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1 day agoSub in literally any Nintendo franchise and it’s the same problem, but Nintendo fans don’t care.
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2·2 days agoOh, he already is, despite not being in office and having zero powers of negotiating. Something, something… “the strength of winning the election” something.
I agree! At most this shows 6 million stayed home, not 19. You could increase it to 9 million if you assume the Trump +3 million was a flip instead of staying home.
Oh, definitely, the participation in vote by mail states is roughly double states where voting in person is the only option.
Substantially worse, but not 19 million worse.
Trump was +3 million, Harris was -6.
Millions more had the option available to them with no restriction due to Covid.
Substack blogs are not news.
From the election Wikis:
2020 - Biden 81,283,501 Trump 74,223,975
Total - 155,507,4762024 - Trump 77,303,573 Harris 75,019,257
Total - 152,322,830The numbers for 2020 were artifically inflated due to increased vote by mail usage due to the pandemic.
From that inflated number, the overall count was down 3 million, but Harris only dropped 6 million from Biden’s numbers, not 18.
Problem, the number they quote of 19 million people who voted for Biden staying home is a bullshit number:
2012 - Obama 65,915,795 Romney 60,933,504
Total - 126,849,2992016 - Trump 62,984,828 Clinton 65,853,514
Total - 128,838,3422020 - Biden 81,283,501 Trump 74,223,975
Total - 155,507,4762024 - Trump 77,303,573 Harris 75,019,257
Total - 152,322,830The numbers for 2020 were artifically inflated due to increased vote by mail usage due to the pandemic.
From that inflated number, the overall count was down 3 million, but Harris only dropped 6 million from Biden’s numbers, not 18.
The biggest reason is that voter turnout wasn’t repressed, the 2020 turnout was artificially inflated by emergency vote by mail rules due to the pandemic.
2012 - Obama 65,915,795 Romney 60,933,504
Total - 126,849,2992016 - Trump 62,984,828 Clinton 65,853,514
Total - 128,838,3422020 - Biden 81,283,501 Trump 74,223,975
Total - 155,507,4762024 - Trump 77,303,573 Harris 75,019,257
Total - 152,322,830
Yup! There are various angles on fuckery here. I’m hopeful, but not expecting much.
I’m hopeful as the prime minister of Qatar is making it sound like a done deal, but we’ll see!
FTA:
“Any agreement must be approved by Netanyahu’s Cabinet.”
So be prepared for the whole thing to fall apart still. In theory the vote will be Thursday.
Removed, editorialzed headline.
YouTube links aren’t allowed, news sources only.
Who they are:
“ASEAN is made up of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. An 11th country, East Timor, is set to join soon.”
Why the Secretary of Defense should know who they are:
“ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei are locked in maritime disputes with China over its claims of sovereignty over virtually all of the South China Sea, one of the world’s most crucial waterways for shipping. Indonesia has also expressed concern about what it sees as Beijing’s encroachment on its exclusive economic zone.”
you can’t run on the status quo when the status quo isn’t working for people.
That was the thing that killed me about the Biden campaign. People literally told Biden the economy sucked and they were hurting. They wanted Clinton’s “I feel your pain”. They wanted Carville’s “it’s the economy, stupid!”
They got “What are you talking about, Jack? Economy is doing GREAT! Best in the world! We recovered! It’s over!”
Then, when asked what she’d do different, Harris responded “I can’t think of anything, really.”
How about this…
“I’d have more empathy when people come to me outlining the challenges they are facing or the failures of the administration. There are things Biden absolutely could have done better, and I will do better.”
Will likely be similar to this:
I would add, he made a big deal about loan forgiveness for people who would go on to work in underpriveleged communities, which was always a thing.
Really the only new program he implemented which wasn’t immediately overturned by the courts was forgiveness for people who a) borrowed $12,000 or less and b) hadn’t missed a loan payment for 10 years.
Which they CLAIM is a whole bunch of people, but nobody stops to ask “Hey, if you borrowed $12,000 or less and haven’t missed a payment in 10 years, how much is actually outstanding on that loan?” Or better “What degree costs $12,000 or less?”
Removed, not politics.