American Politics from 2019 on

[Svartalf]

Her dad was a pure white Jamaican? because few blacks there are descended only from free folk

[Tero]

Her dad was a pure white Jamaican? because few blacks there are descended only from free folk

Well, Americans don't know history. Not anything like in the...ocean. It's some sort of island. And has reggae.

[Brian Peacock]

Vote West.

[pErvinalia]

Vote Libertarian!

[JimC]

Vote Gin!

[Tero]

Kamala making some moves toward big tech
their Trump support is due to...money...and Biden going after monopoly

In recent years, Khan has spearheaded lawsuits against Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. In an interview with CNN last year, Khan described those efforts as part of a broader campaign to bring more of the government’s resources to bear on the daily economic problems of ordinary Americans.

But government regulation, however well intentioned, rarely sits well with the people who are getting rich off the status quo.

Two of the most famous venture capitalists in the Valley, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, have committed to donating to America PAC, according to several news outlets.

The pair haven’t exactly been hiding their frustration with the Biden administration, either.

“The American government is now far more hostile to new startups than it used to be,” they wrote in a recent blog post, which cited regulatory agencies using “brute force investigations, prosecutions, intimidation, and threats to hobble new industries.” They also lamented the Biden administration’s proposed tax on unrealized capital gains, which they said would “absolutely kill” startups and the venture capital industry.

One person familiar with their plans told the Financial Times that their pivot to Trump was because “there is so much at stake on the crypto side” and the growth of artificial intelligence. “It doesn’t mean support for (Trump’s) views on immigration,” the person told the paper.

Historically, Trump hasn’t shown a lot of love for tech bros, whose social media companies he long accused of having anti-conservative bias, especially after several of them suspended his accounts in response to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the recent influx of tech money — facilitated in part by his 39-year-old venture-capitalist VP pick — appears to have softened some of Trump’s Luddite-ish views.

[Tero]

Debate now the issue. I would not use the word punk, though.

'Scared little punk': CNN panel slams 'big, strong man' Trump after he backs out of debate

Phillip asked why Trump would hand Harris a win and noted that "backing out of a debate isn't a good look for any candidate," leading Coaston to agree and note she believes Trump wants the debate to feel "less certain than it already appears to be."

Coaston suggested Trump wants the limelight back on himself, likely doesn't want to debate Harris and probably doesn't want to give Harris the "respect she would deserve" by agreeing to it.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2668817401/

[macdoc]

Bright green, pro-Harris memes have erupted across social media. Fundraising exploded, with Harris’ campaign saying she raised $126 million between Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening. And Democrats were more eager to devote their own time to working to elect Harris: More than 100,000 people signed up to volunteer for her bid, and more than 2,000 applied for campaign jobs, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a Wednesday memo. New polls show a race in which Trump had been ahead now having no clear leader.

serious acceleration...damn that's a lot of loot in a very short time...
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/26/poli ... index.html

[Tero]

We boomers took care. I asked my kids and their spouses. None of them have students loans to pay off. two have masters degrees on has an engineering degree.

elsewhere on the "40%" of young voters backing Trump

I think it’s because how economically frustrated a lot of the age 18-34 crowd is. Head pounded against wall. They grew up in a time of sky-high college tuition, sky-high housing prices, sky-high healthcare costs, Covid and a shopping cart of groceries costing $100…but the federal minimum wage is still the same as it was when they were 0-16 years old. They grew up with 9/11, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, and with the exception of a few tranquil years, it felt like America was just putting out one fire after another. Their Boomer parents tell them how good life was back in the old days, then expect these 18-34ers to somehow pull off the same feat when it’s impossible. Then they find that the senior Democrats pay lip service to them but then go back to living in huge mansions and a jet-setting lifestyle that they could never have.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-27/ ... /104129984

"I'm more reptilian, cold blooded, to win the election," she said in 2023 about her dedication to ensuring a Democrat kept control of the White House.

Nancy finally admits she is part of the Reptilian Overlords!

[Tero]

The single remaining liberal billionaire and his billionaire wife.
https://www.threads.net/@michelestillma ... 2gt4vwMPQg

[pErvinalia]

What about them?

[Tero]

She is sending Kamala good sum of millions.

[Tero]

Trump too late. immigrants are here already.

How many people in the U.S. are immigrants?
The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 46.1 million in 2022. Growth accelerated after Congress made U.S. immigration laws more permissive in 1965. In 1970, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. was less than a quarter of what it is today.

Immigrants today account for 13.8% of the U.S. population. This is a roughly threefold increase from 4.7% in 1970. However, the immigrant share of the population today remains below the record 14.8% in 1890.

Since 1965, about 72 million immigrants have come to the United States from different and more countries than their predecessors.

they are even speaking languages that nobody knows!
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads ... hn7qJtGAsQ

[Tero]

Putin and Trump have a message: Kamala will start WW III
https://www.theguardian.com/world/artic ... in-germany

“The flight time to targets on our territory of such missiles, which in the future may be equipped with nuclear warheads, will be about 10 minutes,” Putin said. “We will take mirror measures to deploy, taking into account the actions of the United States, its satellites in Europe and in other regions of the world.”

Putin said the US was stoking tensions and had transferred Typhon missile systems to Denmark and the Philippines, and compared the US plans to the Nato decision to deploy Pershing II launchers in western Europe in 1979.