Thread by @kishineff

In most years, this would be a taste of what the average person might spend into the economy. Almost every other country in the industrialized world has been covering most of people's paychecks since the lockdown began. The US hasn't. Instead we got $1200, then $600, and... 1/10

in the newest bill we'll get $1400. Except that not all of us have gotten them.

This $1400 check is being hailed as a great bill by all the establishment Democrats and by the media that seldom challenges anything they say. But Joe Biden DID promise us $2000. He promised... 2/10

it over and over again, leading up to the runoff in Georgia, and then he changed it. I don't want to hear your lame excuses, that's what happened.

Then they decided to means test the checks, so fewer people will get checks under Biden than under Trump. How are you going... 3/10

to win elections this way? Not only are they means testing the checks, they reduced the weekly unemployment benefit from $400 to $300. That's $400 less for people who lost their jobs per month.

And the icing on the cake is the removal of the $15/hr minimum wage by a weak... 4/10

@VP Kamala Harris who chose not to override a paid adviser that said an assault on Transgender rights could stay in but higher wages for workers couldn't.

But Congressional progressives voted for it anyway. Compared to how other countries like France, Germany, the United... 5/10

Kingdom, Canada, Australia are all covering paychecks, the people of the United States are being starved out. We are already having class warfare. A third of the country has had Congress kneeling on their necks for a year while they enrich their donors.

We have already... 6/10

been waiting for Democrats' excuse "but Trump" to no longer be valid. This latest stimulus bill is scandalous! A third of this country has been waiting for someone to help them, and they've been told to wait until Trump was gone, then to wait until the Georgia runoffs and... 7/10

then until March, and what they're getting isn't even what was promised, much less what they really SHOULD HAVE gotten, which is help with rents and mortgages.

I applaud @RepGolden for his protest vote. If there would have been a few more protest votes, progressives might...8/10

have been able to leverage the $15 minimum wage back into the bill. Joe Manchin needed it to pass too. @AOC, @IlhanMN, @RashidaTlaib, @CoriBush, @MondaireJones, @RepMarieNewman, @JamaalBowmanNY, @AyannaPressley no more excuses! None of you withheld your Speaker vote for... 9/10

Nancy Pelosi, none of you withheld your vote for this bill. You weren't elected to settle for what they offer you. And all for a bill that passed without a single Republican vote!
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