American Politics from 2019 on

[Tero]

NYT morning letter. They forgot to mention that CEOs and corporations do not have babies. Usually. And they can send them away if they are female CEOs. Just pay for the boarding school.

And under Trump, the Republican base has changed dramatically. They are more blue collar, more likely to loathe corporate chieftains and Davos “thought leaders.” The relationship between corporate America and congressional Republicans has also chilled. I have heard something like this from several Trump-aligned Republicans about corporate America: “We protected you for years. And then you turned around and sided with the Democrats on every major cultural issue — the environment, immigration, diversity and inclusion and voting rights.”

Most Republicans are still cozy with corporate interests, but some of the newer Trump-aligned members of Congress, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, are less dependent on corporate money because they raise a ton online from grass-roots donors.

David Leonhardt: I’m left believing that many C.E.O.s genuinely support a lot of Trump’s agenda — but also oppose other parts. The executives seem to be betting they can get the parts they like without the ones they don’t.

Maggie Haberman: No matter how genuinely they support or don’t support specific pieces, many are animated by greater antipathy toward Biden than attraction to Trump. And they’re averting their gazes from the parts they don’t like.

I think of Trump raising money, but never really MTG. But every "Jewish Space Lasers" probably brought her $100 000. She enetertains her fans

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Hardline republicans did not want to "solve" border before election so Trump could "solve" it. On top of that they object to taking in ANY refugees.

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters)
Republicans say Biden should reinstate Trump-era policies that sought to deter border crossings and roll back new measures that offer certain migrants ways to enter legally.

The Mexican government opposes the program, opens new tab, which would complicate any attempts to restart it. Democrats and immigration rights groups oppose it, too.

U.S. President Joe Biden is weighing whether he has the legal authority to block migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border since Republicans have refused to pass bipartisan legislation that would give him such power, the Democratic president said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.
Republicans say Biden should restore the restrictive policies of Republican former President Donald Trump, who will face Biden in the November election, and that the Biden-backed legislation would not sufficiently stem illegal crossings. Some of Trump's hardline immigration measures were blocked by courts.

Since October 2023, Biden has called on Congress to approve $13.6 billion in additional border management funds that would pay for 1,300 additional border patrol agents, 1,600 new asylum officers and 375 new judge teams.
The White House also backed a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate that would make it harder to claim asylum at the border and create a new authority to send migrants and asylum seekers back to Mexico if crossings reach certain levels.

But Republicans have opposed both the additional funds and Senate border bill, saying Biden should first restore restrictive Trump policies and end new legal entry programs that Republicans allege are an abuse of the federal government's parole authority.
Republicans have criticized, opens new tab the Senate bill for setting a threshold of a weekly average of 5,000 migrant encounters per day before requiring the use of an emergency authority to turn away migrants, saying it is too permissive.
The Biden administration says Republicans caved to Trump after he came out in opposition to the bipartisan Senate bill.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-p ... 0authority.

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marijuana legalization ad
https://www.threads.net/@canteach/post/C6BpXwQriM8

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Two candidates remain and they get worse and worse

Trump has lost support among independents and those who have an unfavorable opinion of both candidates. Trump (49%) and Biden (49%) now tie among independents. Trump held a 7-percentage point lead over Biden previously (52% for Trump to 45% for Biden). Among those who have an unfavorable opinion of both candidates, Biden (50%) and Trump (48%) are now competitive.

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/ele ... 024-april/

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American voters are increasingly saying "a pox on both your houses", it seems to me...

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Dunno where JFK sits in this other than the clan is not happy