American Politics from 2019 on

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-23/ ... /103261522

US President Joe Biden has reduced the prison terms of 11 people serving decades-long sentences for non-violent drug charges and pardoned potentially thousands of others with federal or Washington, DC marijuana possession offences.

[Tero]

Senile Biden talks to Conan O'Brien
https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/conan-obr ... -joe-biden

[Sean Hayden]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-23/ ... /103261522

US President Joe Biden has reduced the prison terms of 11 people serving decades-long sentences for non-violent drug charges and pardoned potentially thousands of others with federal or Washington, DC marijuana possession offences.

They also finally got the ball rolling on rescheduling.

[Sean Hayden]

If Republicans believe the elections are a sham, how many of them won't vote?

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Do you remember when Democrats thought Bush stole the election? Is this much different?

[Tero]

Most Americans have cut back on some of life's pleasures because of concerns about the economy.

About 7 in 10 are going out to eat less often and spending less on clothes. Nearly 6 in 10 are delaying home improvements and canceling vacations. More than half are spending less on groceries and are trying to save on electricity costs by dialing back the settings on their home thermometers.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 833096007/

[Tero]

Fixed my blog a bit. Link at the end.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2023/1 ... asses.html

[Tero]

A U.S. home buyer with a median income of $78,642 in 2023 would’ve had to spend a record 41.4% of their earnings on housing costs in 2023, per Redfin analysis, up from 39% in 2022 and 31% in 2021.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/must-mor ... 00853.html

[Tero]

A bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers have been engaged in talks with the White House over a border deal that would unlock aid to Ukraine and Israel.

“We all know there’s a problem at the border – the president does, Democrats do,” Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, said before sending senators home for their holiday recess. “Our goal is to get something done as soon as we get back.”


But for many Democratic officials, immigration activists and progressive leaders, the dramatic changes Biden is considering to asylum law and border enforcement are nearly indistinguishable from the policies his predecessor. They argue that the US has a humanitarian responsibility to provide refuge to the millions of migrants fleeing violence, poverty and natural disasters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ico-border

Meanwhile, Biden is also facing pressure from the more conservative wing of his party to pursue a more severe approach to managing the southern border, as a record-setting number of people attempt to enter the US. Americans are taking note of the situation at the border; a Pew Research Center poll conducted in June found that 47% of Americans consider illegal immigration to be a very big problem in the country, up from 38% last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... crats-2024

[Tero]

Fentanyl
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/the-truth ... rafficking

[Tero]

Teddy Davis and Abigail Crutchfield, co-hosts of “Biblio,” CNN’s new Q&A on politics and books, and senior producers of CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper,” discussed the subject with Joan C. Williams, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Williams has written a new book, “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.”

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/29/politics ... index.html

book link
https://www.amazon.com/White-Working-Fo ... 186&sr=8-2

[Tero]

Trumpian chaos still in effect. The GOP people may change but politics reamain trumpian. Hard to tell what happens to Democrats in 2024. Katie Porter for example running for senate now.

Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma said he found it “a bit of a surprise” that the number of Democrats leaving office exceeded the Republican exits given all that has transpired this year.

“Politically, I think we’re very well positioned for 2024,” Cole said. “I just think the margins are going to remain narrow no matter who wins. The number of competitive seats is so much lower than it was even a decade ago, the polarization is so much greater, that it’s hard to move big numbers. Whoever wins the presidency probably wins the House.”

https://news.yahoo.com/retirements-coul ... 22051.html

[Tero]

Election 2024 misinformation to be worse than ever.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... right-wing
She fears that the election fraud narrative has now “sunk in” so deeply for so many Americans on the right that it could end up creating worse laws and procedures – and actually increase the possibility of a successful foreign interference campaign in US elections.

“Right now, we’ve got a space where we may be in a ‘Boy who cried wolf’ situation, where there’s so much misinformation about election integrity that if we have a true threat, we may miss it,” Starbird said.

Still, despite the loud voices on the right continuing to spread disinformation about elections, Starbird thinks the people who got drawn into those narratives before might be a little savvier now, perhaps less likely to fall for some of the “more extravagant” claims again.

“I am hopeful that we’ve seen the worst of it,” she said. “I’m not confident we’ve seen the worst of it.”

[pErvinalia]

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[JimC]

And select N if you simply can't be fucked...

[Tero]

A local professor has some books on political science that looks at voters. "Your brain on politics." It talks a lot about values. It explains a lot about all before 2016. Working class republicans saw Reagan as having their values. It was fake, but he acted well. He was seen as genuine. Hillary and Biden are seen as career politicians, no values to the right.

This is where Trump comes in, I guess. Very genuine racism, hate and a wish for revenge. All very real.