Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Typical person must now work 64 hours/week to pay rent - up from 56 hours just 2 years ago
www.businessinsider.com
This chart shows just how out-of-control rent has gotten: The typical person has to work 64.2 hours just to pay rent — up from 56 hours just two years ago
That's an increase of a full 8-hour work day compared to the same time two years ago, according to data from Zillow.
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She was still protected to win when he was ahead just because of where the votes still need to be counted from.
It's a nailbiter right now.
I mean, her district is super red, so... you know, possible, but, you know.
Yeah but they're dry Democrats
Yeah, but he's no Gabby.
Not going to lie guys, the whole Eli Lilly thing just proves we can never have nice things. All it took was some impersonator claiming insulin was becoming free for their stock to nose dive off a cliff.
How do we expect anything to get better when investors profit requirements are more important then human lives.
How do we expect anything to get better when investors profit requirements are more important then human lives.
@ScytheRexx - I think you meant to post that in the (BRAZELTON) Twitter thread?
Nah saw this rant as more politcal then just a Twitter thing.
538 is just like any sports bookie...they're just making educated guesses. But ultimately, they're just guesses with incomplete information. Nobody can predict the future with any real accuracy.If ever I start talking about 538 again, somebody re-link me to this image
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They were uncannily accurate until about 2016 tho.
Which I know sounds like a long time but in politics that's like the day before yesterday
They were the only ones who even gave trump a chance in 2016.
To be fair, basically everyone's reporting this year was fucked because of fake and/or overly optimistic Republican data sets running lose in the wild. Unsurprisingly, the data that would have shown things differently (engagement from 18-35 year olds) doesn't exist because virtually all polling is done with phones and we just... don't answer them if we don't know who they are?
Do you know who else got a PPP loan forgiven? One of the two plaintiffs that sued to halt student loan forgiveness, that's who.Just throwing this here, in case anybody's curious to find out for themselves who else got PPP loans forgiven
Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans - ProPublica
As part of the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government has provided hundreds of billions in financial support to banks to make low-interest loans to companies and nonprofit organizations in response to the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Search more than 11...projects.propublica.org
...but that's okay, because according to people involved with the lawsuit:
What's this "Job Creators Network?" I've never heard of them before.
Oh.Wikipedia said:
Ohhhh...
--Patrick
A big part of the blue success was due to the Dobbs decision and really bad Trump-backed candidates. All the fundamentals said, inflation + Democrat president + low approval for Biden = Red Wave. And, while polling was generally pretty good, the turnout by young voters was much higher than expected and enough to make the difference.
Me too?
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