Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) has posted a new ad pointedly suggesting that with Donald Trump’s history he could not even get hired at your local mall. “Would you buy a used car from this man” entered popular culture in the 1960 election. This RVAT ad is another version of that famous attack. It may work against Donald Trump. And it may not. The popular vote spread in 1960 was less than one percentage point (just over 100k votes), even though Sen. John F. Kennedy won in the Electoral College by 303-219 votes. (Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia won 15.) So, how effective was it even in the pre-internet stone age? Donald Trump lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020, but the electoral vote spread was nearly the same as 1960 in each. It’s just that the count fell Trump’s way in 2016 (and against the country’s international standing). Who knows? Maybe the the approach will work this time. Trump’s support has nowhere to go but down. It’s just that as the late Paul Weyrich observed, Republican chances in elections go up as the voting population goes down. There’s no rooom for Democrats slacking off. Too much is on the line.
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Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the cover story of the May 2024 print edition is one which must urgently be told
The tech giants have overthrown capitalism. That’s the argument of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who became famous trying to defend debt-laden Greece from its German creditors. Varoufakis has never quite regained the notoriety of 2015. But he has remained a prominent left-wing voice. After a failed campaign for a seat in the European […]
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With Millie Gibson confirmed for both seasons, Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies addresses the previous rumors of her leaving the show.
Uncommitteds will find this must-see TV Americans love a good courtroom drama as much a police procedural. That fascination may finally get uncommitted voters who have tapped out and tuned out of politics to pay attention to what’s at stake in the November presidential election, Anat Shenker-Osorio tells Greg Sargent in today’s Daily Blast podcast. Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial begins today. The political press will drive a battle-of-the century narrative to draw eyeballs and clicks. Are these charges serious? Can District Attorney Alvin Bragg prove Trump paying off a porn star was election interference? Who will triumph? But the hubbub around the trial may communicate to non-political junkies the message that where there is smoke there is fire. Trump won’t come out of this unscathed even if acquitted. The right forever has thrown smoke bombs at opponents to convince the less-tuned-in that there must be something suspicious afoot. Al Gore and the internet. Hillary’s emails. Obama’s birth certificate. Voter fraud. There’s a Deep State out to get you. That there is no there there is beside the point. Create doubt in people’s minds.
Well, look at you. You’re all so brand spanking new, shiny, and gleaming. The world was made for the likes of you as you are now. Young. Supple. Idealistic. Yes, even the goths with their cloaks of (imaginary? performative?) sorrow, black as their black kohl-rimmed eyes. Yes, you are hopeful and just as starry-eyed and dreamy as the sunshiny ones that you scorn as vehemently as Dracula despises daylight. But you’re here too, wearing a robe and a ridiculous hat with a tassel. The truly sinister-at-heart, antiestablishment marauder wouldn’t be caught dead among such living. I’m not saying you’re a poser; I’m just saying it takes a lot more than memorizing Ginsberg to truly be one of the disillusioned, walking dead. Here’s my message to you: maybe you should truly live within the illusion of a tax-paying regular Joe before you disavow it. How can you disavow what you don’t know?
Watch my interview with Amy Goodman on DEMOCRACY NOW! on the German police’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices which led to my being banned in Germany. Also, below you can read my ‘Diary’ entry in THE NEW STATESMAN on the details and true causes of my ban. FROM THE NEW STATESMAN: As I write these lines, […]
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Naomi Klein is the award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. Raoul Martinez is a philosopher, author and filmmaker. This podcast is released alongside the acclaimed new docuseries ‘In The Eye Of The Storm — The Political Odyssey Of Yanis […]
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Rania Khalek was joined by Yanis Varoufakis, economist, political leader, former Finance Minister of Greece and the author of many books including his latest “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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The current leadership of the Labour Party likes to pride itself on the idea that it has ditched the ‘populist’ approach to politics championed by politicians like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders. ‘Populism’, on this view, involves simplistic appeals to a homogenous group of people in opposition to an external enemy. Liberals argue that the […]
H νέα κυρίαρχη ιδεολογία στην ΕΕ οραματίζεται ένα Λευκό-Χριστιανικό Μπλοκ κλεισμένο μέσα σε Σιδηρό Θόλο, αποτελούμενο από πανάκριβους εκτοξευτές πυραύλων και απάνθρωπους ηλεκτροφόρους φράχτες. Η Ευρώπη έχει γίνει αγνώριστη. Οι ευρωπαϊστές συνήθιζαν να εξυμνούν την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ως ένα Πρότζεκτ Ειρήνης που αντιπαραβάλλει έναν υπέροχο κοσμοπολιτισμό ενάντια στον εθνικισμό – ο οποίος, όπως το έθεσε δραματικά ο πρόεδρος Φρανσουά […]
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Advocates of European unity used to celebrate the European Union as a peace project. But well before Russia invaded Ukraine, the European vision of a peaceful road to shared prosperity had begun to frazzle, and now the invasion has facilitated the EU’s mutation into something much uglier. ATHENS – Europe has become unrecognizable. Advocates of […]
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Sega fanatics and pancake aficionados rejoiced last week as the International House of Pancakes dropped their latest collab. These six foodstuffs, inspired by America’s favorite blue hedgehog, are sure to make Sonic players curl up in a little ball and spin around really fast in joy. But don’t worry, I tried every item on the new menu, so you don’t have to. And while I’m happy to do it for you, I’d feel better if you tried an IHOP novelty menu one of these times, just so I’d know we had an equal partnership.
Campaigners say the judge throwing out Government claims that Trudi Warner was in contempt of court is a victory for free speech
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Republicans unfurled banners outside Kensington Palace and across the UK on Sunday ahead of a major day of action
Despite the Conservatives pledging to get rid of no-fault evictions in 2019 landlords are using it in record numbers with a 28% increase in 2023
No doubt exists that an entirely different subject has taken over control when it comes to education in scientific methodology in almost the entire field, namely statistics … The value of the statistical regulatory system should of course not be questioned, but it should not be forgotten that other forms of reflection are also cultivated […]
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On 3 April, American journalist Michael Shellenberger posted a series of excerpts from emails by X (formerly Twitter) executives dubbed ‘Twitter Files Brazil,’ which alleged to expose crimes by Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, Shellenberger claimed, had pressed criminal charges against X Brasil’s lawyer for refusing to turn over personal information on […]
One solution to the UK's economic and labour shortage problems is asylum seekers – if only the Government stopped to consider options other than sending them to Rwanda