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Meatball posted:They're falling into the trap Obama did and think the Republicans are honest actors that respond to reality. This isn’t a “trap” but the actual desired outcome by Dems and they are using the election as cover to pretend it isn’t (like they always do). Otherwise they would have repealed title 42 from the get go. It’s helpful to start thinking of Dems as willing participants in human rights abuse instead of well-meaning idiots.
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:This isn’t a “trap” but the actual desired outcome by Dems and they are using the election as cover to pretend it isn’t (like they always do). Otherwise they would have repealed title 42 from the get go. The only trap is believing that a party can repeatedly do evil but be forgiven because they expressed regret about it being their most pragmatic option. Well meaning idiots is immediately debunked by Dems expansion of the immigrant concentration camps and eager acceptance of Ukrainian Refugees while Central American refugees who were waiting longer were held back. Immigration policy right now is the closest thing to the Family Guy skin color meme without explicitly stating it.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:do we really have to shoehorn American history into algebra homework? It's not a 'big deal' but it just seems weird & clunky to me, is there a benefit to combining unrelated subjects like this? Who is we? This is one pretty dumb assignment that someone threw up on some teaching materials marketplace.
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Meatball posted:They're falling into the trap Obama did and think the Republicans are honest actors that respond to reality. 1. Dems are not naive, nor overly kind in giving the GOP the benefit of the doubt, nor was Obama. 2. When the option is to move left or to move right when their numbers are in the tank, they will almost always choose to move further right, bc the right validates & reinforces the neoliberalism underlying the party's platform & positions whereas the left challenges it & offers systemic change that undermines those things. 3. Dems' lifeblood is being out of power: It's when they do their best fundraising & it's when they pass one-house legislation in Congress that actually benefits voters. It's when they can rouse people to march for all the things they purport to support while wearing pink pussy hats without having to do politically icky things like pass laws enshrining women's right to bodily autonomy.
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It seems like the photo in the original tweet was altered https://twitter.com/brenda_a61/status/1516027218132185088/photo/1
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hemorrhage posted:It seems like the photo in the original tweet was altered Nah, this is just a newer version of the same assignment. The guy who sells these lessons has a statement about it on his website. quote:UPDATE: It has come to our attention that a leading candidate for president’s team has Tweeted out a resource that was published under our previous company. The content was edited and removed 8 years ago. Why or how it is recirculating now is unclear. When I was still a classroom teacher 10 years ago, I was concurrently teaching Algebra 1 and a seminar on Human Trafficking at the new International High School. Ohio is hub of human trafficking and 1 in 5 girls are victims of sexual assault prior to the age of 18. In collaboration, with local human trafficking organizations they sought to destigmatize sexual abuse, create awareness, and deromanticize words like “pimp”. Additionally, the International school hoped we could infuse more international content throughout their curriculum. Generally, this meant I as the math teacher created deep dives with international data or international issues, but we also created Person Puzzles and Adventure activities to help do this. This Maya Angelou worksheet is an example of a quick surface level infusion, and I wrote 300 “Person Puzzles” about different people as a quick practice activity. In this particular case it was paired with Systems of Equations which is a topic encountered by 14-16 year old students — students that are the prime age to be victims (or perpetrators) of sexual violence.
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Baronash posted:Who is we? This is one pretty dumb assignment that someone threw up on some teaching materials marketplace. We is anyone, i assume this kinda thing isn’t a one-off assignment. Not talking about the content or any “CRT” talking points, but haphazardly combining any two subjects in one worksheet is clunky. If kids learn better this way fine, but otherwise it’s just a dumb format E: ok saw the real assignment, nvrmind
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hemorrhage posted:It seems like the photo in the original tweet was altered You think Ron DeSantis' press secretary would just lie like that on the internet? The actual story, so far, is about five different levels of confusing/misleading/truth. What we do know: 1) The worksheet she shared was actually used in a school in 2017 and another in 2021. 2) The worksheet is a modified form of a different worksheet (in the second tweet) that does not include those questions. The modified version came from a company that dissolved 8 years ago and was part of a senior seminar on human trafficking and sexual assault in history; not a math class. 3) The modified worksheet, in the two cases it was taught outside of the human trafficking class, came from a website where teachers can upload and download their own lessons for students and some teacher downloaded this version in 2017 and handed it out to her class. 4) The modified version has never been a part of any textbook and wasn't part of any of the books Florida rejected for "CRT" reasons. So, she is right that those problems were actually taught to students outside of the human trafficking/sexual assault seminar. But, it only ever happened twice: - Once, with 27 students five years ago in Pennsylvania. - The second time, was also a single class in Missouri of 18 students in 2021. Both times, they were a teacher downloading it from the website and not part of an actual textbook or curriculum. Also, none of that has anything to do with Florida and isn't an example of a real thing in textbooks. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Baronash posted:Nah, this is just a newer version of the same assignment. The guy who sells these lessons has a statement about it on his website. Not an educator but idk about spreading awareness of sexual trafficking via math worksheets. Good intentions but odd execution
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It's like someone pulled a chic tract and said "look at what they're teaching in schools!" Also, doesn't the text defeat the purpose of actually knowing the math when the alternate answer is obvious?
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I'm so glad that my wife only ever has to teach letter sounds and tactile exploration.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:It's like someone pulled a chic tract and said "look at what they're teaching in schools!" The sheet in the "actual lesson" tweet says the students are expected to know the math but not the life facts
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haveblue posted:The sheet in the "actual lesson" tweet says the students are expected to know the math but not the life facts That makes more sense.
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The federal government is bribing states and nuclear power plant operators to keep their nuclear power plants open. Even with the bribes and bailouts, most of them are still expected to close because of a combination of the mass availability of cheap natural gas, successful environmental activist campaigns to defund or close nuclear power plants and shift the money to solar power and battery research, and state/local providers rejecting nuclear power because the kilowatt/hour cost is generally higher than coal or natural gas due to the higher labor costs associated with staffing a nuclear power plant vs. a coal plant. This is one area where I am still baffled that major environmental groups are spending their time and money to shut down. California is still planning on closing their last remaining nuclear power plant in 2025. New York, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Nebraska have also closed or are planning to close their nuclear power plants. Illinois is keeping theirs open, but "temporarily" until they can fully replace it with other low carbon and cheaper energy sources. Georgia is the only state in the U.S. with plans to build a new nuclear power plant. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1516517025354559497 quote:Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants quote:“U.S. nuclear power plants contribute more than half of our carbon-free electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our clean energy goals,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement. “We’re using every tool available to get this country powered by clean energy by 2035, and that includes prioritizing our existing nuclear fleet to allow for continued emissions-free electricity generation and economic stability for the communities leading this important work.” quote:The shuttered reactors include Indian Point Energy Center in New York, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts, Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station in Nebraska and Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa. Entergy cited low natural gas prices and increased operating costs as key factors in its decision to close Indian Point last year. New York officials sought the shutdown, saying the plant 24 miles (39 kilometers) north of Manhattan posed too great a risk to millions of people who live and work nearby. quote:The Sierra Club has a nuclear free campaign that says nuclear is not a solution to climate change, and “every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on truly safe, affordable and renewable energy sources.” quote:California is slated to close its last remaining nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025. Officials there think they can replace it with new solar, wind and battery storage resources, though skeptics have questioned whether California’s all-in renewable plan can work in a state of nearly 40 million people.
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Willa Rogers posted:1. Dems are not naive, nor overly kind in giving the GOP the benefit of the doubt, nor was Obama. 1. I honestly think that Obama was naive to a large extent. He even spoke about "why won't republicans vote for their own ideas?" a few times and often seemed to think that if he started with the compromise first, it would speed up and help the process. Could be it's me who's naive though and most of it was theater but I don't think so. Obama seemed genuinely surprised, disappointed and flabbergasted at a lot of the poo poo that came his way and he seemed in over his head a lot 2. Which is just loving amazing and continues to frustrate me. Poll after poll after poll shows the democrats losing support primarily with what should be their base which they seem to really consistently take for granted. I'm not like some posters here who think that the democrats are in on it and honestly desire fascistic right wing policy and outcomes. I just think they're spineless, old, out of touch, dug in and too focused on manners and decorum most of the time. The old guard seems openly hostile to the young up and comers who they view as a threat to their power, outright call them too idealistic and, for the ultimate punchline, blame them for why negotiations fail when the fact is that we should START with super far left legislation and then compromise and make deals from there. 3. Which leads us to this where the GOP delivers on their horrible promises and plays to their monstrous base while the democrats ignore, chastise and ridicule theirs every time the manage to wring power from the horrible alternative. Instead of running on who we are and what we believe, we only gain wins when the other side is Just That Awful but "We're Not the Other Guy" is no sort of long term winning strategy at all. People in general and democratic voters specifically support left leaning laws like M4A, legal weed, etc. etc. and all sorts of poo poo like that but the GOP caters strongly to their base and winds up with rabid, rick solid and downright slavish support for anyone with an R next to their name while they rewrite election laws and ban abortions and schoolbooks. The GOP base tends to get genuinely EXCITED with their candidates for the most part, so long as they remain sufficiently insane and evil.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
This is the height of not understanding of the importance of “ends justify the means”. These short sighted environmentalists are too focused on the means that the ends is they doomed the planet. They are 100% culpable just like the fossil fuel industry.
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California closing Diablo canyon is one of the most unforced self-inflicted wounds imaginable. There's no replacement capacity, and they will require fossil fuel plants to make up the demand, probably mostly methane. it's unbelievably stupid. just refurb the drat reactors and tax google and apple slightly to pay for it you fucks.
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Can we move forward on Yucca Mountain now that the main obstacle to it is gone?
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haveblue posted:Can we move forward on Yucca Mountain now that the main obstacle to it is gone? Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository posted:In May 2021, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that Yucca Mountain would not be part of the Biden administration's plans for nuclear-waste disposal. She anticipated announcing the department's next steps "in the coming months".[18]
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haveblue posted:Can we move forward on Yucca Mountain now that the main obstacle to it is gone? Not for a while. Trump flipped and started dismantling it before the 2020 election: quote:U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he opposes the long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, reversing his policy on a project on which the United States has spent billions of dollars over decades but never opened. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...p-idUSKBN20101J And Biden stopped the dismantling, but has promised Senator Cortez Masto that they wouldn't make any permanent decisions on it until after her re-election campaign this year. And they guaranteed that it would not be part of their initial nuclear policy, so it will likely stay in limbo. quote:Escape From Yucca Mountain: Biden Administration Promises Progress on Nuclear Waste https://www.wsj.com/articles/escape-from-yucca-mountain-biden-administration-promises-progress-on-nuclear-waste-11620984602
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Meanwhile the air and oceans are perfectly fine dumping grounds. If I wasn’t already aware of how immoral neoliberals and their supporters are I would start to wonder if these “environmentalists” were in bed with the fossil industries they claim to work against. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The fossil fuel industries have long funded anti-nuclear activities, yes. Never stop thinking about all those hippies who kept telling me a giant wave of radiation from Fukushima was about to poison the entire West Coast.
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Wired has a piece up about the fake federal agents:quote:TWO WEEKS AFTER FBI agents surged through a luxury apartment building in Washington, DC, and arrested two men who allegedly spent years pretending to be Homeland Security officers, the case continues to baffle even some of the nation’s most experienced counterintelligence experts. Did US investigators stumble onto an Iranian assassination plot or a case of two bozos whose alleged cosplay went horribly wrong?
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Harold Fjord posted:The fossil fuel industries have long funded anti-nuclear activities, yes. Yup. Favorite example is Indian Point, where National Resource Defense Council and Riverkeepers fought to close the plant and then it turned out they were benefitting from funds by the Natural Gas industry that directly benefitted from the closure of the plant.
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Harold Fjord posted:The fossil fuel industries have long funded anti-nuclear activities, yes. It's pretty sad, I knew a few decent leftist folks from school who got sucked into the Fukushima panic and become die hard anti-nuke environmentalists. That whole thing was so stupid, I know at least one person who stopped eating sushi because they were afraid of radioactive fish. What was the deal with the Fukushima stuff anyway? I remember it being huge when I was still on social media but like, you could just watch real news and realize that nothing the doomsayers were going on about was actually happening. Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Professor Beetus posted:What was the deal with the Fukushima stuff anyway? I remember it being huge when I was still on social media but like, you could just watch real news and realize that nothing the doomsayers were going on about was actually happening. For the most part? Nothings happened. Their water filtration system for the wastewater is functioning well and they began dumping treated water back into the ocean, overseen by both Japanese Nuclear Regulatory agency and the UN Nuclear Agencies. They also have said there's less overall contamination than was previously expected outside the plant grounds. Cleanup of the spent fuel and reactors continues.
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Professor Beetus posted:
Ahh, you see, that's what they want you to think. For the real scoop, you need to hit up YouTube and Facebook
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Politico had a pretty interesting interview with Biden's pollster. The most interesting parts: - He says this is the worst midterm environment for Democrats he has seen in a long time. The economy isn't the worst it has ever been, but the perception of the Democratic party is that they have no solutions for it and there is uncertainty about inflation, covid, and the economy in general. If the Democrats could deliver some things or get organized, then they could have a positive accomplishment to point to and reassure people. At the very least, voters need to feel like you actually have some kind of plan. - Says that voters forget about what you've done for them if you haven't done anything for them lately - and Dems haven't done anything lately. BBB is still popular, but they need to deliver something. The stimulus bill was popular, but people forgot or don't care because it was over a year ago. The infrastructure bill is popular, but most of the impact of that won't take place for a few years. - Obama, Reagan, and Clinton all had disastrous midterms following major accomplishments because their accomplishments happened a year before the midterms and they had been stagnating since then. Says Dems are currently following that same pattern (but, also notes that all of those Presidents got re-elected by huge margins following historically bad midterms and midterms aren't indicative of re-election results). - He says that there are ways that the Democrats can pull out of their midterm spiral, but that he doesn't think they will actually do it. He thinks the best case realistic scenario is a skinny BBB with one or two major programs, climate stuff, and tax reform. - Congressional Democrats are really loving everything up. Some of them are scared of doing anything for fear of getting attacked on it (but, they will anyway, so they are only hurting themselves), some of them don't want to do specific things, and there is no leadership. They shouldn't be bringing bills to votes when they don't know how a dozen house members or a few senators will vote. The tiny margins and disorganization make it difficult to do things and the public just sees the Dems fighting each other and failing to do anything. Some swing voters who dislike Republicans are more willing to vote for them if they think the Dems just can't govern. - Democrats keep thinking that the only thing Latinos care about is immigration. But, immigration is low on their list and a larger and larger portion of Latinos are coming from American-born families with no immigrants in the immediate family. White people actually care the most about immigration. - Latinos care a lot about the economy, crime, healthcare, education, and housing, but the Dems don't talk to them about their specific problems regarding those issues. They just talk to everyone the same very general way about issues like crime and the economy and only get into specifics about immigration with Latinos. - The education and gender gaps are getting even larger. Democrats are doing better and better with women and college educated voters, but worse and worse among non-college educated voters and men. This is especially true among white and Hispanic men. - There are a whole lot more non-college educated voters than college educated voters and they are more efficiently placed around the country for the electoral college and congress. That makes it even more politically damaging to be bleeding those demographics. They are running up the score to historic levels with educated voters and women, but they are often geographically concentrated and our political system makes that worth a lot less. - His data shows that Dems can actually compete better among non-college educated voters - including non-union voters - and seniors in areas with strong union cultures like Nevada and Michigan. Working class voters and retirees are more hostile to unions in places where there are no unions or union culture. - Dems need to dial up populism and find something they can all agree on to deliver. Delivering nothing in the 6 months before a midterm is bad, but delivering nothing while the public just sees you fighting with yourself at the same time is disastrous. quote:Ryan Lizza: Let’s just start off with how bad are things for Democrats this year and what can they do about it? https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/15/bidens-pollster-midterms-00025482 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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If they aren’t going to deal with ‘kitchen table’ issues, or just ignore them, they’re going to get annihilated in November I get no impression of any urgency to actually do anything on the part of either the WH or Congressional leadership. Biden could forgive the $10K in student debt today, but he won’t do it because he doesn’t believe it’s a major issue for people. They are trying to blame Russia for the gas issues, but they are also getting hosed over by the Saudis (specifically MBS) and they won’t say or do anything about that.
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The nuclear thing sucks because it is a good power source. But there is a huge up front cost, you dont know if the regulators will shut you down, and there is just a political risk, and no benifit because a successful modernization of our nuclear plants would be a decades long undertaking. Never mind that it feels like the 1970's with an energy shock happening....again. On the disney front the FL senate approved removing reedy creek, and now its up to the house and governor. Disney has about a week to play a hail marry. Oh and it seems Disney did/could issue bonds, if reedy creek is removed it means they will have to pay those up. As for the obama years...he was charismatic spoke well, but I feel he lacked expereince dealing with the GOP, he was too quick to offer compromise, all well fox news screamed like loving crazy people. Remember the coffee cup solute? But also... he was a vote for change and it just didnt happen. In economic news me and few others who do a bit of work in the trades went in and bought a bunch of building material's were expecting prices to go up again. This inflation is not transitory or because of Ukraine. Our leaders need to pull a vocker and loving jack up the interest rates pull money from the system and let the old and bad debts get cleared out.
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If Florida actually does fully go through with the removal of the special district for Disney, then that will require the 3 counties that comprise the new district to fork over $2.1 billion over 10 years in tax money to pay for Disney's roads, EMS, police, and other county services they are legally required to provide. That would be about $220 per taxpayer per year and $2,200 over 10 years. And the only negative impact on Disney would be that they would be subject to county restrictions passed by the state legislature and counties could theoretically zone houses or retail spaces near Disney World. The biggest advantages of the special district were the land dispensations that happened in 1967 and you can't take those back. Seems unbelievably dumb for Florida to do that, but I can totally see them doing it.
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Ups_rail posted:On the disney front the FL senate approved removing reedy creek, and now its up to the house and governor. Disney has about a week to play a hail marry. Oh and it seems Disney did/could issue bonds, if reedy creek is removed it means they will have to pay those up. it won't be so bad for disney if RCID is dissolved. it will be annoying but business will carry on as usual, just with more paperwork it will gently caress over the people of unincorporated osceola and orange counties, who have to inherit the assets of RCID and keep up with services for disney parks like trash pickup and recycling, without any additional tax base at first to pay for more personnel or resources. and the counties will inherit the billion+ dollars in bonds RCID was floating, which probably means a special tax assessment of over $2k per family for all unincorporated residents of the counties (and a steep rent hike next year for renters) if disney is gracious, it will just gift that money to the local entities who get hosed over by desantis dropping this problem in their laps Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:If Florida actually does fully go through with the removal of the special district for Disney, then that will require the 3 counties that comprise the new district to fork over $2.1 billion over 10 years in tax money to pay for Disney's roads, EMS, police, and other county services they are legally required to provide. That would be about $220 per taxpayer per year and $2,200 over 10 years. no, thats the money they'd have to fork over pretty much immediately to secure the debt carried by RCID. normally a municipality or county will not carry massive amounts of debt like that, but a local government entity backstopped by a multinational corporation can do so without a care because it has a gold plated bond rating and a drat near infinite portal of money to grab from if it needs to paying for disney park services is an additional tax hike which will probably be levied on disney at the next tax hike session. until then county taxpayers will have to make do with a county government that suddenly has 10x the responsibility but 1x of the budget to cover it all. the actual budget hole caused by needing to pay for services is on the order of less than $10m a year but that's still a loving lot to ask for a suburban county government to pick up all of a sudden Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Hope is a mirage, but this would be incredible for the drama https://twitter.com/waposean/status/1516861774452121603?s=21&t=LvGWdT-251PW-_Ak7fsPUg
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Politico had a pretty interesting interview with Biden's pollster. It seems the Democratic Party is aware of the issues they are going into November with, have identified a path that would bring in voters and bridge the gap in enthusiasm, but have ultimately decided they won’t do anything for ~reasons~ (likely future fundraising expectations and general corruption via capitalism). It’s increasingly obvious that leadership needs to change but will not. At this point the new blood needs to either force the old guards hands or the party needs to self destruct. I don’t say this flippantly: In the long run I strongly feel Biden winning the 2020 election was the worse outcome for the future of the Democratic Party and the country as a whole. There are obvious actions (repeal title 42, student loan forgiveness, pushed BBB, etc) that his admin chose not to and continues not to do. His mixed messaging on covid has opened the country up to the worst waves so far (even with a vaccine available). He isn’t even attempting to fight keeping masks on flights when the recent trend in covid cases is going up. He is not just a terrible president but appears to be actively rolling out the red carpet for fascist like DeSantis.
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selec posted:Hope is a mirage, but this would be incredible for the drama Biden is going to run, so it doesn't matter. But, it would be kind of wild (and a very on the nose metaphor) if we had 3 consecutive Presidents who all broke the record for oldest President ever inaugurated right back to back to back.
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FlamingLiberal posted:If they aren’t going to deal with ‘kitchen table’ issues, or just ignore them, they’re going to get annihilated in November Maybe it's a bad case of The Optics, but all the Dem- & admin-affiliated pollsters & strategists appear to think it comes down to "messaging" or "perceptions"--in other words, countering voters' lying eyes. It only further alienates voters to see their realities dismissed, or told that they're lucky duckies to now make $22k/year instead of $20k/year. Food prices are BAD, utility costs are BAD, medical costs are BAD and housing costs are BAD. None of these costs are going to go down in time for the midterms, and it's unlikely that anything other than possibly food costs will drop dramatically before 2024. To see establishment Dems say that happy days are here again & you have to be a trumper to not see all the wonderful gains that the economy has supposedly amassed makes Dems even more loathed than they already are, and voters all the more susceptible to right-wing framing about Dems being out of touch.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden is going to run, so it doesn't matter. But, it would be kind of wild (and a very on the nose metaphor) if we had 3 consecutive Presidents who all broke the record for oldest President ever inaugurated right back to back to back. He could even reuse that ad asking us again for support
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:It seems the Democratic Party is aware of the issues they are going into November with, have identified a path that would bring in voters and bridge the gap in enthusiasm, but have ultimately decided they won’t do anything for ~reasons~ (likely future fundraising expectations and general corruption via capitalism). Yeah, this is going to be a blood bath and deservedly so. This is a really tired cycle of dems running on stopping the monsters on the other side and then doing gently caress all once their voters deliver while they poo poo all over their base and call them crazy after they win. There's a reason I'm registered as an Independent for 25 years now even though I vote democrat most of the time and it's as simple as their steadfast refusal to represent me and the things I stand for. Let alone actively making GBS threads on me, what I think and the members of their party that I actually like. It's loving depressing and I find myself increasingly disengaged as I age when it should be the other way around. All I've ever gotten for my trouble working for them is endless mail asking me for more money that they loving well know I don't have and messaging about how THIS election is another one of the never ending Most Important Ones In Our Lifetime. I mean, gently caress man, right out of the gate they dicked around with the $2000 they were going to send everyone with some "well, ackshually" bullshit about how we already got $400 so this $1600 is really 2 grand now, which was such an easy lay up win that they managed to gently caress up and most people paying attention realized they'd have gotten the full $2000 under Trump so it felt like a net loss of a month's worth of groceries.
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:It seems the Democratic Party is aware of the issues they are going into November with, have identified a path that would bring in voters and bridge the gap in enthusiasm, but have ultimately decided they won’t do anything for ~reasons~ (likely future fundraising expectations and general corruption via capitalism). Your assumption seems to be that fascist lite is worse than fascist not-lite because it paves the way for worse fascists. Which ignores the fact that fascist not-lite also paves the way for worse fascists, but harder. It's entirely possible that Biden wasn't the worse outcome, but it's close enough that it's cold comfort.
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Biden is still expected to go forward with the Title 42 lifting (he has always had the line that it is up to the CDC and was never his call and is sticking with it to argue that he can't keep it forever), but he is now begging Democratic Senators to not knife him in the back. He's trying to work out deals with "vulnerable Democrats" to not criticize him when they have a surge of people at the border that they can't turn away and to not support a Republican amendment to require Title 42 enforcement permanently. Part of the deal involves promising to debut a new immigration processing plan before lifting it. 8 Democratic Senators and all 50 Republican Senators have publicly indicated that they oppose ending Title 42 right now. https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1516870844492005376 quote:Tensions run high as Biden administration gets earful from some panicked lawmakers over Title 42
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