chapotraphouse

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.

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.

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.

I'm in favor of giving them tax breaks, in the knee area favorably.

But it's the thought that counts?

I'M SWIFTLY MOVING TOWARD A SOLUTION WHICH PLEASES NOBODY!

But a "crumb of a crumb offered as a maybe" - is the traditional dem "problem solving" method.

An announcement about a plan for a rent cap, assuming a Democrat controlled Congress

Brandon's smart, savvy political instincts and brilliant tactics were on display in 2021 to 2022. He put Sinema and Manchin - two super-attention hounds - in the spotlight for a year until he took an ax to his own bills and did exactly what they wanted. Manchin also got a payoff. I forget what it was exactly - a mining exception or something?

For the rest of time, if Pramila Jayapal shows up in public, she should have reporters asking her "hey remember when you agreed to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the house and send it to the senate with assurances that you'd get Biden and Schumer to whip votes for BBB afterward, then you completely ate shit and gave away all your leverage and got nothing in return and Manchin and Cinema left the party and nobody even attempted to bring them in line in any way?"

Anton presents a lesson that libs never learned - "if the rule is what brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

[progress will not happen, we're not getting SHIT]

But the Parliamentarian says their magic genie in a bottle is unconstitutional.