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What's going on in the other timelines today?
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President Sanders is signing the $30/hr minimum wage into law as he’s looking towards the end of his second term
Since public funding of elections, the normal avalanche of TV commercials and social media bullshit is being replaced with a coordinated YouTube, TV, and Insta/TikTok/FB daily release of a video where the main candidates can discuss a rotating list of major or minor issues in a relaxed format with real time fact checking and anyone who just starts yelling like a crazy person or telling random lies sticks out like a sore thumb
Covid is still a problem, but since the US reacted quickly and decisively we were spared a lot of the worst of the impacts and the resulting science-policy quick response framework is now making some significant progress on climate change. Although there hasn’t been time yet for all the crazy weather to be any different, the heat waves are serving as a firm reminder to everyone of how important it is and is a frequent topic at the mini-debates
Netanyahu’s last appeal has just been denied
Ukrainians are still dying but the front line is holding
Hillary Clinton is still salty that the DNC betrayed her so badly, but as Donna Brazile told her bluntly: Senator, listen. I love you, I want to to win, but at the end of the day it’s up to the voters, and I’m not going to put my foot on the scales for you.
🥲
Fucking hell, that hits hard. I feel like so much of this current shit show can be traced back to the DNC's full court push of Hillary. Winning against Trump should have been a fucking cake walk, but no, lets do this hard mode.
🥲 indeed.
People still were looking for more of the change that Obama campaigned on, and you intervene and force Bernie out for Hillary when Trump's whole campaign was on radical change? What I wouldn't give to know the truth behind that fuck up of a decision...
I honestly think pushing Hillary is the whole reason why we have this current timeline.
And it's not just that they were pushing hillary, it's not something so simple. It was the disenfranchisement of voter desire, the feeling of betrayal that so many people were so enthusiastic about their support of Sanders and to have that snatched out from underneath them by the people that were supposed to be on their side that did it.
That year is the only year I voted third party, and I was in a Southern state at the time that voted massively for Trump so my vote didn't really matter, but if it affected me personally then I can imagine it affected many other people, and obviously, collectively, it did matter.
Side note, there are still many social media pundits who are criticizing president Sanders for his covid response. They're saying that the loss of 7,000 American lives, a number that is twice the number of people that died in 9/11, is proof that following the Democratic pandemic playbook was not enough of a response and that the DNC just does not care about American lives.
These posts sometimes get as many as 300 likes on Facebook, and that number is only increasing as time goes by.
As a result of the COVID pandemic, people, businesses, and governments have all accepted the value of work from home models. Traffic congestion is still at an all time low and office space is being converted into affordable housing.
Four day work week has been implemented and has resulted in a boost in production. Surveys show improvements in mental health. People have more time to think critically about their leaders and make educated choices in their lifestyle.