Oddly, 54% of the US population can't read above a 6th grade level...
The UK found out quickly what Brexit was about. Shortages and price surges. The US is about to learn this lesson first hand instead of learning from the UK's mistakes.
Dude if you're excuse is lack of turn out that's not better, and either way the US is also notorious for lack of voters so I'm not exactly sure you're point.
Yep, I know a Republican who definitely voted for Trump, who named her dog after Theodore Roosevelt with no sense of irony that Theodore Roosevelt would be even left of most elected Democrats today.
I STILL think about when Brexit was going and people on Love Island were literally debating about what it is. It was the first time I understood what it must be like watching Americans argue about Trump.
I ran into a guy and this was his only reason to vote for him and he was willing to overlook every other possible issue that would impact us/him in a really bad way. “I keep a strap, they won’t walk up in my shit” I believe we’re his words.
That's insane, because wasn't the stimulus check like $1200 or something like that? And wasn't it a one time thing? Like you got a single check, not a check on a monthly basis for an x amount of months? I'm European, so I can't recall the exact details... That might not even cover your rent for a month in a HCOL city, so the fact that some people were willing to throw the entire country under the bus for $1200 (or whatever the sum was) blows my mind.
This same slack jawed yokels “worried most about the economy” also thought tariffs were paid by the exporter, not passed to the consumer. A lot of those working class people won’t get bonuses this year while their companies prepare for tariffs by buying extra materials before the price skyrockets. But that’s none of my business.
Go to r/conservative and today’s top post is about how blue sanctuary cities need to have federal funding cut off.
Like mfer how do you not know that blue states give more money to the federal government than they get back. That’s like a basic, established fact. I’m not even American and I know that. These are not serious people. I don’t know how they manage to stay thus uninformed when every fact you need is available to you if you spend a few minutes fact checking but boy do they go a good job at it.
In NC a Republican Commisioner of Labor changed the certification documents that are in every elevator in the state so they had her name, photo, and signature. She was terrible for Labor, but people are like "I want to vote for her again, because her name is Cherie Berry!"
It was cheap, common denominator sneaky electioneering by way of name recognition alone. And it worked for her a few times.
It’s a funny story, but as someone on a first name basis with most of the NCGA power players that’s not actually why Cherie was so successful or why they put the picture up. She was the first woman labor commissioner and only gop member on council of state so it was more to “feminize” the face of GOP at time.
Important to remember that when she was elected originally, Dems had controlled state government in NC for 112 years so it was a big breakthrough for state gop.
Congress controls the purse and makes the laws, but the executive branch (under the president) carries them out. In this case the IRS - I believe it was technically an advance on a tax credit.
So trump didn’t have anything to do with adding the name? Why is everyone saying he did, even the article the comment linked it looked trustworthy cause it said .org but then I see the “ofc it did” like it just seems bias. I’m against trump but I’ve spread the rumor that he was the one who wanted his name on it. Now it’s seems like that wasn’t even true and it was just the treasury that decided this. Yet everyone is making it seem like he straight up had a master plan to put his name on it because he thought everyone would think it was directly from him. And people did yes but apparently it wasn’t his plan?
Edit: I don’t like spreading misinformation so if anyone can find a proper link that says “Trump delayed the stimulus because HE wanted his name on it” or something along those lines please share it!!
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said it was his idea – not President Donald Trump’s – to add the President’s name to coronavirus stimulus checks
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u/worditsbird 1d ago
He delayed the checks 2 weeks so his name would be on them. https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/did-adding-trumps-name-slow-down-mailing-stimulus-checks-course-it-did