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April 14, 2024

Thoughts on a Pretty Good NYT Poll-The latest New York Times/ Siena poll shows BIDEN campaign has some momentu

DAN PFEIFFER
APR 14, 2024

Yes, it’s finally here and it confirms what all the other polls have been showing for the last month. Acknowledging that the NY Times Sienna poll is considered the gold standard among the cognoscenti, Dan Pfeiffer does a nice analysis of what it says about this moment in time:

The Democratic coalition is heading home. As the New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher wrote in his analysis of the poll:

Mr. Biden’s tick upward appears to stem largely from his improved standing among traditional Democratic voters — he is winning a greater share of voters who supported him in 2020 than he did a month ago. Then, Mr. Trump had secured the support of far more of his past voters compared with the president — 97 percent to 83 percent — but that margin has narrowed. Mr. Biden is now winning 89 percent of his 2020 supporters compared with 94 percent for Mr. Trump.


MORE:
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/14/nyt-poll-nyt-poll/
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/thoughts-on-a-pretty-good-nyt-poll?utm_campaign=email-post&r=9udc&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
April 14, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson is upset Congress won't pass the foreign military aid Speaker Mike Johnson is blocking.

Speaker Mike Johnson is upset Congress won't pass the foreign military aid Speaker Mike Johnson is blocking. The Senate passed it 70-29, and a House majority supports it, but Speaker Mike Johnson won't allow a vote.
Speaker Mike Johnson, take your concern to Speaker Mike Johnson.
https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/1779525926562206132
https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1779273302114001181

April 13, 2024

I have been wondering for a while why we have not called Trump/Maga out on Brexit

WASHINGTON — The day after Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald J. Trump landed in Scotland and promptly declared the referendum result “a great thing.”

More than two years later, President Trump is back in Britain, and now he wants to speed it along.

With its push to restrict immigration and its appeal to “take our country back,” the Brexit campaign was always a close political relative of the Trump movement in the United States. In many ways, it was a precursor to Mr. Trump’s election — which Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former political adviser, often called “America’s Brexit.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/brexit-donald-trump-political-movement-.html

April 13, 2024

War: Millions stuck between a rock and a hard place.

It is ALWAYS the civilians who pay for the politicians war games.

Family and friends in Iran up and texting nonstop.

Amid economic collapse many spent the last week hoping regime will not retaliate.

Now praying there is as little as possible damage so Israel does not retaliate.

Millions stuck between a rock and a hard place.


https://twitter.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1779258085653016739
April 13, 2024

Russian State TV -Referring to Mike Johnson, state TV host Olga Skabeeva claimed him as "theirs," just like Trump.

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV experts discussed Mike Johnson's meeting with Trump as the deciding factor in whether Ukraine will receive stalled US funding. Referring to Mike Johnson, state TV host Olga Skabeeva claimed him as "theirs," just like Trump.


https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1778912250520367170?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

April 13, 2024

If you don't own yourself absolutely, you own nothing.



If you don't accept that bodily autonomy is an essential unconditional liberty, it's a waste of time talking to you at all. No other liberties survive without that one, more fundamental than property rights: if you don't own yourself absolutely, you own nothing.
https://twitter.com/ScavengerEthic/status/1521834653954428929

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