US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

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Frank the Yank said:
No, met my wife later in life. We letter separate households as I could travel and spend time in both countries-Thailand. Adopted them after 18 and it takes longer. Doesn’t make sense but there you go. Wife just got here full time about 4 years ago. Bottom line is our family is separated, which ironically was a huge talking point for the Democrats. I guess if it hurts a native born American, then tough. They ain’t the least bit interested..
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Unsure if that’s the system or the value of your case. As always, there’s nuances to each.

Can understand why you are angry, is there the option to move to Thailand where the majority can reside?
 
SWP's back said:
Put MSNBC on.
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Elbow beards said:
Piers Morgan talking absolute bollocks again, said the two main points are immigration and economy, so he's wrong again. He claims Trump will win so we can almost guarantee Harris will win now.
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Moron's bigging Trump up even though he is nothing more than a shill. Why the BBC gives this dancing fool publicity is beyond me; he should be in prison, along with Trump.
 
SebastianBlue said:
Where are you shopping that has lettuce or cucumber for $5?

Maine, where I live, has some of the higher produce prices in the US, particularly in my area, and I just checked out local market (via online order app) and a head of lettuce is currently $2.29 and a single cucumber is $0.99 (seedless is $1.99, organic is $2.69).

Beyond that inflation happened everywhere, was in no way down to just Biden, and Trump contributed to them with his astoundingly bad fiscal and economic policies, as well. But even factoring that in, neither had that much to do with the spike in inflation relative to other factors outside of their control.

What was in their control was policies that could help (though not singularly cause) inflation to cool. And Inflation has actually gotten back down in relative control under Biden, after he inherited it rising at a breakneck pace.

And the US economy arguable the strongest of any western nation after the pandemic—I would say by far by most measures. Some of that is down to competent handling of what was a broader economic crisis by the Biden/Harris administration, effecting positive change in the limited ways it could.

Once more, nearly all of Trump’s proposed economic policies for his second term range from very poorly considered to batshite crazy to absolutely catastrophic. Much of his first term, especially his tax policy, was that way, as well (which contributed to the crisis during/after the pandemic). And that is not just me asserting that—numerous Nobel prize winning and very respected economists have come out and said it, whilst imploring people not to vote for Trump who would try to enact them.

Please, please, as a trained economist, I beg everyone not to fall for these false narratives about the economy (both how it works and its past and current state) or how the president can effect it.

We desperately need better education in personal finance, general economics, and government and policy, both in the US and UK. These narratives are absolutely skewing people’s perception of reality (and what is possible for presidents to actually do to change it) and it is leading to really poor comprehension of when people are voting against their own interests and wellbeing (and/or the interests and wellbeing of their communities).
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So you have self elected yourself to know what is better for everyone because you are have been "trained" as as economist, without for a second knowing what other people do.
 
Just turned C4 back on and I'm fairly sure they've got Stormy Daniels with them ! Deranged coverage for a deranged election.
 
SamTheGuru said:
So you have self elected yourself to know what is better for everyone because you are have been "trained" as as economist, without for a second knowing what other people do.
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No he knows when someone is talking bollocks about the price of goods and/or the rate of inflation across different jurisdictions and how much power a government has to control that inflation, when it’s occurring globally.
 
SamTheGuru said:
So you have self elected yourself to know what is better for everyone because you are have been "trained" as as economist, without for a second knowing what other people do.
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I know when economic narratives are based on half-truths and outright falsehoods that violate how the economy actually works and how similar policies have played out in the past.

I don’t actually think it takes being a trained economist to see the entire Trump (and MAGA) platform is comprised of them. But if you don’t care about what experts have to say on the matter (and I am referring to the much more esteemed economists, not myself), then I am not sure how we can have a discussion about it.

And you didn’t answer my question.

 
For you guys who live there whose gonna win, is there a scenario like we had here knowing Starmer was going to or is it not as cut and dried as that
 
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