President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Songbird · Jul 21, 2024

Manchin is re-registering as a Dem to run.

Hermes · Jul 21, 2024

dixiehack said: ↑

Every home game in Tuscaloosa I see some frat bro wearing a Reagan/Bush 84 shirt despite having been born a generation after “Where’s the beef?”
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I had a Humphrey 68 poster I found at an antique store on my college dorm room wall. I was swimming in friends! Swimming!

Baron Scicluna · Jul 21, 2024

matt_garth said: ↑

Just heard on the radio that the caravans are back.

So, yeah, I think she moved the needle.
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I called it! When you’re wrong 50 percent of the time; that means you’re right 50 percent of the time.

Baron Scicluna said: ↑

Seems like some invading caravans are overdue for a southern border appearance.
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HanSenSE · Jul 21, 2024

Songbird said: ↑

Manchin is re-registering as a Dem to run.
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Fuck him.

micropolitan guy · Jul 21, 2024

Yeah, the GOP's reaction to the higher California minimum wage tells me they are all-in on working people making more money.

History has told us that when hard times hit, just call a Republican, like Hoover, to help.

Starman · Jul 21, 2024

PCLoadLetter said: ↑

Yeah, my economic anxiety has me clamoring for the golden era of July 2020 when unemployment was 10%, I was dealing with furloughs with a 20% pay cut, and grocery shelves were frequently empty. That was awesome.
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It was worse: 14.7 percent.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-t...rus-outbreak-908d7a004c316baceb916112c0a35ed0

jr/shotglass · Jul 21, 2024

The Big Ragu said: ↑

More than 1 in 3 American households are financially insecure in 2024. 36.4% of households reported in April that they had a somewhat or very difficult time paying their usual household expenses in the past week. That’s up 6.7% from 34.1% during the same period in 2022.
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Just to cherry-pick one point, you seem to have this idea that the financial insecurity REPORTED here was some concrete line of demarcation. One person's financial security can very well be the next person's "it's tight, but we're OK." There is not one shared definition of financial security.

Neutral Corner · Jul 21, 2024

TigerVols said: ↑

Just like that 3+ years of narrative has been turned on its head. Trump is the old guy now. Trump is the incoherent one now.
And finally he’s facing a trained fighter in the form of a former DA.
Everything’s changed. Kamala can run on the Administration’s amazing record while simultaneously running against all of Trump’s many flaws.
The Republic may be saved after all.
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Who are you and what have you done with TigerVols? I demand proof of life.

The Big Ragu · Jul 21, 2024

Ya'll are trying to argue with the inarguable.

Survey: Almost 50% of Americans Consider Themselves ‘Broke’

Hermes · Jul 21, 2024

Joe Manchin: “I’ve formed a exploratory committee to see who the next candidate should be. I have Dick Cheney and that guy from Jeopardy! and a coal company executive on it and the answer is…me! I should be the candidate!”

poindexter · Jul 21, 2024

The Big Ragu said: ↑

Ah, quotation marks, like it doesn't exist. There is extreme financial insecurity in this country. It's wild that I have to explain what is right underneath everyone's noses to the people on here who are in their own world.

People on the bottom end economically are struggling more than they were a few years ago and more and more people are getting left behind.

https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/household-expenses-struggles-study/

Key findings

More than 1 in 3 American households are financially insecure in 2024. 36.4% of households reported in April that they had a somewhat or very difficult time paying their usual household expenses in the past week. That’s up 6.7% from 34.1% during the same period in 2022.

Changes in household financial insecurity decrease with age. Americans ages 18 to 24 saw the biggest increase (25.0%) in difficulty paying expenses between 2022 and 2024, but that lowered with each age range examined. In fact, Americans 65 and older saw a 4.1% decrease in difficulty in this period.

31 states have seen an increase in difficulty paying household expenses. Between 2022 and 2024, three Western states — Washington (41.6%), Wyoming (33.4%) and Montana (30.7%) — saw the most dramatic increases in difficulty.

Three different states report the highest financial insecurity in 2024. More than 4 in 10 households in Alabama (43.9%), Mississippi (43.6%) and Nevada (42.2%) reported difficulties in April 2024. Only D.C. reported that less than 1 in 4 households (24.9%) said the same.

This is why Joe Biden wasn't going to win before people realized he was old. Just in the last couple of years years, the fentanyl crisis has taken off in a lot of the country. ... that is happening hand in hand with increased homelessness, financial insecurity. And so many families are finding themselves affected. Even lower working class people who haven't been sucked under, are finding themselves working multiple jobs and feeling very financially insecure, because of how expensive their necessities have gotten. The people I am talking about maybe represented 2 out of every 10 people a decade or two ago. Now they are 3 or 4 of every 10 people. You are underestimating the amount of discontent there is if you don't understand what I am pointing out. It is what gave rise to Donald Trump in the first place (before prices were even taking off).
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Yeah, "financial insecurity" being the reason that half the country votes for Trump - not guns, oil drilling, abortion, making immigrants the boogie man, and above all else, a fight against "wokeness" - I'm not buying it.

tapintoamerica · Jul 21, 2024

The Big Ragu said: ↑

Ah, quotation marks, like it doesn't exist. There is extreme financial insecurity in this country. It's wild that I have to explain what is right underneath everyone's noses to the people on here who are in their own world.

People on the bottom end economically are struggling more than they were a few years ago and more and more people are getting left behind.

https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/household-expenses-struggles-study/

Key findings

More than 1 in 3 American households are financially insecure in 2024. 36.4% of households reported in April that they had a somewhat or very difficult time paying their usual household expenses in the past week. That’s up 6.7% from 34.1% during the same period in 2022.

Changes in household financial insecurity decrease with age. Americans ages 18 to 24 saw the biggest increase (25.0%) in difficulty paying expenses between 2022 and 2024, but that lowered with each age range examined. In fact, Americans 65 and older saw a 4.1% decrease in difficulty in this period.

31 states have seen an increase in difficulty paying household expenses. Between 2022 and 2024, three Western states — Washington (41.6%), Wyoming (33.4%) and Montana (30.7%) — saw the most dramatic increases in difficulty.

Three different states report the highest financial insecurity in 2024. More than 4 in 10 households in Alabama (43.9%), Mississippi (43.6%) and Nevada (42.2%) reported difficulties in April 2024. Only D.C. reported that less than 1 in 4 households (24.9%) said the same.

This is why Joe Biden wasn't going to win before people realized he was old. Just in the last couple of years years, the fentanyl crisis has taken off in a lot of the country. ... that is happening hand in hand with increased homelessness, financial insecurity. And so many families are finding themselves affected. Even lower working class people who haven't been sucked under, are finding themselves working multiple jobs and feeling very financially insecure, because of how expensive their necessities have gotten. The people I am talking about maybe represented 2 out of every 10 people a decade or two ago. Now they are 3 or 4 of every 10 people. You are underestimating the amount of discontent there is if you don't understand what I am pointing out. It is what gave rise to Donald Trump in the first place (before prices were even taking off).
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There was this thing called COVID, which Trump magnified.

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