While Harris was going broke paying movie stars and pop singers, Trump got more campaign leverage out of three hours on Joe Rogan and thirty minutes at McDonald’s.

Once again the Democrats run their campaign like it’s thirty years ago.

William Arruda covers personal branding

Don’t count on someone learning something if their paycheck requires them not to.

Yeah I’ve got a friend leaning into this shit, I think they were just so convinced Trump was going to lose they can’t process the results.

Yeah no she ran on crypto for black men as a major policy platform for minority empowerment. She was explicitly campaigning towards the top 20% of minorities, income-wise.

How dare those ideological leftists put the genocide of Palestinians over the emancipatory policy of protecting black men’s crypto investments?

Also the framing that politics and economics are two separate realms and the two shall not meet.

The dust bowl was just a hoax invented by Big Arbor

Rigueur said, "One of the things that Bernie Sanders has been saying since at least 2014 has been about how the Democratic party, if it wants to keep these coalitions, needs to talk about bread-and-butter issues. It needs to talk about politics."

“Excuse me sweaty, but being the adult in the room means knowing that the only path forward is to get politics out of politics.”

First off, please refrain from using the phrase “Let that sink in” in the future. It’s cliched with heavy duty vibes.

Second, while I do think there’s a problem of willful ignorance affecting our political economy, I don’t think youth education and illiteracy are the fundamental issues. Younger generations are, relatively speaking, more likely to have college degrees or college experience. And the only youth who’ve swung right are young white men (plus youth in general are less likely to vote so it’s a murky demo to analyze). The anti-intellectual demonizing of higher education is slop for the boomers.

Likewise, illiterate people aren’t the right wing base; they’re largely non-voters and as illiteracy goes hand in hand with poverty, it’s more likely they see neither party as in their interests than siding with the right.

I think the bigger issue is that our educational system produces too many useful idiots. They can pass the standardized tests but lack the training in critical thinking to see anything past the surface level. Perfect example is the majority of Americans not understanding how marginal tax brackets work. Or just look at all the responses to the results of the election that reveal a completely inability to parse the data.

That’s the funny thing about proper leftist economy theory, it’s not especially esoteric. Most of it is common sense, you just need to think about how things work deeper that the immediate, morality play version of the analysis.

Where do you think they get the bonded leather from?

I do think some of that is people fetishizing the losing. Like it earns them some sort of authentic struggle points to run a campaign that gets 0.4% of the vote.

MFs need to learn what means

Right now, I can’t say we desperately need a famine in Bangladesh.

Hasn’t Hamas been calling for peace for months now?

Another issue is that many of these restaurants are now owned by private-equity groups that borrowed a lot of money for their acquisitions and are not seeing the cash flow they needed to come out even. TGI Fridays, Red Lobster, Hooters of America, and P.F. Chang’s were all purchased by private-equity groups in the last decade. TGI Fridays has 58% fewer restaurants than it did in 2019, and Hooters had 23% fewer, according to data from industry research firm Technomic.

“Wait, it’s the fault of greedy capitalists bleeding companies dry for short-term profits?”

“Always has been”

Winning for establishment Dems means keeping the big dollar donations flowing in. Which is the fundamental reason they suppress the left and progressive candidates, them winning causes the Mark Cubans to hold back on the big checks.

You’re Ohio

You have been banned for stating the texts of a ballot measure

Paul “the economy is doing great if you ignore food and housing costs” Krugman