Democrats Thought They Bottomed Out in Rural, White America. It Wasn’t the Bottom.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/rural-vote-democrats-virginia.html?searchResultPosition=1

11/8/2021 2:39:15 PM

Does the liberal media ever run columns about how the Republicans can't reach cities or black people? Or just endless scribes about how white rural people are worried dems won't do enough to keep brown people out?

11/8/2021 11:51:40 PM

If I were a major figure in a party claiming to be working to limit and reduce climate change as a major part of my party's platform, I would maybe not make myself the centerpiece of an oil heiress' wedding. But that's me.

11/10/2021 6:29:16 PM

hes not a major figure

11/11/2021 2:08:16 PM

Who?

11/11/2021 2:12:32 PM

did you mean gavin newsom?

11/11/2021 2:18:49 PM

https://denvergazette.com/news/pelosi-officiates-oil-heiresss-ritzy-wedding-in-san-francisco/article_7ad5aaa9-e921-5992-bdf2-75a22896adb1.html

11/11/2021 2:31:30 PM

I did not. Gavin Newsome sucks too though. Also not sure how the democratic governor of the nation's largest state isn't a major figure.

11/11/2021 3:22:38 PM

newsom was there too. Yikes, i didnt know about pelosi.

11/11/2021 4:46:27 PM

^I know Newsom was there, which is also bad

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"i do think it is a little weird that people are not super vocally continuing to tout the W on "most effective antirecessionary policy in US history" simply because plenty of other things are still bad"

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"Seriously. The most incredible economic comeback in history, with the fastest wage gains happening at the low end, huge household deleveraging, and econ twitter is mostly focused on why US CPI is 1% higher than it is in Germany or whatnot."

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1460269788601663500?t=ZVYe2Z5lBta5svscTBgmmA&s=19

11/15/2021 9:06:32 PM

What am I missing as to why people including Bernie are pushing a SALT cap increase?? Seems like a tax cut for rich people?

11/17/2021 10:21:03 PM

I've wondered the same here.

11/18/2021 9:14:58 AM

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"Messages that Hickenlooper, Sinema, Tester, Kelly & Warner send here is that a) they work for banking lobby not the public and b) the right can torpedo anyone via grotesquely stupid wholly dishonest red-baiting schtick. Happy Thanksgiving, assholes: https://t.co/rfvbE2umI1"

This article is also where I learned Biden is reupping Powell. So much for "the fed is run by a Trumper" defense.

11/25/2021 9:20:19 AM

^^, ^^^ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/biden-s-safety-net-package-would-raise-not-lower-taxes-n1284454

11/25/2021 9:52:57 AM

That's good, still don't really get why they're doing it except for this line in that article

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"which Democratic leaders added at the last minute in order to secure the votes of lawmakers from New Jersey, New York and California. "

11/25/2021 10:53:53 AM

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"?? ELECT DEMOCRATS TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS!"

From the senate Dem twitter. So wildly out of touch

12/2/2021 7:23:15 AM

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/hispanic-voters-latinx-term-523776

lol what? wapo, msnbc, the atlantic and others think this is newsworthy?

12/8/2021 9:33:27 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/opinion/democrats-rural-america-midterms.html?searchResultPosition=3

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" I Was the Governor of Montana. My Fellow Democrats, You Need to Get Out of the City More."

12/10/2021 7:35:40 PM

Will this country ever stop glorifying and romanticizing run-of-the-mill ignorance?!

That's rhetorical.

12/11/2021 6:13:44 PM

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"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on banning US lawmakers & their spouses from holding & trading individual stocks while in office. "This is a free market, & people — we are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that," she said Wednesday. https://t.co/Ugt2sB0yXN"

What a surprising opinion

12/15/2021 3:00:27 PM

Index funds are better anyway. Unless you trade on insider information with impunity.

12/15/2021 4:27:39 PM

This is probably me wildly missing your point so I apologize in advance but: they do

12/15/2021 4:41:52 PM

Yes, I know!

The only argument for wanting to trade individual stocks is if you have information the market writ large is not privy to. They're basically admitting to insider trading. Otherwise, boring buy-and-hold cheap index funds yield superior results.

12/15/2021 6:04:45 PM

That meme with shaking hands one side says rwoody the other says the Coz, says fucking crooks at the top

Imagine that here

12/15/2021 7:18:16 PM

It's a beautiful thing!

12/15/2021 8:38:59 PM

Aren't there other roles where people are prevented from owning individual stocks? I feel like several of my friends who are in certain investment banking and commercial banking roles aren't allowed to do it.

If that's how they feel, then Nancy should put on the table to allow bankers to be able to trade with impunity ... but she of course wouldn't.

Also this will sound like bullshit but isn't. I was at a party last weekend and this guy casually told me a story about downtown condos he bought dirt cheap in 2008/9 because a buddy of his was (is?) a state senator and got wind of development. He put in $15K and some GC services and his senator buddy put in 40/50K, totalling around $100K investment on each condo. Now each is worth about $400K.

I share this story for two reasons. 1) To show how even local politicians make a buck off insider info and 2) to show that even outside of stocks these people have other ways to make incredible gains, so shocking they're unwilling to take the L on stock legislation even though they can still be corrupt.

[Edited on December 16, 2021 at 9:21 AM. Reason : .]

12/16/2021 9:21:07 AM

These people are privy to market moving information. They could still make a killing with broad market and sector specific funds.

Pelosi's attitude is very frustrating to someone who has had to complete financial disclosures for a relatively trivial position with no access to inside information.

12/16/2021 12:21:08 PM

-67 credibility

1/6/2022 4:57:42 PM

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"Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, killed a bill that would have given farm workers in the state—which relies heavily on its agricultural industries—the right to unionize. An absolute disgrace."

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"Maine governor vetoes bill to allow farm workers to unionize https://t.co/eb8m5Gh083"

1/8/2022 7:20:18 PM

Yikes. Between Biden, main governor, lori lightfoot, and NYC Mayor now, democrats are just mid 2000s republicans, but GOP is branding them as leftwing extremists.

1/10/2022 11:34:41 PM

Can someone explain to me what the issue is with this original tweet?

https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1483525752091865088

1/18/2022 4:16:02 PM

there is none

the right loves co-opting language/phrases without knowing what it means most of the time

this is one of those times

lol at dude saying, “they said the quiet part out loud”

[Edited on January 18, 2022 at 4:30 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2022 4:29:38 PM

Got it. So, it's like being pissed at being called deplorables, even though they're obviously deplorable.

1/18/2022 5:49:24 PM

I’d never heard of the dude before, but one of my buddies is an expert in NC education policy and that whole world, and he says dude is a known troll

1/18/2022 5:51:52 PM

Democratic strategist @PaulBegala: "I think the problem for the Democrats right now is not that they have bad leaders. They have bad followers."

https://twitter.com/mediaite/status/1483194036521422852?s=21

Funny that party leaders are pissed that democratic voters want democratic outcomes.

1/18/2022 6:12:22 PM

Things took a turn during the fourth quarter of last year, although the trend appears to have started even earlier than that.



https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx

One caveat, however:

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"The political winds continued to become more favorable to Republicans in the fourth quarter, giving the GOP an advantage over Democrats larger than any they had achieved in more than 25 years. The final monthly survey of 2021 showed the parties at roughly even strength, although that still represents a departure from the historical norm of the Democratic Party's having at least a slight advantage in party affiliation."

[Edited on January 19, 2022 at 9:53 AM. Reason : ]

1/19/2022 9:24:10 AM

They want authoritarianism so bad.

1/19/2022 10:29:06 AM

Tyrannical mandates for thee, but not for me?

1/19/2022 10:50:08 AM

I know they are fascists who worship a deranged spray-tanned guy, but them gas prices, man

1/19/2022 10:50:19 AM

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nzay/kyrsten-sinema-volunteers-staffers-feel-betrayed

1/21/2022 11:19:18 AM

+1 credibility

1/25/2022 11:59:45 PM

??

1/26/2022 11:49:44 AM

https://chambersforlouisiana.com/

1/26/2022 12:21:00 PM

^^he has an ad where he smokes weed, to essentially counter all the right wing candidate ads that have the entire candidate's family holding rifles etc.

1/26/2022 1:30:57 PM

The ad:

https://youtu.be/oK9UmygdpuI

1/26/2022 2:40:50 PM

Rep. Eric Swalwell has said that "kicking every Russian student out of the United States" should be "on the table" in retaliation for the Russian invasion.

2/25/2022 11:25:52 AM

That's a sure way to export Western democratic ideals. Return to sender, chumps!

2/25/2022 12:02:52 PM

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"Time for some field justice"

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1497296082560339968?t=BsHRh17ipIMZ5QwiY0RCEQ&s=19

Lincoln Project guys continue to suck total ass

2/25/2022 3:51:45 PM

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"NEW: The White House is warning it will have to wind down a program that pays to test, treat and vaccinate uninsured people for COVID-19 because the administration has run out of money for the program, which Congress failed to include in funding legislation."

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"Research into next-generation COVID vaccines will be curbed, and some surveillance for new variants will also be stopped, the White House said. The administration said it also will need to limit its push to help poorer countries vaccinate people."

3/15/2022 10:58:15 PM

Net is this is a crucial series of activities that should be funded. But they should be funded as part of the annual budgetary (or reconciliation) process rather than ad hoc. Much of the money from the other bills hasn't been spent, but lies in the hands of governors who aren't keen on returning it.

I understand why republicans would request that outstanding billions issued is all spent or repurposed for this line item before funding more initiatives.

3/16/2022 2:23:50 PM