[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Except every American voter has know for many years exactly who Trump is and what he stands for. This was a choice made with eyes wide open.

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Increased tariffs on China could "accelerate the diversification of supply chains, in particular away from China," S&P reported — but that won't necessarily mean more jobs for Americans.

Rosenfeld said Steve Madden is exploring a move to "countries like Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil."

He didn't mention the U.S. as a possible place of production.

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After former President Donald Trump gave his victory speech early Wednesday, at the Palm Beach Convention Center, dozens of his supporters gathered in a lobby to sing “How Great Thou Art,” reciting from memory the words and harmonies of a classic hymn, popular among evangelical Christians.

It was a fitting coda to an election in which Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters. That margin — among a group that represented about 20% of the total electorate — repeats similarly staggering margins of evangelical support that T rump received in 2020.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

Trump is banking on foreign companies moving their operations to the US. There's also a high chance that Trump actually won't do anything. The guy talks a lot.

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[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago

We're headed to Europe. Aiming for early next year.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm just going take my family and leave the country. I know that's not an option for everyone, but it is for us, so we're choosing that option.

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President-elect Trump's MAGA allies wasted little time after his election win before openly celebrating that the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 will set the agenda for his administration.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure looks like the Republican will be in absolute power come January 20th. And, ironically, I feel like Republicans have gotten more done than Democrats over the past two years despite only holding the House.

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[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

That's probably the only thing I can't really imagine.

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President-elect Trump's decisive victory is fueling the potential for a GOP sweep — a scenario top Republican senators have already been planning for.

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Democrats are looking on nervously as their last-ditch goal of recapturing the House in an otherwise brutal election shows signs of fizzling.

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President-elect Trump could do away with his predecessor's years-long efforts to erase student debt.

The big picture: Trump has repeatedly bashed the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plans but has not said how he would handle the mounting debt in another White House term.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

States' rights are only valid as long as they support the Republican agenda...

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe they need it, but that may not be happening. Over the past decade, Europe has been moving decisively to the right, just like the US is doing, which means less internal European cooperation and a further move toward sovereign nation states. The EU will maybe be able to maintain the overall trade cooperation among countries, but there's very little chance of further European integration in other policy areas as it stands. Even the Schengen open-border cooperation is hanging by a thread.

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Former President Donald Trump's reelection threatens to worsen global climate change by altering the trajectory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, eroding federal climate research and forecasting, and abdicating America's leadership role in global climate negotiations.

Why it matters: His return to the White House comes at a time when climate scientists have warned that the Paris Agreement's warming targets are slipping dangerously out of reach, raising the odds of potentially catastrophic consequences.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 193 points 2 days ago

So, I always thought it was just a mean bully thing to say, but, as a group, Americans really are dumber than a bag of rocks.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 54 points 2 days ago

I guess it's confirmed. Americans really are dumber than a bag of rocks.

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Historically, voters from smaller and more rural counties tend to cast their ballots on Election Day, per an analysis of the 2020 election from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

If that trend holds, it could create the appearance that Trump and Republicans are in the lead — the so-called "red mirage."

However, as absentee and mail-in ballots, typically originating from denser, more urban precincts that lean Democratic, are tabulated, the outcome in certain states could change — leading to a "blue shift" on the electoral map.

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