“If you have no idea that Joe Biden was able to pass a massive infrastructure bill, if you have no idea that Joe Biden passed the biggest climate investments in history, if you have no idea about all these way in which government has been able to succeed, maybe not in a way that is tangible yet….”

i literally screamed

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is on the latest episode. He said, regarding building housing: “Joe Biden actually been very like, forward leading on this, particularly in the last month”

you can’t just remember that you’re the president in the last year of the term and really get to work on housing. You can do marijuana reform, sure. that one is a stroke of the pen. not so much on housing

Cherish hayes: “They (Judith Butler) think that it (transgender acceptance) doesn’t need to be a threat, and i think it sort of inescapably is. And they’re not… misunderstanding the degree to which it does threaten genrder hierarchies.”

Chris, if you’re gonna use words like misunderstanding about Judith Butler’s theories on gender you gotta come with some receipts. You do not have the credentials to just say stuff.

Lovett: “So Trump also hosted a big fundraiser in Palm Beach over the weekend with some of the worst billionaires on the planet. People who profited off of the subprime mortgage crisis, compared higher taxes to the Holocaust and opposed the Civil Rights Act, just to name a few.”

Vietor: “I mean, Jon, just be careful, because for two of those, they could be our billionaires too.”

Guest, Dem Strategist Terrance Woodbury: “I want to talk a little bit more about the double haters.
This new term of voters that doesn't like Biden or Trump. Well, in fact, I think that these double haters are a little bit broader than that. They are just cynics that don't like Democrats, Republicans, they don't like politicians, they don't like vaccines.
These are all the same folks. The double hater is the same as the vaccine hesitant. They don't like 5G, they don't trust any of this shit.
Well, for that voter, Cornel, who doesn't know Cornel West yet, he is going to speak a lot of their language. He's going to criticize Joe Biden's position in Palestine. He's going to criticize the two-party system.”

fuckin hell

Woodbury: “this is from a focus group of a voter who said to me, my hood didn't get any better under Obama. It didn't get any worse under Trump.
So what does Biden have to do with me? That's the cynicism that Republicans and Trump are trying to lean into. And that's what we have to combat with the progress that has actually improved their lives.”

Vietor: “And it's understandable cynicism, right? Because presidents have a lot of power, but they don't have unlimited power. Sometimes there's broader economic forces that impact your ability to improve the lives of the people you're working for.”

Wait, i thought biden had the best record on the economy ever?? What’s up with that?

Jon Favreau: “So far in 2024, 90 percent, 90 percent of the Biden campaign's television ads have focused on abortion.
And the most aired ad is one in which Trump takes credit for killing Roe and Biden promises to pass a federal guarantee to protect the right to choose.”

When did Biden make that promise again? We’re putting the whole campaign on our belief that americans think it’s good when you fail to deliver on one of your more prominent campaign promises.

JF: “How much political risks do you think this TikTok ban creates for Biden?”
Alyssa Mastramonaco, guest: “I don't think it's that much risk because it's weirdly the issue that's like United Democrats and Republicans. So I don't think it's great for Biden, but I do think that that gives him some cover.”

Hmm, dems and republicans sure do agree on Tiktok, what’s that other thing that’s going on that they agree on that americans in general absolutely despise? I’m sure it’s nothing important