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Harris is the favourite again – politicalbetting.com
Harris is the favourite again – politicalbetting.com
HOLY CRAP!I think Kamala Harris just PROSECUTED Trump live on Television. pic.twitter.com/x1hrttlBqf
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I genuinely find it bewildering. How can any elected official of any part of the party think this is ok?
https://x.com/JakeLahut/status/1826818774781018322
And he did!
And Trump had a further meltdown over it.
These beliefs don’t spontaneously emerge. They are rehearsed, over and over again, by traditional and social media on the right.
Pence endorsing Harris.
I hope W endorses Harris too and Texas goes Dem again.
Well a boy can dream.
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1826818501165633806
Prevention is better than cure.
And these people have only heard complete bullshit for the past 8 years...
Fox News is dangerous because it has reach. GB News does not.
For instance, federal approval for one commonly used abortion drug could be withdrawn.
And if the drug isn't legal in the USA a state wouldn't be able to use it..
Project 2025 wouldn’t ban abortion outright, but would curtail access
The Harris campaign shared a graphic on X that claimed “Trump’s Project 2025 plan for workers” would “go after birth control and ban abortion nationwide.”
The plan doesn’t call to ban abortion nationwide, though its recommendations could curtail some contraceptives and limit abortion access.
What’s known about Trump’s abortion agenda neither lines up with Harris’ description nor Project 2025’s wish list.
Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services Department should “return to being known as the Department of Life by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care..."
The plan proposes withholding federal money from states that don’t report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention how many abortions take place within their borders. The plan also would prohibit abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds. It also calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the training of medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, omits abortion training.
The document says some forms of emergency contraception — particularly Ella, a pill that can be taken within five days of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy — should be excluded from no-cost coverage. The Affordable Care Act requires most private health insurers to cover recommended preventive services, which involves a range of birth control methods, including emergency contraception.
Trump has recently said states should decide abortion regulations and that he wouldn’t block access to contraceptives. Trump said during his June 27 debate with Biden that he wouldn’t ban mifepristone after the Supreme Court “approved” it. But the court rejected the lawsuit based on standing, not the case’s merits. He has not weighed in on the Comstock Act or said whether he supports it being used to block abortion medication, or other kinds of abortions.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-warnings-from-democrats-about-project-2025-and-donald-trump
This would in practice probably make abortions illegal because the medical providers wouldn't be able to survive financially given the labyrinthine nature of US healthcare financing, leaving only backstreet abortionists. Is that a ban? No. Is it a distinction without a difference? I would say so.
Is this Trump's agenda? Not officially. He has, in fact, verbally tried to distance himself from it.
But, it was written in co-operation with JD Vance whom Trump tapped up as his running mate *after* it was published.
It is reasonable, especially with a notorious and fluent liar like Trump, to consider his actions not his words. If he is saying that he doesn't agree with Project 2025 and yet giving prominent positions to those who support it, we should take seriously the possibility that it will be implemented regardless of what he says.
His latest speech "America does not have a gun problem", delivered behind bulletproof glass...
GB News broke Ofcom rules with presenter’s Covid vaccine claims
Regulator says Mark Steyn’s use of data to draw misleading conclusions breached content guidelines
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/06/gb-news-broke-ofcom-rules-presenter-covid-vaccine-claims-mark-steyn
and
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/gb-news-turbo-cancer-conspiracy-theories-ofcom-bias-anti-vaxxer
Then it's not true.
https://x.com/craigrozniecki/status/1826641723809808677?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
JD Vance trying to order doughnuts set to the Veep end credits
https://x.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1826732351675875636
If they didn't have a virtual monopoly nobody would use them.
a) that Trump will win
b) that Trump will give him an important job
anyway here is his latest video, telling lies about JFK:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1048373192794047
"he kept us out of Vietnam... a month before he died he signed national security order 263 ordering all the troops home from Vietnam and 30 days later he was murdered" He even has order 263 on the screen so you can read it ordering the withdrawal of 1000 US military personnel (there were over 16000 in Vietnam at the time - sent there by Kennedy).
Later in the video he criticises Trump for promising in 2016 to release all the documents about JFK's assassination and then changing his mind when he became president. I'm not sure that's someone about to endorse Trump.
Good morning, everyone.
Rather relieved. Halfway through a 'do not turn off your computer' update, the power went out. Just came back now, I think everything's ok. Was worried my desktop, which I've only had a few months, might've become a brick.
Of course I should be referring to Twitter as X, but I find that difficult because I tend to associate the letter with X ratings which were once used to denote saucy content. Do others react to X in the same way? I must admit that before my de facto ban I used to be startled by the large X that appeared on my screen. It used to make me think momentarily that I had clicked on a porn site by mistake. Imagine my disappointment when I realised it was only Twitter.
His GE polling has fallen and he’s currently getting between 3% to 5% on average .
He would have been a bigger factor if Biden had remained as the nominee . I doubt Harris or Trump will be losing too much sleep if he remains in the race .
XX A woman.
XXX Pornography.
XXXX A foul Aussie lager.
My first thought was: this is a great way for Musky Baby and Twitter to get detailed information on how you are going to vote, and therefore the sort of advertisements and misinformation to push your way...
(*) I don't follow him, and try not to interact with his account, but for some reason many of his tweets get pushed my way. I wonder if the algorithm is perfect in this regard...
And, given 30 years of terrorism in Northern Ireland, we can't be as superior as we'd like.
Harris-Walz officially nominated.
Just collected a monkey from BF.
Good times.
According to Wrong Daily increasing the supply of houses in her area by 3300 won't help address the housing shortage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd429gdpno.amp
It’s a version of States Rights that is familiar. Down to the demand that other states use their police forces to track down and catch escaped slaves. women who want an abortion.
The people involved in this are often hard core MAGA, friends of Trump and are open about heir desire for a federal abortion ban.
On the other, getting prices going down, deflation, tends to get out of hand in a really bad way. It would not be desirable.
Once again, voters want something that doesn't really exist. That's not particularly the fault of voters, but it's also not the fault of politicians. If anyone is culpable, it's the minority who try to get ahead by promising the impossible, and the sort of lickspittle media who amplify them.
https://youtu.be/d3Mrfut-FSw?si=jH2o8sy152zwLxmd
Is it also the fault of the BBC that the Britons think that inflation is a problem ?
After all the BBC website has a whole 'Cost of Living' section:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cljev4jz3pjt
Likewise the Guardian has this section:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/cost-of-living-crisis
with this https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/20/half-a-million-children-to-go-hungry-if-1bn-crisis-fund-is-ditched as a recent addition.
Wasn't JD Vance claiming that children are going hungry something that led to outrage among Dem supporters ?
And if Clegg and Cameron hadn't gone for the dash for gas, we'd be less reliant on wholesale gas prices. But equally, we'd have been burning lots of filthy coal for a lot longer.
And if any party had gone for tidal in a big way, they would have been doing the smart thing, so that was obviously never going to happen.
The average energy bill in 2010 was £450.
In 2024 it is now rising to £1717.
Saying we should have paid more than £450 in 2010 to protect the environment but that £1717 is now too high is perfectly reasonable and I concur with him.
Slashing the cost of powering homes, factories, automobiles, schools, hospitals and everything else is in everyone's best interests.
Actually experiencing it is another thing. I can't really see people queuing up for falling wages.
*In his much trumpeted claims to the public during, or just before, the election campaign (you'll forgive my memory: all those Tory PMs get increasingly foreshortened with recency, which shouldn't be happening ...)
It's basically an edge of central Manchester location. 30 years ago retail park sort of made sense, but it is increasingly surrounded by high-density resi, is walking distance to everywhere and should in no way be a big box retail park. It doesn't need lots of parking. There is a brilliant residential development just to the north of it - Middlewood Locks - and all this site should be doing is echoing Middlewood Locks.
The woman is a berk.
A period of deflation in those costs, with wage rises, would reverse that damage.
There's no reason why some costs can't come down even while wages rise. See electricals as a classic example. Fix the housing market and there's no reason that can't happen there which would make living more affordable for those who have to pay those costs.
Those who make a living from receiving those costs would squeal, but that's competition.
David Cameron was famously asked the price of bread a decade ago and struggled to answer, saying instead he used an electric breadmaker. The answer was around 47p.
Then, the Tories were struggling to deal with a cost of living crisis and were accused of being out of touch. Now, here we are again a decade later, with the prime minister Rishi Sunak and his chancellor Jeremy Hunt being accused of having no clue. Only now an average white loaf is £1.37 – and this time it’s not just politicians that are under pressure to do something about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/01/rip-off-britain-cost-of-living-crisis-uk-retail-profits
You can get an 800g sliced loaf for 47p from the supermarkets:
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299045558
Which suggests that the Guardian is as confused as any politician as to what the price of bread is.
The correct strategy was to have built a whole load more nuclear decades ago. Even the French can be right sometimes.
The electricals we buy now are not only cheaper but better.
That is crazy cheap by today's prices.
Remove the requirement for months or years of planning processes, lawyers and lawfare by vested interests and the productivity of the sector would shoot up.
And homes would not be just cheaper but better too. As has been seen in Japan which did this decades ago and prices not only became more affordable but homes became better too as who wants to rent/buy a shithole when there's an affordable alternative available instead?
That was an example of absolute exploitation of the different meanings of inflation - prices, rate of increase thereof, and differential thereof ...
Perhaps that's the average of all loaves - because there are some expensive options out there - but I can't believe it's the average of all loaves bought.
Unlike Lee Anderson, she hasn't gone loopy, and still does interesting work.
Her twitter feed is civilised and interesting, as opposed to Anderson's constant dog whistles.
https://x.com/GloriaDePiero
On GBNews itself, it is owned by Sir Paul Marshall and investment firm Legatum. Paul Marshall also owns Unherd, and is in the running to buy the Spectator and the Telegraph.
https://archive.ph/K4Y0S
Missing out on nuclear was a big mistake. Let's not make the same one with renewables.
Economists from left, right, centre and plain loony all agree that you don't want that.
(I get a lot of happy birthday emails and discounts etc from companies on my 'official' birthday
Warburton is 1.40.
How many people buy those ahead of own brand?
That average figure of 1.37 is as plausible as Dominic Cummings' excuses for breaking lockdown.
Edit - the only thing I can think of is that it includes artisanal unsliced loaves from high end bakeries. You can pay three quid for a white loaf in a farm shop, if you're especially stupid. But that's not really the way the average should be calculated.