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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Is it over yet?
Course not. Eff em.
JOE BIDEN
264
electoral college votes
73,475,661 votes
DONALD TRUMP
electoral college votes
69,616,932 votes
214
Same as it was this time yesterday.
Don't be silly, this is 2020. Of course it's not over yet.
Biden isn't quite so far ahead in Arizona – his lead is around 46,000 with around 200k to 300k still to count. With Arizona's long history of postal voting, there won't be a swing to Biden in these postal votes, and his lead is more likely to narrow somewhat. But I haven't seen anyone credible saying they expect Biden to lose.
Last I looked, Biden is behind by about 1800 in Georgia with maybe 15k votes still to be counted. These are mostly from strongly Dem counties and expected to strongly favour Biden, so he may indeed squeak out a win.
Last I looked, Biden is behind by around 23k in Pennsylvania, with a few hundred thousand still to count from strong Dem areas. Every credible commentator I've seen confidently expects Biden to be significantly ahead when counting is finished.
Biden is ahead by around 11k in Nevada, with a bit over 100k still to be counted. These are mostly from Clark County (Las Vegas), and are expected to favour Biden.
Biden will in all probability win the election, but hell, I sure don't envy him the job. Trump is doing his best to delegitimise Biden as president (stolen election etc) and with a probable Republican senate, and a deeply divided nation, he's got a task and a half.
What will be interesting to watch will be the various law enforcement agencies closing in on the trump crime family.. Deutsche Bank (and others) calling in all the loans they have given him…it's gonna be like a pack of hyenas on a fallen pachyderm..I'm wondering if he will go on the run..to one of those countries that don't have ectradition agreements with america,..of course he could go feral on all those who he feels owe him favours/that he has shit on…and they may even do an epstein on him..time to go short on trump-futures.
He might be welcome in Kazakhstan. Borat could sort somehing out.
Been offline most of the afternoon and only just saw #TrumpMeltdown
Don't know what he's done now, but the schadenfreude on twitter is delicious.
https://twitter.com/souvenirsexile/status/1324545254352162817
I thought this was good:
https://twitter.com/LimauAis14/status/1324531238791569408?s=20
the third one with the look on the reporter's face is classic.
What is Trump's attraction? One view.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018771495/economist-jeff-rubin-the-expendables-have-spoken
In August Jesse Mulligan spoke to Canadian economist Jeff Rubin about his book The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalisation.
The ‘expendables’ have made their voice heard in this US election, Rubin told Jesse Mulligan….
“If you are a manufacturing worker in the United States, manufacturing employment has increased since Donald Trump’s election, and the reason it’s increased is because of the trade policies that Donald Trump has imposed.
“We’re finding employment gains in industries like auto, steel, aluminium we haven’t seen in the US sector in decades and that is directly related to the trade policies that Donald trump has enacted.
“Policies I might add, although this is consistently ignored in media coverage, but policies that were exactly the same as the policies Senator Bernie Sanders was articulating that made him so objectionable to the elite of the Democratic Party.”…
“President Biden will have the same kind of globalist trade policies that have decimated America’s middle class over the last 20 to 30 years and that’s been done by both Democratic and Republican administrations, until of course this Trump administration.”
I think that some here have been saying the same thing. So how to get someone a bit younger, these are all old white guys. Perhaps swivel to a younger brown woman with some new and practical ideas? Could the crumbling fabric of the Greatest Show in Town stand it?
Sure, working class whites without tertiary education are bound to vote for young women of colour. It would be deplorable if they didn't.
Thanks for that wisdom Gabby. If nothing can be attempted, nothing can be changed, even thinking positively, with cunning rationality, would be a change. Perhaps you could try it more often, you seem terminally depressed. Or am I wrong?
That's hardly passive-aggressive at all, constable.