Trump agrees with whomever he spoke with last because he’s dumb and gullible. Its not shocking in the least.
By tomorrow Miller and Vance will convince him to threaten on his shitty Twitter to bomb New York City and he won’t even notice the disconnect.
Now that he’s won and his victory was a landslide, this will be the most common strategy used by those that still care about appearing biased.
For every ranting lunatic on Fox News or in the White House, (and let’s all let out a deep sigh over THAT Venn diagram), there will be another supposedly more reasonable person trying to blunt Zohran’s momentum with “healthy skepticism”. He can’t do X. Y will be next to impossible. He has to compromise Z.
The thing is, that strategy can work. Public support is Zohrans best weapon, and it can be pulled through wearing people down. Get this young hotshot stuck in the mud and the shine might fall off real quick.
On the other hand, of Zohran pulls off a big win or two quickly, say in his first year or so, then he’ll cement that anything is possible, destroy this line of attack and probably hold that office for 10 terms if he wants.
When they can win without being gross, they do so.
When they have to dogwhistle, they do so.
When they are definitely going to get their ass kicked, This Shit happens.
When they lose, they’ll cheat.
If they get caught, they’ll get violent.
I say that like a grim potential, but honestly I think NYC might be ready for them
Even if you don’t get it - start at $30 bucks. The current is $16.50. If you get negotiated down to $20/hour you just gave every body on the bottom a more than 20% raise. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect New Yorkers to live on $40k/year but it’s a hell of a lot more reasonable than $33K/year.
I understand why minimum wages need to be monitored closely, and doled out with forethought and compromise. I get that raising up the bottom very suddenly tends to just be accompanied by price increases that ultimately still benefit the wealthy.
But it’s also just true that feeding money into the bottom of the system always pays greater and more impactful dividends than trying to somehow feed even more to the top. It’s been proven time and time again, and yet we’re always told it’s pointless to try it this time, because Rich people will just find a way to get it back. Duh, that’s what Rich people do. They use their advantages to gain more advantage. But the more people’s hands that money flows through on the way back to the wealthy, the better off we all are.
The truth doesn’t really matter. Israel will get their war, and the US will lumber into it behind them.
What’s crazy to me is apparently the US has become so polarized, so used to division that pointing out Israel is acting like bloodthirsty psychos is somehow supporting Iran, or Hamas before that. It’s like their whole culture has evaporated any nuance at all. Only diametrically opposed good and evil battling forever. Professional wrestling stories with Heels and Faces divided by clear black lines.
In before MAGAs are on your case wondering what mushrooms have to do with anything.
On the one hand, she did start with sympathy before she made her stupid ass comment.
On the other hand, it was unbelievably stupid and in support of a pointless war in the middle east.
But for context, I can’t imagine any Republican winning in Minnesota this year, so maybe she’s just running a sacrificial lamb campaign to launch her career as a right wing grifter.