Actor Robert DeNiro and two Jan. 6 police officers showed up on behalf of the #Biden campaign outside the courthouse where #Trump’s hush money trial is taking place - The Hill #TrumpTrial
"Welcome to the State of Denial. You've arrived in an alternative reality where terrorists have become heroes valiantly battling oppressors, genocidal slogans are triumphant calls for freedom, and the natural response to a terror group that slaughtered 1,200 people and took another 250 hostages is to offer them a state."
Hamas and #Likud have a perverse incentive to keep the war in the #MiddleEast going, at least for now.
NEITHER wants it to be over. #Netanyahu has been signaling transparently that he wants #Biden to lose because #Trump would give #Bibi more latitude in “clearing” #Gaza upon his re-election.
Republicans can no longer lie about the US economy bc it's going gangbusters & Americans are feeling it:
"The US is growing above trend .. wages are growing faster than the rest of the inflation basket, so real disposable income is rising .. alongside this is a MASSIVE wealth effect from the stock market & the housing market .. &, all of this comes on top of healthy HH balance sheets. .. US consumption is more durable than the bears believe."
-Goldman Sachs
"If Donald Trump were in office today—presiding over full employment at a time when Americans enjoyed more purchasing power than ever before, and inflation was hovering steadily around three percent—he and Republican officeholders across the country would claim credit for building the greatest economy in history. In fact, if Trump defeats Joe Biden in November, they’ll all sing from that hymnal by early 2025."
Having said /1, Brian Beutler then addresses the push among some Democrats to pretend that the economy is bad, regardless of what facts say, because many Americans claim that they "feel" it's bad even as they admit their own economic circumstances are better.
"If we can swap Republicans for Democrats without changing anything else, and the mass 'struggling' magically goes away, it seems almost mathematically true that Democratic sheepishness over their economic successes is one of the key reasons Biden’s economy is widely viewed to be a failure."
"Letting people who hate Democrats or who are perennial critics of the U.S. economic system make all the strong claims about the economy, while the people in charge hide behind empathy for those left behind, is a big reason why public opinion and economic reality have detached from one another."
If Republicans are in charge, the economy is good!
If Democrats are in charge, the economy is bad!
And many Democrats have allowed the right to lock themselves into a defensive posture in which they feel compelled always to apologize for the economic performance of Democratic administrations, with claims that many folks are being left behind by economic recovery.
The media assist Republicans in framing matters in this way, it has to be noted.
#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.
Meanwhile, President #Biden's campaign is holding a news conference outside the courthouse in Manhattan, a guarantee of attention since the media has been stationed here for week.
The speakers have focused not on the #TrumpTrial, but largely on the insurrection by #Trump supporters on #Jan6, 2021, & the threats the Biden campaign argues Trump poses to #democracy & the nation's future.
#Obama should have codified #Roe as promised. #Biden should have codified Roe as promised. Campaigning on the Court is a ploy to GOTV and to raise more campaign cash:
“We really need a book titled ‘Those Who Knew Roe Was Never Enough and the the SC would overturn Roe.’ There are thousands such people.”
A statement from an emergency worker in Rafah:
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"Most of the bodies were charred and burned, while the injured people lost limbs and suffered other injuries due to the use of internationally prohibited weapons that caused the massive fire which erupted. We pulled out approx 50 people and injured people from the area and transported them to field hospitals after official hospitals were forced to evacuate in an attempt to destroy the health system in the Rafah area”
@CStamp@appassionato@palestine Isreal would have never ever come this far without the full backing of #Biden. the only reason Isreal is not a crater in the ground right now fir what it's doing is because of Biden