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In the 1950s an American man could fight off meth heads and serve taquitos to stoned teenagers at 3 am without FOREIGN INFILTRATORS getting in the way. Remember what they took from you.
Speaking of DEI and racial preferences: the reason many convenience stores are Indian owned in USA is because they as POC get small biz loans from the GOVERNMENT (about $1 million same Trump got to start his biz) that whites are simply excluded from under current system. Havenāt.
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It's amazing how rapidly Merkel's reputation has collapsed over the last few years. Almost everything she did - austerity, Nordstream, cutting the Bundeswehr, closing the nuclear plants - has turned out to be disastrous.
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āGifted kidā discourse is weird because it sounds like they were piano prodigies or won the state math tournament but then it turns out they read at the 3rd grade level back when they were in 2nd grade.
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A bill that is 1,500 pages is too long. A bill that is 160 pages is too long. Bills that are the size of a novel (or five) should not be normalized. We fundamentally need to change how we have been passing the expenditure of taxpayer dollars in this country.
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Canada is such a fake country that they have thermostatic backlash against US political events.
The liberals went up 11 points after Trump's inauguration.
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@vanillaopinions Yup there was a fiscal conservative / liberal "we should spend the money on social programs instead" alliance that hated the space program, but they were thwarted by a bipartisan pro-space program consensus in Washington.
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Back when Bill Clinton was president and talking about "safe, legal, and rare" the right was literally bombing abortion clinics.
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The student debt relief movement was wild because before it launched I had in mind sympathetic cases like "single mom who got scammed by DeVry" but they intentionally sent out people who were like "I make $120k a year and I think my Harvard master's debt should be cancelled.".
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@femboytransit "People from the Netherlands are so nice!". A sentence previously unsaid in human history.
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A bunch of LA-based nonprofits used taxpayer funds to go on a paid junket to Ecuador and Europe and then came home and attached a metal grate to a bus stop in the name of gender equity. They held a press conference to celebrate this.
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Maturity is realizing that the correct response to 9/11 was to require locks on all airplane cockpit doors, shoot a cruise missile at an empty tent and hit a camel, and call it a day. Literally everything else the US did in response to 9/11 just made life worse for Americans.
Yesterday was Israelās 9/11. And remember, after 9/11, nobody told the United States not to retaliate, nobody called for a āceasefireā or a āde-escalation,ā nobody āboth-sidedā what had happened that horrible day.
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The meme that America is an impoverished hellscape with a handful of billionaires is so wrong. America is a mass affluent society with weirdly bad public services.
Car payments have hit record highs:. Nearly 15% of drivers who financed a new vehicle toward the end of 2022 are paying $1,000+ a month. (via edmunds).
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Hillary lost because she did a poor job of appealing to old, white, moderate voters. "Left-wing Bernie fans did it" was pathetic cope cooked up by her campaign, but 7 years later leftists have internalized this belief and think they are the kingmakers who decide every election.
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The pro-shoplifting takes on here are so strident because it's one of the few crimes that the Brooklyn trust fund set is willing to commit on their own to distinguish themselves from their uncool parents.
If you see someone stealing food from your billion dollar employer, you didnāt see shit. You sure as shit shouldnāt be tackling them. Youāre doing too much.
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@_Reaganite_ Brexit was dumb but it's become a huge cope for the UK's terrible policies in a bunch of other areas, most importantly housing. The UK could kick off a huge economic boom right now by relaxing its strict planning laws.
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@dawginhim @Pvelkovsky Thatās such a fake ass ābuildingā though. Theyāre just walkway-maxxing. If one of them collapsed the rest of the buildings would be fine.
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Biden spent months saying invading Rafah without evacuating the civilians first was a red line. But in humorous Biden style zero people actually believed him so now we have a betrayal narrative circulating.
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It's crazy that "Chinese people eating wild animals stored at unsanitary street markets" became the anti-racist explanation for COVID. In most worlds the media quickly accepts that it's a lab leak and Steve Sailer is accusing liberals of covering up Chinese bat-eating practices.
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@gonglei89 Democrats literally gave $31 billion to the Teamsters to bail out their collapsing pension fund and they couldn't even get their endorsement.
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@gonglei89 There aren't that many Teamsters. The amount the Teamsters received was equivalent to $100,000 per member. It was an enormous sum and they just said "ok thanks" and pivoted to worrying about cultural issues.
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When Obama proposed resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US it was one of most unpopular proposals in the history of opinion polling and set off a furious political backlash that led to the election of Trump.
Why hasnāt there been more push by activists to take in Gazan refugees in the West? Would save thousands of lives. Israel would presumably sign a treaty to guarantee they be allowed back if we evacuated them for a year. As this would dramatically reduce Hamasā odds of victory.
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The taco bowl tweet is actually an excellent comparison. It was a banger that successfully defused a lot of concerns that Trump was too racist against Hispanics. Trump gets away with racist shit that would damage other Republicans precisely because he does it in a hilarious way.
filing this under āworst optics of the decadeā next to the trump taco bowl tweet
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@SwannMarcus89 Self-immolation isn't culturally resonant in the US the way it is in predominantly Hindu and Buddhist countries. No one in the US is sitting at home saying "wow I was skeptical of the pro-Palestine movement before but I'm so honored by the sacrifice I'm on board.".
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@TheOmniZaddy I don't understand how the term "Lunar New Year" has survived this long. Rosh Hashanah and Diwali are both lunar new years! I'm sure there are countless other ones. Chinese š (and people who use Chinese-derived calendars) š Don't š Own š The š Moon. š.
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@JoePostingg I think a lot of people donāt understand the difference between an economies of scale delivery model (Amazon, supermarket delivery vans, old school pizza places) and private burrito taxis.
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Everyone dunking on this by pointing out that Calgary and Ottawa transit sucks are proving Yglesiasās point. These cities *do not* have world class infrastructure and yet still manage to get wildly higher ridership than any comparable American city.
Everyoneās instinct is to suggest an Asian or European city with awesome urbanism but my vote is Calgary and Ottawa both of which have higher transit mode than any non-NYC American city.
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@ArmandDoma Getting negatively polarized against YIMBYs to the point where you renounce your own research.
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Republicans get really testy when people politely mention the predictable effects of their insane abortion laws. The official position of the Republican party is that a homeless child prostitute who is doing speedballs every day should be forced to carry the pregnancy.
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I'll insist forever that Kamala ran a well-executed campaign given where things were handed to her and the American people just *really* hated inflation and the asylum surge. Probably wasn't winnable for anyone.
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A GOP that consistently won ~51% of the vote wouldn't just come into power with a narrow majority. It would come in with a giant EC/House/Senate landslide that would totally reshape politics!. It's actually kind of nuts how badly the GOP squanders its institutional advantages.
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It completely jumped the shark for me when it became a major talking point that *doctors* should not have to repay their student loans. Doctors give people medicine, so therefore they're not responsible for paying their bills, or something.
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One thing that I don't think is widely understood is that the Obama administration ruined mass transit in America. If you look at the transit projects that got built during the Bush administration, they. actually serve useful transportation purposes š® and. get ridership š¤Æ.
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@p8stie Violent crime is low in Europe but property crime is absolutely not. Items being locked up or held behind the counters is much more common in stores in Europe than in America.
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@SwannMarcus89 The US tech industry deciding to concentrate itself in the center of the Zero Population Growth movement was an enormous tragedy. The average mayor of a Midwestern city will deliver hookers, guns, bricks of cocaine to any tech company that wants to move there.
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San Francisco is richer and nicer than every other 500k+ population city in the United States, but it chooses to locate its Skid Row directly in the central tourist district. Worse stuff goes on in Philadelphia and Dallas, but those cities try to clean things up for tourists.
If San Francisco is a hellhole, why are its housing prices still astronomical?. Yes, draconian housing regulation is key. But you couldnāt make downtown Detroit prices sky-high by strangling construction.
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@SwannMarcus89 Paycheck to paycheck went from a colloquial expression meaning "poverty" to just meaning the literal "I'd have trouble paying my bills if I didn't have a job.".
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@bungarsargon @libsoftiktok Libs of Tiktok has stated she believes that openly gay teachers should be fired.
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Like there may have originally been some sort of strategy of trying to build public sympathy for less obviously sympathetic people, but they quickly went overboard. The movement was dominated by very wealthy college graduates who just didn't want to pay their bills.
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@agraybee Itās funny how conservatives think worldly, educated Founding Fathers shared the same beliefs as Debra from Facebook.
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@LittleMammith Huge chunk of young people are mentally ill shut-ins now and people are just grasping for gendered explanations.
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The GOP in populists' minds vs. the actual GOP
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Smart leftists understand that single payer is the best way to control health care costs but the dumb dumb left believes that Medicare for All is supposed be an infinite money glitch for health care providers.
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
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Itās weird that Republicans even bother doing global warming denialism. The Democratic position is āGlobal warming is real but any policy changes to reduce emissions need to go through a years-long community-led review process followed by legal challenges.ā.
Our planet is on fire and these morons think marginally speeding up the approval of desperately needed clean energy is going too far. You are climate arsonists.
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I think "the left" is composed of journalists and progressive nonprofit workers whose wages really haven't increased in nominal terms in recent years and don't realize that their experience is kind of atypical.
The views of progressive inflation doves turned out to he completely, 100% accurate, they were spectacularly vindicated - but now the left is turning on the idea because theyād rather have ragebait retweets than working-class prosperity.
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The Twitter Israel is debate frustrating because the anti-Israel side is influenced by ludicrous Arab nationalist ideas that Israel is weak and about to pack up and fly back to Poland and the pro-Israel side is convinced its a gay-friendly agricultural commune.
The reason so many defenses of Israel lean into the philosophical, ideological, and hypothetical is because there's no actual way to defend a liberal democracy denying basic civil rights to 33% of its population based on ethnicity indefinitely.
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The extremely strong interpretation of the First Amendment that weāve adopted was a novel legal theory invented by literal communists at the ACLU in the 1930s. Itās pretty wacky but on balance itās been good for the left.
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I think every country that has tried financial incentives for kids has done it in a really half-assed way that doesn't reach the actual cost of raising children. If you doubled taxes on childless people and used it to fund generous child allowances it would probably work.
Paying people to have kids doesn't really work.
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For all the talk about Trump being a bad candidate, within a few months of the Republican party no longer being guided by Trump they've started idolizing Kanye West and trying to revive the Satanist panic of the 80s.
New kids show from Disney. Keep in mind, this made it through the editing process and to the final product.
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American elections when Republicans start running on Based Islam and attacking white women
Based Muslim teenager who refused to shake hands with his teacher. May Allah bless him with more strength and success.
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@vanillaopinions Weirdly I think Trump's shocking bad behavior distracts from the more prosaic ways that his administration was really bad. Do people even remember the time he spent a year trying to yank health care from 20 million Americans?. Seems like it got overshadowed by January 6.
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This is basically the core of why the US right has gained less traction on trans issues than many people thought. Itās very hard for right-wing evangelical Christians to run a campaign on āsupport š effeminate š gay š boys šā when they clearly donāt believe in that.
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@IDoTheThinking People whip out phones that are just as expensive as a base model MacBook and no one expects to be immediately mugged.
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@SwannMarcus89 If the US tech industry had based itself in Chicago in the 70s it would easily be the second NYC by now. Instead we just got 4 million dollar 1960s ranch houses next to JC Penney shopping plazas and a bunch of money for crooked nonprofits.
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This is the big thing that pro-immigration centrists get wrong. No one actually believes "I support LEGAL immigration, just not illegal immigration.". Asylum seekers are uniquely unpopular precisely because they do have a legal status!.
āItās not fairā ā that is the sentiment at the heart of this, from those frustrated by broken immigration promises
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Everyone on here takes a given that Jill Stein voters are doctrinaire leftists who are too left-wing for the Democratic party when theyāre mostly anti-vax anti-5G voters.
Jill Stein and Cornel West are consistently taking more from Donald Trump In poll after poll now.
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Nikki Haley having an underground paramilitary that goes after Trump every couple of months when they think heās getting out of line is a funny aspect of this election.
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@lefttwick I feel like there was some truth to this historically in that cops were seen as a corrupt urban machine?. But it's all been washed away by racism and cultural conservative politics.
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Not suspicious at all that they refuse to make billions of dollars selling Tiktok USA and instead want to shut it down and make it worthless.
TikTok announces it will shut down in the US on January 19th unless the Supreme Court strikes down or delays law requiring it to be sold.
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@NickyFrank30 Are eggs actually $6 where you live?. They were expensive back during the bird flu that killed off millions of hens but now they're around $2.50 a dozen.
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Nepotism and GOP having a weak female bench meant that Liz Cheney was literally going to be running the country in a few years if she hadnāt broken with Trump. Itās genuinely rare for someone at such a high level to torch their entire career to stand up for a principle.
we all know that if Liz Cheney hadn't broken with trump over Jan 6 she'd be first in line for his secretary of defense, right.
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Democrats have been in a state of open panic since 2016. If anything is going on it's just panic fatigue. Republicans never openly panic no matter how disastrous their political situation is and when they lose the election they just claim it was rigged. Seems to work for them.
Seriously, Democrats, why aren't you openly panicking?.
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@RichardHanania Pedophilia most commonly happens in broken homes where the mom is bringing boyfriends into the house. Itās super rare in Romney-like stable married households but significantly more common among poor, dysfunctional households.
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@MikeMacRaeMike Americans remember Mambo Number 5 though. I don't think Robbie ever cracked the top 40.
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Itās fascinating that there are lots of people who didnāt realize that mass shoplifting is very unpopular. It was nuts that Lina Khan didnāt go after Facebook Marketplace for promoting the sale of obviously stolen goods. Itās not like sheās afraid of breaking new legal ground.
"I was a lifelong Democrat until Walgreens started locking up deodorant.". Turns out this wasn't an internet joke. It was thousands of voters in urban areas.
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Guy who believes that Democrats really dropped the ball by not mentioning abortion at all during recent political campaigns
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This contract cost the city of Los Angeles $200,000:
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The biggest flaw in the "Democrats being mean to Mitt Romney led to Trump" is that Trump led the 2012 GOP primary polls too. He just decided not to run that year.
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@LittleMammith Issue polling is fake because lots of voters say āyesā to any policy proposal that doesnāt sound totally insane. When you actually put these things on the ballot people hear arguments against them and support decreases by a lot.
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The absolute best investment for progressive donors would be a culturally mainstream news publication that would have good non-paywalled movie reviews, sports, recipes, etc. but then the news section is mostly in-depth reporting of GOP scandals.
Most progressive media hates Democratic Party more then trump.
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99% of anti-natalist sentiment comes from cultural intuitions based on thousands of years of human civilization being stuck in a Malthusian trap, not Paul Ehrlich stans. Like, are young people in Iran reading the Population Bomb?
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"I used to be ok with abortion until Democrats started pushing too far" - woman who drove the getaway car for George Tiller's assassin.
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@ettingermentum She runs even with Biden now and sheās physically capable of campaigning. Itās a no-brainer.
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@jake_fitch12 Yeah and they should repay their loans. Student loan cancellation should focus on borrowers who have low incomes.
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@opinonhaver The funniest part is that it's just for the love of the corruption game. Panera is always located in large strip malls that have a bunch of other restaurants. How are they going to pay less than all of their competitors?.
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One of the weirdest aspects of Twitter is how rich it is. The random asseater420 reply guy account is pulling like $200k a year. Your deranged timeline is compromised of America's cultural and economic elite class.
I'm really fascinated by this genre of tweets where people complain about the prices of delivery apps because given the prices, you have to be decently well off to order from them, no? I'm also struck by how often people use the apps.
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@mnolangray Toronto is honestly one of the few places that is actually "missing middle" rather than "restrictive zoning across the board.".
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@mrfrankthetank_ Yup. The Bernie Sanders campaign had massively more money and resources than Joe Biden and still lost.
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@vanillaopinions Bush made outsourcing to China one of his signature policy initiatives and then created a global financial crisis. Obama's 2012 performance was honestly way more impressive.
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@DemocraticLuntz This is the sort of wokeness that people like (symbolic representational gains for minority groups). People dislike unpopular policy positions taken in the name of representing minority groups.
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@KnowingBetterYT Bills are also printed in super large font with tons of spacing between the lines to the point where 160 pages is something like 30 normal pages single spaced. Saying that a bill can't be that long means you could never legislate on any moderately complex topic.
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Iām begging centrist Democrats to understand that incremental changes in public policy can make huge differences in peopleās lives.
It doesn't matter. Thr court is already a hard right 6-3.
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@EthanBWinter The media suddenly deciding that Afghanistan was an important story worthy of a month's worth of wall-to-wall news coverage to try to agitate against withdrawal after ignoring all the death and chaos there for 20 years was a deeply depressing moment. They just love war.
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Kinda funny that everyone thinks the key to popularity is creating lots of manufacturing jobs and the presidents who did that were *checks notes* Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden.
I made a very quick graph of change in manufacturing employment by presidency. While W. Bush wasnāt the direct cause of deindustrialisation, 56.3% of the total decline in manufacturing jobs from their peak occurred during his tenure.
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Kinda funny how the the most affluent generation in American history killing themselves at elevated rates through drug and alcohol abuse got framed as ādeaths of despair.ā
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Biden moving the country away from a ridiculous "One Weird Trick" immigration policy that no voters ever agreed to and moving us towards a less chaotic asylum system is good, and Democrats should loudly celebrate this policy change!.
BREAKING: President Biden just slammed Republicans for failing to take action on the border. Because of this, President Biden announced an Executive Order do deny asylum requests for immigrants who cross the border illegally. Retweet so all Americans see.
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Itās kind of funny how no one accepts the fact that the vast majority of American voters are white.
Bill Maher Drops Unexpected Conspiracy Theory. He asks how the heck Biden is ahead of Trump in the polls when he lost:. ā¢ 14 points among Hispanics.ā¢ 43 points among Black voters under 50.ā¢ favorability among student debt holders.ā¢ 8% of women since 2020. āAnd yet I read in
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@StatisticUrban This is due to Prop 103, not some stubborn decision by the California government. The state is currently figuring out weird legal loopholes to get around Prop 103 (after previous attempts have been struck down in court) but the onus is on voters for putting us in this place.
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@raspybb If you're financially successful post-graduation you should repay the bills that you swore to repay.
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I really canāt understand how no one realized Bidenās successor would run to his right. Every policy that has damaged his presidency: inflation, immigration, Afghanistan, was an attempt to appeal to the Left. It was obviously where this was going.
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@jdcmedlock People really didn't like the large increase in asylum claimants at the border.
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We're going to have a massive expansion of the DEI bureaucracy with full bipartisan approval and the only people holding a consistent position against it are like two Arab-American conservatives.
Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) plan to introduce the COLUMBIA Act, a bill that would create "antisemitism monitors" at select colleges.
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@gaslightyourmom The smarter 9/11 truthers just said "Bush did it.". I don't fully understand the people who were like "yeah Islamic terrorists flew the planes but they had no impact on the buildings, but then Bush decided to bomb the buildings.".
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@ArmandDoma I'm not going to pretend like I could never fall for a financial scam, but this is not a remotely good scam!. She handed a shoebox stuffed with cash to a passing vehicle based on a promise of a check in the mail from an undercover CIA agent.
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