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14. This (see below) is not the point at all for any of my OP:
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 04:58 PM
Oct 2021
"did you really write this" nontroversy.

No one is getting entangled in 'did Biden physically 'write' the voluminous proposal' sematic game, at least that I have seen anywhere, be it on DU or in the MSM, or on internet/social media.

When Biden said 'I wrote it' he is using figurative speech to claim ownership overall (that the $3.5 trillion initial BBB proposal is HIS agenda, his original top-line figure). He is not literally claiming that he crossed every single 'i' and dotted every 't' physically in the massive text.

My OP is more about ownership and origin of the $3.5 trillion figure, as some are trying to spin it as a crazy 'progressives gone wild' agenda, in order to be able to falsely claim it (the original $3.5 trillion proposal) cannot be legimately called Biden's agenda. Then the false-framers can have a go at the progs for being 'purists' and even more so, then false-frame them as the the actual obstructionists, barriers for Biden. It is a disingenuous attempt at inventing a cleavage that does not exist. Falsely separate the progs from Biden's agenda and then take hatchets to them.


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