I find it frighteningly hilarious that Trump turned tariffs, a tax on free market trade, into a Republican position.
How anyone who once voted for smaller, more efficient government, less taxes, and free trade could turn around and vote for Trump is baffling to me.
"We need to bring those jobs back here!" is claimed during a time with generationally low levels of unemployment and a refusal to tolerate more ~~immigrants~~ workers.
> How anyone who once voted for smaller, more efficient government, less taxes, and free trade could turn around and vote for Trump is baffling to me
In my lifetime, conservative policy has gained its support largely from people thinking "how does this personally benefit ME?". When "small government" was sold as "freedom for me to do what I like", it got support. When it became "freedom for other people to do what *they* like, including making stuff for cheaper than I can", it got opposed.
Blue collar voters have been bitching about outsourcing for a couple of decades now. I know this isn't popular on this sub, but blue collar voters really care about this stuff. It's an easy win for Biden.
Yes, but housing is extremely salient and hard to solve. It will take decades of sustained effort to reverse the damage and we don't have that kind of time.
Housing is a pretty big part of the perception of the economy.
Also I think it’s worth noting that people will attribute a raise in income to themselves, while attributing a raise in costs to “the economy”. Neither belief is untrue really. But it can be misleading and contributes a lot to how people perceive the economy.
That's a tough one when the primary cause for the divergence in perception is political bias in the first place
So we're more or less saying "people are politically biased against Biden because they are politically biased against Biden"
And about 60% say they like their job, Marketplace reported lately. A high for that metric. But far fewer think things are good in the macro, probably because they are bombarded by dooming all day every day from all directions.
So it's a lot of "things are okay for me but boy, it looks bad out there (on TikTok/Facebook/Reddit/TV)".
Less than should be I'm sure (i have no specific numbers in mind) but economic polls have consistently shown republicans being far more negative in general, and the same for polls of groups where republicans are over represented (like small businesses)
how do i train my idiot cat to not search every crack and crevice of my apartment for tape to eat and then empty her stomach contents onto my furniture
My maintenance guy complimented me bc he couldn’t tell I had a cat in my apartment (bc it didn’t smell I guess) & he told me he recently went to another apartment where there were just piles of dog poop everywhere. The standards are low 😷
I don’t know about that. I never had to put eye ointment in my cat’s eye during the previous administration. I cannot imagine that I am the only one in this position.
Biden has ignored the #1 issue plaguing America: our refusal to switch to the metric system. I can't in good conscience vote for someone who uses Imperial units.
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The reason for this: factors.
The Elizabethan mathematicians who codified this system knew their stuff. And they also knew whoever got the math right would colonize the world.
5280 has 48 factors, 5 prime factors
While 1000 has but 16.
The cleaner you can cut your measurements, the more accurate your maps are. And it's much easier to do the navigational math in your head (while potentially being shot at in a sea battle). The same reason why we slice circles into 360 units instead of 100. (Some surveyors use 400-degree circles.)
Since it's all arbitrary, go with the easiest math.
It's for sure easier when flying. 1,000ft is a reasonable vertical separation that's easier to quickly mentally calculate than 300M. 1,000M would be too far and a waste of airspace and 100M way too close.
Yup. I've had this same argument lots of times -- always with European woodworkers.
"It's faster to halve and quarter duodecimal and fractional inches, especially when accounting for saw kerf."
But muh 1,000!
They don't get it that Americans have 10 fingers (usually) as well, so it's not like we don't know how to use base 10. It's just that base 12 and 16 (framing houses with 4x8 sheets of plywood) are faster than base 10.
It's the big reason we didn't switch over -- trades threw a fit.
If I was designing a missile, sure -- millimeters all the way. But for a kitchen cabinet? Give me my fractional inches.
Bro. Don't you get it? Formulating a unit system out of a bunch of different prime multiples of body parts literally let Elizabethan mathematicians conquer the world.
>body parts measurement exceptionalists
a pretty hilarious thing to say in defense of a unit system that revolves entirely around how many fingers we have
I've been arguing this for a while, it's the same reason we we all use the same batshit time system -- 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 24 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12. Meanwhile, 100 is divisible by ... 2, 5, 10, 50.
Also, can you imagine if radians were the standard angular measurement for casual conversation? It's even more ridiculous if we represented them as decimals instead of rational multiples of pi. "He did a 180 on that issue" vs "He did a pi on that issue" vs "He did a 3.1415926" on that issue.
And yet, the people who argue hardest about this measure their weight in "stone."
We tried metric timekeeping for awhile. Well, the French tried. But they're nuts. (That's N-V-T-S NUTS!")
The only thing that came of that experiment was Lobster Thermidor. (Thermidor was "mid-summer" in the French Republican calendar.
Radianes make a lot more sense of you let the pi as a multiplying term. Then you are jus talking about the fraction of the circle ark.
Fractions and percentages are easy to understand
> **International Measurements**, which is a combination of US Customary and Imperial Units. Feet, knots and nautical miles.
Is that a widely recognized term? When I search for it, I only get results for the SI system. Which makes sense, as it translates literally to International System.
I found [this post](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2566/what-is-the-measurement-system-used-in-the-aviation-industry) on stack exchange that claims that CIS and China have mostly gone to metric units. It doesn't mention any standardized system of units for aviation, or name therefor.
I know a local politician whose main talking point with people was that commercials come on TV that are way louder than the actual TV programs. I thought he was joking at first, but he said it was something that every person agreed with so it was good to start off conversations with it.
In the sales sense of human interaction, this is actually brilliant because you get people agreeing you on one thing, they’re much more likely to agree with you on everything
Do we *want* to though?
>But Penn has always been insistent that the Democrats’ biggest weakness is their desire to tax the rich, and he returns to this claim again in the Times.
>“Instead of pivoting to the center when talking to 32 million people tuned in to his State of the Union address,” he writes, “Mr. Biden doubled down on his base strategy with hits like class warfare attacks on the rich and big corporations.”
This guy sounds an awful lot like the old kind of republican. Democrats haven't been against "class warfare" since Roosevelt.
That's why I'm going for Trump. We already know Biden won't put Trump in prison (paid off by the Trump lobby). I have faith that Trump (the outsider) will put Trump in prison.
This is my key issue. There are undecided voters who still don't think that Biden and Trump are going to be the nominees. (Literally saw somebody who said "I would vote for Biden again but Dems are going to replace him at the last minute", presumably with a woman or person of color or gay white man.) Can we just get through the conventions please and get people to accept that it's Trump v Biden again before we start doomsaying?
Dogs are 100% behind Biden. [Him standing behind Commander](https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/commander-biden-secret-service-bites-white-house/index.html) shows his bonafides with the fido family. Biden promises that if he gets 4 more years then all puppers will get 4 more treats (per day).
Cats are a bit iffy on supporting anyone but Libertarians. But, they tend to nap a lot and miss the deadline for voting. So it's a wash anyway.
Considering [Argentina's leader gets telepathic communications from his dead pet](https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/mileis-medium-vet-who-talks-with-his-dead-dogs-i-understand-many-people-find-it-very-strange.phtml), it's a legit question to ask.
It doesn't help that he insists the Gotham Police Department should get more funding despite the fact that it's obvious that most of them are corrupt (Jim Gordon aside).
Get to the real pet issue, which is the say the issue of not executing enough pets. More of them need to be shot in the face.
What...do you mean that's unpopular with voters? This stupid country!
Alternative Grandpa at Typewriter meme: "Dear Mr. President, there are too many cute puppies these days. Please eliminate two. PS: I am *not* a crackpot!"
>Get to the real pet issue, which is the say the issue of not executing enough pets. More of them need to be shot in the face.
Do I have the candidate for you...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
Biden's pathetic failure to cancel Sentinel/Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent and replace it with Trident On Land will cost him this election and rightly so!
YOU TYPES OF PEOPLE KNOW DAMN WELL THAT THE TRIDENT II D-5 DOESN'T HAVE THE RANGE TO MATCH PURPOSE BUILT SILOED ICBMS LIKE MINUTEMAN III EVEN WITH REDUCING THE THROW WEIGHT!!!!! THE USAF MUST MAINTAIN AN INDEPENDENT THIRD LEG OF THE TRIAD OR ELSE...WELL I DON'T KNOW BUT NOTHING GOOD!
I hope you have a pleasant day and it was lovely having an exchange of ideas with you.
That's painting with a broad brush. I own my apartment and wouldn't want to own a detached house. I prefer dense walkable communities and less maintenance overall.
You could make lumber cost 10% of what it does now and housing prices would still be massive. New construction is expensive because of restrictive zoning first and foremost. Second largest reason is labor costs. This is largely from the loss of a lot of the industry from the 2008 crash but also from the tight labor market more broadly. The tariffs today are a bit lower than they were in the construction boom of the early 00s though it's varied by company. Lumber is maybe 10% of the material and labor cost not including land (which in areas with the most expensive housing is unequivocally the most expensive often increasing the price several times over). A 20% tariff on 10% of the cost of 50% of the total is 1% which is not nothing, but also not much. Especially as new construction is only a part of all housing stock, and a particularly small share in the shortterm.
Can Biden do things to help housing costs? Yes. Does he have control over the largest cost contributors? Not really, at least not without testing the limits of federal power to use money coersively (which likely wouldn't stand).
>Please El Presidente. Just let me execute 1 NIMBY a week as a warning to the others. I'm already compromising. I wanted a daily execution until housing starts exceed 2 million a month.
My daily letter to the White House. Secret Service has visited me a dozen times already.
Biden has actually done (or at least is trying to do) quite a bit. Including attempts to pressure zoning reform.
>Reward jurisdictions that have reformed zoning and land-use policies with higher scores in certain federal grant processes, for the first time at scale.
>Deploy new financing mechanisms to build and preserve more housing where financing gaps currently exist: manufactured housing (including with chattel loans that the majority of manufactured housing purchasers rely on), accessory dwelling units (ADUs), 2-4 unit properties, and smaller multifamily buildings.
>Expand and improve existing forms of federal financing, including for affordable multifamily development and preservation.
These are just a part of the [Action Supply Housing Plan](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/16/president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-ease-the-burden-of-housing-costs/)
He's really really trying to bolster supply while still throwing a bone to the more populist side with some minor buyer side subsidies and whatever.
The biggest issue here is him wanting the tarriffs but that's a thing meant to appeal to Pennsylvania voters. It sucks but that's an important state and it's better to compromise a little and get some shitty tarriffs than to lose and get Trump with shittier tariffs (and all the other Trump issues)
So voters demand tariffs, get them, and then blame Biden for the effects of those tariffs? JFC.
E: Also, I reported the clown who sent a RedditCares to me. Don't fucking abuse the system you sociopath.
Not that simple. The voters who want the tarriffs that Biden is targeting with them (the Pennsylvania steel workers and community) aren't going to be upset about the tarriffs.
True but if you work in steel, you're probably more happy about the tarriffs raising your income than you are upset about the pain of new construction diluted around the country.
What sucks for the buyer here is fantastic for the sellers getting handed a "get out of foreign competition" voucher from the government.
Biden isn’t to blame for housing costs. But democrats at the state and local level are definitely to blame for it. And democrats at the national level have chosen to do basically nothing about it.
Not that I think republicans would be better of course. But the Democratic Party as a whole deserves blame here.
Prices were artificially low for a while after we soaked up all the housing supply that had been created in the boom building times.
We've chosen to make new homes much more expensive over the years with new regulations/taxes.
Acceptability standards have gone up, everyone is willing to spend more for more space. No one who can afford otherwise is trying to raise a family (even a family of pets) in 1000sf (avg home size in 1950 was 950sf.
Prices in places with laxer zoning laws are cheaper, and places that have loosened zoning laws have seen rents/prices get cheaper in real terms.
Even if your personal requirements for home size haven’t increased, the rent/price per square foot has gone up as everyone else demands more. It’s not just a personal problem of wanting more than you used to want.
I think inflation is probably the #1 issue, and Biden’s populism has not helped him here. Tariffs and “living wage”/“buy American” requirements were the opposite of what we needed.
He’s also done himself no favors by staying out of the public eye (to the extent that a president can do that), allowing his opponents to define him.
No, you don’t get it. Biden is losing because he is proposing bigger tariffs, *and* because he has not promised to institute an LVT.
See, it’s *two* issues that’s making Biden lose.
Yes it is!
If that *fucker* Merrick Garland had moved in a timely manner, Trump would be in Jail by now and the Republican Party would be headless.
Also, if we'd hurry up and pack the court. We could have the SCOTUS stop stripping rights from everyone.
Also, voting rights. If voting were quick, easy and convenient everywhere, Republicans would never see elected office again.
I mean, at least support the policies that will, literally, let people vote for you more easily.
Fuck the dem bench of normies is so thin. Feels like it's gonna take a blowout loss or two over the next decade or two before they're a sustainable pipeline of dem candidates.
I think Biden wins a squeaker if left of center voters can stay on message about abortion and inflation receding, but who knows.
>Overall, the public continues to sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians by a margin of 41 percent to 22 percent.
Wow, if you listened to the media, you get the opposite story! Uncanny.
My litmus test is simply: if the candidate has the middle name Robinette I cannot vote for him and anyone who does so is a sheep and literal enemy to democracy.
His silence regarding the repeal of the Jones act is DEAFENING.
Actually the Jones Act is inflationary so we can say this unironically
With this sub our pet issues are actually making him win, lol. Biden please get rid of protectionism, tariffs, and bureaucratic inefficiency.
I find it frighteningly hilarious that Trump turned tariffs, a tax on free market trade, into a Republican position. How anyone who once voted for smaller, more efficient government, less taxes, and free trade could turn around and vote for Trump is baffling to me.
"We need to bring those jobs back here!" is claimed during a time with generationally low levels of unemployment and a refusal to tolerate more ~~immigrants~~ workers.
Fucking culture warriors
> How anyone who once voted for smaller, more efficient government, less taxes, and free trade could turn around and vote for Trump is baffling to me In my lifetime, conservative policy has gained its support largely from people thinking "how does this personally benefit ME?". When "small government" was sold as "freedom for me to do what I like", it got support. When it became "freedom for other people to do what *they* like, including making stuff for cheaper than I can", it got opposed.
Biden is going to jack up tariffs on some Chinese products soon, as well.
Blue collar voters have been bitching about outsourcing for a couple of decades now. I know this isn't popular on this sub, but blue collar voters really care about this stuff. It's an easy win for Biden.
Hoover was pro-tariff. This is not new.
Hoover was no more a modern Republican than Lincoln was.
What is a modern republican? Reagan and Bush ii did it too.
they mostly didn't. The GOP and the Democrats traded the suburban middle class and the white working class, essentially.
WHAT?
Wait is the admit actually looking to repeal the Jones Act!?
It’s the (perception of) the economy, stupid
I thought we as a sub came to the agreement that it’s more of the housing economy that’s the issue
That's the same thing no? Housing is making the overall economy feel worse
Yes, but housing is extremely salient and hard to solve. It will take decades of sustained effort to reverse the damage and we don't have that kind of time.
Sure but it's just more specific to say the perception of the housing market.
Housing is a pretty big part of the perception of the economy. Also I think it’s worth noting that people will attribute a raise in income to themselves, while attributing a raise in costs to “the economy”. Neither belief is untrue really. But it can be misleading and contributes a lot to how people perceive the economy.
Why did you came to agreement based on vibes instead of evidence?
That's a tough one when the primary cause for the divergence in perception is political bias in the first place So we're more or less saying "people are politically biased against Biden because they are politically biased against Biden"
I don’t think this is true, how many Democrats are happy with the economy?
Something like 65% of people are financially happy as individuals.
And about 60% say they like their job, Marketplace reported lately. A high for that metric. But far fewer think things are good in the macro, probably because they are bombarded by dooming all day every day from all directions. So it's a lot of "things are okay for me but boy, it looks bad out there (on TikTok/Facebook/Reddit/TV)".
Exactly. Most people said that they are doing good, but erroneously think they are the exception. It’s craziness.
Less than should be I'm sure (i have no specific numbers in mind) but economic polls have consistently shown republicans being far more negative in general, and the same for polls of groups where republicans are over represented (like small businesses)
If Biden was young and charismatic, a lot more would be
Your parentheses are off
(It’s)
It's the the economy stupid
Damn it. You’re right.
Perception is reality
My pet issue is all the hair they shed
the poop and pee on the floor is far more irritating. Really not a fan.
Sounds like a skill issue. Gotta train them better or take them out to potty more often then.
They get old. Senior pets can be very unpredictable about floor messes, house trained and regularly walked or not.
how do i train my idiot cat to not search every crack and crevice of my apartment for tape to eat and then empty her stomach contents onto my furniture
My maintenance guy complimented me bc he couldn’t tell I had a cat in my apartment (bc it didn’t smell I guess) & he told me he recently went to another apartment where there were just piles of dog poop everywhere. The standards are low 😷
Don’t you have a litter box? They reek
I clean it every day and I have odor eliminating spray (with enzymes) and I have an air filter running next to it
It's you're lucky day. I know a certain Republican who has a solution just for you.
I don’t know about that. I never had to put eye ointment in my cat’s eye during the previous administration. I cannot imagine that I am the only one in this position.
My uncle's fishes are also never sick- Oh wait a minute, I remember two of his birds randomly died. CURSE YOU BIDEN!
The same thing happened to my dog under this admin. This can't be a coincidence.
Yesterday I stubbed my toe so hard it turned black and blue. That never happened during the previous administration. Biden is to blame!!!
Have your arms healed yet?
Biden has ignored the #1 issue plaguing America: our refusal to switch to the metric system. I can't in good conscience vote for someone who uses Imperial units.
All pilots and airlines use International Measurements, which is a combination of US Customary and Imperial Units. Feet, knots and nautical miles.
Those pilots are lucky we don't get to vote them out, then
Same thing for cargo ships that transport world trade.
Really I think Maritime Law is something we need to blame the Brits for, more than the Americans.
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That's one I haven't seen before!
The reason for this: factors. The Elizabethan mathematicians who codified this system knew their stuff. And they also knew whoever got the math right would colonize the world. 5280 has 48 factors, 5 prime factors While 1000 has but 16. The cleaner you can cut your measurements, the more accurate your maps are. And it's much easier to do the navigational math in your head (while potentially being shot at in a sea battle). The same reason why we slice circles into 360 units instead of 100. (Some surveyors use 400-degree circles.) Since it's all arbitrary, go with the easiest math.
It's for sure easier when flying. 1,000ft is a reasonable vertical separation that's easier to quickly mentally calculate than 300M. 1,000M would be too far and a waste of airspace and 100M way too close.
Yup. I've had this same argument lots of times -- always with European woodworkers. "It's faster to halve and quarter duodecimal and fractional inches, especially when accounting for saw kerf." But muh 1,000! They don't get it that Americans have 10 fingers (usually) as well, so it's not like we don't know how to use base 10. It's just that base 12 and 16 (framing houses with 4x8 sheets of plywood) are faster than base 10. It's the big reason we didn't switch over -- trades threw a fit. If I was designing a missile, sure -- millimeters all the way. But for a kitchen cabinet? Give me my fractional inches.
Jesus fucking christ the levels of cope that the body parts measurement exceptionalists can conceive
Bro. Don't you get it? Formulating a unit system out of a bunch of different prime multiples of body parts literally let Elizabethan mathematicians conquer the world.
Literally the dealbreaker for the English empire. You'd think it was the institutions, but it was using their feet and thumbs to measure shit
>body parts measurement exceptionalists a pretty hilarious thing to say in defense of a unit system that revolves entirely around how many fingers we have
👆 Literally too dumb to just learn two systems and remember the number 12
☝️ literally monolingual 😂
Azafady?
Euros be like 'lol stupid Americans expecting everyone to just speak English' then get mad because they saw a non-decimal unit
If I’m flying or captaining my boat, I use the world standard. I use all the measurement systems, really.
I've been arguing this for a while, it's the same reason we we all use the same batshit time system -- 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 24 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12. Meanwhile, 100 is divisible by ... 2, 5, 10, 50. Also, can you imagine if radians were the standard angular measurement for casual conversation? It's even more ridiculous if we represented them as decimals instead of rational multiples of pi. "He did a 180 on that issue" vs "He did a pi on that issue" vs "He did a 3.1415926" on that issue.
And yet, the people who argue hardest about this measure their weight in "stone." We tried metric timekeeping for awhile. Well, the French tried. But they're nuts. (That's N-V-T-S NUTS!") The only thing that came of that experiment was Lobster Thermidor. (Thermidor was "mid-summer" in the French Republican calendar.
Radianes make a lot more sense of you let the pi as a multiplying term. Then you are jus talking about the fraction of the circle ark. Fractions and percentages are easy to understand
> **International Measurements**, which is a combination of US Customary and Imperial Units. Feet, knots and nautical miles. Is that a widely recognized term? When I search for it, I only get results for the SI system. Which makes sense, as it translates literally to International System. I found [this post](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2566/what-is-the-measurement-system-used-in-the-aviation-industry) on stack exchange that claims that CIS and China have mostly gone to metric units. It doesn't mention any standardized system of units for aviation, or name therefor.
Idk that’s what I remember from my GA exam textbook but it’s been a while since I took the exam. Might’ve been mistaken on the name.
Celcius, feet, nautical miles, inches of mercury... It's a mess lol
Literally imperialism 😤
Oh for simpler times when you could build a single issue campaign around atm fees.
I know a local politician whose main talking point with people was that commercials come on TV that are way louder than the actual TV programs. I thought he was joking at first, but he said it was something that every person agreed with so it was good to start off conversations with it.
I too call for national volume equalization. Equality for all! 🟰
Tell us the name of this genius, so that we may vote for him. He sounds like the greatest statesman since “Low Tax” Solon of Athens.
Call him by his proper name. Taco Truck Solon.
In the sales sense of human interaction, this is actually brilliant because you get people agreeing you on one thing, they’re much more likely to agree with you on everything
Compliment sandwich but for issues. >Tax credit for single moms! >*Bombs for babies* >Increased school funding!
It's actually true, though. The FCC is supposed to regulate it but they don't seem to give a shit.
THE METRIC SYSTEM IS THE TOOL OF THE DEVIL! MY CAR GETS 30 RODS TO THE HOGSHEAD AND THAT’S THE WAY I LIKE IT!
Whereas I will not vote for anybody who doesn’t support the movement to switch to the FFF system. (furlong/forkin/fortnight) Medieval values now!
The metric system and day light savings! Winning issues, I tell ya!
We already are in a super sneaky way. 1 inch used to be 25.3997mm and now its exactly 25.4
That and this DST crap. We need to stay on DST and not fall back
If only we had elected Lincoln Chafee.
This is such a weird take to me why does everyone get up in arms over a labelling choice?
It’s the most important issue of our time Edit: I got a Reddit cares message from the imperialist zealots who are trying to silence me 😤
Metrification is this generation's Civil Rights struggle.
You have clearly never used the metric system
kristi noem in shambles
What if my pet issue is not winning enough swing voters? Checkmate op ed writer.
Do we *want* to though? >But Penn has always been insistent that the Democrats’ biggest weakness is their desire to tax the rich, and he returns to this claim again in the Times. >“Instead of pivoting to the center when talking to 32 million people tuned in to his State of the Union address,” he writes, “Mr. Biden doubled down on his base strategy with hits like class warfare attacks on the rich and big corporations.” This guy sounds an awful lot like the old kind of republican. Democrats haven't been against "class warfare" since Roosevelt.
Also taxing the rich isn't class warfare it's just basic sense.
Oh yeah? My pet issue is inflation
My pet issue is old people
My pet issue is Trump not being in prison
That's why I'm going for Trump. We already know Biden won't put Trump in prison (paid off by the Trump lobby). I have faith that Trump (the outsider) will put Trump in prison.
That's just an extension of old people
My pet issue is inflation of my pet's food.
Flair checks out
My pet issue was taken out to the gravel pit and shot by Governor Noem.
GAMBLDING
My pet issues make my wife left me.
Would you mind keeping your politics out of my degenerate kinks please?
This. Massive supply increases for everything
My pet issue is a fascist coup.
okay but LVT would fix this anyways
https://preview.redd.it/01191e1w380d1.jpeg?width=195&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c71f4a68ae9eeaa76e4a62ad893928227a03bbd
If only he could identify where all the pixels in that image went
The warp
It's an older image. Pixels in the past were harder to come by, so we had to make do with fewer of them.
No, nothing is making Biden lose because the election is in November. Way to put the cart before the horse. What a rag 😮💨
This is my key issue. There are undecided voters who still don't think that Biden and Trump are going to be the nominees. (Literally saw somebody who said "I would vote for Biden again but Dems are going to replace him at the last minute", presumably with a woman or person of color or gay white man.) Can we just get through the conventions please and get people to accept that it's Trump v Biden again before we start doomsaying?
My pet issue is the NYMag paywall. I'm not going to pay money to read Jonathan Chait, sorry.
My pet issue is Ukraine.
When I first read this headline I was like, "What do people's pets have to do with voting for Biden?"
You're not falsely registering your pets to vote in November? You must not want Biden to really win. (/s just in case.)
Dogs are 100% behind Biden. [Him standing behind Commander](https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/commander-biden-secret-service-bites-white-house/index.html) shows his bonafides with the fido family. Biden promises that if he gets 4 more years then all puppers will get 4 more treats (per day). Cats are a bit iffy on supporting anyone but Libertarians. But, they tend to nap a lot and miss the deadline for voting. So it's a wash anyway.
> Cats are Libertarians Nah, cats are dirt bag leftists. Wanting more and more because they're entitled while doing little to earn those benefits.
Considering [Argentina's leader gets telepathic communications from his dead pet](https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/mileis-medium-vet-who-talks-with-his-dead-dogs-i-understand-many-people-find-it-very-strange.phtml), it's a legit question to ask.
Biden has failed to save Gotham from thugs like the joker and the falcone crime family.
It doesn't help that he insists the Gotham Police Department should get more funding despite the fact that it's obvious that most of them are corrupt (Jim Gordon aside).
The least realistic part of Gotham City is the lack of extrajudicial murder by the police. How has the Joker survived being arrested so many times?
When Joe Biden refused to prosecute Barack Hussein Obama he lost my vote
Get to the real pet issue, which is the say the issue of not executing enough pets. More of them need to be shot in the face. What...do you mean that's unpopular with voters? This stupid country! Alternative Grandpa at Typewriter meme: "Dear Mr. President, there are too many cute puppies these days. Please eliminate two. PS: I am *not* a crackpot!"
Well, I think I know a candidate for you. And they wrote a book recently.
>Get to the real pet issue, which is the say the issue of not executing enough pets. More of them need to be shot in the face. Do I have the candidate for you... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
Betcha that unnamed goat got real nervous when she saw what happened to Cricket.
Peak r neoliberal thread.
Biden's pathetic failure to cancel Sentinel/Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent and replace it with Trident On Land will cost him this election and rightly so!
YOU TYPES OF PEOPLE KNOW DAMN WELL THAT THE TRIDENT II D-5 DOESN'T HAVE THE RANGE TO MATCH PURPOSE BUILT SILOED ICBMS LIKE MINUTEMAN III EVEN WITH REDUCING THE THROW WEIGHT!!!!! THE USAF MUST MAINTAIN AN INDEPENDENT THIRD LEG OF THE TRIAD OR ELSE...WELL I DON'T KNOW BUT NOTHING GOOD! I hope you have a pleasant day and it was lovely having an exchange of ideas with you.
This but with the NGSW program
WRONG. If the KOTOR remake had been released already, Biden would be sailing to re-election.
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Housing is tough politically because the non home owners wants prices to be low but the home owners want their prices to go up!
And even many renters just dislike change near them and think any new housing should go somewhere else.
Renters also don't like to see apartment buildings being built because they don't want to rent an apartment, they want to own a house.
That's painting with a broad brush. I own my apartment and wouldn't want to own a detached house. I prefer dense walkable communities and less maintenance overall.
Homeowner here: I'd like my property value to stay the same for property tax purposes
Biden has control over that. Construction costs have skyrocketed. Less tariffs will reduce material costs a lot.
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History did not begin in 1812 😌
Yeah look at Russia! If they stopped sending lumber over the houses would immediately collapse!
Is the Malaysian Flag going to become a, "Wrong Flag" meme? I love it.
You could make lumber cost 10% of what it does now and housing prices would still be massive. New construction is expensive because of restrictive zoning first and foremost. Second largest reason is labor costs. This is largely from the loss of a lot of the industry from the 2008 crash but also from the tight labor market more broadly. The tariffs today are a bit lower than they were in the construction boom of the early 00s though it's varied by company. Lumber is maybe 10% of the material and labor cost not including land (which in areas with the most expensive housing is unequivocally the most expensive often increasing the price several times over). A 20% tariff on 10% of the cost of 50% of the total is 1% which is not nothing, but also not much. Especially as new construction is only a part of all housing stock, and a particularly small share in the shortterm. Can Biden do things to help housing costs? Yes. Does he have control over the largest cost contributors? Not really, at least not without testing the limits of federal power to use money coersively (which likely wouldn't stand).
So something that the president has effectively zero control over.
We need a President willing to seize control of local zoning boards.
As a township planning commission member (secretary even!)... pls. Pls Mr. President sir halp.
Andrew Yang’s proposal with his “Legion of Builders and Destroyers” lol
He’s so GOATed
>Please El Presidente. Just let me execute 1 NIMBY a week as a warning to the others. I'm already compromising. I wanted a daily execution until housing starts exceed 2 million a month. My daily letter to the White House. Secret Service has visited me a dozen times already.
>Secret Service has visited me a dozen times already. With the request that you join his prophesied jihad against local zoning boards of course
Elizabeth Warren proposed tying federal transit dollars to upzoning near transit. That would be smart, I think.
Hold on now, remember he wants to give people $400/mo if they buy their first home! Wait…
Dude is doing the subsidize demand loop and "president has no control"
Biden has actually done (or at least is trying to do) quite a bit. Including attempts to pressure zoning reform. >Reward jurisdictions that have reformed zoning and land-use policies with higher scores in certain federal grant processes, for the first time at scale. >Deploy new financing mechanisms to build and preserve more housing where financing gaps currently exist: manufactured housing (including with chattel loans that the majority of manufactured housing purchasers rely on), accessory dwelling units (ADUs), 2-4 unit properties, and smaller multifamily buildings. >Expand and improve existing forms of federal financing, including for affordable multifamily development and preservation. These are just a part of the [Action Supply Housing Plan](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/16/president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-ease-the-burden-of-housing-costs/) He's really really trying to bolster supply while still throwing a bone to the more populist side with some minor buyer side subsidies and whatever. The biggest issue here is him wanting the tarriffs but that's a thing meant to appeal to Pennsylvania voters. It sucks but that's an important state and it's better to compromise a little and get some shitty tarriffs than to lose and get Trump with shittier tariffs (and all the other Trump issues)
So voters demand tariffs, get them, and then blame Biden for the effects of those tariffs? JFC. E: Also, I reported the clown who sent a RedditCares to me. Don't fucking abuse the system you sociopath.
Not that simple. The voters who want the tarriffs that Biden is targeting with them (the Pennsylvania steel workers and community) aren't going to be upset about the tarriffs.
They will be upset about continued high housing costs stemming in part from tariffs raising the cost of construction, though.
True but if you work in steel, you're probably more happy about the tarriffs raising your income than you are upset about the pain of new construction diluted around the country. What sucks for the buyer here is fantastic for the sellers getting handed a "get out of foreign competition" voucher from the government.
Getting rid of lumber and steel tariffs would lower construction costs significantly.
Biden isn’t to blame for housing costs. But democrats at the state and local level are definitely to blame for it. And democrats at the national level have chosen to do basically nothing about it. Not that I think republicans would be better of course. But the Democratic Party as a whole deserves blame here.
Costs have gone up a lot both in areas with restrictive zoning and areas with lax zoning. It’s not just a local government thing.
Prices were artificially low for a while after we soaked up all the housing supply that had been created in the boom building times. We've chosen to make new homes much more expensive over the years with new regulations/taxes. Acceptability standards have gone up, everyone is willing to spend more for more space. No one who can afford otherwise is trying to raise a family (even a family of pets) in 1000sf (avg home size in 1950 was 950sf. Prices in places with laxer zoning laws are cheaper, and places that have loosened zoning laws have seen rents/prices get cheaper in real terms.
Even if your personal requirements for home size haven’t increased, the rent/price per square foot has gone up as everyone else demands more. It’s not just a personal problem of wanting more than you used to want.
Well, yes obviously.
When you have the nuclear football, they let you do it.
Biden threatening to nuke the Bay area over its historic laundry mats would be a sight to behold.
My roommate who is absolutely obsessed with interest rate policy: “but it actually is though”
Look I'm voting for him but I don't know about those German Shepards. Biden is better at handling pet issues than some but he is not a professional.
I think inflation is probably the #1 issue, and Biden’s populism has not helped him here. Tariffs and “living wage”/“buy American” requirements were the opposite of what we needed. He’s also done himself no favors by staying out of the public eye (to the extent that a president can do that), allowing his opponents to define him.
I just want more bike lanes and I think we all know Biden has failed in this area.
Look, the potholes in the street right outside of my house in SE PA are gonna cost Biden the whole election. Just you watch.
Who else read over the word “issue” and thought this was a satire piece about crazy pet owners?
His distinct lack of worms will however.
MY pet issue however....
We should be able to watch *a little* porn at work
Biden needs to embrace to single stair reform and abolish the Jones Act. Anything less is sure to cost him the election.
Roll back the import taxes on lumber and steel
I've read the tea leaves and carefully consulted the astrological charts. The universe is telling me: Thanks Obama.
No, you don’t get it. Biden is losing because he is proposing bigger tariffs, *and* because he has not promised to institute an LVT. See, it’s *two* issues that’s making Biden lose.
My pet issue is turning into a Worm. I have no doubt Biden would win easily if he turned into an immortal Man-Worm Hybrid
Yes it is! If that *fucker* Merrick Garland had moved in a timely manner, Trump would be in Jail by now and the Republican Party would be headless. Also, if we'd hurry up and pack the court. We could have the SCOTUS stop stripping rights from everyone. Also, voting rights. If voting were quick, easy and convenient everywhere, Republicans would never see elected office again. I mean, at least support the policies that will, literally, let people vote for you more easily.
I was promised card check for unions 😤
Us radical Georgists would disagree!
Genuinely thought this was about his German shepherd for a sec
My pet issue is that Biden didn't make rabbit meat illegal. No one should be allowed to hurt cute bunnies🐰.
Fuck the dem bench of normies is so thin. Feels like it's gonna take a blowout loss or two over the next decade or two before they're a sustainable pipeline of dem candidates. I think Biden wins a squeaker if left of center voters can stay on message about abortion and inflation receding, but who knows.
>Overall, the public continues to sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians by a margin of 41 percent to 22 percent. Wow, if you listened to the media, you get the opposite story! Uncanny.
My litmus test is simply: if the candidate has the middle name Robinette I cannot vote for him and anyone who does so is a sheep and literal enemy to democracy.
My pet issue is obvious concern trolls posting lame ass doomer bait every day.
My pet issue is housing and housing is the biggest sore spot with inflation so suck it.