This shows that waiting to 2026 and hoping that Dems will take over Congress is really pointless. They won’t acknowledge and certify any results that aren’t their people.

At this point we either fight or accept end of US as a democracy.

Yeah, it also looks like it actually increased participation in LA, which the ICE, NG and Marines supposed to scare

A lot of them took their flags down and sit quiet.

Afraid to admit they were wrong.

Exactly, people were talking about controlled opposition and it looks like it is true.

If they thought he was so left he had no chance they would just laugh or even ignore (which normally they did not pay attention to primaries).

I hope this means the next round of protests hits the 10 million people mark.

I hope so too, but they picked July 17, middle of the week. Women’s march decided to still organize protest on July 4th, which is better but still many perks might be out of town (there were more people on April 5 than on 19th for example)

I understand symbolism, but why not be practical?

Also wasn’t the number from June 14 13.14 million?

That’s not what no kings protest showed.

Edit: the source is Twitter post

Edit 2: so after searching the text I found article on Politico mentioning it (they mention Stack Data Strategy, but no link to the pool) also the screenshot conveniently omits the next paragraph

(Another caveat: This poll was in the field for almost three weeks, but ended just before the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that provoked Trump to send in the National Guard. It’s untested how those events affected voters’ views.)

TACO had the highest ratio of approved appointees, even though he had the most insane ones.

Apparently 70-80% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-statistics-2024/

This is why safety nets are important. In US you can lose your job, not get unemployment and lose access to doctor.

LOL, this meme has two layers, as they say “real sciences don’t need “science” suffix in the name”

I see a lot of people blaming this on AI and raised interest rates.

The real reason for this stagnation is Section 174 of IRS code that was added by the 2017 tax cut bill. The section took effect in 2022 and was added to balance the budget.

This section basically doesn’t allow to deduct cost of the software engineers and they are amortized over 5 years (10 years for international engineers). This puts some strains to regular businesses, but it kills start ups, as they are required to pay taxes even when they are still not profitable and might not even pay 5 years.

Lack of start ups means there is smaller number of openings which is lower mobility. Combined with amortization, it discourages hiring new people as again it requires 5 years.

I see this being dismissed and “it is definitively the interest rates and AI” AI is nowhere close to replace software engineers, in fact from the coworkers that enthusiastically embraced it I see lower quality of code. Interest rates actually came back to what they originally were before 2008.

The hiring issues started exactly when section 174 went into effect. I think the hiring craze in 2021 was only because companies realized that with slim margins in Congress a bill won’t pass that will repeal it so they were hiring like crazy before it become a law. Indeed Democrats were trying to repeal it, it even pass the house, but it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Because God forbid they would help Americans and in turn let economy to look good under Biden.

Look for example at Ramapo 58 district:

https://app.enhancedvoting.com/results/public/rockland-county-ny/elections/GE2024Results/ballot-items/01000000-4482-4645-d471-08dcf2403024?st=Ramapo+58&sv=Ramapo+58&sm=name

Harris only got a single vote in a district that historically votes for Democrats. What are the odds. But maybe Democrats just lost popularity.

But then look at Senate

https://app.enhancedvoting.com/results/public/rockland-county-ny/elections/GE2024Results/ballot-items/01000000-4482-4645-ce33-08dcf2403026?st=ramapo+58&sv=ramapo+58&sm=name

Now democratic candidate wins by 94.12% what are the odds?

And this is not a single district, there are many others like that.

Frankly after election there are two things that bugged me in California. There was a proposition that removed mandatory work requirement for inmates comparing it to a modern day slavery. There was no one who was willing to endorse vote against it (I suppose due to optics) yet the proposition failed.

When he visited CA after fires were already put down and made that spectacle with water dam, he also mentioned that he had a good feeling about next election.

I have a feeling that maybe CA voting is also compromised and this was a test for California, as trump winning here would be extremely suspicious, but no one will care about this proposition.

It definitively is, he similar to trump dies not have a filter. He just counts on things being ambiguous enough that won’t affect him.

The news sources (even the “leftist” ones) are all owned by billionaires.

The real war is a class war, the minorities are used to make us fight with each other.

He gets most attention, but apparently 90% off then didn’t even have any conviction and even those who did maybe should be deported to their home country not to a gulag.

And no matter how much they say they are guilty, all deserve a due process. In a democratic country you can’t just let someone decide who gets it and who doesn’t.

Fuck this administration.

Yeah, we’re fucked.