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Senate passes bill aimed at making US housing more accessible and affordable
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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About what I expected.
For the short term, good. Hold up the rare bit of bipartisan legislation in the name of a nonexistent problem. Keep digging that hole, asshole.
Yep. The only problem is that Democrats are likely to be terrible at making Republicans answer for that and messaging about it.
They'll get all tripped up on something not all that relatable and very wonky or take the bait on some trans side-quest.
This shit should be easy - call the Republicans what they are: fucking weird and demented.
The cons are more worried about "women in sports" or "wokeness" than they are about making shit affordable for you, including housing. They are more worried about covering up for a pedophile that is more fired up about designing a ballroom, or arches, or slapping his name on things than he is on doing the job. They are more worried about covering up for him than they are putting any kind of check on him for anything including taxing virtually everything you buy and invading countries for no reason and threatening our allies.
Stick to that message and also throw in what Democrats plan to do in contrast to all that unhinged chaos and nastiness. And for fuck's sake don't take the bait on their messaging about culture war shit. Don't take their narratives about BLM or burning cities to the ground, or trans or defunding the police or any of that, and constantly bring it back to how fucking weird the right wing is.