A thread for Democrats Only
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 15:36
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What have Democrats done for you lately? Here’s a short list.
1 You can now buy an OTC hearing aid without a prescription, and for a fraction of the cost of current hearing aids.
2 We have cut off China's access to advanced computer chips.
3 The price of insulin will be cut to $35 in January, and President Biden has ordered HHS to lower other prescription drug prices later in the year.
4 HHS is also working to ensure greater access to contraceptives in the wake of the Dobbs decision.
5 President Biden has lowered gasoline prices by releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It will be replaced by future purchases of lower cost oil, which will save taxpayer money in the long run.
6 Thanks to Democratic management of the economy, inflation is already starting to come down.
7 If you use Obamacare, subsidies have been increased for middle-class workers. This means that their premiums have gone way down.
8 The CHIPS Act dedicates billions of dollars to bringing back advanced chip design and manufacturing to America.
9 The bipartisan infrastructure act provides money for new bridges, roads, airports, and other transportation projects in all 50 states.
10 The Inflation Reduction Act is creating 550,000 jobs in wind, solar, battery plants, and solar panels. It also provides a $7,500 rebate on electric vehicles.
11 The No Surprises Act bans surprise billing in hospitals from out-of-network providers or air ambulance services for emergency medical care, and prohibits out-of-network doctors from issuing surprise bills for non-emergency care.
That's a top ten list. Feel free to add your own, but keep them simple, concrete, and not hated by anyone outside the MAGA cult.
https://jabberwocking.com/what-have-we-done-for-you-lately-heres-a-sho
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Quote:There is a list of 10 things Republicans accomplished during Trump's four years:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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1. Lower taxes on the wealthy. Yes! $5.5 trillion. Good job! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/trump-tax-cuts-beat-gilti.
html
2. Reduce the total national debt to zero? Trump promised that. Nope. Increased by $8.2 trillion. https://www.sounddollar.com/national-debt-by-president
It is kind of funny that the tax decrease for the wealthy was about the same size as the increase in the national debt. I wonder if the two are related? Couldn't be because Trump said so.
4. Trump: I will eliminate U.S. debt in 8 years
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/275003-trump-i
-will-eliminate-us-debt-in-8-years/
Also funny how Trump never got one word on a piece of paper outlining how he would do what he promised.
5. Back to the Future: Trump’s History of Promising a Health Plan That Never Comes
https://khn.org/news/back-to-the-future-trumps-history-of-promising-a-
health-plan-that-never-comes/
6. - 10. Trump run his mouth nonstop. That goal was scored!
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$5.99 for a can of spray foam before taxes in October of 2022.
Democrats didn't do anything on your list.
Democrats are finished.
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Let's see ...
Democrats ...
Vaccine mandates
Taxes, and MOAR spending!
Jiggered elections
INFLATION!
Authoritarianism and partisan prosecution
Crime
Splintering the USA into victim/identity politics
MOAR WAR
Illegal immigration
Censorship
Offshoring of manufacturing
Job loss
... and NOW, with NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON!
What's not to like?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Worker compensation is down. Corporate profits are up. Imagine that.
Obviously, wages and salaries are the main component of compensation, but it also includes other expenses like bonuses, the employer share of Medicare and Social Security taxes, health care, time off, retirement contributions and any other expenses a company might have that's related to worker compensation. 
This is not a percentage or anything like that, but it is a ratio of profits to compensation. I call it the Greed Index, and it's gotten worse and worse: up from 14 to 16.5 over the past five years. That's a fairly astonishing 19% increase. But perhaps not a surprising one.
https://jabberwocking.com/worker-comp-is-down-corporate-profits-are-up
-imagine-that/
You need to be reminded that the Federal government has zero control over what companies pay their employees. Employees could have control, but only if they are unionized, otherwise employees are just another expense, not much different than electricity to run the business. Not so odd, but electric generators know that forcing a price increase is good for them. Meanwhile, employees don't act as if they know that forcing a compensation increase is good for them.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Under Biden* and the Democrats.
Originally posted by second:
Worker compensation is down. Corporate profits are up.
Imagine that.
Quote:Which YOU should be reminded of next time you accuse the GOP of promoting corporate greed.
You need to be reminded that the Federal government has zero control over what companies pay their employees.
You've painted yourself into a corner.
Again.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:It is the American voters who painted themselves into a corner. The lower 90% in wealth voters made the country what it is: a fabulous place for the rich to do as they please. Once upon a time, the voters were not like that.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Under Biden* and the Democrats.
Originally posted by second:
Worker compensation is down. Corporate profits are up.
Imagine that.Quote:Which YOU should be reminded of next time you accuse the GOP of promoting corporate greed.
You need to be reminded that the Federal government has zero control over what companies pay their employees.
You've painted yourself into a corner.
Again.
During WWII, the Federal government, which was all Democrats, controlled the economy, even to the point of kicking the asses of industrialists that didn't want to cooperate with the war effort. But year after year, all through the war and after, the Republicans got bigger and bigger majorities in Congress, and eventually Republican President Eisenhower, because the Republicans kept calling Democrats a bunch of Communists. That tactic of calling Democrats Communists (and later Socialists) would not work if voters were smarter. But the rich are pleased by stupid voters helping the rich get richer.
The Democrats know that if they reduce the ratio of profits to compensation from 16 down to 10 (as if it was WWII and the government controlled the economy) the voters will revolt to protect the wealthy. Voters don't even act like they understand Social Security and Medicare exist only because Republicans don't have the votes to kill the programs. But when they get their 67 Senators, those programs will be as canceled as Firefly. Under Bush, the GOP tried passing "privatization". With a few more votes, it would have happened. It still can if voters get stupid enough.
This is not a percentage or anything like that, but it is a ratio of profits to compensation. I call it the Greed Index, and it's gotten worse and worse: up from 14 to 16.5 over the past five years. That's a fairly astonishing 19% increase. But perhaps not a surprising one.
https://jabberwocking.com/worker-comp-is-down-corporate-profits-are-up
-imagine-that/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Voters are stupid, which is why the policy has to be stupid in order to get their votes. Example: nukes. Stupid people think more nukes make them safer, therefore, more nukes.
(First, smart politicians think about what nukes are for:)
President Obama himself led his National Security Council in two debates on whether the U.S. should officially declare a no-first-use policy—and decided not to. He was convinced to leave the policy unchanged for three reasons. First, our allies would panic that we were abandoning them. Second, they might respond by building nuclear weapons of their own, thus setting off regional arms races. Third, we might want to use nukes in response to a large-scale biological-weapons attack. So, although Obama thought that no U.S. president should actually use nuclear weapons first, he saw the value in reserving the right to do so—if just to deter a wide range of enemy attacks.
As a compromise, Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review said that deterring a nuclear attack was the “fundamental” purpose of nuclear weapons—and added that the U.S. would never use nuclear weapons first against a country that had signed, and was in compliance with, the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This would still make first-use possible against Russia, China, or North Korea. It also provided some incentive for other adversaries not to go nuclear.
Biden’s posture review repeats Obama’s language, though less clearly.
(Next, smart politicians must do something stupid because Congress is as stupid as the voters who selected Congress are:)
This was in many ways predictable but there was some chance that Biden might decide not to “modernize all three legs of the nuclear Triad”—i.e., to build all-new replacements for our aging intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, bombers, and cruise missiles. Obama had been manipulated into agreeing to fund them, at least in the short run, in exchange for getting the Senate to ratify the New START arms-reduction treaty, and Biden knew that Obama had regretted doing so. Biden could reverse that move, since these weapons were all in their early stages of research and development. Some of the existing weapons could simply be modified rather than replaced. Several of Biden’s second-tier officials in the Pentagon and the NSC were inclined toward this view.
But this prospect has fallen by the wayside as well. Biden’s review fully supports pushing ahead with all the new nuclear weapons—which are estimated to cost roughly $2 trillion over the next 25 years. Lots of vague formulas are mustered to rationalize this decision (e.g., “these replacement programs are planned to deliver modernized capabilities to avoid any gaps in our ability to field a credible and effective deterrent”), but none of them make sense, and this would be obvious if someone had written those passages in plain English.
Biden, of course, is in a spot. Given the rising tensions with Russia and China, it would be politically difficult, if not impossible, to cut back on existing plans to build more weapons, even if these weapons do nothing, objectively, to improve our security. In fact, a case can be made that we would be safer if we reduced the number of land-based ICBMs or eliminated them entirely. Just because Moscow and Beijing are wasting their money on new nukes doesn’t mean that Washington has to follow suit. It’s all theater.
The posture review does announce the cancellation of one nuclear weapon: a new sea-launched nuclear cruise missile. on the grounds that a new low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile can handle the mission well enough. Despite Biden’s concessions on every other aspect of the “nuclear enterprise,” Republicans will no doubt accuse him of “appeasement” on this one; my guess is the cruise missile will be funded after all. Liberals sometimes get hammered for “throwing money” at a problem. There is currently no resistance to throwing money at the weapons budget; in fact, there’s enormous resistance to not throwing it.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Under Biden* and the Democrats.
Originally posted by second:
Worker compensation is down. Corporate profits are up.
Imagine that.Quote:Which YOU should be reminded of next time you accuse the GOP of promoting corporate greed.
You need to be reminded that the Federal government has zero control over what companies pay their employees.
You've painted yourself into a corner.
Again.
OPPS!
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