Tens of billions is technically correct since in the last year US spent about 2 tens of billions, I.e. $20 billion, or about 2.5% of the annual military budget on Israel.

Could also be the first women president vs 4th worst president of all time.

edit: actually shared 3rd worst, shares with Franklin Pierce

While still to the right of center of the political compass, I do really like how much closer to the center Walz is than the other and previous candidates.

Not to defend them too much and I have to admit that I don’t know much about the details which bills were priorities during the 4 months that Obama has house, senate and Presidency.

What I did read a while back was that Obama didn’t know how long his supermajority would last and some of the things he wanted he wanted done but couldn’t once he lost the house.

I agree that Palestine is an important issue, do you have any suggestions on how to improve the situation?

USA is a very pro Israel county and the further right you get the more pro-israel you get.

Once both Democrats and Republicans are right wing parties it’s not news to anyone that they support Israel.

Edit: If you are pro-palestine, I suggest you vote as far left as you can (which at the moment realistically only is Democrats) and contact your congressman/women to let them know what your views on these issues are.

These are only damning comments if you have the views that Biden’s presidency had been a disaster. So of course Republicans and their news would write negative articles and a Democratic news source would show it as Harris having worked with Biden to get things done.

Nothing to see here really, all Biden said I’d say that they work together for a common goal.

Isn’t politics all about coming together, making compromises and try to agree what’s best for the country?

For those who attack Fox news as a source they have a point, you won’t get factual news from there, it will be very skewed to the right and they will make a story out of nothing for clicks.

The 1960s had political engagement and division, no one’s denying that.

However it was surpassed in 2020 which was a record year for turnout of 66.8% of eligible voters. Specifically, 90.6% of eligible women were registered, and about 68.4% of them actually voted. Women outpaced men in both categories. Young voters, especially young women, were a big part of that surge.

Trump lost big then, imagine now with all the news about record registrations how much he might lose by now. Personally I think it would be very funny to see Harris break 100M votes,. Can you imagine how angry Trump would be :)

Also younger voters, especially young women are much more invested in politics and more likely to vote than ever.

I’m still doing hybrid work, going to the office 3 times a week in Sydney. I pay the equivalent of €66 a month. If I was doing full time in the office it would be €110 a month. I would also love a €58 euro monthly ticket.

On a post about Trump saying that Haitians are taking other people’s pets and eating them, you said:

Millions of dogs and cats are eaten around the world yearly.

This is a fact, and we can come to certain conclusions.

You can’t blame people from thinking that you are inferring that Trump is telling the truth.

But we’ve come to the conclusion now that Trump is indeed lying and Haitians aren’t stealing people’s pets and eating them. Has it ever happened anywhere? Very possible. Is it currently happening in Springfield? No.

To expand your analogy to the house on how the rich used their unrealised gains.

You buy a house and it appreciates in value. You bowwow money against the capital gains and use that to live on. Your house price goes up further, generating more capital gains that you can now bowwow against to pay back your previous loan.

edit: also since you’re so filthy rich the banks give you really low interest rates, way less than tax would have been.

Yepp, at some point at some time someone in USA has eaten a dog or a cat. But do Haitians regularly steal other people’s pets and eat them? Very unlikely.

If I were to speculate…

• There are people in some countries that eat dogs and cats.
• Someone’s neighbour’s sister friend said they saw someone with a dead cat with the intent to eat it.

Therefore immigrants are regularly stealing other people’s pets and are eating them.

We can extrapolate this with anything.

• There are people that poop their pants.
• There are reports of Trump wearing diapers and smelling liken poop.

I think ww can draw our own conclusion about this one…

Could you spell out what conclusions you take from that?

Nope, not a valid reason.

The constitution was made to be amended to adapt with the times. Time to amend the 2nd amendment and require a valid reason such as hunting for having a firearm.

As far as I understood the article, it is taxing unrealised capital gains, but you have to be very rich and have a substantial portion of your wealth in unrealised capital gains. It feels targeted as people like Elon Musk.

Wow, what a charismatic guy, that wasn’t painful to watch at all…

No problem with ID for voting, just have to make sure they’re accessible by all at no cost (both time and monetary).

Republicans proposals for voter ID so far have been riddled with ID exclusions that, while never admitted to, would exclude a large part of the population that they don’t want to be allowed to vote. Either include more types of ID or make sure to provide everyone with a voter id for free before the election.