Super PACs exist to get around the relatively meager contribution limits that can be made to individual politicians and their campaigns (still only $7k per campaign cycle). Over the last 15 years or so the courts have gradually chipped away at the limitations of money in campaigns, sometimes in big jumps, but the biggest barrier that remained was that media must offer the lowest rates for ad space/time to political campaigns of politicians. This meant that 7k given directly to a campaign can go further than 100k given to a Super PAC supporting the same candidate. This ruling effectively removes that.
Once we win the war, that we’ve already won and isnt a war, prices will come down from their current high prices that arent high because affordability is fake.
Speaking of the oil market, does anyone remember Trump’s plan for “freedom stations”? A collection of about 20 stations in a very concentrated geographical region that would sell petrol at under market prices to help with affordability? Ignoring the stupidity of it as a solution to nationwide high prices that would have seen any other president branded utterly incompetent, it turns out they were able to sell at below market rate because the petrol was legit stolen.
I have such low expectations, but even I find it wild how much Mamdani and Abdul have brought back 2002 era open islamophobia. It’s not just that people are saying this stuff, its that its getting said again without even raising eye brows https://x.com/Acyn/status/2097472961557282978?s=20
