81 points

if you want a kick, you gotta vooooooote!

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69 points

Does he mean “caps rent increases at 5%”? Because that’s literally higher than the rate of inflation lol

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Yes

Also, from a different source

From 2017 to 2022, the average year-over-year increase in rent was 5.77% nationwide, with the biggest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022 at 14.07%.

Generous Joe Biden, capping rent increases nationwide to .77% lower than the nominal increase

“Left wing win” bite me, loser. “Oh but it’s still good” Joe Biden’s team did 20 minutes of research to figure out what figure they could use that would not upset their corporate donors while still seemingly being ‘good enough’ to throw out, and it’s STILL never gonna happen because they need the legislative and executive branches, and barring Donald Trump dying that won’t be happening. And if they are in position where they actually have the ability to enact it, they just won’t.

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15 points

with the biggest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022 at 14.07%

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To be honest - I only read the Bluesky text and I then scanned the rest in about 3 seconds. I read enough to know it was funny and the details don’t matter at all because it will never happen anyway.

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58 points

Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask? :parliamentarian:

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It would be hilarious if by some miracle Biden wins and the dems control congress too. Biden has kingly powers but somehow he and the dems just can’t figure out how to do the things they pretended they wanted to do. They don’t shitcan the parliamentarian who - of course - says “no” to many things. The dems keep the filibuster alive which provides them any number of conveninet own goals. And they don’t even bother to try to do some stuff because - gosh darn it! - the GOP SCOTUS justices would never let them.

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Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress

tell me some other things that won’t happen

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45 points

Oh wow only a 5% increase annually, now if only my salary increases matched that it might not be fucking me over! Thanks Brandon!

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