This upcoming election has consequences. In 2020, we saw then-President Donald J. Trump refuse to concede after losing reelection to Joe Biden, serving as an exclamation point on a term that was marred with turmoil, crises, and outright lies. As we head into 2024 with Trump as the Republican nominee, I worry about the possibility of a second term, which will no doubt further erode our country’s values. It seems like every time I look at my phone, I see headlines about Trump’s many court cases, his ugly campaign promises of violence, and texts from my very real long-distance girlfriend pressuring me into moving in with her. So let me be clear: if Trump wins in November, I’m going to have to move to Canada to be closer to my long-distance girlfriend, Lisa.
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It’s almost quaint now to look back at the shock we all felt at presidential candidate Donald Trump attacking the judge presiding in the Trump University fraud lawsuit as biased because he was Latino and Trump was talking about building a border wall. Most Americans assumed that it would be impossible that such a disrespectful and, frankly, racist person could be elected in the 21st century but as it turned out that was just a preview of many such attacks to come. (That lawsuit eventually settled for $25 million) Because Trump is such an inveterate lawbreaker, he has been the subject of many legal cases over the years and biographers and armchair psychologists have speculated that his strategy has always been to publicly denigrate the judges and the prosecutors in these cases due to his father’s admonition that one must always fight with everything they have. But it’s just as likely that he’s following the advice of his mentor, the odious attorney Roy Cohn who has been called “one of the most reviled men in American history.” If anything it was Cohn who pulled Trump out from under his father’s shadow.
Declan Kearney attended the first Global Anti-Apartheid conference on Palestine in South Africa last weekend
No, not Lieberman Only a fraction of American adults are stock investors, but it’s a large fraction (61%). Many of the more heavily invested will be cashing dividend checks while claiming the economy has gone bust under Joe Biden. So it goes. The news has yet to trickle down to others that, yeah, people’s lives are improving under Joe Biden, as Michael Tomasky wrote this week: Politico and Morning Consult asked respondents a series of questions about all the major economic legislation Biden has signed. Majorities know little or nothing at all about the infrastructure bill, the CHIPS act, the American Rescue Plan, and the Inflation Reduction Act. And get this: While 40 percent said Biden has done more than Trump on infrastructure, 37 percent said Trump had done more. In January, NBC found that Trump has a 22-point advantage over Biden on the question of whom voters trust more with the economy—up 15 points from the same poll in 2020. […] It’s largely a media problem.
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The former party leader told Byline Times that Labour will not 'not sign up' to Conservative budgets if the party wins the next general election – a contrast to 1997
Into your life it will creep Is anyone keeping a list? A list of the “I know you are but what am I?” behaviors of which the right accuses its adversaries while indulging in same with gusto? Indoctrination? Extremism? Propaganda? Intimidation? There must be a listing somewhere, but I’m too tired of the BS to go looking just now. The breaking news Thursday night was a photo of an upside down American flag flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va. on January 17, 2021. Days after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by MAGA extremists on January 6 and three days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as Donald Trump’s replacement. Alito blames his wife. Election rigging? Death threats? Political violence? Hating America? Upside down display of the American flag is a considered a signal of distress. Donald Trump’s Stop the Steal cult appropriated the signal as a sign of alarm that a Democrat was about to occupy the Oval Office in his place. It is unclear how many days it flew outside Alito’s home, The New York Times reports.
“In response to the controversy surrounding Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College, the NFL distanced itself from the ideas expressed in the speech, saying the league doesn’t share the beliefs the Kansas City Chiefs kicker voiced while addressing the graduating students. During the commencement speech, Butker referred to Pride Month as an example of the ‘deadly sins.’ He also addressed gender ideologies and said a woman’s most important title is ‘homemaker.’” — The Athletic
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1. “Men set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in.”
2. “The spectacles women used to make of themselves. Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder these things used to happen.”
Pulitzer Prize winner Nathan Thrall details life in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since Oct. 7 and explores what’s motivating Benjamin Netanyahu.
Andrew Raw, the Reform UK candidate for Darlington, is the latest member of the party to be criticised for his social media posts
The Bibby Stockholm, docked on the island town of Portland, Dorset, has been embroiled in controversy since the announcement that it would be used to house asylum seekers by then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman in early 2023. The barge witnessed the initial boarding of 50 male asylum seekers on Monday 7 August 2023, only to be […]
Campaigners call for electoral laws to be tightened after an Israeli billionaire and an Australian hedge fund boss use their companies, which made minimal UK profits, to donate £40,000 to the former Immigration Minister
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A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by the Israeli police and many settlements.
The post An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to U.S. Police Departments appeared first on The Intercept.
While one can understand that some of the elements in DSGE models seem to appeal to Keynesians at first sight, after closer examination, these models are in fundamental contradiction to Post-Keynesian and even traditional Keynesian thinking. The DSGE model is a model in which output is determined in the labour market as in New Classical […]
The Prime Minister and his wife's personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began
Max von Sydow (1929-2020) medverkade i över ett hundra filmer och TV-serier. Han gjorde många minnesvärda roller, men den som har berört mig mest är som fadern i Pelle Erövraren — baserad på Martin Andersen Nexös episka mästerverk. Bille August regisserade. Stefan Nilsson skrev musiken. Max von Sydow gjorde sitt livs prestation. Och det skär […]