It’s a tomorrow problem. Politicians and many voters live in the present.
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Someone should ask him if he’ll pledge to have all the mining for this crypto done in the U.S. and to maybe give preference for those jobs to towns in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky where towns grew up on mining and have people ready and willing to go back to the mines to work.
I expect his answer would be spectacular.
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I think most boomers are concerned about it as they have dealt with these issues with their parents.
Say hello to the 5 hour work week. No taxes on overtinme!
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And/or have been exposed when their grandparents went through those years.
I hear that one too. Completely unhinged policy ideas.
https://www.electoral-vote.com/
Polling: Speaking of polling, the first major post-debate poll, from Morning Consult, is out. Shortly before the debate, they had Harris +3 (49% to 46%). On the day of the debate, they had Harris +4 (50% to 46%). Yesterday, they had Harris +5 (50% to 45%).
It’s only one data point, of course, and the movement is within the margin of error. That said, a point or two is about what we would expect her to pick up from a very successful debate.
Be interesting to see what this looks like next week when the debate is fully cooked into the dog and cat polls.
how much is Taylor Swift?
tree-fiddy?
The media is helping Trump again. He says something crazy like “they are eating the dogs” and the media will talk about it for days. Most people in the USA probably didn’t know that a small town in Pennsylvania suddenly has 20,000 Haitian residents (is this even true??). He wants the news cycle to be dominated by such things.
I agree they are feeding the dysfunction, but this is certainly not “helping” Trump when it comes to the election.
He is losing marginal voters.
Maggie Haberman talked about it. It’s a deliberate strategy.
Buttigieg also talked about the Trump distraction strategy, saying something batshit crazy to get people focused on that rather than his policies and what a turd he is
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A strategy like that only really works once. It’s not even a “strategy” in Trumps case, its simply the way he has conducted himself his entire life: trying to always one up everybody else due to feelings of inadequacy (this stems from the way his father treated him).
If you told Trump that you just bought a very expensive fully armoured car, he would then turn around and tell you that he bought a tank. He has a pathological need to one up people (in his case its usually money. But he has also done it with his plane and the size of the crowds).
Problem for Trump is that “the chaos” he creates begins to be normalised by the electorate, so he has to go even further every time to come up with even more batshit stories.
And the more batshit his stories get, the more he goes towards the extremes.
Ergo, he loses marginal voters.
I don’t really consider public education a wealth transfer at all actually.
It doesn’t really benefit ME if my child gets an education. Hell I may be better off financially keeping her uneducated and dependent on me … then I can harness her labor for my own benefit rather than hers.
Public education doesn’t help ME the parent out. It is an investment in the medium-term future of society. One where most of us will still be alive and dependent on the existence of doctors and dentists and engineers and grocery stores and insurance companies and much much more.
It is securing the future that all of us will live in. YOU will benefit from MY daughter getting an education.
Not just not Venezuelan, but legal immigrants as well. It’s a moment acknowledging that he doesn’t just dislike illegal immigration.
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Really the more I think about it, being a parent is a wealth transfer from the parent to society (since raising kids costs way more than the benefits from the government).
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Legal, tax-paying immigrants.
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He seemed to be for it for his wife a chain immigrant parents, but I guess she doesn’t come from a shithole country according to Trump so that’s ok. Or maybe deport Melania and her anchor baby to Venezuela?
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