“Help is on the way,” @SenSchumer says in Rose Garden.
“Help is on the way,” @SpeakerPelosi says.
“Help has arrived,” @VP says of latest coronavirus stimulus package signed into law. pic.twitter.com/3JnP7Mq3n3
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 12, 2021
… #BidenBucks is trending on twitter, and President Joe didn’t even have to make a big display of slapping his name on those checks!
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) March 12, 2021
I am laughing so hard at this. republicans convinced themselves he was a senile old potted plant who had no idea what to do and how to shut down their talking points machine
— kilgore trout, ted’s travel agent (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 12, 2021
No Republicans attended today's event in White House Rose Garden to celebrate the latest coronavirus relief package, the 2nd largest stimulus in the nation’s history.https://t.co/F6MSvT4I0C
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 12, 2021
this is the ultimate grandpa pep talk, complete with a little money shoved in our pocket
— Alex Fitzpatrick (@AlexJamesFitz) March 12, 2021
i'm okay with these half-wits impotently posting memes while the functioning political party passes landmark legislation to materially improve the lives of people
ya got me, ted. ya got me. https://t.co/vo4IRk1mFK
— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) March 12, 2021
a certain subset of bitter fucking weirdos is going to try to steal as much joy as possible as we claw our way out of this abyss and my advice is to simply not let them
get vaccinated, be smart, when the coast is clear, air it the fuck out with the homies. and ignore the chuds.
— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) March 12, 2021
dmsilev
Isn’t it about time for Ted Cruz to head back out on spring break?
Anyway, it’s great both to see the relief act passed and to see Democrats not being at all reluctant to celebrate that fact.
namekarB
Stimulus???? Why is my news reader sending me stories about a “stimulus” check or a “stimulus” bill when Democrats repeatedly call the American Rescue Plan Act payments as “Recovery” checks and the bill as a “Rescue” bill? WTF is wrong with media?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
judging from the way they leaked texts to embarrass him, I don’t think Ted has to worry about his barbecues being overcrowded with neighbors and attracting black helicopters
West of the Rockies
What dim, dumb point is Cruz trying to make? Are Democrats now coming for our beef in addition to our guns and bibles? Oh, dears!!!
Cameron
Y’know, it’s only Ted Cruz who would proudly celebrate the 4th of July…in Cancun.
germy
@West of the Rockies:
Biden suggested last night that our July 4th barbecues this year won’t be massive parties, just small gatherings.
That’s what Cruz is tweeting about.
debbie
Finally! It’s said out loud: Trickle down is bullshit and has always been bullshit. Thanks, Joe!
skerry
Just checked my bank account and I’ve got my covid relief bucks! $2800. woo hoo
germy
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Has anyone received their ? Biden Bucks? yet?
M31
“But what about July 4 gatherings in Moscow?” — the GOP
debbie
@West of the Rockies:
For the minute I listened to Glenn Beck this morning, RWNJs are outraged that Joe is acting like a king in telling people when they can have gatherings.
ETA: Ted’s graphic would seem to equate grills with guns.
West of the Rockies
@germy:
Ted is going to have to bribe his own daughters to attend. He has no friends. His party will be sparsely attended even without C19 restrictions.
germy
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: I wonder where he’ll go this time, he was just in Cancun.
germy
MisterForkbeard
@debbie: Yes. This tyrannical despot has… suggested that you have small bbqs this year. Oh, and there won’t be any penalties from the feds if you decide to be a reckless asshole and do it anyway.
Such horror. We’ve lost so much “freedom” or something.
Baud
Strapping Biden Bucks eating T-Bone steaks!
germy
@debbie:
Remember when he cooked bacon on his gun? It was a video. First target practice, then he sizzled bacon on his weapon.
I’m not kidding, although it sounds like it.
LurkerNoLonger
AKA: Republicans
Mag
Biden bucks will cause the Biden boom regardless of how much McConnell and the rest of the GQP gaslights.
debbie
@MisterForkbeard:
As I was clicking off, he angrily insisted only God could bestow rights, not kings. I wasn’t at all in the mood for drama or I’d have kept listening.
germy
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@germy:
repubs won her district by 53% in 2018, a landslide year for Dems. The district is R+31. For perspective, AOC’s South Bronx district is D+29. We shouldn’t blame Dems without good reason.
debbie
@germy:
No, I missed that. Idiot.
Bruuuuce
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Knowing Ted, he’ll plan to celebrate July 4th in Moscow. Or London.
debbie
@germy:
Unopposed, and she only got 74% of the vote!
Chetan Murthy
@germy: You probably already know, but just in case: she had a Dem opponent who was …. basically run out of town and the -state-. Got a writeup at the time. It was clear that he received death threats. Absent law enforcement taking a vigorous interest, I don’t see how that gets fixed. Well, or redrawing the district to split up the traitorous death-cultists, I guess.
Baud
@Bruuuuce:
It actually would be a good opportunity to remind people of the July 4 Russian trip
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: can you buy crab legs with Biden Bucks? Crab legs are a real trigger for the rightiest of the righties.
Personally, I love the meat but they’re a PITA to make at home.
PJ
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If you’re talking king crab legs, you just need a big pot to boil or steam them in – a lobster pot or big pasta pot will do (I just bend the legs at the joints and stuff them in).
Mary G
My Medicare Part B supplement policy’s premium dropped from $535.03/month to $270.47 this month. Thanks, Joe Biden!*
*No idea if the Biden admin had anything to do with it; I was on Medicare because I had Social Security Disability, which makes supplements hella expensive. When I first shopped pricing in 2006, the average monthly premium quote was about $650. I lucked into an insurance agent, who despite being a total loon and MAGAT, knew his business and got me a $309/month premium. It went up every year, but at least it started lower. When I turned 65 in December, all the disability stuff stopped and I became just a regular old American, whose supplemental policies are all the same, based on age, whether healthy as a horse or me.
I’m writing the insurance company asking for a $529.12 refund for the January and February difference, with a cc to whoever Biden has in charge of Medicare at the moment.
Bruuuuce
@Baud: I remember. I just figure he’d want to show his patriotism and true loyalty (that is, none, or negative) to the United States.
Pete Mack
Corticosteroids are only a possible risk factor for non-maintenance doses. Ie: Addison’s disease remains no big deal. Indeed, I got COVID despite full precaution–from my plumber. It stayed entirely in my nose, with a 3 day fever and 5 day swolen lymph nodes and general weakness. Plus 2 months and counting of greatly reduced sense of smell…
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Ngl, I had to a double take when I saw the title and had to check what website I was on. I thought it said “Biden Sucks!” lol
Mary G
Gov. Cuomo needed his blankie today:
Geoboy
@Cameron: Whereas quite a number of Republican members of Congress celebrated the Fourth of July in Moscow a couple of years ago.
Adam L Silverman
@Chetan Murthy: I think a veteran has already announced they’re going to challenge her as a Democrat. It is going to be a lot harder to pull the same crap on that kind of candidate as it was on the well intended, but naive guy that dropped out last year after having his entire life destroyed.
Eunicecycle
@skerry: my daughter got hers already, too!
germy
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/why-marjorie-taylor-greenes-opponent-quit-the-house-race/E3TYSMAAPRDUPPB6F3BBQAFCME/
Emerald
Got my $1,400, pending in my checking account. I understand it might hold fire until the 17th, but I’m good with that.
Fast work!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Pete Mack:
He said, with a wink.
chopper
so where’s the “paycheck joe” talk on rose twitter, you’d figure they’d be all HAHAHAHA I’M FUCKING KIDDING
debbie
@Emerald:
Wow! ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Just Some Fuckhead: Probably did this to his toilet.
Just Some Fuckhead
Kinda hoping Biden gets in legal trouble so my crush Joyce Vance gets more tv time.
CaseyL
Don’t have mine yet (*pouts*).
If Biden can usher out the age of Trickle Down/Supply Side economics, that alone will make him the best President for domestic programs since LBJ, if not FDR.
Brachiator
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
A couple of people I work with noted that their checking accounts had been credited with the payments.
Biden Bucks seems to be the official informal name. My niece just emailed my sister, saying that she had received her Biden Bucks.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Brachiator:
@Emerald:
Good on you Emerald
I can’t wait to get mine so I can get some bodywork done on my car. Plus a down payment on a new one
Brachiator
So, Trump made a big deal about the first stimulus. Held up payments until they could come up with his goofy signature on the checks. The Republican leaders all lined up and kissed the Orange Beast’s ass, telling him what a wonderful thing he had done for the ‘Murrican peeples.
President Joe gets the money out the door faster than a sports car motoring down the highway. The Republicans grumble resentfully about how these payments don’t mean shit.
Americans spontaneously dub the payments “Biden Bucks.”
So much winning.
I love it.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Brachiator:
Don’t forget whining about the REAL issues affecting Americans: racist Dr. Seuss books not being published anymore at the request of the rights holders
Geoduck
@Brachiator: To be precise, the Shiatgibbon just had his name slapped on the checks, not his actual signature. And evidently that was enough for a measurable percentage of people to vote for him.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geoduck:
I’d loved to meet somebody who did this, just so I could tell them what a humongous piece of shit they are
VeniceRiley
No Biden Bucks yet, but I just did deposit the last $600 stimulus today. And got my regular paycheck today. Feeling flush. My Biden Bucks will go a long way to wedding and emigration expenses though.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Just Some Fuckhead: I’m partial to Mimi Rocah and a young Jill Wine-Banks (photo)
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Amir Khalid
@Cameron:
In Cancun is somewhat less bad than in Moscow.
LongHairedWeirdo
Hee. This tweet quote:
… reminds me of a line from a book. The villain asks himself “could the rumors about (the other guy’s) mental health be true? No! Impossible! I started those rumors myself!”
Methinks they’re really going to regret lowering the bar for Joe Biden with all the talk of senility.
Geminid
My repulsive 5th Virginia District Congressman is Eeyoreing about the burdens the ARP is putting on “our grandchildren.” It may be news to him, but grandchildren and their parents are getting help now, when it really counts. And they will inherit a stronger economy for that.
Mj_Oregon
Our $2800 Biden Bucks are a pending deposit in our bank account already.
Ohio Mom
VeniceRiley@54:
Congrats on the nuptials and where are you moving to?
Jeffro
so Ted Cruz is sort of a Bowie + BBQ fan? Weird combination but hey, who knew we had things in common…
Jeffro
Tucker Carlson took that one out for a test drive last night: “DON’T YOU TELL ME I CAN GATHER WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY ON THE 4TH YOU SOSHULIST MONSTER!!!1!!”
What a party of putzes
Jeffro
True but here’s an easy side bet: with additional bucks kicked into the system…the gas companies are going to jack gas prices way, way up this spring and summer for extra uber-capitalist profiteering…
…and the GQP will claim that Biden did it, look at those gas prices, you Demonrat bastards…etc etc.
Ascap_scab
Moneybagg Joe
Jeffro
@Geminid: ugh…guess he hasn’t figured out, if the pandemic response and economic stimulus don’t happen, his blessed grandkids’ life is going to SUCK that much more…
JPL
@Mj_Oregon: That was fast.
JPL
barbequebob
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Trump Steak – Shoe Leather – Good Luck Chewing Ted
PaulWartenberg
I prefer calling it a #Stimmy
is that a problem?
PaulWartenberg
@Mj_Oregon:
I just checked my bank account as of 9:10 PM EST:
HOLY SH-T I GOT MY #STIMMY (or #BIDENBUCKS if you prefer)
Mike Dixon
I never got my 600 Previousguybucks. It wasn’t a bfd to me financially, and apparently enough people also didn’t get the check that the IRS has a tax form for it. Curious why there hasn’t been more made of this.
frosty
@Brachiator: No Biden Bucks for us yet. I haven’t seen TFG’s $600 yet either.
jonas
@debbie:
I agree — wingnuts should all stay inside, shut up and do nothing on 7/4. You know, to totally pwn the libs.
Ken
@Mary G: I thought I read earlier today that Cuomo was going to have a news conference in the afternoon. Or was that someone else (Schumer?) having a conference about Cuomo?
jonas
Lemme guess: he was far more sanguine about the effects on “our grandchildren” of Trump’s deficit-busting tax cuts in 2017. Funny that.
jonas
Wait, I’m confused. I thought we were supposed to ban Dr. Suess books because he was a left wing Jew who larded his books up with all sorts of subliminal socialist and environmentalist propaganda to turn innocent kids into hippy-dippy liberals or something. It’s hard to keep up with this right wing cancel culture stuff.
Ken
And the plastic toys. I need Barbara Billingsley to translate that from wingnut for me.
Mind you, there are some real issues involving copyright, and especially the ability of corporations to squat on IP forever.
Ken
Bit of a reversal from last year, when the RW was loudly in favor of the government preventing people from gathering in Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, …
Ohio Mom
Jonas:
Dr. Suess was not Jewish. Learning that was a surprise to me because so many of his made-up words remind me of Yiddish.
Ken
Maybe, but I’ve stopped checking the Urban Dictionary. There are things you cannot unsee, and words you cannot unread.
Ruckus
@debbie:
I always say tinkle down.
It sure felt like being pissed on.
Or worse.
Kelly
Same
different-church-lady
I’m not doing direct deposit, and I haven’t gotten the PreviousGuyBucks yet. Am I doing something wrong? Need to look into this…
Brachiator
@different-church-lady:
If you were due a second stimulus payment and did not get it, you should be able to use the Recovery Rebate Worksheet when you file your 2020 tax return. The amount will show on Form 1040 Line 30.
Another Scott
I’m glad the money is already going out, and hope everyone eligible gets it soon.
In other news, Jane Mayer at the NewYorker:
(I knew that they didn’t dump a few semi-trailers full of paper on his office.)
An interesting story, as always, from Mayer.
Cheers,
Scott.