I’ve read that it probably won’t be, since we had El Niño this year too, making the year hotter than it otherwise would’ve been.
It’s not going to be fun next year when we’re not breaking quite as many heat records, and then we’ve got people saying “See? Last year was just a fluke. Climate change isn’t a big deal!”
Most likely, yeah, but then that’s only going to last for a few years at most. If you look at it in groups of 5 years together or so, I don’t think it ever has been colder since like the 90s maybe. Or early 00s.
Can someone explain US politics to me why there’s a media storm asking Biden to step down but not Trump? It feels like a huge double standard to me but honestly I’m not following that closely for the sake of my mental health so it could just be ignorance on my part.
No one is suggesting Trump step down because his base idolizes him. Like false prophet kind of shit. It’s scary, if I’m being honest. How can one convince a fanatic that they are wrong?
Pretty fair. The Biden base mostly don’t love Biden they just want to back the perceived best bet to beat Trump. When Biden stops being that they want him out.
If the Republican party picked someone other than Trump a significant fraction of voters would still side with him splitting the vote ensuring the Democrats win.
When he went to Miami to be indicted he was disappointed because not a single person showed up. Hard to square with all these supposed super fans. Grateful Dead or Phish had more loyal fans. It really shatters this die hard fan myth he’s got going.
The primary issue is that democrats unfortunately are the party of everyone from the center right to far left, so there is much more infighting. Additionally, they tend to hold those in their own party accountable, whereas the republican party will circle the wagons around just about any clown, regardless of misdeeds.
Besides Biden being the incumbent, Republicans will never ask Trump to step down, no matter what. Dems on the other hand do not think of Biden as their god-emperor and the DNC is now beginning to worry (far too late) if Biden can actually win against Trump.
Notice that many of the stories you see about this refer to the debate but not if Biden can actually win or not. The debate is not what is causing Biden to lose dem votes. Any story that says the debate is the reason for this is probably misleading at best, because I doubt they mention that Trump was lying the entire debate.
It’s a matter of expectations.
The media (and people generally) expect Republicans to be shitty and grab power whenever, however possible. They expect the Democrats to act like the principled good guys, and do the “right thing”.
Trump is not showing his age in quite the same way as Biden. He is performing the way his base expects him to. His base expects him to lie constantly, because they believe those lies. All the things that you, as an outside observer, view as disqualifying are things Republicans are actively seeking out in candidates.
On the other hand, Democratic voters in this country were told all year long that these concerns over Biden’s age were overblown, then it all came crashing down in 90 minutes. Democrats expected more. That’s why there’s this consternation on one side only.
Trump’s a fascist demagogue who sees this election as his coronation. He’s delusional, and his party and supporters all share in his delusions.
Biden has to appeal to the people still grounded in reality, people who still think critically and expect their leaders to do more than angrily shout slurs. That makes his base a lot less likely to fall in line.
So one reason that everyone is glossing over is that republicans had a legit primary.
Trump is an extremely well known quantity. Republicans had a large variety of options to replace him. These were real candidates; There were multiple senators and governors who would be considered real candidates in a more traditional election. The entire political spectrum that makes up the republican party was represented.
Given all those options, republicans still chose Trump. They 100 percent knew what they were getting into.
On the other hand the Democratic establishment collectively chose to not challenge Biden. There were exactly three choices: Biden, a no name house member, and a woman most famous for trying to stop a hurricane with spirit energy. The extent of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline was also hidden from the public to the point where bringing it up would largely get you attacked for being a MAGA republican.
The end result is that a lot of voters feel blindsided and gaslit when it comes to Biden, while Trump is exactly the asshole he portrays himself as.
I watched the debate with friends. We’re all liberals. We were all extremely upset over Biden’s performance. However during one of his more lucid moments, he brought up how Trump cheated on his pregnant wife with a pornstar. As he was talking, Trump grinned and shrugged. Even though what he did was objectively awful, the entire room burst out laughing. I feel like the election kind of has that energy.
Unless the president does something monumentally stupid (like telling people not to wear masks during a pandemic) the president has little impact on the economy (or oil prices). Why do people keep talking about the president like he’s got a great big series of valves that controls the economy? It’s ridiculous!
Any decision the president makes that will impact the economy is most likely to have an impact ten years later. Sometimes an impact can be felt sooner than that but it’s usually not a good thing for the economy… Like starting a war or closing the borders.
Yeah they also say it started when he took office but it definitely started during the pandemic when someone else was president. I don’t understand why it’s always framed like that. This inflation is a direct result of the pandemic response. But somehow they think the guy who caused it could fix it? Insane
This would make sense if all those printed dollars went to regular people who then spent it on groceries, thus driving up demand, but that’s not the case. The distribution of money matters as much as the amount that exists. Biden isn’t the cause regardless, but I don’t buy the excuse that money printing alone caused this.
Watch some of Larry Summers talks - he predicted this inflation as Biden was gearing up to pass the IRA. He bailed out deadbeat students, screwing over people like me who worked their way through college. This increased the amount of money circulating in the economy. Then he printed trillions of dollars to hand out to folks, increasing it even more.
Biden’s policies directly contributed to and exacerbated inflation, rewarding irresponsible actors and punishing responsible ones. Even democrats and progressives (such as Larry Summers) can see this.
In case you don’t know, Larry Summers was Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton and Director of the National Economic Council under Obama (and the President of Harvard in between) - so this isn’t some far out right-wing talking point. Biden wanted a big bailout bill to take credit for, and he fucked the economy in the process.
Edit: I see downvotes, but no rebuttals. So I’ll double-down with links to the interviews I’m referencing.
I don’t think anyone’s bothered because of how obviously wrong what you’ve written is to anyone with a decent memory.
Inflation had already peaked when the inflation reduction act was passed in August 2022. It had already blown past 9%. Predicted means guessing something before it happens, not after. Inflation decreased steadily after the act passed. If you’re trying to argue that it stopped it from slowing down faster that would be pretty silly when America had a relatively better recovery from inflation than most countries. You’re also blaming more inflation on a mass student loan forgiveness that never even happened. Unless you’re blaming public service loan forgiveness and stuff.
my rebuttal is https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-chart . Rates are supposed to keep the market from overheating like it did under trump which causes massive inflation. It should not have been zero going into covid and ironically covid is the reason it did not hit more into trumps term.
also, and I will keep beating this drum, obama had the fed rate at 2.5 about when he left office and trump whined and bullied the fed to bring it to zero just before covid because they where "conspiring" to ruin his economy. fed rates should only be lowered when there is cause (like a pandemic) and not because he want stock market to go burr. idealy its raised and lowered slowly but because trump pushed it unnaturally low we had to have the sudden big jumps under biden.
Didn’t you hear? The supreme court said the president is basically a king now /jk
No but real talk, you are right. People put way more importance on a presidential election than what it’s in reality. I mean, its super important, but he doesn’t drive the country like a fucking bus, it’s more like hes the admiral and the country is a fleet of ships that all need to be coordinating with one another.
If people want really change, then they need to put as much importance to local elections of all levels as they do for the presidential election… hell, maybe put slightly more importance to the local elections.
Because it’s easy to blame the president who simultaneously is ineffective in controlling the difficulties in your daily life while also being the cause of those same difficulties.
not really. pushing the fed to drop interest rates for no reason so that when an emergency like a pandemic happens they are at zero and can't be dropped a bit can have an impact.
There, that’s exactly the same thing as voting for Biden in the coming election. I’m not saying don’t, because god forbid Trump fucks this country over once more. No, what I’m saying is:
#1 let’s vote via phone constantly… Oh the public hasn’t agreed with anything you did for 3 weeks? GTFO, you gave it a good try!
#2 currently we don’t actually vote for the president or in any direct way actually do for him. The electoral college does, we don’t. The electors are not mind controlled by anyone, they literally could give us the finger and vote Trump into office.
#3 if we voted electronically via our phones, we would still not influence the election of the president in a direct way, so why the hesitation to make elections faster and less expensive?..is it because then we would really know how we all feel?
The thing is, this isn’t a new normal. Climate change is still happening and will keep happening as long as we keep refusing to migrate off of fossil fuels. It will be hotter next year. And then hotter the year after. And then hotter. And then hotter. And then fucking hotter. It won’t stop until enough of us literally die off to start mitigating it.
Don’t forget that Marianne Williamson is tied in with Oprah, too. She was on the Democratic primary ballot, although I think she got zero delegates. “Uncommitted” got more.
That’s not supposed to be the case. If Trump tried something like that, we’d never hear the end of it. The press is supposed to ask hard questions to politicians, especially the President. There should never be special treatment.
I’ve worked in radio and TV and yeah, even the guy running for city council will have their campaign manager and/or media manager come in and say, “we want to make sure you ask Dave about the council’s plan to raise sewage prices.”
I’ll show you that proof when you show me the proof of this claim of yours:
Trumps always answered questions from the media. Biden rarely does and when he does it’s usually just a yes or no answer he gives unless it’s a pre-selected question of course. Then he just reads the answer off of his Q cards.
Good luck since I already showed you how wrong you were with that first part.
So much kerfuffle over such a non-scandal. Giving interviewers questions is S.O.P. for media people in a campaign. If Trump’s people aren’t doing it too, the only reason is because Trump never answers questions anyway.
Trumps always answered questions from the media. Biden rarely does and when he does it’s usually just a yes or no answer he gives unless it’s a pre-selected question of course. Then he just reads the answer off of his Q cards.
Also, do tell us how you know when Biden is given a pre-selected question or is reading off of cue cards.
And is reading from cue cards different from Trump using a teleprompter? Remember when he complained how it doesn’t work so he can’t read from a script? apnews.com/…/donald-trump-nevada-rally-heat-las-v…
I just did a little research myself. According to various sources, including the White House Press Office and media reports, President Trump held more press conferences and answered more questions from the press than President Biden during their respective terms.
During his presidency, President Trump held 137 press conferences, with an average of 27 questions asked per conference. He also held numerous solo press briefings and took questions from the press on a regular basis.
In contrast, President Biden has held fewer press conferences and answered fewer questions from the press. According to the White House Press Office, President Biden has held 14 press conferences, with an average of 15 questions asked per conference. He has also held fewer solo press briefings than President Trump.
It’s worth noting that President Biden has faced criticism for his handling of the press and his willingness to take questions from the media. Some have accused him of being less transparent and less accessible to the press than his predecessors, including President Trump.
Overall, while both presidents have had their own unique approaches to dealing with the press, the data suggests that President Trump answered more media questions during his term than President Biden.
That has literally nothing to do with anything you claimed:
Trumps always answered questions from the media. Biden rarely does and when he does it’s usually just a yes or no answer he gives unless it’s a pre-selected question of course. Then he just reads the answer off of his Q cards.
You also didn’t explain how you know he was reading from cue (not Q) cards and why that’s different from reading off of a teleprompter.
The Q cards have the names of the reporters he needs to call on in order. Also tells him where to stand, sit, etc. The teleprompter tells him what to say
According to various sources, including the White House Press Office and media reports, President Trump held more press conferences and answered more questions from the press than President Biden during their respective terms.
During his presidency, President Trump held 137 press conferences, with an average of 27 questions asked per conference. He also held numerous solo press briefings and took questions from the press on a regular basis.
In contrast, President Biden has held fewer press conferences and answered fewer questions from the press. According to the White House Press Office, President Biden has held 14 press conferences, with an average of 15 questions asked per conference. He has also held fewer solo press briefings than President Trump.
It’s worth noting that President Biden has faced criticism for his handling of the press and his willingness to take questions from the media. Some have accused him of being less transparent and less accessible to the press than his predecessors, including President Trump.
Overall, while both presidents have had their own unique approaches to dealing with the press, the data suggests that President Trump answered more media questions during his term than President Biden.
Based on what? Your ass? Link your sources or stfu. And how does this this kind of dick measuring have anything to do with anything? You sound like trump comparing absolutely trivial shit to make it seem like you have a big dick. Stfu and crawl back into the hole you came out of. You should be ashamed of yourself supporting a fascist, small dicked, rapist. But I’m guessing you’re okay with that magat.
A full, public accounting of what happened in the Solar Winds case would have been devastating to Microsoft. ProPublica recently revealed that Microsoft had long known about — but refused to address — a flaw used in the hack. The tech company’s failure to act reflected a corporate culture that prioritized profit over security and left the U.S. government vulnerable, a whistleblower said.
“Cumulative wage growth since the start of the pandemic has outpaced price growth across the wage distribution, but the most wage growth has been among lower-wage workers,” Bank of America economists wrote in a note to clients Tuesday. “This is likely because labor shortages have been the most acute in blue-collar sectors. While recent wage growth has been distributed more evenly across the distribution, the large cumulative wage gains for lower-income consumers since 4Q 2019 have buffered them against the inflation shock.”
I admit that every time I buy groceries, I am shocked by the prices. The thing is: I don’t blame the President for it. I blame lax regulation that has allowed monopolies to take over everything and pay workers as little as possible – particularly by misclassifying them as contractors. I also blame the Supreme Court for ruling in favor of the rich and powerful instead of the the citizenry and/or the institutional expertise within the government (EPA, NIS, etc.).
I’m frustrated that it seems the only people who can garner enough attention to get elected are ALL saying nice things to their base, then creating legislation and/or voting to take power from governmental regulators and experts and just let big businesses so whatever they want – which ALWAYS boils down to stripping as much money and power as they can from the populace.
Was it only me that was told in school to avoid using the word “But” at the start of a sentence? I break that rule quite often, but this BBC article starts many paragraphs with that.
To address the article itself: Payday loans are awful and lead to ruin. If you’re at the point where they’re your only option, you’re already screwed.
If someone thinks that Trump as President is going to make things better, that is very much delusional thinking. No matter that you lose your rights, your immigrant friend or family members getting kicked out for no reason, and your country sold to Republican connected contractors! At least you get sent a $1000 cheque from the US treasury as a special bri-, I mean ‘gratuity’.
A lot of “rules” taught in high school writing classes are more stylistic choices. They’re not necessarily wrong. Some of them might help to improve clarity, or a rule might help encourage new word choices so writing doesn’t sound so repetitive. Lots of reasons. But many are more for style. Hey I did it! I even made a sentence with only an implied subject and verb, naughty.
I would also argue that sometimes a period followed by a conjunction can be the best stylistic choice. Maybe the sentence was already getting too long and a break was needed, but you still wanted to draw contrast. Maybe you could have put a comma but wanted an increased emphasis on what comes after but. A lot of these things are just preference or style though. Like “never ending a sentence with a preposition.” Of course you can end a sentence with a preposition, but you might want to make sure what the preposition is referring to is clear to the reader too.
trump making it better would be pretty delusional given the inflation was just after biden took office and has not been that bad in the last year. it drives me nuts that folks don't understand fed policy and what interest rates did between the end of obama and the start of biden. Interest rates were at two and half at the end of obama and instead of being 3 or more when covid hit they were zero. ugh.
Maybe I’m not remembering things right, but the solarwinds attack was a supply chain attack. Their upstream code was manipulated internally which resulted in a downstream malicious dll.
And he was caught because his VPN had a lapse in the connection which exposed his actual IP address. It was a disgruntled employee. Not a Russian attack.
Though the Microsoft attack this year, I believe was Russian in origin.
Maybe I’m not remembering things right, but the solarwinds attack was a supply chain attack.
You aren’t misremembering, that’s what we were all told however the reality was a bit different. MS had been ignoring a serious security vulnerability for years. That vuln was eventually used to breech SolarWinds and then that was leverage to breech everyone else.
This thing is so fucking weird to me. Mircosoft argued that it’s the companies fault for being hacked because a user account was compromised? Okay wise guy what about corporate espionage via a planted employee?
In case you were wondering, as I was, whether $3500 was more or less than the amount that was illegally donated:
Fountaingate Merkel Church, Remnant Church and Hope Chapel Foursquare Church donated a combined $800 to the campaign of Scott Beard, senior pastor at Fountaingate Fellowship church, who is running for a seat on the seven-member City Council in Saturday’s election.
And because the fine amount is "up to $5000 or triple the amount in question, whichever is larger," which would be $2400 in this case, a $3500 fine is appropriate.
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