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applegrove's JournalBonus Quote of the Day
Bonus Quote of the Day
May 29, 2025 at 10:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 86 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/29/bonus-quote-of-the-day-2199/
“Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish.”
— Education Secretary Linda McMahon, on CNBC.
Applegrove:
so if the MAGA WH wants to see the poor and the middle class either bankrupt or dead so they can't participate fully in democracy and will vote not with economic self interest, but due to financial anxiety with passion and intuition (against trans people). Or they are dead. Now how would Universities be in sync with such politicians? What would they study?
A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming
A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming
May 28, 2025 at 8:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 164 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/28/a-white-collar-bloodbath-is-coming/
The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s most powerful creators of artificial intelligence, said that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Axios reports.
Applegrove:
I've been wondering why so much of MAGA policy results in death (anti vax for example, anti cancer research too, deaths of desperation) and now we know. Oligarchs need fewer people.
Awful. Was it really WaPo? I no longer subscribe so I can't double check. Seems unbelievable.
Is it trying to get Jewish people to wander again? Wander right into the clutches of MAGA they hope? I'm getting upset.WaPo
For U.S. Jews, D.C. museum killings deepen resolve — and fear
The killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers amplify the confusion felt since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks about where Jews belong.
It is a feature not a bug. GOP has always wanted Democratic
President's to face debt crisis so they cannot govern and make things better for people. Part of moving people from voting using logic (their best interests) to voting using passion (intuition) as people in financial anxiety will do. They the GOP/MAGA release culture wars at a pace that mimics a tennis ball machine.
Because they don't want any new millionaires - potential billionaires -
who could be Democrats. All these groups could include people from the middle class who did well. People who knew where they came from and not people in the Billionaire Oligarch bubble (which is different than the MAGA bubble in that the oligarchs are exploiting and taking the wealth of the regular MAGA people and taught never to give to charity as any growing middle class is the enemy).
Oh social media is a big part of it. Particularly right
wing trolls pretending to be Democrats and whining every time Democrats try to do an autopsy on the 2024 election. In Canada the social media is so supportive of liberals. It is a big difference. Social media is key.
Dems lost 10% of young black voters under 30 and 16%
of Latinos under 30 in the 2024 election.
Yes. It is also financial anxiety. Regression analysis
shows that when people are under financial anxiety they vote with passion over reason. So the GOP does stuff like make sure the young are burdened with student loans and that hedge funds and private equity went into the housing market (rental and home ownership) and made it more expensive. That way people voted on prejudice and not their financial best interests.
That is a good reason for Democrats to say they softened
their criticism of Biden's age: he was reversing trickle down.
Biden Becomes Litmus Test for 2028 Contenders
Biden Becomes Litmus Test for 2028 Contenders
May 16, 2025 at 5:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/16/biden-becomes-litmus-teat-for-2028-contenders/
Politico: “Joe Biden may have cost Democrats the White House in 2024. Their inability to admit it, some Democrats fear, could hobble them in 2028.”
“As a fresh reckoning in the party unfolds around the former president’s mental acuity, potential presidential contenders have mostly dodged questions about his condition while in office. They’ve also sidestepped whether the party should have more forcefully called on him to abandon his reelection bid earlier.”
Playbook: “On some basic level, this is about credibility and authenticity. Biden’s decline while in office was apparent to most voters; the public was upfront from very early on in the 2024 cycle with their doubts about his age and acuity. And so the ability to acknowledge what is plain in most voters’ eyes risks becoming a basic test of candor and honesty.”
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