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"The Committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president. Moscow's intent was to harm the Clinton Campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential administration, help the Trump Campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, and undermine the U.S. democratic process."
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf
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Trump is the reason why they lost
It didn’t help. Hard to say how much that mattered when people clearly already saw what an R senate would look like - more Trumpist insanity and gridlock.
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I have to think that all this fraud nonsense ended up hurting them.
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It didn’t help. Some people are genuinely hurting and blocking the stimulus was an especially cruel thing to do.
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People on here are completely out of touch. Blocking the 2k does little to block those who are actually struggling.
Broad based stimulus in this particular scenario is a handout, pure and simple. 2k isnt going to meaningfully help people who lost their jobs or whose businesses had to shut down. And those who didnt lose their jobs are just going to spend it at Wal-Mart and Amazon since big corporations are the only things open nowdays (or even worse...theyre going to save it)
Targeted support for those affected most would be far more effective with those dollars than buying votes with a 2k handout
D1, sounds reasonable. What about the people whose wages have been decreased as a result of COVID without formal termination? What about the parents whose kids have to stay home due to school closures meaning they can’t go out and work or have to take significantly reduced hours?
What about any of the other multitude of issues people face as a result of COVID that keep them from being able to afford basic necessities?
And the list of questions can go on resulting in Congress having endless debates on what exactly constitutes eligibility for aid. That’s the main issue that a blanket 2k check with an income cap for eligibility addresses. This is a quick and simple to implement solution that gets money out to people because they don’t have time for politicians to have circuitous debates anymore.