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iamBullivant

This is grim (talking about the US):

"It’s been a week—a week of confusion, chaos, and concern. The new U.S. administration wasted no time hitting the pause button on almost everything in public health: communications, data, hiring, traveling. Positions are being removed, chairs rearranged, and there have been some… aggressive… emails."

yourlocalepidemiologist.substa

Your Local Epidemiologist · A week of chaos in public healthBy Katelyn Jetelina
#USElection#Trump#CDC
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Here, Read This

How Trump “Won” – by Michael Podhorzer – Weekend Reading

A really long article that’s still worth a read:

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won

«This is the one-two punch that knocked out Harris’s chances this year: disaffection with Democrats, combined with incredulity at the idea that Trump might actually implement the worst parts of the MAGA agenda.»

His conclusion:

«When we use the wrong tools, we might not just fail to diagnose an illness – we might misdiagnose it, and prescribe a treatment that is actively harmful to the patient. When Flatland analysts argue that America “moved right,” the prescription tends to be that Democrats should also move right, or at least play nice with Trump to avoid alienating the Americans who supposedly granted him a decisive mandate. The same prescription will be dispensed to civil society and the media.

But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system that doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are. But with only two parties to realistically choose from – plus a democratically illegitimate Electoral College that makes most Americans’ presidential votes all but irrelevant – all of these “change elections” add up to little more than a seesaw that most Americans don’t want to ride in the first place.

And so, nearly 250 years after putting forth the then-revolutionary aspiration for governments “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” we deploy election procedures that can claim no more legitimacy than the seething resignation of the governed.»

So. I disagree with the (implied?) statement that the problem is the two-party system (there’s an earlier post about that), but I think the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact plus ranked-choice voting would go a very long way to addressing the current illness.

Plus re-apportioning the House of Representatives.

#2024 #Harris #Trump #USElection #USPol

Weekend Reading · How Trump “Won”By Michael Podhorzer
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Crypto News

Donald Trump US Election Win Inspire Canada’s Crypto Leaders, Here’s How - Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, along with a wave of pro-crypto c... - coingape.com/donald-trump-us-e #24/7cryptocurrencynews #donaldtrumpcrypto #regulationnews #uselection #canada

CoinGape · Donald Trump US Election Win Inspire Canada’s Crypto Leaders, Here’s HowBy Ronny Mugendi
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JuneSim63

Must watch video on the crypto bros plan to transfer billions of US public money into their already swollen coffers.

"The elements of the plot are just there in plain sight.."

"They're backing the truck up to the government in plain sight.."

#Crypto #Corruption #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Trump #USElection

‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donors
youtube.com/watch?v=qWANiC28M8

YouTube‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donorsBy MSNBC
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JuneSim63

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent over a quarter of a billion dollars in the final months of this year’s election to help Donald J. Trump win the presidency

And the US lectures the world on corruption and democracy.

#USElection #Corruption #ElonMusk #Trump

nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/poli

The New York Times · Elon Musk Backed Trump With Over $250 Million, Fueling the Unusual ‘RBG PAC’By Theodore Schleifer
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Who should be guiding the Democrats over the next four years? Maya Contreras writes for @damemagazine about how it’s time to listen to experts in disinformation, historians and economists. “We must center the voices who’ve consistently shown up for the party, promote new leaders that have a proven track record of winning elections, and understand that the consultants who knew how to win elections in the 1990s don’t understand how elections are won in the current environment,” Contreras writes. “We’ll need a plan to counter the right-wing echo chamber with our own robust media. That won’t be easy or cheap.”

damemagazine.com/2024/11/20/de

Dame Magazine - · Democrats’ Policies Help Americans. The Right Wing Echo-Chamber Drowned Them Out - Dame MagazineI’ve had a job since I was 14 years old. I’ve spent most of it working in the service industry. I have always been part of the working class here in America. The characteristics of the working class that apply to me are: food and beverage service, low to moderate income, and tipped hourly wages.
#Disinformation#USPolitics#Media
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