I think the U.S. exports a fair amount of media and personalities involved in it, while other countries don't necessarily do as much. RRR or Ne Zha 2 might have been box office monsters in India or China (respectively) but not nearly as much here, while Avengers and the like do absolute numbers the world over. Kpop has started to gain international appeal (e.g. BTS) but thats about it.
I think a fair amount of country likely doesn't escape the states. Or at least I haven't heard of a big chunk of folks rockin out to Shania Twain or whatev.
Schumer did manage to get GOP leadership to agree to hold a vote to ensure that the D.C.'s budget did not suffer a $1 billion cut. The House's bill was written to include the budget reduction, sparking concern.
I think we're running into a phase where Republicans are proposing laws based on shared boomer facebook posts and the like rather then actual concrete issues.
Has there ever been a primary challenger beat the incumbent president for the nomination and then win the election?
There'd have to be a primary challenger who beat the incumbent first, and I don't think that one has happened. I know Ted Kennedy got relatively close (Well, closer then the others I've mentioned, still blown out 1900 to 1200 delegates) to knocking out Carter on the Dem side, other then that, Reagan and Ford in 1976 was decided 1,121 to 1078 for Ford.
Primaries are kind of a moot point for the incumbent if they want to run again.
Trump in 2020 had 2,549 delegates. The next closest was Bill Weld with 1.Biden in 2024 had 3,905 delegates. The next closest was uncommitted with 37.Obama in 2012 had 3,514 delegates. The next closest there was also uncommitted, with 72.Bush in 2004 had a clean delegate sweep of 2,509.
I feel like if Biden had stuck with something like, "I'm going to be one term and let some younger folks lead, we need some folks who are going to see the consequences of their actions running the show, not 70 and 80 year olds." and had an actual primary, Harris wouldn't have been the nominee and said nominee would have won. There's a few other things that could have helped, but the short campaign was definitely a huge stumbling block.
Trump is the faultless man. Nothing is ever his fault. Economy going bad? Biden did it. Trade war? Those other countries should have just accepted the tariffs without response. That puppy? Shouldn't have gotten in front of his swinging foot.
We know that female candidates with male VP's named Tim don't win against Republicans. Hillary and Kamala proved that. But this is wholly different, so its possible, concievable...
Maybe Mexico/America has more of an issue, but Canada/America doesn't. Insofar as I recall, both have taken proactive steps, which Trump apparently feels aren't enough. I'm of the opinion that no steps would have been enough and he was just hellbent on doing his bullshit anyhow.
Ahh yes, Benjamin Franklin, founding father, inventor of the bifocals, lightning rod, and Franklin stove, first postmaster general, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, signed the constitution and the declaration of independence along with drafting the latter. Definitely not nearly as important to this country as Donald Trump, who is singlehandedly keeping the orange spray tan market alive.
I laid out what an effective boycott looks like with a specific recent example that accomplished what it set out to do. I'm not sure how much more constructive I can be. What would you consider to be constructive if not that?
People pay for shirts with the nike logo on it all the time. Maybe folks think they're big enough now that they can do the same.