The economists agreed the economy was headed in the right direction as a whole, but those are the bottom weren't seeing it. They vote, too, and will abandon candidates they think aren't listening.
It's rather telling that amid all this controversy over the "DNC Autopsy", the key point which the DNC seems to be ignoring is the fact that the political consultants that ran it were all well off, and didn't see the same day-to-day pain that most people did. There is a reason why the term K-shaped economy is so popular.
And yes, Trump won and he has made things so much worse. But was hard in 2024 to vote for "more of the same" when your situation has gotten worse.
The fact of the matter is, prices went up under Biden's watch, and they were getting the wrong message from Democrats at the time, which was "hey, it's all OK, trust us!". And in a system where we only get two choices, that meant either sitting it out, or voting for the other guy one.
It's worse than all that. I clicked on all the Xitter links so you wouldn't have to, at the bottom is this post from this guy who was able to put a photorealistic image of a nuke plant in Iran, and a throng of migrants at the US-Mexican border, both of which didn't exist in the source material:
We know that this didn't come out of a vacuum, this capability has been there and was only recently released to the public. We also know that this Administration is in very close with all the tech bros enshittifying everything, and they like to lie, especially about history.
So, now we know what the October Surprise before this election is going to be: the Administration is going to use fake satellite imagery to rile everyone up. We'll be lucky if they don't drop some nukes in the process....
It's all party politics, and favors going back and forth. Right now, for better or worse, there is no bigger symbol of the Democratic Establishment than Chuck Schumer. He may owe enough favors to other Establishment people that he has to back the Next One Up.
Schumer himself hasn't said whether he will run for re-election in 2028, so the deal might be to get Chuck to finally retire already and then AOC can be the only candidate.....
And, AOC wouldnt run for President and Senate at the same time. I think NY allows that, but most candidates who try and pull that off are incumbent Senators or Congresspeople who are running for the same job while also running for President. It would be very unusual to run for a Senate job for the first time that you might have to give up 20 days into your term.
I still think there's already been a deal made to clear the field for AOC to take over Chuck's seat in exchange for her to help clear the field for Gavin (because he is the Next One Up....).
They just all have to pretend that the deal isnt a thing, because no deal is official until it happens, and everyone wants to keep their options open in case it falls apart.
I view it a bit differently than "he doesn't want to lose".
The Senators asked Blanche directly to limit the scope of the audit settlement specifically to the parties in the original suit (Trump and his family), and to already filed returns, not new ones. Blanche verbally agreed, but the Senators want it in writing.
That is what Trump is arguing about - he wants the freedom to commit tax fraud with impunity in the future. It's important enough to him that he wants to gamble on Republicans retaining the Senate after the election to preserve it.
This kind of gambit has worked for Republicans in the past. It's how they stacked the SCOTUS, after all. McConnell pulled that off because he was politically shrewd, and knew it was a good gamble to take. But let's face it, McConnell is probably never coming back to the Senate, and Trump has managed to bankrupt several casinos, so I doubt he is a good gambler.
The normal split in the Senate is 53R / 47D. With Mitch out of order, it's down to 52/47. So three R's voting the for it would have been enough to make the measure pass, if all D's voted as well. But the vote got Fettermaned, and failed 49-50.
The President is only accountable to half the US House and 1/3 of US Senators. As long as 218 House members back him, he won't get impeached. And even failing that, as long as 34 Senators back him, he won't get punished.
It turns out he has enough support within Congress to keep grifting. Is he giving them a cut?
But the destruction is the essential part, ironically, that makes this copying kosher for copyright purposes:
Destroying books, it turns out, isn't just cheaper than maintaining them: The presiding judge also ruled that it's transformative enough to constitute fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act.
So, somehow, destroying the books afterwards makes it all legal. In spite of the fact that no author who wrote a book in all of human history before about 3 years ago had to worry about a chatbot sucking up all of its work, and vomiting it back out, without compensation.
I am reminded of the situation around Dianne Feinstein in 2023, who held on to her seat until her death, even though rumors were swirling that she had dementia that was only getting worse. She actually gave power of attorney over her personal affairs to her daughter a few months before her death, while still serving as Senator.
(But, even through all that she still had lucid moments, and actually voted to prevent a government shutdown just before she died, which is more than Mitch has done recently.)
We really need some way to get these people to step aside when the time comes.
No. Kentucky law specifically says Beshear cannot appoint a replacement. But he can call a special election, which might have different candidates than the general election for his seat in November. The August 3 date is floating around as the deadline after which Beshear can't call that election.
The economists agreed the economy was headed in the right direction as a whole, but those are the bottom weren't seeing it. They vote, too, and will abandon candidates they think aren't listening.
It's rather telling that amid all this controversy over the "DNC Autopsy", the key point which the DNC seems to be ignoring is the fact that the political consultants that ran it were all well off, and didn't see the same day-to-day pain that most people did. There is a reason why the term K-shaped economy is so popular.
And yes, Trump won and he has made things so much worse. But was hard in 2024 to vote for "more of the same" when your situation has gotten worse.