Biden: There's enormous opportunity once we defeat Donald Trump

[soothsayer]

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There’s enormous opportunity once we defeat Donald Trump. We are going to build our health care system, our economy, and our country back better than they've ever been before.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. There sure is. +1. . . . nt

[onetexan]

2. K&R!!

GO JOE!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It will take a long time to repair the damage, but it can be done

once Trump and his GOP enablers are finally gone.

[Budi]

4. I can't think of anyone better than Joe Biden to rebuild a better nation

He's fair, open, wise & respected around the world.
And he's got some mighty fine friends of all walks to support him.
His will be a collective effort rather than a 'one man ego show'.

[Cha]

5. Rebuilding is a Winning Message!

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[John Fante]

6. Grant statehood to Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

[mahina]

12. Hoping I can remember the article about this I came upon. It would take new states made from CA

Plus DC plus Puerto Rico, all blue, to balance the R lean in the Senate.

I was surprised. Realized already that they have an advantage w the electoral college but something about the number of states that vote R and the South.

143 electoral votes are in the South and the South is deep red. Is what I think he said. So to get to 270 they only need 127 in any year to win.

I saw electoral-vote.com has Georgia and North Carolina barely blue which is awesome and astonishing.

Oh and Florida is blue!

It doesn’t seem we could possibly have four months to go. It feels at the same time way too soon to get the organizing done, and unbearably long to survive.

[Victor_c3]

7. It always takes a Democrat to fix the economy

Correct me if I’m wrong as I’m not as up on my history as I should be, but every major economic catastrophe that has occurred in our nation in the last 100 years happened when a republican was the president.

[cate94]

8. +1

[KS Toronado]

10. Victor, you are correct, and it's always been on account of big tax breaks for the wealthy

[Victor_c3]

13. Interesting point

I’d gander that a healthy dose of deregulation is responsible too.

However, I’m trying to put it all together and I’m not sure how tax cuts on the wealthy upset the economy.

Is it as simple as the wealthy have more money to burn in a market with fewer regulations which eventually creates a bubble of some sort that bursts and causes an economic collapse??

[KS Toronado]

14. Victor, I've been looking for the Wikipedia article that spells out how the repugs

cause depressions and recessions and how Democrats get things back on track.
I'll send it to you in the next few days.

Mike

[Victor_c3]

15. Really, much appreciated

But please don’t spend too much time on it. I can try to look stuff up myself.

The point that economic crashes happen on republican presidencies is a point that I make a lot to my right-leaning family. I’d really love to have more info to throw at them.

[Beausoleil]

16. Here's a good way to think about it

Tax cuts for the wealthy are ostensibly to encourage economic growth by stimulating the supply side, IOW, "creating" jobs. This usually results in the extra cash going to other pursuits like buying back your own stock or stashing it overseas and not paying taxes on it. Jobs are not usually created in response to greater supply.

So to pay for the tax cuts, we usually cut services which takes cash out of the economy that actually helps people, like food stamps or other government services. This causes the economy to slow down because of lower demand.

This, in a nutshell, is what trickle down economics does. It actually takes money out of the economy and hands it over to rich folks who store it overseas, tax free.

The right wing has been trying to get this theory to work for the last 40 years, and it does work for the rich.
But it doesn't make for a healthy economy.

[Victor_c3]

17. A big thanks for the explanation n/t

[not_the_one]

9. And since this is such a rare opportunity.....

we shouldn't take half-measures. The turd is presenting us with a chance of a lifetime. We should not squander it.

We need to do what has to be done.

From jailing the ones responsible, to rebuilding the vast infrastructure, to restoring our place as a moral leader of the world.

And everything in between.

Under President Biden we will need to talk the talk, walk the walk, and fucking DO IT!

[malchickiwick]

11. This is a great message. Biden is one chief executive who would agree to limit the presidency