Very well said. My old man can attest to the struggle of running a small-business with a couple employees while managing the overhead of health insurance both for himself, and them.

This is honestly how Democrats should be pushing it: We’re Pro Small-Business. (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) Innovation, (3) True competition, (4) Keeping money within communities… I could go on.

I guess credit to them for following through but now they’re in the Find Out phase.

Conservatives, tankies should really be careful for what they wish for.

Same goes for SocDems.

I beg to differ. Such narcissists don’t feel shame but humiliation they feel in droves

The abolition of USAID has already led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths:

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

Predicted 14 million by 2030, 4 million being children. There’s no excuse for this. At best it’s negligent mass homicide.

Fly in my coffee is up there.

It smells like sweaty feet but I liked it in my pasta. Good source of K2 as a fermented food

They needed their both sides excuse to offset the convictions levied against the kidnapping plot of the righties in Wisconsin.

Yeah I think Presidential election years are a different story, but for midterms this almost always spells disaster for the party in power.

This is probably a standard headline for reporting trends, but really it’s Steadily Poor:

Republicans largely approve of the president’s handling of Iran, immigration, Israel, and the economy, while most Democrats and independents disapprove.

President Trump’s overall job approval rating is holding steady. Thirty-seven percent approve of the way he is handling his job, unchanged from the AP-NORC poll conducted in May and similar to the 36% who approved in early February, before the war in Iran began. The public continues to disapprove of his handling of Iran, with 34% approving, also unchanged from May. The poll was conducted as Trump suggested a deal with Iran had been reached but before it was signed.

Something I don’t quite get with these polls and what I wish to see more of is a trend of what percent of people self-identify as independent, Republican, and Democrat over time. One would expect that the concentration of die-hard Republicans would remain unchanged or even strengthen in time as the more dilute “moderate” Republicans abandon the party in switching to Independent. Put another way, if only 10 Republicans remained in the party, you can bet your ass they’d be the biggest zealots and he’d have 100% approval among Republicans. I’m sure weighting techniques factor this in, but I’d just like to see how party identity has changed over the years more in these polls.

Interestingly, the methodology for this poll indicates an oversampling of Jewish respondents.

Part of what contributed to that is how many people bought the “muH BoTh SiDeS” bullshit, too. Harris was better in every way. Hell so was Biden even in his senility.

Putin is desperate but still trying to save face lol. Keep pounding 'em, Ukraine!

Tbf, this doesn’t count Saudi Police killings and rapes, leaving aside nobody there is actually in a position to report on these things unlike in the US at least.

They’re also 10x smaller, so have to factor proportionality.

Just like was planned. Golly, Krasnov sure lifted oil sanctions on ruzzia quickly, didn’t he?

“You’re a stupid person / quiet piggy” = You’re uncomfortably close to the truth

Cue McConnell obstruction bullshit with lazy filibuster. Mere 3 month period over Obamas 8 years where he had a supermajority, and even then Lieberman fucked him.

Well I’ll be. For the first time in a while I’m proud of America for being progressive on this.

Total shithole. Iranian people deserve better but it’s only going to get worse thanks to Trump leaving them hanging and Bibi helping bomb them.

Midday in Moscow, after all.

Same here. Personally I thought the British comedy Coupling was so much better done.