The Bewildering World of Christopher Luxon - "Moving On" homeless roughsleepers...

...and the $2,000 punchline to this sick "joke".

Frankly Speaking
Politicards are a deck of #playingCards produced each #electionYear in the #UnitedStates with 54 #caricatures depicting political candidates and prominent political figures. The first Politicards deck was produced in 1971 for the 1972 election by the artist Peter Green, the writer Lee Livingston, the businessman Mike Killeen and the designer Norman Friant. By 2016, about 200,000 packs of cards were being sold during each election cycle.

there is an unbalance in powers in the Western world, where big companies have disproportianal power. And this power, in their hierarchical models, is not with the people on the work floor.

This must change. We must map out to the general audience which political parties cherrish this power disbalance and are effectively against the people, how much they may claim to be for the people

#electionYear

Will Jesus Christ return in an election year?

Thanks to Jesse Richardson for discussion. Polymarket asks: will Jesus Christ return in 2025? In the three days since the market opened, traders have wagered over $100,000 on this question. The mar…

Unexpected Values

"Fewer Americans eligible to vote bothered to do so compared to 2020. Then over 158m voted, this time the vote was down to 143m. The voter turnout of those eligible fell to 58.2% from the high of 65.9% in 2020.
"Around 40% of Americans registered to vote did not do so. And the number of Americans who failed to register rose to 19m from 12m in 2020. So, although Trump got 51% of those who voted, he actually got only 28% support of Americans of voting age."
Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/us-election-2024-inflation-immigration-and-identity/

The incumbent parties in developed countries obtain fewer votes than before:

#turnOut #results #elections #electoralism #electionYear #inflation #populism #poverty #complacency #DemocraticParty #USA #Trump #MAGA #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris #USPol #USPolitics #politics #campaigning #liberals #Democrats #establishment #vote #voting #votes #suffrages

US election 2024: inflation, immigration and identity

As the FT put it: “In the end, it wasn’t even close. A presidential election long forecast to dance on a knife’s edge very quickly turned out to be a rout for Donald Trump.” Trump polled 74.6m vote…

Michael Roberts Blog
How to Survive This Election Year with a Bit of Happiness

Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier, talks about how to ease stress and increase bliss as the 2024 election looms

Slate

Teachers struggle to teach in their classrooms as political discourse creeps into their school day during a Presidential election year.

#education #politics #politicaldiscourse #electionyear

https://parentingpatch.com/politics-in-classrooms-teachers-frustrated/

Teachers struggle to teach in their classrooms as political discourse creeps into their school day during a Presidential election year.

#education #politics #politicaldiscourse #electionyear

https://parentingpatch.com/politics-in-classrooms-teachers-frustrated/