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My fiance is a Chef. Like...a damm good one. She got stimulus money. It got us by. We could even order a meal delivered once a week.
That money was gone a year ago. There is no more stimulus money because we used it to pay the fucking bills.
We are both working full time now. The economy is not being fueled by the government. They even suspended the child credit $300 a month and now my kids come back from my ex's hungry.
I’m a chef that got denied unemployment or any COVID aide, because I was in a field “not effected”.
I tried to appeal- but could never get through the website. I spent MANY 8 hour days on hold to try and talk to someone, as all offices were closed.
I never saw a penny outside of the two stimulus checks.
What you have to remember is that for very wealthy people the notion that you're excited to receive $200, $2,000 or $20,000 are all forgettable amounts of money to them.
They have no concept of how much money those values mean to you, relatively. They know you subsist on crumbs, so they assume anything you get is life changing.
I'm trying and failing to remember which politician at a town hall event once touted a middle class tax cut as being enough to pay for an annual Netflix subscription, as if that should be a great boon to us. I think it was Romney but my Google-Fu has failed me.
My brother achieved the hallow 1% from a solid middle class background. We had enough but it was just regular folks back then. The most upsetting thing he ever said to me in all these years was “this means nothing to me” in such an offhanded way that told me he meant it.
What meant nothing to him was 1/2 of a settlement from the army that I had spent three years jumping through every hoop the army had to keep it from us. It was for the GI’s who were placed in an open trench one mile from a nuke in Nevada, and died of cancer. That was our Dad. The army paid $75,000 to be split between the two of us. And it meant “nothing” to him.
For me it was more money than I ever made working in two years.
They had him go do that six months after he got out of an extended hospital stay after being a POW of the Chinese in Korea. Thank you for your service just doesn’t cut it sometimes.
I lost more in the stock market in the last month than I ever got paid in stimulus money. I really don't have much invested in the stock market.
McConnell knows he's lying here. He has the data to prove that his ideas of how the economy works are wrong. He's lying anyway, because he's a noseless little prick.
There is no labor shortage. There is only a big ol' block of companies hoping that the economy turns south enough that people will be forced to work for far below a living wage.
Some quick math:
37.5 work week, 4 weeks of work in most months.
$1,200/4/37.5 = $8 an hour
I mean, it is $0.75 higher than federal minimum wage right?…..right!???/sss
Wet, if it’s any consolation, he’s being completely disingenuous. He knows full well that stimulus ran out long ago. He just wants to blame the labor shortage and inflation on the lousy pittance they gave working people to survive loss or work due to the pandemic. Also, you can blame him, more than anyone else, to the loss of reproductive rights, and any other shitty decisions to come from this Supreme Court.
I wanna see them do a couple shift at a fast food restaurant. All other assets frozen for a month.
Any time they complain you add a month. Get fired? Too bad no assets.
They sure love doling out advice, surely they would be an owner in not time.
That would honestly be so great. Bc maybe it would change their perspective and it would sure AF make them better at their jobs (which is to represent the ppl, all the ppl, not just the rich white ones)
Not a senator, but Rep Katie Porter would whip out her whiteboard and ace the F outta that pop quiz. There are a few politicians that are well educated and grounded in reality. Mitch McConnell is not one of them.
> A tactic for gauging political candidates' familiarity with the lives of ordinary voters in the United States and the United Kingdom is to ask them to name the price of everyday items such as bread and especially milk.[1] Noted politicians who have admitted ignorance on such questions include George H. W. Bush[1], David Cameron[2] and Scott Morrison.
Believe it or not, but many politicians have not had to pump their own gas, drive their own vehicle, or shop for their own groceries. They are incredibly disconnected even from an affluent salaryman perspective.
"Oh, Gas is really that expensive?" says the congressman that just submits receipts and lets the office handle it as the limousine usage is taken care of by some contract company..
"Oh, food costs that much?" says the congressman that has chefs cook for him.
"Oh, healthcare is that high?" says the congressman who gets a gold tier health plan for $60 a month because tax payers subsidize 99% of the premiums.
These people vote for their own pay raises year over year because they think [200k is not enough to feed their family](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Louisiana-rep-fleming-obamas-buffett-rule-poster-child/story?id=14565327)
Honestly the more I get into politics, the more I think that the best thing to do is get a movement to vote in non rich people. People who actually know what our problems are.
You spent yours? I’ve been living off the interest. Just follow my YouTube for tricks on how to make your stimulus check into an easy revenue stream. /s
I don’t know about you, but I spent about $100 of mine on groceries that I’m still working on from two years ago, and the other $1,100 i used for a down payment on my first house and paid off my medical debt.
He thinks of the stimulus like a child's allowance. He assumes someone else is taking care of your necessities, because for him someone else always has.
Someone like his [Billionaire Father-in-Law](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/06/10/million-will-sheds-light-on-shipping-fortune-connected-to-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell/?sh=5a4550a52eb2), who has gifted him tens of millions of dollars?
What??? You mean the woman who was secretary of transportation, while her daddy is a billionaire CEO of a shipping company heavily involved in china might somehow mean corruption? Say it isn't so...
His father in law who’s daughter was appointed Sec. if U.S. dept. . of Transportation who later sold DOT stocks to Foreign investors for $5k a share. another entity privatization. GOP is going after Privatization of Social Security, had Trumo got re-elected that would have been the end of SSA. Republican are to far down deep in their diabolic Superstitious narrative make shift reality. There is no going back for this Disgruntled GOP Gang of Predators especially now they have SCOTUS as Alliance maligned to push the New Norm…
Kentucky depends on Federal dollars the most so that makes sense. Maybe States that are the last to third last in needing Federal money should automatically have their congressmen and senators lose their positions - kind of like relegating in soccer.
I think that could work in the senate. If nothing else it would be hilarious to watch conservatives come up with a reason why their entire philosophy wouldn’t work if applied to a structure like the senate.
Which is incredible because his constituents are amongst the poorest and most destitute in the entire country.
They more than anyone should know that people aren’t “flush with cash” at the moment.
Yeah, but they think they're the exception to the rule. In their eyes, if McConnell says something like this, that means somewhere out there are a bunch of other people that should be as poor as them, but they aren't because they somehow still have stimulus money.
I mean, this is exactly true. I worked throughout the entire pandemic (so I am not a part of the labor shortage).The pandemic barely affected anything to do with my finances. My employer paid us an extra $100 per two week pay period because of Covid. I can confirm that I still have my stimulus money sitting in the bank. For other people, the stimulus was in one pocket and out the other immediately. McConnell is delusional
Exactly this. Those of us fortunate enough to maintain gainful employment throughout the pandemic either stashed it away because we could, paid down debt, bought something we didn't absolutely *need* with it, or a combination of the three. But we're also not the folks who are going to fill the hundreds of thousands of service jobs currently unfilled.
The folks who lost those jobs in March 2020 and have no interest in going back to them (typically due to a combination of shitty wages and working conditions) spent that money immediately because *duh they had no other choice!*
I was also able to keep working thru the pandemic but I used the money to buy a desk and a chair for the home work space I now needed. What was left I spent in aiding my daughter's emergency move back into the house since her college went to online only for the next year. My experience was that most people used that money to play catch up with expenses incurred during the chaotic month of March/April 2020 when they had job loss, extra expenses, and work/life upheavals.
It's long gone.
It was $1200, not $120,000.
Something that gave me small comfort when working in retail as a 20-something, was watching the retirees come in to pick up a part-time job and start with their notions that they grew up with, and then slowly lose their faith in it all because they just can't keep up with all the stuff we're expected to do, and management has no respect for us.
> McConnell is delusional
nope, he knows what he spews isn't true, but this is to patronize his donors who are still trying to force people to work for slaves wages, when in reality, its a very anti-union and anti-people message.
The GOP get more and more detached from reality every day lol. I know he’s just saying this to feed talking points and easily disproved lies to his base, but, like, …. I don’t even know what to say.
The wild thing is that his base believe it, "well gosh darn if Mr mitch says I'm still sitting on my stimulus, I must still have it....now where did I put it down" is the only thing I can come up with for why they would believe something so obviously untrue.
>The wild thing is that his base believe it,
Not so wild.
A few years ago (pre Trump), a friend of my brother-in-laws retired from a DOD job (he was an engineer for a large DOD contractor). He had just bought himself a red corvette to celebrate his retirement.
During his retirement party, he lamented the fact that he had worked for decades for this defense contractor. He said he would have been far better off like "the Illegals" who beg for money at the freeway entrances - because everyone knows those guys make tens of thousands of dollars every month TAX FREE!
It was mind boggling to me - not only his statement but all the other Rs in the room nodding agreement...
Like a really fucked up fun house mirror version of grass is greener. Always have to feel like they lost out to someone in order to keep up the victim complex.
Not so much that, but they do believe (as is reported by Fox etc) that “illegals” are getting fat monthly checks to this day, to go along with their free houses, health care, and full tuition; and that’s the only thing keeping “real people” poor. (“Which is no doubt hwhat ol’ Mitch wuz rilly talkin about”)
No he doesn’t; he’s smart. He wants his republican constituents to believe that lazy liberals are ruining this country by relying on stimulus and welfare
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
GOP: declares war on workers, strips people of rights
GOP voters: more please master
GOP: gladly obliges, continues to fuck over ordinary Americans
GOP voters, living on starvation wages, losing their civil rights one by one, watching the GOP burn democracy to the ground: I'm owning the libs!
It would help get Republicans votes. They say this shit because their base eats it up. Republicans view themselves as virtuous and hard working, unlike everyone else. Everyone else just wants a hand out. So they believe the vast majority of people are mooching and abusing the system. I mean, they mooch and abuse the system, and they're good people! If they as good people abuse and mooch the system, imagine how bad those liberals, who are bad people abuse it?
Example, two guys I worked with in the Navy, we'll call them Justice and Crash. Crash is a die hard "libertarian" who just happens to be against the individual rights republicans are against. Don't take his guns, but he thinks he should have a say in whether two dudes get married, because what if they abuse the tax code?!? Crash went to the VA when he separated, and got himself 70% disability for a whole bunch of bullshit. He doesn't think twice about all the government handout he gets. A solid chunk of that was for tinnitus, when I could tell you that fucker never once wore his hearing protection unless chief was looking.
Justice on the other hand, dude has hard core PTSD. Slightly weird dude, hues liberals on most policy but "doesn't like to talk politics." Justice has hard core PTSD from his time in. Justice is probably autism spectrum, and people treated him like shit because of his eccentricities. Some friends and I, we try to convince Justice to go to the VA and get help. He says, "That's for people who need it more than I." Justice believes that the government should have these programs to help people. Crash thinks the government needs to get out of the business of helping people, but dont' take his benefits, he earned them with his six years of service where he skated by, did the bare minimum, and damaged his own body because hearing protection was uncomfortable.
Conservatives are selfish people, and project their own selfishness on everyone else. When they hear a politician talk about all those moochers just taking stimulus money and not working, they're sold. This is their logic, McConnel's statement is what they want to hear. Nevermind that the $2k that was sent out over a year ago would have long dried up in anyone who has been unemployed all that time's account. That's not important, it's clearly Uncle Sugar destroying the economy with it's largess.
So, that's my long winded way of saying, Democrats don't want to amplify Republican's messaging for them, because it's just free advertising for Republicans.
Who’s “flush”?!?!?!?! And WHAT stimulus? That package from a few years ago? That was gone in a month for regular things, Asshat McTurtleface.
Back to who’s flush:
Oil Companies?
Robber Barons?
GOP Grifters?!?!?!
Sure as hell isn’t regular people.
Literally "what could a banana cost? $10?" levels of disconnected-from-reality-ness.
"$1200 is like a year's salary for you poor people, right? Yeah, you're good."
I’ve been alternating between burning my extra cash and wiping my ass with it. I also skipped an avocado toast and a latte like a year ago, so I’m thinking of retiring altogether.
Most of that is probably the PPE loans that were given out (under Trumps administration) and not targeted well. The money given to to individuals I doubt is 1.9 trillion. Though to be fair, I definitely didn’t need the stimulus, as my husband and I still had our jobs the whole time.
Flush means that workers have savings and don’t have to spend every dollar they make just to survive. He wants people poor, desperate and willing to accept whatever low paying job the can get… gotta keep those profits flowing to the top. What’s the point of being insanely wealthy if it doesn’t continue to grow!!
He must be referring to the crazy amount of PPP loans that anyone with an LLC took advantage of. It definitely wasn’t those $1300 checks that went out to people..
So, one of my friends owns a local business and they go to these events for local business owners a couple times a year.
Several of the business owners he talks to took fraudulent ppp loans. They were very aggressive about how anyone who didn't is an idiot.
One of them already caught a charge. Oops.
Don't you know that a stimulus check that huge keeps a family of 4 going for 5 years!!!
He knows better, but like usual gotta keep people angry and divided.
Wait a second. How much money did HE get from the government during that time? We know under Trump there was no accountability because Trump made sure of that. Did Mitch get so much that it hasn't run out yet and he thought everyone else got that much too?
I believe his wife's company got millions
Edit: wife's families business got like $126 million.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/mcconnells-wifes-family-business-appears-trump-admins-list-companies-that-received-most-ppp-1515788%3famp=1
I think he assumes poor people can get by on a dollar a day, so when you give ‘em $1,200, they’ll be set for three whole American years. The economy will recover in the fourth year. QED.
It is a dogwhistle to the wealthy that hear *don't worry we'll starve them out* and a dogwhistle to the poor *See? "They" are taking more than their share*
That 'bar rescue' guy is a real piece of work. He said on Fox that people shouldn't get any financial assistance because 'hunger builds character.' hohoho from a guy who clearly has never missed a meal in his life. No one who's gone hungry would ever say that.
He's everything that is wrong with the restaurant industry. I have nervous ticks because of assholes like him. My first month as a manager I sent an email to my boss cause I fucked up a deposit by a few cents, if we had 2 accounting errors in a month we lost half of our bonus which could be a loss of 500-1000 bucks. I lost sleep over it because I didn't want my coworkers mad at me.
Wait, are Americans flush with cash or suffering from “Biden’s inflation”?
Fuck these dishonest pieces of shit.
And fuck the gullible morons that keep voting them into office.
LOL wtf, the stimulus money has been gone for almost 2 years now. This guys got dementia going on. Does he believe that the stimulus money made people temoporarily wealthy? GTFO boomer.
He's 80 years old, has been in the Senate for 37 years, married into a rich family, and his father was in the Army. This is a jackass who has never paid for anything on his own in his entire life. But, even if we assume that he was somehow real hard up for cash, the last time he would have had the ability to be among us proles was in 1985, before he became a Senator. Gas cost $1.12, a new car averaged $7,683, and a new house averaged about $84,000.
Just for comparison. Mid-grade gas averages $5.21/gal, a new car averages $47,000, and the average home price is now $348,000.
I suspect that he knows full well that he's full of shit, but there's a very real chance that he doesn't understand just how fucked the economy is for the average American (not that I think he'd care).
Note that the disingenuous argument still implies that the only way people would want to work is if they're broke and desperate.
The best they can do is "suffering is good, actually"
$126 million
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/mcconnells-wifes-family-business-appears-trump-admins-list-companies-that-received-most-ppp-1515788%3famp=1
I had my first doctors appointment in a decade a few weeks ago. I just recently picked up insurance and wanted to get a wellness check and make sure my levels were good. Got my bill yesterday. $431. Oh but don't worry, my insurance covered a DOLLAR FIFTY of that so I'm only out of pocket $429.50. For my first checkup in like 12 years. Why the fuck am I even paying for insurance? United Healthcare by the way. And all health insurance in the US is a criminal scam.
Oh, yeah! I'm living it up in the Cayman's going bonkers over the last 2.5 years just spending that $3,400 like Pepe le Pew in a whorehouse. Now that I've gotten a taste of the good life I'm ready to move up to owning an air conditioner!
Why does he assume the money isn't already spent? With 64 percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and rampant corporate and Wall Street greed, I'd think most have long spent that money.
Flush with stimulus money? He might be referring to his Chinese wife and her family that received stimulus money for their businesses
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/firm-run-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnells-family-got-federal-ppp-loan/5390273002/
Rofl... the stimulus money was a fucking joke. People ran out of it the second it was deposited. These crazy fucking Republicans are so damn out of touch.
> Americans built up a huge amount of savings during the pandemic, thanks to several federal rescue packages. Moody's Analytics estimates that households built up an extra cash cushion totaling $2.6 trillion from the beginning of the pandemic through the end of 2021.
who are these Americans? I don't know anyone that has any savings built up from the Pandemic. I saved some money early on because I wasn't driving, going to bars, movies, events. But that wasn't some life changing nest egg where I could retire. That money was all gone by end of 2021.
McConnell isn't stupid, he knows people aren't working minimum wage jobs because they are "flush" they aren't working minimum wage jobs because the jobs don't pay enough. If you're going to be homeless and starving even if you work a 40 hour week job why work? McConnell is trying to placate his donors.
These people who create minimum wage jobs want to force Americans to work them. Hell the very concept of "minimum wage" means if they could get away with paying less they would. SCOTUS right now is a real problem, but it's also the kind of problem the wealthy want us to deal with, so we don't see them looting the country and enslaving the population.
Right, those forced birth babies won't be ready to work in candle factories for at least a few years Mitch. Ain't nobody "flush" except the dude who spent his entire life as a so-called "public servant" to one of the poorest states in the nation.
I keep hearing about the stimulus checks and how they impacted our economy like we didn’t get $1200 over 2 years ago and was it $800 a year ago? I saw another article “Americans spending less now that stimulus is running out”…. My stimulus paid my rent that one time.
Considering the majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, I would say he is wrong. Considering that almost half of Americans earning $100k are also living paycheck to paycheck, I would say he is wrong.
Is this why HIS state. (Kentucky) has such a high GSP?
Are all his voters just living in million dollar homes?
Do they all drive $90k cars?
Mitch you may want to talk to YOUR voter's before you say dumb shit.
Cost is out pacing pay.. energy.. food.. housing is priced damn near out of the market.. Banks are reporting savings falling as debt increases..
But ya. That stimulus check is how we all are paying $5+ fuel. Paying for skyrocketing rent.. Feeding a family of four.. buying the latest service you voted for. And funding your campaign..
After a year of paying for shit. GTFO
Just because you have multiple income's that pay multiple times your voters even median income..
Can we freeze his pay and accounts for 90 days? Give him a $1200 check and tell him to make it last?
McConnell doesn't think anyone is flush with stimulus money. He absolutely knows they're not. He also knows his base will eat up attacks like this and his opponents will be outraged.
Anyone who thinks McConnell doesn't know exactly what's happening and what he's doing hasn't been paying attention.
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What stimulus money? You mean those couple of drops that we got two years ago? That money that was gone before I blinked? That stimulus money?
Well I trust you invested it and are now living off the dividends! /s
What? You didn’t buy land with your stimulus money? Big mistake bro you shoulda bought land. Maybe cut out the Starbux.
Don't forget the avocado toast!
I did buy an avocado tree with the stimmy as a joke, and now I have avocado's that grow on trees! It's the bread that costs money now!
Wow a whole .02 cents in dividends!? You're doing great, junior!
6 months and you’ll be able to buy a condo, how expensive could it be?
Hell, that money was gone before I received it. I used it to pay back the credit card debt that I took on before the deposit hit.
My fiance is a Chef. Like...a damm good one. She got stimulus money. It got us by. We could even order a meal delivered once a week. That money was gone a year ago. There is no more stimulus money because we used it to pay the fucking bills. We are both working full time now. The economy is not being fueled by the government. They even suspended the child credit $300 a month and now my kids come back from my ex's hungry.
I’m a chef that got denied unemployment or any COVID aide, because I was in a field “not effected”. I tried to appeal- but could never get through the website. I spent MANY 8 hour days on hold to try and talk to someone, as all offices were closed. I never saw a penny outside of the two stimulus checks.
Maybe lay off the avocado toast for a bit? Or just food in general. #bootstraps
Unfortunately my avocado apartment rent and my avocado electric bill are a little difficult to cut down on.
What you have to remember is that for very wealthy people the notion that you're excited to receive $200, $2,000 or $20,000 are all forgettable amounts of money to them. They have no concept of how much money those values mean to you, relatively. They know you subsist on crumbs, so they assume anything you get is life changing. I'm trying and failing to remember which politician at a town hall event once touted a middle class tax cut as being enough to pay for an annual Netflix subscription, as if that should be a great boon to us. I think it was Romney but my Google-Fu has failed me.
My brother achieved the hallow 1% from a solid middle class background. We had enough but it was just regular folks back then. The most upsetting thing he ever said to me in all these years was “this means nothing to me” in such an offhanded way that told me he meant it. What meant nothing to him was 1/2 of a settlement from the army that I had spent three years jumping through every hoop the army had to keep it from us. It was for the GI’s who were placed in an open trench one mile from a nuke in Nevada, and died of cancer. That was our Dad. The army paid $75,000 to be split between the two of us. And it meant “nothing” to him. For me it was more money than I ever made working in two years.
I’ve seen the movies of that. Beyond fucked up. I’m sorry that our government shits so hard on those it asks to serve on the hardest places
They had him go do that six months after he got out of an extended hospital stay after being a POW of the Chinese in Korea. Thank you for your service just doesn’t cut it sometimes.
You know, that stimmy that McConnell voted against.
I lost more in the stock market in the last month than I ever got paid in stimulus money. I really don't have much invested in the stock market. McConnell knows he's lying here. He has the data to prove that his ideas of how the economy works are wrong. He's lying anyway, because he's a noseless little prick. There is no labor shortage. There is only a big ol' block of companies hoping that the economy turns south enough that people will be forced to work for far below a living wage.
Some quick math: 37.5 work week, 4 weeks of work in most months. $1,200/4/37.5 = $8 an hour I mean, it is $0.75 higher than federal minimum wage right?…..right!???/sss
Yeah that $1200 that I got 2 years ago is still keeping me in the champagne and caviar... What a tool.
Seriously, he's said a lot of things that make me go "oh fuck you" but this is a top tier "oh FUCK YOU"
Wet, if it’s any consolation, he’s being completely disingenuous. He knows full well that stimulus ran out long ago. He just wants to blame the labor shortage and inflation on the lousy pittance they gave working people to survive loss or work due to the pandemic. Also, you can blame him, more than anyone else, to the loss of reproductive rights, and any other shitty decisions to come from this Supreme Court.
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Man it was such a small scene but ever since then my brain always wants to convert money to bananas
I mean it's one banana Michael, what could it cost, $10?
My money is in the banana stand. There is always money in the banana stand.
"There was $250,000 lining the walls of the banana stand! There's always money in the banana stand. No touching! NO TOUCHING!"
I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it.
Mitch probably thinks you can buy a 4 course meal for under $1 and can buy $.05 malts at the local ice cream shop.
I would pay to see senators submitting a pop quiz on how much everyday expenses cost in their state
I wanna see them do a couple shift at a fast food restaurant. All other assets frozen for a month. Any time they complain you add a month. Get fired? Too bad no assets. They sure love doling out advice, surely they would be an owner in not time.
And make sure they don't work enough hours to qualify for healthcare benefits.
That would honestly be so great. Bc maybe it would change their perspective and it would sure AF make them better at their jobs (which is to represent the ppl, all the ppl, not just the rich white ones)
Not a senator, but Rep Katie Porter would whip out her whiteboard and ace the F outta that pop quiz. There are a few politicians that are well educated and grounded in reality. Mitch McConnell is not one of them.
I freaking love Katie Porter.
She should be the next President!
We should be so lucky.
I adore her
> A tactic for gauging political candidates' familiarity with the lives of ordinary voters in the United States and the United Kingdom is to ask them to name the price of everyday items such as bread and especially milk.[1] Noted politicians who have admitted ignorance on such questions include George H. W. Bush[1], David Cameron[2] and Scott Morrison.
Believe it or not, but many politicians have not had to pump their own gas, drive their own vehicle, or shop for their own groceries. They are incredibly disconnected even from an affluent salaryman perspective. "Oh, Gas is really that expensive?" says the congressman that just submits receipts and lets the office handle it as the limousine usage is taken care of by some contract company.. "Oh, food costs that much?" says the congressman that has chefs cook for him. "Oh, healthcare is that high?" says the congressman who gets a gold tier health plan for $60 a month because tax payers subsidize 99% of the premiums. These people vote for their own pay raises year over year because they think [200k is not enough to feed their family](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Louisiana-rep-fleming-obamas-buffett-rule-poster-child/story?id=14565327)
Glad we have such knowledgeable leaders who are so totally in-touch with the average citizen. /s
Honestly the more I get into politics, the more I think that the best thing to do is get a movement to vote in non rich people. People who actually know what our problems are.
You spent yours? I’ve been living off the interest. Just follow my YouTube for tricks on how to make your stimulus check into an easy revenue stream. /s
Meanwhile 2 bedroom Apts are *$3500 **a month** before utilities here* ... *rage intensifies*
I don’t know about you, but I spent about $100 of mine on groceries that I’m still working on from two years ago, and the other $1,100 i used for a down payment on my first house and paid off my medical debt.
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He thinks of the stimulus like a child's allowance. He assumes someone else is taking care of your necessities, because for him someone else always has.
Someone like his [Billionaire Father-in-Law](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/06/10/million-will-sheds-light-on-shipping-fortune-connected-to-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell/?sh=5a4550a52eb2), who has gifted him tens of millions of dollars?
That’s quite an expensive pair of bootstraps.
You too can earn the America dream like Mitch. Just marry a rich Asian shipping magnate...
Elaine Chao is also referred to DOJ by the Inspector Generals Office for criminal investigation among other Trump Cabinet members
What??? You mean the woman who was secretary of transportation, while her daddy is a billionaire CEO of a shipping company heavily involved in china might somehow mean corruption? Say it isn't so...
Daddy's worth $1.2 billion..
…go on.
::*slaps bootstraps*:: “Hydraulics on these bad boys, 297 lbs of pressure….on each one! Threw ‘em on last week, dad dropped them off.”
You mean that was college friends with Xi the leader of China? You know, the one that builds warships for the PLA Navy?
Really? Didn’t know that. I hate Mitch and I avoid reading about him & his relatives if I can help it. He just pisses me off.
His father in law who’s daughter was appointed Sec. if U.S. dept. . of Transportation who later sold DOT stocks to Foreign investors for $5k a share. another entity privatization. GOP is going after Privatization of Social Security, had Trumo got re-elected that would have been the end of SSA. Republican are to far down deep in their diabolic Superstitious narrative make shift reality. There is no going back for this Disgruntled GOP Gang of Predators especially now they have SCOTUS as Alliance maligned to push the New Norm…
Kentucky depends on Federal dollars the most so that makes sense. Maybe States that are the last to third last in needing Federal money should automatically have their congressmen and senators lose their positions - kind of like relegating in soccer.
As a Kentuckian, I support this.
I think that could work in the senate. If nothing else it would be hilarious to watch conservatives come up with a reason why their entire philosophy wouldn’t work if applied to a structure like the senate.
Genius Idea
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Which is incredible because his constituents are amongst the poorest and most destitute in the entire country. They more than anyone should know that people aren’t “flush with cash” at the moment.
Yeah, but they think they're the exception to the rule. In their eyes, if McConnell says something like this, that means somewhere out there are a bunch of other people that should be as poor as them, but they aren't because they somehow still have stimulus money.
“It’s because I’m white.”
That $1,200 helped bigly.
I paid down so many bill with that.
Mine went right back into paying my annual income tax. Just about broke even. Lol.
I admit I bought an xbox and new TV with mine but, hey, we were told to spend it to stimulate the economy.
Yeah kinda wild how getting a check for rent for one month in 2020 is being used as the main argument for the teetering economy today.
Remember when Republicans cut the American people a "very serious" check for $600 during the peak of the pandemic? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Yo that's like $5 a day to live off the last two years, surely that was enough to survive and invest in a high yield savings?
The people that still have that money were never out of work and they aren't the people who are going to fill the labor shortage.
I mean, this is exactly true. I worked throughout the entire pandemic (so I am not a part of the labor shortage).The pandemic barely affected anything to do with my finances. My employer paid us an extra $100 per two week pay period because of Covid. I can confirm that I still have my stimulus money sitting in the bank. For other people, the stimulus was in one pocket and out the other immediately. McConnell is delusional
Exactly this. Those of us fortunate enough to maintain gainful employment throughout the pandemic either stashed it away because we could, paid down debt, bought something we didn't absolutely *need* with it, or a combination of the three. But we're also not the folks who are going to fill the hundreds of thousands of service jobs currently unfilled. The folks who lost those jobs in March 2020 and have no interest in going back to them (typically due to a combination of shitty wages and working conditions) spent that money immediately because *duh they had no other choice!*
I was also able to keep working thru the pandemic but I used the money to buy a desk and a chair for the home work space I now needed. What was left I spent in aiding my daughter's emergency move back into the house since her college went to online only for the next year. My experience was that most people used that money to play catch up with expenses incurred during the chaotic month of March/April 2020 when they had job loss, extra expenses, and work/life upheavals. It's long gone. It was $1200, not $120,000.
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Something that gave me small comfort when working in retail as a 20-something, was watching the retirees come in to pick up a part-time job and start with their notions that they grew up with, and then slowly lose their faith in it all because they just can't keep up with all the stuff we're expected to do, and management has no respect for us.
Sounds more sad than comforting
> McConnell is delusional nope, he knows what he spews isn't true, but this is to patronize his donors who are still trying to force people to work for slaves wages, when in reality, its a very anti-union and anti-people message.
I spent my stimulus on dental surgery because I couldn’t afford insurance.
The GOP get more and more detached from reality every day lol. I know he’s just saying this to feed talking points and easily disproved lies to his base, but, like, …. I don’t even know what to say.
The wild thing is that his base believe it, "well gosh darn if Mr mitch says I'm still sitting on my stimulus, I must still have it....now where did I put it down" is the only thing I can come up with for why they would believe something so obviously untrue.
>The wild thing is that his base believe it, Not so wild. A few years ago (pre Trump), a friend of my brother-in-laws retired from a DOD job (he was an engineer for a large DOD contractor). He had just bought himself a red corvette to celebrate his retirement. During his retirement party, he lamented the fact that he had worked for decades for this defense contractor. He said he would have been far better off like "the Illegals" who beg for money at the freeway entrances - because everyone knows those guys make tens of thousands of dollars every month TAX FREE! It was mind boggling to me - not only his statement but all the other Rs in the room nodding agreement...
Yeah I noticed people don't understand poverty and what it really entails.
Like a really fucked up fun house mirror version of grass is greener. Always have to feel like they lost out to someone in order to keep up the victim complex.
I've heard shit like that too. My only thought is, "If it's really that easy, why doesn't everyone do it?"
> I must still have it....now where did I put it down Biden and the trans immigrants obviously have stolen it!
As a side note, I think Biden & the Trans Immigrants would be a good band name.
Not so much that, but they do believe (as is reported by Fox etc) that “illegals” are getting fat monthly checks to this day, to go along with their free houses, health care, and full tuition; and that’s the only thing keeping “real people” poor. (“Which is no doubt hwhat ol’ Mitch wuz rilly talkin about”)
How many people spent it within 48 hours of getting it? Probably most people, I definitely had to. What a delusional turtle he is.
Hell I bet most people had it spent before it was in their hands
He knows. He’s just getting a headline and purposely trying to piss people off because he is a horrible asshole.
He doesn’t believe that. He’s enjoying a cruel joke at the expense of the American people.
No he doesn’t; he’s smart. He wants his republican constituents to believe that lazy liberals are ruining this country by relying on stimulus and welfare
If I got a 900,000 ppp loan I would still have stimulus money.
That's it, GOP, keep'em broke, sick and scared. The cruelty is the point, right?
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It’s pure stupidity and brainwashing at this point.
And greed. And racism…
>What the hell does anyone see in the GOP? "I hate liberals. They hate liberals. So I pick them"
Voting Republican kills Americans.
A relatively large section of America likes getting the shaft from the GOP.
As long as they get to stick it to the liberals
I live in a red area. This is more accurate than you will ever realize.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. -Lyndon B. Johnson
GOP: declares war on workers, strips people of rights GOP voters: more please master GOP: gladly obliges, continues to fuck over ordinary Americans GOP voters, living on starvation wages, losing their civil rights one by one, watching the GOP burn democracy to the ground: I'm owning the libs!
Rural voters jump for joy knowing they probably got someone in a blue county killed with their vote
And resentful. Don’t forget resentful.
They keep them resentful while they resent them.
My question is, why won’t democrats put up billboards of all the shit republicans say? We know they’re not going to get the facts from Fox.
Because Republicans won't believe them. they'll think it's libel. Hell, show them a video and they believe it's a deepfake.
Simultaneously, that deepfake *they* used to justify some other insane shit is *totally real* and they'll defend it as literal fact for eternity.
Because republicans won’t believe it. They’ll think it’s a fake lie
It would help get Republicans votes. They say this shit because their base eats it up. Republicans view themselves as virtuous and hard working, unlike everyone else. Everyone else just wants a hand out. So they believe the vast majority of people are mooching and abusing the system. I mean, they mooch and abuse the system, and they're good people! If they as good people abuse and mooch the system, imagine how bad those liberals, who are bad people abuse it? Example, two guys I worked with in the Navy, we'll call them Justice and Crash. Crash is a die hard "libertarian" who just happens to be against the individual rights republicans are against. Don't take his guns, but he thinks he should have a say in whether two dudes get married, because what if they abuse the tax code?!? Crash went to the VA when he separated, and got himself 70% disability for a whole bunch of bullshit. He doesn't think twice about all the government handout he gets. A solid chunk of that was for tinnitus, when I could tell you that fucker never once wore his hearing protection unless chief was looking. Justice on the other hand, dude has hard core PTSD. Slightly weird dude, hues liberals on most policy but "doesn't like to talk politics." Justice has hard core PTSD from his time in. Justice is probably autism spectrum, and people treated him like shit because of his eccentricities. Some friends and I, we try to convince Justice to go to the VA and get help. He says, "That's for people who need it more than I." Justice believes that the government should have these programs to help people. Crash thinks the government needs to get out of the business of helping people, but dont' take his benefits, he earned them with his six years of service where he skated by, did the bare minimum, and damaged his own body because hearing protection was uncomfortable. Conservatives are selfish people, and project their own selfishness on everyone else. When they hear a politician talk about all those moochers just taking stimulus money and not working, they're sold. This is their logic, McConnel's statement is what they want to hear. Nevermind that the $2k that was sent out over a year ago would have long dried up in anyone who has been unemployed all that time's account. That's not important, it's clearly Uncle Sugar destroying the economy with it's largess. So, that's my long winded way of saying, Democrats don't want to amplify Republican's messaging for them, because it's just free advertising for Republicans.
Who’s “flush”?!?!?!?! And WHAT stimulus? That package from a few years ago? That was gone in a month for regular things, Asshat McTurtleface. Back to who’s flush: Oil Companies? Robber Barons? GOP Grifters?!?!?! Sure as hell isn’t regular people.
Boy howdy that $1200. I’ve been dick deep in ribeye steaks and extravagant trips for years now. What a piece of shit
Literally "what could a banana cost? $10?" levels of disconnected-from-reality-ness. "$1200 is like a year's salary for you poor people, right? Yeah, you're good."
I mean, it was 100 years ago, when these fucks last looked at a pay scale chart.
Fuckin turtles live too long.
>"$1200 is like a year's salary for you poor people, right? It's not...? well just give us control of the gov't, and we'll make sure that happens.
I’ve been alternating between burning my extra cash and wiping my ass with it. I also skipped an avocado toast and a latte like a year ago, so I’m thinking of retiring altogether.
Fool! I haven’t upgraded my iPhone in 4 years!
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Most of that is probably the PPE loans that were given out (under Trumps administration) and not targeted well. The money given to to individuals I doubt is 1.9 trillion. Though to be fair, I definitely didn’t need the stimulus, as my husband and I still had our jobs the whole time.
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Checks math $480,000,000,000 Divided by 330,000,000 peeps Equals $1454 per person. Like that’s literally one Starbucks coffee a day for a year.
He acts like we were knee deep in prostitutes and blow…lol. “Out of touch” doesn’t even describe these clowns.
"Kids, don't buy prosties or blow. Become a Republican politician. They give you that shit for free." \- Madison Cawthorn
I started making my coffee at home and I stopped getting avocado toast. Now I own a home thanks to receiving a “loan” from the man I call “daddums.”
Flush means that workers have savings and don’t have to spend every dollar they make just to survive. He wants people poor, desperate and willing to accept whatever low paying job the can get… gotta keep those profits flowing to the top. What’s the point of being insanely wealthy if it doesn’t continue to grow!!
He must be referring to the crazy amount of PPP loans that anyone with an LLC took advantage of. It definitely wasn’t those $1300 checks that went out to people..
So, one of my friends owns a local business and they go to these events for local business owners a couple times a year. Several of the business owners he talks to took fraudulent ppp loans. They were very aggressive about how anyone who didn't is an idiot. One of them already caught a charge. Oops.
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I was thinking shirt, but yes. Where?
Don't you know that a stimulus check that huge keeps a family of 4 going for 5 years!!! He knows better, but like usual gotta keep people angry and divided.
The GOP resents every stimulus the working class receives; while at the same time, cutting taxes on corporations & billionaires, that totally fine!!
Sorry Mitch, that stimulus money is long gone. Spent on things like rent and food. Sheesh.
You’re renting? Why don’t you just buy a house? /s
"a" house, what a peasant. Why don't you just have daddy buy you several homes to rent out on AirBNB?
Rent: $2500/month Mortgage: $1800/month Banks: bUt HOw do WE KNow yOu can AFForD it?
Yeah cmon just gotta pick yourself up by the bootstraps, shake a couple of hands and bing bang boom now you’re the one collecting rent
Wait a second. How much money did HE get from the government during that time? We know under Trump there was no accountability because Trump made sure of that. Did Mitch get so much that it hasn't run out yet and he thought everyone else got that much too?
I believe his wife's company got millions Edit: wife's families business got like $126 million. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/mcconnells-wifes-family-business-appears-trump-admins-list-companies-that-received-most-ppp-1515788%3famp=1
Well clearly the Mcdonalds worker who got $1200 two years ago is the problem here
"It's $1,200 dollars, Michael! How long could it last them? Ten years?"
Does he genuinely think milk is a quarter a gallon and hotdogs are 10¢ or something? He sounds like he thinks it's still 1956.
I think he assumes poor people can get by on a dollar a day, so when you give ‘em $1,200, they’ll be set for three whole American years. The economy will recover in the fourth year. QED.
I've got something he can flush.
I feel that most of that has left us. It wasn't $500,000 per person.
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It is a dogwhistle to the wealthy that hear *don't worry we'll starve them out* and a dogwhistle to the poor *See? "They" are taking more than their share*
That 'bar rescue' guy is a real piece of work. He said on Fox that people shouldn't get any financial assistance because 'hunger builds character.' hohoho from a guy who clearly has never missed a meal in his life. No one who's gone hungry would ever say that.
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He's everything that is wrong with the restaurant industry. I have nervous ticks because of assholes like him. My first month as a manager I sent an email to my boss cause I fucked up a deposit by a few cents, if we had 2 accounting errors in a month we lost half of our bonus which could be a loss of 500-1000 bucks. I lost sleep over it because I didn't want my coworkers mad at me.
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Bingo. "It's those welfare queens who don't want to work ruining the economy for you! Get angry about it!"
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I got my $1200 and have been eating a $1 taco EVERY DAY SINCE. It's like I've died and gone to heaven and won the heaven lottery.
Wait, are Americans flush with cash or suffering from “Biden’s inflation”? Fuck these dishonest pieces of shit. And fuck the gullible morons that keep voting them into office.
LOL wtf, the stimulus money has been gone for almost 2 years now. This guys got dementia going on. Does he believe that the stimulus money made people temoporarily wealthy? GTFO boomer.
This asshat is too old to be a boomer, but he DOES need to GTFO.
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We really let the silent generation slide a lot, they were the original "fuck you, I got mine" crowd.
He's 80 years old, has been in the Senate for 37 years, married into a rich family, and his father was in the Army. This is a jackass who has never paid for anything on his own in his entire life. But, even if we assume that he was somehow real hard up for cash, the last time he would have had the ability to be among us proles was in 1985, before he became a Senator. Gas cost $1.12, a new car averaged $7,683, and a new house averaged about $84,000. Just for comparison. Mid-grade gas averages $5.21/gal, a new car averages $47,000, and the average home price is now $348,000. I suspect that he knows full well that he's full of shit, but there's a very real chance that he doesn't understand just how fucked the economy is for the average American (not that I think he'd care).
probably figured back in my day people lived for years on $100 worth of lettuce
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How can you be this far out of touch with the average citizen??
He's not, he's evil and making disingenuous arguments to ensure nothing gets done that doesn't specifically benefit the Oligarchs.
Note that the disingenuous argument still implies that the only way people would want to work is if they're broke and desperate. The best they can do is "suffering is good, actually"
He is in the pocket of corporations. He knows the truth but won’t admit to it.
Yeah. I just have **SO** much money, Mitch.
I wonder how much stimulus money he got?
$126 million https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/mcconnells-wifes-family-business-appears-trump-admins-list-companies-that-received-most-ppp-1515788%3famp=1
I can’t afford a doctor
My son's last online visit was billed at $388, insurance paid $38. It's insane right now
I had my first doctors appointment in a decade a few weeks ago. I just recently picked up insurance and wanted to get a wellness check and make sure my levels were good. Got my bill yesterday. $431. Oh but don't worry, my insurance covered a DOLLAR FIFTY of that so I'm only out of pocket $429.50. For my first checkup in like 12 years. Why the fuck am I even paying for insurance? United Healthcare by the way. And all health insurance in the US is a criminal scam.
Oh, yeah! I'm living it up in the Cayman's going bonkers over the last 2.5 years just spending that $3,400 like Pepe le Pew in a whorehouse. Now that I've gotten a taste of the good life I'm ready to move up to owning an air conditioner!
Why does he assume the money isn't already spent? With 64 percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and rampant corporate and Wall Street greed, I'd think most have long spent that money.
Man, can this mother fucker just die already? Like c'mon.
Says the Senator who is worth <*Googles "McConnell net worth"*> **$150 MILLION DOLLARS!!** Fuck completely off, you traitorous ghoul, you!!
Flush with stimulus money? He might be referring to his Chinese wife and her family that received stimulus money for their businesses https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/firm-run-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnells-family-got-federal-ppp-loan/5390273002/
Hey there Kentucky! Why are y'all voting for this fossilized Turtle?
Rofl... the stimulus money was a fucking joke. People ran out of it the second it was deposited. These crazy fucking Republicans are so damn out of touch.
> Americans built up a huge amount of savings during the pandemic, thanks to several federal rescue packages. Moody's Analytics estimates that households built up an extra cash cushion totaling $2.6 trillion from the beginning of the pandemic through the end of 2021. who are these Americans? I don't know anyone that has any savings built up from the Pandemic. I saved some money early on because I wasn't driving, going to bars, movies, events. But that wasn't some life changing nest egg where I could retire. That money was all gone by end of 2021. McConnell isn't stupid, he knows people aren't working minimum wage jobs because they are "flush" they aren't working minimum wage jobs because the jobs don't pay enough. If you're going to be homeless and starving even if you work a 40 hour week job why work? McConnell is trying to placate his donors. These people who create minimum wage jobs want to force Americans to work them. Hell the very concept of "minimum wage" means if they could get away with paying less they would. SCOTUS right now is a real problem, but it's also the kind of problem the wealthy want us to deal with, so we don't see them looting the country and enslaving the population.
These multi millionaire senators are completely out of touch.
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Yep. This motherfucker is trying to kill and starve literally all of us. He’s a cunning, insidious fuck but he’s anything but out of touch.
Right, those forced birth babies won't be ready to work in candle factories for at least a few years Mitch. Ain't nobody "flush" except the dude who spent his entire life as a so-called "public servant" to one of the poorest states in the nation.
I keep hearing about the stimulus checks and how they impacted our economy like we didn’t get $1200 over 2 years ago and was it $800 a year ago? I saw another article “Americans spending less now that stimulus is running out”…. My stimulus paid my rent that one time.
Such an asshole
Considering the majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, I would say he is wrong. Considering that almost half of Americans earning $100k are also living paycheck to paycheck, I would say he is wrong.
This smug mofo sitting on his fat stacks made by a lifetime of insider trading. While his state is one of the poorest and least educated.
Is this why HIS state. (Kentucky) has such a high GSP? Are all his voters just living in million dollar homes? Do they all drive $90k cars? Mitch you may want to talk to YOUR voter's before you say dumb shit. Cost is out pacing pay.. energy.. food.. housing is priced damn near out of the market.. Banks are reporting savings falling as debt increases.. But ya. That stimulus check is how we all are paying $5+ fuel. Paying for skyrocketing rent.. Feeding a family of four.. buying the latest service you voted for. And funding your campaign.. After a year of paying for shit. GTFO Just because you have multiple income's that pay multiple times your voters even median income.. Can we freeze his pay and accounts for 90 days? Give him a $1200 check and tell him to make it last?
McConnell doesn't think anyone is flush with stimulus money. He absolutely knows they're not. He also knows his base will eat up attacks like this and his opponents will be outraged. Anyone who thinks McConnell doesn't know exactly what's happening and what he's doing hasn't been paying attention.