This election could not really get weirder…Trump posting deepfakes
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Using her likeness. I’d be surprised not to see a massive lawsuit from TS any day now.
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Sue him, and use the opportunity to also call on all Swifties to vote, and make sure he doesn’t get elected.
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AOC and Steve Kerr bossed it
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They’ve all been inspirational. I just love Jasmine Crockett! Couldn’t keep my eyes dry listening to those poor women’s stories.
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So true, my friend. Those stories broke me too. I was speechless listening to Hadley. Like I have nothing to offer. So brave and compassionate. Wish them all strength and healing. And wish the women of the world choice.
Warnock was insanely super too.
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Aussie mad rooter, mate.
Knows his shit.
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The old guy is just crushing it!
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Less than a week since the shitstain stated any nominee using AI images to bolster support should be banned for electoral interference.
I’m not entirely convinced Trump realised these were AI images.
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Journalism is dead.
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Is he suicidal? He’s poking the wasp nest of Swifties. That’s it, it’s over.
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Saw a headline in FT that Kamala Harris is supporting a raise in rate of corporation tax to 28%.
I’m a bit surprised at that given how close the election race is.
I would have thought that attacking Trump because he is on the side of big business works better when you can link his personal interests to those businesses (i.e taking backhanders for policies etc).
The risk of doing it linked to another Tax rise is that it makes it harder to peel votes from him as Republicans are less favourable to taxes going up (or is that usually only on the personal level?)
No doubt LS will have a better analysis, but I’d imagine that this will have been polled and the campaign want to look like they are moving money from businesses, which have been continuing to make large profits as consumers are paying ever higher prices, back into the hands of the middle class. It looks like a gamble, as any tax rises tend to be unpopular, but we’ll see how it is communicated and perceived by the electorate.
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It would also chime in with their (not untrue) message that inflation has been in large part due to profiteering rather than actual price increases. Profit margins have been increasing widely.
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Reduction in corporate taxes (doesnt matter what it is now - lower it) is one of the few consistent ideas the GOP has left that Trump agrees with. This proposed rate from Harris is an increase on where Trump lowered it to, but not as high as it was under Obama. Low corporate taxes being a characteristic of a good business environment is still part of the old fashioned partisan Republican voter’s view of the world, but voters tend to be able separate changes in corporate tax policy from that for individual taxes.
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A more potent tax on corporations is a long time coming. Trump gave breaks to the wealthy and corporations, while running up a massive budget deficit. Kamala is proposing to shrink that deficit, by taxing the people who have been getting rich(er) since Covid.
During Covid when supply went down, and prices rose, companies did so to offset losses, but when supply ramped back up, many companies kept prices the same, or even hiked them, because demand was great. Many have kept prices high, because the US economy rebounded as well as we could have hoped, and executives and investors have profited hugely.
A stricter tax on the highest earners and corporations is actually a policy preferred by a majority of the population. It helps to shrink the massive budget deficit, while providing enough money to continue, and grow, programs and infrastructure.
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The fact checking by the big outlets of the first night of the convention has been absolutely deranged. They have got so insistent on finding flaws with the accurate characterizations made in Dem speeches they have even taken issue with them using a video of Trump using his own words, arguing that at other times has said other words…as if that is the Dem’s problem.
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Arne should adopt this policy.
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I wonder if there’s any way to complain to the newspaper. I’m not sure why I have a subscription for them to print this drivel.
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