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.
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.
Yeah, Ukrainian grain prices have a big impact in Europe and Africa,. I realize we live in a global market (thankfully during the Winter months especially), but shipping costs put a lid on us usually not having an over-abundance of grain staples. But not in a drought.
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.)
@feloneouscat @Lulz4l1f3
The worst is yet to come, I am sorry to say. I am concerned what the effects will be of his romance with power companies. There is Elon Musk to be considered, that will be interesting to see who has more pull. Elon or big oil!
Relax a bit. None of them operate in a vacuum. Whatever is done will have a reaction. They are not unconstrained by consequences whether they like it or not.
They may overcome some guardrails within the Administration and be enabled by Congress, but there is more to the country and controlling the country than Washington.
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.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat There is also global warming which I think was a factor in AZ and CA. Not enough water for irrigation. I am guessing there are also fewer crops to be harvesed. There was also an effect on dairy products as far as being able to feed and water live stock.
California dought is mostly over. The mid-West and Southwest are in a drought.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat Keyword being "mostly". Oh! Now there is a drought other places. I long ago wathced a program on tthe effects of global warming. One of the effects was the spreading of a "dry zone" farther north and south of the equater.
Stop being silly. Lettuce is mostly grown along the coast where there is no drought at all. Lettuce needs a cooler climate than in the valley.
The map tells you a lot about what's being affected so far as agriculture and livestock go. Remember, less grass/alfalfa means more feed and more $$$ so you see livestock reductions.
Texas, for example, produces more cattle than any other state and is deeply affected. Worse, they are trying to reduce their latino cattlemen.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat
Well, as long as the effects of global warming do not get worse. 10 years was a long time and let's hope this is more than a brief respite from the drought. Why are there all those fires?
I grew up in California. Droughts are nothing new. I realize clmate change is happening, and more importantly, reliance on ground water and the elimination of wetland areas has depleted aquifers.
But I grew up in a dought that lasted more than 10 years, when dust-storms blotted out the Sun. We used to laugh at bridges over the Kern River with signs posted "No diving or jumping from bridge" when there was nothing but dirt and sand below.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat And your point is?
Well, if we want to be precise, 2011-2017 was probably the worst drought (6 years, not 10), but there is an effort to adapt, replenish some wetland areas, but diminishing snowpack during bad years (2011-2013) is a concern.
However, I lived through decades of a series of droughts broken up only by a good year here and there, so they aren't uncommon. Best to keep perspective.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat My perspective is for my great grandchildren. Let me know when the climate is improving and my perspective may change…….,forget that
I will be dead!
Well, in general that's not happening for a very long time from a human (and other life) perspective, but it doesn't have to be cataclysmic either.
The biggest worry, IMO, over the next 50 years is what happens due to population migration because the society we grew up in within the more developed nations doesn't seem ready to adapt to that. Politics can get worse and lead to worse outcomes.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat
You should add IMHO. One of the militarys main concerns is human migration due to climate change not political considerations. Though we know enimies of the West do push migration to cause political unrest.
You don't worry what migration is going to do to the country politically? I do, and despite you couching it, so does the military as they expect it to create more conflicts and destablize the current world order.
@Lulz4l1f3 @feloneouscat Firefighters from coast to coast are battling wildfires as the country begins to prepare for the holiday season, with fires in New Jersey covering thousands of acres in tinderbox conditions created by a historic drought.
"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.
Meh, people were saving to the point personal savings skyrocketed to levels I had not seen in my lifetime during the lockdowns.
When the lockdowns ended, all that pent-up demand was chasing fewer goods while supply chains were still crippled.
Look at what prices dropped and which did not because a lot of prices did reset somewhat. Were retail grocers, producers and suppliers hesitant to cut prices on many items? Yes, because people were still buying.
@feloneouscat Some supply is still broken for other reasons.
Take Beef, for example. Droughts in cattle producing states have lead to reduced herd sizes. Beef isn't coming down. Same with lamb. Not happening. Chicken prices are reverting toward normal though.
Part of what we are seeing in the grocery store is climate related. Part of it is demand driven. Why would I lower prices if people are still buying the crap out of things?
So it wasn’t the economy. We agree.
It was implicit price fixing (which is legal) vs overt price fixing (which is illegal).
Inflation cooled and everything is kosher except the press which was still yelling about inflation (they tried to correct that as misinformation but stopped and just went with the flow—again assisting Trump).
I agree, businesses were fucking us over. But the media went along with Trump’s view (same with unemployment which they stopped correcting).
@Lulz4l1f3
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.