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MyMetric360

What actions and words from a Russian agent as US president?

#RussianAgent #USElection #HypotheticalScenario #PoliticalDiscussion Hey everyone! 🤔 Let’s dive into a pretty quirky thought experiment. Imagine a scenario where a Russian secret agent somehow managed to win a U.S. presidential election. 🗳️ What do you think they would do or even say after being sworn in? Here are a few thing...
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MyMetric360

What actions and words from a Russian agent as US president?

#RussianAgent #USElection #HypotheticalScenario #PoliticalDiscussion Hey everyone! 🤔 Let’s dive into a pretty quirky thought experiment. Imagine a scenario where a Russian secret agent somehow managed to win a U.S. presidential election. 🗳️ What do you think they would do or even say after being sworn in? Here are a few thing...
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MyMetric360What actions and words from a Russian agent as US president? - MyMetric360"Discover what a Russian secret agent might do as US president! Explore intriguing scenarios and implications. Click to learn more!"
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Anwar Hashmi

Biden casts early ballot for Harris as Election Day nears

President #joebiden cast his ballot in the U.S. presidential election, voting early in his home state of #delaware for Democratic Vice President #kamalaharris in her race against Republican #donaldtrump. The president, who dropped his re-election bid in July, joined many Americans who can vote before next Tuesday's polling day. #uselection #unitedstates #news #reuters #newsfeed Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe:

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Spineless News Channels · Biden casts early ballot for Harris as Election Day nears - Spineless News ChannelsRead the story here: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-casts-early-ballot-harris-election-day-nears-2024-10-28/
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iamBullivant

This is grim (talking about the US):

"It’s been a week—a week of confusion, chaos, and concern. The new U.S. administration wasted no time hitting the pause button on almost everything in public health: communications, data, hiring, traveling. Positions are being removed, chairs rearranged, and there have been some… aggressive… emails."

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Your Local Epidemiologist · A week of chaos in public healthBy Katelyn Jetelina
#USElection#Trump#CDC
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MoneroIsTheFuture

My thoughts on Trump: I trusted him once too until his supporters threatened my life for calling their support of war crimes out as wrong (plus the countless other times before that simply because I questioned the Qanon thing,) stole my idea for a free speech platform and ruined it before finally being threatened with lawsuits over it, and hijacked thousands of USD in donations to families affected by the East Palestine train wreck for their own political and personal gain (they've all been reported to local authorities though that doesn't matter since Trump won...) These are the kinds of people in the US who are secretly responsible for letting that man get back into office while masquerading as "do-gooders." I was friends with them all once, or so I thought until they all turned on me because they wanted to become closer to their God "Trump." What an absolute mockery...

#Democracy#HumanRights#USA
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How Trump “Won” – by Michael Podhorzer – Weekend Reading

A really long article that’s still worth a read:

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won

«This is the one-two punch that knocked out Harris’s chances this year: disaffection with Democrats, combined with incredulity at the idea that Trump might actually implement the worst parts of the MAGA agenda.»

His conclusion:

«When we use the wrong tools, we might not just fail to diagnose an illness – we might misdiagnose it, and prescribe a treatment that is actively harmful to the patient. When Flatland analysts argue that America “moved right,” the prescription tends to be that Democrats should also move right, or at least play nice with Trump to avoid alienating the Americans who supposedly granted him a decisive mandate. The same prescription will be dispensed to civil society and the media.

But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system that doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are. But with only two parties to realistically choose from – plus a democratically illegitimate Electoral College that makes most Americans’ presidential votes all but irrelevant – all of these “change elections” add up to little more than a seesaw that most Americans don’t want to ride in the first place.

And so, nearly 250 years after putting forth the then-revolutionary aspiration for governments “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” we deploy election procedures that can claim no more legitimacy than the seething resignation of the governed.»

So. I disagree with the (implied?) statement that the problem is the two-party system (there’s an earlier post about that), but I think the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact plus ranked-choice voting would go a very long way to addressing the current illness.

Plus re-apportioning the House of Representatives.

#2024 #Harris #Trump #USElection #USPol

Weekend Reading · How Trump “Won”By Michael Podhorzer
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Zoidberg, “M”D

Honest question:

In the 2024 election, did Harris lose because she went listing right instead of left, and the voters she lost which cost her the election are way more left than she wanted to seem?

I saw this as a position after the election, and I'm seeing it more and more again offered as an explanation and if it's true it would make me very happy but honestly, its such a fuckville out there that I can't tell which way's up with my peers nationally.

#uspol #uselection #election2024 #america #government #politics #harris #trump

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