Look, Trump won an overwhelming 49.9% of the popular vote to Harris’s meager 48.4%, of the 63.9% of eligible voters who turned out. We need to acknowledge the massive landslide victory this was, the clear mandate it provides Trump, and forfeit all gains made for equality and inclusion made over the last 50 years.
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Look, Trump won an overwhelming 49.9% of the popular vote to Harris’s meager 48.4%, of the 63.9% of eligible voters who turned out. We need to acknowledge the massive landslide victory this was, the clear mandate it provides Trump, and forfeit all gains made for equality and inclusion made over the last 50 years.
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He’s literally bought the social media platform that Trump used to control the (inter)national discourse for four years and modified its algorithm to suit his interests. He’s copied Trump’s tactics of maintaining media coverage by pushing out enough insane shit to capture the daily news cycle attention. His notoriety comes from his wealth and not an elected office, so we will never stop hearing about him for as long as he owns twitter and the media has the attention span of a gnat.
The etymology section of your link suggests different:
The demographer, anthropologist, and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L’Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term third world (tiers monde), referring to countries that were playing a small role in international trade and business. His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed the clergy and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively (hence the use of the older form tiers rather than the modern troisième for “third”). Sauvy wrote, “This third world ignored, exploited, despised like the third estate also wants to be something.”
But you’re right in that the term began to be used far more widely during the Cold War for political alignment.
The legacy of the Roberts court will its spiral into institutionalized corruption. For a man who claims to hold the legitimacy of the court to be paramount, his resistance to any sort of oversight of the court’s ethical standards will be how he is remembered. You can’t restore faith in institutions by grandstanding against your accusers in a fruitless effort to deflect the valid criticisms of your colleagues.
I mean he might have
No. “We finally beat Medicaid” Biden would have lost, bigly.
If anything though Biden should have dropped out sooner or not ran at all
Yes, 100% this. He should have been the transitional president he signaled he’d be, before being elected in 2020.
the return of Gamergate
Really?
I feel like a perpetually online person, but maybe not as much as I think? I missed this one, but I also don’t spend a lot of time on 4chan these days either.
Keep up, we annexing Syria these days, daddy needs a new buffer zone for his buffer zone. Can barely see the shit we’re seizing on this tiny map. You need this one.
Her entire message was “I’m Biden, for a new generation”. “I can’t think of single thing I’d do differently”, other than put a republican in her cabinet. And with as much time as she spent with her, it was probably going to be a Cheney, cause they’ve always been so popular with the American electorate…
Biden was nearly net negative 20 favorability when he dropped out, with almost two-thirds of Americans feeling the country was on the wrong track. Incumbents do not win with those numbers, especially ones who can’t put together coherent sentences after 8pm.
More and more I feel we are seeing the pendulum swing. Normally we see 5-10 year cycles of push and pull along the political spectrum, but I’m becoming increasingly convinced we’re in a century long cycle too.
We no longer have those with living memory of the gilded age, losing those who remember the saving grace that was the New Deal, and fewer and fewer left who were sent to war to fight fascism. Meanwhile the wealth gap is worsening in developed nations across the world, democratic republics are electing more far right parties and authoritarian leaders with populist messages, and the incoming administration is floating the idea of scrapping the FDIC and deregulating anything else on his favorite billionaire’s wishlist.
Seems like we’re right on track for a repeat of the 1930s.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema censured by Arizona Democratic Party executive board over filibuster vote
Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, adding drama to tight Senate margin
Manchin not backing Dems’ $2T bill, potentially dooming it
Sen. Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party and registers as an independent
And more recently… Manchin, Sinema block Democratic control of NLRB
Just like what Democratic party leadership wanted…
Not that surprising given how big our aging boomer demographic is. This was my father two years ago who had fought a year long battle with cancer before deciding to go with MAID. He was already hospitalized in palliative care and it may have only saved him a day or two more of suffering. In fact after how rough his final night was, I wish he had been able to let go a day earlier.
“She can’t even string a sentence together”, said after her town hall late in the campaign.
It’s like they never fucking listened to a single Trump rally.
Ah yes, the Senate, with a 53 seat Republican majority will surely keep Trump in line this time. Insert Susan Collins shocked Pikachu face.
According to AP VoteCast (who surveyed 110k voters), the top issue for voters was the economy, with 6 of 10 considering the economy to be not so good or poor, two-thirds were very concerned about the cost of food and groceries, 7 of 10 thinking the country is on the wrong track, and 8 of 10 looking for substantial change to how the country is run.
This is why the Democrat messaging about the inflation rate coming under control (true) or stronger post-pandemic recovery than most other comparable nations (also true) fell flat for most voters. If someone’s real wages didn’t match the price increases to food, rent, and everything else over the last four years, then how good the GDP is doesn’t really matter to them.
Campaigning on “things will largely be the same”, or saying you wouldn’t have done anything differently over the last four years, is always going to be a real uphill battle against an overwhelming desire for significant change.
After hearing Democrats talk about how they were “too woke” on transgender issues, I don’t blame anyone for feeling unwelcome.
My problem with that is, the only time I heard Harris say trans was when she was talking about prosecuting transnational gangs. Democrats didn’t lose for being too woke, they lost cause they don’t know how to talk about the economy to blue collar workers.
But with this Congress, this President, and this Supreme Court, including any additional conservatives judges Trump adds, no one in the crosshairs of Project 2025 should feel comfortable right now.
Lost the Senate and “maintaining the House balance” is a funny way to say “lost the House, again”.
Just take your fucking licks Democrats and learn from it, rather than trying to reframe losing all branches of the Federal government as some sort of secret strategic long-term winning plan.
the government in Ottawa has warned it won’t allow medicines to be exported if Canadians could experience shortages as a result.
The Canadian government looking out for Canadians. Maybe the American government should look closer at why drug prices are lower in Canada and rather than just try to buy Canadian? We’ve all got aging populations, this problem is only going to get worse, and any change won’t be implemented overnight. Would have been a great campaign issue to run on, rather than small business tax cuts and building a border wall.
Not until after they purge the “woke” and “DEI” generals first and install their loyalists. Then the executive and military can operate as one.