[worry]

Sorry, I mean safe solely as in not considered swing states (for 2024 at least).

[Lady Bliss]

worry, on 07 November 2024 - 02:22 PM, said:

Sorry, I mean safe solely as in not considered swing states (for 2024 at least).

Gotcha. Sorry it’s a touch point for me since I’m im stuck here till I can get somewhere that I feel safe.

[worry]

Understood. My sister and brother-in-law finally got out just a few months ago, after many years in Harlingen. Now they're up in Maine and glad of it.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Azath Vitr (D, on 07 November 2024 - 10:40 AM, said:

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Philadelphia Democratic Chair Bob Brady blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign for what looked like the lowest performance by a Democratic presidential candidate in the city in the last two decades and said he felt no responsibility [...]

"They never dealt with us. They didn't show us any respect. I never talked to the lady, and she's the candidate," [...]

He argued Gov. Josh Shapiro should have been Harris' vice presidential pick. He said Democrats needed a "better candidate," [...]

Spoiler

"Obama, Biden all came to say hi to the ward leaders, that means something. They never showed up," [...]
The Harris campaign paid about "half" of past campaigns for Philly's get-out-the-vote effort, he claimed.

He also complained about the campaign not including local Democrats or ward leaders in rallies or giving them VIP seating.

"Not that I got an ego but it shows the lack of respect, that we do deserve."

[...] "I'm not getting any backlash," Brady said [...] "We got our pizza. We're licking our wounds but we're still all here."

[...] "I never even met the lady."

Election 2024: Kamala Harris concession speech time; Trump plans for his presidency; Pa. senate race results, vote totals

"We got our pizza. I never even met the lady."

In retrospect, I left out some important context: they were having a pizza party.

Also, despite Philadelphia being a majority Black city, the guy is white. Imagine a cross between Rodney Dangerfield and Tony Soprano and you probably wouldn't be too far off. "That uppity Black lady didn't show me no respect".

Wonder who was paying for the pizza party... Musk or Putin? Maybe they both chipped in a bit?

Or maybe the prison-industrial complex...

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Winners: Prisons. The big prison groups already have billions of dollars in federal contracts but profits will soar if Trump presses on with plans for a militarized mass deportation of undocumented migrants.

Up: Geo Group. Prison sector heavyweight [stock] rose 42.1 percent. New value: $3 billion.

[...] Losers: Wind turbine suppliers. Trump hates wind turbines almost as much as he hates sharks.

Down: Orsted. World's biggest wind farm developer that has regularly clashed with GOP officials in the U.S., fell 12.79 percent [...]

Losers: Consumers and the retailers who supply them. Trump plans to introduce tariffs of up to 60 percent on imported goods, especially from China, to be paid for by the American consumers who voted him back in.

Down: Dollar General. The popular discount store chain fell 5.1 percent.

Trump's Win Was Great News for Prison Stocks—But a Nightmare for Others

... and since "being illegal" is a crime they can be forced to do slave labor while they wait to be deported...

[HoosierDaddy]

I sometimes wonder if it is worse to be trapped in Indiana where we have more of the grifty type Rs and not the wholly batshit insane ones like Texas. Then again, our new Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith is an apple of that variety.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Why does Trump want to repeal the CHIPs act? How is "bring jobs amd manufacturing back to the US" NOT wildly popular and directly in the center of the Republican platform?

[Cause]

 Whisperzzzzzzz, on 07 November 2024 - 04:47 PM, said:

Why does Trump want to repeal the CHIPs act? How is "bring jobs amd manufacturing back to the US" NOT wildly popular and directly in the center of the Republican platform?

It’s as simple as republicans are fiscally conservative when a democrat is in power and spend money like water when they are in power. They criticized chips as a free government handout to tech companies. They are just upset they don’t get to give the hand out.


Despite Trump single handedly tasing the deficit more than any president in history by a wide margin he gets a pass.

[Lady Bliss]

OK mock me for being a socialist but I guess that’s what I am. IMO nobody needs to earn more than 500k a year, and corporations and billionaires need to be taxed the fuck out of to set things straight. Nobody needs a 12+ million dollar mansion as Warren Buffet has proven. It is just gross while others are living in poverty. Unfortunately Trump’s reelection has profited these billionaires ridiculously per the news and will continue to profit the wealthy even though he talks about helping the working class. It’s sad that they thought otherwise.