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liskddksil

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10. Not good, but pass it and then filet Perdue and Loeffler like a fish that they couldn't deliver
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 12:45 PM
Dec 2020

more than a measly $600 to their constituents, and they are defunding police and firefighters by not including state and local funding. Then pivot that only Ossoff and Warnock will deliver the goods. That's more effective messaging than any of our economic messages in the general which utterly sucked.

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$600 is a rather pathetic number put forth by a pathetic creature. Autumn Dec 2020 #1
Yup.Congress giving "chump change" to all us little poor chumps out here...disguesting face slap NotHardly Dec 2020 #2
The Dems would do better to do nothing. A small amount will piss off a lot of hurting people. Autumn Dec 2020 #3
Oh wow. My Pet Orangutan Dec 2020 #5
I wasn't. nt Autumn Dec 2020 #8
Ridiculous. NurseJackie Dec 2020 #6
Not true. Turin_C3PO Dec 2020 #9
A $600 and only 300 more on UI for 16 weeks when people are hurting is ridiculous. nt Autumn Dec 2020 #12
A half a loaf of bread is better than none Polybius Dec 2020 #19
Sure it is. If you don't mind eating moldy bread while the people giving you that moldy bread Autumn Dec 2020 #20
Flawed analogy Polybius Dec 2020 #23
Flawed is your opinion. Like the saying goes, nothing is free. A week is nothing to people who are Autumn Dec 2020 #27
No, it's not an opinion it's a fact Polybius Dec 2020 #29
I's your fact. You brought up half a loaf. I brought up moldy bread. Both are useless in Autumn Dec 2020 #33
It's your fact too, and everyone else's Polybius Dec 2020 #34
And half a loaf of bread to a family is useless in feeding that family. nt Autumn Dec 2020 #35
One person in the family could benefit Polybius Dec 2020 #36
Here's the thing. It doesn't have to fucking be that way. Our government can easily afford to Autumn Dec 2020 #37
It is barely a very thin slice riversedge Dec 2020 #24
In other words if there aren't enough lifeboats let's not use any of them. George II Dec 2020 #14
No. In other words if we can't help the people who need help for $900 billion trim the fat Autumn Dec 2020 #15
Yes its a hot garbage but pass it anyway, and make Perdue and Loeffler take the blame liskddksil Dec 2020 #25
Yes, it's terrible optics. Billions for the wealthy and big business, billions for churches and Autumn Dec 2020 #28
Reject the package unless it's 1,800 per person. My Pet Orangutan Dec 2020 #4
I see that YOU are being sarcastic, but there are some making the same statement... NurseJackie Dec 2020 #7
Think of republicans that refuse to believe President-elect Biden actually did win William769 Dec 2020 #22
Compared to the $7 trillion stimulus check wall street banksters got its a boot n the ass & a slap yaesu Dec 2020 #16
It's bad optics. I'm leery about what else is in the bill and who else it might benefit. Autumn Dec 2020 #18
Not good, but pass it and then filet Perdue and Loeffler like a fish that they couldn't deliver liskddksil Dec 2020 #10
The corporate immunity has been stripped, so any stimulus is better than nothing. Nt Fiendish Thingy Dec 2020 #11
Let's think about this......Bullshit, we are in a pandemic and austerity is being used .... turbinetree Dec 2020 #13
They are calling it "survival checks" now. nt yaesu Dec 2020 #17
$600? That's not going to help much. 634-5789 Dec 2020 #21
Yes but just last night it was $0 Polybius Dec 2020 #30
Can't argue that. 634-5789 Dec 2020 #32
They wanted us INFECTED... Fed policy to kill us off... now they offer PALTRY CHICKEN FEED NotHardly Dec 2020 #26
$600 is an insult blue-wave Dec 2020 #31
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