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.
@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
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?
@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.
@BFBucky1 @feloneouscat
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.