Nope. Slate gets it wrong.
“ When faced with the options of chaos, greed, and anger or relative common sense—the kind wielded by a competent, qualified Black woman—voters overwhelmingly chose the former. It wasn’t the fascism-loving guy who spurred an insurrection whom they couldn’t trust. It was the Black woman.”
It was the Fourth Estate. When you have “news” corporations sane-washing a candidate? That’s not news, that’s propaganda.
They are still lying.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/election-results-2024-trump-harris-race-black-women.html
People were pissed their grocery bills went up.
It's not deep. That's happening all over regardless of the political leanings of the party in power.
Everything else is marginal.
That’s what MSM says, but it’s not close to the truth. They went up under Obama and Dubya (who put us onto two long wars). They got re-elected.
The MSM publishes opinion pieces as news. I just skipped several articles about “How to Survive the Trump Presidency”—if that is news, I’ll paint my body blue and run through traffic. MSM is not Cassandra and cannot predict the future.
This is an opinion.
MSM is no longer talking about news. They are spreading propaganda.
The corporate business model has seen it is FAR MORE PROFITABLE to be conservative and lie (see Fox News) than be liberal and tell the truth.
How many news services repeated verbatim the racist lie about immigrants eating pets and did ZERO RESEARCH to prove it wasn’t true. Then went on to repeat every time it was said. Over and over.
Because a lie repeated gains strength even with repeated denials.
How do you stop a lie. Don’t fucking repeat it.
MSM didnt stop it.
There is ample proof that it was not the economy. It was businesses jacking prices. But it was easier for the media to say it was the economy. This helped Trump and hurt Harris.
Again, it was a lie. The economy is actually almost back to normal—grocery prices are just business stealing from us.
But they called it the “economy.”
This is how a lie hurts we the people. When it is amplified by the press.
@feloneouscat @Lulz4l1f3
There were several factros I can think of that pushed inflation and some still are. The Ukranian war is hiking food prices world wide because of grain shortages. There was also the avian flu which caused poultry and egg prices to soar because millions of chickens were euthanized. Oh! there was a lack of farm labor here too. In FL there were crops that had to be powed under because there was no one to harvest them.
Florida made its own bed by issuing edicts to prevent migrant labor.
You reap what you sow.
This SHOULD have been a lesson for the country, but apparently most people want to pick lettuce (they actually don’t.)
Florida does have some self-inflicted problems, but I don't think lettuce is one of them. Almost all lettuce (70%) is grown in California, and most of the rest is grown in temperate zones in Ariziona.
Florida Ag is Citrus, peppers, watermellons, and other crops that grow well in warmer humid conditions.
"Florida Ag is Citrus, peppers, watermellons, and other crops that grow well in warmer humid conditions.”
Sorry, I should have been explicit:
DeSantis, et al, seemed to not understand how things work—that if you can’t have migrant labor, then food is going to rot.
White people are not going to fill in the void.
