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

Seriously, them and all their rich friends can go give fancy speeches about nothing and raise money for museums or animal shelters for retired dressage horses or some other rich weirdo thing and that actually would be doing public service in a more real way than they ever have before

Also, how about he considers what’s best for the country? Like, what, I’m supposed to care if a bunch of Republican leaders end up unemployed? Worse things happen to better people all the time in the world they have built.

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The underlying cause is a Republican party that abandoned political decency decades ago when they welcomed Dixecrats into their parties in the 1960s as a way of shoehorning unpopular anti-tax and deregulatory politics into a democratic political system that had rejected those things. It was a problem when John McCain was complaining about making MLK day a holiday, it was a problem when George HW ran the Willie Horton ad, it was a problem when Newt Gingrich was saying racist crap about welfare queens, it was a problem when George W Bush blamed 9/11 on Iraq because they were brown, and on and on.

George Conway was a happy member of that party for most of his life and is only now recognizing the problems with what he built in the most superficial of ways. Ultimately he just represents a previous step on a path that was always inevitably going to end up here. The answer isn’t trying to go back, it’s about getting on a whole new path.

Masie is an idiot and an asshole who hasn’t been at all effective in stopping Trump because at the end of the day in spite of his empty complaining about Trump he’s still a crazy ass John Bircher who would rather have a fascist dictator than a moderate non-Republican president of any kind

reasonable Republican

The more people pretend this fiction is real the worse the country gets

The district is a product of a 36-year-old peace pact between civil rights leaders and South Carolina’s white conservative political apparatus.

The apparatus got their money’s worth with Clyburn, he’s always been a worthless moderate who just drags the rest of the party down and kills good policy

It’s legislation written by a Republican, it’s going to be full of loopholes and also somehow send a bunch of taxpayer money to one of his buddies

Yeah, unfortunately that probably is how it’s going to go, but it will still be a good thing to see people who are alerting the public to religious bigotry in our government are well compensated

Kiteo his eyes closed!

Yeah, can’t remember if these were the ones who threw McDonald’s applications at people or if that was somebody else, but that also happened

Coming up with a budget is usually one of the first things you do. Sticking to it when, like, a sewer tunnel collapses unexpectedly or something is a whole other thing, but just having a plan to break even in the first place is below par better than average for his office.

e; well that turn of phrase was not a home run

I would vote for someone who promised to legalize duels again. Having roughly half as many bloated egos to deal with seems way more manageable.

I really thought this former CIA agent was going to be a stronger advocate for political and workplace democracy /s

Only if there are no paywalls or surveillance crap on the articles posted there

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