Monday, September 2, 2024
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Harris-Walz campaign uses anti-democratic tactics against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the name of saving democracy
In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for the White House. But at the same time, another much quieter drama unfolded: A reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the second-largest news organization in the most important battleground state, was being denied access to the venue. ...
The Harris-Walz campaign continues to take measures to exclude Post-Gazette reporters and photographers from its events due to an ongoing, and very unusual, labor action at the newspaper. The journalists’ strike is unusual because it has gone on so long — nearly two years, making it the longest ongoing strike in America — but also because it has only ever attracted the support of a small minority of the bargaining unit. ... the more anti-democratic tactics we tolerate in the name of saving democracy, the less democracy there will be left to save.
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Democrat former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee says Harris cocooning herself is an affront to democracy
If the polling errors favoring Democrats in 2020 and 2016 persist, then Trump is probably still in the lead.
Further, the focus of the fall campaign will increasingly move from “joy” to policy — and Trump leads on most issues because of a Biden-Harris record of which most voters disapprove.
The cocooning of Harris is an affront to the transparent principles
of democracy. It invites a return of the Bush-era chicken mascots.
Most importantly, it feels dangerously close to a reprise of the failed 1988 Mike Dukakis presidential campaign that never came out of its left-leaning bunker.
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Friday, August 30, 2024
Core pce inflation year over year in July was higher than in either June or May, and the current rate is still 70% higher than the average for 2015-2020
2.62% vs. 2.57% and 2.58%.
But you said inflation was coming down!
The metric averaged 1.54% yoy for the six years 2015-2020.