From the election Wikis:
2020 - Biden 81,283,501 Trump 74,223,975
Total - 155,507,476
2024 - Trump 77,303,573 Harris 75,019,257
Total - 152,322,830
The numbers for 2020 were artifically inflated due to increased vote by mail usage due to the pandemic.
From that inflated number, the overall count was down 3 million, but Harris only dropped 6 million from Biden’s numbers, not 18.
Problem, the number they quote of 19 million people who voted for Biden staying home is a bullshit number:
2012 - Obama 65,915,795 Romney 60,933,504
Total - 126,849,299
2016 - Trump 62,984,828 Clinton 65,853,514
Total - 128,838,342
2020 - Biden 81,283,501 Trump 74,223,975
Total - 155,507,476
2024 - Trump 77,303,573 Harris 75,019,257
Total - 152,322,830
The numbers for 2020 were artifically inflated due to increased vote by mail usage due to the pandemic.
From that inflated number, the overall count was down 3 million, but Harris only dropped 6 million from Biden’s numbers, not 18.
The biggest reason is that voter turnout wasn’t repressed, the 2020 turnout was artificially inflated by emergency vote by mail rules due to the pandemic.
2012 - Obama 65,915,795 Romney 60,933,504
Total - 126,849,299
2016 - Trump 62,984,828 Clinton 65,853,514
Total - 128,838,342
2020 - Biden 81,283,501 Trump 74,223,975
Total - 155,507,476
2024 - Trump 77,303,573 Harris 75,019,257
Total - 152,322,830
Well, they started blocking aid in the 90s so…
Yup! There are various angles on fuckery here. I’m hopeful, but not expecting much.
I get it, people just need to be aware that there’s no quality control on Substack. Anyone can post anything there, even if (as this case) it’s completely off base.
I’m hopeful as the prime minister of Qatar is making it sound like a done deal, but we’ll see!
FTA:
“Any agreement must be approved by Netanyahu’s Cabinet.”
So be prepared for the whole thing to fall apart still. In theory the vote will be Thursday.
Israel apparently has not yet fully approved the deal, so hold on to your hats for now!
Vote is apparently on Thursday.
FTA:
“Any agreement must be approved by Netanyahu’s Cabinet.”
This is exactly why we don’t allow substack blogs as top level posts.
Removed, editorialzed headline.
YouTube links aren’t allowed, news sources only.
US Internal news, not World News.
Who they are:
“ASEAN is made up of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. An 11th country, East Timor, is set to join soon.”
Why the Secretary of Defense should know who they are:
“ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei are locked in maritime disputes with China over its claims of sovereignty over virtually all of the South China Sea, one of the world’s most crucial waterways for shipping. Indonesia has also expressed concern about what it sees as Beijing’s encroachment on its exclusive economic zone.”
you can’t run on the status quo when the status quo isn’t working for people.
That was the thing that killed me about the Biden campaign. People literally told Biden the economy sucked and they were hurting. They wanted Clinton’s “I feel your pain”. They wanted Carville’s “it’s the economy, stupid!”
They got “What are you talking about, Jack? Economy is doing GREAT! Best in the world! We recovered! It’s over!”
Then, when asked what she’d do different, Harris responded “I can’t think of anything, really.”
How about this…
“I’d have more empathy when people come to me outlining the challenges they are facing or the failures of the administration. There are things Biden absolutely could have done better, and I will do better.”
I’ll just say this, I DID read the details and it is incredibly, deeply fucked up. Fucked up to the point I’m not ashamed to say I’d like to see Gaiman criminally charged. If you do not know, then you’re better off for not knowing.
He was a rad guy.
It does raise the spectre of “how much did Terry know?” I really hope he was blissfully ignorant of all of it because, frankly, it’s more than I personally ever wanted to know.
Substack blogs are not news.