Joking? No!
If you think the reelection of Teflon Don isn't going to embolden males to do these things all up and down the spectrum of civil rights in so many ways (and not just in America) you are "part of the problem."
Joking? No!Just joking, right?
MAGA’s Violent Threats Spike as Little Girls Threatened With Rape
Donald Trump’s win continues to bring out the very worst in his supporters.newrepublic.com
A big problem is that any party with "Socialist" in its name has a giant target on its back in America. Which I think is stupid, by the way, but it's the case.They seem to me to be the closest thing the US has to a moderate, centre-left party.
IIRC, Biden wasn't up for running after the death of his son Beau.2016 Biden would have been a mythical Jesus candidate? It's unreal how much you liberals keep pretending the DNC did nothing wrong and keep making excuses for them.
Since when has anything been nationalized in this country. It's another third rail.If the US nationalized SpaceX, Musk and all the other investors would get a huge Payday. The US govt would have to purchase a controlling interest in a corporation valued at $200B+.
Is Congress going to authorize the funds? No Congress will not. Also SpaceX would have it tied up in the courts through the end of Biden's term even if Biden attempted it.
The only possible scenario would be if Harris had been elected and the Democrats got control of Congress which the opposite happened. So some people's dream of nationalizing SpaceX will have to wait.
This guy Musk has become a big problem with so many big irons in the fire, a shit ton of money, a desire to run or at least influence everything and a head full of horrible ideas. He's got company, but right now he's the oligarch supreme. I wonder how Murdoch got to where he is (don't know).Since when has anything been nationalized in this country. It's another third rail.
This guy Musk has become a big problem with so many big irons in the fire, a shit ton of money, a desire to run everything and a head full of horrible ideas. He's got company, but right now he's the oligarch supreme. I wonder how Murdoch got to where he is (don't know).
Since when has anything been nationalized in this country. It's another third rail.
The disease was beyond his control, but pandemic response wasn't. Which is why he lost the 2020 election.Why does the whole world think that correlation is causation by tossing out all the incumbents? I don't think that US presidents have nearly the control over the world economy and peace status as they are made out to have. Trump was rightly blamed for shitty handling of covid, but the disease was beyond his control. But Biden/Harris didn't mishandle inflation which I think was also caused by the pandemic. I guess there is an argument to be made that all the spending helped cause inflation, but it being worldwide sort of hampers that theory. Economics, the dismal science!
The disease was beyond his control, but pandemic response wasn't. Which is why he lost the 2020 election.
Biden didn't cause global inflation, but 2021 stimulus probably juiced domestic inflation a bit (my unsubstantiated guess is by a couple percentage points). Economists can debate that stuff, but it doesn't really matter. The electorate has said for the past couple years they hate Bidenomics, and they showed it at the polls. Perception is reality.
The (painful) irony is that the Federal Reserve actually pulled off the mythical "soft landing," only the second time in modern history that has happened. Voters have no idea what that means, of course.
Sure. It's "wild" that the U.S. macroeconomy is the envy of all of its peers, while some 70% of the electorate grumbled that things are lousy (while still spending like drunken sailors on shore leave).Something to note also is that the Euros did way less stimulus than we did and ruling parties still got wiped. Voters just mad period.
Something about having to where a mask to keep your job. Police state, police state, communism......Something to note also is that the Euros did way less stimulus than we did and ruling parties still got wiped. Voters just mad period.
An early-on eye-opening snippet from the above linked history of nationalization in the USA:Anybody remember GM, Chrysler, AIG etc. in 2008-2009? That is a form of nationalization, just coached in another term, bailouts.
Amtrak was a nationalization of multiple passenger railroads in the 70's.
A lot of industries got nationalized during WW1 and WW2.
Technically anytime the government uses eminent domain to seize private property, that is nationalization.
A HISTORY OF NATIONALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES
In order to navigate these intersecting ecological and economic crises within the necessary (and shortening) time frames, we will likely need to take over and decommission the large fossil fuel extraction corporations that are both one of the leading causes of climate change and one of the primary institutional impediments to addressing it. On its face, this seems absurdly radical and improbable in the type of capitalist system that exists in the United States. However, the United States actually has a long and rich tradition of nationalizing private enterprise, especially during times of economic and social crisis. Importantly, this approach has often been deployed when private companies are hindering national efforts to address a crisis (either through obstruction, incompetence, or incapacity). This history of nationalization, along with other robust government economic interventions, suggests that far from being a non-starter, a public takeover of the fossil fuel industry should be considered an eminently plausible and viable policy option for dealing with the forthcoming climate crisis.
FA and will FO = what???As they say, things could be a lot worse and we suspect a lot of voters FA and will FO.
Lake isn't getting the margins she'd need out of Maricopa to win AZSEN. Appears to be basically over.
Midterms are only two years away!The election is over isn't it? I'm still getting fundraising emails.
This is the way.The election is over isn't it? I'm still getting fundraising emails.
She's undoubtedly still in the Republican election denier camp, both for Trump and herself, like last time.Ohhh it’s not even close to being over. She will raise a huge stink if she doesn’t win and it will drag in for at least a year maybe 2
Can't come soon enough in all probability.Midterms are only two years away!
I set up email filters because they were peppering my inbox. After that I never saw them. Well, almost never.The election is over isn't it? I'm still getting fundraising emails.
Those are very different phenomena. Meteors that fuck up bigtime are pretty rare. Wars not so much. Volcanos are limited in range. Climate change is our existential crisis. Trump calls it a hoax. The man will go down as an ass, there is no doubt.There is an uncomfortable talk we have not had yet.
If all it takes is a momentary dip in living standards for democracy to kill itself off... Then this was always going to happen. Be it war volcano meteor or climate change. My logic circuits pretty much all line up that democracy is an unstable local minimum. How can it not be.