Ah, so he’s not actually doing anything anyone else couldn’t do, he’s just asking other people to do something. That makes more sense but I would not have gotten that out of this headline.

Crazy their state constitution allows the governor to just unilaterally impose taxes like this, I would have thought that would be something their legislature has to do

In a $5 million dollar undisclosed location

Even republicans deserve credit if it was them

Absolutely fucking not in general because fuck the Republican party,

But also absolutely fucking not in this specific case - between them slashing government services and inflating the hell out of the economy the average person’s standard of living is down while the deficit is still up. That cut in income taxes is like giving someone a thimble of water after setting them on fire, but also they flooded the sink and made a mess in the kitchen doing it somehow.

By lying shamelessly

If only Trump can show a little bit of restraint and resist his impulse to slap his name all over everything he can maybe that will work out for him

I’m talking about printing money and using it to pay bond holders.

I think that would do even more to devalue the dollar and inflate things than just cutting checks to households would, if only because bond holders are the types to watch everything the government does and try to get a step or two ahead with their trades and stuff. They’d see that and react like the CNBC hosts did when the GameStop guy said he was gonna buy eBay by just issuing a bunch of new stock.

Good, get that grip tight as you possibly can and drag the whole evil party down with you

I mean, money they’re spending in a primary is money they aren’t spending in a general, but there’s definitely way too much money in politics overall

She also talks about wanting to mass castrate pedophiles and attacked the San Antonio Current for basically just reprinting what she said, and the amount of money that got thrown at her primary campaign out of nowhere by an organization that set things up so they won’t have to report their donors until after the election is really strange at best, so I really think she’s a bit crazy and her campaign is going to implode no matter what at this point,

But what a fucking fumble from the Dems. With a little bit of support from the party maybe we could’ve toned down her weirdest shit and run a good campaign here, but no, we’re just going to hand a house seat to the Republicans I guess.

I don’t see her saying anything about wanting to persecute Jews. I see her saying that she wants to imprison American Zionists, but like half of those are evangelical Christians.

I definitely don’t like how she’s now blaming a local journalist for her getting death threats when that reporter just reprinted what she said, and who knows who is behind her with American campaign finance laws being what they are, so I would be very surprised if her campaign doesn’t collapse in the general,

But the fact that the Democratic party couldn’t work with this lady and teach her a little bit of messaging discipline before things got to this point is a mistake that’s now going to haunt us all summer. She has some questionable judgment but seems like somebody who could have been worked with, but now instead we’re just going to give a House seat to the GOP because of a moderate purity test.

Speaking to Emerge, Harris raised the idea of Supreme Court reform “including the notion of expanding the court.”

That’s coming out swinging? Maybe if she releases a signed public statement saying she supports court expansion and if she thinks an un-filibuster-able bill would be an appropriate way to do so regardless of what the Senate Parliamentarian says I’d believe it, but this seems so vague it’s meaningless.

How he addressed it was by cutting enhanced unemployment insurance and dropping plans for stimulus checks. edit - while also pursuing an infrastructure bill that pumped a ton of money into businesses

Not to mention, the affordability crisis were facing is… a consistent systemic issue with both.

No kidding, and yet here we are arguing underneath an article pretending the Democratic party doesn’t have this policy problem

McDonald’s employees never get the reward in this world

was probably more tied to inflation than anything else

“It wasn’t the boat sinking that made all those people drown, it was the water rising.” - captain shortly before mutiny

We had a real chance to start building an economy that works for most people by building on top of the emergency anti-poverty measures COVID forced governments to put in place, but as soon as a Dem moved into the white house again Republicans all suddenly remembered they hate that stuff and Dems figured they’d get applauded for being “responsible” or some bullshit by doing exactly what they wanted (because that worked out so well for us when Obama did austerity, or when Clinton cut welfare, or etc.)

Except household hunger measures started to improve in 2021 (arc) but then they reversed course and got worse every other year Biden was in office, in large part because he terminated enhanced UI and killed stimulus checks and a bunch of other pandemic aid that never should have ended. Americans didn’t suffer under Biden because of COVID, it was intentional policy choices his administration made because they wanted to say things were “back to normal”.

Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.

Meanwhile, in reality (arc)

the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Household Food Security in the United States report, assessing that 13.7 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2024, marking the highest prevalence of U.S. food insecurity in nearly a decade.

Biden’s “perhaps not firing on all cylinders” economy was crap for poor people. “But whatabout the Republicans” will get you 2-4 years in office to leave your constituency twisting in the wind while you tell them things are actually good, and then your campaigns will collapse just like Harris did and Republicans will win by default yet again.

If you really want to break that cycle, we need better policies and we need to communicate the fact that we understand that Biden’s economy was crap. Arguing with the voters that it was actually pretty good is just a ticket out of office.

Insane and outrageous attempted corruption, but if there isn’t at least a lawsuit filed about this by the end of the day bringing this whole thing right back to the judicial scrutiny they’re trying to worm out of I will be amazed

Not that I have much more faith in federal courts than I do in the executive branch at this point, but hopefully the optics of this are too toxic for even them