Lastgirl posted:

run

Malleum posted:

the IRS sent out a letter reminding everyone that PRESIDENT BIDEN's $1,400.00 that he so graciously bestowed upon you shouldn't be declared as income in your 2021 tax forms

they are extremely eager to remind everyone that the dems skimped out on the full 2k lmao

i say swears online posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDr9nZAAMk

people are telling me this is a good ad and i do not believe them

ProperGanderPusher posted:

Lib friends insist Biden doing nothing is fine because he’s showing respect for our institutions and the office of the presidency by not going overboard with executive orders. Doesn’t matter the GOP won’t operate the same way, two wrongs don’t make a right!

hailthefish posted:

This poo poo is infuriating.

The world is dying being killed, life is getting measurably worse for the working class while the rich get ever richer, they're forcing teachers to out gay students to their parents in florida and in texas taking gender non-conforming and trans kids away from their families to disappear into a notoriously abusive and lovely foster care system where they'll presumably be christian educationed and conversion therapied to death, some dipshit fascist does a mass shooting or car attack every month or so, a million loving people in this shithole country (and millions more around the world) are dead from the fuckin roni and uncountable millions more disabled, but the only motherfucking thing they care about is norms and decorum and gently caress it if I don't just wanna take a fire axe to some poo poo while making primal screams of rage

bedpan posted:

Heartache is powerful, but democracy is *subtle*. Incrementally, you begin to notice a change in the weather. When it snows, the flakes are softer when they stick to your worry-worn forehead. When it rains, the rain is warmer. Democracy is coming to the Administrative Region. The ideals of Dolorian humanism are reinstating themselves. How can they not? These are the ideals of the Coalition and the Moralist International. Those guys are signal blue. And they're not only good -- they're also powerful. What will it be like, once their nuanced plans have been realized?

The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

Malleum posted:

the IRS sent out a letter reminding everyone that PRESIDENT BIDEN's $1,400.00 that he so graciously bestowed upon you shouldn't be declared as income in your 2021 tax forms

they are extremely eager to remind everyone that the dems skimped out on the full 2k lmao

Cloks posted:

at least he's not a frigging cheeto, y'all

ikanreed posted:

Is Biden to the left of any president before Reagan? Any at all in any way?

hailthefish posted:

This poo poo is infuriating.

The world is dying being killed, life is getting measurably worse for the working class while the rich get ever richer, they're forcing teachers to out gay students to their parents in florida and in texas taking gender non-conforming and trans kids away from their families to disappear into a notoriously abusive and lovely foster care system where they'll presumably be christian educationed and conversion therapied to death, some dipshit fascist does a mass shooting or car attack every month or so, a million loving people in this shithole country (and millions more around the world) are dead from the fuckin roni and uncountable millions more disabled, but the only motherfucking thing they care about is norms and decorum and gently caress it if I don't just wanna take a fire axe to some poo poo while making primal screams of rage

Uncle Wemus posted:

I seriously believe that if Joe Biden wins then we will be on the cusp of a resurgent decade of Progressive politics in the USA. The 2020s will be the decade of Progressivism and Millenials taking over our government.

Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, admitting D.C. as a state, re-districting in 2021, and massive stimulus as part of Biden's climate plan will open the doors to Progressives in a way that we haven't seen possible since the middle of the 20th century.

Nitevision posted:

mediaphage posted: