It's like in Kansas when Sam Brownback got to implement all of the economic policies conservatives have long espoused and it completely wrecked the state's finances within five years
It rocks how red state Republican politicos are so smug about populous blue state problems, propagandizing how it has to be the cost of liberal hypocrisy and left wing planning, but then whenever the GOP is handed the keys to comparable states and populations… www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.
Being this wrong this often isn't easy. Random chance would be right a lot more. You have to shun evidence and reason, force everything into a whiny, aggrieved conspiracy theory, and, whatever you do, never let being repeatedly, egregiously wrong in public lead you to try any reflection or revision.
Videos, images and text created by generative artificial intelligence tools are turning up in elections, for sale on Amazon and even in court documents. Learning to identify the growing flood of deepfakes, along with online conspiracy theories, is becoming a rite of passage for students.
One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.
The Times can run full court pressure campaigns over political scandals when they want to, as we saw with both Claudine Gay and EMAILS! the thing is they just don't want to with Trump
As someone who thinks America over-personifies its politics, as if POTUS does everything himself—enemies too: Hitler, Saddam, etc.—I'm glad to see this @jbouie.bsky.social column reminding everyone you vote for an administration and a vision for the country, not for one person and their personality.
What matters even more than the candidates is the coalitions they lead.
If Biden wins the Presidency but Republicans win one or both houses of Congress, there will be a major effort to make it seem like the Congressional ratification of the electoral count is a moment of high drama that has the potential to reverse the outcome. If that's the case, a coup is likely.
this is absolutely correct. one of the arguments i kept making in the aftermath of january 6 was that the attempt to turn a pro forma ceremony into a moment of real political contestation had revolutionary implications for american political life.
Thus March 12, 2020 - The Dow falls 10%, its worst day in 33 years. There is bedlam at unprepared airports as Americans, sick and well, flood home to beat the travel ban, many waiting for hours packed in confined spaces. Also, it turns out no one in DC warned European leaders about any of this.
He tried to steal it, wasn't punished, and he's gonna try to steal it again. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/u...
Emails and texts unearthed in a lawsuit show how key figures intended their plan to create a “cloud of confusion” to help keep Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss.