President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

If he sneaks them into the laundry and a parent washes them, do they get charged as an accessory?

 

What a waste of ink

 

And that's what I don't get. Do they think anyone who attends Trump rallies subscribe to and read the NYT?

 

A bunch of Junior Leaguers in Mountain Brook are wondering how the hell they're going to give birth to all the frozen embryos with their name on them down at the clinic. Better not miscarry any of them!

 

Increasingly, the political gap breaks on education.

Opinion | The Political Failure of Bidenomics

Even when Biden does something for working men and women - and he's done more than Trump - his party is viewed as hostile to working men and women.

Matthew Goodwin, a political scientist who writes about the diploma divide in Britain, titled his recent book “Values, Voice and Virtue.” He argues the educated and less educated have different values. The former are cosmopolitan progressive while the latter are traditionalist — faith, family, flag. He continues that educated voices drown out less-educated voices thanks to their dominance at universities and in the media, the arts, nonprofits and bureaucracies. Less-educated voters feel unheard and unseen. Goodwin writes that across the Western world, “workers and nongraduates are consistently the most likely to endorse statements such as ‘the government does not care what people like me think.’”

Finally, less-educated voters feel morally judged for being socially backward. An analysis of more than 65,000 people across 36 countries by the Dutch scholar Jochem van Noord found that people who do not belong to the new elite are not only united by economic insecurity, but also by “feelings of misrecognition, that is, the extent to which people have the feeling that they do not play a meaningful role in society, that they possess a (stigmatized) identity that is looked down upon.”

The British writer David Goodhart gets to the nub: “In the last two decades it sometimes feels as if an enormous social vacuum cleaner has sucked up status from manual occupations, even skilled ones, and reallocated it to the middling and higher cognitive professions and the prosperous metropolitan centers and university towns.”

 

So, what did I miss during the Great AT&T Outage of 2024?

 

They also hated them Oirish with a burning passion.

 

“is viewed”
“feel”
“feel”
“feelings”
“the feeling”
“it sometimes feels”

It’s Biden’s job as a politician to overcome skepticism and get enough votes on his side. But for society at large, eventually there’s got to be something more tangible for us to address than “feelings.” At what point are people expected to have a degree of agency in how they feel?

 

I kind of doubt that the presidential election will hinge on the votes of European citizens who don’t have college degrees.

 

The vibes are bad in Lincolnshire. Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

 

Biden's party is not viewed as hostile to working men and women. White men (the people Brooks really means but can't say) are hostile to the party they believe is threatening their status as the top of society's heap.

 

LOL