 Once again Republicans have proven why nobody in the country should be taking them seriously and more importantly why they should be Sidelined from any and all future negotiations related to the stimulus package Because they are trying to get Biden to agree to their watered-down version of stimulus relief When they have no leverage, but their pitch to Joe Biden is is laughable what they've come up with So 10 GOP senators have basically said this to Joe Biden. I'm paraphrasing. Hey, we know that you You know, you're trying to Promote this idea that you want to unify the country we hear Democrats talking about Abolishing the filibuster and passing policies using budget reconciliation will make it easier for you You don't have to do any of that. We'll give you the 10 votes that you need No questions asked. All you have to do is basically everything that we want you to do Take your 1.9 trillion dollar package that you already admit is insufficient and make it completely inadequate to the point where it doesn't do anything That's that's basically the pitch like of course I'm being less charitable, but you have these 10 so-called moderate senators who actually think They have the leverage To pull this off now, I know that Democrats usually get rolled by Republicans in Congress, but this is so laughable So painfully idiotic that I can't see how anyone goes for it So they're saying they're gonna give Joe Biden the 10 votes that he wants if he agrees to these conditions This is according to Jeff Stein of the Washington Post So when it comes to his plan if he cuts three months of unemployment assurance knocking it down by a hundred dollars a week Cuts 350 billion dollars in aid for states and cities cuts the monthly child benefit Removes the $15 an hour minimum wage increase reduces checks from $1,400 to $1,000 cuts parts of school funding Then they'll be more inclined to go along with it Additionally, they want to further means test the already means tested survival checks So that way instead of making the threshold, you know It means tested above $75,000 per year in income. They want to means tested above $40,000 like that's that's insane Also, they want no money to assist renters in need who face eviction if they have lost their jobs It's almost like they're trolling in a way like this. This is that laughable How about this if I'm Joe Biden if I'm the Democratic Party? I'm telling them we're just gonna go ahead and pass this stimulus package without you and then you get to explain to your constituents why you denied them relief Why we voted to give them money, but you said no, I don't want to give my constituents money You have no leverage here. We don't need you. It'd be nice to have you But if you don't get on board with this, then fuck off. You're the one who has to explain yourself We'll do this without you. Now. The question is whether or not Democrats will actually Allow this to happen Joe Biden is holding a meeting with these ten Senate Republicans Which I think is not even something he should be doing It doesn't necessarily seem like he's willing to budge at least according to his press secretary because he already knows that the 1.9 trillion dollar proposal isn't enough So he doesn't necessarily seem to want to like go even smaller when the idea is maybe we should even be going bigger But the fact that he's meeting with them and even humoring them. I think is too much Thankfully though the Congressional Democratic Party leadership doesn't seem to even want to waste their time entertaining this stupidity Pelosi's office actually announced a joint budget resolution that lets them pass the plan using budget reconciliation and Democratic Party members of Congress in general seem to be just dismissing it outright according to Jeff Stein of the Washington Post So I mean we'll just have to wait and see when you get a proposal like this That is so unreasonable To even entertain it is a joke. I mean Imagine if when the Republican Party was considering their tax cut plan for the rich and Democrats said listen the only way we'd go along with this is if you put Medicare for all in your plan like that's the level of Unreasonableness here. They'd say well, why do we need to put Medicare for all in this? We don't support Medicare for all and we don't need Democratic Party votes to get this passed Like it's the same thing like they want you to take this bill Water it down to the point where it's not even the same bill and make it effectively meaningless Also, they comply with you No, it doesn't work like that. Okay, if there is no bipartisanship. It's because of you not because of Democrats Do you understand and Democrats the problem is that they need to be disciplined? They're never disciplined in their messaging and they always allow Republicans to monopolize discourse in this country They need to actually hold their ground and say look we reached out to Republicans We tried to let them get some input here But all they wanted to do was further water down for their means test what was already not enough so we had no choice we had to go without them and we gave everyone in this country more economic relief when they You know watered it down I mean what it seems like they're basically trying to do is Forced Joe Biden's hand getting him to prove that he was serious about unity and if he slaps this down Then I guess he wasn't serious about unity in their eyes But I mean okay if you make it seem like he's going back on that promise to unify the country You're simultaneously forcing him to go back on other promises like he already promised $2,000 checks And it's down to 1400 and you're saying no further watered down that promise Which was already watered down effectively cut the 2000 check promise in half and You're you're using this to convince him it just it doesn't make sense like trying to make sense of this Is unnecessary because it doesn't make sense It's unreasonable they're clowns and nobody should be taking them seriously if I'm Democrats I'm sidelining them and we don't ever meet them Halfway because they would never do that if they want to actually help the American people will welcome them will welcome their input But they're very deliberately slapping down Something that isn't even sufficient when we're in a crisis in America So we don't get blamed for that they get blamed for that and if Democrats somehow end up letting them You know capture the narrative here then that's on them. That's their own stupidity if they get rolled That's on them because you have all the leverage in the world right now They should be laughed out of the room that should be the response Joe Biden shouldn't even be humoring them with the meeting I think that's that's stupid, right? But he wants to at least put up this facade that there's gonna be unity But there's no unity because you have a party that's completely captured by extremists. So Do what you need to do pass relief and then brag about it and claim that you did it without Republicans that's that's how you own them actually go bigger Don't go smaller. You already watered it down. You don't need to water it down further to appease these dipshits like Susan Collins