Open Thread | The Biden Economy

Got the economic news out this past week:

Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) posted at 7:33 AM on Fri, Feb 02, 2024:
JUST IN: The US economy added a blockbuster 353,000 jobs in January, far exceeding expectations of 180,000. This is a really healthy economy. (December jobs revised up to 333,000)

Unemployment rate: 3.7%

Wage growth: 4.5% in past year —>far ahead of 3.4% inflation
#jobs
(https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/1753411268503822596?t=qKzMRxOCL9NIgYnw5p_B_Q&s=03)

The MSM weeps.

Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) posted at 8:00 AM on Fri, Feb 02, 2024:
Stepping, back it’s truly incredible how strong this jobs recovery from the pandemic has been.

14.8 million jobs added since Biden took office
5.4 million more jobs than pre-pandemic

You can see it in the chart. https://t.co/PLQK9NP1mp
(https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/1753418076974973230?t=ZgtTHzM7K3v7ZWupwn8bwA&s=03)

They have been hoping for bad news since Biden became President.

Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) posted at 7:58 AM on Fri, Feb 02, 2024:
Black unemployment rate (by President)
Worst Ever: 21.2% (1983 – Reagan)
2nd Worst: 16.9% (2020 – Trump)
Best Ever: 4.8% (2023 – Biden)
Current: 5.3%

Last year was the first time ever that Black unemployment never rose above 6 percent. #JobsReport

https://t.co/MJm08Vfsyz https://t.co/7lNbQpij3C
(https://x.com/keithboykin/status/1753417575185174903?t=bW0wiI0s3pdFcXB81WUtkA&s=03)

What is the response from the Hoteps?

So, with all this good economic news, and the stock market being up there, breaking records…
Please explain to me about all the layoffs from companies. Companies that are reporting record profits. Companies that aren’t hurting.
The math ain’t mathing.

I wish the MSM, instead of just reporting about the layoffs, to explain what the REASON for them are. Get someone on the record to actually explain it.

I believe, any maybe it’s just my suspicious nature, that these companies are announcing all these layoffs, because they want to cause a recession and help the GOP. After all, the Orange Menace has told them that he’s going to give another round of tax cuts. Why that’s flown under the radar for the MSM, is interesting.

FYI, if you owe money to the IRS this year, it’s because you are helping to pay for tax cuts for the 1%. Remember, their tax cuts were permanent, while yours were fleeting. One out of every four dollars of the national debt is because of those tax cuts. If you choose to believe the GOP, instead of the tax bill that you are receiving this year as a result of the 2017 GOP Tax Cut SCAM – that’s on you. Put them back in all three branches of Government, and they’re going to do it again.

Bidenomics is a complete rejection of the ‘ trickle down’ theory. Bidenomics is about the middle and working class. Bidenomics is about centering Main Street instead of Wall Street.
Joe Biden is the most pro-labor, pro-working class, pro-Union President that we have had in generations. The policies that he proposes are to put into place

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50 Responses to Open Thread | The Biden Economy

  1. rikyrah says:

    Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 6:45 PM on Wed, Feb 07, 2024:
    You’d be surprised how angry conservatives — Black, white or otherwise — are at Black Democrats for not willingly giving up power and authority to let them screw us.
    (https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1755392264971464717?t=PJ3_tcrsOolYXfvUQQrGCQ&s=03)

  2. rikyrah says:

    Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) posted at 10:35 PM on Wed, Feb 07, 2024:
    I old enough to remember a time that @Heritage was a Conservative American think tank and not the American lobbying arm of an exKGB dictator. Traitors, every one of them.
    Times have changed, Brother, times … have changed.
    (https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1755450364524888381?t=IMJDepcxpa6mkcJJmJVHVw&s=03)

  3. rikyrah says:

    Millennial Politics (@MillenPolitics) posted at 9:19 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Isn’t it amazing? Biden will face more heat from the media for being found innocent than Trump will for being found guilty. Stunning double standard
    (https://x.com/MillenPolitics/status/1755793555912601775?t=H5lfDHYCUIoF8Pae3lQnXQ&s=03)

  4. rikyrah says:

    Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 7:05 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Biden: There is even reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? When I was asked the question I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business. Let me tell you something…. https://t.co/VDImISHWOA
    (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1755759855481033129?t=EQXJ5HM3dYyXxXbJOf3HlA&s=03)

  5. rikyrah says:

    Skeptical Brotha 💛🐝🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) posted at 7:15 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Tonight’s press conference pushed back on the Special Counsel investigation of his handling of classified documents after exonerating him. It also reveals more of the president’s thinking on Israel’s war on #Gaza. He described the Israeli response as “over the top” for first time
    (https://x.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1755762252979069344?t=VltZnzh51M39NN_RYXf_OA&s=03)

  6. rikyrah says:

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) posted at 5:48 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Where are the regional press secretaries in the WH and on the campaign? Now is your time to shine! haha. Book those WH/campaign senior advisors and cabinet secretaries for satellite tv tomorrow and over the next week. Any reporter worth their salt is going to ask about the…
    (https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1755740419088937350?t=k6pD3i9yOGPvCSmapGeA3g&s=03)

  7. rikyrah says:

    👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 9:13 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    The media play in y’all face because y’all love being abused with their hypocrisy. I haven’t watched that bullshit since November 9, 2016, after Hillary Clinton concession speech. The media desperately need Donald Trump. He’s a billion dollar ratings boost for their corporation.
    (https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1755792095183339522?t=A20vKKXEHqc90-3CSJ1FSg&s=03)

  8. rikyrah says:

    Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) posted at 9:14 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Dean Phillips just went on CNN and suggested President Biden should have been charged with the crime.

    Truthfully, the only crime I’ve seen is Joe Biden murder this sad and pathetic man by 94 points in the South Carolina primary.

    After tonight, my gloves are off.
    (https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1755792139735216492?t=ursChCwADK7aeLo_v7hhVQ&s=03)

  9. rikyrah says:

    18 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 2:44 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Trump’s people are poised to take over every aspect of American life at the very moment his second oath of office is taken, complete with fascistic loyalty tests for government workers, but yeah, let’s focus on a possible verbal stumble or fateful legalistic wording from Biden…
    (https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1755875292164334060?s=02)

  10. rikyrah says:

    Tom Watson (@tomwatson) posted at 9:12 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Anyone who has heard the President speak or watched a single show speech or appearance knows Hur is a gutter level liar, pure scum.
    (https://x.com/tomwatson/status/1755791749618766249?s=02)

  11. rikyrah says:

    Eric Holder (@EricHolder) posted at 11:44 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Special Counsel Hur report on Biden classified documents issues contains way too many gratuitous remarks and is flatly inconsistent with long standing DOJ traditions.

    Had this report been been subject to a normal DOJ review these remarks would undoubtedly have been excised.
    (https://x.com/EricHolder/status/1755829938140189179?s=02)

  12. rikyrah says:

    Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) posted at 6:45 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Today I heard a conservative Supreme Court Justice embrace the Democracy Cannon of enfranchising voters. And, I heard Donald Trump’s lawyer endorse the same idea.

    As we litigate our voting and election cases moving forward I promise to hold them to what they said today in court! https://t.co/qeQM4yrrKp
    (https://x.com/marceelias/status/1755754748274204824?s=02)

  13. rikyrah says:

    Seth Hettena (@seth_hettena) posted at 9:15 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Tucker Carlson met with NSA leaker Edward Snowden in Moscow and taped an interview with Biden accuser Tara Reade. https://t.co/9VWEGFx0tr
    (https://x.com/seth_hettena/status/1755973791854023038?t=Z1Rr6XqfNixeDwQXkZq1lw&s=03)

  14. rikyrah says:

    Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) posted at 0:38 PM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    A Trump-appointed prosecutor dropped an unfalsifiable partisan bomb on President Joe Biden Thursday, playing into a years-long right-wing media campaign — and U.S. political journalists decided to treat it as a valid and impartial charge.

    https://t.co/IJ55VbPYZ9
    (https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1756024914828484621?t=WLssPmDUHI9Si5ZB_h9sHw&s=03)

  15. rikyrah says:

    Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 1:05 PM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Imagine if Joe Biden instructed Merrick Garland to meet weekly with Hur over whiskey and cigars at a bar in a building owned by Hunter Biden to curtail the scope of his probe.

    It’s like the media forgot Trump, Barr, and Durham did that.
    (https://x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1756031590810243528?t=fIS55xPIJQKXZzci-UbDoQ&s=03)

  16. rikyrah says:

    Hope Restored In DFW (@Kennymack1971) posted at 8:25 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    This whole ramp up of concern over the President’s age tells me one thing:

    The Republicans are in serious jeopardy of an electoral wipe out in November and the Beltway Media is getting desperate.
    (https://x.com/Kennymack1971/status/1755961056210362496?t=weK80SFGBDlW_t-kLPVGkw&s=03)

  17. rikyrah says:

    UH HUH

    Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) posted at 10:30 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    #Spoiler4Trump
    No one will convince me that @deanbphillips is not a Republican — acting like he’s the special counsel in this CNN interview with @abbydphillip .

    Dean Phillips repeats every negative Republican talking point about President Biden, along with that same coronation… https://t.co/UrSySGUq35
    (https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1755811336221753693?t=VrurgNfotgKVQPEq7dFMnA&s=03)

  18. rikyrah says:

    HE is absolutely on point.

    When has America feared being led by an Old White Man?

    The math ain’t mathing.

    Plies (@plies) posted at 10:09 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    🤣🤣🤣 When Has America EVER FEARED A Old White Man Running This Country?? 🤷🏾‍♂️🤣That’s Not What This Country FEARS. It’s His “Successor” Is Whats The PROBLEM!! U Just Tryin To Use The Sub Text (Which Is His Age) To Say It For U!! https://t.co/W1VH4c2ERb
    (https://x.com/plies/status/1755987281448468768?t=nbSA7WWTSpUVF2KEhdP7UQ&s=03)

  19. rikyrah says:

    New York Amsterdam News (@NYAmNews) posted at 1:00 PM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    There are more than 10 types of #alopecia, and Black women are more prone to have at least two of them: traction alopecia and central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA). https://t.co/uZon0hFb8d
    (https://x.com/NYAmNews/status/1756030220291678252?t=SdlIfVmISbT2nHsWRAd9fw&s=03)

  20. rikyrah says:

    New York Amsterdam News (@NYAmNews) posted at 0:00 PM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Nearly 20 years after their last collaboration, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are reuniting for an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low.” https://t.co/6qEmV8wtWd
    (https://x.com/NYAmNews/status/1756015128984588667?t=W6ADg1xDfOQrN_RfbSJJXQ&s=03)

  21. rikyrah says:

    Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 9:23 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Couple things according to a Pew Research poll that dropped last year.

    Voter turnout is up.

    Black people are still overwhelmingly voting for Democrats.

    And voters tend to be older and over 50 so I’m not sure your “omg look at Biden old people suck LOL” strategy is wise. https://t.co/uOIBVUKGPO
    (https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1755975777609216005?t=mvc8wA-m8KSISX6AIUImDA&s=03)

    Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 10:28 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    So your “voting doesn’t work” op is not working.

    Your “don’t vote for Democrats until they cut the check” and #Blexit op to get more Black folks to vote for Republicans op is not working either.

    And it seems like your campaign to sabotage Biden candidacy isn’t working either.
    (https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1755992047956144142?t=jnOJ4mtRda3zuKrDWtz1lw&s=03)

  22. rikyrah says:

    Nefarious Means (@MeansNefarious) posted at 9:53 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    The attacks on Biden’s age point to another thing the press doesn’t get. BIPOC voters come from cultures that are taught to respect their elders, esp. Black and native.

    White Gen-X and millennials weren’t taught to respect their elders. They were taught to hate and blame them.
    (https://x.com/MeansNefarious/status/1755983161010348277?t=O7MxkgtKW5XbBgc_H8JiXw&s=03)

  23. rikyrah says:

    Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 9:49 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Kodak Black is a Trump supporter. He’s 26.

    Candace Owens claimed Ukraine was created 35 years ago and praised Hitler. She’s 34.

    Briahna Joy Gray claimed it was “vote shaming” to point out Trump could tilt the SCOTUS right if he won. She’s 38.

    Youth will not save us, folks.
    (https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1755982247889338755?t=OWmipkj2fAIBPv51AHObrw&s=03)

  24. rikyrah says:

    Excellent comment from Balloon Juice:

    SoupCatcher

    FEBRUARY 9, 2024 AT 1:54 PM

    Warning, rambling ahead.

    Biden is the best president of my lifetime; I’m an early Gen-Xer. He knows how government works, he chooses amazing subordinates, and he gets good things done. I am proud to work hard to re-elect him to four more years.

    Biden’s strengths are his experience, his competence, and his leadership. So the other side has to attack each of those by finding counter-examples, hammering the counter-examples over and over, forcing acknowledgment from his supporters, and then using that as evidence to people who haven’t made up their minds yet: see, even his supporters think he has problems.

    The media helped attack his competence during and after the Afghanistan withdrawal. That was a very successful influence operation.

    Similarly, they wrote pieces about his age years ago to defang his experience and have been sitting on them, hoping his opponent was substantially younger. All that knowledge and experience doesn’t matter if you can paint him as senile, inflexible, out of touch, etc. This feels like the opening the media have been looking for to publish all those hit pieces. We won’t know the success of this influence operation for a while.

  25. rikyrah says:

    The Lone Apple🍎 (@The_Lone_Apple) posted at 6:21 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    The DC Cocktail Party Press has decided that Biden isn’t fun like Trump so they have to go after the former. Trump gets a bye because they like to giggle about him over ten or so drinks.
    (https://x.com/The_Lone_Apple/status/1755930011477877213?t=ZUHhRawIQLOXGLHDqPmFsA&s=03)

  26. rikyrah says:

    TELL IT!

    Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 7:14 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Reporter: Why you?

    President Biden: Because I’m the most qualified person in this country to be President of United States and finish the job I started https://t.co/vKISOiHjs0
    (https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1755761956944748950?t=a9CN3XAwGtk0TcMOBQ1uxg&s=03)

  27. rikyrah says:

    Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 7:09 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Doocy: The special counsel said you were a well meaning elderly man

    Biden: I’m well meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing. I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation https://t.co/hkkAHkVUf7
    (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1755760747097763892?t=__7WQnt3EcLk2KDRs3Fjyg&s=03)

  28. rikyrah says:

    Monjula Ray 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@queerBengali) posted at 11:57 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Biden: I lowered unemployment to 3.6% from Trumps level of almost 15%.

    Media: it’s actually 3.7 and 14.8 percentage, this is a Half truth.

    Also media: congress is broken

    Dems: you mean republicans can’t govern?

    Media: how dare you people nitpick at us?
    (https://x.com/queerBengali/status/1755652015097868777?t=aG9DolTPxG4oeHYxnBUu_g&s=03)

  29. rikyrah says:

    Bad Faith ✝️🐴🇺🇲🌻🇺🇦 (@Jeffdc5) posted at 11:58 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, like 99% of the general public aren’t political junkies and they don’t know the nuance of everything thats happening every day, the people that are supposed to inform them are playing games with us and it’s so infuriating.
    (https://x.com/Jeffdc5/status/1755652405423640861?t=RJvaPOObPAiKbWOpxIYaqQ&s=03)

  30. rikyrah says:

    Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 0:35 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    People in the media are gonna defend their colleagues no matter how terrible they are. No way you watched that presser and said to yourself wow these people are doing a great job unless you are in denial, delusional or biased.

    It was horrid no other way to describe it.
    (https://x.com/tify330/status/1755842884454989872?t=Gl4ySx6TgONqx-i4fcg07w&s=03)

  31. rikyrah says:

    SteveO (@OrmeStephan) posted at 0:38 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    Hey @PressSec, in light of the disgraceful behavior by the WH Press Corp in this latest press conference, consider inviting high school or journalism students from across the country to lead a press conference with the President – shame them, I mean show them, by example.
    (https://x.com/OrmeStephan/status/1755843611806314861?t=yvJjsyAS35PdazHUfo6yyQ&s=03)

  32. rikyrah says:

    Just Phucking Evil.

    Kansas’ AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents
    Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home

    ByJOHN HANNA Associated Press and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press
    February 8, 2024, 11:18 PM

    TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home, though Kansas is not among the states with a law that explicitly says to do that.

    Republican Kris Kobach’s action was his latest move to restrict transgender rights, following his successful efforts last year to temporarily block Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration from changing the listings for sex on transgender people’s birth certificates and driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identities. It’s also part of a trend of GOP attorneys general asserting their authority in culture war issues without a specific state law.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/kansas-ag-telling-schools-trans-kids-parents-specific-107090234

  33. rikyrah says:

    Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 6:38 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
    So which day are we on?

    Biden has dementia day?

    Or Biden is a genocidal warmongering manic day who can stop and start wars at the snap of his fingers?

    Or have we merged those days and he’s simultaneously both now?
    (https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1755934190934114347?t=gCu1jjQdFzN94wTFcneIxA&s=03)

  34. rikyrah says:

    Qondi (@QondiNtini) posted at 7:50 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    This is a kind, decent man

    The way people won’t leave his sons alone is shameful

    They keep going after Hunter and the memory of Beau BECAUSE he is a kind and decent man
    (https://x.com/QondiNtini/status/1755770998761165088?t=GjAeSwxDrSWVNIBurmhbrQ&s=03)

  35. rikyrah says:

    I felt POTUS’s anger. He wanted to curse a muthaphucka out!

    Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 7:05 PM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Biden: There is even reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? When I was asked the question I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business. Let me tell you something…. https://t.co/VDImISHWOA
    (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1755759855481033129?t=O0N0-bz0pNgArxfFqpoesw&s=03)

  36. rikyrah says:

    LL over at EB wrote this with his entire chest.

    LET THEM DIE
    Posted by Liberal Librarian February 09, 2024

    The title to this post is what Captain James Tiberius Kirk told his first officer Commander Spock when Spock told him that if the Federation didn’t help the Klingons, the race would die. Of course, this set up the denouement where the crusty old Cold Warrior softened and warmed up and accepted that a new age was dawning and peace was the way of the future.

    Just this week, I wrote this about the media:
    I remember many of us defending the press when Trump was using it as a punching bag. We applauded when the Post put on its masthead “Democracy dies in darkness”. I think it’s safe to say we erred.
    Yesterday, President Biden held a press conference where he angrily pushed back against the special counsel report which, while finding no criminality in his handling of classified documents, condescended by saying that no jury would convict an elderly, well-meaning man with a faulty memory. The special counsel is a Republican, and this was a GOP hatchet job, which is what they wanted.

    The press responded by mocking Pres. Biden, treating him with the kind of open contempt and disrespect which they never displayed to Donald Trump. It was one of the most shameful episodes in a media mired in shameful acts.

    Let them die.

    Trump won’t win. But if he does win, let him sic the Department of Justice on them. Let him bankrupt the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the lot of them, with persucatory cases. Let him bring to bear the awful power of the state onto their heads. Let so-called “journalists” lose their livelihoods. Let them lose their townhouses in Georgetown or the Upper West Side. Let them feel the consequences of their dereliction of duty in defense of democracy.

    Let them die.

    Let Trump goad his followers into acts of intimidation. Let him goad his followers into acts of violence. Let them, as they lie broken and bleeding on the ground, finally grasp that they failed abjectly in the mission for which the First Amendment was created. Let the clicks they received for shitting on Joe Biden be their comfort.

    Let them die.

    https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2024/02/let-them-die.html

  37. rikyrah says:

    I love this guy’s channel.
    He is hilarious.
    His appreciation of classical music 😁

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8cQ1Ncj/

  38. rikyrah says:

    Really American (@ReallyAmerican1) posted at 11:47 AM on Wed, Feb 07, 2024:

    HUGE! Trump and Republicans are rightfully *losing their minds* over J.B. Pritzker’s plan to stop them and their authoritarian movement in 2024.

    Why? Because J.B. is honing in on the most important swing states, on one of the most important issues, in perhaps the most data driven Democratic effort in modern political history to tilt swing states towards Democrats and enshrine abortion access as law.

    And it’s already working.

    Just a few months ago, Governor Pritzker announced that he was putting together a nationwide non-profit geared towards delivering swing states for Democrats in 2024.

    Ohio and Virginia were his first big tests. And he won. BIG.

    In Ohio, the Governors “Think Big America” delivered $250,000 to tip the scales on the Ohio reproductive rights constitutional measure. The result? Victory.

    In Virginia, where Republicans attempted to take over the house and deliver a majority to ban abortion in the state, Think Big America donated another $250,000. The result? Another victory.

    But he’s just getting started.

    “Think Big America, a nonprofit founded and solely funded by Pritzker, is the largest backer of an effort to put abortion to a direct vote in Nevada, where the group has donated $1 million and added an on-the-ground adviser. Pritzker’s organization is also supporting a ballot measure push in Arizona and evaluating other states where it could get involved, including Florida and Montana, a top Senate battleground, according to a spokeswoman.”

    “While efforts to put abortion measures on the 2024 ballot are underway in about a dozen states, the issue could be particularly consequential in Arizona and Nevada because they are among a handful of places that will decide the presidential race. They also have hotly contested Senate races this year.”

    Think Big America is one of the most concerted, data driven attempts to deliver swing states across America for the Democrats in 2024.

    And Illinois’ Governor has already shown that he can win big against Republicans in the toughest states.

    This is genuinely a massive victory and gift for Democrats and America.

    Smash the and make sure everyone sees this if you appreciate J.B.’s work to help save America with @Think_Big_USA, and think more people need to step up and follow his lead!

    (https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1755287113220739583?t=Gh_QS6op7yJMh4pEJizqgg&s=03)

  39. rikyrah says:

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) posted at 10:34 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Neil Gorsuch is aggressively questioning Jason Murray (attorney for the Colorado voters who brought the suit). Makes me think Gorsuch was not too pleased with being cited in the Colorado Supreme Courts opinion ruling Trump cannot appear on the ballot.
    (https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1755631206199111686?t=ExiO11IfASofhA1j2nVSag&s=03)

  40. rikyrah says:

    Renee (@PettyLupone) posted at 11:14 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Conservative Justices seem to believe that states can’t decide if an insurrectionist remains on a ballot.

    But they ruled in 2022 that states CAN decide on a woman’s right to choose.

    The reason we say every election is the most important of our lifetimes is bc every election is!
    (https://x.com/PettyLupone/status/1755641352778641560?t=G9ok5GbmstyR5o0OwadYnA&s=03)

  41. rikyrah says:

    Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 10:10 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Justice Sonia Sotomayor asks Trump’s lawyer if he’s setting up this case so a state couldn’t disqualify a person for a third term of the presidency, and if his arguments of defining “officers of the U.S.” are just to aid Trump.

    “Are you setting up so that if some president runs for a third term, that a state can’t disqualify him from the ballot?”

    Several justices press Trump’s lawyer about how far his arguments go to potentially strip states of power to exclude candidates from power.
    (https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1755625115360878904?t=F9ThSqX6dBUfdGZ0A6cjvw&s=03)

  42. rikyrah says:

    𝓓𝓻. 𝓡𝓮𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓝𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓮𝓭 (@DR_REHAN_OFF) posted at 10:12 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    Justice Sotomayor and other justices are probing whether the arguments presented by Trump’s lawyer are attempting to pave the way for a scenario where a president could run for a third term without being disqualified by a state. They are concerned about the implications of defining officer of the U Sand how it could limit state authority to regulate who appears on their ballot
    (https://x.com/DR_REHAN_OFF/status/1755625586314150013?t=JWqZSS-XEgseI8lUJ-kVOA&s=03)

  43. rikyrah says:

    But but but…

    we couldn’t SCARE then into voting for Hillary  by using the Court..

    They had to vote their ‘ conscience’ or any other of the eleven billionty reasons they came up with as to why they just couldn’t vote for Hillary.

    @voteheaux™ (@voteheaux) posted at 11:41 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    We’re witnessing why SCOTUS picks should have been the MOST important platform issue of 2016. SMMFH

    FYI: if a GOP president gets in Alito & Thomas will surely retire so that younger, more conservative judges get their spots. America will fall into DECADES of authoritarian rule. https://t.co/LVH0jpo4y0
    (https://x.com/voteheaux/status/1755648007096115362?t=KGycaF2c1RK8tHhZoKu-IQ&s=03

  44. rikyrah says:

    Jackie (@JJFan18) posted at 11:38 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:

    @tomwatson this ruling doesn’t just help Trump, but the mainstream media too who you know were scared shitless they were gonna lose their ratings and cash cow if Trump were pushed off ballots. 

    Look for the “both sides” and horse race narratives to be on full blast now

    (https://x.com/JJFan18/status/1755647395700867381?t=W1S4pYXFRu0lJGvdAgYOzA&s=03

  45. rikyrah says:

    18 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 11:51 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
    a reminder that Bernie Sanders, despite all his time in the Senate, wouldn’t have had the life experience of a Joe Biden to play the various factions of Senate Republicans against one another to highlight their hypocrisy

    and he ended up voting against the compromise bill anyway
    (https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1755650640980652344?t=_6vD90okFt3Cx53CcJsh7A&s=03)

  46. rikyrah says:

    Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 2:53 PM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
    Raskin: The Trump trump-putin-maga faction, headed up by the distinguished gentlelady from Georgia, has been given the opportunity to bring a slapstick impeachment drive against a cabinet member of unimpeachable integrity who has committed nothing indictable or even in-dict-able https://t.co/migY3fbroC
    (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1754971690281423179?t=n1XHXG9K-mTTS6IEUjLEZA&s=03)

  47. rikyrah says:

    Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) posted at 0:29 PM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
    Senate negotiators have finally released the text of a “deal” they’ve been hashing out for two months to trade $61 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine for border “reforms”. There’s some good in that bill and a lot of bad.

    https://t.co/WDkKFz4VTG
    (https://x.com/CIS_org/status/1754935394288771147?t=WHCTSfeMkmgqzG6ja50yDQ&s=03)

  48. rikyrah says:

    The Resistor Sister®️ (@the_resistor) posted at 3:12 PM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
    The #InsurrectionCaucus is getting Very Nervous

    If there’s No Immunity for Trump, there’s No Immunity for ANY of the GOP Insurrectionists Either. https://t.co/8NmugjXTbh
    (https://x.com/the_resistor/status/1754976308801806708?t=6OUd0I6RdLxOCnpa3baPSg&s=03

  49. rikyrah says:

    Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) posted at 5:41 PM on Wed, Feb 07, 2024:
    With the Inflation Reduction Act, we gave the IRS the tools to ensure more ultra-rich Americans and corporations pay the taxes they owe — reducing the deficit by hundreds of billions of $$.

    That Republicans are trying to repeal it is a reminder of who they’re really working for.
    (https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1755376364490727577?t=2dDcwgbZavb9-N8zbVBY2w&s=03)

  50. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊

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