"The nasty little secret of American democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote."
Which, in effect, means that Trump would have lost if everyone who wanted to and had vote would have been counted.
#JimCrow #votesupression #uselection
This is grim (talking about the US):
"It’s been a week—a week of confusion, chaos, and concern. The new U.S. administration wasted no time hitting the pause button on almost everything in public health: communications, data, hiring, traveling. Positions are being removed, chairs rearranged, and there have been some… aggressive… emails."
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-week-of-chaos-in-public-health
Marvel Snap has been "banned" in the USA alongside TikTok, but devs insist it'll be back online soon - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/marvel-snap-has-been-banned-in-the-usa-alongside-tiktok-but-devs-insist-itll-be-back-online-soon #MultiplayerCompetitive #Birdview/Isometric #SecondDinner #USElection #MarvelSnap #Bytedance #CardGames #Strategy #Nuverse #TikTok #PC
My thoughts on Trump: I trusted him once too until his supporters threatened my life for calling their support of war crimes out as wrong (plus the countless other times before that simply because I questioned the Qanon thing,) stole my idea for a free speech platform and ruined it before finally being threatened with lawsuits over it, and hijacked thousands of USD in donations to families affected by the East Palestine train wreck for their own political and personal gain (they've all been reported to local authorities though that doesn't matter since Trump won...) These are the kinds of people in the US who are secretly responsible for letting that man get back into office while masquerading as "do-gooders." I was friends with them all once, or so I thought until they all turned on me because they wanted to become closer to their God "Trump." What an absolute mockery...
How Trump “Won” – by Michael Podhorzer – Weekend Reading
A really long article that’s still worth a read:
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won
«This is the one-two punch that knocked out Harris’s chances this year: disaffection with Democrats, combined with incredulity at the idea that Trump might actually implement the worst parts of the MAGA agenda.»
His conclusion:
«When we use the wrong tools, we might not just fail to diagnose an illness – we might misdiagnose it, and prescribe a treatment that is actively harmful to the patient. When Flatland analysts argue that America “moved right,” the prescription tends to be that Democrats should also move right, or at least play nice with Trump to avoid alienating the Americans who supposedly granted him a decisive mandate. The same prescription will be dispensed to civil society and the media.
But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system that doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are. But with only two parties to realistically choose from – plus a democratically illegitimate Electoral College that makes most Americans’ presidential votes all but irrelevant – all of these “change elections” add up to little more than a seesaw that most Americans don’t want to ride in the first place.
And so, nearly 250 years after putting forth the then-revolutionary aspiration for governments “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” we deploy election procedures that can claim no more legitimacy than the seething resignation of the governed.»
So. I disagree with the (implied?) statement that the problem is the two-party system (there’s an earlier post about that), but I think the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact plus ranked-choice voting would go a very long way to addressing the current illness.
Plus re-apportioning the House of Representatives.
Honest question:
In the 2024 election, did Harris lose because she went listing right instead of left, and the voters she lost which cost her the election are way more left than she wanted to seem?
I saw this as a position after the election, and I'm seeing it more and more again offered as an explanation and if it's true it would make me very happy but honestly, its such a fuckville out there that I can't tell which way's up with my peers nationally.
#uspol #uselection #election2024 #america #government #politics #harris #trump
#euro area (EA) GS expects below-consensus GDP growth of 0.8%Y in 2025 owing to ongoing structural headwinds in the #manufacturing sector, higher #trade policy uncertainty following #USelection, and further #fiscal consolidation, chart @GoldmanSachs
#farright activists from #Germany spent #USelection day at #Trump’s Mar-a-Lago - chart @guardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/far-right-activists-from-germany-spent-us-election-day-at-trumps-mar-a-lago
(What is going on here?) The inconvenient truth is that one of the best-performing stock markets in the world since the US election is #Germany --- +7% since #USelection day, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/d5990c57-501d-4783-a6f1-98ec20397004
Must watch video on the crypto bros plan to transfer billions of US public money into their already swollen coffers.
"The elements of the plot are just there in plain sight.."
"They're backing the truck up to the government in plain sight.."
#Crypto #Corruption #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Trump #USElection
‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donors
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qWANiC28M8o&feature=shared
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent over a quarter of a billion dollars in the final months of this year’s election to help Donald J. Trump win the presidency
And the US lectures the world on corruption and democracy.
#euro area: @ECB has implemented 3x 0.25% rate #cuts in June, Sept, and Oct. Before #USelection, GS Research expected a series of rate cuts to a policy rate of 2-2.25%, chart @GoldmanSachs
Who should be guiding the Democrats over the next four years? Maya Contreras writes for @damemagazine about how it’s time to listen to experts in disinformation, historians and economists. “We must center the voices who’ve consistently shown up for the party, promote new leaders that have a proven track record of winning elections, and understand that the consultants who knew how to win elections in the 1990s don’t understand how elections are won in the current environment,” Contreras writes. “We’ll need a plan to counter the right-wing echo chamber with our own robust media. That won’t be easy or cheap.”
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/20/democrats-policies-drowned-out/
BDG feature: Post-Election Conversations: Embodying Curiosity and Empathy, Resisting Polarization
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/332he5cy
Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi leave U.S. in wake of election: reports
The pair has moved to England and are planning to sell their home in Montecito, Calif., several industry publications are reporting.
#globalnews #Entertainment #EllenDeGeneres #PortiadeRossi #UsElection
https://globalnews.ca/news/10881443/ellen-degeneres-portia-de-rossi-move-to-uk-us-election-donald-trump/
Or are you so stupid to research [google] the word 'tariffs' and 'Affordable Care Act'
AFTER
the #USelection ?
You'd deserve what's coming.
