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zoux posted:WTF happened to the ACLU This could also have some weird cascading effects in this hyper-polarized government. Wasn't there already a similar case when Trump fired the head of the CFPB back in 2020? AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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mawarannahr posted:The White House dropped a fairly sizable tranche of fact sheets this morning. I think this is a good sign the administration is energetically publicizing Biden's accomplishments, which is clearly needed in the face of concerns expressed by several publications that his accomplishments are being underrated by the electorate. This style of fact sheet seems a promising tool to set the record straight. Mostly reasonable and/or good policies, but interesting that he has a plan to make the Medicare HI trust fund permanently solvent, but only has policies to extend Social Security solvency for about 2/3 of the projected discrepancy. I'm guessing he didn't want to raise taxes even more or had to keep his promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400k, but it does result in a weird policy where: - Every dollar from $1 to $168k is fully taxed for social security. - Every dollar from ~$168k through $399.99k is tax-free for social security. - Every dollar from $400k and up is fully taxed for social security. And the policy has the basically unstated assumption of "I got you 2/3 of the way there, now it's whoever is President in 2039's problem." quote:Millions of Americans have been working their whole lives, paying into Social Security and Medicare with every working day, and want to know that they can count on these programs to be there when they need them. The President’s Budget extends the life of the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund permanently and reinforces the President’s commitment to protect Social Security and work with Congress to strengthen the program for the long haul, including by asking the highest-income Americans to pay their fair share—while rejecting all proposals to cut benefits. quote:The President’s Budget extends the life of the Medicare HI trust fund indefinitely, the Medicare Office of the Chief Actuary estimates. It achieves these gains without any benefit cuts—while, in fact, lowering costs for Medicare beneficiaries—by:
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Jesus III posted:Man, that seems like an easy comparison between "run a country" or "throw the nation into chaos". Average voter: Drain the swamp or something
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Mar 11, 2024 19:28
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This is just basic middle school election poo poo. One side has all these boring actual plans and ways to do things, the other just promises poo poo until they get elected because that's their only goal.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:36
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Shooting Blanks posted:As has been pointed out many times, one of the smartest things Trump did was put his name on the COVID relief checks. People remember that poo poo. And then he lost.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:00
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His campaign strategy is currently "I was not president in 2020" https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1767206948913422799
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Mar 11, 2024 20:02
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Shooting Blanks posted:I've been saying for awhile that this administration has been far too weak at publicizing their successes, and that failure is only magnified by how often they've tried to work behind the scenes rather than overtly. As has been pointed out many times, one of the smartest things Trump did was put his name on the COVID relief checks. People remember that poo poo. If you click through to the site you'll see there have been over 5000 releases and fact sheets and statements like these, separate from and in addition to press briefings, press releases specific to legislation, and a range of other comms materials, even just on the formal white house page. The administration doesn't control the media.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:19
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Discendo Vox posted:If you click through to the site you'll see there have been over 5000 releases and fact sheets and statements like these, separate from and in addition to press briefings, press releases specific to legislation, and a range of other comms materials, even just on the formal white house page. The administration doesn't control the media. Maybe they should then!
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Mar 11, 2024 20:26
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Main Paineframe posted:The analysis concludes that as racial discrimination fades away and the populace loses their religious community ties, non-whites will naturally drift toward the GOP. The argument makes sense in theory, but "as racial discrimination fades away" is carrying a lot of water in a bucket filled with holes. For example, Muslim voters were considered a reliable conservative voting bloc due to their beliefs, and then something something happened and that changed. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/republicans-muslim-vote-george-w-bush-donald-trump/419481/ So, yes, if you somehow could eliminate the racial aspect you'd have far more minority conservative voters, but that would require a party heavily fueled by racial animosity to change their m.o. entirely.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:15
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Shooting Blanks posted:I've been saying for awhile that this administration has been far too weak at publicizing their successes, and that failure is only magnified by how often they've tried to work behind the scenes rather than overtly. As has been pointed out many times, one of the smartest things Trump did was put his name on the COVID relief checks. People remember that poo poo. People have incredibly short memories and only care about whatever the current drama is. Nobody gives a poo poo about the Biden admin's successes because in general a successful government is boring.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:23
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It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:32
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They do. That's why people personally feel their finances are better. But they feel the country is doing worse. Sometimes the effects aren't intuitively because of government intervention either. Or local pols take the credit.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:34
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Gripweed posted:It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives. In 2022, only ~40% of Americans even remembered that stimulus checks had been sent out under Biden and Trump. The Trump tax cuts only raised taxes for about 1.5% of Americans in very specific circumstances, but about half of Americans weren't sure if their taxes were higher or lower a year after the tax cuts. About 1/3 of Republicans in Louisiana think Obama was President during Hurricane Katrina. People have very short memories.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:35
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A lot of the infrastructure things they have accomplished are not the kinds of things that will be immediately noticeable Then there’s the fact that all of the pandemic social spending things, which were more visible, almost all expired or got cut
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Mar 11, 2024 21:37
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Gripweed posted:It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives. They do, but people either forget or don't even pay attention in the first place.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:40
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Gripweed posted:It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives. If people were good at recognizing when the government is making their lives better, there would probably be a lot less republican presidencies. Or at least in Canada it sure feels like we see a lot of "well, time to give the other guys a shot, I guess?" sorts of flip-flopping from centrist voters/voting trends.
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Gripweed posted:It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives. People blame government for everything bad that happens to them then give themselves credit for anything good that happens.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:42
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Gripweed posted:It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives. Today everything was the same and no bad things happened to me. I then went on social media and it told me that everything is the worse and my life is in constant danger. I put on Fox News and it told me that illegal aliens are infesting my country and trying to steal my job. Despite getting a raise at work I feel like I am earning less money and even though I don't understand inflation I am pretty sure it is everywhere and running rampant (at least that is what the meme about common sense Elon Musk posted on X said).
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Madkal posted:Today everything was the same and no bad things happened to me. I then went on social media and it told me that everything is the worse and my life is in constant danger. I put on Fox News and it told me that illegal aliens are infesting my country and trying to steal my job. Despite getting a raise at work I feel like I am earning less money and even though I don't understand inflation I am pretty sure it is everywhere and running rampant (at least that is what the meme about common sense Elon Musk posted on X said). Funnily enough some of my conservative relatives are fully aware of many of these things, just that they either manage to totally not credit Biden or outright claim accomplishments as lies or bad things. As many things as they're delusional about, they're certainly under no illusions that Biden just gave up on loan forgiveness after the SCOTUS ruling against the blanket approach, for example.
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Mar 11, 2024 22:18
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Killer robot posted:Funnily enough some of my conservative relatives are fully aware of many of these things, just that they either manage to totally not credit Biden or outright claim accomplishments as lies or bad things. As many things as they're delusional about, they're certainly under no illusions that Biden just gave up on loan forgiveness after the SCOTUS ruling against the blanket approach, for example. My conservative in laws ride the unemployment system for every penny they can and complain when it runs out, then turn around and complain about any program that increases unemployment benefits. “Can’t believe they stopped paying my unemployment! Probably so they can go pay some illegal immigrants!” The disconnect is very confusing to watch.
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Mar 11, 2024 22:22
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C. Everett Koop posted:The argument makes sense in theory, but "as racial discrimination fades away" is carrying a lot of water in a bucket filled with holes. Also, in the twitter thread the guy says that whites are already ideologically sorted, but if racism vanished tomorrow you'd get a ton of white voters defecting to the democrats. They'd probably come out ahead in the exchange, so I look forward to the coming race-blind utopia. Conservatism in the US is, at least among the voters, completely intertwined with racial politics. You can't just add a bunch of minority voters to the party and have everything else remain the same
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joe football posted:Also, in the twitter thread the guy says that whites are already ideologically sorted, but if racism vanished tomorrow you'd get a ton of white voters defecting to the democrats. They'd probably come out ahead in the exchange, so I look forward to the coming race-blind utopia. Conservatism in the US is, at least among the voters, completely intertwined with racial politics. You can't just add a bunch of minority voters to the party and have everything else remain the same If racism (including anti-immigrant) vanished tomorrow you'd absolutely see a whole lot of the lost New Deal coalition roll right in from offscreen like Optimus Prime's trailer to offset the more conservative black and Latino dudes joining like-minded Republicans. Though not all since there are plenty of other culture war issues tied in.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html Automakers are sharing driver's driving habits with insurance companies, allegedly in some cases without the consent of the driver.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They are based on polling crosstabs. Not completely made up, but not the same as the previous data. Maybe he should have waited to write his article after the election?
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Gripweed posted:It is odd that the administration’s successes need publicizing. You’d think such a broad swath of major policy achievements would have an obvious effect on people’s lives. People are awful at realizing the impact government has in their lives. They’re also terrible judges of what the government spends money on. It’s one of the few reasons the Republican Party even survives. They exist for the kinds of people who hold up “Keep the government out of Medicare” signs.
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Bird in a Blender posted:People are awful at realizing the impact government has in their lives. They’re also terrible judges of what the government spends money on. It’s one of the few reasons the Republican Party even survives. They exist for the kinds of people who hold up “Keep the government out of Medicare” signs. When things "work as intended", people don't notice. They only notice when something that's supposed to work doesn't.
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Gripweed posted:[Leftism] is definitely mainly an economic thing. Not in my book. It's about compassion. Looking after people. The economics flows from that.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Not in my book. Yeah defining leftism in purely economic terms and abandoning things like gay marriage really seems like a losing proposition. Especially for a country that in very authoritarian and controlling like China.
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This notion that minority voters are naturally conservative and would vote more Republican if not for cultural allegiances handed down from the civil rights era ignores the very real likelihood that most of those minority voters are economically more aligned with Democrats still. Socially, they may be anti-abortion, pro-gun, pro jesus, anti-immigration, but economically, with the exception of Cubans in Florida, they like Bernie and the squad and they overwhelmingly vote for those types of democrats in the primaries... and unsurprisingly the neoliberal slugs they have to prop up in the general election don't get the same level of enthusiasm. If Dems want to prevent that slide they need to look out for the material conditions of their voters.
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https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1767316500132593872 In shocking new the Hur report might just possibly have been written in bad faith in order to get anti-Biden headlines, and Hur is now quitting DoJ so that he can say every stupid thing that Jim Jordan wants him to after preparing with a bunch of Trump associates. quote:According to multiple sources familiar with Mr Hur’s plans, the special counsel, who is appearing before the Judiciary Committee at the request of the Republican majority led by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill.
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one weird trick to avoid ethical guidelines: quit does that work for all lawyers or just DOJ prosecutors
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Bodyholes posted:This notion that minority voters are naturally conservative and would vote more Republican if not for cultural allegiances handed down from the civil rights era ignores the very real likelihood that most of those minority voters are economically more aligned with Democrats still. It's not saying that everyone who isn't white is naturally conservative, it's saying that "conservative" voters who aren't white are still likely to vote for Democrats. (the rest of your point could still be true though, like if black people and white people mean different things when they tell pollsters they're conservative)
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Zotix posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html This deserves more attention and frankly should be outlawed. There are legitimate reasons at various time for even the most cautious driver to speed, brake suddenly or accelerate suddenly. I've been considering a used Bolt myself and if I go that route I'll go out of my way to be sure I don't opt in to any of the "features" that enable this. Whether this belongs in this thread, though, I'm not sure. I presume it's a worldwide phenomenon?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:one weird trick to avoid ethical guidelines: quit Robert Mueller left the DOJ at the end of May in 2019 and didn't testify until July of the same year. Was this also a move to avoid ethical guidelines?
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:I presume it's a worldwide phenomenon? If it is, the EU is going to take a chunk out of GM's rear end with the GPDR.
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B B posted:Robert Mueller left the DOJ at the end of May in 2019 and didn't testify until July of the same year. Was this also a move to avoid ethical guidelines? Good question. Did Mueller follow DOJ guidelines during his testimony?
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James Garfield posted:It's not saying that everyone who isn't white is naturally conservative, it's saying that "conservative" voters who aren't white are still likely to vote for Democrats. Exactly. It's basically saying that there are lots of voters of color who have pretty conservative views but vote for Dems because the GOP insists on being a white nationalist party. I read a similar article recently (sorry for lack of source, I know I'm supposed to find it but I can't find it in either the New Yorker, the Atlantic or Mother Jones, one of which I found it in) about LGBTQ+ voters who are basically distributed in the middle center-left to center-right for the most part but vote Democratic because the GOP wants to genocide them.
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