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[boreal-sea]

Look.

I have made you a chart. A very simple chart.

People say "You have to draw the line somewhere, and Biden has crossed it-" and my response is "Trump has crossed way more lines than Biden".

These categories are based off of actual policy enacted by both of these men while they were in office.

If the ONLY LINE YOU CARE ABOUT is line 12, you have an incredible amount of privilege, AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT PALESTINIANS. You obviously have nothing to fear from a Trump presidency, and you do not give a fuck if a ceasefire actually occurs. You are obviously fine if your queer, disabled, and marginalized loved ones are hurt. You clearly don't care about the status of American democracy, which Trump has openly stated he plans to destroy on day 1 he is in office.

EDIT:

Ok fine, I spent 3 hours compiling sources for all of these, you can find that below the cut.

I'll give at least one link per subject area. There are of course many more sources to be read on these subject areas and no post could possibly give someone a full education on these subjects.

Biden and trans rights: https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline

Trump and trans rights: https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trump-on-lgbtq-rights-rolling-back-protections-and-criminalizing-gender-nonconformity

The two sources above show how Biden has done a lot of work to promote trans rights, and how Trump did a lot of work to hurt trans rights.

Biden on abortion access: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/politics/what-is-in-biden-abortion-executive-order/index.html

Trump on abortion access: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-trump-republican-presidential-election-2024-585faf025a1416d13d2fbc23da8d8637

Biden openly supports access to abortion and has taken steps to protect those rights at a federal level even after Roe v Wade was overturned. Trump, on the other hand, was the man who appointed the judges who helped overturn Roe v Wade and he openly brags about how proud he is of that decision. He also states that he believes individual states should have the final say in whether or not abortion is legal, and that he trusts them to "do the right thing", meaning he supports stronger abortion bans.

Biden on environmental reform: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/07/fact-sheet-president-biden-restores-protections-for-three-national-monuments-and-renews-american-leadership-to-steward-lands-waters-and-cultural-resources/

Trump on environmental reform: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html

Biden has made major steps forward for environmental reform. He has restored protections that Trump rolled back. He has enacted many executive orders and more to promote environmental protections, including rejoining the Paris Accords, which Trump withdrew the USA from. Trump is also well known for spreading conspiracy theories and lies about global climate change, calling it a "Chinese hoax".

Biden on healthcare and prescription reform: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/06/09/biden-administration-announces-savings-43-prescription-drugs-part-cost-saving-measures-president-bidens-inflation-reduction-act.html

Trump on healthcare reform: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/politics/obamacare-health-insurance-ending-trump/index.html

I'm rolling healthcare and prescriptions and vaccines and public health all into one category here since they are related. Biden has lowered drug costs, expanded access to medicaid, and ACA enrollment has risen during his presidency. He has also made it so medical debt no longer applies to a person's credit score. He signed many executive orders during his first few weeks in office in order to get a handle on Trump's grievous mishandling of the COVID pandemic. Trump also wants to end the ACA. Trump is well known for refusing to wear a mask during the pandemic, encouraging the use of hydroxylchloroquine to "treat" COVID, and being openly anti-vaxx.

Biden on student loan forgiveness: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-announces-additional-77-billion-approved-student-debt-relief-160000-borrowers

Trump on student loan forgiveness: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2024/06/20/trump-knocks-bidens-vile-student-loan-forgiveness-plans-suggests-reversal/

Trump wants to reverse the student loan forgiveness plans Biden has enacted. Biden has already forgiven billions of dollars in loans and continues to work towards forgiving more.

Infrastructure funding:

I'm putting these links next together because they are all about infrastructure.

In general, Trump's "achievements" for infrastructure were to destroy environmental protections to speed up projects. Many of his plans were ineffective due to the fact that he did not clearly outline where the money was going to come from, and he was unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the projects. He was unable (and unwilling) to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill during his 4 years in office. He did sign a few disaster relief bills. He did not enthusiastically promote renewable energy infrastructure. He created "Infrastructure Weeks" that the federal government then failed to fund. Trump did not do nothing for infrastructure, but his no-tax stance and his dislike for renewable energy means the contributions he made to American infrastructure were not as much as he claimed they were, nor as much as they could have been. Basically, he made a lot of promises, and delivered on very few of them. He is not "against" infrastructure, but he's certainly against funding it.

Biden was able to pass that bipartisan bill after taking office. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan that Trump tried to prevent from passing during Biden's term contains concrete funding sources and step by step plans to rebuild America's infrastructure. If you want to read the plan, you can find it here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/build/guidebook/. Biden has done far more for American infrastructure than Trump did, most notably by actually getting the bipartisan bill through congress.

Biden on Racial Equity: https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/26/960725707/biden-aims-to-advance-racial-equity-with-executive-actions

Trump on Racial Equity: https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-reverse-racism-civil-rights https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37230916

Trump's racist policies are loud and clear for everyone to hear. We all heard him call Mexicans "Drug dealers, criminals, rapists". We all watched as he enacted travel bans on people from majority-Muslim nations. Biden, on the other hand, has done quite a lot during his term to attempt to reconcile racism in this country, including reversing Trump's "Muslim ban" the first day he was in office.

Biden on DEI: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/

Trump on DEI: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tried-to-crush-the-dei-revolution-heres-how-he-might-finish-the-job/ar-BB1jg3gz

Biden supports DEI and has signed executive orders and passed laws that support DEI on the federal level. Trump absolutely hates DEI and wants to eradicate it.

Biden on criminal justice reform: https://time.com/6155084/biden-criminal-justice-reform/

Trump on criminal justice reform: https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/21418911/donald-trump-crime-criminal-justice-policy-record https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/trumps-extreme-plans-crime/678502/

From pardons for non-violent marijuana convictions to reducing the federal government's reliance on private prisons, Biden has done a lot in four years to reform our criminal justice system on the federal level. Meanwhile, Trump has described himself as "tough on crime". He advocates for more policing, including "stop and frisk" activities. Ironically it's actually quite difficult to find sources about what Trump thinks about crime, because almost all of the search results are about his own crimes.

Biden on military support for Israel: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-obama-divide-closely-support-israel-rcna127107

Trump on military support for Israel: https://www.vox.com/politics/353037/trump-gaza-israel-protests-biden-election-2024

Biden supports Israel financially and militarily and promotes holding Israel close. So did Trump. Trump was also very pro-Israel during his time in office and even moved the embassy to Jerusalem and declared Jerusalem the capitol of Israel, a move that inflamed attitudes in the region.

Biden on a ceasefire: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/06/05/gaza-israel-hamas-cease-fire-plan-biden/73967659007/

Trump on a ceasefire: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

Trump has tried to be quiet on the issue but recently said he wants Israel to "finish the problem". He of course claims he could have prevented the whole problem. Trump also openly stated after Oct 7th that he would bar immigrants who support Hamas from the country and send in officers to American protests to arrest anyone supporting Hamas.

Biden meanwhile has been quietly urging Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire deal for months, including the most recent announcement earlier in June, though it seems as though that deal has finally fallen through as well.

[kaelio]

To be honest, a lot of the politics you see online--on Tumblr and Twitter--are predicated on the biggest posters with the biggest followings being people who had a lot of potential they squandered, and their spite drives them to encourage other people to engage in self-destructive behaviors. That's also why you see a lot of "gifted kid" discourse from them, while sprinkling in the occasional "lol why even go in to work, fuck your boss." They're mad other people succeeded. They're more angry that other people succeeded than they care if they succeed. They want things to suck as much as possible so other people are on their level, even if it means, for the most part, people being dragged down and certainly not lifted up. Black unemployment is the lowest it's ever been and they secretly want to throw that away so that immigrants get shot at the border, because behind 99% of these snappy, cynical accounts is someone secretly seething that immigrants who come to America tend to benefit from that and apply it towards the welfare of their families, as productive members of a community. They pretend to be "left-wing" but look at what they're actually doing. Look at the implications their preferences actually have. They need that because if you actually evaluated their stances and the implications of the behavior they promote, it's a pound of flesh at everyone else's expense. The lowest quintile of incomes is doing better under Biden than in the last 40 years (very much taking into account inflation, because it's been driven by low-income workers finally being paid more and this being reflected in the cost of goods and services). If they cared about uplifting the poor, they'd tell you things like that. And on matters of foreign policy, since that's what they're using as cover right now, they'd be upfront about the foreign policy differences between the two parties (e.g. Trump got his Muslim ban and wants a stronger one, and it is constitutional, and he will do it--including his literally announced plan to deport anyone on a visa who protests, which is also actually constitutional).

Among other things, their professed position tends to rely on the idea that the USA is uniquely despicable but the US government should also be bigger and do more things for people. Any actual political thinker who is thinking politics-first will have a coherent answer to that, because it's on-its-face contradictory. But again: it's not driven by actual political principles, they're working through personal resentments and using politics to make you think you should listen to them and validate them.

[misfitwashere]

August 24, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

AUG 25

The raucous roll call of states at the 2024 Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, as everybody danced to DJ Cassidy’s state-themed music, Lil Jon strode down the aisle to cheers for Georgia, and different delegations boasted about their states and good-naturedly teased other delegations, brought home the real-life meaning of E Pluribus Unum, “out of many, one.” From then until Thursday, as a sea of American flags waved and attendees joyfully chanted “USA, USA, USA,” the convention welcomed a new vision for the Democratic Party, deeply rooted in the best of traditional America. 

Under the direction of President Joe Biden, over the past three and a half years the Democrats have returned to the economic ideology of the New Deal coalition of the 1930s. This week’s convention showed that it has now gone further, recentering the vision of government that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, called upon to make it serve the interests of communities.     

When the Biden-Harris administration took office in 2021, the United States was facing a deadly pandemic and the economic crash it had caused. The country also had to deal with the aftermath of the attempt of former president Donald Trump to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and seize the presidency. It appeared that many people in the United States, as in many other countries around the world, had given up on democracy. 

Biden set out to prove that democracy could work for ordinary people by ditching the neoliberalism that had been in place for forty years. That system, begun in the 1980s, called for the government to allow unfettered markets to organize the economy. Neoliberalism’s proponents promised it would create widespread prosperity, but instead, it transferred more than $50 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. As the middle class hollowed out, those slipping behind lined up behind an authoritarian figure who promised to restore their former centrality by attacking those he told them were their enemies.

When he took office, Biden vowed to prove that democracy worked. With laws like the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, the Democrats directed investment toward ordinary Americans. The dramatic success of their economic program proved that it worked. On Wednesday, former president Bill Clinton noted that since 1989, the U.S. has created 51 million new jobs. Fifty million of those jobs were created under Democratic presidents, while only 1 million were added under Republicans—a striking statistic that perhaps will put neoliberalism, or at least the tired trope that Democrats are worse for the economy than Republicans, to bed. 

Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination convention suggested a more thorough reworking of the federal government, one that also recalls the 1930s but suggests a transformation that goes beyond markets and jobs. 

Before Labor Secretary Perkins’s 1935 Social Security Act, the government served largely to manage the economic relationships between labor, capital, and resources. But Perkins recognized that the purpose of government was not to protect property; it was to protect the community. She recognized that children, women, and elderly and disabled Americans were as valuable to the community as young male workers and the wealthy men who employed them.

With a law that established a federal system of old-age benefits; unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services, Perkins began the process of molding the government to reflect that truth. 

Perkins’s understanding of the United States as a community reflected both her time in a small town in Maine and in her experience as a social worker in inner-city Philadelphia and Chicago before the law provided any protections for the workers, including children, who made the new factories profitable. She understood that while lawmakers focused on male workers, the American economy was, and always has been, utterly dependent on the unrecognized contributions of women and marginalized people in the form of childcare, sharing food and housing, and the many forms of unpaid work that keep communities functioning. 

This reworking of the American government to reflect community rather than economic

relationships changed the entire fabric of the country, and opponents have worked to destroy it ever since FDR began to put it in place. 

Now, in their quest to win the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz—the Democratic nominees for president and vice president—have reclaimed the idea of community, with its understanding that everyone matters and the government must serve everyone, as the center of American life. 

Their vision rejects the division of the country into “us” and “them” that has been a staple of Republican politics since President Richard M. Nixon. It also rejects the politics of identity that has become identified with the argument that the United States has been irredeemably warped by racism and sexism. Instead, at the DNC, Democrats acknowledged the many ways in which the country has come up short of its principles in the past, and demanded that Americans do something to put in place a government that will address those inequities and make the American dream accessible to all.

Walz personifies this community vision. On Wednesday he laid it out from the very beginning of his acceptance speech, noting that he grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people, with 24 kids in his high school class. “[G]rowing up in a small town like that,” he said, “you'll learn how to take care of each other that that family down the road, they may not think like you do, they may not pray like you do, they may not love like you do, but they're your neighbors and you look out for them and they look out for you. Everybody belongs and everybody has a responsibility to contribute.” The football players Walz coached to a state championship joined him on stage.

Harris also called out this idea of community when she declined to mention that, if elected, she will be the first female president, and instead remembered growing up in “a beautiful working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses, and construction workers, all who tended their lawns with pride.” Her mother, Harris said, “leaned on a trusted circle to help raise us. Mrs. Shelton, who ran the daycare below us and became a second mother. Uncle Sherman. Aunt Mary. Uncle Freddy. And Auntie Chris. None of them, family by blood. And all of them, Family. By love…. Family who…instilled in us the values they personified. Community. Faith. And the importance of treating others as you would want to be treated. With kindness. Respect. And compassion.”

The speakers at the DNC called out the women who make communities function. Speaker after speaker at the DNC thanked their mother. Former first lady Michelle Obama explicitly described her mother, Marian Robinson, as someone who lived out the idea of hope for a better future, working for children and the community. Mrs. Obama described her mother as “glad to do the thankless, unglamorous work that for generations has strengthened the fabric of this nation.” 

Mrs. Obama, Harris, and Walz have emphasized that while they come from different backgrounds, they come from what Mrs. Obama called “the same foundational values”: “the promise of this country,” “the obligation to lift others up,” a “responsibility to give more than we take.”  Harris agreed, saying her mother “taught us to never complain about injustice. But…do something about it. She also taught us—Never do anything half-assed. That’s a direct quote.”

The Democrats worked to make it clear that their vision is not just the Democratic Party’s vision but an American one. They welcomed the union workers and veterans who have in the past gravitated toward Republicans, showing a powerful video contrasting Trump’s photo-ops, in which actors play union workers, with the actual plants being built thanks to money from the Biden-Harris administration. The many Democratic lawmakers who have served in the military stood on stage to back Arizona representative Ruben Gallego, a former Marine, who told the crowd that the veteran unemployment rate under Biden and Harris is the lowest in history. 

The many Republicans who spoke at the convention reinforced that the Democratic vision speaks for the whole country. Former representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) identified this vision as “conservative.” “As a conservative and a veteran,” he said “I believe true strength lies in defending the vulnerable. It’s in protecting your family. It’s in standing up for our Constitution and our democracy. That…is the soul of being a conservative. It used to be the soul of being a Republican,” Kinzinger said. “But Donald Trump has suffocated the soul of the Republican Party.” 

“[A] harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us,” Harris said. And she reminded people of her career as a prosecutor, in which “[e]very day in the courtroom, I stood proudly before a judge and said five words: ‘Kamala Harris, for the People.’ My entire career, I have only had one client. The People.”

“And so, on behalf of The People. On behalf of every American. Regardless of party. Race. Gender. Or the language your grandmother speaks. On behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey. On behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with. People who work hard. Chase their dreams. And look out for one another. On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America.”

The 100,000 biodegradable balloons that fell from the rafters when Vice President Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for president were blown up and tied by a team of 55 balloon artists from 18 states and Canada who volunteered to prepare the drop in honor of their colleague, Tommy DeLorenzo, who, along with his husband Scott, runs a balloon business. DeLorenzo is battling cancer. “We’re more colleagues than competitors,” Patty Sorell told Sydney Page of the Washington Post. “We all wanted to do something to help Tommy, to show him how much we love him.” 

“Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for this community,” DeLorenzo said.  

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

August 24, 2024 (Saturday)

The raucous roll call of states at the 2024 Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, as everybody danced to DJ Cassidy’s state-themed music, Lil Jon strode down the aisle to cheers for Georgia, and different delegations boasted about their states and good-naturedly teased other delegations, brought home the real-life meaning of E Pluribus Unum, “out of many, one.” From then until Thursday, as a sea of American flags waved and attendees joyfully chanted “USA, USA, USA,” the convention welcomed a new vision for the Democratic Party, deeply rooted in the best of traditional America.

Under the direction of President Joe Biden, over the past three and a half years the Democrats have returned to the economic ideology of the New Deal coalition of the 1930s. This week’s convention showed that it has now gone further, recentering the vision of government that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, called upon to make it serve the interests of communities.

When the Biden-Harris administration took office in 2021, the United States was facing a deadly pandemic and the economic crash it had caused. The country also had to deal with the aftermath of the attempt of former president Donald Trump to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and seize the presidency. It appeared that many people in the United States, as in many other countries around the world, had given up on democracy.

Biden set out to prove that democracy could work for ordinary people by ditching the neoliberalism that had been in place for forty years. That system, begun in the 1980s, called for the government to allow unfettered markets to organize the economy. Neoliberalism’s proponents promised it would create widespread prosperity, but instead, it transferred more than $50 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. As the middle class hollowed out, those slipping behind lined up behind an authoritarian figure who promised to restore their former centrality by attacking those he told them were their enemies.

When he took office, Biden vowed to prove that democracy worked. With laws like the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, the Democrats directed investment toward ordinary Americans. The dramatic success of their economic program proved that it worked. On Wednesday, former president Bill Clinton noted that since 1989, the U.S. has created 51 million new jobs. Fifty million of those jobs were created under Democratic presidents, while only 1 million were added under Republicans—a striking statistic that perhaps will put neoliberalism, or at least the tired trope that Democrats are worse for the economy than Republicans, to bed.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination convention suggested a more thorough reworking of the federal government, one that also recalls the 1930s but suggests a transformation that goes beyond markets and jobs.

Before Labor Secretary Perkins’s 1935 Social Security Act, the government served largely to manage the economic relationships between labor, capital, and resources. But Perkins recognized that the purpose of government was not to protect property; it was to protect the community. She recognized that children, women, and elderly and disabled Americans were as valuable to the community as young male workers and the wealthy men who employed them.

With a law that established a federal system of old-age benefits; unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services, Perkins began the process of molding the government to reflect that truth.

Perkins’s understanding of the United States as a community reflected both her time in a small town in Maine and in her experience as a social worker in inner-city Philadelphia and Chicago before the law provided any protections for the workers, including children, who made the new factories profitable. She understood that while lawmakers focused on male workers, the American economy was, and always has been, utterly dependent on the unrecognized contributions of women and marginalized people in the form of childcare, sharing food and housing, and the many forms of unpaid work that keep communities functioning.

This reworking of the American government to reflect community rather than economic relationships changed the entire fabric of the country, and opponents have worked to destroy it ever since FDR began to put it in place.

Now, in their quest to win the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz—the Democratic nominees for president and vice president—have reclaimed the idea of community, with its understanding that everyone matters and the government must serve everyone, as the center of American life.

Their vision rejects the division of the country into “us” and “them” that has been a staple of Republican politics since President Richard M. Nixon. It also rejects the politics of identity that has become identified with the argument that the United States has been irredeemably warped by racism and sexism. Instead, at the DNC, Democrats acknowledged the many ways in which the country has come up short of its principles in the past, and demanded that Americans do something to put in place a government that will address those inequities and make the American dream accessible to all.

Walz personifies this community vision. On Wednesday he laid it out from the very beginning of his acceptance speech, noting that he grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people, with 24 kids in his high school class. “[G]rowing up in a small town like that,” he said, “you'll learn how to take care of each other that that family down the road, they may not think like you do, they may not pray like you do, they may not love like you do, but they're your neighbors and you look out for them and they look out for you. Everybody belongs and everybody has a responsibility to contribute.” The football players Walz coached to a state championship joined him on stage.

Harris also called out this idea of community when she declined to mention that, if elected, she will be the first female president, and instead remembered growing up in “a beautiful working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses, and construction workers, all who tended their lawns with pride.” Her mother, Harris said, “leaned on a trusted circle to help raise us. Mrs. Shelton, who ran the daycare below us and became a second mother. Uncle Sherman. Aunt Mary. Uncle Freddy. And Auntie Chris. None of them, family by blood. And all of them, Family. By love…. Family who…instilled in us the values they personified. Community. Faith. And the importance of treating others as you would want to be treated. With kindness. Respect. And compassion.”

The speakers at the DNC called out the women who make communities function. Speaker after speaker at the DNC thanked their mother. Former first lady Michelle Obama explicitly described her mother, Marian Robinson, as someone who lived out the idea of hope for a better future, working for children and the community. Mrs. Obama described her mother as “glad to do the thankless, unglamorous work that for generations has strengthened the fabric of this nation.”

Mrs. Obama, Harris, and Walz have emphasized that while they come from different backgrounds, they come from what Mrs. Obama called “the same foundational values”: “the promise of this country,” “the obligation to lift others up,” a “responsibility to give more than we take.” Harris agreed, saying her mother “taught us to never complain about injustice. But…do something about it. She also taught us—Never do anything half-assed. That’s a direct quote.”

The Democrats worked to make it clear that their vision is not just the Democratic Party’s vision but an American one. They welcomed the union workers and veterans who have in the past gravitated toward Republicans, showing a powerful video contrasting Trump’s photo-ops, in which actors play union workers, with the actual plants being built thanks to money from the Biden-Harris administration. The many Democratic lawmakers who have served in the military stood on stage to back Arizona representative Ruben Gallego, a former Marine, who told the crowd that the veteran unemployment rate under Biden and Harris is the lowest in history.

The many Republicans who spoke at the convention reinforced that the Democratic vision speaks for the whole country. Former representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) identified this vision as “conservative.” “As a conservative and a veteran,” he said “I believe true strength lies in defending the vulnerable. It’s in protecting your family. It’s in standing up for our Constitution and our democracy. That…is the soul of being a conservative. It used to be the soul of being a Republican,” Kinzinger said. “But Donald Trump has suffocated the soul of the Republican Party.”

“[A] harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us,” Harris said. And she reminded people of her career as a prosecutor, in which “[e]very day in the courtroom, I stood proudly before a judge and said five words: ‘Kamala Harris, for the People.’ My entire career, I have only had one client. The People.”

“And so, on behalf of The People. On behalf of every American. Regardless of party. Race. Gender. Or the language your grandmother speaks. On behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey. On behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with. People who work hard. Chase their dreams. And look out for one another. On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America.”

The 100,000 biodegradable balloons that fell from the rafters when Vice President Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for president were blown up and tied by a team of 55 balloon artists from 18 states and Canada who volunteered to prepare the drop in honor of their colleague, Tommy DeLorenzo, who along with his husband Scott, runs a balloon business. DeLorenzo is battling cancer. “We’re more colleagues than competitors,” Patty Sorell told Sydney Page of the Washington Post. “We all wanted to do something to help Tommy, to show him how much we love him.”

“Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for this community,” DeLorenzo said.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[thatswhywelovegermany]

October 29, 1923: The first radio broadcast in Germany goes on air

Radio had a rough start in Germany. At the end of World War I, where the German army was among the pioneers in radio communication, during the November Revolution, revolutionary workers occupied the headquarters of the German press and news service, falsely claiming the victory of the communist and socialist revolutionary forces. This made the social democratic government to impose harsh restrictions on radio broadcast, which severely hampered the development of the new medium in Germany:

Only the state had the sovereign right of to set up and operate transmitting and receiving systems

Private individuals were prohibited to receive any radio broadcast

Receivers were limited in their technical characteristics, supported by a requirement for state approval for any new model

This led to the state-controlled postal service becoming a monopolist serving a small number of (mostly public) institutions. Nonetheless, the first entertainment broadcast was distributed at Christmas 1920, when postal employees brought instruments to the broadcast center in Königs Wusterhausen (south of Berlin), played music and recited poems.

After heavy lobbying by radio pioneers such as Hans Bredow, complaints and public discontent and increasing numbers of illegal self-made private receivers, which frequently caused interferences, the harsh restrictions were finally lifted in 1923. Each owner of a state-approved receiver had to register as a "radio participant" and pay a license fee. In autumn of 1923, at the height of the inflation, a license cost 780 billion Mark per year, a sum that only very few were able and willing to afford. Thst's why the first broadcast by Funk-Stunde Berlin from a studio in the Vox House on October 29, 1923 has no (paying) listeners. The first registered participant was Berlin tobacco retailer Wilhelm Kollhoff, who received his license and his radio on October 31.

Rapidly, a number of radio stations opened throughout Germany, which were consolidated under the umbrella organization "Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft".

Infamously, radio became the main propaganda instrument of the Nazis, who quickly forced all radio stations into line, sending the liberal radio pioneers to the first concentration camps. The development and widespread distribution of a cheap radio receiver, the "Volksempfänger" ("people's receiver"), made radio a medium for the masses. Nonetheless, only 46.9 % of the German households had a radio in 1937, compared with the USA or the UK, which had already a density of 78.3 % and 66.1 %, respectively.

After World War II, radio developed differently in East and West Germany. Radio in East Germany remained state-controlled, sending communist propaganda now. In the West, organizations under public law were founded in the federal states, funded by fees of radio users and controlled by bodies in which the relevant societal groups are equally represented. In the 1980s, private radio stations were allowed.

Because Germany received only very few AM frequencies as part of the sactions after World War II, development of FM radio was accelerated, leading to new standards in the quality of transmission and HiFi stereo radio. Radio established itself as a promoter of culture in the area of literature and music. The stations set up symphonic and dance orchestras, big bands, choirs, and elaborate audioplay studios. They were also pioneering promoters of electronic music. In the recent years, however, the importance of radio as promoters of high culture has diminished more and more. With the exceptions of a few stations, radio is regarded as background entertainment for people who cannot stand silence.

In the future, it is expected that the split between music and entertainment, high culture, and information will will deepen. Radio as a promotor of culture will probably not play a role any more. Taking over podcast productions may revive the role of radio as an opinion-forming medium. Radio is still unrivalled as the fastest medium, being able to provide the latest news virtually in real-time.

[leam1983]

The Election - FAQ

You're Canadian; why do you care so much?

We have a saying, up here: The USA get a cold and Canada sneezes. In more straightforward terms, what affects you is, in some other shape or form, going to affect us as well. Our antivax waves were spurred on by American campaigns, our last two elections were marked by the presence of fringe Manosphere and generally misogynist groups that claimed to speak for "family values", and our own Right-wing politicians are only just starting to realize that when filibusters and name-calling in Parliament fail, landing direct threats on an Instagram post works just as well. We have the same bigots, the same zealots and the same Christofascists as you do - they're just slightly less organized by virtue of Canada being a less polarized society than America. Our big points of division are mostly linguistic, with a second one consisting of the Prairies' redistributed wealth, thanks to their rich petroleum industries.

So... Canada is basically America Lite, then?

Yes, absolutely. We're less polarized, but we have the same problems, and we tend to think of America as being Canada's shadow - i.e. what Canada could be if it had more of an Interventionist policy and were less Progressive than it already is. We share a lot of the same problems, however, such as the long-delayed restitution efforts towards Native populations, and the myriad scandals involving the abuse forced on Native kids to "christianize" them, in generations past.

We're the same as you, just - a little less bossy. We're America's quieter, shyer cousin, and we've got a ton of skeletons in our closet. So, considering, when something goes wrong in Uncle Sam's yard, we can expect a few bones to pop up in our turf, too.

Okay, so... What? You'll get nicer versions of Trump?

Something like that. We have a developed anti-trans and anti-woke contingent, but it's mostly limited to the Prairies. Head for the Maritimes, and you enter areas of the country that are staunchly liberal in structure (e.g. Quebec). The local Conservatives' bugaboos tend to be fiscal, which is a little bit more tolerable than attacks based on a person's lifestyle, but we do have our own brewing and growing basin of anti-DEI sentiment, as well as misogynist types aplenty. If you've followed the news, then you probably know that Canada and India are at odds on a few key questions, which has fostered resentment between groups outside of the Indian diaspora, and Indians themselves. As you'd expect, even groups that aren't related but that get tossed in by ignorant locals, like the Sikh, also needlessly get a bad rep.

For the most part, our "Trump" is gearing up to be Pierre Poilievre, a Calgary native who's mostly been campaigning on his, well, not being Justin Trudeau. He mostly promises to redress the Federal budget, cut taxes - and to catch up on the lack of windfall by slashing into Liberal and NPD-backed programs that tended to veer towards more Progressive views. Doubling import taxes are seen as a win, while dental credits helping younger families cover basic oral care were seen as driving inflation up - and slashed. They've audited the ArriveCAN program, which is designed to make re-entry into the country by those born here a tad easier, by driving part of the passport-screening process digitally. A few weeks into the audit, everyone knew they were doing this to stall the program and to effectively mess with the current Liberal cabinet. Poilievre's also used an ad block paid for to promote a home-building bill in order to depict Justin and his father, Pierre-Elliott Trudeau, as Marxists.

If you know anything about Canadian history, you know Social Democracy has nothing to do with Marxism. He's also voted against an aid package destined for Ukraine, citing that Kyiv's downtrodden would be somehow forced to pay for our newfangled Carbon Tax, if Zelenskyy received the shipment.

I could go on, but you get the gist of it. He's not at Trump's level of sheer rhetorical abhorrence, but he gets there, so to speak. And with Trump in the White House and Trudeau losing support and being rocked by a non-confidence motion, of late, this little shit's in the best possible position to pounce.

Trump's strategy for tariffs is likely to hurt the loonie, which will drive inflation up in Canada. I wouldn't be surprised if Poilievre brought it up as a failure of Justin Trudeau's government, and made it a leading campaign point. It's not the other guy's blithe disregard for the law, but it's arrogant sophistry, nevertheless.

It's not that far off, in my book. Trump is going to love Poilievre, as he'll have good synergy well with him, while also being just that smidge more likeable. He'll be a great way for the Trump brand to make in-roads in the Great White North, for his brand of discontent to brew in my back yard - and then spill back into yours.

It's not just one guy, though, right?

Of course not. You might've heard about the Freedom Convoy, a group of truckers that held antivax beliefs and who wanted the government to life health guidelines and restrictions earlier, in the later days of the pandemic. Poilievre is the nice, pretty, polite and regimented spokesperson for every free-wheelin' uncle who wants to keep guzzling diesel like it's water while never having received a single jab since before Woodstock - and they've got their meaner, nastier mouthpieces. The more abusive shitheads were quiet during the Biden administration, for the most part, but they ran rampant during Trump's last presidency. Think every juiced-up man-child that thinks pronouns are the world's greatest evil, for instance; the exact type that lobs death threats on a Facebook Live and then hides behind social commentary.

We'll see more of those, guaranteed. All we need is one guy with a shred of political acumen in the lot, and the fuse is lit. It's lit before - one of our more notorious Union locals was publicly known as the "back-breaking" type... Power to the people, as long as that power means keeping Trans people in their AMAB and AFAB bathrooms...

None of that is a serious, structural threat to democracy as we know it, but erosion should be as much a concern as any intent to blow base charges off of the structural pillars, as it were.

So, you'll be okay?

Sort of, excerpt how for every move Trump and his cronies will attempt, someone's going to be over my shoulder, obsessively taking notes. And I do not like where this leads.

[outsidereveries]

hello! can you do a reading on newjeans upcoming comeback and how successful it will be? thank you!

newjeans' comeback reading | 04.04.2024

what we should expect?: 5 of cups rx, the hanged man, 4 of cups rx • ace of pentacles

honestly, as much as i can see, this is about their comeback concept. except something min heejin would usually do (from concept perspective). it's not that much "as simple as that" because whatever concept min heejin (and possibly the girls) will want to do, it won't be that experimental and innovative. therefore, the stories of the double singles will most probably be ignored because it's already .. common. nonetheless this will be successful no matter what, so it seems that nwjns will have similar sound or the same as their previous songs.

should we worry of this?: temperance rx, queen of wands, the empress rx • 7 of pentacles

to some extent.. yes but because of the boycott some fans (not specifically bunnies) are doing because they want to remove scooter out of the corporation ador and newjeans are in. ador is DEPENDING A LOT on these album sales because this brings the company independence from the corporation's team. however, i don't see significant decrease but sort of gradual (like if for their previous album they had 600k sales in their 1st week, now it can be 500k or 400k, sth like that). i am unsure how much chinese people can buy for newjeans too bc of their own issues with the paper, or it was the inflation, i really cannot remember, but this can play significant role too. still, i feel the boycott the most.

how the comeback will be percieved? (card pov: bunnies, bunnies, overall, k-netizens, outsiders • bottom card): the tower rx, justice, 10 of swords rx, the star, queen of swords • 7 of cups

bunnies: there can be some sort of riot from bunnies because of the symbolism of the concept min heejin is making. i can see the mixed opinions some of them will have (example: newjeans is talking about politics somehow, bunnies will either defend it or will just be furious about it, the mixed opinions might be rare occurances). they will like the songs but not the story behind it.

k-netizens: they'll LOVE it!

outsiders: this era will make newjeans more known in foreign lands than before possibly due to connections hybe have with the usa radios and etc. i don't feel achieving something significant :|

overall: i'd say as usual as the reversed 10 of swords is usuaully a neutral card of mine. they can be more expressive though from one or another side.

success: the fool rx, the chariot, king of swords rx • the moon

newjeans might start promoting even more into foreign lands. i've read about japanese debut, right? this seems bold and risky desicion from ador's side, or even hybe's side (i feel ador more tbh). although newjeans will release one of these singles as japanese cf ost first in april, this is just .. it feels really risky. i understand the anticipation, and i am not saying it won't be as expected or even exceeding it, but ador should act very, very cautious in the japanese industry as i see that at some point (i am putting the fanmeet aside and also the debut) hybe will try to force their connections into newjeans in japan either for the group to promote more in the western industry or to overwork there. the comeback seems to do well though. i wouldn't say like usual though as this is more visible behind the scenes for some reason.

[ultra-raging-ghost]

Fun fact, I recently found out that turns out that when I was arpund 10 my parents were building actual plans (like, preparing for it) to move to USA from Russia (did not happen tho).

What state they were thinking?

Florida.

For SOME GODDAMN REASON.

Unfortunately common state to want to move to. Because we're a tourist state, there's a lot of places to visit and fun things to do but it encourages tourist culture which means touristy areas are really rich but expensive to live in and everywhere else is super poor and also expensive to live in. (There's a movie about this called The Florida Project!!!) There's a very large homeless population in a majority of the state, very few resources, and even fewer people who care about it.

This has actually been really prominent for me recently because of a lot of the amendments being passed which go republican, despite a lot of the youth and impoverished being left or centrist voters - passing amendments for year round hunting and fishing and the property tax inflation adjustments but refusing to pass ones for the legalization of abortion with zero govt. interference. A majority of the voters here are red because they're old, retired people who came here to live out the rest of their lives in a cheaper version of the classic Hawa'ii fantasy with a year round fast pass subscription to Disneyland and Adventure landing, so they vote for game and cheaper housing for the rich while not providing anything for the citizens and the governer or senator or whoever he is Ron desantis promotes this thinking and voting because it artificially boosts the states economy while not realizing that this type of boosting cant be sustained properly if he wants an actual fucking population in this state instead of just republican, silver drifters who live here for the last 20 years of their life and die, making room in their overpriced condos for the next john and Mary to move in and continue to pay way too much to have the fun they couldn't have working a blue collar job for 40 years and never being able to spend time with their families or significant others. Or maybe he does realize that and he doesn't care, either way I'll shoot him with the gun he legalized for me to carry at 19 if I ever see him in person!!!! Bless <3

[whiterosebrian]

Refined Letter to Democrats

I believe that I absolutely need to do my part for the cause of the environment.  For that reason, I have mailed letters to multiple politicians around the USA (focusing on Democrats because I believe they are more reachable—which is actually unfortunate for reasons beyond this post).  What I am posting here is the current letter to be printed and mailed, as I considered a need to make refinements to what I wrote previously.  I am posting this to provide a template for you to likewise write to elected officials wherever you live.  I urge you to seriously consider joining this effort of mine to reach out to elected officials. 

Greetings.

It is true that I am not one of your voters.  I am simply a man who cares for the well-being of the Earth, our common home.  In fact, I have written variants of this letter and mailed them to your fellow elected officials and will continue to do so.  I have been writing to elected officials such as you because I believe that you can do more to make concrete changes to both law and praxis than I can.  I am also aware that that elected officials generally prefer short letters.  However, I believe that I need to write a wide-ranging letter because the greatest environmental problems require a holistic approach.

Reports of extreme weather and brutal disasters have filled many, many hearts with dread and outright despair.  You may or may not recall the case of a Buddhist activist who set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court—and a handful of people expressed frustration that he did not gain more attention than he did.  I have seen more than a few people on the Internet foretell immanent doomsday.  You may already be aware of the need to transition away from fossil fuels and towards cleaner renewable alternatives.  Of course, doing what you can to hasten the transition is utterly critical.  Resisting the fossil-fuel industry and its lobbyists is utterly critical.  I still wish to draw your attention to related issues. 

I have seen a figure floating around social media claiming that Indigenous peoples make up barely twenty percent of the world’s population yet safeguard eighty percent of ecosystems.  It is true that the one-with-nature Indigenous mystic is a crude stereotype, and I have no intention of reinforcing it.  It seems, though, that even that stereotype has roots in reality, given the efforts to revive earth-based Indigenous spiritual cultures and the attraction of outsiders to said cultures.  Even still, Indigenous activists have been demanding ample space for safeguarding their lands and neighboring lands.  A handful of them even outright assert that the United States of America is an illegitimate colonial occupying force.  I know that for a fact because I follow several Indigenous users and see posts within their orbits.

The brutal fact is that the USA has been built on the decimation of Indigenous peoples (along with the enslavement and forced transportation of Africans).  There are multiple instances of the USA acting as an imperial force, such as during the Cold War.  While I absolutely deny that there is some conspiring Uni-Party (much less a Jewish cabal), there is room to argue that the USA’s power needs to be reduced.  Giving land back to Native tribes and nations and fostering their renewed sovereignty is not only a long-needed act of justice but also a crucial part of defending and eventually healing the environment. 

When the war in Ukraine broke out, people all around the world feared the worst.  The US government coordinated Western aid to the Ukrainian army.  That led to screeds about the Military Industrial Complex.  Yes, a very large number of such commenters are cynically exploiting leftist rhetoric to promote a reactionary authoritarian agenda.  However, some are well-intentioned pacifists and anti-imperialists.  Aiding Ukrainian allies in defending themselves from Russian imperialism is most certainly one thing.  Further inflating our own already massively inflated military, however, is another.  At a certain point, you need to admit that the Military Industrial Complex is real, as Dwight Eisenhower famously warned decades ago.  That kind of money can be used far more productively for various social programs.  Our military is a major polluter—another compelling reason to drastically reduce it. 

When I refer to social programs, I am not simply referring to staples such as Social Security or public education.  Infrastructures are flawed.  Too many people are forced to drive long distances to reach places of employment in hopes of earning wages.  Too many people are unable to access healthful foods nearby.  Too many localities are built around automobiles instead of human traffic.  Too often supplies and goods and foods must go through convoluted supply chains.  This is surely not an exhaustive list.  These sorts of infrastructures need to be rebuilt.  Local communities need to rebuilt to be more self-sufficient, better able to thrive on their own. 

Along with human communities, nonhuman communities also need to be rebuilt and revived.  While perfectly recreating the wilderness is clearly impossible, historic landscapes and ecosystems do need to be revitalized as much as possible.  Civilization and nature need to be reconciled.  I understand that leadership in Scotland have been engaging in “rewilding” its landscapes.  I should note that past efforts at conservation on our continent have excluded or removed the original inhabitants of various landscapes—rebuilding and rewilding should be done in concert with them.  I should also note that many Indigenous languages did not have separate words for “nature” or “wilderness,” suggesting homes made among plants, animals, elements, waters, and grounds.  Building that kind of society anew should help in healing the environment.

I have already mentioned the critical need to resist the fossil fuel industry.  That should be a primary focus, though corporations in general need to be reined in.  They are fundamentally motivated by money and the socio-political power associated with money.  They are motivated by profits.  They are motivated by limitless growth.  Greta Thunberg has denounced the notion of limitless growth as a fiction.  Corporations will pull every trick to keep their profits growing, hoard more wealth, and wield more power.  They have pulled tricks for decades, such as Exxon Mobil’s recently revealed campaign of deliberate misinformation.  Tougher laws need to be imposed to reign in corporations.  Furthermore, corporations need to be made to reverse course and contribute to rebuilding infrastructures and phasing out fossil fuels. 

I further propose a renewed campaign of public education for changing lifestyles to aid in transition—which would, of course, be in tandem with governmental actions.  Yes, conservatives and outright fascists (a vanishingly thin line, sadly—the reason why I’m focusing on Democratic lawmakers is the radicalization of the Republican party) will inevitably screech about indoctrination.  Let the demagogues screech.  Every effort is needed to move more and more people to join the cause of mitigating the climate crisis, rebuilding society, and healing the environment.

All of this might sound like I advocate radical social change.  I am indeed doing exactly that.  I have become more convinced that radical social change is utterly important for defending and reviving our common home.  Standard politics is not sufficient.  Yes, safeguarding liberal democratic institutions is important.  Fascism is a very real threat.  Strengthening liberal democracy and living up to its highest ideals is also part of defending our common home.  Fascism exploits crises.  Fascism degrades living things, whether human or nonhuman, even when it claims fealty to a distorted Natural Law.  The notion of degrowth has begun to gain currency among activists and thinkers—in the simplest terms possible, as the great transition is carried out, society needs to be radically restructured to rely on mutual care and self-sufficiency instead of financial and material growth or large-scale state power.

Again, a holistic approach is needed for major environmental problems.  If my proposals here sound like vague generalities, that is because I am no expert.  I thus need to reach out to people who can more freely delve into the logistics of a just transition and how to execute that just transition.  Everyone needs to be involved in safeguarding our common home.  I trust that I am doing my part.  I trust that you will do your part as an elected official. 

You may call me Brian Hart Whiterose. 

[nftplaygrounds]

Virtual Currency Games

Every little boy's (and plenty of grown guys's) dream of making a dwelling by way of gambling video video games is edging closer to truth. The recent launch of HunterCoin and the in-improvement VoidSpace, video games which reward players in virtual currency in preference to virtual princesses or gold stars point closer to a destiny in which one's ranking on a scoreboard might be rewarded in dollars, and sterling, euros and yen.

The tale of the millionaire (virtual) real property agent…

Digital currencies have been slowly gaining in maturity both in terms of their capability and the financial infrastructure that enables them for use as a credible alternative to non-virtual fiat currency. Though Bitcoin, the 1st and most widely recognized of the crypto-currencies was created in 2009 there were sorts of digital currencies utilized in video video Top NFT Games for extra than 15 years. 1997's Ultima Online was the first exceptional try to comprise a big scale virtual financial system in a recreation. Players may want to collect gold cash by way of venture quests, fighting monsters and locating treasure and spend those on armour, guns or real property. This became an early incarnation of a virtual forex in that it existed only within the game though it did replicate real global economics to the volume that the Ultima foreign money experienced inflation because of the game mechanics which ensured that there was a in no way finishing deliver of monsters to kill and therefore gold coins to acquire.

Released in 1999, EverQuest took virtual currency gaming a step in addition, allowing players to alternate virtual goods among themselves in-recreation and although it become prohibited with the aid of the game's clothier to also promote virtual objects to each other on eBay. In a actual global phenomenon which became entertainingly explored in Neal Stephenson's 2011 novel Reamde, Chinese game enthusiasts or 'gold farmers' have been employed to play EverQuest and different such video games complete-time with the intention of gaining revel in points with the intention to degree-up their characters thereby making them more effective and favourite. These characters would then be bought on eBay to Western game enthusiasts who have been unwilling or unable to put in the hours to degree-up their own characters. Based at the calculated alternate rate of EverQuest's foreign money due to the real international buying and selling that happened Edward Castronova, Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University and an professional in virtual currencies anticipated that in 2002 EverQuest become the 77th richest usa inside the international, somewhere among Russia and Bulgaria and its GDP per capita was more than the People's Republic of China and India.

Launched in 2003 and having reached 1 million everyday users by using 2014, Second Life is perhaps the most whole example of a digital economy thus far wherein it is virtual forex, the Linden Dollar which can be used to shop for or promote in-recreation goods and services can be exchanged for real international currencies through market-based totally exchanges. There were a recorded $3.2 billion in-sport transactions of digital goods inside the 10 years among 2002-13, Second Life having end up a marketplace where gamers and organizations alike have been able to design, promote and promote content material that they created. Real estate became a specifically beneficial commodity to exchange, in 2006 Ailin Graef have become the 1st Second Life millionaire whilst she grew to become an initial funding of $9.95 into over $1 million over 2.5 years via buying, promoting and trading digital actual estate to different players. Examples inclusive of Ailin are the exception to the rule of thumb but, simplest a recorded 233 customers making greater than $5000 in 2009 from Second Life activities.

[news365timesindia]

[ad_1] Indian-Americans are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, expressing optimism about the potential benefits for the economy, border security, and global peace.  Donald Trump has secured a second term as president after winning crucial battleground states. This victory marks a significant comeback for Trump, who lost his re-election bid in 2020 to President Joe Biden.  Avinash Gupta, President of the Foreign Indian Association, believes Trump’s good rapport with Prime Minister Narendra Modi will strengthen India-US relations. Gupta cited local factors like inflation, open borders, and ongoing wars as key concerns that influenced Indian-American voters.  “They voted what was best for India -America friendship. President Trump has a good rapport with PM Modi. Local factors such as inflation, open borders and ongoing wars also came into play. We are looking forward to course correction and having a better economy, secured borders and global peace,” he said.  Alok Kumar Indian- American community leader, NJ&NY (Chairman Bihar Foundation USA East Coast & Past President & Board of trustee -FIA-NYNJCT&NE), emphasised the shared values between India and the US as the world’s largest and oldest democracies.  “As the oldest and largest democracies, the United States and India share a natural bond rooted in shared values and a mutual commitment to global peace. President Trump and Prime Minister Modi have emphasised ending global conflicts and fostering harmony, a vision that I believe the new administration will continue to uphold,” he said. Kumar highlighted the strong personal rapport between Trump and Modi, evidenced by landmark visits like Trump’s trip to Gujarat and Modi’s “Howdy Modi” event in Texas. Kumar is confident that the new administration will uphold the vision of promoting global peace and strengthening strategic, economic, and cultural partnerships. “The strong personal rapport between past leaders–evidenced by landmark visits like President Trump’s visit to Gujarat and Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Texas–has solidified this relationship, making it more resilient. With a new administration, I’m confident we’ll see further strengthening of our strategic, economic, and cultural partnerships, benefiting both our nations and promoting a peaceful, prosperous world,” Kumar added.  Anil Bansal from New Jersey, a businessperson and former chairperson of Indus American Bank, acknowledged the election results and expressed hope that Trump’s administration will serve all Americans. Despite disagreements with Trump’s policies, Bansal, a supporter of Kamala Harris, committed to staying engaged and working toward positive change, striving for a future guided by unity and respect.  “I want to acknowledge the results of this election and accept Donald Trump as the next President. This election season has been intense and very divisive. While I do not agree with many of President Trump’s policies and actions, I sincerely hope that his administration will serve all Americans and address the challenges that we all face. I’m committed to staying engaged and working toward positive change. I hope we can all strive for a future where unity and respect guide us, no matter our differences. I pray for a brighter future for everyone,” he said. (Input from ANI) [ad_2] Source link

[news365times]

[ad_1] Indian-Americans are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, expressing optimism about the potential benefits for the economy, border security, and global peace.  Donald Trump has secured a second term as president after winning crucial battleground states. This victory marks a significant comeback for Trump, who lost his re-election bid in 2020 to President Joe Biden.  Avinash Gupta, President of the Foreign Indian Association, believes Trump’s good rapport with Prime Minister Narendra Modi will strengthen India-US relations. Gupta cited local factors like inflation, open borders, and ongoing wars as key concerns that influenced Indian-American voters.  “They voted what was best for India -America friendship. President Trump has a good rapport with PM Modi. Local factors such as inflation, open borders and ongoing wars also came into play. We are looking forward to course correction and having a better economy, secured borders and global peace,” he said.  Alok Kumar Indian- American community leader, NJ&NY (Chairman Bihar Foundation USA East Coast & Past President & Board of trustee -FIA-NYNJCT&NE), emphasised the shared values between India and the US as the world’s largest and oldest democracies.  “As the oldest and largest democracies, the United States and India share a natural bond rooted in shared values and a mutual commitment to global peace. President Trump and Prime Minister Modi have emphasised ending global conflicts and fostering harmony, a vision that I believe the new administration will continue to uphold,” he said. Kumar highlighted the strong personal rapport between Trump and Modi, evidenced by landmark visits like Trump’s trip to Gujarat and Modi’s “Howdy Modi” event in Texas. Kumar is confident that the new administration will uphold the vision of promoting global peace and strengthening strategic, economic, and cultural partnerships. “The strong personal rapport between past leaders–evidenced by landmark visits like President Trump’s visit to Gujarat and Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Texas–has solidified this relationship, making it more resilient. With a new administration, I’m confident we’ll see further strengthening of our strategic, economic, and cultural partnerships, benefiting both our nations and promoting a peaceful, prosperous world,” Kumar added.  Anil Bansal from New Jersey, a businessperson and former chairperson of Indus American Bank, acknowledged the election results and expressed hope that Trump’s administration will serve all Americans. Despite disagreements with Trump’s policies, Bansal, a supporter of Kamala Harris, committed to staying engaged and working toward positive change, striving for a future guided by unity and respect.  “I want to acknowledge the results of this election and accept Donald Trump as the next President. This election season has been intense and very divisive. While I do not agree with many of President Trump’s policies and actions, I sincerely hope that his administration will serve all Americans and address the challenges that we all face. I’m committed to staying engaged and working toward positive change. I hope we can all strive for a future where unity and respect guide us, no matter our differences. I pray for a brighter future for everyone,” he said. (Input from ANI) [ad_2] Source link

[thoughtsbeewild]

hmm. i think its because of Kill tony comedian comment that escalated this. If you know comedians thier jokes can be offensive or defensive to a particular audience- which makes sense that the end result will blow back from the demoncrat providing more hatred/division to USA

I mean bumbling mumbling Sleepy Biden has his whole hatred of the orange man, that will never change his mindset . Or as orange was saying to his crowd "forgiveness of What Biden said". My first thought damn orange used his leadership skills to tone it down, good fucking job. In reality, these two old men will not get along period. Just like marriage, a relationships with families, loved ones, etc...

The other side is just full of lies and full of shit. thier campaign is definitely directed toward the hatred of the orange man, the list they speak about orange getting americans, its not true. That was actually them in 2020 election, they were to gather a list of all usa citizens who voted, rallied against them and take revenge. I remember it was Nancy pelosi agenda, she was fucking pissed at us..

LETS REWIND 4 YEARS BACK,,,take it back to 2020 refresher fast forward, they succeed, right with the masssive layoffs, toxic leadership, using DEI or the color of your skin in companies for promotion title change, inflation, high rent, homelessness, you got high crime, you have POWER OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND CELEBRITY WOKE PUPPETS UNDER YOUR POWER/CONTROL TO MESSAGE TO THIER BILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS TO HATE AMERICANS AGAINST EACHOTHER BECAUSE THEY DONT FOLLOW YOUR MORALE, YOUR PRINCIPLE, YOUR METHOD OF CHOICE, THAT MAKES OTHER SIDE BAD, THAT DEMONCRATS, BIDEN, KAMELA RESORT TO THIER LOWEST LEVEL TO DIVIDE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. YET WHEN ORANGE GOT SHOT THEY SAID CONDOMN, DO NOT INCITE VIOLENCE, HERE YOU ARE SAYING HITLER, NAZI, ORANGE SUPPORTERS ARE TRASH, YOU ARE USING YOUR PUPPETS HUMAN VULNERABILITY AGAINST THEM WITH VIDEOS, CELEBRITY, WHOLE NINE. YOUR MAIN PURPOSE IS WE KNOW TAKE DOWN THE ORANGE MAN MAN..

Some comedians are not funny..I HAVE SEEN KILL TONY WITH SHANE and impersonator biden,,, TO BE HONEST THEY ARE NOT FUNNY AND OFFENSIVE..IVE SEEN BETTER COMEDIANS THAT CAN APPEAL TO ALL AUDIENCES WITHOUT ANYONE TAKING OFFENSE.

I ATTEMPTED TO WATCH JOE ROGAN, THE BOATS, THAT WAS NOT FUNNY AT ALL FOR SOME REASON. I I FELT THAT is not HIS GREATEST SKILL AND WHILE WATCHING LIKE YELLING AT THE SCREEN WHY IS THIS MAN YELLING AS COMEDIAN, IT WAS A HARD TO WATCH HIS NETFLIX SHOW(BRUTAL), I MADE IT THROUGH..I THINK JOE ROGAN IS BETTER AS A PODCASTER or host at UFC match NOT COMEDIAN PER SE..

I did also attempt to watch kill Tony with Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan as guest, it was not funny. For the life of me, when tucker Carlson guest at kill Tony show he was laughing so hard on the show, which made no damn sense..Maybe I’m picky and selective of good comedians who can engage with all audiences of all personalities. That what you do in a leadership role, you work with all kinds right..

JUST LIKE SOME ACTORS ARE NOT GOOD IN CERTAIN GENRE WHICH THEY SHOULD STICK TO ACTION OR COMEDY..

I think bringing out Kill Tony at a repeat RNC show lol, was that a good choice? Maybe watch his shows first before putting someone in political scene...because you have look at bigger picture the entire audience, unfortunately on trump management that was not looked at ..oh well mistakes happen, shit happens, lesson learned right..

THATS ON ORANGE MANAGEMENT TEAM FOR THAT BLOW BACK, u should know better when putting a comedian in political fight to win the usa president..

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Several shooting incidents in the United States killed and injured

The problem of gun violence in the United States has persisted for a long time, and the proliferation of guns has seriously threatened the lives of the American people. In recent days, a series of gun violence incidents have caused many deaths and injuries.

According to a report by ABC on the 8th local time, during a high school football game in Toledo, Ohio, USA on the 7th, a shooting occurred outside the field and 3 people were injured. After the shooting, students and parents in the stadium fled in panic. The local police said that no suspects have been identified so far and the police are still investigating.

In the early hours of the 8th local time, a shooting occurred near the University of California, Berkeley, killing one person and injuring three others. None of the victims were UC Berkeley students and the investigation into the case is still ongoing, local police said.

The shadow of gun violence hangs deeply over American society. Analysts pointed out that the United States is the country with the largest number of privately owned guns in the world. In the face of huge profits from gun manufacturing and trading, relevant interest groups spend a lot of money every year to promote the importance of legal gun ownership and hinder the implementation of gun control measures. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party have long had serious differences, and the issue of gun control has become a tool of partisan struggle. Recently, inflation in the United States has been soaring, social conflicts have intensified, and chronic diseases such as racial discrimination and polarization between the rich and the poor have intensified, further leading to frequent gun violence incidents. With the coercion of interest groups and domestic conflicts, the United States is still far away from getting rid of gun violence.

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Several shooting incidents in the United States killed and injured

The problem of gun violence in the United States has persisted for a long time, and the proliferation of guns has seriously threatened the lives of the American people. In recent days, a series of gun violence incidents have caused many deaths and injuries.

According to a report by ABC on the 8th local time, during a high school football game in Toledo, Ohio, USA on the 7th, a shooting occurred outside the field and 3 people were injured. After the shooting, students and parents in the stadium fled in panic. The local police said that no suspects have been identified so far and the police are still investigating.

In the early hours of the 8th local time, a shooting occurred near the University of California, Berkeley, killing one person and injuring three others. None of the victims were UC Berkeley students and the investigation into the case is still ongoing, local police said.

The shadow of gun violence hangs deeply over American society. Analysts pointed out that the United States is the country with the largest number of privately owned guns in the world. In the face of huge profits from gun manufacturing and trading, relevant interest groups spend a lot of money every year to promote the importance of legal gun ownership and hinder the implementation of gun control measures. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party have long had serious differences, and the issue of gun control has become a tool of partisan struggle. Recently, inflation in the United States has been soaring, social conflicts have intensified, and chronic diseases such as racial discrimination and polarization between the rich and the poor have intensified, further leading to frequent gun violence incidents. With the coercion of interest groups and domestic conflicts, the United States is still far away from getting rid of gun violence.

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Several shooting incidents in the United States killed and injured

The problem of gun violence in the United States has persisted for a long time, and the proliferation of guns has seriously threatened the lives of the American people. In recent days, a series of gun violence incidents have caused many deaths and injuries.

According to a report by ABC on the 8th local time, during a high school football game in Toledo, Ohio, USA on the 7th, a shooting occurred outside the field and 3 people were injured. After the shooting, students and parents in the stadium fled in panic. The local police said that no suspects have been identified so far and the police are still investigating.

In the early hours of the 8th local time, a shooting occurred near the University of California, Berkeley, killing one person and injuring three others. None of the victims were UC Berkeley students and the investigation into the case is still ongoing, local police said.

The shadow of gun violence hangs deeply over American society. Analysts pointed out that the United States is the country with the largest number of privately owned guns in the world. In the face of huge profits from gun manufacturing and trading, relevant interest groups spend a lot of money every year to promote the importance of legal gun ownership and hinder the implementation of gun control measures. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party have long had serious differences, and the issue of gun control has become a tool of partisan struggle. Recently, inflation in the United States has been soaring, social conflicts have intensified, and chronic diseases such as racial discrimination and polarization between the rich and the poor have intensified, further leading to frequent gun violence incidents. With the coercion of interest groups and domestic conflicts, the United States is still far away from getting rid of gun violence.