American Politics from 2019 on

[rasetsu]

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[JimC]

I'm surprised the vote for necessary violence isn't higher...

[pErvinalia]

Good to see it's a minority of Republicans.

[Brian Peacock]

Get it back from where or who?

[pErvinalia]

The devil worshiping paedophiles.

[Tero]

Jews!

[Tero]

Plus US freed from all those actors.

[Tero]

Millions of voters failing to understand that when they voted for Biden in 2020 they also picked him for 2024 candidate. Polls fail to capture this. And to get these voters to see themselves in the voting booth November.

Sill screaming the "someone else" vote.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/07/12430498 ... nformation

[Tero]

Election? What election? Oh that.
NYT

If anything, Democrats may have a harder time focusing attention on abortion in a presidential election, when a larger portion of the electorate doesn’t follow politics closely and prioritizes pocketbook issues. Some of these voters are Black and Hispanic working-class Americans who tend to care less about abortion policy than white voters, Rachel Cohen of Vox has written.

https://www.vox.com/politics/24101209/a ... 4-election

Fox is really good at even pushing false data on economics. Biden is forgiving loans for Democrats! Not us working folks.

Biden pretty much has the union vote. But that demographic is not in the union.

[Tero]

next few US presidential terms will deal with a new world order

One possibility is that the world is entering a new cold war, with two broad alliances competing for power. Sometimes, this competition may lead to actual wars, in which the two alliances support opposite sides — but both take steps to avoid escalation. That describes the situation in Ukraine.

Another possibility is even more alarming: a global war. Noah Smith, writing in his Substack newsletter this week, argued that the chances of such an outcome were higher than many Americans recognized. This war could start either with a major event, such as a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, or almost accidentally.

Imagine if the Houthis killed many Americans in a Red Sea attack or a Russian missile somehow did so in Europe. Experts are especially worried about China’s harassment of Philippine ships in the South China Sea. In a White House meeting yesterday, President Biden discussed the threat with the leaders of the Philippines and Japan.

One problem, as Jim Sciutto of CNN pointed out in his new book, “The Return of Great Powers,” is that the guardrails that helped prevent a past world war seem weaker today. China and the U.S. don’t always communicate as well as Soviet and American officials once did, and proxy forces like the Houthis don’t always heed their sponsors.

The past several decades have included many agonizing problems around the world. Overall, though, it has been a remarkably peaceful period. Global deaths from armed conflicts have fallen to near their lowest levels in six centuries, and global poverty has plummeted. The future looks more frightening.

NYT morning letter

Great Powers article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/book ... casey.html

Every few months in the years that Donald J. Trump was president, Iran made a show of its ballistic missiles — the powerful rockets that can deliver nuclear warheads from one nation to another — and set off a small panic in Washington. The tests went like this: A missile flew up from one part of Iran, traveled through the country’s airspace and, ideally, blew up harmlessly in another part of Iran, hundreds of miles away.

[Brian Peacock]

Where's the Jewish space lasers when your really need them?

[Tero]

Electoral count in Jan '25 may be even more confusing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral ... ct_of_2022
Multiple candidates can get transition funds to set up
their white house while unresolved issues go through courts.

The attempt was to limit the house rejecting electors and results.

[macdoc]

This was "interesting" ....

caught a "filmed from the audience" version last night.
Might have some impact.

Tank of gas for SUV was $300 cdn ....service station guy would not take US dollars.

[Tero]

Biden causing Iran attacks this week. Total failure!

[Tero]

Tehran said it informed regional neighbours of strike several days before firing over 300 drones and missiles at Israel.
Tehran has warned it will strike again with greater force if Israel or the US retaliate for the Iranian strike on Israel that used more than 300 drones and missiles on Saturday night.

But thanks to Trump they have no nuclear weapons. Time for Israel to nuke them.