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[-] btfod@hexbear.net 81 points 4 months ago

football-lucy if you want a kick, you gotta vooooooote!

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 69 points 4 months ago

Does he mean "caps rent increases at 5%"? Because that's literally higher than the rate of inflation lol

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes

Also, from a different source

From 2017 to 2022, the average year-over-year increase in rent was 5.77% nationwide, with the biggest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022 at 14.07%.

Generous Joe Biden, capping rent increases nationwide to .77% lower than the nominal increase

"Left wing win" bite me, loser. "Oh but it's still good" Joe Biden's team did 20 minutes of research to figure out what figure they could use that would not upset their corporate donors while still seemingly being 'good enough' to throw out, and it's STILL never gonna happen because they need the legislative and executive branches, and barring Donald Trump dying that won't be happening. And if they are in position where they actually have the ability to enact it, they just won't.

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

with the biggest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022 at 14.07%

mao-aggro-shining

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

To be honest - I only read the Bluesky text and I then scanned the rest in about 3 seconds. I read enough to know it was funny and the details don't matter at all because it will never happen anyway.

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask? :parliamentarian:

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago

It would be hilarious if by some miracle Biden wins and the dems control congress too. Biden has kingly powers but somehow he and the dems just can't figure out how to do the things they pretended they wanted to do. They don't shitcan the parliamentarian who - of course - says "no" to many things. The dems keep the filibuster alive which provides them any number of conveninet own goals. And they don't even bother to try to do some stuff because - gosh darn it! - the GOP SCOTUS justices would never let them.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago

Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress

tell me some other things that won't happen

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago

Oh wow only a 5% increase annually, now if only my salary increases matched that it might not be fucking me over! Thanks Brandon!

[-] regul@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

hey quick q: why do corporate landlords get tax breaks anyway?

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago

I'm in favor of giving them tax breaks, in the knee area favorably.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

i feel like you're neglecting the neck here

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

I was thinking more like loanshark tactics but that works too.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

too quick, you've gotta have some pagentry

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[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

some rather taxing bone breaks

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[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

This is straight up not going to happen.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

But it's the thought that counts?

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[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

public option

minimum wage

my fucking $600

and that's when they win the election which they will not do

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago

"He's gonna announce it bro, this is why centrism works" i-told-you-dog

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

egghead

INCREMENTAL PROGRESS YEEEAA

HARDCORE

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

I'M SWIFTLY MOVING TOWARD A SOLUTION WHICH PLEASES NOBODY!

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago

i'll vote brandon if he caps it to 5% of my income

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[-] InternetLefty@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

A crumb of a crumb offered as a maybe. Who's falling for this shit?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

But a "crumb of a crumb offered as a maybe" - is the traditional dem "problem solving" method.

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[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

If you sell your soul to the imperial war machine and backstab the working class of the world you too can get…*reads note….a 5% rent cap!

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago

An announcement about a plan for a rent cap, assuming a Democrat controlled Congress

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

remember build back better, that was another 'plan' that failed and given up on immediately with democrat control of congress

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Brandon's smart, savvy political instincts and brilliant tactics were on display in 2021 to 2022. He put Sinema and Manchin - two super-attention hounds - in the spotlight for a year until he took an ax to his own bills and did exactly what they wanted. Manchin also got a payoff. I forget what it was exactly - a mining exception or something?

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

For the rest of time, if Pramila Jayapal shows up in public, she should have reporters asking her "hey remember when you agreed to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the house and send it to the senate with assurances that you'd get Biden and Schumer to whip votes for BBB afterward, then you completely ate shit and gave away all your leverage and got nothing in return and Manchin and Cinema left the party and nobody even attempted to bring them in line in any way?"

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Most reporters are very busy generating SEO manipulation and cranking out shitty articles for their private equity paymasters. But if she promises to say only good things about Brandon - she can go MSNBC and do that.

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Ninja edit: I wasn't making fun of typical reporters. They do god's work for shit pay. It was a comment about how everything is so monstrously fucked up.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Landlords: "Not the Tax Benefit!? How ever will we make up the loss????

.....

oh yeah, we'll just raise the rents high enough to cover that too."

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Opportunist, you should've done that a long time ago...

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Anton presents a lesson that libs never learned - "if the rule is what brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Hey, everybody - the left side of the Democratic Party can win big by helping Biden do pre-election PR stunts. I'm not sure how that helps us but I guess libs are a lot smarter than I am.

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I'm impressed they even did this.

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Democracy is when progress only happens when token politicians literally grovel and stroke the egos of the ones with actual power

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

[progress will not happen, we're not getting SHIT]

[-] dragongloss@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

absolute joke. 5%???? i want a land redistribution to the proletariat god dammit!

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

not only is this piss, it's definitely not gonna happen

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 4 months ago

They get more wishes if they keep presidenancy and regain both senate and house.

yay

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

But the Parliamentarian says their magic genie in a bottle is unconstitutional.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Cap it at 0% or they pay a huge tax, you coward.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

announcements always come true!

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

From the same guy who promised to restore roe v wade only if he gets elected

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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

requires D control of congress

congress bout to be

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago
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